Brent Sikkema, who based the Manhattan gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co, was discovered lifeless in Rio de Janeiro on Monday (15 January), in line with Brazilian media reviews. Sikkema was 75. Sikkema Jenkins & Co confirmed his demise in a press release.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that the gallery publicizes the passing of our beloved founder, Brent Sikkema,” the gallery mentioned in a press release posted to its web site Tuesday (16 January). “The gallery grieves this great loss and can proceed on in his spirit.”
The case is being investigated as a murder by police in Rio de Janeiro, in line with CNN Brasil, which additionally reported Sikkema was found lifeless Monday night time with stab wounds that will have been brought on by a weapon reminiscent of scissors, a field cutter or a screwdriver. The condo the place Sikkema was discovered is positioned in Jardim Botânico, an upscale, leafy neighbourhood of Rio.
Sikkema was born in 1948 and raised in Illinois. After attending the San Francisco Artwork Institute, he was employed because the exhibitions director on the Visible Research Workshop in Rochester, New York in 1971. He labored at Imaginative and prescient Gallery in Boston between 1976 and 1989. After relocating to New York Metropolis in 1981, he co-founded a up to date artwork gallery in Soho, then known as Wooster Gardens. The gallery moved to Chelsea in 1999 and later modified its title to Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Sikkema Jenkins & Co is one in every of New York’s most outstanding galleries, and notably represents Jeffrey Gibson, who will signify the US at this yr’s Venice Biennale. The gallery has additionally labored with artists like Sheila Hicks, Vik Muniz, Kara Walker, Maria Nepomuceno and Louis Fratino.
