Brent Sikkema, who based the Manhattan gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co, was discovered lifeless in Rio de Janeiro on Monday (15 January), in keeping with Brazilian media studies. Sikkema was 75. Sikkema Jenkins & Co confirmed his demise in an announcement.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that the gallery pronounces the passing of our beloved founder, Brent Sikkema,” the gallery mentioned in an announcement posted to its web site Tuesday (16 January). “The gallery grieves this large loss and can proceed on in his spirit.”
The case is being investigated as a murder by police in Rio de Janeiro, in keeping with CNN Brasil, which additionally reported Sikkema was found lifeless Monday evening with stab wounds which will have been brought on by a weapon similar to scissors, a field cutter or a screwdriver. The condominium 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 recent artwork gallery in Soho, then referred to as Wooster Gardens. The gallery moved to Chelsea in 1999 and later modified its title to Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Sikkema Jenkins & Co is one among New York’s most outstanding galleries, and notably represents Jeffrey Gibson, who will symbolize the US at this 12 months’s Venice Biennale. The gallery has additionally labored with artists like Sheila Hicks, Vik Muniz, Kara Walker, Maria Nepomuceno and Louis Fratino.
