ALL ITEMS
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"Cat Memory" by Jan Harrison
$400(2005) pastel and encaustic on wood panel, 12" x 12"; FMV: $1,000
Jan Harrison is an artist whose work involves empathy with the animal nature and the animal/human interface. Since 1979 her art has been connected with the philosophy of deep ecology, and is focused on the vulnerability of endangered species. In Harrison's work, animals relate to the world within an inner landscape. Her ongoing series is Animals in the Anthropocene. She speaks and sings in Animal Tongues, which she has performed at O+ in conjunction with her visual art.
Jan Harrison has exhibited widely throughout the United States and internationally, in exhibitions including "The Animals Look Back at Us," curator: Sara Lynn Henry, in New York. Her work was exhibited in "Animal.Anima.Animus," curator Linda Weintraub and Marketta Seppälä in museums in Finland, Holland, Canada, and PS1, New York. Her art is included within numerous public and private collections, has been the recipient of five grants and fellowships, and has been the subject of many essays and reviews.
Born in West Palm Beach, since 1989 she has lived in New York's Hudson Valley.
Artist's Web site: https://www.janharrison.net/
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"Grey Room in June"
$4007

4 grilled canvases: A. Melamid
$400Four canvases (12" x 16" each); FMV: $800
Melamid was born into a Jewish family of Daniel Melamid [ru], a Soviet historian living in Moscow. In his early life, he attended the Stroganov Art Institute, where he collaborated with Vitaly Komar in the Russian Sots art movement (a parallel to the Western pop art movement). Known as a cynical Social Realist, Melamid began collaborating with Komar in the late 1960s; the two emigrated together to New York City from the Soviet Union in 1977.[2] The duo created collaborative works as "Komar and Melamid". In 2003, the two artists decided to go their separate ways. Around this time, Melamid's first-born son, Dan, introduced him to the world of hip-hop, which included his clients and close friends Whoo Kid and 50 Cent. Melamid was intrigued by hip-hop society because of its rich history and world appeal, and began to paint the hip-hop portraits that have become his first solo exhibition since splitting with Komar, on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/arts/design/09kino.html