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Multitudes, 2022
Cotton, thread-dyed cotton, thread, wool batting
54 x 52 inches
Fair Market Value: $2,700
Starting Bid: $1,890
Buy It Now: $4,050
HEATHER AKERBERG is an award-winning quilter from Omaha, Nebraska and a member of the Omaha Modern Quilt Guild. Her work has been exhibited at the Iowa Quilt Museum, juried into dozens of national quilt shows and selected for special exhibits that have traveled to France, Australia, and across the United States.
Late Radiator, 2024
Oil on Canvas
25 x 26 3/8 x 1 1/2 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $4,500
Starting Bid: $3,150
Buy It Now: $6,750
WILL ANDERSON lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska. Anderson often paints in oil on canvas, while exploring a limited palette. The imagery may vary from sculptural forms, to text, to common handheld items carrying emotional, cultural, and sometimes humorous weight to them. The work has a repetitious nature and often explores themes of anxieties and their counterparts. Anderson actively exhibits locally and regionally and is included in numerous collections. He earned his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Continued Experience, 2022
Photography
23 x 17 inches
Fair Market Value: $5,000
Starting Bid: $3,500
Buy It Now: $7,500
MARIA ANTELMAN (b. Athens, Greece) is a visual artist based in Athens and New York. She approaches technological progress from a feminine perspective, reevaluating our connection to Mother Nature, our historical past, technology, and the Self. Recently her works have been presented at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She has been an artist-in-residence at Silver Arts Projects at the World Trade Center, Pioneer Works, and the International Studio & Curatorial Program, all in New York City. Antelman holds an MFA in New Genres from Columbia University and a BA in art history from the Complutense University in Madrid.
Arborescent, 2024
Clay and high-fire glaze
14 x 9 1/2 x 8 inches
Fair Market Value: $1,200
Starting Bid: $840
Buy It Now: $1,800
JON AUSTIN is a ceramic artist focused on natural and biomorphic forms. Austin has always been inspired by nature and can often be found outside drawing inspiration or eagerly awaiting spring during frigid Nebraska winters. Handbuilding has been his favorite way of expressing himself with clay. Pinch and coil techniques allow him to create the organic forms seen in his body of work. Austin enjoys using pinch pots in creative ways to show that the technique can be as complex and dynamic as other ceramic skills. Austin was a Brown Bar Artist-in-Residence and is currently a pottery teacher at Millard North High School and a Kent Bellows ceramics mentor. He has participated in the Mixin' it UP Exhibition at Hot Shops and the Millwork Commons Pride Fair. For two years, Austin was a Benson First Friday Pride Artist.
Balloon Gravity, 2024
Acrylic, wood panel, clear coat
54 x 60 x 6 1/4 inches
Fair Market Value: $10,250
Starting Bid: $7,175
Buy It Now: $15,375
JUSTIN BELLER is a mixed-media artist known for work that represents both the physicality of space and the metaphysics of dreamlike states. In his paintings and wall installations he uses vertical and horizontal lines, blocks of colors, abstract freeforms, and geometric shapes to distill the essence of earth, sky, and water and to open closed interior surroundings. Movement, form, freedom, and time are integral components of his work, and they all combine to expand and extend confined interior spaces.
In his paintings, Beller replicates smooth, water-like surfaces and boundless, open skies to absorb viewers into quieter, more contemplative worlds that, while focusing them in the present, go beyond limited time constraints. His elongated freestanding sculptures and tapered wall installations similarly create the illusion of greater openness by bringing viewers' gazes upwards and outwards. The overall effect creates greater spatial awareness and a deeper appreciation of our immediate surroundings, ones that are ultimately as intimate as they are boundless.
Frequently commissioned by private collectors as well as corporate and small businesses, Beller maintains a one-man studio in Benson, one of Omaha's fastest expanding arts districts. Beller is represented by Moberg Gallery in Des Moines, Iowa and eAurora in Chicago, Illinois.
U.S. Drought Monitor: August 2002, 2012, 2022, 2024
Ceramic mounted on plywood
32 x 13 1/4 x 2 inches
Fair Market Value: $600
Starting Bid: $420
Buy It Now: $900
JESS BENJAMIN's imagination was trained in the irrigation ditches on the 100th Meridian and was one of the last to be educated in a two-room schoolhouse. Benjamin now lives in the city and has gained a balanced perspective on our nation's water and drought issues. Benjamin received her BA from Hastings College in 2001 and worked as a studio assistant for Jun Kaneko until 2006. In 2008, she received her MFA from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. She returned to Omaha the same year to pursue her research and to acquire studio space in which she could continue to make large-scale ceramic sculpture. Jess has exhibited her artwork at the Amarillo Museum of Art, Ellen Noel Art Museum, and Joslyn Art Museum. In 2013, the Nebraska Arts Council awarded her an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant. Benjamin's artwork has been published in Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, NY Arts Magazine, Lark Crafts: The Best of 500 Ceramics, 500 Ceramic Sculptures, and Sculpture Magazine.
Ghost Forest, 2023
Oil on panel
24 x 12 x 3/4 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $900
Starting Bid: $630
Buy It Now: $1,350
RUSSELL BRAUSCH, an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans oil painting, ceramics, and sculpture, has been deeply influenced by the contrasting landscapes of Maine and Colorado, where he spent his formative years. These environments have played a pivotal role in shaping his artistic practice, which centers on themes of forest conservation and wildfire. His focus is on the changing landscape that embraces fire on landscape as a tool, like how Indigenous populations used fire for thousands of years to create a vibrant ecosystem. Russell's academic journey in the arts began at Creighton University, where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts. He is currently pursuing an MFA at Montana State University, where he is currently in his third year and serves as an instructor in addition to his studies.
Green Light, 2024
Oil on canvas
84 x 30 x 2 1/8 inches
Fair Market Value: $6,000
Starting Bid: $4,200
Buy It Now: $9,000
HANA BROCK is an Omaha-based oil painter whose practice focuses on how architecture and forgotten spaces can act as a mirror of human emotions, influencing feelings of grief, loneliness, and abandonment. Her attraction to liminal spaces stems from the fact that they are created for the purpose of human use. As time passes and people move on, the space remains, being left behind with a collection of memories. These unknowable histories inspire Brock to see structures as living, silently existing, and observing how we interact with them. Capturing these structures at night, stripped of human interaction, and incorporating artificial light is her way of further enhancing our connection to spaces.
Brock has an associate degree in fine art from McCook Community College and a BFA from University of Nebraska Omaha. Since 2023, she has been a studio assistant for Mary Zicafoose.
Red Cone with Pendulum, 2021
Ceramic with hardware
18 x 7 x 7 inches
ANN BRUGENHEMKE is a painter, pastel artist, and ceramic artist living in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Her 2-D work focuses on imagery from nature with a strong emphasis on light source and high-contrast compositions. Her ceramic work ranges from controlled carving, as if drawing into the clay, in addition to organic shapes and vessels. She also makes ceramic sculptures, which utilize other materials such as wood, hardware, and string. Brugenhemke graduated from UNO in 1992 with her BFA with a thesis in painting. She has shown her work in local and regional galleries as a solo artist and with juried group shows since 2014. She has received three grants for her work since 2020. Brugenhemke lives with her daughter in an artist community in Council Bluffs.
Blue River View, 2023
Plein air watercolor painting on paper
15 1/4 x 18 1/4 x 1 1/8 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $800
Starting Bid: $560
Buy It Now: $1,200
SANDI BRUNS is a plein air watercolor painter that holds a BA degree in design and fashion from the University of Iowa and a BFA equivalent with an MFA in printmaking from the University of Hawaii. Her prints have won awards including a Purchase Award from the Smithsonian. In San Francisco, she exhibited in the '70s with the William Sawyer Gallery. In 1988 she co-authored and illustrated "Dress Smart" (Fairchild, New York), with a second edition in 2004. After raising children and doing commission work for over twenty years, she became involved in public art projects in both Omaha, Nebraska and Summit County. Bruns was a founding member of Summit County Women of Watercolor Plein Air Painters. One-woman shows include Breckenridge Theatre Gallery, Gallery 108, Sunderland Gallery in Omaha, and Summit County Art Council's Arts Alive Gallery. She was an invited artist for Wild About Colorado plein air festival from its inception in 2008, winning People's Choice and 2nd Place Overall awards for her watercolors in various years. Bruns is represented by Summit County Arts Council's Arts Alive Gallery.
Breath Of LIFE, 2024
Fiber and textile back on vintage velvet, hand beaded, vintage jewels
10 1/4 x 8 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $1,500
Starting Bid: $1,050
Buy It Now: $2,250
CELESTE BUTLER (b. Omaha, Nebraska) is a fiber and textile artist, storyteller, and Quiltologist, a term that captures Butler's holistic creative process and her investment in quilting as both artistic practice and lifestyle. Butler's multifaceted practice covers a wide spectrum that provides space for healing and comfort, abstract art, and a voice for social justice.
Butler's work tells the stories of her family history, which has been shaped by descendants from the African Continent, The Great Migration, redlining in Omaha, and the skilled work of her mother, grandmother, godmother, and women in her neighborhood who made magic with their hands. Butler has exhibited at the Burgwin Wright House Museum (Wilmington, North Carolina) and PACE (Council Bluffs, Iowa). Butler has been published in The New York Times and Washington Post and has had fellowships with The Union for Contemporary Art (Omaha, Nebraska), Omaha Public Schools, and Nelson Mandela Elementary School. She has lectured and taught at Joslyn Art Museum, Metropolitan Community College, University of Omaha, and the National African American Quilt Convention.
Mixed fiber art, gold trim, backed on vintage velvet
9 1/4 x 7 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches, framed
Wild Horses, 2023
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
11 1/4 x 14 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches
Fair Market Value: $1,000
Starting Bid: $700
Buy It Now: $1,500
CASEY CALLAHAN is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Omaha, Nebraska. She received her BFA in Studio Art from Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Some of her recent projects include Breeze & Bloom at CAR>GO, Metronome at Project Project and Interference at Baader-Meinhof. She was a 2023 fellow at The Union for Contemporary Art, and is a current mentor at Kent Bellows Mentoring Program. Callahan has attended residencies at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska and Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York.
Figure and Data, 2024
Mixed media on paper
66 1/8 x 46 3/4 x 1 3/8 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $4,050
Starting Bid: $2,835
Buy It Now: $6,075
DEREK COURTNEY is a mixed-media artist living and working in Omaha, Nebraska. His abstract, mixed-media paintings draw from his personal experiences as a blue collar worker, displaced hillbilly, and borderline alcoholic. He relies heavily on layering elements and materials to transform and obfuscate his images until they cannot be seen in any representational way. Objects and figures are mutated to both obscure literal meaning and create alternate versions.
Iris, 2016
36 x 30 inches
Fair Market Value: $5,200
Starting Bid: $3,640.
Buy It Now: $7,800
STEPHEN DINSMORE paints oil on canvas in Lincoln, Nebraska and has a Bachelor of Arts from University of Nebraska. He focuses on representational work that has a poetic emotionality to it. Dinsmore is represented by Blue Gallery, Kansas City; Anne Loucks, Chicago; William Havu, Denver; William Shearburn, St. Louis; Willard Gallery, Portland, Maine; Crowtown Gallery, Lubec, Maine; Modern Arts, Omaha; Anderson O'Brien, Omaha.
Artist-in-Residence, 1991
jacobs pillow warmup, 2023
Photographic print on aluminum
16 x 16 x 1 inches
Fair Market Value: $300
Starting Bid: $210
Buy It Now: $450
KENDALL DORMAN (b. 1959, Lincoln, Nebraska) is an award-winning architect and co-owner of 410 GooDBuddY, an art exhibition space in Washington, DC. At present, Dorman's photography includes the built and natural environments taken with a personal handheld device sometimes manipulated on site using available apps. His work has been shown at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC and is part of the permanent Collection at MONA (Museum of Nebraska Art). Recently, his photograph was selected as a Finalist in Berkshire Magazine's 2023 photo contest juried by Ashley Smith of the Clark Art Institute. He earned his BS in Architectural Studies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and a Master's of Architecture degree from Arizona State University in Tempe.
Oh, Dip!, 2015
Tapestry woven on a 4-harness floor loom
Hand-dyed wool, silk, cotton, linen, feathers, rhinestones, and mixed media
45 x 23 x 1 inches
DANCE DOYLE is an Oakland-based artist. Raised there during the '80s and '90s, they witnessed a gritty beauty that emerged from the city. That beautiful heavy environment has informed Doyle's work. They've never used a cartoon to aid her process. Doyle just draws a tiny picture, pins it to the castle of their loom, and works the rest out. Doyle has been an Artist-in-Resident at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, New York, the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, Haystack Mountain School in Deer Isle, Maine, and at the Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco, California. While earning an MFA from California College of the Arts from 2021-2023, Doyle was awarded the Barclay Simpson, Murphy Cadogan, and the All-College Honors Award. Currently, Doyle is a Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California.
Artist-in-Residence, 2020
A Nasty Bruise and a Jagged Scar, 2020
Gouache on black Arches paper
33 7/8 x 25 3/4 x 1 1/8 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $2,150
Starting Bid: $1,505
Buy It Now: $3,225
GREG EDMONDSON was raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. His work is informed by an early interest in the organic world and the inadequacy of language to fully describe one's experience of living in that world. He earned his BFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Edmondson is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including Fulbright and DAAD fellowships to Germany, and residency fellowships to Artpark, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Santa Fe Art Institute and Kunstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse. His recent solo exhibitions include The Impermanence of Objects, Cole Center in Nacogdoches, TX (2021-22), Before Language, Blanden Art Museum in Fort Dodge, Iowa (2022), DARK MATTER, The Smalter Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri (2022), and The Weight of Summer Rain, Three Rivers College in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Currently Greg lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.
Turquoise Abstract #2, 2019
Oils and cold wax on birch panel
15 x 15 x 2 inches
LORI ELLIOTT-BARTLE's path into art-making wound through journalism and higher education public relations before she began painting seriously. She has shown artwork in Omaha cooperative and commercial galleries and has had work accepted into regional and national juried shows. Her work is in private collections across the US and in several countries. Elliott-Bartle paints with oils, often mixed with cold wax medium. She uses rollers, wide blades, and brushes to apply paint; then blots, scrapes, and carves with knives and points to reveal underlying colors. These lines, colors, and textures convey motion and emotion. Elliott-Bartle's work was in the 2017 and 2019 Nebraska Artist Biennials. She has been an artist-in-residence at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Farwell House in Frederick, Illinois, & at the UNL's Cedar Point Biological Station in western Nebraska. She teaches workshops and is represented by Anderson O'Brien Fine Art. She holds a BS in journalism and an MA in social sciences.
DNA Match Collapsing, 2019
Handmade, hand-dyed cotton paper on panel
40 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 2 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $4,800
Starting Bid: $3,360
Buy It Now: $7,200
LAURIE FRICK uses data to examine what we can know about ourselves. In her hand-built installations, drawings, and small works she experiments with how we will consume the mass of data increasingly captured about us. She holds an MFA from the New York Studio School, an MBA from University of Southern California and studied at NYU's ITP program that melded art and technology into her current data work. Frick's artwork has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and art spaces across North America, including Musee de la Civilization in Quebec City, Science Museum in Oklahoma City, Pavel Zoubok in New York, and Edward Cella in Los Angeles. She is represented by GF Contemporary, Blueprint, Michele Mariaud, and Ivester Contemporary galleries. Her work is included in the fall 2024 show Pacific Standard Time, sponsored by the Getty in Los Angeles.
"The amount of DNA you overlap with your siblings can be so revealing, the percentages vary quite a bit. Close relationships don't always map to DNA shared. Haplogroups are akin to the original tribes of humans from different parts of the globe. And if you get very nerdy you can look up all those 2nd, 3rd and 4th cousins who you share NDA and map the tiny percentage overlaps for each chromosome."
Artist-in-Residence, 2009
Blue Arrow, 2017
Solid poplar
29 1/4 x 28 x 5 1/2 inches
Fair Market Value: $7,000
Starting Bid: $4,900
Buy It Now: $10,500
CHARLEY FRIEDMAN's work is concerned with the residue of humanity-from God to garbage and how American cultural identity is constructed around signifiers with no inherent significance beyond what is ascribed to them. Through sculpture, performance, photography, drawing, and video, he tackles how we internalize and filter the world through magical thinking, institutionalized religion, and consumer culture-primarily through the lens of humor. Friedman has exhibited at numerous institutions including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, PS1/MoMA, Everson Museum of Art, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. A Pollock-Krasner recipient, he received his MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Residencies include Skowhegan, MacDowell Colony, Fountainhead and Bemis Center. Publications include the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Miami Herald. Collections include Walker Art Center and Brooklyn Museum. Friedman runs Fiendish Plots in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife, artist Nancy Friedemann-Sanchez.
Artist-in-Residence, 2001
through a drifting atmosphere, 2024
Archival pigment print on semi-matte baryta paper
29 x 22 7/8 x 1 1/2 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $3,800
Starting Bid: $2,660
Buy It Now: $5,700
ALLEGRA HANGEN is a multidisciplinary artist, independent curator, and cultural organizer based in Mexico City and Omaha, Nebraska. Working with/in installation, experimental film, photography, sculpture, sound, and archives, her practice takes on social and cultural themes, focusing primarily on the social effects of images and architecture. She implements processual feedback loops, glitches, erasure, and research as tools to question and subvert images and text, or to create new intuitive imaginations. She has exhibited internationally in places like the Giardini della Biennale in Venice, Museo Vizcainas Mexico City in collaboration with El Museo del Barrio NYC, the Salina Biennial in Kansas, Fred Simon Gallery in Omaha, and Salon Silicon in Mexico City. Past residencies and fellowships include The Luminary, The Lab Program, and Inside/Outside Fellowship at the Union for Contemporary Art.
Fairfield Lane, 2020
Oil and cold wax on panel
13 x 13 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $700
Starting Bid: $490
Buy It Now: $1050
KRISTINE HANSEN-CAIN received a BFA from the University of Nebraska and studied at the Corcoran School of Fine Arts in Washington, DC. Pivoting from a long career in medicine, she turned to a full-time career in the arts in 2014. She has participated in studio intensives at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado and is a current artist mentor for the Girl Scouts, Nebraska Chapter. A strong theme in Hansen-Cain's work is painting subtle grid-like repetitive imagery from often overlooked vantage points such as from a third-story window. Her intent for this unexpected visual perspective and repeated art elements is to move viewers outside their normal sphere of thought, evoking alternative insights and novel ways of viewing our shared humanity. Her work is included in many permanent public and private collections across the United States. She lives and works in Omaha.
Purple vase, 2024
Oil on linen canvas panel
15 1/2 x 12 5/8 x 2 inches, framed
CINDY HOHL works with oil on an original body of work set up by the artist. She is based out of Elkhorn, Nebraska.
La Sonata Del Dia, 2023
Photograph overlays and paint
32 3/4 x 46 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $4,000
Starting Bid: $2,800
Buy It Now: $6,000
SHAUN ILAHI's work explores a colorful commentary of perspectives, across mediums and styles, on the universal spirit of humanity. By extracting and combining various images captured from around the world, the hybridized narrative brings to light how we are all interconnected. He has exhibited in New York, Florida, Nebraska, Iowa, and Pakistan. Ilahi is a world traveler and global citizen. He attended school in New York and Nebraska.
Rock Star, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
8 x 10 x 1 3/8 inches
JUNICHIRO ISHIDA is a Brooklyn-based painter and environmental installation artist originally from Kobe, Japan. He has been developing his Senkyo / Wonderland series of paintings for the last seven years, depicting the imaginary landscape where the immortal hermits live. He shares the sense of tranquility he felt while in the mountains meditating. His art has been shown nationally and internationally for the last twenty years. He earned his MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and is represented by AHA Gallery in New York City.
Artist-in-Residence, 2003
Wes, 2019
Acrylic on foamboard w/ red transparent vellum
28 x 23 x 1 inches, framed
ETHAN JONES is a middle school art teacher with a background in graphic design and illustration (working mainly in the music industry, creating album covers and tour merchandise for bands). He currently works in a variety of mediums including acrylic painting, printmaking, mixed-media collage, and pen and ink illustration. Jones has also written and illustrated a children's book, "The Art of the Bedtime," which was self-published and sold approximately 500 copies. The inspiration for his work is rooted in punk rock, album covers, skateboarding, and children's books. Most of the imagery Jones uses is an amalgamation of colorful scenes and characters that could belong in children's books, McDonaldland, horror/nightmares, and punk. Jones's work appears to be kid-friendly, but has very sinister undertones and strong elements of dark humor. Jones learned the basics of graphic design at the now-defunct, for-profit, joke of an art school, The Creative Center. Later, after playing in bands and touring around the US and Europe all through his twenties, Jones was a fine art major and received a bachelor's degree in art education from the University of Nebraska Omaha. His father was also a college art professor in Kansas (where Jones grew up) and Jones has been around art at galleries, museums, and at home for his entire life.
Face Melt, 2022
Cone 05 ceramics and underglaze
18 x 11 x 9 1/2 inches
JEREMY JONES, originally from Casper, Wyoming, received a BFA in ceramics and sculpture from the University of Wyoming in 2006 and an MFA in sculpture from Wichita State University in 2012. Jones maintains a home studio in New Brighton, Minnesota, where he works in a plethora of mediums, including ceramics, casting, woodworking, welding, found-objects, and drawing. For over ten years, he has focused on a body of work that reflects his role as a parent, creating toy-like sculptures and assemblages that enshrine the everyday moments of parenthood. Jones is a ceramics instructor at Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota. Since 2023, Jones has been a Pottery and Wheel Work Instructor at Saint Paul Public Schools: Community Education in St. Paul, Minnesota.
"I work intuitively with clay, and utilize the plasticity of the material to create my haunting and gestural figures. My clay vessels are loosely formed with coils; I then push and pull the material until a face emerges. The faces seem to manifest from an unknown space, as if I'm channeling a "being" into existence. The void inside of the vessel symbolizes the consciousness: the vast, invisible, and largely unknown space of the mind."
Sun and Shadows, 2023
36 x 72 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
Fair Market Value: $3,000
Starting Bid: $2,100
Buy It Now: $4,500
BETHANY KALK is an artist, designer, and muralist. Her childhood was spent in Papua New Guinea, which influenced her love of pattern. She studied graphic design, painting, and drawing. She explores natural landscapes in search of references for abstraction, pattern, and her landscapes. She has exhibited in numerous locations including Milwaukee, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Omaha. She has received grants and residencies around the US including Sitka Center and San Juan National Forest. She currently lives in Omaha, Nebraska with her partner and children where she teaches graphic design at Creighton University.
Sundown, 2024
36 x 48 x 1 1/2 inches
Fair Market Value: $2,400
Starting Bid: $1,680
Buy It Now: $3,600
STEPHEN KAVANAUGH is an artist living in Omaha, Nebraska. Kavanaugh has a dynamic creative outlet spanning across traditional mediums of painting and sculpture to the realm of digital artwork. His art aims to infuse a sense of lighthearted fun and positivity into the local scene. He is also deeply committed to elevating the next generation of artistic talent in Omaha by being the Coordinator at the Kent Bellows Mentorship Program. He received numerous OEAA nominations for his work in 2023. He received his BFA in painting and graphic design from UNO and continues to explore new mediums and ways to present his artwork.
Elise with Sled, 2023
Watercolor on paper
15 x 19 x 1 1/4 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $650
Starting Bid: $455
Buy It Now: $975
JERRY KINNEY is an artist living in Omaha, Nebraska. His work aims to examine the oddity and beauty of daily life. He hopes to capture the beauty that light casts onto scenes of daily life. Making art encourages him to notice more-to look for beauty in daily life, in the mundane, the ordinary, and even the ugly.
Transforming Anxiety into A Scholar's Rock #10, 2024
Silicone, silicone pigment, and resin
9 x 10 1/2 x 5 inches
Fair Market Value: $1,800
Starting Bid: $1,260
Buy It Now: $2,700
JIA-JEN LIN (b. Taichung, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-American artist based in Brooklyn and Berlin. Her installations mediate the body, space, human condition, and our society. Her body of work integrates sculpture, photography, video, sound, text, and performance. Among other places, her works have been shown at the Queens Museum, the Hessel Museum of Art, Hong-Gah Museum, Brooklyn Rail, Franconia Sculpture Park, and Locust Projects. She was an artist-in-residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, The Arctic Circle, and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Artist-in-Residence, 2010
Flawless (Like a Glazed Donut), 2024
Porcelain, mirror acrylic, 11k gold luster, and wood
20 1/4 x 16 1/8 x 3 inches
Fair Market Value: $3,500
Starting Bid: $2,450
Buy It Now: $5,250
JENNIFER LING DATCHUK is an artist born in Warren, Ohio and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is an exploration of her layered identity-as a woman, a Chinese woman, as an "American," as a third culture kid. Trained in ceramics, Datchuk works with porcelain and other materials often associated with traditional women's work, such as textiles and hair, to discuss fragility, beauty, femininity, intersectionality, identity, and personal history. In 2017, she received the Emerging Voices award from the American Craft Council and in 2020 was named a United States Artist Fellow in Craft. Her work is in the collection at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, San Antonio Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. She is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Arizona State University and lives and maintains a studio practice in Phoenix, Arizona.
Bear Necessities , 2024
Stoneware, cone 6 oxidation, glaze, and underglaze
6 x 6 x 4 inches
Fair Market Value: $400
Starting Bid: $280
Buy It Now: $600
JOSH MARTIN is an emerging artist residing In Kansas City, Missouri. He works primarily in tattooing and ceramics, bringing a contemporary approach to both mediums through their overlap in history and tactile juxtapositions. Raised by a doll maker on a large farm, while coveting access to underground art such as tattooing and graffiti, led to his unique voice as an artist. Martin uses his unique lens of Americana through farming and tattooing to honor and challenge the storied history of this subject.
"My work is a constant evolution of my history and yearning for personal growth. Passions versus loss and grief have led to my personal narrative and world I create in. My late mother's doll making led to a need for giving inanimate objects a soul. My time in social work and personal struggles with anxiety gave a need for emotional intelligence, while my passion for tattooing created an admiration of Americana and its history. This work all coincides with these core elements, rotating importance while supporting each other."
Organism, Blondo and Maple, 2023
Cork, steel, and found objects
22 x 17 x 27 inches
THOMAS MCLAUGHLIN is an artist who celebrates the use of static and plastic objects and materials in our modern lives. His work is highly informed by manipulating and experimenting with the various materials and objects which are necessarily discarded in our mass consumptive culture. Based in Omaha, Nebraska, he is the resident artist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Monroe Meyer Institute, in a program called Advocacy and the Arts. As an arts educator, he enjoys building students' imaginative capacity through the exploration of those everyday, mundane materials we purchase, build with, consume, and live with. He attended the University of Nebraska Omaha studying art history and arts production.
Licht Mehr Licht, 2023
Acrylic
40 3/8 x 22 7/8 x 1 1/4 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $3,550
Starting Bid: $2,485
Buy It Now: $5,325
NICK MILLER is an artist and educator working and teaching in Omaha, Nebraska. Specializing in geometric abstraction, he is a painter, sculpture, and installation artist who also has created dozens of murals across the United States-in Buffalo, San Francisco, Austin, Memphis, Philadelphia, and Omaha. With an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2010, a BFA from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania in 2006, and a year at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia, Miller's work is permanently installed at the University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery and in the collection of Fidelity Investments, amongst others. He has received awards for his work including a Spark Award for DEC Program of the Year from ASI (Art Services Initiative) of Western New York in 2017 and Best New Public Art from Austin Monthly in 2013.
Cerulean Sleeves, 2023
Paint on wood
19 1/4 x 19 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $1,600
Starting Bid: $1,120
Buy It Now: $2,400
ALEC PAUL holds a BFA in sculpture from University of Nebraska Omaha. He uses primarily wood and repurposed materials from construction job sites.
Just Put a Nail in it, 2024
Paper weaving, acrylic, glitter, mesh wire on canvas
56 x 51 1/2 x 4 inches
Fair Market Value: $4,600
Starting Bid: $3,220
Buy It Now: $6,900
SHIRI PHILLIPS is inspired by the vibrant surroundings she found growing up on the Mediterranean and the Southern Californian Coast, and driven by the philosophy of "color is life." Born in Los Angeles, Phillips relocated to Israel at an early age and returned to the United States to finally settle in Omaha, Nebraska. Phillips has made a strong and swift impact since she started exhibiting her artworks. Her international experiences shape her colorful paintings. Her rapidly growing collector base shares her love for artworks that burst with energy beyond the canvas to fill any space with positivity and joy. Within a short time, her works have already been exhibited in galleries and art fairs throughout the United States, including in New York and Los Angeles.
We Found A Street Vendor In Sausalito, All Hail the "Camouflage" Queen, 2023
56 x 81 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $7,900
Starting Bid: $5,530
Buy It Now: $11,850
JOSH POWELL is a mixed-media artist. He earned a BFA at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Powell is a visionary storyteller through his images. He is inspired by pop culture and folklore. Powell wants to convey to viewers a sense of powerful emotions through his 2-D narratives. He works mainly amongst the three rules of surrealism: juxtaposition, transformation, and dislocation. Powell has been a co-founder and co-curator of Project Project Gallery for the past ten years. He is also known for showcasing local artists through his co-curation of highly praised pop-up group shows in nontraditional spaces such as: Destroy Rebuild Repeat (2010), Science Fair (2011), and Bear Hug (2017). Powell has been a guest curator at Tugboat Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska and most notably has won Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards for best duo show at Bemis Underground and best show under a nontraditional format for Bear Hug. His most recent solo show was Falsescapes at The Zodiac Gallery in 2023.
Untitled, 2024
Acrylic and oilstick on paper
64 x 78 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $10,400
Starting Bid: $7,280
Buy It Now: $15,600
THOMAS PRINZ is the principal of Arc-Studio, which is located in Omaha and was established in 1990 to explore the disciplines of art and architecture. He received his undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Nebraska and a master's degree from Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCOI-ARC) in 1988. He has been an adjunct professor and visiting critic at UNL School of Architecture. He has had exhibitions of his art and architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Creighton University, Projects in Des Moines, Circa Gallery in Minneapolis, and Gallery 72. Thomas was recently awarded first place for the international juried competition at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art and was the featured artist at the opening of their new gallery space. He has been included in Bemis Center's annual Benefit Art Auction.
The Candy Lab, 2022
48 1/8 x 96 1/8 x 1 inches
Fair Market Value: $8,300
Starting Bid: $5,810
Buy It Now: $12,450
LARRY ROOTS is an interdisciplinary artist working at will in a wide scope of visual interests, moving within nonobjective and figurative content. It is his practice to manipulate materials, take risks and intuitively improvise within each painting. In essence, it is a daily practice of doing, seeing, learning, and thinking. His oeuvre can be categorized by bodies or series which are finite or continuing and have distinctions that influence current work. He is a full-time painter and sculptor who resides in Omaha, Nebraska. He earned his BA in painting from the University of Northern Colorado where he was named the 2005 Alumni of the Year in the visual arts. He is the owner/director of Modern Arts Midtown Art Gallery, shows regionally and nationally, and is in corporate, public, and private collections including the Sheldon Museum of Art, the Museum of Nebraska Art, and the Sioux City Art Center, Iowa.
Ascension, 2024
Watercolor and ink on paper
30 x 25 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $3,050
Starting Bid: $2,135
Buy It Now: $4,575
SARAH ROWE is a visual artist based in Omaha, Nebraska. Her work opens cross-cultural dialogues by utilizing methods of painting, printmaking, textiles, performance, and Native American ceremony in unconventional ways. Rowe projects her vision of contemporary Indigenous experience into the mix with an offbeat enchantment. Her imagined landscapes are bold and vibrant, containing a shape-shifting bestiary of tales both familiar and strange. Rowe holds a BA in studio art from Webster University, studying in St. Louis, Missouri and Vienna, Austria. She is of Lakota and Ponca descent.
Artist-in-Residence, 2014
Fresh, 2023
Acrylic and pastel on canvas
49 x 49 x 2 1/8 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $3,100
Starting Bid: $2,170
Buy It Now: $4,650
LISSA SCOTLAND explores nature, flowers, landscapes, and the "pretty" subjects. She questions, "what makes something beautiful?" Using layers of paint, Scotland creates depth within the piece, staying curious with her colors and marks. Her use of color is often bold and surprising. Born in 1978 in Omaha, Nebraska, Scotland grew up in the Midwest. She found painting to be a therapy for the crippling anxiety that had taken over her early years. Two decades of painting later, she now lives in Duluth, Minnesota where she has a home art studio. Scotland's resume includes several gallery shows within the Midwest. She has been a contributing artist to Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts for almost twenty years; her collectors include the Monroe Meyer Institute in Omaha, Nebraska and the Essentia Health Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota.
Fancy Chocolate, 2020
Acrylic and cut paper on paper
48 3/4 x 34 1/4 x 1 3/8 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $4,850
Starting Bid: $3,395
Buy It Now: $7,275
VITUS SHELL is a mixed-media collage painter born in Monroe, Louisiana, where he lives and works. His work is geared toward the black experience, giving agency to people from this community through powerful images deconstructing, sampling, and remixing identity, civil rights, and contemporary black culture. Vitus Shell has taught at Grambling State University as an Adjunct Instructor and at Louisiana Tech University as a Visiting Assistant Professor. As of 2024, Vitus Shell is an Assistant Professor at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
Artist-in-residence 2018
Untitled, 2020
Paper collage
9 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 1 3/8 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $500
Starting Bid: $350
Buy It Now: $750
COLIN SMITH's paintings and sculpture expand the conventions of painting. Beginning with the joys of material, color, and the graphic image, Smith's newest works are aggressive, buoyant, and difficult to classify. The wall works reference minimal painting and expressionism, yet their colors and forms are fully contemporary. The floor sculptures are playful and casual, yet their offhandedness belies a rigorous process and intentional mark making. Smith is interested in making works that charge retinal and interior spaces. They move when you squint and can throw you off-balance if you get too close. His abstractions have a liveliness and spirit that is rare in contemporary painting, particularly in works that contain such a restrained and focused bag of tricks. Smith received his BFA in 1988 from the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) and his MFA in 1992 from Drake University. He teaches at UNO.
Fringe, 2023
Eraser on wood panel
12 1/4x 12 1/4 x 1 inches
EVAN STOLER (b. 1993, Nebraska ) graduated from Denison University in Ohio with a BA in studio art and biology in 2016. Since then, he has shown collections of work in Chicago, Omaha, and other galleries in the Midwest. Stoler was an A.I.R. Vallauris ceramics resident in France in 2017 and a PADA resident in Portugal in 2022. The Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards nominated Stoler as "Outstanding Emerging Visual Artist" in 2022. Stoler is currently represented by Anderson O'Brien Fine Arts in Omaha, Nebraska.
Dancing Pipes, 2014
Glazed ceramic sculpture
28 x 18 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches each
IGGY SUMNIK is well-known to the Omaha art community as a talented ceramic sculptor, artist, community arts educator, friend, and studio host. His many Omaha accomplishments include a Kaneko apprenticeship concluded in 2008. Iggy held connections between Omaha and his Detroit home where he maintained the Art By Iggy Studio full-time. His iconic works include jellybeans, stylized fish, birds (often on a wire), and other forms. Iggy's real love was creating imaginative, one-of-a-kind sculptures of unusual shape and statement; he left a legacy of sculptures when an illness unexpectedly took his life in 2023. Two pieces are presented here.
In Iggy's words, "My art merges the natural world and industry, not in a negative way, but in a more ambiguous and thought-provoking way. I like my audience to do a little thinking for themselves, so I tend not to give people the answer."
Artist-in-Residence, 2013-2014
Down In My Dreams, 2023
Graphite and latex on panel
10 3/4 x 16 3/8 x 1 1/2 inches, framed
MICHAEL TEGLAND's artwork is deeply rooted in several cultural influences, especially his own Norse and Germanic heritage. This may account for his work's black on black palette and images of both obscure and familiar figures embedded or flowing in a web of geometric patterns. Tegland attended the University of Nebraska Omaha, where he studied fine arts. Equally influential was Tegland's thirty-year stint as chief preparator at Joslyn Art Museum. The artist credits this experience in art management for the delicate attention to detail appreciated in his work. He primarily uses graphite and latex on panel and is based out of Omaha, Nebraska. Tegland's artwork resides in numerous private and public collections, including the private collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska. He is represented by Modern Arts Midtown.
White Horses in the Rain, St Tropez, edition 1/6, 2024
Archival pigment ink print
62 5/8 x 42 1/8 x 2 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $9,300
Starting Bid: $6,510
Buy It Now: $13,950
LAURIE VICTOR KAY (b. 1971) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blurs the lines between photography, painting, installation and digital mediums to address constructed imagination, idealization and a sense of the surreal. Her various bodies of work range from photographic series that reimagine and abstract the everyday to autobiographical mixed-media series that examine the psyche, vulnerability, and contemporary culture. Throughout her practice, she emphasizes seemingly opposing elements as a means to visualize psychological landscapes and the structural interactions between nature and the inorganic. She studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and photography at Columbia College Chicago (BFA, 1995). Her work can be seen in permanent installations at UNMC's Lauritzen Outpatient Center and Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, the Women's Center for Advancement, May River Capital in Chicago, 4 World Trade Center in New York, Marriott Capitol Arts District, and Tenaska. She has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, and her work is held in numerous private collections around the country. She is the recipient of numerous awards; has collaborated with companies across the globe, like Desmalter Paris, Jim Thompson Thai Silk Company and Solé Bicycles; and has worked with an impressive roster of clientele, including the likes of Nike, Alanis Morisette, Warren Buffett, Robert Redford, Michael Douglas, Alexander Payne, Gigi Gorgeous, The Red Cross, The New York Times, and Condé Nast Traveler, to name a few. She is a current member of the Healing Arts Advisory Board for the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Parting Gift, 2018
10 1/8 x 14 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
CHRISTINA RENFER VOGEL holds an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and a BFA from Temple University. In her work, plants and flowers celebrate vibrant life, fleeting pleasure, and overt beauty in the face of the tension and uncertainty of recent years. Exhibitions include a solo exhibition at Spalding Nix Fine Art (Atlanta, Georgia) and inclusion in the 2021 Atlanta Biennial at the Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, Georgia). Vogel has participated in artist residencies including the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, Vermont), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Amherst, Virginia), and JSS in Civita (Civita Castellana, Italy). She is a member of Zeuxis, an association of still life painters. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, and she is a recipient of an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant, among other awards. Vogel serves as a professor of painting and drawing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Joyful Blooms (Party Flowers), 2018
16 x 14 inches
Fair Market Value: $1,400
Starting Bid: $980
Buy It Now: $2,100
Nebraska, Summer, 2024
Pastel on mounted paper
18 x 18 inches, framed
ELLEN WAGENER is an American artist based in Arizona and Iowa. She earned a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art George Washington University, Washington, DC in 1989. Her work is included in the following selected collections: Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Arizona), University of Iowa, Iowa State University Brunnier Art Museum, Dubuque Museum of Art (Iowa), University of Arizona Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (Iowa), US Art in Embassies, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Arkansas). Wagener's work has been represented in New York City by Sherry French Gallery and J. Cacciola Gallery and Bridge Projects, Los Angeles.
I'm Obsessed with Weather I, 2024
Raw wool - dyed and painted
10 x 12 x 73 inches
CINDY WEIL is a fiber/wool artist based out of Omaha, Nebraska and New York, New York. She graduated from Creighton University, New York School of Interior Design, and School of Visual Arts in New York City. Weil's work can be found in private and commercial collections around the country. This list is available upon request.
"As an artist my work delves deeply into the rich materiality and historical significance of wool and explorations of liminality-the poignant, transformative spaces where boundaries blur and the familiar dissolves into the unknown. These in-between states, though often accompanied by fear, are the crucibles of profound creative thinking and personal transformation."
An upcoming solo exhibition will be held at the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) in Kearney, Nebraska in 2025. Select recent exhibitions include SVA, Flatiron Gallery, Four Person Juried Alumni Exhibition, New York City, 2024; Joslyn Castle and Gardens, Omaha, Nebraska, 2024; School of Visual Art, New York, New York, 2023; Bemis Center's Benefit Art Auction, Omaha, Nebraska, 2022; and Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA), Kearney, Nebraska, 2022. Residences include School of Visual Art, New York, New York, 2023 and Icelandic Textile Center, Blonduos, Iceland, 2019.
The Sleeping Town, 2023
Mechanical pencil on paper
33 x 45 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $4,400
Starting Bid: $3,080
Buy It Now: $6,600
WATIE WHITE (b. 1971) is an Omaha-based painter, printmaker, and public artist. Since relocating to Omaha in 2006, White's studio and public practice has created site-specific, socially engaged installations and murals that have led to collaborations with over a dozen schools and more than a hundred murals with nonprofits and neighborhood communities throughout the Midwest. White's work has been featured in exhibitions at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, Arkansas), the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Museum of Nebraska Art (Kearney, Nebraska), Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha, Nebraska), the Telfair Museums (Savannah, Georgia), The Mint Museum (Charlotte. North Carolina), The Frist Center for the Arts (Nashville, Tennessee), and the Dixon gallery and Gardens (Memphis, Tennessee).
Night Prairie, 2019
Collographic Monoprint
32 3/4 x 45 x 2 1/4 inches, framed
Fair Market Value: $3,600
Starting Bid: $2,520
Buy It Now: $5,400
MARY ZICAFOOSE is a tapestry weaver who works from her rural Pahuk studio in Cedar Bluffs, Nebraska. The template of her work in cloth and paper is drawn primarily from two sources: the landscape of the Great Plains and a fascination with archetypal symbols, deeply color saturated and technically layered using the complex resist-dye process known as ikat. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally, including the International Triennial of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland; Museo de Textil, Oaxaca, Mexico; China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou, and the collections of eighteen United States Embassies on four continents. Extensive exhibition, teaching, and lecture venues include the de Young Museum, San Francisco, Penland School of Craft, Penland, North Carolina, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and universities, conferences, and textile programs worldwide. She is the author of Ikat: The Essential Handbook to Weaving Resist-Dyed Cloth, with a companion book to be released in 2024.
Artist-in-Residence, 2008
