The Old Mecca is the New Mecca, 2024

Charcoal on mulberry paper

29 x 41 x 1 1/4 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $8,250

Starting Bid: $5,775

Buy It Now: $12,375

PAUL STEPHEN BENJAMIN was born in Chicago, Illinois, and lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned his BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MFA from Georgia State University in 2013. Recently Benjamin has exhibited at Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, Georgia (2023), Blackness at the Montresso Art Foundation, Marrakesh, Morocco, (2023), The Thoma Foundation Art Vault, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2022-2023), and a solo exhibition at the Van Every-Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina (2022).

He has been included in solo and group exhibitions at a variety of institutions and art spaces, including Prospect.5 New Orleans, Louisiana (2021-2022). Gavlak, Los Angeles, California (2021), The Dirty South at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia (2021), David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee (2021), Crystal Bridges Museum and the Momentary, Bentonville, Arkansas (2020), The MAC, Belfast, UK (2019), VC Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond, Virginia (2019), The Havana Biennial in Matanzas, Cuba (2019), Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York (2019), Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington (2018), Telfair Museum Jepson Center, Savannah, Georgia (2018), The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York (2017), Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia (2017), High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (2016), among others.

He has received a range of awards and fellowships, including The Hudgens Prize (2019), Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2019), Hambidge Distinguished Fellowship (2019), The Southern Art Prize (2018), The State Fellow of Georgia (2018), Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (WAP) Fellow (2017), Artadia Award (2014), Winnie B. Chandler Fellowship, and the Forward Arts Emerging Artists Award.

Color Coordinated, 2024

Graphite on paper

33 x 41 x 1 1/4 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $2,500

Starting Bid: $1,750

Buy It Now: $3,750

COREY BROMAN's graphite on paper is a transition from his more familiar glassblowing medium in which he expressed ideas through forms and textures. The new process allows Broman to develop the same aesthetics through imagery. Broman graduated from Hastings College and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Experiment, 2024

Graphite on paper

12 x 41 x 1 3/8 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $1,900

Starting Bid: $1,330

Buy It Now: $2,850

COREY BROMAN's graphite on paper is a transition from his more familiar glassblowing medium in which he expressed ideas through forms and textures. The new process allows Broman to develop the same aesthetics through imagery. Broman graduated from Hastings College and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Behind the Store, 2022

Hand cut archival pigment print, Abaca hinging tape

21 x 21 x 1 1/4 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $950

Starting Bid: $665

Buy It Now: $1,425

SHANE DARWENT is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice mines the commercial vernacular that lines American roadways to inform experimental photographic works, large-scale sculpture, and site-responsive installations. Exhibiting internationally, Darwent has been an artist-in-residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Ragdale, the Ucross Foundation and the Jentel Artist Residency Program, as well as a Core Fellow at Penland School of Crafts. He holds an MFA from the University of Michigan (2017) and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2005). He is a 2022 Joan Mitchell Fellow and is an Alumni Artist-in-Residence at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he has maintained a studio since 2018.

Artist-in-Residence, 2020

By the Fistful, 2024

Handmade abaca paper with color pencil

31 7/8 x 25 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $1,800

Starting Bid: $1,260

Buy It Now: $2,700

HANNAH DEMMA is a multimedia artist specializing in papermaking. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2017, with an emphasis on printmaking and her Masters in Fine Art at her alma mater in 2022. Her mixed-media approach to art speaks to aspects of science and nature both familiar and strange, and mines the environment for inspiration, examining the intersection of the imaginative and the biological, of the creative and the empirical. Utilizing the beautiful and immersive nature of repetitive craft, Demma's abstractions stir the imagination of anyone who enjoys the accumulation of color and pattern, and spark excitement for material investigation and appreciation for the alien microcosms and phenomena found in the world around us. Demma currently works as a papermaker and papermaking instructor at Constellation Studios in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Light Through Ice, 2024

Handmade paper with color pencil and hand-cutting

20 1/2 x 14 x 1 1/4 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $950

Starting Bid: $665

Buy It Now: $1,425

HANNAH DEMMA is a multimedia artist specializing in papermaking. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2017, with an emphasis on printmaking and her Masters in Fine Art at her alma mater in 2022. Her mixed-media approach to art speaks to aspects of science and nature both familiar and strange, and mines the environment for inspiration, examining the intersection of the imaginative and the biological, of the creative and the empirical. Utilizing the beautiful and immersive nature of repetitive craft, Demma's abstractions stir the imagination of anyone who enjoys the accumulation of color and pattern, and spark excitement for material investigation and appreciation for the alien microcosms and phenomena found in the world around us. Demma currently works as a papermaker and papermaking instructor at Constellation Studios in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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.

Laying Old Ghosts to Rest, 2020

Gouache on black Arches paper

33 5/8 x 25 3/4 x 1 1/8 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $2,000

Starting Bid: $1,400

Buy It Now: $3,000

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.

Score for Building a Wall, 2023

Score for any number of participants at any duration. Hand-cut Letratone on paper

18 x 14 x 1 1/8 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $1,050

Starting Bid: $735

Buy It Now: $1,575

MARCUS FISCHER is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon. He is a first-generation American artist who creates, collects, and transforms sound into immersive, layered compositions that accompany performances and exhibitions. Site-specific assemblages of exposed speakers, tape loops, and objects are characteristic of his installations, paired with melodies of restraint and tension. He has released numerous recordings-both solo and collaborative-on 12k, a label that has decisively defined and developed its own concept of minimalism in the realms of experimental and ambient music. He contributed two sound works and two performances to the 2019 Whitney Biennial as the sole artist from the Pacific Northwest included in the edition. Fischer has been selected for residencies at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Rauschenberg Residency, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and was awarded The Ford Family Foundation's Hallie Ford Fellowship in the Visual Arts in 2024.

Artist-in-Residence, 2022

Score for Sine Waves and Stones, 2023

A score for the playing of sine wave tone generators and stones. Hand-cut Letratone on paper

17 x 14 x 1 1/8 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $1,050

Starting Bid: $735

Buy It Now: $1,575

MARCUS FISCHER is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon. He is a first-generation American artist who creates, collects, and transforms sound into immersive, layered compositions that accompany performances and exhibitions. Site-specific assemblages of exposed speakers, tape loops, and objects are characteristic of his installations, paired with melodies of restraint and tension. He has released numerous recordings-both solo and collaborative-on 12k, a label that has decisively defined and developed its own concept of minimalism in the realms of experimental and ambient music. He contributed two sound works and two performances to the 2019 Whitney Biennial as the sole artist from the Pacific Northwest included in the edition. Fischer has been selected for residencies at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Rauschenberg Residency, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and was awarded The Ford Family Foundation's Hallie Ford Fellowship in the Visual Arts in 2024.

Artist-in-Residence, 2022

Call Your Mom, 2020

Embroidery on found photograph and paper

9 x 7 1/8 x 2 1/8 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $450

Starting Bid: $315

Buy It Now: $675

ABBY FOGLE-ERICKSON is an arts administrator based in Omaha, Nebraska. She primarily works in collage, found photographs, and embroidery. Fogle-Erickson has a BA in art history from Creighton University and an MA in history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art. She co-curated the exhibition @Viral_Re_Collection at Omaha's Generator Space in 2020.

Pageant No. 1, 2020

Embroidery on found photograph

6 1/8 x 8 1/8 x 2 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $450

Starting Bid: $315

Buy It Now: $675

ABBY FOGLE-ERICKSON is an arts administrator based in Omaha, Nebraska. She primarily works in collage, found photographs, and embroidery. Fogle-Erickson has a BA in art history from Creighton University and an MA in history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art. She co-curated the exhibition @Viral_Re_Collection at Omaha's Generator Space in 2020.

Mercury, 2018

Thread and ink on handmade paper

21 1/2 x 16 x 1 1/4 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $700

Starting Bid: $490

Buy It Now: $1,050

Omaha-based artist CAMILLE HAWBAKER VOORHEES uses a variety of "craft" traditions from printmaking, book arts, and textile arts to create mixed-media works. These pieces generally explore the perpetual nature of change within inherited systems of thought. Her award-winning work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha, Nebraska), the Museum of Nebraska Art (Kearney, Nebraska), and the Ibrahim Mueteferrika Paper Museum (Yalova, Turkey). Her work is in numerous private and public collections, including the Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, Nebraska) and the Zuckerman Museum of Art (Kennesaw, Georgia). Camille studied printmaking at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and she completed her MFA at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2014. She has been an artist-in-residence at the School of Art, Art History, and Design at UNL and was an award-winning instructor of record in studio art at universities and colleges in Nebraska.

Buoyant, 2018

Thread and ink on handmade paper

19 x 13 1/3 x 1 1/4 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $700

Starting Bid: $490

Buy It Now: $1,050

Omaha-based artist CAMILLE HAWBAKER VOORHEES uses a variety of "craft" traditions from printmaking, book arts, and textile arts to create mixed-media works. These pieces generally explore the perpetual nature of change within inherited systems of thought. Her award-winning work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha, Nebraska), the Museum of Nebraska Art (Kearney, Nebraska), and the Ibrahim Mueteferrika Paper Museum (Yalova, Turkey). Her work is in numerous private and public collections, including the Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, Nebraska) and the Zuckerman Museum of Art (Kennesaw, Georgia). Camille studied printmaking at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and she completed her MFA at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2014. She has been an artist-in-residence at the School of Art, Art History, and Design at UNL and was an award-winning instructor of record in studio art at universities and colleges in Nebraska.

no.5, 2016

Ink, correction ink, glitter, and interfacing on printed paper

20 1/4 x 16 3/8 x 1 1/4 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $600

Starting Bid: $420

Buy It Now: $900

DEEPA MAHAJAN explores the relationship between thoughts and emotions in her multimedia works-especially regarding the interference of fear thoughts in daily activities triggering emotions, polarization of thoughts, and inner conflict eliciting emotions-as well as their interdependence. Her approach involves observing the inner ongoings and reflecting on them through her work. The human-like forms in her work reference the internal suffering in humans and are inspired by everyday objects and familiar symbols. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and internationally. She is Singapore finalist of Sovereign Asian Art Prize (2010). Her project was part of the biennale of Santorini in 2012. She has a bachelor's degree from India and lives and works in New York City.

Dude Outfit #1, 2022

Archival pigment print collage

21 x 17 x 3/4 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $450

Starting Bid: $315

Buy It Now: $675

SOPHIE NEWELL is a mixed-media artist from Manchester, England. Through her collages she aims to elevate the mundane and revive items that have been forgotten, discarded, or abandoned. She is interested in the history of the found materials that comprise each piece and narratives that emerge by assembling unrelated objects. Newell earned her BFA from Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, in 2009. She has exhibited both in the US and UK, most recently at Hot Shops Art Center (Omaha, Nebraska), Gallery 1516 (Omaha, Nebraska), and HOME (Manchester, England). Illustration clients include the Washington Post, Nebraska Quarterly, and Marriott Hotels. She has lived in Omaha since 2014.

Suggestions Not Welcome, 2024

Recycled magazine collage on paper

23 x 28 7/8 x 3 1/4 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $1,050

Starting Bid: $735

Buy It Now: $1,575

MELODY NOY uses recycled magazines to create surrealist imagery to express her perceptions of feminism and androgynous roles in society. She is dismantling archaic ideals of the human purpose on this planet and is focused on blurring the lines of gender in hopes to show what we simply experience. Noy, living with Usher's syndrome, harnesses her unique sensory perception to create collages from carefully selected images. Each piece is a testament to her extraordinary ability to evoke emotion and narrative through precise composition and vibrant color. Beyond her artistic achievements, she is a passionate advocate for accessibility in the arts, empowering those with sensory impairments to explore their creative potential. Through her work, Noy invites us all to see and feel the world in new, extraordinary ways, proving that art is a universal language without limits.

Hair Shirt 24, 2024

Screen print, poke berry ink, and recycled industrial ink

33 x 25 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $840

Buy It Now: $1,800

MICHAEL EGGMAN SCHEEF is an artist and printmaker living in Papillion, Nebraska. Scheef uses repeated and recycled images and materials in his work with over thirty years of screen printing as his primary practice. His work was selected for the 2021 Nebraska Biennial and has shown in group exhibits across Omaha, as well as at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa) and the Mesa Arts Center (Mesa, Arizona). His solo exhibits include Eggman Inventory at the Fred Simon Gallery in 2018 (Omaha, Nebraska). He earned his BFA in drawing from the University of Nebraska Omaha.

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.

Untitled (outlines), 2018

Acrylic on rag paper

11 x 13 x 1 1/4 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $1,600

Starting Bid: $1,120

Buy It Now: $2,400

BARBARA TAKENAGA is an abstract painter who makes images that are abstract and representational, microscopic and cosmic. Exhibitions include DC Moore Gallery in New York City, a twenty-year Survey at the Williams College Museum of Art; wall installations at Space/42 of the Neuberger Museum and MASS MoCA; and a two-person show at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Public works include the MTA Arts mosaic and glass installations at the Metro North Station in White Plains, New York and a thirty-foot mosaic wall at NYU Langone. Her twenty-year survey was accompanied by an illustrated book, with an essay by curator Debra Bricker Balken, published by Delmonico|Prestel in 2017. She is a 2020 recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and represented by DC Moore, Robischon Gallery, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, and by print publishers Shark's Ink and Wingate Studio. Takenaga lives in New York City and is a Professor Emerita at Williams College.

Untitled (swoop), 2016

Acrylic on rag paper

11 1/4 x 14 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $1,600

Starting Bid: $1,120

Buy It Now: $2,400

BARBARA TAKENAGA is an abstract painter who makes images that are abstract and representational, microscopic and cosmic. Exhibitions include DC Moore Gallery in New York City, a twenty-year Survey at the Williams College Museum of Art; wall installations at Space/42 of the Neuberger Museum and MASS MoCA; and a two-person show at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Public works include the MTA Arts mosaic and glass installations at the Metro North Station in White Plains, New York and a thirty-foot mosaic wall at NYU Langone. Her twenty-year survey was accompanied by an illustrated book, with an essay by curator Debra Bricker Balken, published by Delmonico|Prestel in 2017. She is a 2020 recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and represented by DC Moore, Robischon Gallery, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, and by print publishers Shark's Ink and Wingate Studio. Takenaga lives in New York City and is a Professor Emerita at Williams College.

Untitled 001 - Squares, 2023

Woodless colored pencils on paper

42 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 1 3/8 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $3,700

Starting Bid: $2,590

Buy It Now: $5,550

MELVIN M TINGLEY JR is an Omaha-based abstract artist who primarily uses colored pencil. Tingley earned a BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a BS in mathematics from the University of Nebraska Omaha.

Untitled 003, 2017

Woodless colored pencils on paper

42 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 1 3/8, framed

Fair Market Value: $3,250

Starting Bid: $2,275

Buy It Now: $4,875

MELVIN M TINGLEY JR is an Omaha-based abstract artist who primarily uses colored pencil. Tingley earned a BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a BS in mathematics from the University of Nebraska Omaha.

Untitled 002 - Lines, 2024

Woodless colored pencil on paper

42 3/4 x 32 3/4 x 1 3/8 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $3,800

Starting Bid: $2,660

Buy It Now: $5,700

MELVIN M TINGLEY JR is an Omaha-based abstract artist who primarily uses colored pencil. Tingley earned a BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a BS in mathematics from the University of Nebraska Omaha.

Nebraska, Summer, 2024

Pastel on mounted paper

18 x 18 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $2,150

Starting Bid: $1,505

Buy It Now: $3,225

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.