this, therefor, never will have been... (never more on earth)
this, therefor, never will have been... (we two together)

2008, gouache on found painting

Colter Jacobsen lives and works in San Francisco and Ukiah, California.
Jacobsen uses a distinctive collection of found source material to create meticulous drawings, watercolors, and installations that often incorporate found ephemera to explore memory and reflection that is activated by his fascination with finding, or creating, matched pairs of objects.

this, therefor, never will have been... was exhibited as a part of a larger installation of found paintings at Corvi-Mora, London.

Fair Market Value $3,000 / Opening Bid Starts at $300 / Bid Increments $50

Untitled (P2415)
Marlon Mullen
28 x 26"
Acrylic on stretched canvas
Courtesy of the artist and NIAD Art Center

Marlon Mullen bases his paintings on found photographic images - mostly from lifestyle, news and contemporary art periodicals - which the artist uses as a departure point for his subsequent work.
In the process of developing a painting Mullen's original magazine pages usually become obscured, or literally abstracted, where an image is subsequently reduced to a graphic schema of interlocking colors and forms. Mullen's works lives within the multiple histories of 20th century modernism, while remaining highly personal.
Mullen's work was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial in New York as well as in SFMOMA's SECA Art Awards exhibition. Although Marlon Mullen creates his work at NIAD Art Center, he is represented exclusively by JTT in New York and Adams and Ollman in Oregon.

Fair Market Value $3,200 / Opening Bid Starts at $1,500 / Bid Increments $100

Between a Rock and a Soft Place
Color Print, 2019
20x30", unframed
Courtesy of the artist

Using sculpture, video, and socially engaged practices, Cara Levine explores the intersections of the physical, metaphysical, traumatic, and illusionary. A 2012 MFA graduate from CCA, Levine's work has been presented around the world from the Tenderloin Museum and the Marciano Foundation to institutions in Reykjavik and Kyoto, and her collaborative social practice work "This Is Not A Gun" was recently presented as a part of the For Freedoms Congress at MOCA LA. She was the organizer of the first annual Self-Taught Artists Fair with Public Annex in Portland, and was a longtime facilitator at Creative Growth in Oakland, as well as a former substitute at NIAD Art Center!

"I made this group of images after the news of Alton Sterling's violent murder in the driver's seat of his car. I think the imagery of his murder was in the zeitgeist, and in my subconscious ... As soon as these images were complete, I felt I made them after him." - Cara Levine

Fair Market Value $1,500 / Opening Bid Starts at $100 / Bid Increments $25

Sahar Khoury, Fruit Bowl
Ceramic, Leather, Mesh, Acrylic, 2020
Courtesy of the artist

Based in Oakland, CA, Sahar Khoury works mostly with found or rejected materials to produce sculptures and installations in paper/textile mache, concrete, ceramic, steel, and silk-screen. Recently Khoury's work has been presented at SFMOMA as a recipient of the SECA Award, and at OMCA, Wattis Institute, BAM/PFA, Rebecca Camacho Presents, and CANADA (NY).

Fair Market Value $2,500 / Opening Bid Starts at $300 / Bid Increments $50

Alicia McCarthy
Untitled Drawing, 2020
11x14", framed
Courtesy of the artist

Alicia McCarthy transforms found wood surfaces into bursts, geometric blocks of color, and woven patterns often emphasized by text and spray paint. Collections including works by McCarthy include MIMA Brussels, Facebook, and Oakland Museum of California, and recent exhibitions include Wexner Center for the Arts, SFMOMA, BAM/PFA, and Jack Hanley Gallery.

Fair Market Value $3,600 / Opening Bid Starts at $300 / Bid Increments $50

John Casey
Rosie
Pencil and Colored Pencil on Paper, 2019
11x14", framed

Courtesy of the artist

John Casey started inventing creatures as soon as he was able to hold a crayon. Surreal and psychological figurative painting, drawing, and sculpture constitute his material processes. Included in the collections of the DeYoung, diRosa, and Artotheque de Caen, France. He has exhibited from Boston, Portland, LA, and the Bay Area to France, Germany, and Denmark.

Fair Market Value $800 / Opening Bid Starts at $100 / Bid Increments $25

Masako Miki
Participation to Mysticism, 2015
Risograph Print, 8.5 x 11"
Courtesy of the artist

Born in Osaka, Masako Miki lives and works in Berkeley, CA, teaching at UC Berkeley, DeAnza College, and Evergreen Valley College. She completed residencies at the DeYoung Museum, Facebook, and in Tokushima, Japan. She has exhibited at BAM/PFA's Matrix Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, Berkeley Art Museum, Wassaic Project-New York, and NIAD Art Center.

Fair Market Value $100 / Opening Bid Starts at $100 / Bid Increments $25

Rainbow, 2017
Aquatint with airbrushed paper on
Somerset white textured paper
Image size 40" x 29"
Paper size 40" x 29"

Framed
Edition of 25

Courtesy of Paulson Fontaine Press

David Huffman's paintings stage allegories of the black American experience. His paintings depict stereotypical signifiers of this history. Landscapes of futuristic dreams or nightmares are always handled with humor. His abstract narratives are layered with references to music, politics and art history. Huffman studied in New York and San Francisco and has an MFA from California College of the Arts. He received a Eureka Fellowship in 2007, an ARTADIA Foundation Award in 2006, and a Palo Alto Public Arts Commission Award in 2005. His work has appeared in Art Forum, Art Journal, Art Papers, Frieze, Flash Art, Vibe, NY Arts, What's On in London, the San Francisco Chronicle and The New York Times and is included in the permanent collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Oakland Art Museum, CA among others.

Fair Market Value $3,500 / Opening Bid Starts at $1,200 / Bid Increments $100

Artist Multiples Tote!

Silkscreened at NIAD by Raven Harper, this Martin Luther King, Jr tote includes:

• Publications by: Karen May, Heather Copus, Christine Wong Yap, and NIAD's studio.
• Marlon Mullen SECA catalogue
• Felicia Griffin featured in Wolfman Quarterly
• Artwork multiples by: Sara Malpass, Christine Wong Yap, John Casey, and Felicia Griffin
• Series of NIAD greeting cards
• NIAD apron

Artworks included in this tote span collaborative, printmaking, and social practices between NIAD artists and NIAD's wider community.

Felicia Griffin, Karen May, Heather Copus, Marlon Mullen, Sara Malpass, and Raven Harper are NIAD studio artists.

Christine Wong Yap facilitated the project '100 Stories of Belonging' in collaboration with NIAD artists and many others as a Haas Institute Fellow.

Artist John Casey served as a NIAD Board Member from 2009 - 2018, and we are grateful for his presence as an Art World Sponsor and Win Win 8 event volunteer!

Fair Market Value $250 / Opening Bid Starts at $50 / Bid Increments $25