High Wire 3, Fran Siegel, 2012 (Framed)

Medium: Gouache and ink on handmade paper

Dimensions: 17-1/4 x 12 inches

The winner of this stunning artwork will also be welcome to a personal phone conversation with the artist.

Fran Siegel (b.1960, New York) is an artist involved in the investigation of place through the activity of drawing, through sprawling collaged and spatial constructions. She attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University where she received a BFA, before obtaining a MFA in painting at Yale University. Siegel's drawings have been acquired by LACMA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Yale University Art Gallery. She represented the United States in the IX International Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador (2007).

In the U.S., Siegel has recently exhibited at the Fowler Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA and The Art, Design and Architecture Museum at UCSB in Santa Barbara, CA, and abroad at the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Israel, Muzeum Stzuki in Lodz, Poland, Nuova Icona in Venice, Italy, and at the Museum of Art and Design and Extravagant Drawing at Dorsky Curatorial Projects.

In 2014, Siegel completed through a site-specific permanent commission for U.S. Art in Embassies program that sprawls 35 ft. in the new U.S. consulate in Ecuador, and Translocation and Overlay, a solo project of 50 drawings at the Art, Design and Architecture Museum at UCSB that studied environmental and population changes within this "utopic" coastline of California. She has just been awarded a Fulbright to Brazil for this project's research.

Siegel has received a Getty grant from the California Community Foundation, the OC Contemporary Collectors Award, and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (C.O.L.A.) Grant. Published reviews of her work have appeared in Art in America, Art News, Asian Art News, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Art New England, Art Critical, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtWeek, LA Weekly, Arts, and Sculpture. Feature articles about Siegel's working process were recently published in The Los Angeles Times and Xtra Contemporary Art Quarterly. She is currently a professor in the School of Art at California State University, Long Beach. Siegel is represented by Lesley Heller Gallery in New York and is currently based in Los Angeles.

Minimum bid: $500
Value: $1,800

Donated by: Fran Siegel and Leslie Heller Gallery