Sandow Birk, Urban Alphabet 9/40 Letterpress Print in 3 Colors: Red, Black, Grey Edition of 40 / 2 PPs / 10 APs 24 x 18" 2015 Created in Birk's signature illustrative style, "Urban Alphabet" is a new take on the alphabet teaching charts made for children that use things that children never see in real life, such as exotic animals, and substituting them for things from everyday American life.

Los Angeles artist Sandow Birk is a well-traveled graduate of the Otis/Parson's Art Institute. Frequently developed as expansive, multi-media projects, his works have dealt with contemporary life in its entirety. With an emphasis on social issues, frequent themes of his past work have included inner-city violence, graffiti, political issues, travel, war, and prisons, as well as surfing and skateboarding. He was a recipient of an NEA International Travel Grant to Mexico City in 1995 to study mural painting, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996, and a Fulbright Fellowship for painting to Rio de Janeiro for 1997. In 1999 he was awarded a Getty Fellowship for painting, followed by a City of Los Angeles (COLA) Fellowship in 2001. In 2007 he was an artist in residence at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2008. His most recent project involves a consideration of the Qur'an as relevant to contemporary life in America. Sandow is represented by the Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Seattle, Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, and P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York City. His work is in the collections of the Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York Historical Society, New York Public Library, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, De Young Museum - Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, Achenbach Graphic Arts Council, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Italy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY, among others.

Artist: James Fortune
Materials: Photograph:Hand signed, limited edition, 11 x 14 size. Limited to 99 numbered copies worldwide. 11" x 14" unframed. Hand signed by photographer James Fortune.

About: Beginning in his college days in the late '60s, James Fortune spent more than a decade photographing rockín'roll icons. His images have appeared on album covers by Led Zeppelin and others, countless magazines and posters.

Artist: Houben Tcherkelov (Houben RT); glitter on wallpaper; framed dimension 19"x25". This is from the $ Paintings series.

The artist's website states "My paintings are a way to enter into a dialogue with different subjects, different eras, and different ideologies. In currencies, many cultures are manifest in the most clear and direct way. Sometimes this communication is subtle, but often it is overt. As an artist, I translate and distill images on money into an artistic product that will receive its own value and, ultimately, be moved into exchange in the same way as currency."

Houben R.T.'s work is a painter and experimental artist who lives and works in New York. In his early photographs, film, and installations post-communist Bulgaria and Bulgarian art is a recurrent theme. In his more recent work, Tcherkelov paints images from American and other national currencies using impasto, glaze, foil, acrylic and watercolor techniques.

In 2011, Houben was selected to represent Bulgaria in the 54th Venice Biennale

One of Peter Simon's iconic images: Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant

This photo is signed by the artist

One of Peter Simon's iconic images: Bob Dylan Tour'74 Rolling Thunder

This photo is signed by the artist

Artist: Karla Gideon

Materials: Drypoint Engraving and Etching on Ragged Paper, edition of 29/100

About: Karla uses the printmaking techniques of dry-point engraving and etching, each work of art is then lovingly painted in rich, bright, watercolor hues, thus achieving one-of-a-kind, truly unique status for each piece. Beautiful hand-made papers with organic fiber inclusions provide a natural yet elegant surface for Karla's work. Matted and framed by the artist in gold leaf. ? Limited Edition ? 12" x 12" framed

artist: Nathan Budoff

materials: Oil paint, charcoal on canvas, 24" x 32," unframed

Nathan Budoff is a Puerto Rico based artist whose Work is in the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Musea de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, NY Public Library, Boston Public Library

Paul Goodnight | Condition: New | Edition: Limited Edition | Edition Size: Limited Edition 60/250 | Dim:53 x 37 inches | (frame included with sale)

Paul Goodnight's artwork currently resides in many institutional and private collections including The Smithsonian Institute and the Hampton University Museum

Artist: Tim Heavican
Materials: An abstract oil painting of an imaginary microscopic landscape on canvas.

Tim is a Boston based abstract painter whose works are featured in collections of Fidelity Investments and BioMed realty, and has been in a number of juried museum shows such as DeCordova and Danforth Museums of Art

Artist: Diana Stelin

Materials: This is a painting created with oil, wax, and gold leaf on canvas, measuring 40 x 60 inches. Stelin starts with a Plein-air sketch outdoors and then translates to large scale oils on canvas. It takes 5 sessions to complete Stelin's layered work.

Diana Stelin is an award-winning Boston-based artist whose works are in dozens of private collections nationwide and have been featured in Google and Novartis among others.

Stelin creates impressionist conversations between reality and abstraction and focuses on the grandeur of our universe, and our ability to dissolve into it.

We have to cross this bridge together" by Alexandra Rozenman is a painterly and playful oil painting on linen 60 x 64 x 2.5 inch. This large abstracted landscape reminds us how many beautiful places there are on this planet. It is clearly divided into two sections, but has no horizon line; we just feel it because of light, color and texture. It is from Rozenman's series of 2010 called "Landscapes without Horizons". We think about a landscape right away because of the color palette, tree trunks and a staircase that invites us in

Beautiful grey color that reflects blues, greens, blacks and purple walks us in helping us hear the river moving. Two animals in blues and greens, as if they just came from the Kandisky painting, look at us sideway. Non-distinctive shape of a staircase, a chair and a few oval windows help us to walk along them to experience love, commitment and understanding that two creatures need between each other to overcome any obstacles in life or dream together.

This painting is oil on linen, initialed on the front and signed, titled and dated on the reverse. Thick 2.5" stretcher I painted greys on the sides.

Artist: Barbara Condron

Materials: 24 W x 36 H x .6 in Stretched Cloth Canvas Materials include Acrylic, Caulk Native Mississippi River Rock and Sifted Sand (Missouri) Original, Unframed Signed 'The 50,000 AUMs Narrative' of the piece, written by the artist, is included.

'Sifting Serenity' invites you to Hear with your Fingertips What is it like to touch the vibration of the universe? 'Sifting Serenity' carries the consciousness of a single sound. It captures the vibratory sequence of AUM moving through Mind and Body of both artist and synesthetic viewer. This Sift Painting is meant to be touched and heard as well as seen. In 2018, Barbara Gael Condron commenced a daily intentional practice of Omkar in response to a lucid night time dream. OmKar is a yoga practice of sounding 108 successive repetitions of AUM. AUM is the Sanskrit sound recognized in esoteric Eastern religions as the essence of consciousness. Atman. The Self within. The sands used in this painting were sifted during her private practice over the first nine months of that year. Every day, her experiences deepened, the reservoir of thousands of hours of meditation over decades. A meditator since 1975, Gael was introduced to AUM two years later. She frequently used the mantra as a point of focus but this dedicated effort was to be a cumulative tipping point. In OmKar, each toning of AUM is followed by the restful frequency of silence. In that space, Gael would choose a single pebble from the sands of time. Those pebbles embedded with the healing vibration of AUM were the materials used in this painting. The assembling of the piece took place over the 42 days in the fall of 2018. This timing was intentional. The painting's creation was a response to a springtime dream which asked a simple question: "Can we calibrate compassion?" In response, Gael initiated the tenth Global Lucid Dreaming Experiment which included 32 people in three countries. The experiment was designed to document the effects of mindfulness practices in a group on the quality of compassionate thinking by its members. 'Sifting Serenity' was created during that time. As the weeks passed, the color scheme changed, from bright colors on the infrared end of the spectrum to neutral greens then cooler shades of blue. The multiple layers on this canvas reflect the depths of the widely-known Serenity Prayer. The version of the prayer Gael used while creating the painting was: "God grant me the SERENITY to accept the things I cannot change. COURAGE to change the thing I can. And WISDOM to know the difference." 'Sifting Serenity' is a literal touchstone to release the healing potential in Presence. The author of two dozen books on consciousness including "What Will I Do Tomorrow: Probing Depression" and "PSIology: Evolutionary Step in Psychology", Barbara Gael Condron has dedicated her life to the healing power in our dreams. As she approaches her sage years she says with a smile, "I feel like an amalgam of Annie Besant and Grandma Moses with a bit of Dorothy Gale from Kansas thrown in." She will be teaching Sift Art as a means to integrate mind-body cognitive function. A legacy of her experiences with her father's Lewy Body Dementia. To learn more about Barbara Gael Condron, visit www.masterliving.org. Follow her on FB and IG.

Artist: Kathy Buist (American, b.1959)

Materials: original oil on canvas ~ 3.25 x 5.25 canvas size / 6.25 x 8.25"

Artist: Diana Stelin

Materials: Oil and Wax on Canvas, 30 x 40 inches

Diana Stelin in an award-winning Boston based landscape artst. Her works are in dozens of private collections nationwide and in corporate collections of Google and Novartis

Nathan Budoff

Pencil and shellac-based ink on paper, 11" x 15," framed

In Collections of: Museo de Arte de Ponce, Museo de Arte de Puerto rico, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, NY Public Library, Boston Public Library