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Smith and 9th Street
$400Smith and 9th Street, 2020
Archival pigment inkjet print
18 x 25"
Value: $400
*This item is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Robin Michals is a photographer whose work focuses on environmental issues. Her series Our Neighborhood juxtaposes sites of residential life in cities and towns across the US with the infrastructure of the petrochemical industry. This work was most recently exhibited at St. Francis University in Philadelphia and in a two-person show, Industrial Sights, with the Chicago-based photographer Matthew Kaplan, at the Marshall J. Gardener Center for the Arts in Gary, Indiana. Images from Our Neighborhood were also part of the 8th Edition of THE FENCE in 2019-2020, and in group shows at David Orton Gallery, the Texas Photographic Society, and in Newsweek Japan and F-Stop and Float magazines. The series was selected for Critical Mass Top 50 in 2019. In 2020, as one of the winners of the 7th Tokyo International Photography Competition, images from Our Neighborhood were exhibited at Photoville, Brooklyn, NY, the T3 Photo Festival, Tokyo, Japan, and PhotoIreland Festival at The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland. She teaches photography at New York City College of Technology, City University of New York (CUNY) and lives in Brooklyn.
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Tech Vanitas: Dot Matrix
$1200Tech Vanitas: Dot Matrix, 2018
Archival pigment print photograph on cotton rag paper
16 x 24"
Value: $1200
"Tech Vanitas" photographs embrace anxiety over new technology and love for beautifully designed, obsolete machines.
Courtesy of Jeanette May and Klompching Gallery, New York
*This item is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Jeanette May is a photo-based artist using a critical, sometimes playful, approach to investigate representation. Early training as a painter is evident in her carefully arranged compositions and rich color palette. May's photographs are constructed, staged, lit, and carefully considered. Her recent still life projects confront the anxiety surrounding technological obsolescence. May received her MFA in Photography from CalArts and her BFA in Painting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has been awarded grants, fellowships, and residencies from the NEA Regional Artists' Projects Fund, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Ms. Foundation. Her work is exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, including New York, Washington, DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, Milan, Athens, Barcelona, and Shanghai. May lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Bodyguard
$1200Bodyguard, 2015
Oil on wood
24 x 18"
Value: $1200
"This painting was based on a guy known for his expressive t shirts. I created him as a character in a book or film."
*This item is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
A Brooklyn native Stephen Basso's highly original works are romantic yet thought provoking observations. The paintings are alive with boundless imagination wry wit and fearless color. By in large Basso is self taught. After initially attending the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan for illustration he realized painting was far more engaging. Seeking emotional honesty he looked to the work of several mentors such as Max Beckmann Goya de Kooning Guston Hartley and Ryder--artists who spoke to the human condition. Basso has been affiliated with the Tabla Rasa Gallery since 2005 and has participated in group and solo exhibitions.
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Weitzman's Photo Shop, S.I.
$500Weitzman's Photo Shop, S.I. (from The End of Photography), 1995
Pigmented Inkjet Print
12 X 16" on 13 x 19" paper
Value: $500
Weitzman's Photo Shop, S.I. (from The End of Photography) is one of twelve prints and two artist proofs.
*This item is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Larry Racioppo was born and raised in South Brooklyn, and he has been photographing throughout New York City since 1971. A former VISTA Volunteer, and participant in NYC's Cultural Council Foundation's CETA Artists Project, Larry had his first solo exhibit in 1977 at Brooklyn's f-stop Gallery, and in 1980 Scribners published his first book of photographs Halloween.
From 1989 until 2011, Larry was the official photographer for NYC's Department of Housing Preservation and Development, hired to document the city's rebuilding of distressed neighborhoods, from Bedford Stuyvesant to Harlem to the South Bronx. After receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 1997, Racioppo took a leave from HPD to work on a series of personal projects, including FORGOTTEN GATEWAY, the Abandoned Buildings of Ellis Island, a travelling exhibit of his photographs that originated at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
The New York State Council on the Arts, the Queens Council on the Arts, and the Graham Foundation have supported his work. In 2006 he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Chairman's Extraordinary Action Grant for his exhibit "The Word on the Street" at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York. Racioppo's photographs are in the collections of the Museum of the City of New York, The Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, El Museo del Barrio, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
His most recent books are B-BALL NYC (South Brooklyn Boy Publishing, 2019) and Brooklyn Before: Photographs, 1971-1983 (Cornell University Press, 2018). He lives in Rockaway, NY with his wife interior designer Barbara Cannizzaro and their dog Juno.
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Waves
$1500108
Untitled
$450Untitled, 2021
Pigment dispersion and matte binder on masonite
14 x 11"
Value: $450
*This item is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Abby Goldstein lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She is the head of the Graphic Design program and is Professor of Art at Fordham University, NY. Abby received her BFA from Pratt Institute, NY and an MFA from School of Visual Arts, NY. Her work incorporates a visual language that references a system-based vocabulary made up of a network of lines and marks that alludes to a dystopian landscape. fellowships and residencies include: Golden Foundation, Saltonstall Foundation, VCCA, Willapa Bay, Brush Creek, Hambidge, Yaddo.
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Bar Centrale
$560Bar Centrale, 2017
Oil on canvas
9 x 12"
Value: $560
"The lone cafe in the tiny village of Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy, where I painted plein air the summer of 2017"
*This item is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Ella Yang, a first-generation Korean-American and native New Yorker, is a mostly self-taught painter based in Brooklyn, New York. She takes great pleasure in traditional methods of oil painting, especially working "en plein air," i.e. on site with a portable easel. When not roaming the streets of Brooklyn or traveling to find painting motifs, Yang loves to paint in her studio near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. Yang shows her work regularly in solo and group exhibitions in the New York City area and on web-based platforms. Her paintings are in private collections in the USA, Hong Kong, Italy, France, and Austria, and in a number of corporate collections. Three of her paintings were selected by the Art in Embassies program of the U.S. State Department to be displayed at the U.S. Embassy in Geneva, Switzerland, 2014-18. In the summer of 2006, she was awarded an artist residency at the internationally recognized Vermont Studio Center. She is honored to be included in the book "100 New York Painters," by C.M. Dantzic, (Schiffer Books, 2006). Yang has curated and organized art exhibitions in New York City. She is a graduate of Yale College and Columbia University's School of Business.
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(Jail Sized) Eraser
$500Magical Things (Jail Sized) Eraser, 2013
Watercolor on paper
6 x 9"
Value: $500
Magical Things, venerate the easily overlooked objects of everyday life. The Jail Sized pieces in the series are sized to mail to an incarcerated person.
*This item is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Meridith McNeal is a Brooklyn-based artist represented by Figureworks Gallery in NYC. She has been a frequent Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Her work has received numerous awards, most recently Meridith was honored as a 2020 Artists of the Year by the Circle Foundation for the Arts, Lyon, France. Meridith regularly exhibits her artwork throughout the US and abroad. Her exhibition Graceful Confusion will be on view at Magazzino Gallery, Palazzo Polignac, Venice, Italy in spring 2022.
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Breakthrough
$436Breakthrough, 2020
Acrylic paint pour, glitter, powdered gold pigment & gemstones
Diptych - each canvas is 16 x 12"
Value: $436
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Marie Szalkiewicz (Mars) is a Brooklyn-based artist and arts administrator. She also works with festivals and events in an art deco and fabrication capacity. She holds a B.A. in Art History and B.A. in Communication Studies from UCLA and went on to receive her M.A. in Arts Administration from Columbia University. Mars has a long-lived passion for the arts and an interest in continuously shaping conversations, raising important questions, and supporting equitable access to the arts.
Mars has created art all her life, returning to her practice especially when day-to-day life feels increasingly stressful and overwhelming. She prefers working with acrylics due to its ability to be manipulated in different ways to create various textures and patterns that bring feelings of happiness, excitement, and adventure to her viewers. Her current body of work has also begun to incorporate mixed media elements such as glitter, gold powder, and mirrors to add youthful and playful dimensions to the canvas. Mars focuses on the juxtaposition of traditional, realistic representations of figures and objects with abstract patterns, forms, and other eye-catching elements. Painting has always been a means for Mars to explore fantastical ideas in which the audience can experience her drive to portray a dreamlike world that is both meditative and exciting.
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Dress Drawing #23
$250118
Tango Tilden
$899Tango Tilden, 2014
Digital collage, mounted on substrate
13 x 16" (framed)
Value: $899
In this digital collage, the Painted People are in Fort Tilden, an abandoned Atlantic shore military base. The barracks are a mecca for graffiti artists.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Formerly an abstract painter, Jeanne Wilkinson now works digitally using numerous apps and programs for her digital collages and animated installations. One of her series involves the "Painted People," former Barbies, Kens, GI Joes, etc., transformed in her Brooklyn studio to become a clan of wanderers of the earth and beyond. She photographs the People, and via the magic of the computer, sends them on fantastical journeys with their companion animals. Her work has been shown in New York City and internationally, and is in many collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her work has also been featured in numerous magazines and publications online. Her videos have been shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and at the Greenpoint and NYC Indie Film Festivals, and a video installation was featured in a play at the 13th Street Repertory Theater in Manhattan. She currently shares her time between Madison, WI, and Brooklyn, NY.
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Global Mode
$1200Global Mode > Cassandra and Low Witness Objects, 2020
Inkjet print on metallic photo paper (frame from interactive virtual performance)
7.5 x 9.5"
Value: $1200
Performer Naicha Diaby in a frame inside Unity while building "Global Mode >", an interactive virtual performance commissioned by ISSUE Project Room and Harvestworks.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
EVA DAVIDOVA explores behavior, ecological disaster, and the political implications of technology through performative works rooted in the absurd. Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, the Everson Museum, the Albright Knox Museum, MACBA Barcelona, CAAC Sevilla, Instituto Cervantes and La Regenta among others. She was a fellow of Harvestworks' TIP, and is currently a member of NEW INC, the New Museum incubator at the intersection of art, design and technology.
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Nothing Personal
$1700Nothing Personal, 2018
Acrylic, collage, mixed media, marker, pen on canvas
24 x 18"
Value: $1700
"Nothing Personal" is part of a series of mixed media paintings, which explore a contradiction of inner turmoil versus external beauty of nature.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Born in Ukraine and raised in Australia, Katya Grokhovsky is a New York-based artist, curator, and Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Grokhovsky has received support through numerous residencies including (EFA) Studio Program, The Museum of Arts and Design Studio Program, Watermill Center, SVA MFA Art Practice AIR, Pratt AIR, Santa Fe Art Institute, Wassaic Artist Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Studios at MASS MoCA, BRIC Workspace, NARS (New York Residency and Studio Foundation), OxBow and more. She has been awarded many awards, grants and fellowships including Brooklyn Arts Council Grants, ArtSlant Prize, Asylum Arts Grant and more. Grokhovsky earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from Victorian College of the Arts, and a BA in Fashion from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
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La Mer
$2000La Mer, 2006
Oil on panel
18 x 23 " (framed)
Value: $2000
This painting depicts the beach next to the lighthouse at the tip of Long Island, near Montauk. My wife, artist Jeanne Wilkinson, was my model.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Frank Lind is a realist painter of landscape, seascape, and figures. One of his series involves re-imagining the masters, as in inserting a modern-day nude figure into a Sargent composition. Also, in his Brooklyn studio, he has painted many pictures of one of his favorite muses, the Atlantic Ocean, particularly the shore at the tip of Long Island near Montauk. The flora and fauna of the seashore, the movement of the waves, and the play of light on water are the subjects of his work. Inspired by the painting practice of James Perry Wilson (who painted beautiful dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History In New York in the mid-20th century), his painting palette includes no tubes of green paint. As a result, all the greens in his paintings come from mixing blues, yellows, and other hues. Frank Lind's work has been shown extensively in New York City and internationally, and is included in many museums and private collections.
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ADIN, from The Atget Suite
$350ADIN, from The Atget Suite, 2020
Paper collage using found papers plus photograph by Eugene Atget
15.5 x 14"
Value: $350
Paper dress collage using found papers plus photograph by Eugene Atget, who documented the architecture and streets of Paris during the early 1900's.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
JoAnne McFarland, artist, poet, and curator, is Artistic Director of Artpoetica Project Space in Gowanus, Brooklyn which focuses on work that is both literary and highly visual. McFarland has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally for over 30 years, and has artwork in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Department of State, among others. McFarland's poetry publications include: Tracks of My Tears, 13 Ways of Looking at a Black Girl, and Identifying the Body. Her most recent curatorial project, SALLY, a title referencing Sally Hemings, explores how contemporary conceptions of white/black, male/female, young/old, rich/poor reflect or disrupt earlier cultural norms. Co-curated with Sasha Chavchavadze, The SALLY Project will be in Wellfleet, MA in August 2021.
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Blue Morpho Butterfly
$800Blue Morpho Butterfly, 2008
Photo
26 x 20"
Value: $800
As a volunteer at the American Museum of Natural History, I was able to visit the Butterfly Pavilion. The Gift Shop there accepted my work.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Co-Diector. L & M Studio265 from 1979
BFA 1979 Pratt Institute
MFA 1985 Pratt Institute
Horticulture Certificate Garden Guide at Brooklyn Botanic Garden 2016
Artist at Carter Burden Gallery: welded steel fused with glass art now on view to May 19 2021
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Hummingbird Halo
$1200Hummingbird Halo, 2021
Mixed media collage with charcoal drawing and re-cycled clippings
22 x 29"
Value: $1200
Observational drawing from a live model coexists with selected patterns, colors, and images from media, assembled and pasted down like broad swaths of paint.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
As a multi-faceted feminist artist, my first commitment is to painting other women, the human face, and figure. Whether working with descriptive images or with the abstract use of materials, I approach all my subjects directly and with abandon. I work furiously at the intersection of disciplined control and randomized instinct.
Additionally, in my quest to discover and reveal what is most emotionally and aesthetically essential, the observational drawing aspect of these images is created with my non-dominant left hand.
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Places of Silence # 63
$500Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk
Places of Silence # 63, 2020
Mixed media and acrylic on paper
10.5 x 14.5"
Value: $500
Long Island, from the ongoing Places of Silence Project (2020-2021).
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Born in Russia, Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk work in collaboration since 2003.
Recent solo exhibitions include: 365: Asya Dodina & Slava Polishchuk, MoRA (Museum of Russian Art), Jersey City, NJ: What Remains: Asya Dodina & Slava Polishchuk, The Brooklyn College president's house, Brooklyn, NY; The Narthex Gallery, St Peter's Church, NY; Between Earth and Heaven, International Center of Arts, Remagen, Germany; Fox & Fowle Gallery; Pace University; Brooklyn College, NY; Moscow International Art Salon. Artists have exhibited in numerous museums and galleries including, Ca' Foscari Zattere Cultural Flow Zone,Venice; M. David & Co. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; BAC Gallery; Chelsea Art Museum; Safe-T-Gallery, NY; Klutznic National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC; The Paxall Gallery, Long Island City, Museum, NY; Rutgers University, NJ; Kentler International Drawing Space, NY; Alumni Gallery, St. Joseph College, NY; Künstlerforum, Bonn, Germany; The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; The Russian Academy of Arts. Their works are in public and private collections including State Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Academy of Arts; Rutgers University, Jane Voorhnees Zimmerly Art Museum, Kolodzei Foundation of Contemporary Russian Art, NJ; Brooklyn College Library, Pace University, NY; Fox & Fowle Architects, NY; Moscow Ministry of Arts and Moscow Union of Artists. Their awards include Project Grant for Exhibition, NY State Council of the Arts; Award of Excellence, Nassau Community College; Shaw Award for Excellence in Painting; Medal of Russian Academy of Arts.
Asya Dodina graduated from the Moscow State Art Institute named after V. Surikov with a degree in Graphic Arts and received MFA in Printmaking and Painting/Drawing from Brooklyn College.
Slava Polishchuk graduated from the Moscow Art School Named After the Year 1905, Moscow and received MFA and BA in Painting/Drawing and Printmaking from Brooklyn College, NY.
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Say Their Names
$398Say Their Names, 2020
Photographs, collage, and acrylic on panel
6 x 6"
Value: $398
This piece is part of my Black Lives Matter series. I begin it last summer after the murder of George Floyd.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Kate Fauvell (b.NYC) is a contemporary artist. Kate constantly takes pictures as a means of understanding and documenting the world around us. She use these images to create photo-based collage paintings.She cuts and tear photographs into pieces and these torn pieces replace a paint brush her primary drawing tool.
Born in 1979, Kate has a BFA from Binghamton and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Fauvell has had solo exhibitions at Binghamton University and Rush Arts Foundation. She has been included in exhibitions on Odetta Digital, New York, NY; The Painting Center, New York, NY; Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT; Google Headquarters, New York, NY, BRIC Arts, Brooklyn, NY; Ethan Cohen Gallery, Beacon, NY; Scope Art Fair, Miami, FL; among many others. The artist was recipient of the Pollock Krasner Grant, New York, NY; Anonymous Was a Woman Grant, New York, NY; the Artist Fellowship, New York, NY; Rauschenberg Foundation Grant, New York,NY a grant from the US Swiss Embassy, Zurich, Switzerland to name a few. She has done residencies around the world including at Mass MoCA and at PRGR in Bern, Switzerland. Fauvell is a single Mom to Matti who is 2 and lives and works in New York, New York.
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Dancing to silent music
$450Dancing to silent music, 2021
Embroidery on fabric
9.75 x 5.25"
Value: $450
Hand-embroidered love story, a form of re-entering or reawakening social culture after vaccination and as New York City starts reopening more fully.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Brooklyn-born and based artist Iviva Olenick works at the intersection of textile craft, history and agriculture. She has exhibited throughout the country at venues including Old Stone House, Brooklyn; Wyckoff House Museum, Brooklyn; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ; Museum of Art and Design Atlanta; Center for Book Arts, NYC. Muriel Guepin Gallery in New York City represents her hand-embroidered love stories. Iviva has received numerous grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, and from Puffin Foundation and Puffin Foundation West to support social practice projects in Brooklyn. Iviva holds a BA in French Language and Literature/Psychology from Binghamton University, and an AAS in Textile/Surface Design from FIT. She is a faculty member of SVA's MFA Art Practice Program, and an educator for the New Museum and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
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Brooklyn Fire Escape
$500Brooklyn Fire Escape, 2011
Color film, C print,
12 x 12"
Value: $500
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Nancy Siesel, is a Pulitzer prize winning photojournalist, documentary, fine art photographer, and filmmaker. Her current photography project, "Survivor Portraits and The Echoes of History", is a series of portraits of Holocaust survivors in Brooklyn, with text, and audio of the survivors harrowing stories.This project was partially funded by the Brooklyn Arts Council, and was exhibited to the community at Brooklyn Public Library in 2019.. In January 2020, Survivor Portraits received funding from the Puffin Foundation, and the James Foundation, to support continued research, photography, and future exhibitions.
Nancy is a former staff photographer for the New York Times. Her 2002 Pulitzer Prize winning photograph, part of a group entry for the New York Times depicts the sole surviving fireman in Fire Company 226, embracing the son of a fallen comrade on 9/11. It is a haunting reminder of the emotions of that day and the fleeting and temporal nature of life.
Nancy is currently directing/producing a documentay, "Escape Artists: The Tale of Mike and Freddie". In 2021 "Escape Artists" "received funding from Brooklyn Arts Council, and New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA), and will be completed later this year.
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Archipelago 22
$800Archipelago 22, 2020
Acrylic, ink, silk, oil on canvas
6 x 6"
Value: $800
Archipelago is an ongoing series of paintings are started during the pandemic closure.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Etty Yaniv works on her art, art writing, and curatorial projects in Brooklyn. Her work includes immersive dimensional installations which merge photography, drawing, and painting. She has exhibited her work in solo and group shows at galleries and museums nationally and internationally, including The Haifa Museum of Art, Israel, State Silk Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia, Newark Museum of Art, NJ, Monmouth Museum of Art, NJ, Torrance Art Museum, CA, AIR gallery, Brooklyn, Long Island University, Brooklyn, The Sheen Center, NYC, Purdue University, IN, Musée Héritage, St. Albert, CA, Zero1 Biennial in San Francisco, and Leipziger Baumwollspinnerie, Leipzig, Germany. She founded and has been running Art Spiel, a fine art online publication. In 2018 she was awarded the Two Trees subsidized studio program in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Yaniv holds BA in Psychology and English Literature from Tel Aviv University, BFA from Parsons School of Design, and MFA from SUNY Purchase. She founded and runs the online art publication Art Spiel.
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Blue Shoe
$1800Blue Shoe, 2019
Oil on canvas
14 x 11"
Value: $1800
It was interesting to me to incorporate floral and insect forms into an object associated with female power and sexuality.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Born in Queens, NY to a family of artists, inventors and actors, I grew up painting and writing. My work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in both the United States and abroad and is held in public and private collections including the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York State Museum, The Orlando Museum of Art, The Zimmerli Archive, The U.S. State Department, and Trierenberg Holding AG (Austria). My studio is located in Brooklyn, NY
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Containment CN U20G1
$1800Containment CN U20G1, 2014
Monoprint collage (linocut and intaglio)
17 x 15.5"
Value: $1800
From a body of work referencing the shipping container industry and its role in the global supply chain.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Leslie Kerby is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. She works in a variety of media to create thematically interlinked bodies of work. She focuses on issues related to how we lead our lives personally, as individuals. And, to how our personal lives are variably connected to, and changed by, the broader networks and communities within which we live and interact. Her work is in the permanent collections at Columbia University, New York; Arkansas State University, Arkansas; Copelouzos Art Museum, Athens Greece. Kerby has received commissions from Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Arts, BRIC Arts | Media and Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and awarded residencies at The American Academy in Rome, Virginia Center for Creative Arts as a Fellow in Virginia and Auvillar, France and the School of Visual Arts, New York. Her work has also appeared at art fairs, Verge, Spring Break and AQUA Miami. She has been reviewed in hyperallergic.com and Two Coats of Paint. In addition to making and exhibiting her work, Kerby also acts as a guest curator with a number of New York art venues and institutions such as Project: ARTspace. She is a member of the Creative Council at BRIC Arts | Media, and a member of the Executive Board at Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Arts.
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The Muscle Tree (Linden)
$250The Muscle Tree (Linden) Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 2019
Print on aluminum of original pastel on black paper
17 x 11"
Value $250
The massive muscled branches of this ancient Linden tree have grown together and spiraled around each other to gathered the strength for its enormous arms.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Aritst Bio:
My long and varied career includes public art, environmental art and teaching, books, costumes and just plain painting. My artwork has expanded out from the depictions of human and deities to landscapes and trees, inspired by worldwide travel and much time in nature. My study of dance has colored all of my art, making it more visceral and full of movement. I had the honor to do three residencies in Death Valley National Park, producing a children's book from the images and knowledge gained as a drawing instructor for Brooklyn College Geology Field School. I have painted in Kyrgyzstan, Antarctica, Peru, Patagonia and all over the US, but the pandemic has reminded me of the beauty in my own Brooklyn.
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Woman
$300Woman, 2020
Oil on canvas
12 x 9"
Value: $300
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
My art is a manifestation of my experience as a Japanese person living in the West, first in Europe and now in New York. I use the art making process as a platform for exploring and reconciling the differences between my early sensibilities shaped by a childhood in Japan and those absorbed as an adult in Europe and the United States.
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Times Square Test Pour #28
$300Times Square Test Pour #28, 2010
Acrylic on paper
6.25 x 8.25 " (framed)
Value: $300
One in a series of studies made in preparation for the 2010 plaza paintings in Times Square.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Molly Dilworth is an artist with an interest in ethics, culture and shared pubic space.
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Forrest Floor
$850Forrest Floor, 2019
Alternative photographic methods; scanner lens, digital film & cyanotype
12 x 18"
Value: $850
My work is committed to bringing attention to Nature's beauty as a protest to Love more for every hate.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
PD Packard is a multi-media artist living in Brooklyn, New York. Awarded a scholarship to Central St Martins, in London, England she obtained a BFA degree in Fashion and Textile Design. When she returned to the states she developed packaging, graphics, and original textiles and surface designs primarily for the cosmetic industry. In 2009 she made a natural transition into fine art. Packard's work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. In March 2019 she completed a Fellowship Residency at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, Italy that was sponsored in part by The Boston Printmakers and Speedball Art Products.
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Kings County Crown
$199Kings County Crown, 2021
Black gesso on oil stick on yupo
24 x 20"
Value: $199
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Merz works on a variety of surfaces, but keeps them all accessible, humorous and clear. Merz's work can range from outdoor murals to framed individual pieces to comics on notebook paper. Influenced by Brooklyn, cartoons, architecture and the kinetic structure of things. Media has influenced the constantly changing surfaces that are worked upon. Synthetic, clear, moving and simple. No hierarchies are implied. Lines and respect for their changing integrity are what her practice is.
Her recent public work creates a convergence between graffiti, coding and the simple deduction of everyday language. These urban hieroglyphics appear to be simple, but on second glance they illustrate a wildly animated library of dialogues, notes, words, architecture, math and random visual connectors. Because of their pictographic nature, they are very inclusive and can be easily read by anyone. The walls are kinetic maps. They are basic black and white blueprints of the specific sites and subjects that they depict.
Merz's process is similar to that of a journalist. She gathers information,
does research, walk, talk and engage people; then makes a dossier of words, elements and interests. She then takes this gathered information and begins to draw pictographic symbols of language. This language becomes a permanently imbedded tale that reflects the tenor of the information gathered. Her process is instantaneous and kinetic and is inextricably linked to my history of growing up on Brooklyn Streets.
Merz grew up in Brooklyn and earned her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art. She has exhibited nationally including the Brooklyn Museum. She is a recipient of the Pollock Krasner Grant, The Oberman Center Collaborative grant, and has been a fellow at the Chinati Foundation and the Macdowell Colony. She has recently been awarded The Augustus Saint-Gaudens lifetime achievement award from The Cooper Union School of Art and is in their Alumni Hall of Fame.
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Heck Yeah!
$1000Heck Yeah!, 2021
Oil and acrylic on linen
14 x 14"
Value: $1000
This work continues part of my practice that includes text as message linked to fun toy images.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Fred Fleisher is originally from Pennsylvania and has lived in the New York metropolitan area for over twenty years. After an enlistment in the Army, he earned a BFA in Painting & Drawing and a BS in Art Education from Penn State University and an MFA from Queens College, CUNY. His work has been represented by galleries, both nationally and internationally and he has had recent solo exhibitions in Brooklyn, Hudson, NY, Berlin and Chicago. He has been included in a number of two and three person exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions while working with curators in the art world. Recently, his work was included in SPRING/BREAK Art Show LA and NY, Spring Forward Exhibition with Arcade Projects Curatorial and American Eyes Exhibition with Rexer Gallery. Critical review of his work has appeared in numerous publications and his work is in a number of collections. He is an Assistant Professor at SUNY, College at Old Westbury and has organized several curatorial projects with the most recent being "Tangible Imaginings" an exhibition that included four women artists at SMUSH Gallery, Jersey City, NJ.
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The Message Within
$600The Message Within, 2019
Mixed media on wood
10 x 10 x 2"
Value: $600
This piece is a recycled wood, paper and acrylic paint mixed media assemblage on a wood panel.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Katherine Kisa is a multidisciplinary artist born in Nairobi, Kenya. She emigrated to the US as a child then attended the University of Toronto where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Genetics and Physical Anthropology. She continued with graduate studies in Biology at Emory University. During her years as a science student Katherine began her career in art, developing a unique style which embraces both her artistic and scientific passions. Currently, the self-taught artist resides in New York where she works as a full time artist.
Katherine's work has been exhibited across the country in group and solo shows including The High Museum of Atlanta's Points of Entry : Conflicts, Acculturation, and Identity (1997), The International Monetary Fund Group Exhibit in Washington, DC (1999), Art Off the Main at the Puck Building in New York (2006), The National Black Fine Art Show in New York (2007), Art DC with Avisca Fine Art Gallery at the Washington DC Convention Center (2010), Solo Show at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (2013), The Artist Project Art Fair in Chicago (2014), Dissilience : An All Women Group Show in Brooklyn, New York (2016), The Bombay Sapphire Group Exhibit at Rush Arts Gallery in Chelsea, New York (2017), and the Function of Freedom Group Exhibit at The Auburn Avenue Research Library in Atlanta, Georgia (2019), Art Miami-SCOPE (2019), and the Brooklyn Arts Council Mutual Aid Show (2021). Permanent collections include The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington, DC, Zeta Phi Beta Headquarters, Washington, DC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Boeing, Arlington, Virginia, Department of Homeland Security, Arlington, Virginia, Howard University, Washington, DC, Dillard University, New Orleans, Louisiana S. Davis-Stewart, President of The March of Dimes, Washington, DC, The Jimmy Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia and The Atlanta Project, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Inka & Canari #1
$504Inka & Canari #1, 2018
Archival inkjet print
17 x 22"
Edition: 1/10
Value: $504
This artwork alludes to the complex relationship between Inkas and Canari's. At Ingapirca, an archeaological site, you can find their ruins coexisting side by side.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
In the late 1970s, I lived in Guayaquil, Ecuador, the city where my mother was born. The contrast between my memories and experiences in Ecuador with my life in the US has been central to my practice, which uses personal narratives as a gateway to explore broader questions of place, identity and nationhood."
Karina Aguilera Skvirsky lives in New York City and works between New York and Ecuador. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice began in photography and grew into video and performance. In 2019, she received a grant from Creative Capital to produce How to build a wall and other ruins, a project that includes a series of hand-cut collages, a multichannel video installation and live performances. The multichannel video will premier in the upcoming Cuenca Biennial XV (2021) curated by Blanca de la Torre in Cuenca, Ecuador. Recent solo exhibitions include: Sacred Geometry at Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico and Ponce + Robles Gallery in Madrid, Spain. Other important international exhibitions include her participation in Africamericanos at Centro de la imagen in CDMX (2019) and There is always a cup of sea for man to sail, the 29th São Paulo Biennial in Brazil (2010). Skvirsky is an Associate Professor at Lafayette College.
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As Above So Below
$2000As Above So Below, 2019
Oil on canvas
24 x 24
Value: $2000
A pink, red, yellow, and green slightly emaciated human body: resting, cloaked in shadows, peering up at a faint blue light.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Shana Wolfe is a visual artist, working primarily in oil paintings and ink drawings. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. After studying Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD, she earned her B.S. in Art History and Museum Professions at SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology. She works full time at the Brooklyn Arts Council supporting artists throughout the borough.
Just before the pandemic, Shana had co-founded a community art space in Crown Heights. Her set design and fabrication can be found in music videos and on film sets. Shana's intimate portraits have been featured in galleries throughout New York City.
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Exit 938
$800Exit 938, 2016
Carved, collaged EXIT signs
14 3/8 x 15 1/2"
Value: $800
These are scraped and collaged EXIT signs watching their own transformation into what that "safe" place is beyond this ubiquitous sign.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle and lived up and down the West Coast, before finishing his BFA (painting) at University of Washington. A MFA from Central Washington Univ. in painting followed that. He started a very successful art installation company in Seattle (Artech) to support his art career, but sold his interest and moved to New York in 1986. He worked at the Guggenheim Museum for 15 years as an art handler/installer while he continued his painting. He also taught sculpture at Fairfield University, CT 1996-2001. He moved into more 3-D work in the early 1990's, and then into site-specific installation work with his partner Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 installations together (http://heinseng.com). All the while he maintained his own separate practice, and since 1997 has carved, scraped, and collaged over 900 EXIT sign drawings (http://bobseng.com). These have become viewing records of EXIT signs watching their own disintegration and transformation into what that "safe" place is beyond this ubiquitous sign. These have been shown throughout the country, but recently in Brooklyn at Centotto, at Odetta, in Chelsea NY. And most recently solo show at Long Island University, in downtown Brooklyn (2020), and various venues for Grand Flag, in Brooklyn (2021).
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Between Earth & Sky (NY)
$1000Between Earth & Sky (Bushwick, NY) #001, 2019
Archival digital print
20 x 16"
Edition: 1/6 plus 2 artist's proofs
Value: $1000
I create indoor/outdoor installations using layered natural materials and mylar to create implied space. I then photograph different abstract spaces found within the installation.
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Beatrice Wolert is a first-generation Polish-American artist and lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She holds a BA in Design from Adelphi University and a MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute. She has exhibited at ABC No Rio, A.I.R. Gallery, Artists Space, Denise Bibro, D.U.M.B.O. Art Center, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Feature, Inc., Ground Floor Gallery, HQ, Janet Kurnatowski, Lorimoto, Neumeraki, NURTUREart, Park Church Co-Op, Roxbury Art Group, Trestle Contemporary Art Gallery, Trestle Projects, Underdonk and Exit Art in New York. She also has exhibited nationally and internationally. She has installed numerous public installations, given numerous artist talks and was awarded Elizabeth Foundation for the Art's shift residency, New York and Bridge Residency, Los Angeles
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Suppose All The Lions
$2500Suppose All The Lions, 2018
Archival pigment print
60 x 40"
Edition: 1/3
Value: $2500
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
I completed a BFA in Painting in 1979 from Boston University, and an MFA in Painting with Honors in 1983 from American University in Washington, DC, and then moved to New York. I rented a studio and began to exhibit my work-imaginary landscapes-in: Brooklyn '85, Brooklyn Museum, NY, 1985; and Berkshire Art Association Annual Juried Show, Berkshire Museum, MA, 1987; among other venues. I was awarded a grant from the Penny McCall Foundation in 1989; and a place in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1992-1993. During this time, I was awarded residencies at MacDowell in 1985, 1987 and later again in 1994.
I began to experiment with painting on flat canvas "shapes" and exhibited this work in Transient Decor, Roger Smith Hotel, NY, 1993; and continued to experiment with painting on 3-dimensional canvas "shapes" and exhibited this work in: Huma Bhaba, Aleya Saad, Randy Wray, Lauren Wittels Gallery, NY, 1994; and in In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the '90s; Part I: Issues of Gender, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NY, 1995, among other venues.
In the early 90s, I began to produce garments from tulle fabric. I exhibited this new work in A la Mode, Sauce Gallery, Williamsburg, 1996, featuring three "sculptures" modeled on a runway. In the mid 90s, began a short film, using an 8mm movie camera, which took the model, on a set of "errands" in full costume.
In the late 90s, I transitioned to photography and enrolled in a series of darkroom classes at ICP to learn how to develop and print my own work. In early 2012, I began a figurative series in the studio, with a model, which includes designing the costumes, set, and props. In 2014, I completed a major body of work, "Pageant Play", and self-published "Pageant Play," selected for "INFOCUS Photobooks: Juried Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks", Phoenix Art Museum, AZ, 2014; and most recently completed a new series, "A very costly masque prepared but not shown" among others, and I am currently at work on "No More Tears, Pierrot".
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Graffiti and Rain
$500Graffiti and Rain, 2021
Oil and collage on canvas
24 x 36"
Value: $500
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
I received my B.F.A. from Parsons School of Design, and my M.A. from Syracuse University. I retired in 2016 after twenty-eight years as an art teacher in the New York City public schools. I currently have paintings on display at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition and on Artsy.com. I have also exhibited at Collier West and FiveMyles, and my work has been used on the sets of two television productions: First Wives Club and High Fidelity.
I work in oils, watercolors and collage. I don't aim for absolute precision in my work. Even though I can capture a time, place or figure in a painting, the brushstrokes and splatters are as important as the rendering.
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z9,Q5*d,32,z_
$1100z9,Q5*d,32,z_<sc_2020< em="">, 2020
postapocalypticblack * [ modified acrylic polymer emulsion | carbon black pigment | calcium carbonate | water | modified industrial urethane enamel | modified polyurethane thermoset cellular plastic | vinyl acrylic co-polymer emulsion | acrylic stain-block sealant | latex-based construction adhesive | nuisance dust | studio detritus | spit | air ]*proprietary | blackened screw | wood panel
9 x 8.75 x 6.75"
Value: $1,200
*This piece will be available for the ticket price on opening night.
Artist bio:
Interested in the timeless and disparate associations assigned to black, Gabriel J. Shuldiner describes his work as 'bruteminimalism ': a concept situated somewhere between the abstract and absurd. His physically powerful, s[r]eductively delicate 'hybridsculpturalpaintings ' trigger both immediate engagement and visceral reaction, conjuring images of voids in space and postapocalyptic futures...
He sites the 'subtlety of difference, produced through repetition' and the 'implied nuanced histories of the oft-overlooked' as starting points for work that explores and disrupts 21st century painting and object-making. Gabriel J. Shuldiner deems his elusive black palette "postapocalypticblack ": a viscous custom composite, based upon the key life ingredient and oldest known earth element, carbon [c].
Applied in thick layers on a multitude of substrates, Gabriel J Shuldiner meticulously bends, scrapes and sculpts his proprietary black material, creating mysterious areas both smooth and rough that proportionately reflect, refract, distort and absorb observable levels of electromagnetic radiation.
A native New Yorker, Gabriel J. Shuldiner was born and raised in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business and Eastern Philosophy from New York University and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Sculpture from Parsons the New School for Design. He has previously studied at the School of Visual Arts and International Center for Photography. Upon graduating from Parsons, Gabriel J. Shuldiner was selected by the Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM [artist in the marketplace] emerging artist program, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts studio residency program, where he spent several years.
Gabriel J Shuldiner's "bruteminimalist " work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at select galleries, museums, institutions and avant-garde boutiques. He lives and works in Manhattan's West Chelsea, where he currently maintains his studio.
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Conch Shell
$350Conch Shell, 2021
Watercolor on paper
12 x 12"
Value: $350
*This piece will be available for the ticket price on opening night.
Artist Bio:
Denise Halpin studied art in Aix-en-Provence, France and earned a Fine Arts Degree at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has been working in Art, Design and Illustration since 1977, and creates work in oil, acrylic, watercolor and paper collage.
Her work is on permanent display at Mount Sinai Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, and East Side Middle School, all in Manhattan, and at The Children's Home in Easton, Pennsylvania. She recently installed sixteen watercolor paintings of vegetables at the Ayurvedic Plate in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.
Exhibits include the 2018 'Flower Show', a collection of large paper collages at the Farm on Adderley in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, and a selection of culinary watercolor paintings at Almondine Patisserie in Dumbo, Brooklyn in 2016 and 2017. Between the years 2018 and 2019, she was also included in group shows for the Brooklyn Arts Council at the Usagi Gallery in Dumbo and the M. David &Co Gallery in Bushwick, a group show at Guild Hall in East Hampton, and a show titled 'Hidden', in Harlem, NYC. In 2020 she had an exhibit of acrylic paintings of Buddhas at Think Coffee in Manhattan.
An exhibit showcasing oil paintings and watercolor paintings of refugees from around the world, titled 'Seeking Refuge' was exhibited in Long Island City in May 2019, and at Nazareth Center for the Arts in Pennsylvania in July 2019.
Sea Shells on Parade, a series of watercolor paintings are presently on exhibit at Almondine Patisserie in DUMBO, Brooklyn. A new exhibit of Sea Shells will be at Think Coffee at one Bleecker inJuly and August 2021.
Work can also be seen online at www.denisehalpin.com.
Denise Halpin 917-743-0973 denisehalpin@aol.com
Instagram: DeniseHalpin
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Life Forms
$1500Life Forms, 2018
Acrylic, gouache, collage on paper
30 x 22.5"
Value: $1500
A collection of painted and collaged images of animals, real and imagined, created during the Pandemic, while life felt particularly vulnerable.
*This piece will be available for the ticket price on opening night.
Artist Bio:
Jane Greengold is a visual and conceptual artist. She makes public art, both permanent and temporary; does community engagement projects, and studio work, both abstract and conceptual. Her public projects are site-specific, intended to heighten a sense of place, and are often engaged with social issues.
She has done permanent works for the MTA Arts for Transit progam at the Grand Army Plaza Station in Brooklyn and (with Kane Chang Do) the MetroNorth station in Pleasantville; the NYC Percent for Art Program at a high school in Brooklyn and a Fire/EMS Station in Queens; and temporary projects for the centennials of the Brooklyn Bridge and Grand Central Terminal, among others.
After decades of making socially engaged public art, she is now doing community engagement projects, seeking social justice through art. With the support of the Design Trust for Public Space, she is working with residents and neighbors of a New York City Housing Authority development to redesign a now unusable, fenced-in grass space at the edge of the development, to make it into an interactive space usable by both residents and others. Among her community engagement projects is an almost annual series of Halloween Impalements, installations of 100 individually carved pumpkins impaled on a sharply pointed fence, and left over time to decay, revealing the Toll of Time. In recent years (not including the pandemic year ) over 150 community members contributed pumpkins.
Her studio works include an on-going 30-year plus series of postcards celebrating every Solstice and Equinox. For the last eight years she has being doing a series of drawings, paintings, and collages inspired by the (fictional) languages of Tlön, inspired by the Jorge Luis Borges story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.
During the Pandemic she has done a series of Corona Collages, made of torn fragments of earlier drawings, and a series of small painted and collaged squares.
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Deja Vu (E)
$1197Deja Vu (E), 2021
Archival print
24 x 18"
Edition: 1/5 plus 2 Artist's proofs
Value: $1197
This work is part of a series, reflecting the paradoxes of (self-)isolation and (self-) restrictions and the growing desire to remove them.
*This piece will be available for the ticket price on opening night.
Artist Bio:
Daniela Kostova is an interdisciplinary artist who works with photography, installation, video, and performance. Her work addresses issues of geography and cultural representation, the production and crossing of socio-cultural borders, and the uneasy process of translation and communication.
Her work is exhibited at venues such as Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY), Queens Museum of Art (NY), Kunsthalle Wien (Austria), Institute for Contemporary Art (Sofia), Centre d'art Contemporain (Geneva), Antakya Biennale (Turkey), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, (Torino), Kunsthalle Fridericianum (Kassel) and many others.
In the summer of 2019, Daniela was commissioned by VIG to wrap the well-known Ringturm building in Vienna, Austria. Her piece "Future Dreaming"spread on 4000 sq. meters represents one of the biggest public art displays in Europe. In 2016 she had her first solo show in NYC as A.I.R. Gallery Fellow, and was a resident at the Center for Art and Urbanism (ZK/U), Berlin. In 2011, Daniela won the Unlimited Award for Contemporary Bulgarian Art. In 2009, 2007 and 2006 she received travel grants from NYFA, the American Foundation for Bulgaria and the European Cultural Foundation.
In 2000 Kostova won the International Art Award Onufri in Tirana, Albania. In 2002 she was an ArtsLink Residency fellow at the CIA, Cleveland, Ohio. In 2003 she was granted a Graduate Fellowship from RPI in Troy, NY where she later taught Intermediate Digital Imaging. In addition, Daniela curated the BioArt Initiative - art & science project of the Arts Department and the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at RPI.
Daniela's work is reviewed in New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, FlashArt, Art in America and is featured at Open Art Files, Artqol, Artfare, Artsy.
She currently lives in NYC and serves as Director of Curatorial Projects at Radiator Gallery, Artist Mentor at NYFA's Immigrant Artist Program and Board Member of CEC Artslink.
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1st Act Mysterious Incident
$7501st Act Mysterious Incident in Lake Desmet 03, 2010
Lenticular print
Edition: 1/3 + AP
Value: $750
Onstage is an intervention on historic sites using theatrical lights, recreating history informed by local storytelling to address the melodrama granted to places, and history interpretation.
*This piece will be available for the ticket price on opening night.
Artist Bio:
Juanli Carrión is an artist, researcher and activist whose work over the past decade has unfolded in the research, development and education of community engaged artistic practices focused on social and environmental justice. Through participatory and collaborative processes, his artistic practice responds to the social, political and cultural history of the places where he works. He is currently expanding his practice beyond the art realm to work that becomes policies, non-profit organizations, associations, groups, or other sustainable social or political structures with the aim of translating the results into artistic, pedagogical and community strategies.
In 2017 he founded OSS Project Inc. a non-profit organization whose mission is to connect communities with artists to create gardens as places to empower, celebrate and reclaim identity and knowledge, using urban farming, storytelling, educational programming and community building as means to dismantle systemic and structural issues of social inequity.
His work has been exhibited in venues such as the Art Institute of Chicago, Art in General, Abrons Arts Center, BRIC, Y Gallery or BAM in the US; ARTIUM, La Casa Encendida, La Panera Art Center, MUSAC, or CentroCentro in Spain; Ex-Teresa Museum and MUPO in Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art in Peru or National Gallery of Modern Art in India among others.
Carrión is a faculty member at The New School, where he teaches Sustainable Design and Creative Community Development. His work and research have been presented publicly at Columbia University, Open Engagement at Carnegie Mellon University, SVA, Pratt Institute, SUNY, NYU, AIA New York, Fordham Graduate School for Social Service, National Academy of Sciences, Wavehill and Apexart.
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Lightscape (Green/Gold)
$450Lightscape (Green/Gold), 2019
Egg-Oil Emulsion on Mat Board
5 x 7"
Value: $450
Using a homemade recipe, this medium enables particular translucence for light to reflect within painted surfaces similar to early Renaissance painters working through 16th century.
*This piece will be available for the ticket price on opening night.
Artist Bio:
Originally from Oregon and as an emerging NYC artist, my focus relies on the lines that separate and combine various life experience including those that persist to overlap time in reference to the past/present/future.
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The Meditating Buddha
$400The Meditating Buddha, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
12 x 12"
Value: $400
The Buddha's hands are in the mudra for opening the sacral chakra (creativity). The Red-Winged Blackbird represents a heighten awareness of a personal/spiritual journey.
*This piece will be available for the ticket price on opening night.
Artist Bio:
Vanessa Peters is a Latina artist based out of Brooklyn, New York. Her passion for art came from learning to draw and sketch by copying the images she found in her father's old art books. Vanessa studied English and art at The City College of New York.
After a 7 year stretch of not painting, she picked up her brush again in 2013. Vanessa began recreating her own image to find the beauty in herself. To love her body as a piece of art she was creating in the hopes that it would be the way to discovering herself. Self-portraits have the ability to show the full spectrum of a personality, heartache and emotions caught in a single moment, in one look. The depiction of the Buddha in her work speaks to her own spiritual journey as a Buddhist and the growth and connection she feels in her practice.
A large portion of her pieces also include animal totems of the Red-winged Blackbird and the Octopus. Both animals used in her paintings are symbolic of different experiences or emotions felt internally but made flesh in the painting. They serve as visual talismans of one's feelings at a particular moment time.
She paints oil and acrylic figurative paintings out of her apartment in Crown Heights.
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Prayer for solar plexus
$450Prayer for solar plexus, 2008
Pencil and watercolor on paper (Mounted on wood with a French cleat hardware included, fragile paper edges exposed)
7.5 x 6"
Value: $450
This work was created in the early stages of learning to draw symmetrically, for the means of accomplishing a fluid verbal vocabulary with both hands.
*This piece will be available for the ticket price on opening night.
Artist Bio:
Helena Parriott, born 1987 in Seattle Washington. She has worked across mediums including performance, glass, meditative drawing, and painting. Her training includes attending the Zelezny Brod glass art highschool, and a multidisciplinary BFA from California College of the Arts (2010). She has shown in Brooklyn and New York venues such as Victory+Mo, BRIC, UrbanGlass, and Novela Gallery. She was a Resident artist at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, in 2019.
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Progenitor
$2500Progenitor, 2020
Ink, polymer toner, graphite, gold on paper on wood panel
12 x 9"
Value: $2500
The protagonist in equilibrium is subjugated to reordering relative to a cryptic field, modified internally.
*This piece will be available for the ticket price on opening night.
Artist Bio:
Andrew Ginzel (b. 1954, Chicago, IL) has invented a diverse range of works internationally for museums, galleries, and performance as well as private and public architectural spaces. Often working in collaboration with Kristin Jones, projects include the University of Colorado's new Art Museum in Boulder, Snow College Library, The Hoboken Ferry Terminal and the Metro system, St.Louis.
Architectural interventions in Manhattan include Metronome on Union Square, and Oculus throughout the World Trade Center / Park Place / Chambers Street Subway station.
Other projects include installations created for the Kunsthalle, Basel; The Olympic Arts Festival; The List at MIT; Public Art Fund; Wadsworth Atheneum; The New Museum; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Triennale, New Delhi; Creative Time; Museo D"Arte Contemporanea, Prato; Chicago Cultural Center.
Performance works include commissions by The Next Wave Festival of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, David Dorfman, Matthew McGuire of the Creation Company and Merce Cunningham.
Concurrent is a studio practice of thought experiments of mixed media.
Awards include Rome Prize, The "Bessie", three NEA grants, Pollock Krasner and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundations, Indo-American, NYSCA, NYFA and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships.
Ginzel teaches at the School of Visual Arts and lives and works in NYC.
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Liberty
$400Liberty, 2020
Water-based woodcut (mokuhanga) on handmade Japanese paper (washi)
7 x7"
Edition: 1/1
Value $400
THE LIBERTY SERIES by Florence Neal
An ongoing series of Liberty prints. Hand-carved woodblocks are hand-printed with water-based pigments. Sonnet text by Emma Lazarus, 1883.
*This piece will be available for the ticket price on opening night.
Artist Bio:
Florence Neal's prints, drawings and public art installations have been exhibited in the US and abroad. Her prints and artist's books can be found in major public collections. A special interest within her work is the traditional Japanese water-based woodcut technique, known as mokuhanga, leading her to attend the first International Conference of Mokuhanga in Kyoto, Japan in 2011. In 1985 Neal founded Everglade Press and in 1990 she co-founded the Kentler International Drawing Space in Red Hook, Brooklyn and serves as its Director of Exhibitions.
Her prints and artist's books can be found in public collections including The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and in New York City at The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and the New York Public Library; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; The Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, AL; and Omaha Public Library, Omaha, NE.
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Water Lilies
$1700Water Lilies, 2019
Acrylic paint
24 x 36"
Value: $1700
Abstract expressionist piece inspired by the lily pond at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. Published in ChiArts Levitate Anthology Issue 4 (2020).
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
I am an emerging nonbinary queer artist working in acrylic and watercolor paints, creating abstract expressionist paintings, and a graphic designer with over a decade of experience. I currently live and create art in Queens, NY.
My work focuses on the contrast between urban life and nature. I am inspired by concrete walls overgrown by ivy and tree branches, train underpasses covered in graffiti and grass, a strong New York summer rainstorm beating against my window, the decaying Red Hook warehouses, tiny alleys, and the way the air smells on the first few days of September. It is my aim to create paintings that bring a moment of serenity and calm to the viewer.
More of my work can be seen on my website and on my instagram.
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KFC
$250KFC, 2016
Archival pigment print
Signed by artist Cey Adams, Hand embellished
Edition of 10
17 x 17"
Value: $250
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Cey Adams, a New York City native, emerged from the downtown graffiti movement to exhibit alongside fellow artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. He appeared in the historic 1982 PBS documentary Style Wars which tracks subway graffiti in New York. As the Creative Director of hip hop mogul Russell Simmons' Def Jam Recordings, he co-founded the Drawing Board, the label's in-house visual design firm, where he created visual identities, album covers, logos, and advertising campaigns for Run DMC, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Notorious B.I.G., Maroon 5, and Jay-Z. He exhibits, lectures and teaches art workshops at institutions including: MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of the City of New York, New York University, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Walker Art Center, MoCA Los Angeles, Pratt Institute, Stamford University, Howard University, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, High Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Mount Royal University and The University of Winnipeg in Canada. He co-authored DEFinition: The Art and Design of Hip-Hop, published by Harper-Collins; and designed Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label, published by Rizzoli. Cey's work explores the relationship between transformation and discovery. His practice involves dismantling various imagery and paper elements to build multiple layers of color, texture, shadow, and light. Cey draws inspiration from 60's pop art, sign painting, comic books, and popular culture. His work focuses on themes including pop culture, race and gender relations, cultural and community issues.
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Pepsi
$100Pepsi, 2014
Archival pigment print
Signed by artist Cey Adams
Edition of 50
18 x 18"
Value: $100
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Cey Adams, a New York City native, emerged from the downtown graffiti movement to exhibit alongside fellow artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. He appeared in the historic 1982 PBS documentary Style Wars which tracks subway graffiti in New York. As the Creative Director of hip hop mogul Russell Simmons' Def Jam Recordings, he co-founded the Drawing Board, the label's in-house visual design firm, where he created visual identities, album covers, logos, and advertising campaigns for Run DMC, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Notorious B.I.G., Maroon 5, and Jay-Z. He exhibits, lectures and teaches art workshops at institutions including: MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of the City of New York, New York University, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Walker Art Center, MoCA Los Angeles, Pratt Institute, Stamford University, Howard University, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, High Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Mount Royal University and The University of Winnipeg in Canada. He co-authored DEFinition: The Art and Design of Hip-Hop, published by Harper-Collins; and designed Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label, published by Rizzoli. Cey's work explores the relationship between transformation and discovery. His practice involves dismantling various imagery and paper elements to build multiple layers of color, texture, shadow, and light. Cey draws inspiration from 60's pop art, sign painting, comic books, and popular culture. His work focuses on themes including pop culture, race and gender relations, cultural and community issues.
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American Flag (Black)
$100American Flag (Black), 2014
8 color silkscreen print (printed on 100# French archival paper)
Signed by artist Cey Adams - Edition of 100
18 x 24"
Value: $100
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Cey Adams, a New York City native, emerged from the downtown graffiti movement to exhibit alongside fellow artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. He appeared in the historic 1982 PBS documentary Style Wars which tracks subway graffiti in New York. As the Creative Director of hip hop mogul Russell Simmons' Def Jam Recordings, he co-founded the Drawing Board, the label's in-house visual design firm, where he created visual identities, album covers, logos, and advertising campaigns for Run DMC, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Notorious B.I.G., Maroon 5, and Jay-Z. He exhibits, lectures and teaches art workshops at institutions including: MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of the City of New York, New York University, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Walker Art Center, MoCA Los Angeles, Pratt Institute, Stamford University, Howard University, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, High Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Mount Royal University and The University of Winnipeg in Canada. He co-authored DEFinition: The Art and Design of Hip-Hop, published by Harper-Collins; and designed Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label, published by Rizzoli. Cey's work explores the relationship between transformation and discovery. His practice involves dismantling various imagery and paper elements to build multiple layers of color, texture, shadow, and light. Cey draws inspiration from 60's pop art, sign painting, comic books, and popular culture. His work focuses on themes including pop culture, race and gender relations, cultural and community issues.
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Boy George
$100Boy George (The MashUp 2 series), 2020
8 color silkscreen print (Printed on 100# French archival paper)
Photographed by Janette Beckman, Signed by artist Cey Adams
Edition of 50
18 x 24"
Value: $100
*This piece is included in the Opening Night Collection.
Artist Bio:
Cey Adams, a New York City native, emerged from the downtown graffiti movement to exhibit alongside fellow artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. He appeared in the historic 1982 PBS documentary Style Wars which tracks subway graffiti in New York. As the Creative Director of hip hop mogul Russell Simmons' Def Jam Recordings, he co-founded the Drawing Board, the label's in-house visual design firm, where he created visual identities, album covers, logos, and advertising campaigns for Run DMC, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Notorious B.I.G., Maroon 5, and Jay-Z. He exhibits, lectures and teaches art workshops at institutions including: MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of the City of New York, New York University, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Walker Art Center, MoCA Los Angeles, Pratt Institute, Stamford University, Howard University, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, High Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Mount Royal University and The University of Winnipeg in Canada. He co-authored DEFinition: The Art and Design of Hip-Hop, published by Harper-Collins; and designed Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label, published by Rizzoli. Cey's work explores the relationship between transformation and discovery. His practice involves dismantling various imagery and paper elements to build multiple layers of color, texture, shadow, and light. Cey draws inspiration from 60's pop art, sign painting, comic books, and popular culture. His work focuses on themes including pop culture, race and gender relations, cultural and community issues.