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Barges, Tugs and Tankers
$1700Barges, Tugs and Tankers
Oil on panel, 12" x 18", 2020
Artist: Ellen Kozak
I grew up near water, learning to swim at an early age in the nearby Long Island Sound and on family vacations in Maine. Since 1994 I've had a studio on the Hudson River in Greene County. Painting on a field easel at the river's edge puts me in close physical contact with my surroundings.
While the Hudson and other bodies of water are my subject, I also depend upon them to perform a practical role. I use a river's reflective surface as a giant watery lens, an intermediary device for indirectly observing the world above. Like a lens, the surface of a river can assimilate reflection, color, and pattern. It collects activity from the sky above, the movements of clouds, fog, foliage, planes in flight, and on the Hudson, barges that transport hazardous material.
In recent years, the escalation in commercial traffic on the Hudson is overwhelming as the river is reindustrialized. Ironically, from my studio, the passing barges, tugs, and tankers are particularly stunning at night when the reflected lights from these vessels illuminate the river. The drama of these nighttime scenes in combination with moonlight and atmospheric conditions inspired me to begin a series of night paintings in March 2020 when the Covid lockdown kept us in place. There are now more than thirty paintings in my series. Most of these are in my current solo exhibition, Vigil: New Paintings, at the David Richard Gallery in NYC from November 27 - December 23, 2021.
This painting is one of the first that I painted. While my paintings offer neither views nor realistic representation of elements in the landscape, I hope that the authority and experience of close observation and empirical practice is evident and tangible.
Ellen Kozak was born in Queens in 1955 and received her Master of Science in Visual Studies from MIT's, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, where after graduation she continued as a Center Fellow. She received her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. Between the years 1982 and 1984 Kozak worked in Japan and studied shod? (traditional Japanese calligraphy).
Ellen has had twenty solo exhibitions in galleries and museums in the US and abroad including the Hudson River Museum, Katonah Museum of Art, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan, Elizabeth Harris and Katarina Rich Perlow Galleries in NYC, Cross Contemporary Art in Saugerties, NY. She has participated in group shows held at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art; Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, NYC; ODETTA Gallery, Brooklyn; Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY; Albany Museum of History and Art; Hyde Collection and La Nuit de l'Instant-2017, Marseille, France.
Her artwork is included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hudson River Museum, Museum of Fine Art Boston, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum and Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art.
Ellen's art has been written about and reproduced in Art in America, The New Yorker, Art & Antiques, Art New England, the New York Times, Two Coats of Paint, Painting Perceptions, Hyperallergic, Blue Mountain Commons, and "Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes: Notations on a River."
She has taught at Pratt Institute, Princeton University, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago at Oxbow, University of Massachusetts, and Art New England at Bennington College.
Ellen works onsite from direct observation and empirical experience beside the Hudson River. She has also had residencies beside the Garonne River in France. She lives in NYC and New Baltimore, NY. Ellen is currently represented by David Richard Gallery.
102
Striped Bass
$1525Striped Bass
Artist's Proof Signed Print, 36" wide
Artist: James Prosek
Artist, writer, naturalist, and Yale graduate James Prosek made his authorial debut at nineteen years of age with "Trout: an Illustrated History" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), which featured seventy of his watercolor paintings of the trout of North America.
James' work has been shown at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery among other institutions. He has written for The New York Times and National Geographic Magazine and won a Peabody Award in 2003 for his documentary about traveling through England in the footsteps of Izaak Walton, the seventeenth-century author of "The Compleat Angler."
James co-founded a conservation initiative called World Trout in 2004 with Yvon Chouinard, the owner of Patagonia clothing company, which raises money for coldwater habitat conservation through the sale of T-shirts featuring trout paintings.
James is on the board of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale, serves on the Leadership Council for Riverkeeper and is a member of the advisory board of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies.
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Sunset Housatonic Bend
$1500Sunset Housatonic Bend
Oil on Linen, 14"x14", Framed
Artist: Jim Schantz
Jim Schantz received his Master's Degree in Painting at University of California, Davis and his Bachelor's in Fine Arts at Syracuse University. He also studied at The Hornsey School of Art, London and at the Skowhegan School in Maine.
Jim's works are in numerous public collections, including: The Berkshire Museum, The Center for Spiritual Life at Emerson College; Lowe Art Museum, Syracuse University; The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury MA; Nelson Museum, U.C. Davis; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; Skidmore College; Simon's Rock of Bard College, and University of Massachusetts. Jim has had several solo exhibitions at Pucker Gallery in Boston. His work has also been featured in exhibitions at the Berkshire Museum, The Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, The Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, The Albany Institute of Art and the Brooklyn Museum.
Jim is represented by the Pucker Gallery in Boston and currently resides in Glendale, MA.
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Shad Fishing on the Hudson
$900Audrey Wyman, Smokey Schools, and Everett Nack shad fishing on the Hudson River off Germantown
Archival pigment photograph, 17" x 22", Framed, © Joseph Squillante, 1994
Artist: Joseph Squillante
Everett Nack (1928-2004) was a commercial fisherman, activist and ardent environmentalist who lobbied Albany in order to protect the declining shad population of the Hudson. Everett began fishing for shad when he got out of the service in 1953.
Shad fishing is one of the oldest traditional industries along the North American coast and was practiced by both Native American and European settlers.
A print of this photograph was exhibited at the New-York Historical Society's Hudson Rising in 2019. It is now in their permanent collection.
Everett Nack, Hudson River Fisherman/advocate (1928-2004)
If you wanted to know the state of the Hudson River, especially between Poughkeepsie to just past south of Albany, all you needed to do was ask commercial fisherman Everett Nack, a vocal supporter of his beloved river.
A modern-day Davy Crockett, Nack lived close to nature. Besides fishing, he sold bait, smoked his own shad, hunted, trapped, bred dogs, made wine from berries, and whittled ducks out of wood. And like Crockett, Nack got involved in trying to protect the habitat that provided for him.
As a longtime member of an advisory committee to the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, however, he said that the only thing he and other fishermen had been able to do was keep the state from regulating them off the river. "We haven't been able to improve a thing," he had said back in 1993. "The state just shrugs its shoulders." Meanwhile, he claimed, "the river is dying." He attributed the decline, ironically, to the river being "too clean" due to the sewage treatment plants above Poughkeepsie that release chlorine into the river to make it pure for drinking. "But they sterilized the river with the chemical, and the (fish) reproduction stopped and the fish all disappeared." Everett had noticed a dramatic decline in fish populations beginning in 1982. In earlier days, he'd pull up 300 to 500 pounds of fish in each net. "Now we see 3 to 5 fish," he had said.
It was rainy that spring day in 1994 when I first went fishing with Everett and his friends Audrey Wyman and Smokey Schools near Everett's hometown of Claverack. I was thrilled to join this respected riverman during the important, but short, shad season known as the lilac run.
Though my purpose was to photograph the remnants of a dying industry, I was impressed when multiple fish were caught in one haul. I had never before fished with a net. We caught perhaps 100 shad that day, and I was excited to go home with a large roe shad in each hand. Everett was less than satisfied. Hauls weren't what they used to be.
"In the late '70s, we used to run around 55 to 65 tons of shad, my sons and I." But in 1994 they caught only 8 tons among them. "Worst year in 20 years."
Everything in the river is disappearing," Everett had said. "If it was one species, you could say, 'Well, maybe it had a bad hatching season.' But, unfortunately, that's not the case."
Everett didn't have much hope for a reversal of the trend; he thought the future of the Hudson River commercial fishing looked dim. When he started fishing the river in 1953, after he got out of the service, there were 250 fishermen-and all kinds of fish-in the Hudson. By 1994 there were 35. "There's nothing to catch, so everybody's given up."
Joseph Squillante has been photographing the Hudson River for over 40 years from its source at Lake Tear of the Clouds in the Adirondacks to its mouth at New York Harbor.
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Canoe, Constitution Marsh
$900Canoe, Constitution Marsh
Archival pigment photograph, 17" x 22", Framed, © Joseph Squillante, 2000
Artist: Joseph Squillante
Constitution Marsh is an Audubon Sanctuary on the Hudson River in Garrison.
Joseph Squillante has been photographing the Hudson River for over 40 years from its source at Lake Tear of the Clouds in the Adirondacks to its mouth at New York Harbor.
Well-respected by the Hudson River community, Joseph works with organizations such as Riverkeeper, Clearwater and Scenic Hudson who has recognized him as a "Hudson Valley Hero."
A New York Times reviewer noted that some of Joseph's pictures are similar in style to Hudson River School, Barbizon, and 19th-century Realist painters. Like the Hudson landscape painters before him, he is attracted to the beauty and romance of the river.
Joseph's environmental work was exhibited at the New-York Historical Society's Hudson Rising; and he collaborated with Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra in American Songfest with his Hudson River photography accompaniment to the music of Pete Seeger, Aaron Copeland & Morton Gould.
His mission is to foster an awareness of the river's visual magnificence through photography. To this end he cultivates an appreciation for the Hudson through workshops, lecture presentations, in-classroom talks, lessons, exhibitions, and note cards and prints.
A number of Joseph's photographs are in the permanent collections of the New-York Historical Society, Museum of the City of New York, Albany Institute of History and Art, the New York State Museum and the Hudson River Museum.
He is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers, Arts Westchester Teaching Artist Roster and the Peekskill Arts Alliance, and is a former Vice-Chair of the Historic and Landmarks Preservation Board for the City of Peekskill.
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Custom Watercolor Painting
$1100Original Custom Watercolor Painting by artist and award-winning illustrator Elisha Cooper
Caldecott honor winning illustrator Elisha Cooper will paint an original commissioned piece of art work for the winner of this auction lot. Working from a photograph of your choosing, Elisha will create a one-of-a-kind work of art of your favorite place or scene - your favorite Hudson River vista, your lake home, your favorite tree, or any view you would like to capture in art. Elisha's stunning watercolors will transform a place that is close to your heart from a photo to a beautiful custom painting for you to treasure for years to come.
Elisha Cooper received a Caldecott Honor in 2018 for "Big Cat, Little Cat," and his following book "River" won the 2020 Robin Smith Picture Book Prize. One of his earlier books, "Dance!," was a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year, and "Beach" won the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. In 2016 he was awarded a Sendak Fellowship.
After playing football at Yale, where he majored in History, Elisha worked at The New Yorker Magazine. He published his first book, a sketchbook of New York, then followed his wife on her academic trajectory to California, then Chicago, before returning to New York, where she is a professor at NYU. He has written twenty-five books, mostly for children, and also books for adults including the family memoirs "Crawling: A Father's First Year," and "Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back." His essays and sketchbooks have appeared in the sports section of The New York Times. Cooper lives with his wife, daughters, and cats in New York City.
The winner of this item will be connected with Elisha following the auction to set up the artwork consultation.
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Instagram: @elisha_cooper
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"River" Illustration Print
$275"River" Illustration
Limited edition, signed, print on archival paper, 20" x 11.5"
Artist: Elisha Cooper
"River" is an adventure book, sort of. A young woman launches her canoe in the Adirondacks and paddles three hundred-miles down the Hudson River to New York City, and home. A modern Odyssey, with fewer monsters and more tugboats.
I did not canoe down the Hudson myself - I'm not a capable enough canoer. But as I explored up and down the river, I think I felt the same wonder of any adventurer. I loved discovering the Hudson's forested headwaters, or sketching New York harbor from a ferry, or biking over to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to draw boats. My sketchbook filled up. I loved drawing my daughters, too - they modeled as the canoer, sitting on our couch and holding a paddle (I imagine the book's hero as my daughters, grown up). Then I put everything together and wrote the story.
I don't know if I've enjoyed making a book more. Observation is at the heart of why I love making books. Seeing something new, overcoming that unmoored feeling of being far from home, then coming home. And with luck, when we see the world in all its beauty, whether it's the Hudson River or our local park, we protect it. That's my hope for this book.
"This stunningly illustrated account of a woman's solo canoe trip down the Hudson is a remarkable example of the art of the picture book?Cooper's oversize gem is for the ages, and for people of all ages." - The New York Times Book Review - Maria Russo
Caldecott honor winning illustrator Elisha Cooper will paint an original commissioned piece of art work for the winner of this auction lot. Working from a photograph of your choosing, Elisha will create a one-of-a-kind work of art of your favorite place or scene - your favorite Hudson River vista, your lake home, your favorite tree, or any view you would like to capture in art. Elisha's stunning watercolors will transform a place that is close to your heart from a photo to a beautiful custom painting for you to treasure for years to come.
Elisha Cooper received a Caldecott Honor in 2018 for "Big Cat, Little Cat," and his following book "River" won the 2020 Robin Smith Picture Book Prize. One of his earlier books, "Dance!," was a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year, and "Beach" won the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. In 2016 he was awarded a Sendak Fellowship.
After playing football at Yale, where he majored in History, Elisha worked at The New Yorker Magazine. He published his first book, a sketchbook of New York, then followed his wife on her academic trajectory to California, then Chicago, before returning to New York, where she is a professor at NYU. He has written twenty-five books, mostly for children, and also books for adults including the family memoirs "Crawling: A Father's First Year," and "Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back." His essays and sketchbooks have appeared in the sports section of The New York Times. Cooper lives with his wife, daughters, and cats in New York City.
The winner of this item will be connected with Elisha following the auction to set up the artwork consultation.
elishacooper.com
Instagram: @elisha_cooper
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Hudson Valley
$340Hudson Valley
Oil painting on mixed media paper, 18" x 24", 2021
Artist: Mac O'Sullivan
Mac O'Sullivan is an artist originally from Cornwall, NY in the Hudson Valley - now living and working in New York City. His works include abstracts, portraits, and landscape scenes from his life. He uses oil paint as hi main medium but has worked with several mediums including drawing and digital painting, using color and composition to convey feeling. Mac attributes his personal style to a lack of formal training in painting and years of self-exploration. All profits from artwork sold by Mac O'Sullivan are donated to Riverkeeper to help preserve the Hudson River, a staple of his childhood and the history of New York State.
This piece is based on two different Hudson Valley views - a view from Storm King Mountain and a view from the Bear Mountain bridge - both featuring the Hudson River. It seeks to convey the paradisal calmness Mac feels on a trip back home to the Hudson Valley.
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Instagram: @mac_osullivan
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Harbor with Soft Light
$1200Harbor with Soft Light
Pastel on paper, 13" x 20" image
size, approx. 26" x 26", framed
Artist: Christie Scheele
"I explore power and beauty in both the landscape and the abstract elements of painting. I interpret images that hold meaning for me from personal experience as well as those that say something resonant about our planet. With the right atmospherics, anything and everything can reflect a powerful beauty- --from smokestacks or headlights on a road to the timeless presence of salt marsh, sea, or mountains."
Christie Scheele has been painting devotedly since receiving her BFA from the College of Art and Design at Alfred University, which included a year on fellowship at the Royal academy in Madrid. She started painting her atmospheric, minimalist landscapes just before moving to the Catskills from New York City.
A full-time painter of many years, Scheele's work has been collected nationally and internationally through galleries nationwide. These collections include the Queens, the Samual Dorsky and the Tyler Museums of Art; the Provincetown Artists Association and Museum, American Airlines, Waterford Crystal, and the Mayo Clinic. Her work has been featured in major films and has been profiled and reviewed extensively in such publications as Architectural Digest, Hook Magazine, the Woodstock Times, Art New England and Cape Cod Art.
"The single most important aspect to what I do as a landscape painter is to reduce a scene to its essentials. This gives the viewer what is important, without the distraction, or visual clutter, of too much detail. Both by creating this overview and by using soft, scumbled edges, these paintings can quiet a viewer's mind and evoke a direct emotional response."
Special Thanks to Albert Shahinian Fine Art
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Rising Water
$340Rising Water
Acrylic and epoxy on wood, 12" x 15", 2020
Artist: Ross Chambers
For this artist, found wood has a unique living history, and working those old wooden bones starts a visual dialogue between light, line, layers, and dreams. You might find Ross Chambers ambling around a 5th Avenue penthouse or moving through a Madison Avenue corporate suite hanging artwork and curating the physical and diverse spaces of New York. He is an installation expert and a contractor, but always makes time for his own muse. His figurative archaic fools are carved angular expressionistic throwbacks, gouged, worn, transformative, and created with cast-off wood.
Ross' own found psychological spaces are woven from hammer stuck carpentry in western deserts, careful study in urban art studios, and lifelong wandering in museums, worksites, and bars. "I see the many trapped in corroded archetypes; strained ideologies and relentless avarice," says Chambers, "I am grateful for the few pragmatic individuals and groups working to protect our world." His work imagines psychological landscapes inhabited by derelicts, ghosts, and drinkers seeking their dreams or nursing lost chances.
rosschambers.net/art
Instagram: @bentnailarts
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Ashokan Fugues - Dawn
$2000Ashokan Fugues - Dawn
Watercolor, color pencils on paper, 14" x 28", 2013
Includes a copy of her book: Margaret Cogswell: RIVER FUGUES
Artist: Margaret Cogswell
Margaret Cogswell is a mixed-media installation artist residing in West Shokan, New York. Cogswell is the recipient of numerous awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2009, Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2017, 1991, 1987) the New York Foundation for the Arts (2007, 1993); and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant (2014).
Since 2003, the main focus of Margaret Cogswell's work is an ongoing series of RIVER FUGUES projects that explore the increasingly politicized role of water. RIVER FUGUES is a series of projects that explore the interdependency of people, industry and rivers. All River Fugues entail regional research, recording images and narratives with video and audio which are later edited into fugues and integrated into mixed-media installations. Research / video road trips, and long walks follow rivers tracing memories and loss in the landscapes they cut through. These landscapes of haunting histories are filled with conflicting memories of hope, beauty, violence, destruction and loss.
A parallel body of explorations include works on paper. These are the result of many months of walking, exploring, photographing, and filming the landscape of an area being researched for the development of each of the River Fugues projects. Much like an archaeologist or geologist, Cogswell searches for clues to the history of a river, a people, or a place in the enigmatic remnants of their past. Often poignant elegies, both the mixed media installations and works on paper reflect the complex and changing relationship of a society to its industries and rivers and strive to be a contributing artistic voice in larger conversations addressing issues related to water.
RIVER FUGUES projects have been commissioned by museums and art centers for exhibitions nationally and internationally. Some of these projects include Moving the Water(s): Ashokan Fugues, a solo exhibition first shown at the CUE Art Foundation in NYC (2014), and later exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Kleinert/James Art Center in Woodstock, NY, July/August 2016, the Art Lab at Columbus State University, GA (2018), the Madelon Powers Gallery at East Stroudsburg University (2019). Other exhibitions include: Soundings: Margaret Cogswell and Ellen Driscoll at Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY (2-person, 2015); Water Soundings, Zendai Zhujiajiao Art Museum, China (solo 2014); Moving the Water(s): Ashokan Fugues and Wyoming River Fugues at CUE Art Foundation, NYC (solo 2014); Wyoming River Fugues at the Art Museum, University of Wyoming, Laramie (solo 2012); Mississippi River Fugues, Art Museum, University of Memphis, Tennessee (solo 2008); Hudson River Fugues at Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, (group 2009-2010); River Fugues at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium, Monaco Ministry of Culture and Chicago Field Museum (traveling group exhibition, 2007-09); Buffalo River Fugues at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY (solo 2006); Hudson Weather Fugues at Wave Hill, NYC (group 2005), and Cuyahoga Fugues at SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio (solo 2012 and 2003).
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Soluble
$450Soluble
Paper pulp and ink on monoprint on handmade paper, 18" x 13"
Artist: Nancy Cohen
For a very long time, waterways have figured heavily in my work. There is something almost human to me in their balance of fragility and strength, the way they persevere through adversity-much of it inflicted by us.
In 2018, I was an artist-in-residence at the Tides Institute in Eastport, ME. I was making work that was both a visual response to the changing coastline and a developing understanding of the environmental issues of the area. I was particularly drawn to the dramatic tides where a combination of organic material as well as industrial and domestic detritus would wash ashore every 12 hours.
Soluble is composed of handmade paper allowed to dry unrestrained, which causes buckling on the surface. I then used an etching press to create several layers of monoprints and finally worked on the dried surface with ink and paper pulp. The palette of the drawing, the rough surface of the paper, the not-quite-rectangular edge, as well as the forms on the page all reflect impressions of the waterway.
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Instagram: @nancymcohen
113
Wind Edge 1
$300Wind Edge 1
Limited edition 5/20 archival print of original drawing, 17" x 17" framed
Artist: Jaanika Peerna
Wind Edge 1 is from drawing series capturing our everyday experience is moving air - what would it look like if moving air left traces of ink lines behind? Artist Jaanika Peerna makes invisible visible in this delicate looking drawing capturing a gentle summer breeze being danced around by her very own cheek.
Jaanika Peerna is an Estonian-born artist and educator living and working in Hudson Valley since 1998. Her work encompasses drawing, installation, and performance, often dealing with the theme of transitions in light, air, water and other natural phenomena. For her performances she often involves the audience in participatory reflection on the current climate meltdown. Her art practice stems from the corporeal experience of our existence and reaches towards enhanced awareness of the fragility, interconnectedness and wonder of all life.
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Instagram: @jaanika_peerna_studio
Facebook: Jaanika Peerna Studio
LinkedIn: Jaanika Peerna
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Ashokan Dreams #4
$650Ashokan Dreams #4
Acrylic on Canvas, 10" x 10", 2020
Artist: Deborah Freedman
Deborah Freedman is a painter and printmaker whose work is deeply informed by nature. She makes suites of varying images of the Ashokan Reservoir and the Hudson River Valley. Her inner eye and skill in etching, monotype, and oil painting captures both the physical and emotional transformation of her subject.
After 9/11 the reservoir became almost inaccessible. What had once been an idyllic scene suddenly became threatened and "disturbed." Freedman's work, though historically abstract, became less homage to the natural world and more a protest about the potential dangers of environmental and political disaster. The titles of her work: Good Night Irene, Every Breaking Wave, With or Without You, and Disturbed Landscapes refer to these concerns. She made a series of paintings titled A BETTER WORLD following the death of her beloved husband, the 2016 election, the ravages gun violence and increased climate disasters.
"Within these dynamic, often tilted compositions, where water surges and froths and mountains shift in tectonic scale-the artist finds great solace and an immeasurable serenity, which pervade our sensibilities too, as visitors to her dramatic landscapes." Susan Eley, Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY.
Selected list of collections: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, Rutgers University, The Department of State, the Library of Congress, IPCNY, The Hess Collection, CITI, Morgan Guarantee Trust, MSK Hospital, and Montefiore Hospital. For an extended resume, visit her website.
Deborah began her association with printmaking with Bob Blackburn at N.Y.U. and continued at his studio in 1987 as a guest artist. She is a co-founder with Marjorie VanDyke of VanDeb Editions, a printmaking studio dedicated to collaborating with artists to experiment with intaglio and monotype and provide art lovers with affordable, handmade works of art.
deborahfreedman.com
vandeb.com
Instagram: @debpaint
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Folded Cyanotype 116
$480Folded Cyanotype 116
Cyanotype fluid on paper, 12" x 16", 2021
Artist: Fritz Horstman
Simultaneously depictions of water, ice, and broken space, my Folded Cyanotypes are all of those things and none of them. Subjectivity and objectivity oscillate when one looks closely at the systems that make up our world. Aspects of nature that may at first appear fixed and unchanged by the human world take on fluid and fungible features when closely observed. What may seem to be highly personal can expand to something universal. This perceptual fluidity informs the formal, spatial, and environmental concerns that run through all of my Folded Cyanotypes.
Folded Cyanotypes is a series of two-dimensional objects, which carry the memory of light, three-dimensional space and manual manipulation, and which stem from an interest in natural structures. They are made by first folding paper by hand into an intricate pattern. After unfolding it, cyanotype photographic fluid is applied. Working in the dark to protect the light-sensitive material, the paper is refolded, then placed in natural light, and sometimes manipulated using mirrors and lenses. The paper is then rinsed in water, and pressed flat to dry. What was exposed to light in the process turns blue when developed, and what was not remains white, furthering the spatial complications by reversing lightness and darkness.
By conflating and overlapping the subjective and objective, form and void, flatness and three-dimensionality, nature and culture, my Folded Cyanotypes celebrate the potential of fluidity.
Fritz Horstman is an artist, educator, and curator based in Bethany, Connecticut. He has shown his Folded Cyanotypes and related work in exhibitions across Europe and the US, most recently in a solo show at Jennifer Terzian Gallery in Litchfield, CT. He is education director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, where he has worked since 2004.
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At Snow Pond
$500At Snow Pond
Photograph, mounted and framed, 15" x 15"
Artist: Mona Dukess
Mona Dukess has been exhibiting in museums, galleries and academic venues for more than 40 years. Her works have been featured in solo exhibitions at the Broome Street Gallery in New York City, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, among many others.
Working in paint, handmade paper, and photography, she studied with the late New York abstract expressionist painter Budd Hopkins and the renowned paper artist Paul Wong. Her latest works are archival inkjet prints which are created from details of her own experiments with photography. Using an iPhone camera, she focuses on small areas of light reflected onto and through surfaces of water. She invites the viewer to witness the captured image as a transformation. In her photographs, the natural world is revealed in unexpected yet universal ways, both mysterious and familiar.
Mona Dukess lives and works on the Hudson River in Sleepy Hollow, NY, and on Cape Cod, MA.
This photograph was taken at Snow Pond in Truro, Massachusetts. It reflects and abstracts the sky, the clouds, and the branches hanging over the pond.
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Flow - A Custom Artwork
$100Flow: What is your relationship with water?
Co-create a one-of-a-kind piece of artwork
Mineral pigment and typewriter ink on tea-stained Japanese paper, 8" x 5"
Artist: Naoe Suzuki
A very special offering from artist Naoe Suzuki to co-create a one-of-a-kind piece of artwork. In her ongoing project entitled Flow, Naoe asks "What is your relationship with water?" For this auction, Naoe will ask you this same question and your response of one to two sentences will be incorporated into the artwork. The paper was stained with tea and painted with mineral pigment. The question is typed in red, and your response will be typed in black. Together you and the artist will create a unique story about water.
Naoe Suzuki is a Japanese American visual artist based in the Greater Boston area in Massachusetts. Naoe was born in Tokyo, Japan, and grew up in Chiba prefecture. She first came to the United States in 1985 as a high school exchange student and decided to make this country her home.
In 2011 while she was in residence at Blue Mountain Center in the Adirondacks, Naoe experienced a healing and rejuvenating power of water from her daily swim in a lake. One day she became suddenly overwhelmed by powerful feelings of grief and sorrow, as she sensed this great fluid body she was happily immersed in was gravely threatened and could die one day. She also understood that all waters were connected, and that waters around the world were in deep trouble from human activities. She started working on a ten feet long drawing about water right away. Since then, Naoe has been focusing on water as her main subject in many different media and strategies. Water also plays an important role in her choice of medium such as ink, mineral pigment, and watercolor. She likes using paper in her work for its absorbency, lightness, transportability, textures, and fragility with strength. Naoe's work is conceptually driven by her love for water and nature, and engaged with researching humankind's relationships with the environment through maps, language, and history.
Naoe has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Artist's Fellowships, Inc., and the Blanche E. Colman Award. Her residency fellowships include Blue Mountain Center, MacDowell, Jentel, Millay Colony for the Arts, Centrum, and Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan. Naoe was the Artist-in-Residence at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in 2016-2017.
Naoe received a BA in Art from Bridgewater State University with double minors in Dance and Women's Studies in 1992 and an MFA in Studio for Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 1997. She enjoys swimming in Walden Pond during the summer.
