Sky's The Limit, 2020

Giclee print of digital art

23 x 29.25 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,700

Starting Bid: $1,190

Buy It Now: $2,550

MUAMMAR MENICE BLACKMAN (Mars Black) is a Brooklyn-born artist based in Omaha, Nebraska, that works in any medium he sees fit that will express what he intends to at the moment. He has created art in acrylics, watercolor, oils, digital, tattoos, ceramics, clothing, music and writing-whatever moves him is what he uses to express himself.

Octopus Pride, 2023

Pastel on Archival Paper

47.25 x 33 inches

Fair Market Value: $2,050

Starting Bid: $1,435

Buy It Now: $3,075

ERIN BLAYNEY received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. She has exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions in Omaha, NE; San Diego, CA; and Chicago, IL. Trained as a figurative painter, Erin uses pastel and graphite as her most current medium, exploring abstraction and allowing a sense of rawness to be revealed. Her main subject matter relates to the ocean.

Wrapping myself in charm, 2022

Chalk pastel on Arches paper

48.25 x 46.25 inches

Fair Market Value: $5,150

Starting Bid: $3,605

Buy It Now: $7,725

JOSEPH BROGHAMMER obtained his B.F.A. from the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, completed graduate work at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and is currently based out of Omaha, NE. He primarily uses oil paints on canvas or pastels on paper. He has exhibited his work in more than 100 group shows and has had several solo exhibitions in the United States, as well as Holland, Germany, Mexico, and Italy. Broghammer's work is found in museum collections, and many public and private collections.

"I am exploring a conversation with myself. It is all about having the animals tell me a story. I am in my own world where I can see my reflection within their eyes, how they are seeing me. They portray vulnerability, but what exactly they are perceiving remains a mystery. The paintings are like pages of a diary. I tell myself stories of what has happened in my life so I can learn from them."

Artist-in-residence 2014

Silent Stack, 2021

Pen and Sharpie on archival paper

11 x 14 inches

Fair Market Value: $600

Starting Bid: $420

Buy It Now: $900

LAURA FITZGERALD works in drawing, painting, installation, video, and text. She is a graduate of the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland and Royal College of Art, London, UK. She is a recipient of the Visual Arts Bursary Award (Arts Council of Ireland) for 2022-23. She previously attended the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, USA, and has recently completed on a three- month residency (AIR Spring 2023) at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Her work looks at aspects of uncertainty, through exploring narratives within the contemporary art world, rurality and land use. The work itself is a bit of a contradiction either taking a stand or making a good run for it. Her practice is under pinned via drawing and looks at spaces between hard and soft boundaries, checking inside to see what's going on and what it all might mean. Of course, this is an absurdist approach, but it is also (hopefully), an optimistic one. Her work has formed in galleries and on mountains and uses storytelling as a device for remembering and releasing. Her work involves planning and looking, (both left and right over her shoulder and back the road). The sometimes involves digging, throwing things up into the light again. Laura's next artwork is a walking path, the walk itself is the piece of art.

Artist in Residence 2023

Cornucopia with Hummingbird, 2023

Ink on Tyvek

30 x 40 inches

Fair Market Value: $10,000

Starting Bid: $7,000

Buy It Now: $15,000

NANCY FRIEDEMANN-SÁNCHEZ is creating a visual novel that is composed of art works that weave a synchronicity of narratives about hybridity and cultural ownership. She is in the Feminist Art Base at the Brooklyn Museum; participated at the 20 Congreso Internacional: La Experiencia Intelectual de las Mujeres en el Siglo XXI in 2012 in Mexico City. Shows include the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Blue Star Contemporary, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, La Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador, The Sheldon Museum of Art, The Portland Museum, El Museo del Barrio and Bronx Museum of the Arts. She was awarded the Doctorow Prize, a Nebraska Arts Council Grant, a Smithsonian Fellowship, a Puffin grant, a Pollock Krasner, and a NALAC grant. Her work is collected by the Nerman Museum, Duncan Aviation, Jose Mugrabi, The Sheldon Museum, El Museo del Barrio, The Cleveland Museum, The University of New Mexico Art Museum.

Artist-in-Residence, 2000

Nine-Mile Prairie I (Study), 2023

Graphite on paper

12 x 16 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,650

Starting Bid: $1,155

Buy It Now: $2,475

NEIL GRIESS is a visual artist based in Omaha, Nebraska. He creates realistic paintings and drawings of landscapes such as preserved prairies and suburban spaces of personal significance. Through a combination of meticulous detail and soft distortion effects, the often overlooked beauty of the Great Plains is given a heightened focus. Griess has exhibited his work in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the Midwest, including at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney, NE. He won awards for solo exhibitions through the Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards in 2016 and 2023, as well as a Merit Award through the Nebraska Arts Council in 2016. His work has appeared in print in New American Paintings in 2015 as well as the textbook Art for Everyone from Oxford University Press, published in 2022. Griess received his BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and his MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University.

Nine-Mile Prairie II (Study), 2023

Graphite on paper

12 x 16 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,650

Starting Bid: $1,155

Buy It Now: $2,475

NEIL GRIESS is a visual artist based in Omaha, Nebraska. He creates realistic paintings and drawings of landscapes such as preserved prairies and suburban spaces of personal significance. Through a combination of meticulous detail and soft distortion effects, the often overlooked beauty of the Great Plains is given a heightened focus. Griess has exhibited his work in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the Midwest, including at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney, NE. He won awards for solo exhibitions through the Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards in 2016 and 2023, as well as a Merit Award through the Nebraska Arts Council in 2016. His work has appeared in print in New American Paintings in 2015 as well as the textbook Art for Everyone from Oxford University Press, published in 2022. Griess received his BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and his MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University.

PAGEBOT 01, 2023

Plotter drawing

23.25 x 31 inches

Fair Market Value: $500

Starting Bid: $350

Buy It Now: $750

TIM GUTHRIE is an Omaha-based multimedia visual artist and experimental filmmaker. His work has been awarded Independent Artist Fellowships in 2011, 2008, 2007 and 2006 (Distinguished Artist, Filmmaker) from the Nebraska Arts Council for both his traditional and digital art, experimental animation and documentary films. He was also awarded Best Visual Artist, Best Show (3 times), and Best New Media Artist (3 times) by the OEA awards. He has also presented his multi-media work all over the country, as well as internationally, including at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. Residencies include the Blue Mountain Center, Vermont Studio Center, Hall Farm, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, International Sculpture Center, as well as fellowships from the Sierra Arts Foundation, and the Nevada Arts Council, each funded by the NEA. His films, including "Missing Piece", have won numerous Best Documentary awards, the 2017 Humanitarian Award (GIFA), as well as Audience Awards, several Special Juror's Awards, and other top awards. His work has been shown widely, including in Wales, UK (International), Sweden (High Coast), Bucharest, Sydney (World Film Festival), Hiroshima Animation Festival, 5th Annual Athens International Animation Festival (Greece), Control Arms Conference (Italy), Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, as well as festivals in London, Miami, Copenhagen, Hollywood, and Toronto.

Tongue, 2023

Plotter drawing

18 x 24 inches

Fair Market Value: $600

Starting Bid: $420

Buy It Now: $900

TIM GUTHRIE is an Omaha-based multimedia visual artist and experimental filmmaker. His work has been awarded Independent Artist Fellowships in 2011, 2008, 2007 and 2006 (Distinguished Artist, Filmmaker) from the Nebraska Arts Council for both his traditional and digital art, experimental animation and documentary films. He was also awarded Best Visual Artist, Best Show (3 times), and Best New Media Artist (3 times) by the OEA awards. He has also presented his multi-media work all over the country, as well as internationally, including at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. Residencies include the Blue Mountain Center, Vermont Studio Center, Hall Farm, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, International Sculpture Center, as well as fellowships from the Sierra Arts Foundation, and the Nevada Arts Council, each funded by the NEA. His films, including "Missing Piece", have won numerous Best Documentary awards, the 2017 Humanitarian Award (GIFA), as well as Audience Awards, several Special Juror's Awards, and other top awards. His work has been shown widely, including in Wales, UK (International), Sweden (High Coast), Bucharest, Sydney (World Film Festival), Hiroshima Animation Festival, 5th Annual Athens International Animation Festival (Greece), Control Arms Conference (Italy), Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, as well as festivals in London, Miami, Copenhagen, Hollywood, and Toronto.

We Would Drive To A Dark Cliff To Watch The Fireworks And Marvel At How Far Away They Were But How Close They Looked, 2021

Marker and oil pastel on paper

34 x 44 inches

Fair Market Value: $9,000

Starting Bid: $6,300

Buy It Now: $13,500

ANDREA JOYCE HEIMER (b. 1981, Great Falls, MT, US; lives and works in Ferndale, WA, US) received her MFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire. Her work has been exhibited at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York; Colombo Gallery, Milan; CG2 Gallery, Nashville; Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia; Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York and Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York.

Andrea Joyce Heimer's paintings evoke narrative friezes and tapestries where landscapes and interiors are organized into distinct rows, each portraying a different stage in the lives of her characters. Throughout her work, Heimer demonstrates an interest in origins-of the universe, of narrative art-that seems to be a response to the obscurity surrounding her own inception. Her work contains complex, imaginative and original use of symbolic figures and iconography. The narratives in her work reference the Garden of Eden and Greek mythology, while also creating and recording her own history and personal mythologies.

We Were Made To Hurt Each Other, 2020

Graphite on paper

32.75 x 32.75 inches

Fair Market Value: $3,000

Starting Bid: $2,100

Buy It Now: $4,500

COURTNEY KUEHN is an artist based in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in studio art at Concordia University, Nebraska in 2019. Courtney's work is an extension of herself and what she is feeling. Her drawings are mostly graphite or charcoal on paper, and she uses her body and self image as her content. Channeling what is going on in her mind into her art helps her come to terms with what she is feeling and how to cope with those feelings. She hopes her art can help others the way it helps her; by confronting the troubles and pain we all face in order to, therefore, overcome them.

spectrum 20, 2023

Graphite and colored pencil on mat board

10 x 12.75 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,600

Starting Bid: $1,120

Buy It Now: $2,400

ANNE LINDBERG is an artist who works within broad definitions of drawing and textile in two and three dimensions. Current and upcoming exhibitions include Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Textile Museum, Carrie Secrist Gallery and SEPTEMBER Gallery, and a five-story glass wall commission at NYU Langone Health. The U.S. Consulate in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia recently acquired 14 of her drawings, and her first monograph was just released by Durer Editions. Collections include Nevada Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Rachofsky Collection, Gautreaux Collection, Spencer Museum of Art, NYSE Chicago, Federal Reserve Bank Kansas City, Richard Bolling Federal Building among others. Awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, Lighton International Artists Exchange, and Mid-America National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Miami University (BFA) and Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA).

spectrum 21, 2023

Graphite and colored pencil on mat board

10 x 12.75 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,600

Starting Bid: $1,120

Buy It Now: $2,400

ANNE LINDBERG is an artist who works within broad definitions of drawing and textile in two and three dimensions. Current and upcoming exhibitions include Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Textile Museum, Carrie Secrist Gallery and SEPTEMBER Gallery, and a five-story glass wall commission at NYU Langone Health. The U.S. Consulate in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia recently acquired 14 of her drawings, and her first monograph was just released by Durer Editions. Collections include Nevada Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Rachofsky Collection, Gautreaux Collection, Spencer Museum of Art, NYSE Chicago, Federal Reserve Bank Kansas City, Richard Bolling Federal Building among others. Awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, Lighton International Artists Exchange, and Mid-America National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Miami University (BFA) and Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA).

Water Stride, 2013

Prismacolor on board

37 x 38 inches

Fair Market Value: $2,450

Starting Bid: $1,715

Buy It Now: $3,675

DEBORAH J. MURPHY has shown her work in numerous national and regional exhibitions, as well as one/two person shows and invitationals. Her exhibition history includes many noteworthy achievements, including Purchase Awards, Juror's Merit and Honorable Mention Awards. She was awarded the prestigious Mid-American Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award in Painting and Works on Paper, as well as the Nebraska Arts Council Distinguished Achievement Fellowship Fellowship Grant. Her work was also selected to be exhibited in the United States Department of State's Art in Embassies Program twice, first in 2000 at the Ambassador's residence in Tirana, Albania and second in 2019 at the Ambassador's residence in Hanoi, Vietnam. She is listed in Who's Who in American Art. Her work has been featured in Western American Literature (2003), Nebraska Life (2005) and Omaha Home (2019).

Tiger Eye, 2022

Pastel on Arches paper

27 x 35 inches

Fair Market Value: $2,700

Starting Bid: $1,890

Buy It Now: $4,050

KRISTIN PLUHACEK lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska. Her drawings and paintings have been exhibited extensively in Midwestern fine arts galleries and museums, and her work is represented in numerous public and private collections. She works primarily in pastels, drawing directly from her subjects in an attempt to capture both the stillness and the motion of life. She has traveled as part of the State Department Arts Envoy program to Asmara, Eritrea where she worked with local artists on large-scale, collaborative paintings. Kristin is the artist for Osage Orange, a Lewis and Clark Interpretive Icon located at Omaha's Lauritzen Gardens, and was the set designer for Raskol, one of five 2012 Great Plains Theatre Conference Playfest plays. Kristin is a BFA graduate of Creighton University, where she is an adjunct drawing instructor. She also teaches drawing at Metropolitan Community College. Her work can be viewed at Anderson O'Brien Fine Art in Omaha, and online at kkpluhacek.com

The Pace of the Sun, 2023

Pastel and coloured pencil on paper

13 x 16 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,000

Starting Bid: $700

Buy It Now: $1,500

ALICIA REYES MCNAMARA completed her MFA at University of Oxford Ruskin School of Art in 2016. Their work has been included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2016). They were awarded the South London Gallery Graduate Residency 2016-17 and her exhibition Nowhere Else was exhibited in the first floor galleries in 2017. She was commissioned to create a project as part of 2018 Communal Knowledge at The Showroom. She most recently was awarded an a-n bursary, a Jerwood Bursary, and the Bloomberg New Contemporaries Studio Residency at Hospitalfield. She has had solo exhibitions at Niru Ratnam Gallery and Lismore Castle Arts, and was included in Whitechapel Gallery as part of The London Open 2022. Alicia is based in London, but spends time between there and Chicago, where she is originally from. She most recently completed a residency at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, in rural Maine.

Under Inspection, 2022

Colored pencil on paper

30 x 22 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,600

Starting Bid: $1,120

Buy It Now: $2,400

EMMA MCKAY RYAN grew up on a farm outside of Minden, NE. In May of 2022, she graduated from Doane University in Crete, NE earning a BA in studio arts with a professional emphasis in drawing. She completed two internships at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, one internship at the LUX Center for the Art in Lincoln, NE, and has been exhibited by the Color Pencil Society of America (CPSA). Emma currently resides in South Bend, IN and is working towards completing her MFA in Studio Arts at the University of Notre Dame. Her current body of work is a series of detailed drawings of the female figure devoid of setting, navigating the psychological alienation of the self generated from constantly being watched by and performing for others. She purposefully creates tension by juxtaposing highly detailed female figures against an empty white expanse of paper.

Untitled (layered meditation), 2020

Colored pencil on paper

27 x 21 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,150

Starting Bid: $805

Buy It Now: $1,725

LYNNETTE THERESE SAUER is a visual artist making drawings at the intersection of creative and contemplative practice. She studied painting at the Herron School of Art + Design in Indianapolis, IN and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Recent group exhibitions include Starta Arta (New York, NY), Westbeth Gallery (New York, NY), Upstream Gallery (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY), Ethan Cohen KuBe (Beacon, NY), and PeepSpace (Tarrytown, NY). She also co-writes Circling, an email newsletter charting the rhythms of artists' domestic lives, at circlingcircling.substack.com and produces dynamic event programming at cultural institutions.

Untitled 001, 2023

Woodless colored pencil

43 x 33 inches

Fair Market Value: $3,800

Starting Bid: $2,660

Buy It Now: $5,700

MEL TINGLEY is an Omaha-based abstract artist who primarily uses colored pencil. Tingley earned a BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a BS in mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

Untitled (Potted Plants), 2017

Gouache on paper

20.75 x 25.125 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $840

Buy It Now: $1,800

CHRISTINA RENFER VOGEL holds an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and a BFA from Temple University. Her work reflects direct encounters and everyday exchanges. Drawing from the quotidian and familiar, Vogel navigates the space between seeing and describing, interpretation and invention. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at the David Lusk Gallery (Nashville, TN), inclusion in the 2021 Atlanta Biennial at the Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), and group exhibitions at the Asheville Art Museum (Asheville, NC) and LABspace (Hillsdale, NY). Vogel has participated in artist residencies including the JSS in Civita (Civita Castellana, Italy), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Amherst, VA), and the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT). She is a recipient of a Lighton International Artists Exchange Program grant, among other awards. Vogel currently serves as an associate professor of painting and drawing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Almost Utopia, 2023

Pastel and soot on pastel paper

22.5 x 22.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $2,600

Starting Bid: $1,820

Buy It Now: $3,900

ELLEN WAGENER is an American landscape painter working in pastel and soot in dramatically large scale. Her work is included in the following major collections: Iowa State University, Scottsdale Center for Contemporary Art, Tucson Museum of Art, UA Museum of Art, UI Stanley Art Museum, Figge Art Museum, US State Department, Pioneer Hi-Bred, among others. She is represented by Olson Larsen Gallery, West, in Des Moines, IA and Bridge Projects, in Los Angeles, CA

Ligurian series drawing, 2023

Charcoal on paper

24 x 18 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,050

Starting Bid: $735

Buy It Now: $1,575

DEBORAH ZLOTSKY received a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship and NYFA Artist Fellowships in Painting in 2012 and 2018. Her work is in a variety of public, private and corporate collections in the US and abroad and she has been awarded recent residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Bemis Center. Zlotsky is represented by Robischon Gallery in Denver. She has a BA in art history from Yale University and an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut. She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and lives in the Hudson Valley.

Artist-in-Residence, 2014