Overtones, 2020

Sewn cotton, canvas, acrylic, corduroy, nylon, felt

18 x 15 inches

Fair Market Value: $4,000

Starting Bid: $2,800

Buy It Now: $6,000

PAOLO ARAO (b. Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino-American artist working with textiles. He received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Arao has shown his work widely and has presented solo exhibitions at the Columbus Museum (Georgia), David B. Smith Gallery (Denver). Western Exhibitions (Chicago), Jeff Bailey Gallery and Morgan Lehman Gallery (NYC). Arao has had residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Art Omi, The Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Millay Arts, MASS MoCA, Vermont Studio Center, NARS Foundation, Wassaic Project, BRIC Workspace, and the Fire Island Artist Residency. Arao's work has been published in New American Paintings, Maake Magazine, Artmaze, Dovetail and Esopus. Paolo Arao is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting from The New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives and works in Brooklyn and The Catskills, NY.

Artist-in-Residence, 2020

Rain Curtain, 2021

Ceramic sculpture

60 x 48 x 12 inches

Fair Market Value: $5,000

Starting Bid: $3,500

Buy It Now: $7,500

ANN BRUGENHEMKE of Council Bluffs specializes in painting, drawing, and ceramics. Her recent ceramic work is sourced from childhood memories of storm watching, the need to move physically, and concepts of support and attachment. Brugenhemke earned a BFA from UNO in 1992 and is currently a guest teaching artist at Montclair Elementary School in the Millard school district. She had two solo shows in 2019 at Lauritzen Gardens and Hillmer Art Gallery; two additional group shows in Omaha at Split; two juried shows "New Masters" at Hoff Family Arts and Culture Center; and three group shows with five resident artists at Hoff since 2020. She was a guest artist with a solo show "Hard Rain" and a lecture at Peru State College in October 2022. An installation of her large-scale ceramic sculpture "Hate Replacers" was displayed at Hoff from January to February 2023. Brugenhemke received a Relief Grant from Iowa Arts Council in 2020 and a Project Grant from American Red Cross Rescue Plan through the Iowa Arts Council in 2021.

Catherine in the Garden, 2022

Augmented reality enabled inkjet print

42.75 x 73.75 inches

Fair Market Value: $3,800

Starting Bid: $2,660

Buy It Now: $5,700

EVA DAVIDOVA is a Spanish/ Bulgarian artist based in New York City. She explores behavior, ecological disaster, and the political implications of technology through performative works rooted in the absurd. Davidova's practice involves research, performance, 360 video and 3D sculptures, game engines, participatory Virtual Reality and interactive, site-specific immersive installations. She works with the human gesture and expression as a way to "mix" with, and disrupt technologies, and use the failures in these technologies to reclaim them.

Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, the UVP at Everson Museum, the AKG Buffalo Art Museum, MACBA Barcelona, CAAC Sevilla and La Regenta among others. She was a fellow of Harvestworks, Residency Unlimited and Delfina Studios, and recently received a NYSCA Individual Artist Grant for Garden for Drowning Descendants, and a Wave Farm-NYSCA MAAF Award for its completion and presentation.

Bemis Building Shipping #3, 2019

Archival pigmented ink digital print

20.75 x 16.25 inches

Fair Market Value: $500

Starting Bid: $350

Buy It Now: $750

Since 1985, JOHN DERRY has been at the forefront of advancing hand-mediated art-making tools on the computer. His expertise and passion have led to significant contributions in the field.

As one of the original authors of Corel Painter and the creator of the Adobe Photoshop CS5 Mixer Brush natural-media libraries, John's expressive brushes are in use by millions of digital artists worldwide. His innovative tools have pushed the boundaries of digital art and opened up new possibilities for creative expression.

John is the author of 28 Digital Painting learning titles for LinkedIn Learning / lynda.com. Through these educational resources, he shares his wealth of experience and insights with aspiring artists, empowering them to develop their skills and explore the world of digital painting.

John served as a Nebraska Arts Council Artist-in-residence at the West Nebraska Art Center in Scottsbluff, Nebraska (1983-5).

Old Market Ghosts, 2019

Archival pigmented ink digital print

13 x 15 inches

Fair Market Value: $500

Starting Bid: $350

Buy It Now: $750

Since 1985, JOHN DERRY has been at the forefront of advancing hand-mediated art-making tools on the computer. His expertise and passion have led to significant contributions in the field.

As one of the original authors of Corel Painter and the creator of the Adobe Photoshop CS5 Mixer Brush natural-media libraries, John's expressive brushes are in use by millions of digital artists worldwide. His innovative tools have pushed the boundaries of digital art and opened up new possibilities for creative expression.

John is the author of 28 Digital Painting learning titles for LinkedIn Learning / lynda.com. Through these educational resources, he shares his wealth of experience and insights with aspiring artists, empowering them to develop their skills and explore the world of digital painting.

John served as a Nebraska Arts Council Artist-in-residence at the West Nebraska Art Center in Scottsbluff, Nebraska (1983-5).

The best things in life are free (But you can give them to the birds and bees), 2023

Printed and mounted on Dibond

35.2 x 44 inches

Fair Market Value: $4,500

Starting Bid: $3,150

Buy It Now: $6,750

GHOST OF A DREAM is the collaborative duo of Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was. They began their collaboration in 2007 shortly after meeting at Rhode Island School of Design where they both received MFAs. Their work embodies the essence of opulence while being constructed of materials that typically end up in the trash. The artists mine popular culture searching for discarded materials that people use trying to reach their goals. Whether it is a Hollywood film that transports the viewer into a dream reality, a lottery ticket that gives the possibility of a future full of rich decadence, or shipping materials that bring someone their prize possessions; they use these remnants to both re-create people's dreams, and portray the dreamer. Among their most recent exhibitions is State of the Art, a traveling museum exhibition that has shown at Crystal Bridges Museum, The Telfair Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens Museum in Memphis, Frist Center for Visual Arts in Nashville and The Mint in Charlotte. Ghost of a Dream's recent solo exhibitions include A Devil to Pay, CES Gallery in Los Angeles; The Fair Housing Project, Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY); A Good Run of Bad Luck, Binghamton University (Binghamton, NY); and Gone the Sun, Galerie Paris-Beijing (Paris, France). They are represented by Galerie Paris Beijing (including solo exhibitions in Paris, 2015; Brussels, 2013, and Beijing, 2010) and by Galleri Christoffer Egelund in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Artists-in-Residence, 2012

A Tunnel Through, 2023

Miscellaneous fabric

20 x 28 inches

Fair Market Value: $350

Starting Bid: $245

Buy It Now: $525

MACKAYLA KELSEY is an artist, teacher, and researcher of emerging media arts currently pursuing a PhD in Educational Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where I work closely with the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts and Lincoln Public Schools' Bay High Focus Program. As a teacher, I teach between creative coding, exploring the possibilities of computer code as an artistic medium, and embodied arts, engaging in somatic and kinesthetic practices for expression. As a researcher, I seek to understand, how, if at all, embodied experiences in computational practices change our ideas about and applications of individual and collective creativity in processes of art making, teaching, and researching. As an artist, I shift between code, textiles/fiber, dance and movement, and wider digital and analogue fabrication methods to build and share interactive artifacts for joy, whimsy, curiosity, effervescence, and delight to understand myself, the world, my myself in the world.

Stilled Life, 2022

Giclee print, archival, digital collage

26 x 22 inches

Fair Market Value: $950

Starting Bid: $665

Buy It Now: $1,425

BARBARA KENDRICK works with giclee print, digital collage, sculpture, and assemblage. Now Professor Emerita at School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, she received her B.F.A. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her M.F.A. from The Ohio State University. She has exhibited her work in France, England and Greece as well as throughout the United States. Kendrick has received fellowships from the Millay Colony, the MacDowell Colony, the Henry Luce Foundation and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Other residencies include Yaddo, Jentel, Ragdale, Bemis, the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Cergy-Pontoise, France, Fundacio Artigas, Gallifa, Spain and the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, Ireland. She has received awards and grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Nebraska Arts Council, Shirley Holden Helberg, the Mid-America Arts Alliance and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She lives in Omaha, NE and is represented by Modern Arts Midtown.

Bemis residency, 2003, 2001

Favorite Cup, 2023

Thread on fabric

14.5 x 16 inches

Fair Market Value: $650

Starting Bid: $455

Buy It Now: $975

ERIN MURTHA is a multi-disciplinary artist whose artwork focuses on exploration of memory and its degradation over time as well as community, consumerism, and data. Due to her generally curious nature, she often lets the medium define the story of a piece, but tends to be drawn to textile. Her work is driven by curiosity (of a subject, material, interaction) and is colorful, whimsical, and often lightly humorous. Her pieces have won awards, appeared in galleries around the region, and even found esteem in faraway lands--specifically Denmark. She earned her BA in art from Augustana University and lives in Sioux Falls, SD with her incredible partner, Sean, and her collection of Japanese dolls.

Faux Garden: Carrots, 2022

Thread on fabric

10 x 8 inches

Fair Market Value: $500

Starting Bid: $350

Buy It Now: $750

ERIN MURTHA is a multi-disciplinary artist whose artwork focuses on exploration of memory and its degradation over time as well as community, consumerism, and data. Due to her generally curious nature, she often lets the medium define the story of a piece, but tends to be drawn to textile. Her work is driven by curiosity (of a subject, material, interaction) and is colorful, whimsical, and often lightly humorous. Her pieces have won awards, appeared in galleries around the region, and even found esteem in faraway lands--specifically Denmark. She earned her BA in art from Augustana University and lives in Sioux Falls, SD with her incredible partner, Sean, and her collection of Japanese dolls.

Kaleidoscope #1, 2022

Archival pigment print collage

36 x 36 inches

Fair Market Value: $2,400

Starting Bid: $1,680

Buy It Now: $3,600

SOPHIE NEWELL is a mixed media artist from Manchester, England. Through her collages she aims to elevate the mundane and revive items that have been forgotten, discarded or abandoned. She is interested in the history of the found materials that comprise each piece and narratives that emerge by assembling unrelated objects. Newell earned her BFA from Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, in 2009. She has exhibited both in the US and UK, most recently at Gallery 1516 (Omaha, NE), Fred Simon Gallery (Omaha, NE), and HOME (Manchester, England). Illustration clients include the Washington Post, Nebraska Quarterly, and Marriott Hotels. She has lived in Omaha since 2014.

1979, 2023

Handwoven tapestry, cotton on painted canvas

21 x 21 inches

Fair Market Value: $950

Starting Bid: $665

Buy It Now: $1,425

SARAH PARYS is an Omaha based fiber artist and tapestry weaver. She has received degrees from both Metropolitan Community College and the University Nebraska at Omaha. Her work has been exhibited both locally and nationally and has worked with many clients on custom pieces. Color play, balance, and pattern seem to be a recurring theme in Sarah's work. Whether it be decorative or functional, her work tends to add a sense of warmth and security that other mediums cannot achieve.

Breathe, 2022

Handwoven tapestry, organic cotton and silk on canvas

21 x 17 inches

Fair Market Value: $850

Starting Bid: $595

Buy It Now: $1,275

SARAH PARYS is an Omaha based fiber artist and tapestry weaver. She has received degrees from both Metropolitan Community College and the University Nebraska at Omaha. Her work has been exhibited both locally and nationally and has worked with many clients on custom pieces. Color play, balance, and pattern seem to be a recurring theme in Sarah's work. Whether it be decorative or functional, her work tends to add a sense of warmth and security that other mediums cannot achieve.

Metronome, 2023

Woven Ikat, silk and cotton dyed with Indigo and weld

42 x 24 inches

Fair Market Value: $2,100

Starting Bid: $1,470

Buy It Now: $3,150

PEYTON PEARSON is a fiber artist based in Omaha, NE. Pearson explores themes of touch, memory, and loss through hand dyed and woven works. Pearson has exhibited at multiple local galleries and museums with their most recent solo show Spring Tides at Project Project in 2023. Pearson has earned both a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in Art History from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Lost Cause, 2022

Wool

42.5 x 30.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $1,050

Buy It Now: $2,250

PEYTON PEARSON is a fiber artist based in Omaha, NE. Pearson explores themes of touch, memory, and loss through hand dyed and woven works. Pearson has exhibited at multiple local galleries and museums with their most recent solo show Spring Tides at Project Project in 2023. Pearson has earned both a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in Art History from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Yee Haul!, 2022

Collage and found object

25.5 x 25.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $700

Starting Bid: $490

Buy It Now: $1,050

TIM RICKETT is an artist and educator based in Northeastern South Dakota. He employs the practice of bricolage to create work that explores ideas of nostalgia, politics, history, and the Anthropocene. He graduated from Hastings College in 2016 with a BFA in Sculpture and completed his MFA at East Carolina University in 2019. He currently serves as the Assistant Professor of 3D Media and Gallery Director at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He co-curates exhibitions in the collective MidwestNice Art with his partner, Epiphany Knedler. His work has been exhibited at the Washington Pavilion, Del Mar College Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Contemporary Arts Museum Raleigh, and the University of South Dakota.

Prarie:Rose, 2023

Found object, wood, pigment print

15 x 5 x 15 inches

Fair Market Value: $700

Starting Bid: $490

Buy It Now: $1,050

TIM RICKETT is an artist and educator based in Northeastern South Dakota. He employs the practice of bricolage to create work that explores ideas of nostalgia, politics, history, and the Anthropocene. He graduated from Hastings College in 2016 with a BFA in Sculpture and completed his MFA at East Carolina University in 2019. He currently serves as the Assistant Professor of 3D Media and Gallery Director at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He co-curates exhibitions in the collective MidwestNice Art with his partner, Epiphany Knedler. His work has been exhibited at the Washington Pavilion, Del Mar College Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Contemporary Arts Museum Raleigh, and the University of South Dakota.

Twisted Pleasure, 2021

Hand-woven, hand-dyed wool tapestry

17 x 23.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $2,200

Starting Bid: $1,540

Buy It Now: $3,300

ERIN M RILEY is a tapestry weaver living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University and BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design both in fibers. She is represented by P.P.O.W Gallery and has exhibited nationally and internationally. She was an artist in residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 2012 and an alumni artist in residence in 2021 as well as Yaddo, MacDowell, Museum of Arts and Design and currently Sharpe Walentas Studio Program in Brooklyn, NY.

Internal Defense, 2021

Handwoven wool tapestry, hand dyed wool

17 x 23.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $2,200

Starting Bid: $1,540

Buy It Now: $3,300

ERIN M RILEY is a tapestry weaver living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University and BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design both in fibers. She is represented by P.P.O.W Gallery and has exhibited nationally and internationally. She was an artist in residence at Bemis center for Contemporary Arts in 2012 and an alumni artist in residence in 2021 as well as Yaddo, MacDowell, Museum of Arts and Design and currently Sharpe Walentas Studio Program in Brooklyn, NY.

KOKO's Love: Love 2018 Purple Hearts, edition of 20, 2018

Mixed-media digital photo collage

14 x 20 inches

Fair Market Value: $450

Starting Bid: $315

Buy It Now: $675

YOSHIE SAKAI is a multidisciplinary artist living in Gardena, California. Sakai creates videos/installations that respond and negotiate contemporary social issues of cultural identity, gender roles, and familial and personal relationships. As a subtly transgressive undercover cultural agent, she exposes the absurdities of manipulative social structures while humorously struggling and reveling in them as a participant. She has received numerous fellowships including the 2021/22 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts and the California Community Foundation for Visual Artists Emerging Artist Fellowship. Sakai has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (Madison, ME), Kohler Arts/Industry Residency in Foundry (Kohler, WI), and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE). She earned her BFA from California State University Long Beach and her MFA from Claremont Graduate University.

Artist-in-Residence, 2022

The Raven , 2022

3D Taxidermy on wood frame and acrylic clear base

20 x 20 x 12 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $1,050

Buy It Now: $2,250

SEDRA D' (Daniel Castaneda) is a universal observer, Pachamama warrior, multifaceted self-taught BIPOC artisan and urban artist. Daniel has completed different residencies and art programs at El Museo Latino 2015, (Omaha,Ne) MaMo BFF 2022, (Omaha, NE) Bemis residence volunteer (2021).

ACWG Amplify Arts 2022 (Omaha, NE) Art Campus, Sculpture Installation 2023 (Des Moines, Iowa)

D'Colores mobile gallery Inclusive Program OSAF Omaha Summer Arts Festival 2023 (Omaha,Ne)

"My art is a reflection of my perception of nature, dreams, roots and culture. I paint colorful walls with graffiti and landscapes that symbolize the connection with our communities then I recycle my spray cans and turn them into small sculptures. I use a variety of materials and mediums in my creations, wood, metal, clay and all that my mind can explore. I practice taxidermy with birds and other creatures to give them a second life and experience how we are all connected with the essence of the Creation to coexist in our universe."

Avenue-9th-and-10th-Tower, 2020

3d Lenticular media

42 x 64 (diptych) inches

Fair Market Value: $12,000

Starting Bid: $8,400

Buy It Now: $18,000

MARY ANN STRANDELL is based in New York. She earned an MA and MFA University of New Mexico; BFA cum laude, University of South Dakota; Internship in Conservation, W. H. Over Museum; Fellowship, Tamarind Institute. Teaching experience: Washington University, St. Louis, MO; Kansas City Art Institute, KC, MO; Notre Dame's New Mexico Program.? Awards: 2022 Fellowship New Jersey State Arts Council; National Endowment for the Arts in Painting; Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; Public Artwork Fund-NEA; Arts Humanities Grant. Exhibitions: De Weiger Museum, NL; Panorama Art, Cologne, DE: FiAC, Paris; St. Louis Art Museum; Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY; Juan+Associates, NY: Sotheby's, NY, NY; Artport Kingston, NY; Minnesota St. Projects, CA; #MakeUsVisable, curated by XRE and @PolinateArt, NYC; Commissions: UBER World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA; Polsinelli Law, LA, CA; Children's Mercy Research Institute, KC, MO. Acquisitions: APS Museum, Shanghai, China. Solo: The Bradbury Art Museum, AK.

Artist-in-Residence, 1996

Transit Pickle Creek, 2023

3d Lenticular media

48.5 x 36.75 inches

Fair Market Value: $7,450

Starting Bid: $5,215

Buy It Now: $11,175

MARY ANN STRANDELL is based in New York. She earned an MA and MFA University of New Mexico; BFA cum laude, University of South Dakota; Internship in Conservation, W. H. Over Museum; Fellowship, Tamarind Institute. Teaching experience: Washington University, St. Louis, MO; Kansas City Art Institute, KC, MO; Notre Dame's New Mexico Program.? Awards: 2022 Fellowship New Jersey State Arts Council; National Endowment for the Arts in Painting; Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; Public Artwork Fund-NEA; Arts Humanities Grant. Exhibitions: De Weiger Museum, NL; Panorama Art, Cologne, DE: FiAC, Paris; St. Louis Art Museum; Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY; Juan+Associates, NY: Sotheby's, NY, NY; Artport Kingston, NY; Minnesota St. Projects, CA; #MakeUsVisable, curated by XRE and @PolinateArt, NYC; Commissions: UBER World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA; Polsinelli Law, LA, CA; Children's Mercy Research Institute, KC, MO. Acquisitions: APS Museum, Shanghai, China. Solo: The Bradbury Art Museum, AK.

Artist-in-Residence, 1996

Channels & Tributaries, 2015

Wool, cotton, cotton and polyester threads

34 x 29 inches

Fair Market Value: $,1800

Starting Bid: $1,260

Buy It Now: $2,700

SHEA WILKINSON is an artist working with textiles. She has been a recipient of the James Renwick Chrysalis Award for an emerging artist, as well as many other awards and residencies. Her work is held in the collection of Tenaska and the city of Chandler, Arizona's quilt collection. She is currently earning a BA in Fashion Design from Altai State University in Russia. Wilkinson is represented by Roberta and Bob Rogers Gallery in Omaha, NE.

Field Guide Study No 7: Late Summer, 2023

Weft ikat tapestry

47 x 52 x 1 inches

Fair Market Value: $11,000

Starting Bid: $7,700

Buy It Now: $16,500

MARY ZICAFOOSE is a tapestry weaver who works from her rural Pahuk studio in Cedar Bluffs, NE. The template of her work in cloth and paper is drawn primarily from two sources, the landscape of the Great Plains and a fascination with archetypal symbols, deeply color saturated and technically layered using the complex resist-dye process known as ikat. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally, including the International Triennial of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland; Museo de Textil, Oaxaca, Mexico; China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou, and the collections of eighteen United States Embassy's on four continents. Extensive exhibition, teaching, and lecture venues include the de Young Museum, San Francisco, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN and universities, conferences, and textile programs worldwide. She is the author of Ikat: The Essential Handbook to Weaving Resist-Dyed Cloth, with a companion book to be released in 2024.

Artist-in-Residence, 2008