head five, 2023

Acrylic on concrete

13.5 x 9 x 13 inches

Fair Market Value: $550

Starting Bid: $385

Buy It Now: $825

DAWSON ADAMS explores safety and mystery through the process of his work. From Lincoln, the Nebraska artist works with sculpture, drawing, and painting. Adams worked in residential concrete construction for 10 years before pursuing formal education in studio art from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His experience with concrete in construction spurred him to wonder how to push concrete as a medium in sculpture. Currently in his second year UNL's BFA program, Adams won both the Director's Choice Purchase Award and Faulkner Freshman Award at the 2023 UNL Annual Juried Undergraduate Exhibition as well as the 2023 Elgas Promise Award.

head seven, 2023

Acrylic on concrete

13.5 x 9.5 x 14 inches

Fair Market Value: $650

Starting Bid: $455

Buy It Now: $975

DAWSON ADAMS explores safety and mystery through the process of his work. From Lincoln, the Nebraska artist works with sculpture, drawing, and painting. Adams worked in residential concrete construction for 10 years before pursuing formal education in studio art from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His experience with concrete in construction spurred him to wonder how to push concrete as a medium in sculpture. Currently in his second year UNL's BFA program, Adams won both the Director's Choice Purchase Award and Faulkner Freshman Award at the 2023 UNL Annual Juried Undergraduate Exhibition as well as the 2023 Elgas Promise Award.

head six, 2023

Acrylic on concrete

13.5 x 9.5 x 13.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $550

Starting Bid: $385

Buy It Now: $825

DAWSON ADAMS explores safety and mystery through the process of his work. From Lincoln, the Nebraska artist works with sculpture, drawing, and painting. Adams worked in residential concrete construction for 10 years before pursuing formal education in studio art from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His experience with concrete in construction spurred him to wonder how to push concrete as a medium in sculpture. Currently in his second year UNL's BFA program, Adams won both the Director's Choice Purchase Award and Faulkner Freshman Award at the 2023 UNL Annual Juried Undergraduate Exhibition as well as the 2023 Elgas Promise Award.

head nine, 2023

Acrylic on concrete

13 x 9.5 x 13.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $650

Starting Bid: $455

Buy It Now: $975

DAWSON ADAMS explores safety and mystery through the process of his work. From Lincoln, the Nebraska artist works with sculpture, drawing, and painting. Adams worked in residential concrete construction for 10 years before pursuing formal education in studio art from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His experience with concrete in construction spurred him to wonder how to push concrete as a medium in sculpture. Currently in his second year UNL's BFA program, Adams won both the Director's Choice Purchase Award and Faulkner Freshman Award at the 2023 UNL Annual Juried Undergraduate Exhibition as well as the 2023 Elgas Promise Award.

"Hush ( I remember how warm your skin used to be )" performative pair #2 from the Braille Series, 2022

Salvaged vintage rabbit fur glove liners, glass beads, glove clips, Braille text E

ach mitten 12 x 5 x .75 inches

Fair Market Value: $250

Starting Bid: $175

Buy It Now: $375

Shortly after earning her MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ANGE ALTENHOFEN was diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition that could eventually lead to permanent blindness. This diagnosis forced her to rethink her creative practice, and she began to create work that relied on physical interaction and the sense of touch to communicate meaning. This resulted in the Braille Series, an ongoing body of sculptural work that incorporates braille text, represented by beads and gemstones, onto various materials and forms, and she continues to explore tactility and interaction in her work. After recently relocating to Iowa, Altenhofen was selected as an Iowa Artist Fellow in 2019 by the Iowa Arts Council and the NEA, and received a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant and a Rauschenberg Foundation Grant in 2021. Her interactive sculptures were featured in a solo performative exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center in 2022.

February, 2023

Wax, epoxy resin, glass on plaster cloth

7 x 9 x 13 inches

Fair Market Value: $600

Starting Bid: $420

Buy It Now: $900

TRAVIS APEL, b. 1975 in Moberly, Missouri, is a sculpture installation artist working in Omaha, Nebraska. Apel studied at Kansas City Art Institute from 1994-96. His work involves environmental activism by translating ecological voices with mediums of stone, metal, concrete, plastics, plant fibers, soil, and urban debris. In 2022 he received Best 3D Award for the ARTELATINX Biennial at 1516 Gallery in Omaha, Nebraska. In 2020 Apel earned a People's Choice Award for public sculpture at Art on the Campus in West Des Moines, Iowa. With Amplify Arts in Omaha, Apel was a cohort member of Alternate Currents Working Group, and a Work In Progress Fellow in 2020 and 2019 respectively. Mid-career artist, Apel created work in artist residencies at Cel del Nord in Barcelona, Spain, and Nebraska projects at Hot Shops Art Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Arts Center, El Museo Latino, and the Mayflower Mobile Gallery. He has sculptures in private collections and is featured in exhibitions nationwide.

Myco Bells, 2022

Cast aluminum, salvaged lumber, hardware, stain, epoxy resin

24 x 34 x 30 inches

Fair Market Value: $3,000

Starting Bid: $2,100

Buy It Now: $4,500

TRAVIS APEL, b. 1975 in Moberly, Missouri, is a sculpture installation artist working in Omaha, Nebraska. Apel studied at Kansas City Art Institute from 1994-96. His work involves environmental activism by translating ecological voices with mediums of stone, metal, concrete, plastics, plant fibers, soil, and urban debris. In 2022 he received Best 3D Award for the ARTELATINX Biennial at 1516 Gallery in Omaha, Nebraska. In 2020 Apel earned a People's Choice Award for public sculpture at Art on the Campus in West Des Moines, Iowa. With Amplify Arts in Omaha, Apel was a cohort member of Alternate Currents Working Group, and a Work In Progress Fellow in 2020 and 2019 respectively. Mid-career artist, Apel created work in artist residencies at Cel del Nord in Barcelona, Spain, and Nebraska projects at Hot Shops Art Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Arts Center, El Museo Latino, and the Mayflower Mobile Gallery. He has sculptures in private collections and is featured in exhibitions nationwide.

Crossroads, 2023

Acrylic, cherry wood, UV Clear

48 x 12 each (5 panels) inches

Fair Market Value: $12,000

Starting Bid: $8,400

Buy It Now: $18,000

Mixed-media artist JUSTIN BELLER is known for work that represents both the physicality of space and the metaphysics of dreamlike states. In his paintings and wall installations he uses vertical and horizontal lines, blocks of colors, abstract freeforms, and geometric shapes to distill the essence of earth, sky, and water and to open closed interior surroundings. Frequently commissioned by private collectors as well as corporate and small businesses, Beller maintains a one-man studio in Benson, one of Omaha's fastest expanding arts districts.

100th Meridian Perspectives, 2023

Mason Stains, water-based polyurethane, plywood

44 x 3.5 x 27 inches

Fair Market Value: $4,000

Starting Bid: $2,800

Buy It Now: $6,000

JESS BENJAMIN's imagination was trained in the irrigation ditches on the 100th Meridian and she is one of the last to be educated in a two room schoolhouse. Benjamin now lives in the city and has gained a balanced perspective on our nation's water and drought issues. Benjamin received her BA from Hastings College in 2001 and worked as a studio assistant for Jun Kaneko until 2006. In 2008, she received her MFA from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. She returned to Omaha the same year to pursue her research and to acquire affordable studio space. Jess has exhibited her artwork at the Amarillo Museum of Art, Ellen Noel Art Museum, Joslyn Art Museum, and private galleries in the Midwest. Her artwork is currently showing in Nevada, California, and Arizona. Benjamin's artwork has been published in Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, NY Arts Magazine, Lark Crafts: The Best of 500 Ceramics, 500 Ceramic Sculptures, and in Sculpture Magazine.

Soft Sand, 2022

Blown, sandblasted, surface-worked, bonded glass

8 x 8 x 14 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,300

Starting Bid: $910

Buy It Now: $1,950

COREY BROMAN was born in Lincoln, NE in 1979. He started working with glass shortly after high school in 1998. After initially working with Ed Fennel and several of his students at Crystal Forge in Omaha, NE, Corey joined the studio glass program at Hastings College to further his glassmaking education. There he became an apprentice and assistant to the professor of glass, Tom Kreager. Corey became involved in intensive Venetian-style glass making techniques, while collaborating with other glass artists at the college. In addition to Corey's time at Hastings, he has taken several workshops at the Corning Museum of Glass and other colleges and universities with glass programs. Each workshop focused on different techniques and skills that apply to glassblowing, glass sculpting, glass casting, and kiln forming. In 2003, Corey built his own glass studio in Omaha. He has shown his work privately and in gallery and museum exhibits primarily in the Midwest and on the west coast.

Offering, 2016

Blown, cut, carved, sandblasted, bonded glass

4.75 x 4.75 x 12.625 inches

Fair Market Value: $950

Starting Bid: $665

Buy It Now: $1,425

COREY BROMAN was born in Lincoln, NE in 1979. He started working with glass shortly after high school in 1998. After initially working with Ed Fennel and several of his students at Crystal Forge in Omaha, NE, Corey joined the studio glass program at Hastings College to further his glassmaking education. There he became an apprentice and assistant to the professor of glass, Tom Kreager. Corey became involved in intensive Venetian-style glass making techniques, while collaborating with other glass artists at the college. In addition to Corey's time at Hastings, he has taken several workshops at the Corning Museum of Glass and other colleges and universities with glass programs. Each workshop focused on different techniques and skills that apply to glassblowing, glass sculpting, glass casting, and kiln forming. In 2003, Corey built his own glass studio in Omaha. He has shown his work privately and in gallery and museum exhibits primarily in the Midwest and on the west coast.

Trade.v009, 2018

Archival print on manipulated aluminum

41 x 21 x 9 inches

Fair Market Value: $5,500

Starting Bid: $3,850

Buy It Now: $8,250

JOSE CARLOS CASADO is a multidisciplinary artist from Spain with an MFA graduate of the School of Visual Arts, and has been based in NYC for 25 years. He's represented by PostmasterBC in NY.

He uses technologies to create video, 3D animation, photography, painting, and sculpture. His work's been shown in multiple solo/group shows internationally and has won numerous recognitions, including grants from Picasso and laCaixa Foundations; MIT's Leonardo Excellence Award; two NYFA Fellowships; Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone; two grants from Queens Council on the Arts; Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship; Artists' Fellowship; and Mayer Foundation Grant.

Casado has participated in multiple international Festivals, including Sundance and ArsElectronica, and been a resident at Vermont Studio, School of Visual Arts, Anderson Ranch, Swatch Art Peace Residency in Shanghai, and Santa Fe Art Institute. He's created several Public Art projects and has been awarded a permanent site-specific commission for an NYC public school.

H-376 (Head Series), 2023

Glazed ceramic

5 x 3 x 3 inches

Fair Market Value: $250

Starting Bid: $175

Buy It Now: $375

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1977, and raised in the California Bay Area, RICHARD CHUNG earned his B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, under the guidance of ceramic artist Richard Shaw. Seeking further artistic growth, Chung relocated to Omaha, Nebraska, where he worked as a studio assistant for the esteemed artist Jun Kaneko. This invaluable experience allowed him to fully immerse himself in the daily life of an artist, providing unique insights into both the creative process and the business aspects of art. Richard Chung's art has found a place in permanent collections, notably the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Chung was recently awarded the title of "Best in Ceramics" at the Nebraska Biennial 2021. He currently lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska.

Atomic Toaster, 2023

Acrylic, oil, Gesso, MDF, & poplar

16.5 x 11 x 23.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $5,000

Starting Bid: $3,500

Buy It Now: $7,500

BOB CULVER is a painter from Omaha, NE who served on the Bemis Board for many years and currently serves on the board of Nebraska Cultural Endowment, and is Past-president of the Museum of Nebraska Art Board. His body of work is distinctive for its seamless weaving of close-to-home influences and worldwide events, inspired primarily by pop artists of the '60s and '70s with a dash of great portrait painters such as John Singer Sargent. He creates richly detailed paintings, 3-D cutouts, and automata that all work on multiple levels. Simultaneously culturally idealistic and socially critical, they provide insight into the artist and the subjects that have informed his creative practice over the past five decades. Culver's work has been featured in numerous private collections. He has exhibited in solo and group shows at Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, NE. Culver did two summer residencies at Kent State Blossom Center where he studied with Wayne Thiebaud, Alex Katz, Frank Gallo, Phillip Pearlstein, James Melchert, and Jack Tworkov and was a studio assistant with Red Grooms from 1969-1972. Culver received his BFA from the University of Nebraska.

"My body of work is distinctive for its weaving together of close-to-home influences and worldwide events. I create detailed paintings, 3-D cutouts and automata that all work on multiple levels. Simultaneously culturally idealistic and socially critical, they provide insight into the subjects that have informed my creative practice over the past five decades, especially the Pop Art movement. In New York during the late 60's into 70's I was a studio assistant to the pop artist, Red Grooms, who gave me the nickname "The Nebraska Kid." The sobriquet implied Midwestern innocence, idealism, and values as well as an earnest, enduring desire to fight the good fight. My alias, the Nebraska Kid, has stayed with me and the character appears in some of the my most tongue-in-cheek work, usually accompanied by the cartoon characters and heroes of my youth with whom the Kid joins to save the day."

Squirrel with Flowers, 2023

Bronze cast

6 x 8 x 9 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $1,050

Buy It Now: $2,250

CHARLEY FRIEDMAN's work is concerned with the residue of humanity-from God to garbage and how American cultural identity is constructed around signifiers with no inherent significance beyond what is ascribed to them. Through sculpture, performance, photography, drawing, and video, he tackles how we internalize and filter the world through magical thinking, institutionalized religion, and consumer culture-primarily through the lens of humor. Friedman has exhibited at numerous institutions including Crystal Bridges Museum of American, PS1/MoMA, Everson Museum of Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. A Pollock-Krasner recipient, he received his MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Residencies include Skowhegan, MacDowell Colony, Fountainhead and Bemis Center. Publications include: New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Miami Herald. Collections include: Walker Art Center, Brooklyn Museum. Friedman runs Fiendish Plots, in Lincoln NE, with his wife, artist Nancy Friedemann-Sanchez.

Artist-in-Residence, 2001

Squirrel Exploring, 2023

Bronze cast

6 x 8 x 9 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $1,050

Buy It Now: $2,250

CHARLEY FRIEDMAN's work is concerned with the residue of humanity-from God to garbage and how American cultural identity is constructed around signifiers with no inherent significance beyond what is ascribed to them. Through sculpture, performance, photography, drawing, and video, he tackles how we internalize and filter the world through magical thinking, institutionalized religion, and consumer culture-primarily through the lens of humor. Friedman has exhibited at numerous institutions including Crystal Bridges Museum of American, PS1/MoMA, Everson Museum of Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. A Pollock-Krasner recipient, he received his MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Residencies include Skowhegan, MacDowell Colony, Fountainhead and Bemis Center. Publications include: New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Miami Herald. Collections include: Walker Art Center, Brooklyn Museum. Friedman runs Fiendish Plots, in Lincoln NE, with his wife, artist Nancy Friedemann-Sanchez.

Artist-in-Residence, 2001

Squirrel , 2023

Bronze cast

6 x 8 x 9 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $1,050

Buy It Now: $2,250

CHARLEY FRIEDMAN's work is concerned with the residue of humanity-from God to garbage and how American cultural identity is constructed around signifiers with no inherent significance beyond what is ascribed to them. Through sculpture, performance, photography, drawing, and video, he tackles how we internalize and filter the world through magical thinking, institutionalized religion, and consumer culture-primarily through the lens of humor. Friedman has exhibited at numerous institutions including Crystal Bridges Museum of American, PS1/MoMA, Everson Museum of Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. A Pollock-Krasner recipient, he received his MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Residencies include Skowhegan, MacDowell Colony, Fountainhead and Bemis Center. Publications include: New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Miami Herald. Collections include: Walker Art Center, Brooklyn Museum. Friedman runs Fiendish Plots, in Lincoln NE, with his wife, artist Nancy Friedemann-Sanchez.

Artist-in-Residence, 2001

Lucky, 2023

Spray paint on wood

15.25 x 13.5 x 2.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $600

Starting Bid: $420

Buy It Now: $900

RAMON M GUZMAN is a local Nebraska-based artist, art is his passion and he has been creating for over 15 years. Guzman has an Associate's degree in fine arts from Metro Community College, which gave him the foundation to keep honing his craft. Guzman works in a variety of different mediums; however, his favorite mediums are wood and spray paint. Guzman is inspired by his own imagination, as well as what he encounters in life. His creative process involves a mixture of sketching and improvisation - allowing himself to go wherever the artistic flow takes him. The majority of Guzman's artwork features an array of colors and shapes, from bold and bright to more subtle tones. It is Guzman's mission to bring joy and smiles to others with each piece he creates by showing off his thoughts and perceptions of the world.

It's always sunny, 2023

Spray paint on wood

14 x 16 x 1.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $450

Starting Bid: $315

Buy It Now: $675

RAMON M GUZMAN is a local Nebraska-based artist, art is his passion and he has been creating for over 15 years. Guzman has an Associate's degree in fine arts from Metro Community College, which gave him the foundation to keep honing his craft. Guzman works in a variety of different mediums; however, his favorite mediums are wood and spray paint. Guzman is inspired by his own imagination, as well as what he encounters in life. His creative process involves a mixture of sketching and improvisation - allowing himself to go wherever the artistic flow takes him. The majority of Guzman's artwork features an array of colors and shapes, from bold and bright to more subtle tones. It is Guzman's mission to bring joy and smiles to others with each piece he creates by showing off his thoughts and perceptions of the world.

Woah!, 2023

Spray paint on wood

20 x 20.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $400

Starting Bid: $280

Buy It Now: $600

RAMON M GUZMAN is a local Nebraska-based artist, art is his passion and he has been creating for over 15 years. Guzman has an Associate's degree in fine arts from Metro Community College, which gave him the foundation to keep honing his craft. Guzman works in a variety of different mediums; however, his favorite mediums are wood and spray paint. Guzman is inspired by his own imagination, as well as what he encounters in life. His creative process involves a mixture of sketching and improvisation - allowing himself to go wherever the artistic flow takes him. The majority of Guzman's artwork features an array of colors and shapes, from bold and bright to more subtle tones. It is Guzman's mission to bring joy and smiles to others with each piece he creates by showing off his thoughts and perceptions of the world.

Bold Tranquility, 2017-2022
Bronze cast

17.5 x 13 x 4 inches

Fair Market Value: $3,350

Starting Bid: $2,345

Buy It Now: $5,025

PHIL HAWKINS is a LA based multidisciplinary contemporary artist focusing on installation and sculpture. Upon receiving his BFA from Bellevue University of Nebraska, Hawkins has worked in design, foundries, and fabrication studios with artist colleagues. Previously Hawkins's famous work studio was located in the historic First National Bank headquarters abandoned vault space built in 1917. Hawkins's explorations of architecture in US cities, overseas cities, and the Caribbean region have had a major influence on his work. Phil's work has also been published in periodicals including The Reader, Vogue Spain, the Omaha World-Herald, Fox 42 News channel and won several OOEA awards including 2017 Best 3-D artist, Best solo exhibition, and best group show in Omaha, Nebraska. In 2018 the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent for Hawkins's jewelry design.

Caminante: Fruto Flamante, 2023

Porcelain, underglaze, metallic glaze, wood, spray paint, and petate

38 x 22 x 34 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,000

Starting Bid: $700

Buy It Now: $1,500

SALVADOR JIMENEZ-FLORES is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Jalisco, Mexico. He explores the politics of identity and the state of double consciousness. Jimenez-Flores addresses issues of colonization, migration, "the other," and futurism by producing a mixture of socially conscious installation, public, and studio-based art. His work spans from community-based work, drawing, ceramics, prints, and mixed media sculpture.

Jimenez-Flores is a member of The Color Network, an organization that promotes the advancement of people of color in the ceramic arts and assists artists develop, network, and create dialogue while maintaining a place for a database, resources, and mentorship. He is also a member of the Instituto Grafico de Chicago, an organization inspired by the socio-political art of Mexico's Taller de Grafica Popular (The People's Print Workshop) and uses art as a platform to inform and generate community discourse about urgent social issues.

Jimenez-Flores has presented his work at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and Museum of Art and Design amongst others. He served as Artist-In-Residence for the city of Boston, Harvard Ceramics Program, Office of the Arts at Harvard University, and Kohler Arts Industry. Jiménez-Flores is a recipient of Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants and The New England Foundation for the Arts, Threewalls' RaD Lab+Outside the Walls Fellowship Grant, and he is a 2021 United States Artist Fellow. He is an Assistant Professor in ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Carminate: Desatado, 2023

Earthenware, underglaze, wood, spray paint, leather, and petate

38 x 22 x 24 inches

Fair Market Value: $2,000

Starting Bid: $1,400

Buy It Now: $3,000

SALVADOR JIMENEZ-FLORES is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Jalisco, Mexico. He explores the politics of identity and the state of double consciousness. Jimenez-Flores addresses issues of colonization, migration, "the other," and futurism by producing a mixture of socially conscious installation, public, and studio-based art. His work spans from community-based work, drawing, ceramics, prints, and mixed media sculpture.

Jimenez-Flores is a member of The Color Network, an organization that promotes the advancement of people of color in the ceramic arts and assists artists develop, network, and create dialogue while maintaining a place for a database, resources, and mentorship. He is also a member of the Instituto Grafico de Chicago, an organization inspired by the socio-political art of Mexico's Taller de Grafica Popular (The People's Print Workshop) and uses art as a platform to inform and generate community discourse about urgent social issues.

Jimenez-Flores has presented his work at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and Museum of Art and Design amongst others. He served as Artist-In-Residence for the city of Boston, Harvard Ceramics Program, Office of the Arts at Harvard University, and Kohler Arts Industry. Jiménez-Flores is a recipient of Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants and The New England Foundation for the Arts, Threewalls' RaD Lab+Outside the Walls Fellowship Grant, and he is a 2021 United States Artist Fellow. He is an Assistant Professor in ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Charger, 2017

Poly rope and nylon sewing thread

12 x 4.5 x 22 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $1,050

Buy It Now: $2,250

Since 2010, DOUG JOHNSTON has focused on a process of coiling and stitching rope using industrial sewing machines, producing a wide range of functional and sculptural objects. The work utilizes a long history of human technologies such as cordage, coiling, bags and basketry, sewing machines, and 3d printing. With these, he has built a formal vocabulary and studio practice that engages his varied interests in anthropology, spatial and landscape formation, commerce, and fundamental human technologies. The work often sits at the intersection of art, design, and craft, taking the position that no made object is exclusively aesthetic or utilitarian. Johnston has shown his work at venues such as Patrick Parrish Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Collective Design Fair, and Design/Miami. He received a Master of Architecture degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art, as well as Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Bachelor of Architecture degrees from Drury University.

Artist-in-Residence, 2017

Untitled Oval, 2011

Glazed ceramic

22 x 26 x 3 inches

Fair Market Value: $9,500

Starting Bid: $6,650

Buy It Now: $14,250

JUN KANEKO was born in Japan in 1942, came to the United States in 1963 to study at Chouinard Institute of Art in Los Angeles, and became part of the Contemporary Ceramics movement in America in the late 60s and early 70s. The following decade, Kaneko taught at some of the nation's leading art schools including Scripps College, Rhode Island School of Design, and Cranbrook Academy of Art. Based in Omaha since 1986, Kaneko has worked at several experimental studios around the world. Over the course of his career he has partnered with industrial facilities to realize large-scale, handbuilt sculptures. Kaneko is increasingly drawn to installations that promote civic interaction. He has completed over fifty public art commissions, including the most recent, Glass Tower, in downtown Lincoln, NE. His artwork appears in numerous international and national solo and group exhibitions annually, and is included in more than seventy museum collections.

Small Three-Part Piece with Triangles, 2022 Glazed earthenware

4.25 x 5 x 1 inches

Fair Market Value: $6,000

Starting Bid: $4,200

Buy It Now: $9,000

ELIZABETH KLEY (b. 1956, New York, NY) is known for sculptures with geometric and plant motifs borrowed from a wide range of sources including Wiener Werkstätte designs from the last century and ancient Egyptian designs. Kley has had solo and two-person exhibitions at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; Canada, New York; Parts and Labor, Beacon, NY; University of the Arts, Philadelphia; South Willard, Los Angeles; Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels; Gordon Robichaux, and Regina Rex, among others. Kley's work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her first solo museum exhibition, Minutes of Sand, at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, ran from March-August 2021 and visited the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha from December 2022- April 2023. A catalog for Minutes of Sand was published in April 2023. Her exhibitions have been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Art in America, Artnews, New York Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and more. She has also written extensively for publications including Artforum, Parkett, Art in America, Artnews, Artnet Magazine, Art & Auction, Bomb, Ursula Magazine and PAJ (A Journal of Performance and Art). A monograph on her work with essays by Paul P. and Edward Leffingwell was published jointly by Canada and Pre-Echo press in 2019.

Vessel #1, 2023

Ceramic

26 x 14 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $840

Buy It Now: $1,800

As a self-taught artist RENEE LEDESMA draws inspiration from her love of folk art and all things handmade, as well as her Mexican heritage. She works in clay and hand-coil builds all of her creations. Renee has been part of the Omaha Arts community for more than 20 years. Ledesma shows at many local art galleries as well as takes part in numerous group exhibitions, art auctions and public art projects. She was named 3D artist of the year at the 2008 OEA Awards, had a solo exhibit at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney in 2010, and was part of the 2014 Fellowship at the Union for Contemporary Art.

Vessel #2, 2023

Ceramic

26 x 14 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $840

Buy It Now: $1,800

As a self-taught artist RENEE LEDESMA draws inspiration from her love of folk art and all things handmade, as well as her Mexican heritage. She works in clay and hand-coil builds all of her creations. Renee has been part of the Omaha Arts community for more than 20 years. Ledesma shows at many local art galleries as well as takes part in numerous group exhibitions, art auctions and public art projects. She was named 3D artist of the year at the 2008 OEA Awards, had a solo exhibit at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney in 2010, and was part of the 2014 Fellowship at the Union for Contemporary Art.

Lupus Arborealis, 2022

Wood, wire, plastic toy wolf, finishes

48 x 20 x 20 inches

Fair Market Value: $7,850

Starting Bid: $5,495

Buy It Now: $11,775

TODD MCCOLLISTER has two art careers: Sculptor and Furniture Maker. The sculptures are wood and mixed media (including wire, string, and found objects), and the furniture pieces are almost entirely wood. He earned a BFA in Sculpture and Photography in 1996 from Texas Christian University and an MFA in Sculpture in 2000 from Stony Brook University. He then moved to New York City, first pursuing Sculpture and shifting to Furniture in 2006. In 2014 McCollister brought what he learned back to his hometown of Omaha, NE, and founded Long Grain Furniture. He is an active member of the Omaha art community and believes in supporting his fellow artists as a path to everyone's success. He's currently running a monthly event series called, Final Fridays at Todd's, aimed at bringing the community together to make us all stronger, through networking and sharing experience and information. He's the 2022 recipient of the Omaha Entertainment and Arts Award for Outstanding 3D Artist.

Meatings and Partings II, 2023

Hand embroidered soft sculpture

11 x 8 x 1.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,400

Starting Bid: $980

Buy It Now: $2,100

CARLY OWENS WEISS is a multidisciplinary artist based in Boulder, Colorado. She received her BAD in Art + Design from North Carolina State University and studied crewelwork and goldwork hand embroidery at the Royal School of Needlework in the United Kingdom. In her current work, Carly uses hand embroidery, painting and soft sculpture to explore narrative and identity through a personal and symbolic lens. Carly's work has been featured in numerous publications including Architectural Digest (Germany), Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, BUST Magazine and Frankie Magazine. Her past exhibitions include the Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY), the Bomb Factory Arts Foundation (London, UK) and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (Boulder, CO). Carly recently completed a residency at John C. Campbell Folk School (Brasstown, NC) and was awarded a full fellowship for a residency at Vermont Studio Center (2023). Carly was an exhibiting artist in the 2022 Bemis Center Benefit Art Auction.

Blonde Siren, 2020

Paper, plaster, paint, glue, leather, wood

36 x 4 x 36 inches

Fair Market Value: $3,700

Starting Bid: $2,590

Buy It Now: $5,550

ALEC PAUL was born in 1991 in Las Vegas, NV and currently lives in Omaha, NE. He has most recently graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha with a bachelor's in fine arts -concentration in sculpture. Alec works on many projects at once; sculpture, Painting, Drawing, and Photography are all part of his daily curriculum. He is currently employed as a Carpenter for MCL Construction. Alec likes to use any material he comes across normally deemed "useless" or "wasteful", as a part of his art.

Squeeze, 2017

Metal, wood

16 x 14 x 17 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,300

Starting Bid: $910

Buy It Now: $1,950

ALEC PAUL was born in 1991 in Las Vegas, NV and currently lives in Omaha, NE. He has most recently graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha with a bachelor's in fine arts -concentration in sculpture. Alec works on many projects at once; sculpture, Painting, Drawing, and Photography are all part of his daily curriculum. He is currently employed as a Carpenter for MCL Construction. Alec likes to use any material he comes across normally deemed "useless" or "wasteful", as a part of his art.

tumored, 2023

Bronze

5 x 3.5 each inches

Fair Market Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $840

Buy It Now: $1,800

LIBBI PONCE (they/them, she/her) is an Ecuadorian artist, born in 1997 to a family of musicians, making sculptures, 360-degree videos, installations, and performances. Ponce explores themes of Latinx-Futurism through a sculptural practice of world-building incorporating an ambitious range of materials including steel, bronze, resin, polyurethane, mortar, grout, terracotta, and glass. Inspired by the erotic and anthropomorphic motifs from ancient Andean ceramics, Ponce constructs tactile sculptural objects which probe discourse on grief, intimacy, and historic folklore.

They have attended the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Oxbow Artists' Residency, Yale Norfolk Undergraduate Residency, and ACRE. Exhibitions include terciopelo at Selenas Mountain, BASE REMOVED at the Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo, and Skyway 20/21 at the Tampa Museum of Art. They hold a BFA in Studio Art and BA in Philosophy from the University of South Florida. In 2021, Ponce completed a Fulbright Creative Research Fellowship in Ecuador. In 2023, they completed an ArtTable research fellowship at the Chrysler Museum Of Art. Libbi is the founder/director of galeria juniin in Guayaquil, Ecuador and Co-Director of Coco Hunday Gallery in Tampa, FL. Libbi is currently based between Ecuador and the states.

Artist in Residence 2023

Test Plate 1 , 2023

Cast iron, enamel, copper leaf

9 x 9 x 2 inches

Fair Market Value: $3,000

Starting Bid: $2,100

Buy It Now: $4,500

LEE EMMA RUNNING is an artist based in Omaha Nebraska who creates sweeping public installations on glass, as well as arresting objects using cast iron, enamel, glass, bone, and handmade paper. For the last 15 years, she has been using this work to engage audiences in conversations about the impact of human-built systems on the natural world.

She was a 2023 Foundry Resident in the Arts/Industry program at Kohler and a 2022/23 Artist in Residence with Opera Omaha. A permanent installation of her work will be built into Roskens Hall at the University of Nebraska Omaha in 2024. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Des Moines Art Center, National Taiwan University of the Arts, Form and Concept Gallery in Santa Fe, and PACE Gallery in Council Bluffs. She has been awarded residencies at Ucross, Jentel, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture.

Running is the recipient of a 2023 Populus fund grant from the Union for Contemporary Art in Omaha and was a 2017 Iowa Arts Council Fellow. Her work is represented by Olsen Larson Galleries.

These plates are cast directly from fabric and hand-carved wax. The enameled surface has been sanded back to the botanical reliefs and leafed with a thin layer of copper. These objects allude to scientific sample plates holding images of wild roses and deadly nightshade from the Nebraska State Herbarium.

Lee works with cast iron because of the connections of an element found in the body, industry, and land. Her work has historically combined unlikely metaphorical materials: Bone and gold, handmade paper and animal fur, bone and glass.

The materials of iron and powdered glass join each other seamlessly through heat. The enamel protects the iron, which is otherwise vulnerable to rust and decay. A fragile glass shell protecting a heavy, strong metal reminds us how different materials are fragile alone, but combine into strong structures. Much of the natural world follows a similar structural model of protection.

Test Plate 2, 2023

Cast iron, enamel, copper leaf

9 x 9 x 2 inches

Fair Market Value: $3,000

Starting Bid: $2,100

Buy It Now: $4,500

LEE EMMA RUNNING is an artist based in Omaha Nebraska who creates sweeping public installations on glass, as well as arresting objects using cast iron, enamel, glass, bone, and handmade paper. For the last 15 years, she has been using this work to engage audiences in conversations about the impact of human-built systems on the natural world.

She was a 2023 Foundry Resident in the Arts/Industry program at Kohler and a 2022/23 Artist in Residence with Opera Omaha. A permanent installation of her work will be built into Roskens Hall at the University of Nebraska Omaha in 2024. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Des Moines Art Center, National Taiwan University of the Arts, Form and Concept Gallery in Santa Fe, and PACE Gallery in Council Bluffs. She has been awarded residencies at Ucross, Jentel, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture.

Running is the recipient of a 2023 Populus fund grant from the Union for Contemporary Art in Omaha and was a 2017 Iowa Arts Council Fellow. Her work is represented by Olsen Larson Galleries.

These plates are cast directly from fabric and hand-carved wax. The enameled surface has been sanded back to the botanical reliefs and leafed with a thin layer of copper. These objects allude to scientific sample plates holding images of wild roses and deadly nightshade from the Nebraska State Herbarium.

Lee works with cast iron because of the connections of an element found in the body, industry, and land. Her work has historically combined unlikely metaphorical materials: Bone and gold, handmade paper and animal fur, bone and glass.

The materials of iron and powdered glass join each other seamlessly through heat. The enamel protects the iron, which is otherwise vulnerable to rust and decay. A fragile glass shell protecting a heavy, strong metal reminds us how different materials are fragile alone, but combine into strong structures. Much of the natural world follows a similar structural model of protection.

Antenna x-5, 2020

Paint and resin on polystyrene

18 x 14 x 1 inches

Fair Market Value: $800

Starting Bid: $560

Buy It Now: $1,200

COLIN C. SMITH's paintings and sculpture expand the conventions of painting. Beginning with the joys of material, color and the graphic image, Smith's newest works are aggressive, buoyant and difficult to classify. The wall works reference minimal painting and expressionism, yet their colors and forms are fully contemporary. The floor sculptures are playful and casual, yet their offhandedness belies a rigorous process and intentional mark making. Colin is interested in making works that charge retinal and interior spaces. They move when you squint and can throw you off balance if you get too close. His abstractions have a liveliness and spirit that is rare in contemporary painting, particularly in works that contain such a restrained and focused bag of tricks. Colin received his BFA in 1988 from the University of Nebraska - Omaha (UNO) and his MFA in 1992 from Drake University. He teaches at UNO.

Little Redwood, 2021

Asphalt tar and string hung from rearview mirror

12 x 3.25 inches

Fair Market Value: $400

Starting Bid: $280

Buy It Now: $600

Born in Puerto Rico (1986) and based in Miami, MISAEL SOTO received their MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor's Degree in Art History from Florida Atlantic University. Misael was the Art in Public Life Resident with the City of Miami Beach, where they founded the Department of Reflection. Misael has exhibited at MCA Chicago, Open Engagement 2015, the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, Material Art Fair in Mexico City, David Castillo Gallery in Miami, and Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, amongst others. Misael is a studio artist and the Director of Time-based Programming at Dimensions Variable and has participated in the Heat Exchange program with BFI Miami and Rogaland Kunstsenter in Stavanger, Norway; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts' Fall 2020 Residency Program in Omaha, NE; The Fountainhead Residency in Miami, FL; the ACRE Residency Program in Steuben, WI; and HomeBase Project's HB Build Artist-in-Residence program in Berlin.

Artist-in-Residence, 2020

Siete Mitos, 2023

Glass

26 x 15 x 15 inches

Fair Market Value: $5,000

Starting Bid: $3,500

Buy It Now: $7,500

THERMAN STATOM is a sculptor/painter most notably known as a pioneer of the contemporary glass movement for his life-size glass ladders, chairs, tables, constructed box-like paintings, and small scale houses; all created through the technique of gluing glass plates together. Sandblasted surfaces become a canvas for spontaneous vibrant colors and line work, which take nuances from Abstract Expressionism and concepts of Minimalism, while simultaneously incorporating a twist by using blown-glass elements and found objects. Throughout his career, public artworks have been permanently installed at prominent locations including the Los Angeles Public Library, Corning, Inc. Headquarters, the Mayo Clinic, San Jose Ice Center, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Jepson Center for the Arts in the Telfair Museum, Savannah as well as several hospitals across the country. His artwork appears in numerous exhibitions annually, including solo and group shows around the nation and internationally. Statom has completed over thirty large, site-specific installations. Most notably, his 2009 solo exhibition Stories of the New World at the Orlando Museum of Art, spanned over 7,000 square feet, and has been his largest installation to date. Much of the latter half of Statom's career has been focused on the importance of educational programming within the arts. He has taken a deep interest in employing workshops as a catalyst for social change and in effect, positively impacting a community. Statom studied at Pilchuck Glass School, received a BFA from Rhode Island School Of Design, and later studied at the Pratt Institute of Art & Design.

Birds on a Wire, 2023

Glazed ceramic birds on powder coated steel wire and steel cloud

36 x 9 x 5 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,400

Starting Bid: $980

Buy It Now: $2,100

IGGY SUMNIK created ceramics, sculptures, prints, and more. His technique focused on texture and balance, and included an intricacy and depth that permeated his work. Sumnik's art is aimed at provoking thought about the environmental impact of modern culture. Through the use of pattern, bright color and familiar objects, the Sumnik was able to connect with the past while documenting the present for the future. Upon completion of a three-year apprenticeship at Jun Kaneko Studio in 2008, Sumnik maintained his own studio, showing work, and teaching the art of ceramics to youth in both Omaha and Detroit.

"Hand building identifiable objects, life size or larger, connects me to our culture and the natural world. Manipulating these objects and ideas represents the human tendency to alter our environment."

Artist-in-Residence, 2013-2014

Tongued Orifice Trio, 2000

Welded steel, army helmets, plush tongues

36 x 11 x 21 inches

Fair Market Value: $2,000

Starting Bid: $1,400

Buy It Now: $3,000

TOM SWANSON specializes in sculpture and printmaking in Omaha, NE. He fashions three dimensional collages out of abstract welded steel including army helmets, monumental scaled figurative relief/woodcut prints, paper constructions using reclaimed encyclopedia pages, cereal boxes, and digitally printed materials. He earned a BA in History from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

If, 2021

Pink and black porcelain

9 x 11 x 6.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,250

Starting Bid: $875

Buy It Now: $1,875

IREN TETE (she/her) is a sculptor working primarily in clay. Originally from Sofia, Bulgaria, she is currently based in San Diego, CA where she is assistant professor of ceramics at San Diego State University. She holds a BFA in kinesiology and health sciences from the College of William and Mary and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Iren's studio practice centers ceramic materials, architecture, and language. Investigating poetic and theoretical systems of thought, seeing, and navigation, her sculptures collapse language of the industrial-infrastructural and human-organic. Iren has participated in residencies at the Hambidge Center, the Archie Bray Foundation, Zentrum fur Keramik, and will be in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in summer of 2024. Iren's solo exhibitions include those at the Sarasota Art Center, Galleri Urbane, Parallelogram Gallery, and Gallery 371. Recent group exhibitions include biennials in Italy and Latvia and shows at Kouri + Corrao, the Dallas Art Fair, and Untitled Art, Miami Beach. Iren is represented by Galleri Urbane (Dallas, TX).

Glamour Shot, 2009

Recycled Glamour Magazines

18 x 18 x 7 inches

Fair Market Value: $600

Starting Bid: $420

Buy It Now: $900

ASHLEY VAK is an artist in Omaha, NE. She studied at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and received a BFA in Book Arts. Vak uses recycled postcards to create sculptural books. Each sculptural book is hand-cut and hand-sewn with two needles using the butterfly link stitch. When completed, the book takes on an organic shape and life of its own.

Captain Latin America, 2020

Assembled slip-cast ceramic

7 x 7 x 18 inches

Fair Market Value: $2,000

Starting Bid: $1,400

Buy It Now: $3,000

BART VARGAS is a Visual Artist, Educator, and Advocate based in Omaha, Nebraska. He received his BFA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, his MFA at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and is a Professor of Visual Arts at Iowa Western Community College. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work can be found in many collections throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. His works have also been featured in many publications including Sculpture magazine, New American Paintings, and HGTV Magazine.

Artist-in-Residence, 2013

After Edvard Munch, 2014

Turned and carved wood

10 x 7 x 21.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $840

Buy It Now: $1,800

DENNIS D WATTIER's goal is to create works of art that highlight his turning and carving skills in a creative manner, but also in some cases, to tell a story. He has created his own unique style and uses special techniques to create intricately designed vessels and bowls. His work has been shown locally, as well as in venues throughout the midwest. The use of different laminated hard woods in his work has been evolving to include more sculptural forms, which add a certain vitality and creative edge to the vessels. His work has been shown locally as well as in venues throughout the midwest where he has won awards, such as "Best of Sculpture" in the 2020 Nebraska Biennial at the 1516 Gallery, Omaha and First Place at the 12th Annual Juried Show, Norfolk Art Center, Norfolk, NE.

Tangled Up in Pods, 2014

Turned wood 22.5 x 9.25 x 8.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $1,050

Buy It Now: $2,250

DENNIS D WATTIER's goal is to create works of art that highlight his turning and carving skills in a creative manner, but also in some cases, to tell a story. He has created his own unique style and uses special techniques to create intricately designed vessels and bowls. His work has been shown locally, as well as in venues throughout the midwest. The use of different laminated hard woods in his work has been evolving to include more sculptural forms, which add a certain vitality and creative edge to the vessels. His work has been shown locally as well as in venues throughout the midwest where he has won awards, such as "Best of Sculpture" in the 2020 Nebraska Biennial at the 1516 Gallery, Omaha and First Place at the 12th Annual Juried Show, Norfolk Art Center, Norfolk, NE.

Still Life #3, c1985-1995

Glazed earthenware, epoxy resin, lacquer, and paint

15 x 8 x 5 inches

Fair Market Value: $20,000

Starting Bid: $14,000

Buy It Now: $30,000

BETTY WOODMAN (1930 - 2018) began her nearly seventy-year engagement with clay in the 1950s as a functional potter with the aim of creating beautiful objects to enhance everyday life. In the 1960s, the vase form became Woodman's subject, product, and muse. In deconstructing and reconstructing its form, she created an exuberant and complex body of ceramic sculpture, drawings, and prints. Their signature is her reflection of a wide range of influences and traditions and an inventive use of color. Many of these traditions Woodman experienced first-hand: she traveled extensively, finding inspiration in cultures around the world.

Woodman was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, raised in Newton, Massachusetts, and studied ceramics at The School for American Craftsmen in Alfred, New York from 1948-1950. She traveled to Italy for the first time in 1951, solo, having worked to save just enough money to buy an ocean liner ticket. Woodman found her way to Fiesole, and an unplanned apprenticeship in the studio of Giorgio Ferrero and Lionello Fallacara that altered and clarified the course of her work. She returned to Italy several times in the 1950s and 60s. She married George Woodman in 1953 and they moved to Boulder, Colorado in 1956. She returned to Florence in 1966 when she received a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship. In 1968, she and George bought a farmhouse in Antella, Italy, which profoundly affected her work and where they and their children spent significant time throughout their lives.

Woodman had her first one-person exhibition at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska in 1970. She taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1978 - 1998 and later became Professor Emeritus. When she and George bought a loft in New York City in 1980, she decided to stop making functional pottery and began showing her sculptures at contemporary galleries in New York and Los Angeles.

Betty Woodman's work is included in more than fifty public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Musee des Arts Decoratifs Paris, France; and Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon, Portugal.