Jacqui & Anatoli's Art Auction: November 2010

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Welcome to Jacqui & Anatoli's Art Auction

Jacqui, Anatoli, Ignat and Milena in Varna, Bulgaria Summer 2007

In July 2010, Anatoli’s father Ignat was hit by a car while walking on the sidewalk in Bulgaria. The impact was so great that his leg had to be amputated and radical life-saving spinal surgery was performed. In a country like Bulgaria that has undergone an unsuccessful partial transition towards privatized healthcare, much of the medical expenses have not been covered by his insurance. Ignat’s recovery, while impressive, has been slow. An added difficulty is that the judicial system is very corrupt and it is not certain that the perpetrators—well-connected and wealthy residents in a city where personal connections can determine the outcome of a case—will ever pay sufficiently for the damages.

With such depressing news, we felt the need to do something positive and proactive to help Ignat. This is when we thought about creating an online art auction to raise money to cover his medical expenses. The art auction is made up of wonderfully talented and well-established artists from across the country that we have the great pleasure of having in our lives. Please take a look at the beautiful photography, silkscreen prints, paintings, sculpture, art rock posters, sketches and hand-made jewelry they have generously donated.

Please visit our Flickr site to view higher resolution images of each of the items up for auction.

Please consult the Auction Policies & Procedures page at the header of the blog before bidding and if you have any questions about how to participate.

Jacqui & Anatoli

Jessica Henry - Lady of Industry

Acrylic on wood paneling
13 1/2" x 22 1/2"

Minimum bid: $150

Jessica Henry is an artist, designer and illustrator living in Oakland, CA. Her work is inspired by curves and the complexity of human emotion, bright colors, clean lines, and most importantly by people who speak their mind.

Andreas Krebs - Puppet

Puppet

Minimum bid: $25

Andreas Krebs has spent way too much time not making puppets. He recently rectified that problem, and is now doing puppet-related stuff like, all the time. He lives in Toronto. Check out www.thekrellant.ca for politics, puppets, and other things.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Sofia Silva - Ballerina

10x7 print

Minimum bid: $50

Statement:

Sofia Silva was born in Argentina. She studied Sociology and Art History at the National University of La Plata and subsequently studied photography at the University of Buenos Aires, the International Center of Photography and with photographers Eduardo Gil and Lutz Matszche. She is an established freelance photographer currently based in Baltimore.

Silva’s photographs have been exhibited throughout the United States and Argentina. Her most recent exhibitions are: Wasteland, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Comvideo, apexart, Anthropic Deserts, VVVgallery, FAX, Contemporary Museum. Also, recently was an Artist in Residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.

Other exhibits include: Mixology, Curator’s Office; Looking Now: BMA Digital Photography Project, Baltimore Museum of Art; Imaging Issues Imaging Solutions, Open Society Insitute-Baltimore; Noches Encandiladas, solo show, Galería Arte X Arte; 21st Annual Critics' Residency Program, Maryland Art Place; among many others.

Sofia Silva - Tap Dance

David Prina - Alaska

Photograph

Minimum bid: $35

David Prina - Southern Utah

Photograph

Minimum bid: $35

Blake Gahn - Watertime

Blake Gahn - watertime

8 1/2x11

Minimum bid: $50

Statement:

Stepping away from my usual work of photographing changes within America, I have temporarily shifted my focus to nature abstracts. I have always been an avid hiker and have enjoyed the more hidden aspects of nature. I wanted to capture the sense of nature I saw and enjoy within my own aspects of photography. I have attempted to achieve this through time lapse photography and detailed close ups.

http://www.blakegahn.com/

Blake Gahn - Tadpole Kingdom

Blake Gahn - watertime

Blake Gahn - Timelapse with leaves

Blake Gahn - timelapse with leaves

Blake Gahn - watertime

Blake Gahn - cherry#1

Jessica Langella - Ring

Jessica Langhella - Ring

Blue sea glass and silver ring

Minimum bid: $75

Paula Hirschhorn - Espiritu De Los Muertos

Espiritu De Los Muertos

Click here to see more images of 'Espiritu De Los Muertos'.

Dimensions of the necklace "Espiritu de Los Muertos" are as follows:

Inner strand = 20"
Outer strand = 39"

Materials: jade, malachite, rutliated quartz, dyed howlite, rhodonite, silk cord, embroidery floss, gold-vermeil chain and findings

Minimum bid: $65

Statement:

A dabbler in multiple creative and professional ventures and venues, Paula's love for jewelry design remains a constant thread. She's been a jewelry vendor in SoHo in New York City, owner of a start-up, online jewelry business, and has worked professionally as a jewelry designer for Liz Claiborne and Miriam Haskell. Although she no longer makes a living creating jewelry, the craft always seems to find its way back into her life in some form or fashion.

Radioactive - Family Styles

Family Styles
14 inch L x 11 inch W
Acrylic Paint

Minimum bid: $150.00

Statement:

Under the artist name 'Sumnu Chit.'

Radioactive - esMiles

14 inch L x 11 inch W
Acrylic paint

Minimum bid: $150

Statement:

Under the artist name 'Sumnu Chit.'

Susana Rodriguez--multiwater

8.5X11

Minimum bid: $35

Statement:

Lomography is the way I break away from rules. As a scientific research student, I love using my spare time to indulge in the whimsy of analogue film. It's my way of fighting free from the meticulosity of experiments.

Susana Rodriguez--gulls in gold

5x16.7

Minimum bid: $50

Statement:

Lomography is the way I break away from rules. As a scientific research student, I love using my spare time to indulge in the whimsy of analogue film. It's my way of fighting free from the meticulosity of experiments.

Susana Rodriguez--Califlower2

Nicholas Haggard - Bass Lake

2008
11 x 14 inch
c - print

Minimum bid: $100

Nicholas Haggard is a Californian born photographer who describes his photography as a part of his everyday life, each image acting as a visual diary entry. Nicholas approaches projects in a documentary style, photographing things or people he finds particularly interesting, while paying close attention to the light, which is his starting point for making imagery.

He has exhibited his work in Los Angeles, New York and Italy and has a forthcoming show at 107 Shaw in Toronto. He has also published a selection of zines with Swedish publisher Cederteg and is planning to release a larger book as soon as he finds the time to go through his vast archive.

www.nicholashaggard.com
http://www.huhmagazine.co.uk/view_article.php?id=433

Nicholas Haggard - Lake Minnewaska Tree

Nicholas Haggard -
Lake Minnewaska Tree (2008)

Paul Brewer - Supergrass - Tara Mcpherson

Supergrass at the El Rey Theater, Palo Alto, CA, 2003
silkscreened flyer signed by the artist, Tara McPherson
Piece is matted to 11 x 14

Minimum bid: $35

Statement:

I am an author and illustrator of children’s books and magazines. I also like to collect art. On our walls there are illustrations of mine, plus others from children’s books that my wife, Kathleen Krull, has written. Many pieces come from our travels around the world and some are gifts from family and friends.

I started collecting rock concert posters as a teenager, some from the shows that I went to and some that I didn’t. I saw groups like The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Frank Zappa, to name a few, at the many shows that I attended. I still have the posters from back then as well as others that I’ve collected over the years. A lot of these are also hanging on the walls of our house.

For this auction, to help Ignat Ignatov with his increasing medical expenses, I am offering a rock concert poster, three concert handbills, a flyer from a late 60’s Psychedelic Shop, and an original piece of art from a book that I illustrated. A signed copy of the book is also included. Let the bidding begin!

Paul Brewer - Doors Avalon Card

The Doors at the Avalon Ballroom, SF, CA 1967
advertisement postcard (condition is OK, but
has staple holes and a crease across the middle)
Piece is matted to 11 x 14

Minimum bid: $25

Statement:

I am an author and illustrator of children’s books and magazines. I also like to collect art. On our walls there are illustrations of mine, plus others from children’s books that my wife, Kathleen Krull, has written. Many pieces come from our travels around the world and some are gifts from family and friends.

I started collecting rock concert posters as a teenager, some from the shows that I went to and some that I didn’t. I saw groups like The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Frank Zappa, to name a few, at the many shows that I attended. I still have the posters from back then as well as others that I’ve collected over the years. A lot of these are also hanging on the walls of our house.

For this auction, to help Ignat Ignatov with his increasing medical expenses, I am offering a rock concert poster, three concert handbills, a flyer from a late 60’s Psychedelic Shop, and an original piece of art from a book that I illustrated. A signed copy of the book is also included. Let the bidding begin!

Paul Brewer - Hives - Tara McPherson

Paul Brewer - Hives - Tara McPherson

The Hives at the Henry Fonda Theater, CA, 2004
silkscreened flyer signed by the artist, Tara McPherson
Piece is matted to 12 x 16

Minimum bid: $35

jaignatovStatement:

I am an author and illustrator of children’s books and magazines. I also like to collect art. On our walls there are illustrations of mine, plus others from children’s books that my wife, Kathleen Krull, has written. Many pieces come from our travels around the world and some are gifts from family and friends.

I started collecting rock concert posters as a teenager, some from the shows that I went to and some that I didn’t. I saw groups like The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Frank Zappa, to name a few, at the many shows that I attended. I still have the posters from back then as well as others that I’ve collected over the years. A lot of these are also hanging on the walls of our house.

For this auction, to help Ignat Ignatov with his increasing medical expenses, I am offering a rock concert poster, three concert handbills, a flyer from a late 60’s Psychedelic Shop, and an original piece of art from a book that I illustrated. A signed copy of the book is also included. Let the bidding begin!

Paul Brewer - 60s Headshop Flyer

Late 60's Original Head Shop flyer from Orange, CA
(where I used to live) and Anaheim, CA
Piece is matted to 11 x 14

Minimum bid: $25

Statement:

I am an author and illustrator of children’s books and magazines. I also like to collect art. On our walls there are illustrations of mine, plus others from children’s books that my wife, Kathleen Krull, has written. Many pieces come from our travels around the world and some are gifts from family and friends.

I started collecting rock concert posters as a teenager, some from the shows that I went to and some that I didn’t. I saw groups like The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Frank Zappa, to name a few, at the many shows that I attended. I still have the posters from back then as well as others that I’ve collected over the years. A lot of these are also hanging on the walls of our house.

For this auction, to help Ignat Ignatov with his increasing medical expenses, I am offering a rock concert poster, three concert handbills, a flyer from a late 60’s Psychedelic Shop, and an original piece of art from a book that I illustrated. A signed copy of the book is also included. Let the bidding begin!

Paul Brewer - Robert Jokes Art & Book

Signed original cover art for Robert and the Practical Jokes
matted to 12 x 16
Signed copy of Robert and the Practical Jokes
This is all together in one package deal

Minimum bid: $100

Statement:

I am an author and illustrator of children’s books and magazines. I also like to collect art. On our walls there are illustrations of mine, plus others from children’s books that my wife, Kathleen Krull, has written. Many pieces come from our travels around the world and some are gifts from family and friends.

I started collecting rock concert posters as a teenager, some from the shows that I went to and some that I didn’t. I saw groups like The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Frank Zappa, to name a few, at the many shows that I attended. I still have the posters from back then as well as others that I’ve collected over the years. A lot of these are also hanging on the walls of our house.

For this auction, to help Ignat Ignatov with his increasing medical expenses, I am offering a rock concert poster, three concert handbills, a flyer from a late 60’s Psychedelic Shop, and an original piece of art from a book that I illustrated. A signed copy of the book is also included. Let the bidding begin!

Paul Brewer - Cosmic Car Poster

Cosmic Car Show 1967 (this is an undated reprint that is 15 1/4 x 22) with:
Charley Musselwhite, South Side Sound System, Mother Earth, plus others
(note: there is no white border around the poster).

Minimum bid: $75

Statement:

I am an author and illustrator of children’s books and magazines. I also like to collect art. On our walls there are illustrations of mine, plus others from children’s books that my wife, Kathleen Krull, has written. Many pieces come from our travels around the world and some are gifts from family and friends.

I started collecting rock concert posters as a teenager, some from the shows that I went to and some that I didn’t. I saw groups like The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Frank Zappa, to name a few, at the many shows that I attended. I still have the posters from back then as well as others that I’ve collected over the years. A lot of these are also hanging on the walls of our house.

For this auction, to help Ignat Ignatov with his increasing medical expenses, I am offering a rock concert poster, three concert handbills, a flyer from a late 60’s Psychedelic Shop, and an original piece of art from a book that I illustrated. A signed copy of the book is also included. Let the bidding begin!

Kaan Kayimoglu - dort

Brush Pen
4.5 inches X 6.5 inches

Minimum bid: $250 each

Statement:

I am a character animator since 1995. I am from Ankara ,Turkey and has been residing in US since 1998. I am holding 2 MFA degrees on Cinematography and 3D Animation. I have thought animation in universities and has been animating for video games since 2002. I am currently working as a Lead Animator in San Francisco. You can also visit my website at www.kaankayimoglu.com

Kaan Kayimoglu - iki

Kaan Kayimoglu - uc

Kaan Kayimoglu - bir

Joe Yorty - Neighbor 20

16"x20" (unframed)
2008
ultrachrome ink on cotton paper

Minimum bid: $150

Statement:

Each of the 63 prints in the Neighbors series was made via a sequence of virtual walks taken around my neighborhood in San Diego in 2008 on Google Maps Street View. Each image was captured through screen shots of all the people I saw during my “walks”. While the project is a critique of taste and a push against the standards of high resolution photography it is also an exploration of the myth and possible death of the neighborhood as community. I am able to interact with my neighbors by taking her or his picture without ever leaving my home or even opening my blinds.

A real transformation occurs when you see them in print form.

Joe Yorty - Neighbor 61

Joe Yorty - Neighbor 44

Milena Ignatova - Dream

2002
50 x 64 cm.

Materials: cardboard, tempera, pencil, dry pastel. Collage.

Minimum bid: $65

Statement:

For the last eight years Bulgarian artist Milena Ignatova has been creating sculptures, paintings, icons, and various works of modern design. Milena seeks to capture the immediacy of an exact moment, feeling, or state and represent its power in the most natural and harmonious way. In order to produce an all-encompassing (overpowering) effect upon the viewer, Milena uses mixed media and materials.

Special instructions: This piece will involve international transport of some kind. Please email jacquibrew@yahoo.com if you are interested in this piece.

Milena Ignatova - Lagoon

Milena Ignatova - Sunflowers

Sunflowers

Oil on canvas, 2003
40x32

Minimum bid: $250

Statement:

For the last eight years Bulgarian artist Milena Ignatova has been creating sculptures, paintings, icons, and various works of modern design. Milena seeks to capture the immediacy of an exact moment, feeling, or state and represent its power in the most natural and harmonious way. In order to produce an all-encompassing (overpowering) effect upon the viewer, Milena uses mixed media and materials.

Special instructions: This piece will involve international transport of some kind. Please email jacquibrew@yahoo.com if you are interested in this piece.

Will Yackulic - Untitled 2010

Untitled 2010

Untitled 2010
4 color silkscreen
17x11 inches
Lenticular cloud over Prusak Peak, 1988

Minimum bid: $150 each

Artist's information:

http://www.baileygallery.com/artists_02.cfm?fid=349

Zach Winter

10"x10"

Minimum bid: $75

Statement:

Zach Winter is a San Francisco-based photographer and musician.

http://zdw.posterous.com/

Sarah Doherty - Cabbage Patch

Concrete
One cabbage patch girl, 10" high

Minimum bid: $75

Statement:

When MICA faculty Sarah Doherty moved two years ago from downtown San Diego to a carriage house in between the two alleys behind N. Calvert Street, she was a bit horrified by the conditions of the smaller alley affected by an 85 percent vacancy rate in a three-block span. Previously working with notions of fault-lines in her work prior to the move, she soon grew to think of the N. Calvert Street alley as a metaphorical kind of fault-line affected by socio-economics and urban decline. Fascinated by the contexts inherent in these properties, Doherty began her own explorations of site-specific pieces in the alley. This soon extended to her students at MICA as urban intervention assignments for such courses as Concrete Culture: The City as Text, for which students responded to and with the contexts of the sites. Realizing the benefits of transformation and cultural dialogue that developed through these small gestures as evidenced in neighborhood interactions with the works and artists, Doherty developed a bigger vision of transformation and the possibilities of extending the cultural corridor between Station North Arts District and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Doherty has subsequently organized 22 pieces to inhabit the backyards of these vacant properties through April 2010. Participants include artists, architects and contemporary dancers. Working with city agencies, community organizations and artists, the alley and properties will be cleaned of debris and re-populated with creative works and light.

The cabbage patch dolls are a part of "Axis Alley" in Baltimore:

http://axisalley.wordpress.com/

Note:

"Locals only"--since this doll is made of solid concrete, this piece will be for Baltimore bidders only.

Katrina McHugh - Untitled

Untitled
14" x 20"

Minimum bid: $25 - there are three prints available

Statement:

I am an artist and graphic designer currently living in San Francisco, California. Though I primarily work in letterpress, this piece was created during an exploration into screen printing. The inspiration for the motifs came from concurrent reading being done on Japonisme, specifically the mighty influence that Japanese art had on the European Art Nouveau movement at the turn of the last century. Inspired by beauty I found in much of the poster work from that time period I attempted to create my own expression of the style. I hope you enjoy it.

www.katrinamchugh.com

Gary Brewer - Ozymandias Series #3

Ozymandias Series #3

Minimum bid: $250
(listed in gallery as $750)

Statement:

Inspired by E. O. Wilson’s notion of “biophilia ” as an empathy towards all living things, my work is driven by a sense of intimacy and personal identification with the natural world. In my paintings, my experience of nature tends to express a sense of wonder and awe at the complexity of the web of life.

Lydia Prentiss - Edwige

Work:

Edwige

Limited edition screenprint
8"x10.75"

Minimum bid:

$60

Statement:

I explore themes that are heavy with psychological significance where repeating images become symbols. Here, the right brain, non-verbal, symbolic mode meets the pre-conscious- that psychologically rich half-hidden area of the psyche. Like the 20th Century surrealists, I hope to express a world otherwise only available through dreams- but unlike the surrealists, my nightmares may be more transparent.. Like Carl Jung’s alchemical process, the art builds a world heavy with suggestion and fertile for growth. My sketch-book journal is an important part of this process because it is a safe space to record and explore emotionally charged thoughts and experiences. I share certain pages because I hope that the intimacy and specificity of my experience may resonate with others: transcending the personal reaching towards the universal. My paintings, drawings and sculptures often reference the same imagery and ideas found in the journal pages. In these pieces- the psychological intensity tends to be more removed as the literal back-story is dropped. Instead, the process and craft takes precedence over emotion.

Flickr site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaartauction2010/sets/72157625397580996/

Jamie Lloyd/Yaw Asiamah - The Earring

Yaw Asiamah - The Earring

The Earring
unframed
16X20

Minimum bid: $150

Statement:

This photo was taken by Yaw Asiamah who is a student in Jamie Lloyd's photo classes in Ghana

See: www.ghanayouthphoto.org

Yaw Asiamah, 12 years old:

Yaw Asiamah lives in Ghana, West Africa and is a student in the Ghana Youth Photo Project. He is one of 18 students from Nima, one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in Ghana’s capital city, Accra. Through free photography classes the Ghanaian students are given an opportunity to visually represent their country, culture and religion. Their photos have been displayed in the United States and in Ghana with the intentions of challenging the stereotypes of Africa as only a land of war, AIDS and famine as well as challenging the negative labels that Ghanaian society has placed on the neighborhood of Nima. It is time for Nima/Ghana/Africa to be represented by the people who live there and not through the negative sensationalism of mainstream media.

Müge Birgen - Lost

Linocut print
9" x 12" (22.9 x 30.5 cm)

Minimum bid: $150

Statement:

I am an industrial designer specialized in lighting who also has interest in art. I grew up in Istanbul, Turkey and almost four years ago moved to San Francisco Bay Area, CA. I've been drawing and time to time printing starting from my high school years.

Aline Mare - Bullet Hand

Aline Mare - Bullethand

Bullet Hand
22 x 27, framed

Minimum bid: $150

Statement:

I consider myself an interdisciplinary artist who has been producing mixed-media work incorporating video and photographic elements for the past 20 years. My career began in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, coming out of a background of theatre, performance and installation art where I worked with such luminaries as Richard Foreman, Meredith Monk, Robert Frank and Robert Wilson. I was a member of the Artist Collective, Colab for several years and performed in a multi-media partnership, Erotic Psyche throughout Manhattan and Europe throughout the 80s.
Following the disbanding of Erotic Psyche, I moved to San Francisco to complete a MFA from SFAI where I produced the film Saline Solution, which garnered support and awards internationally, exhibiting at The Cinematheque in SF, The Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. I have continued to expand my media work, concentrating on photography and video, exhibiting in California and New York consistently.
In the past five years I have continued my multi-media exploration with imagery interfacing science, light , and the body, completing several more series including Electric Flowers (2006), Beautiful Boys (2007) and The Hands (2008). I am currently completing a new series of images of 10 year old Jewish girls, Seeing the Light (2009-10).
The Hand Series (2008-2009) is part of an ongoing fascination with the fragments of the body seen as acute aspects of portraiture. Each hand is imaged as a clay canvas and embedded with an imprint of culture and nature. It is as if the hand has morphed and the flesh has become internalized into a kind of technological evolutionary second skin.

www.alinemare.com

Bruce Reeves - Summer Birdhouse

Summer Birdhouse
Oil On Canvas
24"x48"

Minimum bid: $300

Bruce Reeves is mastering his technique at the Art Academy of San Diego, under the tutorial guide of Reed Cardwell, a master painter of the abstract. Bruce also trains during the summer at the Provincetown Art Association, MA.

With a degree in Landscape Architecture from Mississippi State University, Bruce uses various textures and mediums to work his sense of the abstract into a merge of color at one with nature.

Bruce’s photography and paintings currently hang in private galleries in Provincetown, Tucson, Memphis, San Antonio, and Dallas and throughout San Diego. Bruce is the owner and founder of Hillcrest Ace Hardware.

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