2017 LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER
BENEFIT
ART AUCTION
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2017 LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER
BENEFIT
ART AUCTION
featured artist LOUIS COPT chief executive officer KIMBERLY WILLIAMS exhibitions director BEN AHLVERS auctioneer WES E. SCHLOBOHM signature sponsor EDMONDS DUNCAN REGISTERED INVESTMENT ADVISORS additional support provided by BIEMER’S BBQ BITTERSWEET FLORAL & DESIGN BOULEVARD BREWING COMPANY CHECKERS CITY WINE MARKET EVAN WILLIAMS CATERING FAST FRAME FREE STATE BREWING COMPANY HANG THE MOON DESIGNS PADEN PHOTOGRAPHY SUNFLOWER RENTALS a special thank you to LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER STAFF & BOARD SPENCER MUSEUM STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD thank you to our table sponsors EDMONDS DUNCAN JOAN & WEB GOLDEN BARBARA & JON HEEB INTRUST BANK TEQUA CREEK TRADEWIND ENERGY TCK – THE TRUST COMPANY OF KANSAS UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS KIMBERLY WILLIAMS
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KIMBERLY WILLIAMS Chief Executive Officer STACY GALLOWAY HAYWOOD Chief Operating Officer SARAH BISHOP Chief Communications Officer MARGARET WEISBROD MORRIS Chief Program Officer BEN AHLVERS Exhibitions Director JEREMY ROCKWELL Exhibitions Assistant CATE RICHARDS Exhibitions Coordinator AMY ALBRIGHT Graphic Designer MARLO ANGELL Director of Digital Media NEAL BARBOUR Director of Youth Education KATHRYN CLARK Marketing Coordinator ANDRIA DEVLIN Arts-based Preschool Assistant SAMARIA FLEIG Performing Arts Coordinator ELLIE GOUDIE-AVERILL Associate Dance School Director LACEE HANSON Events & Development Coordinator OLIVIA HERÑANDEZ Dance School Assistant HEATHER HOY Development Director HANAN MISKO Dance School Director BETH MURPHY Office Manager/Database Manager LINDA REIMOND Arts-Based Preschool Director STEVE RICHARDSON Facilities Manager KYLA STRID Director of Residencies and Adult Education ELIZABETH SULLIVAN Director of Performing Arts TONJA TORGERSON Print Studio Manager RACHEL VAN WAGONER Studio Manager
BOARD OF DIRECTORS JOAN GOLDEN, Chairman SHERYL JACOBS, Vice Chairman DIANE HORNING, Treasurer JEAN ANDERSON DAVID HOLLOND DON BUCHNER TONY KRSNICH TIM CABONI ELLIE LECOMPTE CLARE DOVETON MICHEL LOOMIS CHRIS ENGLISH CINDY MAUDE JOSHUA FALLEAF DALTON PALEY RON GACHES EVAN WILLIAMS MATT GILHOUSEN HONG ZHANG
NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD MIKE MICHAELIS DEANNELL REECE TACHA ROGER SHIMOMURA SUSAN TATE KEVIN WILLMOTT
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LOUIS COPT LECOMPTON, KS // Artist Louis Copt has been painting full-time since 1984. He received a BA in art from Emporia State University in 1971, studied at the Art Students League in New York City, and has taught classes in drawing and painting at the University of Kansas. He is a past board member of the Lawrence Arts Center and past President of the Lawrence Arts Commission and Lawrence Art Guild. Louis shows regularly in galleries throughout the Midwest, including the Leopold Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri; the Strecker-Nelson Gallery in Manhattan, Kansas; the Reuben Saunders Gallery in Wichita, Kansas; and the Phoenix Gallery in Lawrence, Kansas. Louis has participated in a number of national juried exhibitions, and his work is collected by people throughout the world. For this exhibition of all new work, Louis is focusing on rural architecture. For years, Copt has explored the rural landscape in a variety of forms and mediums. Several pieces in the exhibition will be exclusively available at the 2017 Benefit Art Auction.
www.louiscopt.com
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SILENT AUCTION INSTRUCTIONS Over 100 items in this auction are offered through the Silent Auction. Silent Auction items are displayed with a Silent Auction bid card (“S”) in addition to the identification label. To place a bid, print your name clearly on the card. (There is a minimum 50% bid on all auction items.) Please honor the minimum bid increase of $20. Failure to do so will disqualify your bid. Include your phone number so that we can contact you if you are not present to pick up your work at the end of the auction. Bids made without full names and phone numbers may be disqualified. Bids may be placed until 7:15pm in the middle gallery and 7:30pm in the large gallery on auction night, April 8, just before the Live Auction begins. BUY OUT OPTION Silent Auction items are available for “buy-out” at 200% of the posted retail value. Bids of that amount or more are not considered buy-outs unless the item has been paid for in advance. To buy-out an item, see the receptionist in the lobby. Once paid for, the item will be marked "sold" and will be available for pick-up at 8:30pm in the Black Box Theater on April 23, or afterwards.
ART PICK-UP Please use this page to list your Bidder Number and purchases. Knowing the auction numbers of the items you have purchased will speed processing when you pick up your art works. Payment is required before artwork can be released. BIDDER’S NUMBER ________ ITEM NUMBER ______________ ITEM NUMBER ______________ ITEM NUMBER ______________ ITEM NUMBER ______________
PRICE _______________ PRICE _______________ PRICE _______________ PRICE _______________
Silent and Live auction winners will be notified by text when purchased artwork is ready for pick up in the Black Box Theater on the evening of the live auction. You may claim your auction item starting at 8:30pm in the Black Box Theater (entrance is located in the lower lobby). On Monday, April 10, telephone calls to winners who were not present on auction night will be made to inform them of their winning bid and to arrange for the pick-up of the item. We ask that winning bidders claim their items as soon as possible. All artwork is carefully wrapped for safe transport, and we will be happy to assist you in getting artwork to your car. Please allow us to call you a cab! Ask staff at the front doors for assistance.
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L-1 JEROMY MORRIS
Meta Streetscape
$2200
ACRYLIC, SPRAY PAINT, TONER, GOLD LEAF AND EPOXY ON PANEL, 25 X 37”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Jeromy Morris was
born in Denver, CO, and he received his Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communications and Graphic Design from the University of Kansas. He has co-founded the Fresh Produce Art Collective, is the Director at SeedCo Studios, and is the Curator at Cider Gallery Fine Art. His artwork emphasizes the relationship between two or more disparate mediums. Epoxy, acrylic, toner transfers, spray paint, and found objects vie for space on found-wood pieces or panels. Morris’s works are inspired by the interactions between opposing forces; consumerism and advertising are pitted against urban ruins and the forces that exist between nature and industry. www.jeromymorris.com
L-2 CHRIS WOLF EDMONDS
Autumn Oak
$1800
GICLÉE PRINT ON ALUMINUM, 40 X 40”, 2012 BERRYTON, KS // Living at the eastern
edge of the Kansas Flint Hills, one of the last remaining remnants of earth’s tall grass prairies, provides the stimulus for Edmonds’ art. His work reflects the color and forms of nature that he observe every day. Edmonds focuses on his place in the natural and uses his camera to focus on its details. The images of nature are transitory, often evanescent. He strives to perceive its patterns, and as an artist to record them in paint and print and text ... for it is the nature of artists to manipulate the art of nature. www.chrisedmondsstudioquilts.com
L-3 RICK MITCHELL
$950
Des Moines
COLOR PHOTOGRAPH, 35 X 35”, 2009/2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Rick Mitchell has
been a professional artist since 1974. He served on the faculties of Rutgers University, Baker University, and Kansas University and is a former Director of the Gallery at the Lawrence Arts Center. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation. He was awarded Phoenix awards from the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission in 2003 and 2015. www.rwmitchellimages.com
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L-4 MARGIE KUHN
$3200 All American with Cupcakes ACRYLIC ON PANEL, 36 X 24”, 2011 LAWRENCE, KS // Margie Kuhn
exhibited in the first Lawrence Arts Center Auction in the old Carnegie Building. Since that time she has exhibited her drawings and paintings across the country, including New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Connecticut. She has an MFA in painting from the University of Kansas and taught in the KU Design Department for 15 years. The work exhibited here is part of her series of All-American paintings that include toys, candy, and other objects to reflect ideas about 21st century culture. www.margiekuhn.com
L-5 HONG CHUN ZHANG
Happy Friday
$1000
CHINESE INK AND WATERCOLOR ON RICE PAPER, 16 X 20”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // A Chinese born
and USA based artist, Hong Chun Zhang received her BFA from Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1994 and her MFA from University of California Davis in 2004. She is represented by Haw Contemporary in Kansas City. Hong’s work has been exhibited in Asia, Europe, and North America—from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC to The Chinese National Art Museum in Beijing. Her work can be found at DSL Collection in Paris, The White Rabbit Collection of Chinese Art in Sydney, and the Spencer Museum of Art at University of Kansas. She has received a Skowhegan Artist Residency Scholarship, a Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. www.hongchunzhang.com
L-6 TROY MOTH
$3000
Buffalo
LIMITED EDITION ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT, 42 X 62”, 2016 TAHSIS, BRITISH COLUMBIA //
Troy’s work has been exhibited around the world in galleries from New York to Milan and is currently held in the permanent collection at the Art Gallery of Victoria. He has worked on International advertising campaigns for billion dollar companies and followed a man to his death for an intimate documentary piece. He’s directed a film in -40c and almost lost a finger in Northern Ontario. He’s at home in the back country, or the remote, the wild and the unpredictable. Born into a tree-planting camp, Troy spent years 0-2 guarded by his parent’s large dogs as they collectively planted millions of trees. Troy currently resides on Vancouver Island and can be found wandering the bush with his dog. www.troymoth.com
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L-7 ROGER SHIMOMURA
American Muse
$2000
LITHOGRAPH, 24 X 24.25”, 2017 COURTESY OF LAWRENCE LITHOGRAPHY LAWRENCE, KS // Roger Shimomura
is a retired Distinguished Professor at KU. In the past 12 months and over the next 6 months, Roger has had and will have solo shows in Boise, Kansas City, Portland, Minneapolis/St Paul, Wyoming, Maine, and New York City. www.rshim.com
L-8 WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (1914 - 1997)
Lust (from Seven Deadly Sins series) $3000
5 COLOR SILKSCREEN, 1 COLOR WOODBLOCK, LIMITED EDITION OF 90, 45 X 31”, 1991 LAWRENCE, KS // Born February 5, 1914
in St. Louis, Missouri, William S. Burroughs was an innovative writer and artist. A primary figure in the Beat Generation, Burroughs deeply influenced popular culture with dozens of books and hundreds of paintings, essays, spoken word performances and multi-media collaborations. Burroughs made his home in Lawrence, Kansas, where he lived and created art from 1981 until his death in 1997. During that time, Burroughs continued his explorations in material and process, and created a large body of work. Burroughs’ work has been featured in over fifty international galleries and museums including Royal Academy of the Arts, Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim Museum, New Museum, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum, Spencer Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art.
L-9 MARTY OLSON
Short Story/ Long Day
$800
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 12 X 36”, 2017
LAWRENCE, KS // Marty Olson is a (mostly) life-long resident of Lawrence, Kansas. Marty has pursued art-making since childhood. Northwest Missouri State University provided Marty with an art scholarship after graduating from Lawrence High School in 1970. Marty has been the recipient of a Scholastic Art Award, and in 2015, a Phoenix Art Award for outstanding artistic achievement. An undying passion for exploration and expression, Marty continues to stretch his boundaries artistically. Mostly using acrylic paint, Marty also loves pen and ink, pencil, watercolor, and printmaking. www.facebook.com/MartyOlsonArtwork
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L-10 JIM CONNELLY
Pendant
$1150
STERLING SILVER, 14K GOLD, AGATIZED DINOSAUR BONE PENDANT ON 24” CHAIN, TEXTURED, HIGH POLISHED, FORGED, AND FABRICATED, 2.25 X 7/8”, 2012 LAWRENCE, KS // Agatized dinosaur
bone is the result of fossilized bone of dinosaurs in which the cellular structure has been replaced with quartz. It comes in a wide range of colors which is due to impurities found in the surrounding sediment. The red colored stones are rarer. It is illegal to collect dino bone on US state or federal lands thus making agatized dinosaur bone more valuable. Jim’s work is represented by Spectator’s at 710 Massachusetts in downtown Lawrence and can also be seen through lawrencemarketplace.com or at SILVER WORKS on Facebook.
L-11CARLY SLADE
LFK Moving
$2400
CERAMIC, EMBROIDERY, 22K WHITE GOLD LUSTRE, MIXED MEDIA, 16 X 4 X 10”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Carly Slade grew up in “Big sky Alberta,” Canada, and spent her working life in the trades, from carpentry to concrete. She is most at home in a shop. Her work is heavily influenced by her childhood spent in a blue-collar home, where work ethic and craftsmanship were highly valued. Using a mixture of materials from ceramic, to embroidery, to industrial building supplies, Slade creates dioramas of labour sites. Through a feminine and whimsical lens, her work celebrates the labour and systems that keep our modern world running. www.carlyslade.com
L-12 LISA GROSSMAN
Spring Fires
$2000
OIL ON CANVAS, 20 X 24”, 2012 LAWRENCE, KS // Based in
Lawrence, Kansas since 1996, Grossman has established herself as a prominent painter and printmaker of eastern Kansas’s prairies and river valleys. Grossman has evolved a luminous and minimalist plein air style, focusing on the horizon and subtle shifts in light, color, and weather. Grossman’s work is included in numerous collections including the Spencer Museum of Art, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University. Grossman is represented by Haw Contemporary in Kansas City, Strecker-Nelson Gallery in Manhattan, Kansas, and Circa Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. www.lisagrossmanart.com
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L-13 RICK STEIN
Cherry and Maple Hall Table
$2200
WOOD, 42 X 12.5 X 28.5”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Lawrence has been
Rick’s home for nearly 40 years. The first 20 or so were spent in the bicycle business. The balance as a furniture maker. The quiet, solitary nature of Rick’s work as a craftsperson contrasts dramatically to the frenzy of the retail world, and he will be forever grateful for the change. He studied on-and-off in the early years at a wonderful woodworking school in Maine, the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, and he owes a huge debt of gratitude to his local mentor, furniture maker, Will Orvedal who has provided both creative inspiration and deep knowledge of the craft. www.thunderworksinc.com
L-14 ANGIE PICKMAN
Birth Cycle
$1225
CUT PAPER COLLAGE, 24 X 30”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Angie Pickman, Lawrence, KS, is a nationally recognized cut paper artist that combines the art of traditional paper cutting with collage to create intricately detailed works of art and animations. She received her master’s degree from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, which is where she first learned of the art of silhouette animation artist Lotte Reiniger. Her love of nature, as well as Reiniger’s style and technique, inspired Pickman to set off on the artistic path that she continues today. Her work has been featured in Midwest Living and Martha Stewart Living magazines, and her animation work was featured in Daughters of the Forest, a PBS documentary, in the summer of 2016. www.ruralpearl.com
L-15 STAN HERD
$2600
Van Gogh #3
OIL ON CANVAS, 18 X 24”, 2015 LAWRENCE, KS // Stan Herd
is a Kansas-based Earthworks artist working in Brazil to create a permanent four acre design to help build a platform for cultural and humanitarian relationships between the two counties. Herd’s work has been seen on: CBS Sunday Morning; Fox Television Breakfast Time; Dateline NBC; CNN News; Good Morning America ABC; and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. www.stanherdarts.com
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L-16 JAN GAUMNITZ
Cityscape
$1500
MIXED MEDIA MONOPRINT, 24 X 51.5”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // As a child, Jan lived
on a farm near a lake in Minnesota. The close association with nature had an enduring influence on her life and art. Gaumnitz prefers to be outside “seeing, experiencing, remembering, collecting, and photographing,” than creating a work of art inside her studio. By investigating sources for new or old ideas, challenging new techniques and materials, yet following basic fundamentals of art, she works to present a unique expression in a variety of media. www.jangaumnitzstudio.com
L-17 EMMANUEL GARCÍA RAMÍREZ $900 Gigante Asiatico
SCREENPRINT, 41.5X31, 2014 MEXICO CITY, MEXICO // Emmanuel García Ramírez is an artist, printmaker, and teacher from Mexico City, Mexico. He was a participant in the NaoNow project, an artist exchange and residency program between Mexico and China, which was exhibited at the Lawrence Arts Center in 2015. www.emmanuelgarcia.weebly.com
L-18 CLARE DOVETON
$2800 You’ll See the World Like A Bird OIL ON CANVAS, 20 X 24”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Clare Doveton
obtained a BFA in painting from Parsons School of Art and Design, NYC. After living and exhibiting on both coasts, she returned home to the Midwest. Clare has served on the Board of Directors for the Kansas Zen Center, and decades of meditation practice play a key role in her work. She completed permaculture design certification through KPC as part of her continued interest and research of integrated systems and patterns in nature. Doveton was the Featured Artist for the Lawrence Arts Center Benefit Art Auction in 2015, and is presently in her second term on their Board of Directors. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections worldwide. www.claredoveton.com
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L-19 MARSHALL MAUDE
Retrace
$1200
WOOD FIRED STONEWARE AND ENAMEL, 23 X 9 X 9”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Marshall Maude is
a ceramic artist and Associate Professor of Ceramics at the University of Kansas. Marshall has designed, built, and fired wood kilns around the world. He has exhibited his work in solo and group shows nationally and in China, Denmark, Korea, and New Zealand. In 2013, Marshall was an artist-in-residence at the Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute in Jingdezhen, China, and in 2014, at Guldagergaard – International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark. He is not on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. He does own a telephone and a hammer and concentrates his energy in the studio and on livin’. www.marshallmaude.com
L-20 LOUIS COPT
$2750 each
Winning bid gets choice.
Storm Sky with Barn OIL ON CANVAS, 30 X 24”, 2016
Night Barn OIL ON CANVAS, 24 X 30”, 2016
Barn by Moonlight OIL ON CANVAS, 25 X 30”, 2016
READ THE FULL BIO ABOUT OUR
FEATURED ARTIST ON PAGE 6
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L-21 JUSTIN MARABLE
$700
The Resistance SERIGRAPH, 13 X 30”, 2014 LAWRENCE, KS //
Kendra Marable graduated from KU with her MFA in painting and drawing. Her work employs a variety of media, depending on the visual question. This study led to a larger piece she made in response to her father’s unexpected death. Needing to examine his 70 year lifetime in a visual form, she painted one wave to represent each day of his life. He was a world class, open water long distance swimmer. As she painted for hours and hours, the mathematics and repetition of the monotonous painted waves were similar to her father’s swim strokes. The meditative and contemplative process allowed a deeper connection to be made in spite of his absence.
L-22 MATTHEW LORD & KENT SMITH
Aviation Pollination $1800
STEAMROLLER BLOCK PRINT, 8 X 3’, 2015 LAWRENCE, KS // Matthew Lord is an
illustrator and fine artist residing in Lawrence, Kansas. Matthew’s artwork often tilts toward the absurd with a smattering of pop culture critique. He strives to tell a well-constructed story with his art, using the panel as a delivery device. Matthew’s influences are drawn from a curiosity for the natural world, childhood nostalgia, and a love of mythology. In recent years, Matthew has adopted a mantra of community building through the arts by serving on the board of the Lawrence Percolator and hosting a monthly life drawing gathering through the arts collective Thieves Guild. Matthew’s fingers are often covered with ink.
Kent Smith is a Lawrence, KS based illustrator, designer, maker, dimensionhopper and the mayor of Smittytown. His work appears on toys, beer labels, masks, huge woodblocks and tiny trading cards. Kent embraces challenges and loves solving problems. Using crazy brain-powers and a variety of media, Kent delivers solutions full of play, story and the unexpected. Kent helps shape reality and builds community by co-hosting monthly life-drawing sessions (Thieves Guild and Percolator), drop-in sketchbook (Percolator) and drawing groups (Lawrence Urban Sketchers). Kent celebrates teaching in the Design Department at KU as well as working with VanGo, the Lawrence Arts Center, and other community organizations. www.matthew-lord.com www.smittytown.com
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L-23 VERNON BREJCHA
Glitter Bowl
$600
BLOWN GLASS, 6 X 6 X 6”, 2011 LAWRENCE, KS // Vernon Brejcha is
one of the pioneers of the modern glass movement. He started at the University of Wisconsin with glass legend Harvey Littleton in 1969. Brejcha first taught glass in Tennessee for five years, then at the University of Kansas for twenty-six years turning out several internationally known students. In just one summer he gave 29 glass blowing demonstrations with a portable unit he built. His work is in more than 50 museums and hundreds or private and corporate collections around the world, including the Corning Glass Museum; LA County Museum of Art; Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf; the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, and the Saski Museum in Tokyo.
L-24 SUSAN GRACE
Two Figures Facing
$3200
OIL ON CANVAS, 60 X 24”, 2007 LAWRENCE, KS // Susan Grace is a painter
whose work has been widely exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the U.S., such as ARC Gallery, Chicago; Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, GA; World Trade Center, New Orleans; Kirkpatrick Center Museum Complex, Oklahoma City; Wichita Art Museum, KS; Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI; The Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green; and Riverside Art Museum, CA. She has received numerous awards for her work. Although she studied painting informally in Athens, Greece, her academic background is primarily in literature and theater, and she taught courses in modern American and European literature in universities in the U.S. and Greece before becoming a full-time painter. www.susangracestudio.com
L-25 KEN BINI
$1200
Verdant Resources
OIL ON BOARD, 21 X 17”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Ken Bini’s
paintings are process driven and representational, meaningfully redolent of his emotions and intellect. He paints with constant change, layering, corrections, and adjustments; compositions and surfaces are unpredictable and unique, his intrigue with the limitations of pigment and their endless expressive potential are boldly apparent. Bini’s works are included in numerous national and international private collections, and have exhibited at the University Of New Hampshire Museum Of Art, the Kansas City Art Institute, and in both solo and group shows in galleries nationally. He holds a BFA from KCAI (1993) and an MFA from UNH (2012). www.kennethbini.com
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L-26 HERB FRIEDSON
Assemblage #2
$2000
ENAMEL ON COPPER, 37 X 17”, 2008 LAWRENCE, KS // Friedson is a graduate of the
University of Kansas where he taught basic design, jewelry-silversmithing, and all levels of enameling. He has been a professional enamellist since 1953. His work has been included in over 150 regional, national, and international exhibitions including those at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NY; Biennale Internationale, Limoge, France; Long Beach Museum of Art; Everson Museum of Art; and the Ohio Crafts Museum of Art. His work has been featured in the following publications: Little Dreams in Glass on Metal, published by the Enamelist Society, Los Angeles, CA 2015; Craft Horizons, Ceramic Monthly; La Revue Moderne, France.
L-27 MARGARET WEISBROD MORRIS $1200 Best in Show
ACRYLIC, 24 X 36”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Margaret Weisbrod Morris is an
artist with training in analytical psychology. Her work blends metaphor and reality, with a touch of the absurd. Working through a variety of subjects, she is focused on representing sensory dynamics and visual minutiae to pinpoint moments of intensity. Drawn to obsessive-compulsive, repetitive visual elements, and illogical, funny or strange situations, her work juxtaposes emptiness with abundance, calm with chaos, humor with sobriety to create meticulous, dreamlike scenes that are based in reality but are slightly implausible. Morris holds a B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Starting her professional career in New York, she started out in animation and children’s television, but eventually left to study art therapy with Edith Kramer, the founder of the field of art therapy, to get her M.A. degree from New York University.
L-28 MARY ANNE JORDAN X & O’s
$1100
HAND DYED COTTON, MACHINE QUILTED, PAINTED, 53 X 30”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Mary Anne Jordan is a
Professor in the Textiles/Fibers Program in the School of the Arts at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. She received her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art and BFA at the University of Michigan. Her work has been shown nationally across the US and internationally in Japan, Poland, South America, France, and Canada. In 2006 Jordan was a Research Fellow at the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska. She has taught workshops at Arrowmont, Haystack, Penland, Splitrock, and the Quilt and Surface Design Symposium. Jordan’s work has been published in various exhibition catalogs, magazines, and journals.
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L-29 JOHN GARY BROWN
Bay of Biscay
$3300
OIL, 60 X 44”
LAWRENCE, KS // John Gary
Brown lives and works in Lawrence, Kansas and Creede, Colorado. He has a MFA from The University of Washington in Seattle. John taught art classes at The University of Kansas, University of Nebraska, The University of Washington, and The Wichita Art Museum. He has been painting since 1960 and has sold six hundred paintings in twenty commercial galleries over the years. He has won many museum prizes and purchases, including First Prize at the Mid-America Exhibition at the Nelson/Atkins Museum in Kansas City, a purchase award at the Joslyn Gallery in Omaha, and a purchase by the Institute of Arts and Letters in New York.
L-30 JANET DAVIDSON-HUES
My Dinner with Picasso
$525
SILKSCREEN, 24.25 X 27.75”, 1988 LAWRENCE, KS // Janet Davidson-
Hues investigates and combines language and image in order to set up a tension between the verbal and the visual in her paintings and prints. She was born in Baltimore and is an MFA graduate from the University of Kansas and former Assistant Professor of Art at Indiana State University. She is represented by the Flomenhaft Gallery in New York City. Her work can be viewed at www.janetplanet16.com.
L-31 MOLLY MURPHY
Wash
$2600
OIL ON CANVAS, 30 X 40”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Drawing from
elements of the natural world and the mind-body connection, Molly Murphy creates richlytextured canvases that immediately strike viewers with their physical depth, the surfaces eluding to the many layers that lie beneath. Her work addresses aspects of the human experience and persistence of the ego as it exists in a world much larger than ourselves, and the finished work embraces this duality. Molly lives and works in Lawrence, KS, and served two terms on the Lawrence Arts Center Board of Directors. Her work can be found in collections across the United States and Europe. www.mollyfrancesmurphy.com
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L-32 MAGGY ROZYCKI HILTNER In the Clouds
$875
HAND-STITCHED COTTON AND FOUND EMBROIDERY, 14 X 10.5”, 2015 RED LODGE, MT // Maggy Rozycki Hiltner
comes from a family of makers: her mother and grandmothers needlepointed, quilted, and knitted and stitched clothes and toys; her father built odd things, cooked outrageous meals, and painted murals in their home. She earned a BFA in Sculpture with a concentration in Fibers from Syracuse University and was a Studio Assistant at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. For about 20 years now, she has been collaging found embroidery with her hand-stitched imagery, giving these abandoned textiles new meaning and relevance. Her work has been published and exhibited in museums and galleries nationally and internationally. She lives in Red Lodge, Montana. www.maggyrhiltner.com
L-33 JENNY DOORES
Slow Ride
$1100
HIGH-FIRE CERAMIC, 18 X 20 X 12”, 2016 OSKALOOSA, KS // Jenny Doores has been sculpting in clay for 45 years. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence, she received an MFA from the BOSTON Museum School of Fine Arts and went on to design ceramic collectibles and tableware for 35 years as co-owner of Clay Art Inc. Since retiring five years ago, she has gratefully been making Art for Art’s sake in the fertile setting of Lawrence and its dynamic Art Center.
L-34 NEIL GOSS
Sky and Water: Unite Us All $3000 HEMP, WOOL, INDIGO, 6 X 3.5 X 1”, 2017
EUDORA, KS // Neil Goss lives in Eudora, KS where he focuses his art on Earth processes while responding to human impacts upon those processes. In 2012, he received two BFA’s in Design (Textiles and Ceramics) from the University of Kansas SOTA. He has been dedicated to researching sustainable arts processes such as natural dyeing, weaving, utilizing hand-dug clay, and foraging art materials. Goss has taught workshops, installed public art, and done artist talks from coast to coast in the United States. He currently is a practicing professional artist, artist-inresidence at the Charlotte Street Foundation, and teaches at the Lawrence Arts Center. www.neilgoss.com
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L-35 JOELLE FORD
Big XII - #13
$800
COLLAGE, TICKETS, 26 X 30”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // The 2016-17
KU basketball season has been a memorable one, and this collage was made especially for the art auction from all 18 home game tickets. Joelle is noted for her work in collage and assemblage that has been shown in several museums around the country as well as the Lawrence Arts Center. One of her works, “Wave the Wheat” was purchased by the State Department’s Art in Embassies Program, and is hanging in Cotonou, Benin, Africa. Her work may be seen as part of the art collection in the new Capital Federal Hall on campus. www.joelleford.com
L-36 JEN UNEKIS
$900
Quiet Edges ACRYLIC AND GRAPHITE ON BOARD, 16 X 48 X 3”, 2016 LAWRENCE,
KS // Jen Unekis was born in LA but spent her childhood in rural Kansas, Oklahoma, and Idaho. Working primarily in acrylic and graphite on board, she is inspired by the unexpected while painting. The pooling of color up against an inky line, or the way fine sketchy graphite marks can be obscured by paint, yet still hold your interest. Images that feel out of place in a literal world yet still find their place in the world of abstraction. She has won multiple awards and has had solo shows at Jenny Wheat Gallery, Phoenix Gallery, and most recently at Cider Gallery. www.jenunekis.com
L-37 BILL BOWERMAN
Red Mug
$1000
ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT, 40 X 32”, 2014 LAWRENCE, KS // Bill Bowerman seeks
to create beautiful, evocative and/or whimsical artworks based on everyday objects, events, and relationships. Moods, metaphors, and ambiguities abound in his work. For 30 years, he has made pen and ink drawings virtually every day. Since 2001, he has made art using the unique lighting, depth of field, high resolution and point of view that can be achieved by assembling objects on the imaging surface of a flatbed scanner and then scanning them (i.e., scanography). Bowerman’s artworks are in galleries, juried exhibitions and private spaces. The Lawrence Arts Center has featured Bowerman’s early scanography artworks in a one-person exhibition in the main gallery. www.bowermanscanography.com
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L-38 KRISTIN MORLAND
$1600 A Thousand Points of Light SEQUINS, BEADS, THREAD, 30 X 40”, 2010
LAWRENCE, KS // Kristin Morland received a BFA from the University of Kansas in 1998, where she studied painting and weaving. Kristin’s primary medium for the past sixteen years has been hand sewn sequins and beads. Currently, Kristin splits her time as a studio artist and teaching at the Lawrence Arts Center arts based preschool. www.kristinmorland.com
L-39 TIM FORCADE
$1250 Pas un pas de deux PHOTOGRAPHIC PIGMENT PRINT ON RAG PAPER, 30 X 40”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Tim Forcade
is a multimedia artist employing painting, theatrical lighting, electronic systems, video and photography to create imagery inspired by light in all its forms. His electronic works and photographs have appeared in exhibits and performances nationally and internationally. Recent solo photography exhibits include Lawrence Arts Center, Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City Artists Coalition, KC Society for Contemporary Photography, and the Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art. His work has been described as color field photography, a synthesis between painting and photography. www.forcadeimages.com
L-40 ROGER SHIMOMURA
Astro Boy
$12000
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 36 X 48”, 2004 LAWRENCE, KS // Roger
Shimomura is a retired Distinguished Professor at KU. In the past 12 months and over the next 6 months, Roger has had and will have solo shows in Boise, Kansas City, Portland, Minneapolis/St Paul, Wyoming, Maine, and New York City. www.rshim.com
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L-41 LOUIS COPT
$9750 each
Remembered Barn
Winning bid gets choice.
OIL ON CANVAS, 48 X 60”, 2016
Storm Reflections
OIL ON CANVAS, 48 X 60”, 2016
Moonlit Barn
OIL ON CANVAS, 48 X 60”, 2016
READ THE FULL BIO ABOUT OUR FEATURED ARTIST ON PAGE 6
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RAISE THE PADDLE The Lawrence Arts Center’s Visiting and Resident Artist Program is vital to our ability to offer the best in arts education, performing arts, and contemporary exhibitions. Visiting artists work with our students of all ages, teach in our studios and in the community, exhibit, create new work in dance, theater, or visual arts, challenge us, and inspire us. $500 $1,000 $5,000 $10,000
Illumination Society Imagination Society Inspiration Society Creative Placemaker Society
SHORT TERM INVITATIONAL RESIDENCIES These residencies include visual and performing artists who are commissioned to create new work for the Lawrence Arts Center.
PROJECT-BASED RESIDENCIES This residency supports area artists who wish to learn new mediums and/or who need temporary studio space to complete special projects. Artists receive use of studio space at the Arts Center, a materials stipend, and private instruction in any medium.
YEAR-LONG RESIDENCIES The Lawrence Arts Center offers 12 month artist in residence programs to ceramics and printmaking artists. Each year, applicants with M.F.A. degrees apply for the two positions. The residents, chosen by Arts Center staff, other artists, and curators, receive living space, a monthly stipend, curatorial and technical support, instruction in teaching workshops and classes, and a solo exhibition of new work created at the Arts Center. They teach classes and care for studio spaces. Our 2016-17 artists-in-residence are Tressa Jones, printmaking, and Carly Slade, ceramics. Thanks to Ellie LeCompte, Elizabeth Schultz, Barbara Nordling, Sarah Fayman, Anne and David Hollond, Sharon Perry Galloway, Sabatini Architects, Dan Schriner and Sally Hare-Schriner, Lori Norwood and Doug Stull, Tom and Kay Carmody, Jan and Jack Gaumnitz
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S-42 BEN AHLVERS
I’ll Be Better As Soon As I’m Able
$500
TERRA COTTA, GLAZE, MIXED MEDIA, 14 X 9 X 7”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Ahlvers is Director of Exhibitions
at the Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence Kansas. He is a father and an active artist who has exhibited his work internationally and has works in many private and public collections. He received his MFA from Ohio University and his BFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. www.benahlvers.com
S-43 NORMAN AKERS
Window to the Past
$799
MONOPRINT, 9 7/8 X 7”, 2017
LAWRENCE, KS // Norman Akers is currently an
Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting at the University of Kansas. Previous teaching experiences include the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico and the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign. Akers’ paintings are included in numerous collections, and he has participated in many group exhibitions including, “Indelible Images: The Politics of the Social in Contemporary Art,” Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana; “Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art,” Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York; and “Who Stole the Tee Pee?” at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Museum, New York, New York. www.normanakers.com
S-44 INGE BALCH
St. Nick and His Three HO-HO-HOES
$350
EARTHENWARE, 25 X 10 X 7”, 2016
BALDWIN CITY, KS // Inge received her BA-BFA from
Kansas State University and her MFA from the University of Kansas. She has been teaching at Baker University in Baldwin City since 1988. Inge has always been fascinated by the patronage of the saints and their humble lives and not so humble deaths. St. Nick and his three HO-HO-HOES is part of the Saints Series. St. Nick is the patron saint of unmarried girls and/or prostitutes pawnbrokers, sailors and many others. The number 3 appears often in his legend. He resurrected three boys from the brine-tub in a butcher shop, rescued three girls from becoming prostitutes by giving them each a gold coin for their marriage dowry, and saved three sailors from drowning.
S-45 NEAL BARBOUR
New Void Forms 2
$350
MONOPRINT, 22 X 30”, 2016
LAWRENCE, KS // Neal Barbour works in many
mediums, but most recently has been focusing on ceramics and printmaking. Nonstop selfimprovement and advocacy have lent a hand in developing sight lines through the keyhole of Obstacle’s doorway. This persistence has led to exploration in new forms,
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S-46 TOM BARTEL
Untitled
$650
CERAMIC, 11 X 8 X 6”, 2017
ATHENS, OH // Tom Bartel grew up on the Erie shores of Cleveland, Ohio and is known for his fragmented figures that take cues from a “shotgun blast” of influences ranging from antiquity to current popular culture. He received his BFA from Kent State University and his MFA from Indiana University-Bloomington. Tom has lectured, conducted workshops, and exhibited extensively throughout the United States and internationally. His work is included in numerous public and private collections, and he has received Individual Artist Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council and the Kentucky Arts Council. www.tombartel.net
S-47 LARRY BROW
$200 Eight Piece Bowl Set for Two PORCELAIN, VARIABLE, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Larry Brow first
started throwing pots as a college senior at Grinnell College in 1979, and earned his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1989. He operates Please Touch Pottery here in Lawrence, part-time, and works full-time as a Processing Archivist at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas. He is also a former Lawrence Arts Center Ceramics Instructor.
S-48 ALAN BRUMMEL
Flat Bowl
$48
PORCELAIN, 10.5 X 3”, 2016
LAWRENCE, KS // Alan Brummell has a B.A. in Architecture and a B.S. in Art Education from Kansas State University and a M.S. in Visual Arts Education from the University of Kansas. He studied ceramics under Angelo Garzio and Lee Davis. His professional career in pottery began in 1975. He also taught art in Lawrence elementary schools for 23 years. He believes that pottery is to be used and enjoyed every day. Its purpose is to provide continued enrichment of those who use it.
S-49 ELIZA BULLOCK Afloat
$525
MIXED MEDIA WITH MONOTYPE, CHINE COLE, DRAWING, 17.5 X 17.5”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Eliza Bullock is an abstract, mixed
media artist based in Lawrence. Born and raised in New York City, Eliza landed in the Midwest by way of Ohio, San Francisco, and Italy having worked as a graphic designer and art director before finding her passion to create fine art. Energized by the noisy texture and rich dichotomy of her birthplace and grounded by the epic, open sky of the plains, she explores through myriad techniques the
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S-50 TRACY BUNKERS
The Bare Secrets
$400
MIXED MEDIA, 20 X 20”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Traci Bunkers, author of The
Art Journal Workshop, Print & Stamp Lab, and Print It!, is a multi-medium artist who loves rusty things, glitter glue, old books to cut up, and cheap cameras. Since making her own books and art journaling have been a long time passion of hers, she always feels better after getting her art on by slapping some paint down and working in her journal. Through her one-woman business, Bonkers Handmade Originals, she sells her original artwork, hand-dyed spinning fibers and yarns, handmade books, and kits. www.tracibunkers.com
S-51 GRACE CARMODY$300
Sterling Neckpiece
OXIDIZED STERLING WITH 14K ACCENT, 17”, 2016
S-52 GRACE CARMODY $175 Brooch/Lapel Pin STERLING OXIDIZED WITH 14K ACCENTS, 2 X 1”, 2015 LAWRENCE, KS // Grace has been a metalsmith since 1975.
She studied at the University of Kansas, graduating with an MFA in the School of Fine Arts. Her jewelry designs are inspired from artists in the Modernist Mid Century Movement using their artistic ideals of Modernist Construction design. Working in her home studio her original one-of-a-kind work is exclusively hand wrought from silver, gold and occasionally using copper and bronze accents.
S-53 DEB &
PAUL CHAUSSE $400 Blue Heron and Colorful Wrens of Oz
STAINED, DICHROIC AND FUSED GLASS, 17 X 20” (SET OF TWO), 2017
S-54 DEB & PAUL
CHAUSSE $250 Pay Steadfast Attention to the Emperor Behind the Wheel
STAINED, DICHROIC AND FUSED GLASS, CERAMIC, FOUND OBJECTS, 38*23”, 2017 OZAWKIE, KS // Paul and Deb have found inspiration and materials all around the country for their multifaceted mosaics. Often their work
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S-55 SUNYOUNG CHEONG
$79 3D Printed Ellipsoid Earrings NYLON, STERLING SILVER, 2.5 X 1 X 1”, 2016
TOPEKA, KS // Sunyoung Cheong was born in Seoul,
Korea. She attended the University of Kansas, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts in Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design. She was a CAD/CAM instructor at the University of Kansas from 2012 to 2015. She also works as a studio artist and a custom jewelry designer. Sunyoung’s work has appeared in numerous Lark Books including 500 Silver Jewelry, 1000 Beads, 30-minute Necklaces and 30-minute Bracelets as well as JCK magazine. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally including Canada, Japan, and Korea. She lives and works in Topeka, Kansas. www.sunyoungcheong.com
S-56 ANDREW CHO
We’ll get there eventually
$100
STONEWARE, WOOD, 11 X 7 X 8”, 2016
LAWRENCE, KS // Andrew Cho combines sculpture and
drawing to create dimensional illustrations. He currently focuses on works which cannot be completely viewed from a single angle and the tensions between two and three dimensions as the viewer moves around the piece. www.theandrewchoartshow.com
S-57 JACK COLLINS
Fall 2014
$500
DIGITAL PRINT, 18.5 X 20.5”, 2014 LAWRENCE, KS
Jack began a series of paintings using cut wood, canvas, paper and acrylic in 2014. The paintings are 3 dimensional and rough. This digital print flattens the 3 dimensions into 2. The tension between the original and print offer the artist another opportunity to further explore his work. www.mccaffreycollins.com
S-58 NICHOLE COLLINS
$188 Anticlastic Hoop Earrings 18K AND STERLING SILVER, 1”, 2016
Lawrence, KS Nichole Collins is a metalsmith, jewelry designer, and artist. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Kansas and also studied at Lahti Polytechnic in Lahti, Finland. Nichole hand fabricates her jewelry using influences from industrial design and abstract geometric form. The ancient metalsmithing techniques she uses include
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S-59 LAURIE CULLING
A Brighter Day
$620
PASTEL, ACRYLIC ON MASONITE, 27 X 19.5”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Laurie Culling is a
professional artist and an active visual artists’ advocate. Ranging in style from realistic to abstract, Laurie works with acrylics on canvas, mixed media on gypsum, monotypes, hand-made paper collage and more. Her artwork is subtle, understated, whimsical, and pointedly to the essence. Her art has been exhibited locally to internationally. She has received numerous awards including the 2002 Phoenix Award in Visual Arts. She earned a BFA in Painting and Drawing from KU. She is a 1982 co-founder of Phoenix Gallery and a former co-president and former vice-president of the Lawrence Art Guild. Laurie volunteered as art exhibit coordinator for the Public Library for 20 years. www.laurieculling.com
S-60 DAN DAKOTAS
Necklace and Earrings
$500
STERLING SILVER, SHELL, SHELL DISCS, BLACK GLASS, AMETHYST BEADS, 2 X 3” ON 12”, CHAIN / 1.5”, 2017
DESOTO, KS // Dan Dakotas has shown his work regionally, nationally and internationally receiving numerous awards for his photography and jewelry. Five photographs were included in the book “A Heartland Portrait.” Another photograph was included in the book “Alternative Photography” by Christopher James. He taught high school for 36 years. He was adjunct faculty in several Kansas universities and the Kansas City Art Institute and currently teaches at the Lawrence Art Center and at the Lansing Correctional Facility. Additional awards include: Kansas Governor’s Artist and the Rauschenberg Award for work with special needs students. He served on several National Endowment of the Arts grant review panels.
S-61 CANDICE DAVIS
Beauty in a Panama Barrio
$400
OIL, 18 X 24”, 2016
LAWRENCE, KS // Candice/Candy has
been a long time Lawrence resident. She has been oil painting for the last 8 years while attending Louis Copt’s open studio class. She is especially skilled in painting portraits from photographs and does most commission work in that genre. She is also a social worker, a neighborhood activist, and a docent at the Spencer Museum of Art. She is inspired by interesting people and beautiful places.
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S-62 JENNIFER DAVIS Bird/Dog
$100
SERIGRAPH, 14X11, 2016 MINNEAPOLIS, MN // Jennifer Davis is a Minneapolisbased artist known for her imaginative paintings of surreal creatures and whimsical characters. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at venues such as The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN); The DeVos Art Museum (Marquette, MI); Soo Visual Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN); Foster Museum (Eau Claire, WI); Bloomington Art Center (Bloomington, MN); and Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (Boone, NC), as well as several galleries in major cities across the United States. Davis is a recipient of the 2013 Next Step Fund Grant from the Minnesota Regional Arts Council/McKnight Foundation. She holds a BFA from the University of Minnesota. This piece is a limited edition screenprint from our inaugural Ad Astra Editions print series. www.jenniferdavisart.com
S-63 ANN DEAN
$250 North Beach Sunset, Isla Mujeres DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, 15 X 15”, 2016
LAWRENCE, KS // Artist Ann Dean’s photographs
capture a range of moments from straightforward beauty to surrealist flashes within everyday life. Ann lived in the Yucatán Peninsula along Mexico’s Caribbean coast for several years. She has been visiting the area since the early ‘90s and considers it a second home. Although travel photography is her passion, currently Ann teaches photography at the Lawrence Arts Center and is a freelance photographer specializing in event, portrait, and commercial photography. www.anndean.zenfolio.com
S-64 CHANDRA DEBUSE Floral Jar
$135
PORCELAIN, GLAZE, GOLD LUSTER, 9 X 7 X 7”, 2016 KANSAS CITY, KS // Chandra DeBuse is a full time
studio potter in Kansas City, Missouri. Her pottery incorporates narrative imagery, pattern, and form to impart a sense of play. DeBuse has completed artist residencies across the nation, including a year at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and short-term residencies at Red Lodge Clay Center and Watershed. Chandra was named an Emerging Artist during the 2012 NCECA Conference and was a presenter at the Utilitarian Clay VII Symposium at Arrowmont in 2016. She is a founding member of Kansas City Urban Potters. www.chandradebuse.com
S-65 MYLES DUNIGAN
Untitled
$400
MONOPRINT, 18 X 24”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Myles Dunigan is a
visual artist hailing from Massachusetts. Growing up in the dense woods of central New England, he continues to
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S-66 CONNIE EHRLICH
Night Sky #2
$475
MIXED MEDIA MONOPRINT, 19 X 23”, 2016
LAWRENCE, KS // Connie Ehrlich graduated in 1995 from the University of Kansas with a Fine Arts degree in painting. Since graduation, she has pursued a career as a full-time artist and has exhibited her art nationally. Connie’s monotypes come from her imagination-they are not pre-planned but rely on happy accidents. She sits down at her desk and starts working with no preconceived ideas. Because Connie’s oil painting background was a pre-planned and photo-realistic style, this type of creating is a new adventure for her. She believes a natural and instinctive force guides her as she works. www.artbyconnie.net
S-67 BARRY FITZGERALD
Rothko’s PBJ
$125
INK AND DIGITAL, 14 X 11”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Barry Fitzgerald is a multi-
disciplinary artist who loves the challenge of making images that engage intellectually, emotionally, and aesthetically. He enjoys the conceptual aspects of art and design, as well as exploring the visual and methodical possibilities. He has been in over 80 juried and invitational exhibitions including shows in New York, Los Angeles, and London. He has received over 140 national and international awards for his work. In 2016, he was selected to be in 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide, a biennial juried book published by Luerzer’s Archive in Vienna, Austria, for a third consecutive time. His clients include AARP, Ford, Houge Winery, and National Public Radio. www.barryfitzgeraldillustration.com
S-68 BETSY FORCADE
Sun & Sand
$745
PIGMENT PRINT ON ARCHIVAL PAPER, 23 X 30”, 2016
LAWRENCE, KS // Betsy Forcade is a fine art photographer with decades of experience and a love of the natural world. She prefers to shoot in wild, untouched locations -- sharing images that many may miss in their fast-paced lives. Looking for the beauty in the commonplace and dramatic sights in the wild, she focuses on small textures and large expanses to illustrate the awe of the uncivilized world. She is currently represented by the Strecker-Nelson Gallery in Manhattan, KS and the Phoenix Gallery in Lawrence, KS and Kansas City, MO. www.betsyforcadeimages.com
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S-69 TOMMY FRANK
Wood-fire Piggy Bank
$150
STONEWARE, 9 X 9 X 9”, 2014 KANSAS CITY, MO // Tommy Frank has been working in clay for over 15 years. During that time he has explored almost every facet of the ceramics media by way of materials, processes and techniques. His most recent body of work explores power structures, both political and financial, at play surrounding the financial crisis of 2008. He continues his studio practice at Belger Crane Yard Studios in Kansas City, MO where he is currently the Studio Manager. www.frankarts.com
S-70 JESSE GRAY
El Coyote
$700
MIXED MEDIA ON PANEL, 22 X 36”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Jesse Gray lives and works in Lawrence, Kansas. His artwork is primarily figurative in vein, but usually incorporates animals or inanimate objects into imagery to create ‘theromorphs’ or variations thereof. These hybrid characters are immediately suggestive of mythical creatures in contemporary attire, lending a casual aloofness but leaving the sense of allegory intact. www.jessemangray.com
S-71 DIANE GUTHRIE
Grief and Peace
$350
PHOTOGRAPHY, 20 X 30”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Diane Guthrie uses photographs for
her medium of expression. She invites the viewer to look at her photographs and experience the different shapes, colors and sensations contained in water. Water represents many things, including life, intelligence, wisdom, power, softness and pliancy. Our lives, like water, are fluid and can change quickly; with her “element” images she hopes that people find tranquility and healing. While the subjects may vary dramatically (doors, chairs, laundry, plants, amusement rides, people) her photographic passion is to use imagery to connect emotionally with others to feed the human spirit.
S-72 RICHARD GWIN
Artists Coming Out
$150
35MM COLOR NEGATIVE, 13 X 19”, 2000
S-73 RICHARD GWIN
Smart Cuban Dog
$150
35MM FILM, 13 X 19”, 1999 LAWRENCE, KS // Richard Gwin graduated from
Pratt High School in 1968 and attended Pratt Junior College for two years. His aspirations then led him
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S-74 OLIVIA HERNÁNDEZ / ONOH $200
Only Judy Can Judge Me DIGITAL COLLAGE INKJET PRINT, LASER
CUT PLEXIGLAS FRAME, 16 X 10”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // ONOH is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Miami, Florida and currently residing, working and studying in Lawrence, KS. Her decade of experience as an art model in Kansas and France has evolved into her current interdisciplinary art practice, encompassing digital media, performance, and site-specific installation. ONOH’S experimental film work has screened internationally in Bangladesh, winning Best Short Film (Workin-Progress) Award at the 2016 CreActive International Open Film Festival. A graduate of Baker University with a BA in Global Politics, ONOH is a student at the University of Kansas, expecting her BFA this May in Visual Art with an emphasis in Expanded Media. She is currently employed as a program coordinator and instructor at the Lawrence Arts Center. www.xonoh.com
S-75 ANN & STEVE HERTZOG
Revolution
$400
PHOTOGRAPHY, 20 X 24”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Steven Hertzog has been
around for 62 years, 10 of them spent in Lawrence. He takes photographs from time to time when the spirit moves him. Four times a year, he and his wife Ann publish the Lawrence Business Magazine. www.lawrencebusinessmagazine.com
S-76 DAVID HILTNER
Pheasant Trophy
$495
WOOD FIRED PORCELAIN, 15.25 X 7.5 X 7.5”, 2016
RED LODGE, MT // David Hiltner is currently the Executive Director of Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, Montana. In the summer of 2005, David and his family moved to Montana to establish the Red Lodge Clay Center. Prior to moving to Red Lodge, David was an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. Before joining the faculty at Wichita State University in 1999, he taught at Syracuse University, Northwest College, and at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He received his B.F.A in Ceramics from Wichita State University in 1993 and completed his M.F.A at Syracuse University in 1997 . www.redlodgeclaycenter.com
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S-77 PAIGE HINSHAW / STATUARY DESIGNS Marbled Clutch LEATHER, 6 X 4.75”, 2016
$185
KANSAS CITY, MO // Paige Hinshaw
is a visual artist working with a range of materials. She earned her BFA in printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design in 2012. She has worked with themes of gender, feminism, and American culture. She manages her own small business in Kansas City selling one of a kind marbled leather accessories. Hinshaw has co-curated an exhibition in the So What Space in Brooklyn, NY and exhibited in New York, Rhode Island, and Kansas City. www. statuarydesigns.com
S-78 DIANE HORNING
$180
HANDWOVEN BIG SCARF IN SILK & MERINO WOOL, HANDWEAVING, 20 X 80”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Diane Horning has been weaving
for over 20 years concentrating on simple wearables in luscious yarns.
S-79 BRIAN J. HORSCH
$345 Holstein Cow and Calves CERAMIC, GLAZES, UNDERGLAZES, 10 X 12 X 10”, 2017
LECOMPTON, KS // Brian J. Horsch has been creating hand built and thrown ceramic sculpture since 2008. He tends to focus on human and animal forms both real and unreal. He has a special affinity for farmers, ranchers, and indigenous Midwest critters. Many of his pieces are functional with human or animal accents. Prior to his interest in clay, he was carving sculpture from various hard woods. His ceramic pieces are variously fired by electric, gas, or wood at temperatures between 1900 and 2400 degrees F. He lives close to nature near Stull, Kansas. www.4squareart.com
S-80 THOMAS HUANG
$1200 Old soul II - limited production Mirror MAPLE, HAND SPLIT BAMBOO, ANODIZED COPPER WIRE, 15 X 36 X 4”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Tom Huang holds an MFA in
Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has exhibited nationally and is represented by Wexler Gallery. In 2007, he was named a “searchlight artist,” an emerging artist to watch by the American Craft Council. A Fellow of the
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S-81 EROK JOHANSSEN
$600
Morgan Station
MIXED MEDIA ON PANEL, 25 X 34”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Erok Johanssen /EE-rahk YOH-han-sen/ [orig SWE] (n.) 1. An artist. Lawrence, KS based. Mediums include: Spraypaint, Photography, Ink Transfer, Acrylic, ect. 2. SeedCo Studios; resident artist/co-founder. 3. Fresh Produce Art Collective/DotDotDot O.G. 4. Rollerblading enthusiast. See also: KFCWAR
www.seedcostudios.com
S-82 STEPHEN T. JOHNSON
Jack of Spades No.3
$625
MONOPRINT ON PAPER, 8 X 11”, 2016
S-83 STEPHEN T. JOHNSON The Letter F
$100
CMYK PRINT, 11 X 15”, 2014 LAWRENCE, KS // Stephen’s artwork can be
seen in site-specific public art commissions, gallery and museum exhibitions, and original award-winning children’s books such as Alphabet City, a Caldecott Honor Society of Illustrators Gold Medal winner and a New York Times Best Illustrated book of the year. His drawings and paintings are in numerous private collections including those of musician Paul Simon and actress Cherry Jones and in permanent collections such as the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. Among his public art are two huge murals in metro stations both in Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles, CA. Please visit him at www.stephentjohnson.com
S-84 TED JOHNSON
Figure Study: Summer Slumber
$180
INK AND WASH, 25.75 X 15.25”, 2015 LAWRENCE, KS // A founding member of a life drawing group in Lawrence, Ted enjoys the challenge of setting down in the moment, on paper and in various mediums, poses live models assume and that recall certain ideas explored by painters, sculptors and writers of times past.
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S-85 TRESSA JONES
$350 Observer Memory DEBOSSED MONOTYPE, 15 X 35”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Tressa Jones was
born and raised in the Boston area. She received a BS from the University of Massachusetts and studied studio art and printmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and New Mexico Highlands University before earning a MFA in Studio Art from the University of Montana in 2016. Her artistic practice and research investigate time, memory, and perception as experienced through the body, landscapes, and built environments. Jones’s work has been shown nationally and internationally. She currently resides in Lawrence, Kansas where she is the 2016/17 Printmaking Artist-in-Residence at the Lawrence Arts Center. www.tressajones.com
S-86 LUKE JORDAN
$200 Annalee/Nine Squares
INKJET PRINT OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS, 17 X 14”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Luke Jordan received a BFA in Art
and an MFA in Photography from the University of Michigan; he has been an active artist and teacher since that time. His research, concentrated in photography and video, has explored a wide range of media, processes, and technologies; his teaching is also informed by his interest and knowledge of both 19th Century photography and contemporary art practices. Luke also works at the University of Kansas Spencer Museum of Art as a Specialist in Photography and Works of Art on Paper in the museum’s Print Room. There he provides his expertise to the museum program known as “Walk-Ins Welcome Fridays,” in addition to consulting on other issues related to photography.
S-87 LORA JOST
Heart-lighted
$350
SCRATCHBOARD (AMPERSAND), 12 X 14”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Lora Jost is an artist,
community arts educator, and illustrator in Lawrence, Kansas. Jost specializes in scratchboard, clayboard, ballpoint pen, mixedmedia collage, and mosaics, often creating themed-based bodies of work for exhibit. In 2014, she installed a 7-foot mosaic mural for the Free State Brewery. Last Spring, Jost helped produce a series of seven cultural and educational events on the theme of climate change. The project involved the USDAC-Lawrence Field Office, LETUS, The Lawrence Percolator, and Haskell Indian Nations University as project partners, and dozens of local artists, poets, musicians, and speakers. www.lorajost.org
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S-88 ALICIA KELLY
Individually and Collectively
$1200
CUT PAPER, 30 X 40”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Alicia Kelly was born and raised among the red dirt and wildflowers of Northeastern Oklahoma. Her love of paper developed alongside her study of the printing process and pattern making, which led her to the meditative practice of paper-cutting and paper sculpture. Her massive cut-paper installations are both a marker of the division between our familiar spaces and forgotten sacred ones, and a sheer curtain to be gingerly lifted as we step across the threshold, casting broken light onto the clearing through the treetops as we draw it back. Alicia has participated in local and international exhibitions and residencies. www.alicia-kelly.com
S-89 GWEN KERTH / KEY 7 STUDIO
Remember
$250
MIXED MEDIA, 12 X 12”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Gwen Kerth, the creative
instrument behind Key 7 Studio, is known for utilizing symbolic story telling in her digital collage works. Her illustrations are elaborate fusions of old photos, ephemera, digital images, and mixed media paintings that aid in the communication of the piece. She currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas, and has spent the past 10 years as a graphic artist, digital collage artist, and instructor. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Fort Hays State University, and then went on to complete the illustration program at the University of Kansas. She has been successful in obtaining many national awards, and her work has appeared in several exhibits. www.key7studio.com
S-90 CARLY KIMBROUGH
Falling
$374
STERLING SILVER, 1 X 1” / 1 X 1.5”, 2014 KANSAS CITY, MO // Carly Kimbrough received her BFA in
Design from the University of Kansas. After graduation, Carly took her skills to the jewelry production benches of Melissa Joy Manning, Inc. in Berkeley, California. Carly spent six years on the west coast living all over the Bay Area and in Portland, Oregon. It was during this time in which she developed her own style of design in art and fashion jewelry. Carly uses traditional metalsmithing techniques and tools to create handmade jewelry that will last a lifetime. Carly loves the process, from the blank silver sheet to the excitement of adornment, she hopes each piece will be loved and handed down. Carly currently lives and works in Kansas City. www.carlykmetals.com
S-91 MICHAEL KRUEGER
My Favorite Picture of You, Too COLORED PENCIL ON PAPER WITH CUSTOM FRAME, 8.5 X 12”, 2016
LAWRENCE, KS // Michael Krueger works in a variety
of media including, painting, drawing, printmaking, animation, and ceramics. Krueger’s artwork reflects
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S-92 KRIS KUKSI
Stuart the Stupidfuck
$550
MIXED MEDIA, RESIN, PLASTIC, ACRYLIC, 3.25 X 3.25 X 8”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // In personal reflection, Kris feels that
in the world today much of mankind is oftentimes frivolous and fragile, being driven primarily by greed and materialism. He hopes that his art exposes the fallacies of Man, unveiling a new level of awareness to the viewer. His work has received several awards and prizes and has been featured in over 100 exhibitions in galleries and museums worldwide including the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Kris’s art can also be seen in a number of international art magazines, book covers and theatrical posters. Kris’s art is featured in both public and private collections in the United States, Europe, and Australia. www.kuksi.com
S-93 LESLIE KULUVA
Teen Gang
$500
SCREENPRINT, 19 X 23”, 2015 LAWRENCE, KS // Leslie Kuluva is an artist and
printmaker living and working in Lawrence, Kansas. She received a B.A. in Printmaking from the University of Kansas in 2006, and she continues to explore many areas of art, design, and social consciousness. Leslie operates LFK Press, a print and design studio in East Lawrence, serving the local community and beyond. www.lfkpress.com
S-94 GRANDMA LAYTON (1909 - 1993) $450 Cinderella
LITHOGRAPH, 22.5X30, 1982
Elizabeth Layton, a native of Wellsville, Kansas began drawing in 1977 at the age of sixty-eight when she took a drawing class at a local university. In class, she learned to use the technique of “blind” contour drawing in which the artist looks at the paper only for points of reference, concentrating on the subject reflected in the mirror rather than the line being drawn on the paper. Every day, Layton worked at creating self-portraits that reflect her response to contemporary social issues. That fall, a local newspaper reporter, Don Lambert, was searching for an interesting subject for an article and stumbled upon the class display at the college. Upon discovering the drawings of this “old woman from small-town America,” Don became her biggest fan – and promoter - and to this day continues to tirelessly promote her drawings and her story. www.elizabethlayton.com
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S-95 JUDITH G. LEVY
#8, from The World Outside and the Pictures in my Head,
$400
Artist Proof ARCHIVAL DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH, 19 X 24”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Judith G. Levy is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores history, culture, and identity. She has presented solo exhibitions of her work at venues including The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Soo Visual Arts Center, and the Paragraph Gallery. She has completed public art installations in Indianapolis, Chicago, and Kansas City and has been included in group exhibitions at institutions including The Elmhurst Museum, PlugIn Institute for Contemporary Art, Memorial Art Gallery Museum, Bridge Art Fair, The Plains Art Museum, H&R Block Artspace, and la Esquina. She has been awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Rocket Grant, a Lilly Foundation Grant, and a Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship. www.judithglevy.com
S-96 ROBBIN LOOMAS
Cat Nap
$350
DIGITAL PAINTING ON STRETCHED CANVAS, 16 X 20”, 2005 LAWRENCE, KS // Robbin Loomas,
an award winning photographer and digital artist, received her BFA in photography from the Kansas City Art Institute. Working as a freelance photographer in Kansas City, then as head of photography for University Relations at KU, she now focuses on creating Fine Art. Robbin creates paintings from her photography, and does commissioned work from the images of others. She teaches Photography and Digital Art at Baker University, the Lawrence Arts Center, and to professionals throughout the Midwest. You can view her work at Phoenix gallery in downtown Lawrence and on the Country Club Plaza. She is online at wwwrobbinloomas.com
S-97 AMANDA MACIUBA
Put Your Best Foot Forward and Take Two Steps Back LXXIII
$400
INTAGLIO, 24 X 13”, 2016
KANSAS CITY, MO // A native of the Buffalo, NY area, Amanda Maciuba graduated from the University at Buffalo in 2009 with a degree in Visual Studies and a concentration in Print Media. Amanda completed a Masters of Fine Arts in Printmaking with a minor in Intermedia from the University of Iowa in 2015. Alongside her MFA, she received a Certificate of the Book from the University of Iowa’s Center for the Book. She exhibits regularly throughout the Midwest and was a resident artist at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory during the summer of 2014. She was the Printmaking Artist-in-Residence at the Lawrence Art Center, and a 2016 resident artist in the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. She currently teaches printmaking at both KCAI and Emporia State University. www.amandamaciuba.com
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S-98 LIZA MACKINNON
$222 Le Mode du Monde MAPS, TULLE, PAINT, 2 X 2’, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Liza MacKinnon is a
professional artist working in a variety of mediums, including mixed media, handmade books, pen and ink illustration, and acrylic painting. Her work has been shown in Lawrence, Kansas City, and Seattle. Liza is an arts educator, teaching classes to adults and youth at the Lawrence Arts Center, the Lawrence Public Library, and private lessons from her Tennessee Street studio. Additionally, Liza regularly contributes to the community by presenting free art programs, donating original art to fundraisers, and facilitating a local artistic materials exchange. www.facebook.com/MacKomics.Studio
S-99 AARON MARABLE
$475 Night’s Hard on February Flowers PAINT, WOOD, FOAM BOARD, PLASTER, 20 X 24”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // After two decades of narrative
oil painting, 2016 marked a departure for Aaron Marable’s practice. With more emphasis put on form and material rather than leaning hard on portraiture and the figure, a new means of problem solving has emerged. These new works look towards humor, sculpture, nature, abstraction, memory, and metaphysics as sources for inspiration.
S-100 BAILEY MARABLE To the Stars
$175
COPPER FROM THE DOME OF THE CAPITOL BUILDING, STERLING SILVER CHAIN, 1 X .75” ON 18” CHAIN, 2017
S-101 BAILEY MARABLE Give Peace A Chance
$150
STERLING SILVER, 1 X .5” ON 18” CHAIN, 2017
S-102 BAILEY MARABLE Tree Necklace
$100
STERLING SILVER, 1 X 1”, 2014 LAWRENCE, KS // Bailey Marable grew up making
jewelry. She would gather up baby-sitting funds and spend every penny at the local Michael’s. She was the queen of friendship bracelets, shrinky dinks, and anything she could find to bead! At the University of Kansas, she dabbled in lots of subjects and mediums before she landed in a beginning jewelry class. With a saw or torch in hand, she was at home. Bailey continues to create jewelry with
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S-103 KENDRA MARABLE
Study for 25,568 DAYS: A Lifetime in Waves
$450
WATERCOLOR ON PAPER, 19.75 X 19.75”, 2016
LAWRENCE, KS // Kendra Marable graduated from KU with her MFA in painting and drawing. Her work employs a variety of media, depending on the visual question. This study led to a larger piece she made in response to her father’s unexpected death. Needing to examine his 70 year lifetime in a visual form, she painted one wave to represent each day of his life. He was a world class, open water long distance swimmer. As she painted for hours and hours, the mathematics and repetition of the monotonous painted waves were similar to her father’s swim strokes. The meditative and contemplative process allowed a deeper connection to be made in spite of his absence.
S-104 EMILY MARKOULATOS
Disappearing Ice
$180
ACRYLIC ON WOOD BURNED PANEL, 31 X 11 X 5”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Emily holds a BFA
in drawing, painting, and printmaking from Iowa State University. She is currently pursuing an MA degree in Visual Arts Education at the University of Kansas. Emily draws inspiration from the beautiful Kansas landscape, and her travels to Iceland, Thailand, and Peru. She uses bold colors in her abstract works which incite an emotive response from the viewer. Subtle texture variations create movement throughout her energetic paintings.
S-105 HELEN TILLEY MARTIN
Platter
$65
CERAMIC, 12.5 X 12.5 X 1.5”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Helen, a longtime Douglas
County potter, is well known for her impressions of Kansas wheat on her functional pieces. Her work may be found at the Lawrence Farmers Market, some local arts events, and through personal contact.
S-106 MARIA MARTIN
Turquoise Lake
$680
ACRYLIC, MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS, 24 X 36”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Maria Martin works in
acrylic and oil paints as well as collage, adding a mix of her sketches, paintings, photographs, and found objects. She draws her inspiration from nature and miles of road trips, and continual visits to the Southwest. Her works consist of
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S-107 MICHAEL MCCAFFREY Square4d
$600
OIL ON CANVAS, 40 X 48.5”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Michael McCaffrey creates
paintings and drawings of his 78-year old father and his home in Lawrence, Kansas. In his painting process, he oscillates between recording accurate visual information and invented abstract forms. This process creates a woven tapestry, and a deeper, holistic view of his subject emerges. Michael received a B.F.A from the University of Kansas and a M.F.A in painting from Indiana University. Michael exhibits regionally and nationally; recently, he received a grant from the Elizabeth Greensheilds foundation. In 2016, he was awarded a residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Currently, he is the Artist-in-Residence in the Visual Art Department at KU. www.michaelmccaffreystudio.com
S-108 SUSAN MCCARTHY
$275 Interior with Small Terrier OIL PASTEL COLLAGE PIECES, 21 X 17”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Susan McCarthy has been
using oil pastels as her main medium for over twenty years. Recently she has been “harvesting” sections or pieces of old drawings and giving them new life. Sometimes this takes the form of an interior scene as in this piece, which is not based on any specific place but reminds her of many places. She likes to include small animals in the interiors because they usually make a space seem more inviting and lively. www.susanmccarthyart.com
S-109 MELISSA MCCORMICK
Plants with Pants: Arthur
$350
EARTHENWARE, COLORED SLIP, GLAZE, 10 X 6 X 18”, 2016
LAWRENCE, KS // Melissa McCormick was born in Omaha, NE. She moved to Lawrence, KS to attend KU where she earned a BFA in ceramics. She later returned to KU to earn her Pharm.D. and currently works full time as a retail pharmacist. Melissa has kept her interest in ceramic sculpture alive, and is currently working in clay from the home shop she shares with her husband, potter and fire fighter, Ed Noonen. Melissa participated in two group shows with “The Elements” at the Lawrence Art’s Center, and HINT in KCMO. She has shown work at the Blue Dot Salon, participated in the Lawrence Final Friday Art Party, and has donated work to many Lawrence auctions.
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S-110 BRITTA MCKEE
Feather of Color
$195
STERLING SILVER, 14K ROSE GOLD, GARNET, YELLOW SAPPHIRE, ORANGE SAPPHIRE, 1 X 2.25 X .25”, 2017
CARBONDALE, KS // Britta McKee has been a metalsmith for eight years. She enjoys forging raw metal on an old railroad track anvil. Her work is based off natural elements and organic shapes. Britta want the wearer to feel they have a one of a kind piece of jewelry to wear. Therefore her work is never measured; it is created free handed with meaning and purpose. Britta’s work is oxymoronic: simple, yet detailed. Structured, yet organic. Geometric, yet soft. It’s a dirty and intensive process that results in stunning jewelry. www.tobiasjewelrydesigns.com
S-111 JEFF MCKEE
Untitled Diptych
$225
PHOTOGRAPHY / INKJET PRINT, 22 X 18”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Jeffrey McKee is a
photographer and graphic designer who likes making interesting things. www.cargocollective.com/jeffreymckeedesign
S-112 MARIE MCKENZIE
Tallgrass IV
$550
WOOD, GLUE, ACRYLIC, 9 X 19 X 4”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Marie McKenzie builds wooden
sculptures and creates paintings inspired by the natural world. From trips to the desert, spending time in the tall grass, and being out amongst the trees, Marie draws her inspiration from travel and from examining the Earth’s many forms and landscapes. Primarily using salvaged woods as the foundation, she is interested in the personal journey of the wood--from its heritage as a living tree to its post-harvest history. With emphasis on sustainability, she hopes to accentuate the growth of the grain in reverence. www.mariemckenzie.com
S-113 TRAVIS MILLARD
Yappers
$200
MIXED MEDIA ON PANEL, 8 X 10 X 2”, 2017
LOS ANGELES, CA // Travis Millard is a Los Angeles based drawing athlete whose work explores a variety of themes including waking dream states, funny ultra violence, and other oddities of the imaginative landscape. Travis has done album covers for Dinosaur Jr, Brianjonestown Massacre, The Uncluded, The Get Up Kids, and most recently completed a series of illustrations in the Inherent Vice soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson. Clients include, Nickelodeon, Vans, Transworld, Lucky Peach, Chronicle Books, and others. Travis is also the host of the unground sleeper hit video series “Drawing Stories.” In his spare time he enjoys making pancakes for the internet. Twitter/Instagram: @theotherfudge. www.travismillard.com
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S-114 GERRY MILLER
Nite Out
$900
ACRYLIC, 40 X 30”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Gerry Miller is a 1947 graduate of KU in the painting department. She has been a Lawrence resident for 20 years and paints daily in her home studio.
S-115 KRISTIN MORLAND Flower
$100
SEQUINS, BEADS, THREAD, 4 X 4”, 2014 LAWRENCE, KS // Kristin Morland received a
BFA from the University of Kansas in 1998, where she studied painting and weaving. Kristin’s primary medium for the past sixteen years has been hand sewn sequins and beads. Currently, Kristin splits her time as a studio artist and teaching at the Lawrence Arts Center arts based preschool. www.kristinmorland.com
S-116 TYLER NANSEN
Line Drawing - a of z
$200
ALUMINUM, WOOD, SYNTHETIC PAINT, SOAP, 24 X 8 X 6”, 2017
LAWRENCE, KS // Tyler Nansen, was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned his BA in Ceramics from San Francisco State University in 2011 and his MFA in Sculpture and Ceramics from the University of Montana, Missoula in 2015. Nansen’s travel and creative experiences, which include artist residencies at the Sonoma Community Center in Sonoma, CA, Medalta in Medicine Hat, Alberta, and Blackfoot Pathways Sculpture in the Wild in Lincoln, MT, fuel his artistic process. Works conceived during these residencies and in his greater artistic practice range from functional pottery to large scale outdoor sculptures. www.tylernansen.com
S-117 ED NOONEN Porcelain Jar
$100
PORCELAIN, 12 X 6”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Edward Noonen has been making pottery
for over 40 years. He earned a BFA in ceramics from the University of Kansas in 1985. He has displayed work at Final Friday events and donated to several benefit auctions. His work can be found in cupboards, kitchen shelves, and cemeteries throughout Lawrence and nationwide. Edward has been on the fire department in Lawrence for the past 26 years and uses his spare time to create works in porcelain, stoneware, and terracotta. Edward shares studio space and often collaborates with artist/pharmacist Melissa McCormick in their clay shop behind their garage.
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S-118 LORI NORWOOD
Mondrian Torsos
$1200
ACRYLIC, PAPER, FOAM, WOOD, 30 X 20 X 6”, 2008 LAWRENCE, KS // Lori Norwood is an elected
member of the National Sculpture Society and the 2012 recipient of the Lawrence Phoenix Award for artistic merit. She hails from Austin, Texas, graduated from the University of Texas, and earned a scholarship to continue her studies in Florence, Italy. Lori is very much an object maker. Her work is underpinned by gesture, movement, and the lines produced in the meeting of volumes. An understanding of anatomy informs everything from the loosest, most spare steel and glass “drawings” to detailed, monumental scale portraiture. www.lorinorwoodstudio.com
S-119 TIM O’BRIEN
Tough Tuffet
$500
LOCAL WHITE OAK, LOCAL SHEEP PELT, 22 X 20 X 16”, 2016
OSKALOOSA, KS // Tim O’Brien celebrates our local piece of heaven on earth. Whether planting trees, gathering eggs, or crafting a timber-framed structure, he honors the beauty of natural materials. His work with letterpress printing, carving in wood, and sculptural exploration all seeks to highlight the three-dimensional richness of this life. He may have been born in the wrong century. www.circleohedgeschool.com
S-120 ALEX OLSON
Shibboleth
$150
RELIEF PRINT, 8 X 10”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Alex’s work focuses
on natural patterns with the use of printmaking and layering different processes to create an inviting challenge to the viewer. She is also currently investigating the healing qualities of fungi and mushrooms for our Earth. www.alexolson.weebly.com
S-121 SAGE PERROTT
Late Nights
$25
SCREENPRINT, 8 X 10”, 2017
Sage Perrott, aka Haypeep, is a printmaker/ educator originally from West Virginia. Her artwork features grumpy, lumpy, ghost-like creatures situated in cramped, often humorous circumstances. She has degrees in printmaking from West Virginia University (BFA) and from Ohio University (MFA). Perrott’s preferred process is screenprinting. Her prints, drawings, and zines have found their way into the hands of folks all over the United States and the world.
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S-122 GRACE PETERSON
$260 Two Fried Chickens and a Coke CLAY, EACH 7.5 X 5.5”, 2016
S-123 GRACE
PETERSON Fatty Boom Boom
$100
CERAMIC, 6 X 6”, 2014 SALINA, KS // Grace Peterson is an active artist
creating work in a wide variety of mediums. She earned her BFA from the University of Kansas and her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the country. She currently lives in Salina, Kansas where she serves as the Visual Arts Coordinator for Salina Arts and Humanities and Visual Arts Director for the Smoky Hill River Festival. www.gracepeterson.com
S-124 ANGIE PICKMAN Tall Thistle
$100
CUT PAPER COLLAGE, 5 X 7”, 2014 LAWRENCE, KS // Angie Pickman, Lawrence, KS, is a nationally recognized cut paper artist that combines the art of traditional paper cutting with collage to create intricately detailed works of art and animations. She received her master’s degree from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, which is where she first learned of the art of silhouette animation artist Lotte Reiniger. Her love of nature, as well as Reiniger’s style and technique, inspired Pickman to set off on the artistic path that she continues today. Her work has been featured in Midwest Living and Martha Stewart Living magazines, and her animation work was featured in Daughters of the Forest, a PBS documentary, in the summer of 2016. www.ruralpearl.com
S-125 STEPHEN POWERS
I Owe You Everything
$400
PRINT IN A SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION OF 50 ON 334G COVENTRY RAG, 24 X 24”, 2015
NEW YORK CITY, NY // Steve Powers (also known as ESPO) was born and raised and Philadelphia. In 1984 he started climbing rooftops in his neighborhood and painting his alias ESPO. Dedication to making the world a better place may seem overzealous for an artist, but Steve Powers is the exception to the rule. He has been an influential contributor to bettering the lives of teenagers from troubled housing projects by teaching art in Ireland, fighting for human rights in Guantanamo Bay, and spreading the love with his most recent Love Letter Street Mural Exhibit. ESPO, meaning Exterior Surface Painting Outreach, is revered for his graffiti, signage on the street and huge art installations in galleries such as Deitch Projects, Collette and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Aside from his successful career as a professional gallery artist, he is also a Fullbright scholar, a participant in the 49th Venice Biennale, and author of artist books. He lives and works in Manhattan, NY. www.firstandfifteenth.net
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S-126 LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER
PRESCHOOL & KELLY GALLOWAY KINDERGARTEN Better Together
$100
ACRYLIC AND COLLAGE, 36 X 36”, 2017
The Lawrence Arts Center Preschool and the Kelly Galloway Kindergarten offer a creative approach to early education. With a special focus on preparing young students to develop innovation skills, the arts-based approach sets the stage for a lifelong love of learning.
S-127 WAYNE PROPST
Claw Hammer #005
$300
OIL ON CANVAS, 18 X 24”, 2017
S-128 WAYNE PROPST Clip Hanger
$75
MOODQUI WOOD, BRASS, MILD STEEL PAPERCLIP, 3.5 X 3.5 X 6.5”, 2017
S-129 WAYNE PROPST PEACE
$75
BRASS, 223 CALIBER CASING, 2 X 2” ON 18” CHAIN, 2017
S-130 WAYNE PROPST Pencil Rack
$50
MOODQUI WOOD AND BRASS, 3.5 X 3.5 X 12”, 2017
S-131 WAYNE PROPST Premiro Dead Kennedy
$35
REDWOOD, BRASS, 1969 JFK HALF DOLLAR, 1.25 X 1.25”, 2017
S-132 WAYNE PROPST Tooth Wand
$100
2R MOLAR ON HEDGE STICK, .25 X .25 X 6”, 2017
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S-133 WAYNE PROPST
Bullet Bracelet with Rack
$75
ROSE WOOD, BRONZE, COPPER, 223 CALIBER CASING, 3 X 1 X 2”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Wayne Propst is a recipient of a
grant from Folsom Prison where he served time for stealing mugs and tie clips from the gift shop of the Spencer Museum. He has exhibited in group shows at White Castle and the Lawrence Arts Center, though not at the same time. He currently spends his time between his dining room and Berlin.
S-134 LIZ QUACKENBUSH Teapot
$225
PORCELAIN, 9.5 X 6 X 7.5”, 2016 STATE COLLEGE, PA // Liz has been seduced by the exotic nature of living things. Having participated in the Minnesota Pottery Tour for the past 14 consecutive years, she has learned about the value of pottery and community. Liz’s commitment to making functional pottery has led to innovative course development focusing on the ability for functional pottery and delicious food to build culture. Selected engagements: University of Wales, University of Nebraska, University of Colorado, Cleveland Art Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University, Chicago Art Institute, Cranbrook. Liz is a Professor of Art at Pennsylvania State University. She received her BFA at the University of Colorado, Boulder and her MFA at The School for American Craftsman, Rochester Institute of Technology. www.lizquackenbush.com
S-135 JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE SMITH $900 Wasatch Winter 2002 LITHOGRAPH, 28.5 X 21”, 2002
COURTESY OF LAWRENCE LITHOGRAPHY
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith was born at the St. Ignatius Indian Mission on her reservation. She is an enrolled Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, Montana. She received an Associate of Arts Degree at Olympic College in Bremerton, Washington. She attended the University of Washington in Seattle, received her BA in Art Education at Framingham State College, MA, and a master’s degree in art at the University of New Mexico. Jaune Quick-toSee Smith is one of the most acclaimed American Indian artists today. She has been reviewed in most art periodicals. Smith has had over 100 solo exhibits in the past 40 years and has done printmaking projects nationwide. Over that same time, she has organized and/or curated over 30 Native exhibitions, lectured at more than 200 universities, museums and conferences internationally, most recently at 5 universities in China. Smith has completed several collaborative public art works such as the floor design in the Great Hall of the new Denver Airport; an in-situ sculpture piece in Yerba Buena Park, San Francisco and a mile-long sidewalk history trail in West Seattle and recently, a new terrazzo floor design at the Denver Airport. Elaborating on her Native worldview, Smith’s work addresses today’s tribal politics, human rights and environmental issues with humor. www.jaunequick-to-seesmith.com
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S-136 RACHEL RADEMACHER
Green Bottomed Bowl
$100
FUSED AND SLUMPED GLASS, 10” DIAMETER, 2014
LAWRENCE, KS // Rachel Rademacher has
been working in fused glass since 2009. Each piece begins with an inspiration: a glimpse of sunrise through the trees, a vivid sunlit field of wildflowers, or an antique quilt. Rachel’s work with glass has trained her eye to be alert for the bright colors hidden in the world around us. A single color may start her on the quest to represent the image seen from the various colors and textures of glass available. Spread out around her on the work table in her studio, the pieces take on the look of a puzzle in process. Each piece is cut and ground to fit into its slot in the composition. Finally, the various pieces fall into place and the puzzle is complete. www.rachelsglassart.wordpress.com
S-137 ANDIY RANSOM /SPELL OF THE MEADOW Chain Bolo
TURQUOISE, STERLING SILVER, .25 X .5” ON AN ADJUSTABLE CHAIN, 2017
$115
As a new designer, Andiy flourishes with metalsmithing as her true creative outlet and continues to absorb new techniques and as much continual education as possible. With knowledge of Herbalism and a deep connection to the earth, Andiy pulls inspiration from nature, vintage jewelry, natural stones, and most of all, the beautiful prairies and meadows of Kansas. Visit the SOTM store at 15 E 7th St #204 in Lawrence. www.spellofthemeadow.com
S-138 HOLLIE RICE
$150
Sassy Vase #3
CERAMIC, 12 X 6”, 2017 SHAWNEE, KS // Hollie Rice is a ceramic artist from Kansas City. Her work ranges from functional to sculptural and from low to high fire. As an artist, she constantly seeks varied experiences and perspectives to fuel her work. Hollie strives to create approachable objects that often contain her sense of humor. She finds value in lightheartedness and simple things, and enjoys when the process of making things is present in the final product. The best days happen when she can spend all day in the studio creating things. www.hollieworks.com
S-139 CATE RICHARDS
Bushcraft Ceremonial Necklace (Figure 8, Stevedore, Bowline) CORDAGE, THREAD, 35” DIAMETER, 2017
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S-140 CATE RICHARDS
$80
Sterling Silver Coal Ring
STERLING SILVER, SALVAGED KANSAS RAILROAD COAL, .75 X 1 X .25” SIZE 9, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Cate Richards is an artist and jeweler
originally from Providence, Rhode Island and currently operating out of Lawrence, Kansas. Her multidisciplinary practice congregates somewhere at the intersection of metalsmithing, body adornment, and installation. In 2016 she was named one of American Craft Week’s “30 Exceptional Craftspeople Under 30”, and was granted a residency at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. She was also recently named the inaugural resident for the COTN Residency in Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California. Cate balances her studio practice with her positions at the Lawrence Arts Center as Exhibitions Coordinator and a metals instructor, and is the current Portfolio Review Coordinator for the Society of North American Goldsmiths. Cate graduated from Baker University College of Arts and Sciences with a BA in Studio Art and Art History in 2012 and in the fall of 2017, she will begin her first year as an MFA candidate in Metals at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. www.caterichardsart.com
S-141 JEFF RIDGWAY
$200 Minutes Or Less - SK In Twelve CHARCOAL ON PAPER, 16 X 20”, 2016
LAWRENCE, KS // Jeff Ridgway is a local artist.
He has taught Drawing, Painting, Portraiture, and Anatomy for the Artist and Life Drawing at the Lawrence Arts Center. Jeff is currently involved in a three year long experiment about rapid sketching. Most of his current figurative work is completed in seventeen minutes or less. “I throw away a lot of drawings and paintings but every once in a while, there is a keeper.”
S-142 MATT RIDGWAY
Thirteen Steps
$600
INK, 15” DIAMETER, 2015 LAWRENCE, KS // Matt Ridgway does it all for the love.
www.obscurefamous.com
S-143 JEREMY ROCKWELL Hunter-Racer
MIXED MEDIA, 24 X 12 X 4”, 2017
$300
S-144 JEREMY ROCKWELL Bird
MIXED MEDIA, 7.5 X 7.5”, 2014
$100
LAWRENCE, KS // Born in Santa Maria, CA, Jeremy Rockwell
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S-145 MARYSA SACERDOTE
New Growth
$125
STERLING SILVER, 2 1/3” LENGTH, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Marysa Sacerdote makes jewelry
which accentuates the beauty and richness found in the world around us. Her inspiration comes from organic forms, and she strives to enhance these elements by responding to their natural beauty. Her metalwork incorporates raw essentials and highlights the intrinsic awe found in nature. Marysa was born and raised in New York City and moved to Lawrence, KS in 1998. She received her BFA in Metalsmithing from the University of Kansas in 2013. Marysa currently works out of her home/studio in East Lawrence and teaches Metalsmithing at the Lawrence Arts Center. www.marysa.sacerdote.com
S-146 NEIL J. SALKIND Golden Rules
$175
LETTERPRESS, 15 X 20”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Neil J. Salkind is a letterpress printer
who lives in Lawrence, Kansas and has shown at the Lawrence Arts Center, Words Matter (Chicago), and Signs of the Times (Remulak). He casts type on a 1949 Ludlow typecaster and prints on a Universal I Vandercook proof press. www.sites.google.com/site/bigboypressofks
S-147 NICK SCHMIEDELER
Rostfenster
$425
METAL SCULPTURE WALL HANGING, 33 X 23 X 2”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Born and raised in Prairie Village,
Kansas, Nick Schmiedeler attended Rockhurst High School, then went onto Kansas State University and Avila University in Kansas City, receiving a Bachelor's in Nursing in 1995. Moving to Lawrence, Kansas in 1996 with his wife Cindy, they bought a 19th century Craftsman in Old West Lawrence where a rustic folk art environment has been created. Utilizing salvage yards, local alleys, river banks and other locales, Nick searches out unique, natural, discarded, and reusable materials, creating indoor and outdoor sculptures for more than 15 years in Lawrence and throughout the Midwest. Many pieces can be viewed on his website, nickschmiedeler.com.
S-148 ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER
Double Dip, Print Ed. 2/3
DIGITAL PRINT ON CANVAS, 13 X 18”, 2010 KANSAS CITY, MO // Archie Scott Gobber is
a painter living and working in Kansas City, Mo. His work is included in numerous private,
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S-149 JOHN SEBELIUS Dissolve
$850
ACRYLIC, SPRAY PAINT, AND EPOXY RESIN ON WOOD, 22 X 24”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // John Sebelius is an
interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker who holds an M.F.A. in drawing and painting from the University of Kansas and a B.F.A. in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. Sebelius’s work has been featured in: Harper’s, Express, DETAILS, Review, CNN, Aspen Daily News, The Washington Post, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The citizens of Lawrence, KS voted him the Best Artist of 2014 and 2015. John teaches art at Washburn University and is Artist-In-Residence at The Stress Disorder Treatment Program teaching recreational art to Veterans suffering with PTSD. Sebelius lives with his wife Allie and dog Norman in East Lawrence. www.johnsebelius.com
S-150 ADAM SMITH
Highway One
$800
LIMITED EDITION ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT, 25 X 37”, 2016
Adam Smith woke up one day and decided to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a human animal. He spends his time exploring North America, sleeping in his beloved Chinook, and looking at the stars. Photography is his passion. www.roadlyfe.com
S-151 HEATHER SMITH JONES
$300 when the world seems it has turned upside down GRAPHITE, HANDMADE WATERCOLOR ON PAPER, 11.25 X 12.5”, 2007 LAWRENCE, KS // Heather Smith Jones
is an artist working in painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking. She has been featured in New American Paintings, is the author of Water Paper Paint, and has contributed to numerous publications. Smith Jones's work is represented by Midwest and East Coast galleries, and is part of several regional public collections and many private collections internationally. She has taught children, college, and adult classes, and has been an instructor in the Linda Reimond Arts-Based Preschool at The Lawrence Arts Center since 2004. She moved to Lawrence in 1998 from the Southeast, earned an MFA from The University of Kansas in 2001, and has called Lawrence home ever since. www.heathersmithjones.com
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S-152 BARBARA SOLBERG
An Order of Things
$325
OIL, WAX, COPPER, WOOD, LINEN CORD, HAND-MADE PAPER, 8.25 X 7.25”, 2005
LECOMPTON, KS // The initial influence for Barbara's art is place. Originally from Pennsylvania, Barbara has lived in Kansas most of her life where she has painted the landscape for over 35 years. A large percentage of her paintings are created in soft pastels, but she also finds working in mixed-media collage a strong complement to landscape realism. Acrylic, oil, and found objects, such as stones, bones, shells, leaves or twigs combine to create a lively textured surface. A graduate of the University of Kansas with a BFA in Painting, she has received numerous awards nationally for her work. She lives with her husband and two cats on a bluff overlooking the Kansas River west of Lecompton, Kansas. www.bsolbergart.com
S-153 DEB STAVIN
Sleeping Holy Man, Tamil Nadu, India
$400
PHOTOGRAPH, 17 X 21”, 2001 LAWRENCE, KS // Deb Stavin has a lively
curiosity about the world and the way people go about their lives on any typical day. Such an ordinary day for the Indian sadhu (holy man) in this photograph included a nap next to a brightly painted wall. Deb typically naps on the couch in her living room here in Lawrence, Kansas. www.debstavin.com
S-154 KYLA STRID
Matrix Forms (Minoan)
$350
PORCELAIN, 11.5 X 13.5 X 7”, 2017
S-155 KYLA STRID $100 Buzz Cups, Set of 4 CERAMIC, 2 X 2.5” EACH, 2014
LAWRENCE, KS // Kyla Strid has a BFA in Ceramics
from the University of Alaska Anchorage and an MFA from Ohio University. She worked as a technician for Easy Ceramic Decals and in multiple galleries as an Assistant Manager, Manager, Concept Designer, and Curator. She has been awarded residencies at the Clay Studio of Missoula, Red Lodge Clay Center, Guldagergaard, the Lawrence Arts Center, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Kyla is currently the Director of Residencies and Adult Education at the Lawrence Arts Center. www.kylastrid.com
S-156 RACHAEL SUDLOW
Campanile Necklace
STERLING SILVER, 1 X 2” ON 18” CHAIN, 2017
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S-157 RACHAEL SUDLOW
Handshake Necklace
$230
STERLING SILVER, LOST WAX CAST BARBIE HANDS, 2” PENDANT, ADJUSTABLE LENGTH FROM 16-18”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Rachael's work is often influenced by
her love of nature and organic forms. Her designs, mostly created in sterling silver and gemstones, are entirely handmade. Almost all of her work is customizable and can be created to your specifications. Her degree is from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her business, Sudlow Jewelry, is based out of Lawrence, Kansas, and she teaches jewelry and metalsmithing at the Lawrence Arts Center. www.rachaelsudlow.com
S-158 PAM SULLIVAN
Golden Moment
$200
MIXED MEDIA, 12 X 12”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // A native Kansan, Pam Sullivan graduated from the University of Kansas with a BFA. In 2002, she returned to Lawrence and maintains a studio practice here. Her work has been exhibited in numerous shows and is in public and private collections. Her focus is on working with individuals to create unique art for private commissions. www.pamsullivan.com
S-159 JOHN TALLEUR (1925-2001) Self Portrait
$1000
ETCHING, 18 X 24”, C. 1950
John Joseph James Talleur died on Nov. 27, 2001, at age 76, in Lawrence, Kansas. He was a retired professor (emeritus) of printmaking at The University of Kansas where he had taught for 40 years. He earned a bachelor's degree from the Institute of Art in Chicago and a master's degree from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Before his death he arranged to give his printmaking equipment, including his personal presses, to the Lawrence Arts Center that was, at the time, constructing its new building at 940 New Hampshire St. in Lawrence. The Printmaking studio in the Arts Center is named in his honor.
S-160 JUNIPER TANGPUZ Alternative Luck
$500
CORRUGATED PLASTICS, CABLE TIES, PAINT, WOOD, AND METAL, 13 X 9 X 18”, 2017 KANSAS CITY, MO // Juniper Tangpuz, a.k.a. T.J., was
born and raised in a small house in Missouri, hidden from the world. He was a quiet young lad, with an imagination that allowed him access to the multiverse. One day while cutting a cardboard box, he realized his purpose in this timeline. Summoning up his abilities, he creates sculptural representations of his discoveries. This awakening set him off on a journey alongside his trusted scissors and blade. He trained extensively in the sculptural arts, deep in the underground of the University of Kansas. Embracing the challenges of translating his visions into art, he investigates clues to uncovering one of the greatest mysteries of humankind. What is art? www.juniper-art.com
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S-161 CARLA TILGHMAN
Hurricane
$250
WOVEN TEXTILE, COTTON, 20 X 24”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Carla Tilghman began
weaving when she was twelve and has been doing it on and off ever since. After a career as a paramedic, she returned to her art roots, earning a degree in Art History from the University of Kansas and in 2004, earning an MFA from Kent State University. “Weaving is a subtle three-dimensional process in which threads pass over and under each other to create patterns and images. By using a combination of computer-assisted looms and traditional handweaving processes I am creating a wide variety of designs, varying from aerial landscapes to complete abstractions.” www.lapintextiles.com
S-162 BRIAN TIMMER
An Oread View
$500
ACRYLIC, 10 X 30”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // With
a Bachelors of Fine Art in painting and a Masters of Divinity in theology, Brian Timmer has a unique, cross-disciplinary education. His diverse interests are reflected through a quest to preserve raw creative expression while exploring themes that range from the mundane to the complex--all with the intent of exposing human purpose and meaning. While Brian's representational works seek to capture and simply celebrate the grandeur of the natural world, his more abstract creations simultaneously celebrate and grieve everyday experiences. You can check out more of Brian's paintings at Timmer Gallery located at 825 Massachusetts Street. www.briantimmerart.com
S-163 TONJA TORGERSON
Vice II
$400
SERIGRAPHY, 19 X 22”, 2014
KANSAS CITY, MO // Tonja Torgerson is the Print Studio Manager at the Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, KS. Her artwork is regularly exhibited nationally and internationally and is included the several private and museum collections, including the Weisman Art Museum and the Minnesota Museum of American Art. She received her MFA in Printmaking at Syracuse University and her BFA from the University of Minnesota. Her recent work deals with death and the impermanent nature of the body. www.tonjatorgerson.com
S-164 MARY TUVEN
Floating
COLOR PHOTOGRAPH, 14 X 16”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // This tranquil image, with
its pond lilies and reflections of reeds and clouds, was taken in the boundary waters of Northern Minnesota. Mary Tuven is a Lawrence photographer who focuses on the natural world, with an abiding interest in historic preservation.
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S-165 DAVE VAN HEE Eat
$300
COLLAGE, 24 X 18 X 3/8”, 2017
S-166 DAVE VAN HEE $ 100
Mask
MIXED MEDIA, 11 X 5 X 4”, 2014 LAWRENCE, KS // Dave Van Hee makes the Modern
Art out on 15th Street next to Oak Hill Cemetery. In the third person, but sincerely, he says thanks for your patronage. Instagram: dvanhee
S-167 RACHEL VAN WAGONER Underglow
$550
PORCELAIN, PRISMACOLOR, LED WIRE, 8 X 11”, 2015 LAWRENCE, KS // Rachel has been working in clay
for 17 years and has a BFA and MFA in ceramics. She worked in Denmark for two years at an International Ceramic Research Center, Guldagergaard, before coming to Lawrence and becoming the studio manager. She is interested in materials, light, and intergalactic civilizations. www.rachelvan.com
S-168 MARCIANA VEQUIST Power Plume
$200
BLACK AND WHITE INKJET PRINT, 18 X 24”, 2017
S-169 MARCIANA VEQUIST Emerging
$200
BLACK AND WHITE INKJET PRINT, 18 X 18”, 2017 LAWRENCE, KS // Marciana Vequist’s
professional work as a psychologist involves helping people search for meaning and depth in everyday events and situations. She uses the same approach in her photography. She enjoys turning landscapes, objects, and portraits into interesting scenes that evoke emotions. Whether her images are restful, inspirational, or even disturbing, she seeks to engage the viewer at a deep level and make a connection. www.flickr.com/photos/drmarciana
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S-170 SHANNA WAGNER
Big Sky
$725
STAINED GLASS, FUSED GLASS, ENAMELED GLASS, 13.75 X 51.5”, 2016 LAWRENCE, KS // Shanna grew up in a rural Douglas County
and spent many hours walking the prairie feeling energized by the power of wind. In her designs she finds inspiration in the big Kansas skies, interpreting the multiple layers of the horizon to be the force of the air and the colors to create movement and intensity. In addition to adding her fused glass jewels and enameled glass details, Shanna wanted to highlight some of the beautiful red, orange and blue colors of glass. The wind inspired design also pays tribute to the windmills that have dotted the Kansas landscape for the last century and celebrates modern wind turbines like in the Smokey Hills Wind Farm in Southwest Kansas. www.shanna-wagner.com
S-171 PATTI WARASHINA
Kiln Yard
$900
LITHOGRAPH, 20 X 26”, 2016 COURTESY OF LAWRENCE LITHOGRAPHY
S-172 PATTI
WARASHINA $70 Smoke House
LITHOGRAPH, 6.25 X 9.25”, 2015 COURTESY OF LAWRENCE LITHOGRAPHY SEATTLE, WA // Born in Spokane,
Washington in 1940, Patti Warashina earned degrees from the University of Washington (1962, 1964). After teaching for 30 years, she retired as Professor Emerita from UW in 1995. She is a recipient of the following awards: American Craft Council Fellow; Twining Humber Lifetime Achievement Award; University of Washington Distinguished Alumnus Award; the Washington Governor’s Award of Special Commendation for the Arts; and three NEA grants. Her public collections include: Smithsonian Institute; Museum of Art and Design, NYC; LACMA; and the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art.
S-173 THOM WEIK
Blenheim
$200
PHOTOGRAPH, 8 X 10”, 2011 LAWRENCE, KS // Thom has been taking photographs for many years for many reasons. Most often, it is while visiting places he has not been. While traveling, Thom enjoys visiting vineyards for the wine of course and just as importantly they are often beautiful places. This photograph was taken while on an adventure in Virginia at the Blenheim Vineyard in Charlottesville, VA. The wine was as enjoyable as the vineyard itself. Cheers!
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S-174 DARIN & SHANNON WHITE /
$350 Cuban Vision: On the Way to Guanabacoa WHITE ART STUDIO
PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT, 16 X 20”, 2015 LAWRENCE, KS // WHITE ART STUDIO is a collaboration of award winning artists/designers Shannon White and Darin M. White, who are married and create innovative often interactive public art. Their ideas in artwork and design relate to life as a whole and conserving what makes life worth living. Shannon and Darin draw from their respective art degrees in sculpture and painting, community and art involvement, 20 years of visual merchandising, producing world class designs for international clients. www.whiteartstudio.com
S-175 MIKE YODER
Flint Hills Painter
$250
PHOTOGRAPH, 15 X 10”, 2000 LAWRENCE, KS // For 32 years, Mike worked
as a photojournalist, documenting the people and events of Douglas County for the Lawrence Journal-World. Mike uses a camera to engage the world, seeking to frame subjects in those brief, dynamic moments when visual clarity, content, and form intersect. Mike has received several awards for his photographs from the National Press Photographer's Assoc., Kansas Press Assoc. and the Associated Press. His photographs have been featured in several books including "America 24/7", "Kansas 24/7", "America at Home" and his self-published "The Vinland Fair." If a camera is not in Mike's hand, a musical instrument will be. He has performed in numerous Lawrence bands. www.mikeyoderphoto.com
S-176 LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER
POETRY IN PRINT CLASS 2017 2by10
$400
BOOK, 8.5 X 5.5 X 1”, 2017
Students wrote their own poems, then printed them. This beautiful book is a collection of those poems . The original poems were printed with handset type in Rives BFK paper, then bound. Instructors: Tonja Torgerson and Mary Wharff.
S-177 LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER
$400 POP-UP PAPER SCULPTURES CLASS 2017 Unfolding Lawrence PAPER POP-UP BOOK, CLOSED: 4.25’’ X 5.5’’ X 2.5’’ OPEN: APX. 5.5’’ X 55’’, 2017
Pop-Up Paper Sculptures was a class offered at the Lawrence Arts Center in the winter of 2017. This class interlaced the traditions of paper cut techniques and popup book structures into complementary forms. During the course of the class, the exuberant students collaborated on a pop-up accordion book that pays homage to that special place we all call home: Lawrence. Instructor: Alicia Kelly.
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