MOCA GA Art Auction 2017 by The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia

Preview Catalogue Bidding begins January 9th @ 12PM 1

Welcome to the MOCA GA Art Auction 2017! Hosted through Paddle 8

Thank you for joining us in celebrating Art Auction 2017, a benefit for The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. We are excited to offer a broad range of artwork for sale, the proceeds of which will support MOCA GA’s mission and operations. For those of you in the Atlanta area, we encourage you to visit MOCA GA at 75 Bennett Street, Atlanta, GA 30309 between January 10th and 23rd to view the works in person. All of the offered works will be on display in an exciting and diverse exhibition in our downstairs gallery. We are grateful to our returning Auction sponsors: LUBO Fund, Wilmington Trust, Myott Studio, and Artifacts Picture Framing. We are very pleased to welcome a new sponsor, Watershed on Peachtree. I personally wish to thank the Board of Directors of MOCA GA for its continuous and strong support of this Museum and the staff for their talents, long hours and hard work. Please join me in saluting and thanking the Georgia artists who have donated great works of art – many of which are contributing 100% of the sale price to support MOCA GA. We are greatly indebted to these artists; they are the backbone of our exhibitions, programming, and permanent collection. To all the artists contributing their wonderful work to this auction, thank you! And, many thanks to all of you – enjoy the auction, bid high, and take home fabulous works of art by Georgia artists.

—

Annette Cone-Skelton

President/CEO/Director/Founder

How to bid using paddle 8 You may access the MOCA GA Art Auction website at paddle8.com/auction/mocaga Register To start collecting artworks from your favorite artists, become a Paddle8 member. You will keep the same user information for every sale on Paddle8. After you’ve registered, bids can be submitted online at anytime for the duration of an auction. You will be asked to submit credit card details the first time you bid and this will be saved for subsequent bids.

Explore Use the features on our site to discover works by your favorite artists and designers in Paddle8’s auctions. If you see an artwork you want to keep track of, add it to your watch list to receive a notification shortly before the auction ends.

Bid Enter any bid amount as long as it is greater than or equal to the low estimate (the amount noted below the bid field), and click on "place bid." If you do not have a credit card number on file you will be prompted to add it to secure your bid at this point. Your card will not be charged, it will be authorized for $1.00. This will automatically place a bid at the next increment, and save any excess amount as a maximum bid. KNOW BEFORE YOU PLACE A BID Total Cost Calculator: Use this tool to estimate the total price of an item before you place a bid. Flat Rate Shipping: We offer flat rate shipping options based on size, price, type, and location.

Monitor Auction Once you place your bid, you will receive an email confirmation of your bid and will be notified by email when you are outbid. Bidding increments increase at pre-established intervals based on the price of the work.

Buy Congratulations, you have won! Follow our seamless checkout process to purchase your work. Please note that the card you used to bid with is not automatically charged and you must follow the indicated check out steps to complete your purchase.

Additional details, instructions, and FAQs can be found at

Paddle8.com! 3

Artist list: Artist name

Pg.

Artist name

Pg.

Artist name

Pg.

Anderson, Steven Anderson, Larry Jens Artemis, Maria Bailey, Whitney wood Barkin-Leeds, Temme Belville, Scott Benjamin, Paul Stephen Blackmon, Susan Blades, Lillian Blalock, Clara Boardman, Amber Braun, Eileen Bunnen, Lucinda Camoosa, Joe Carpenter, Philip Chun, InKyoung Clifford, Maurice Cofer, Susan Cohn, Hope Colarusso, Corrine Cole, Kevin Cooper, Don Creecy jr, Herbert Lee Currie, Lucy Dair, Glenn DiGirolamo, Mario Dilling, Terri Dreher, Joe Drennen, Craig Emerson, Sarah Fausett, Jody

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35

Folsom, John Frank, Jill Ginsburg, Eula Glenn, Jean Haffner, Matt Hense Hopkins, Wanda Huckaby, EK Hynes, Audrey Jones, Benjamin Kaepplinger, Eric Ker-Seymer, Susan Lampert, Judy Landis, David Lawing, Jack Lide, Elizabeth Light jr, Paul Lytton, Tyrus Matheson, Bri Mccoy, Tim Meko, Michi Mintz, Donna Mitchell, Katherine Mize, William Moon, Jiha Myott Neal, Eleanor O’connor, Dorothy Olufani, Masud Papageorge, Lainey Peterson, Jo

36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66

Petrirena, Mario Pollack, Junco Sato Pree Bright, Sheila Ragland, Wynne Reilly, Seana Repass, LeeAnna Rodriguez, Lucha Rodriguez, Rocio Scoffield, M Sephora, Corrina Sherer, Robert Siegel, Jerry Sirlin, Deanna Stansell, Micah Stansell, Whitney Swann, David Taylor, Katherine Torres, Alexi Turk, Gregor Tuttle, Lisa Walker, Larry Whyte, Cosmo Xie, Caomin

67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89

Steven anderson 10-83 Years 2014 Marker and Pen on paper 30 X 40 Value: $2,600 Starting bid: $2,500

Biography: Steven L. Anderson’s work is about the power of nature, and the nature of power. His artistic practice attempts to view the systems of the natural world from the perspective of a plant or a tree— hoping to bring a whole new way of seeing the world, which can open up new ways of seeing our human systems. Alone and collaboratively, and across several media, Anderson engages in projects that use this shaman-like empathy with nature to perceive, identify, and work with the energy flows that surround us. Many of these “energy strategies” are manifested in the studio, artworks which function as tools for activating energy in individuals and communities. Anderson’s artistic goal is “to make images, things, spaces, and situations that fuse the exhilaration of the human spirit with the ferocious beauty of Nature to make a palpable, tingling essence.” Anderson received a BA from the University of Michigan in Communication Theory and a BFA in Painting, Graphic Design and Printmaking from the School of the Art Insitute of Chicago. A founding member of Day & Night Projects, Anderson is a recipient of the first annual TAR Project Therapeutic Artist Residency in 2016. He has been a Studio Artist at Atlanta Contemporary (2013–16), a 2015 Hambidge Center Distinguished Fellow, and a 2014–15 Walthall Artist Fellow. Anderson’s notebooks are in the permanent collection of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. He has exhibited in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Miami, and Chicago. Anderson is represented by {Poem 88} Gallery in Atlanta.

Larry Jens Anderson Red Chair 2016 Mixed Media on Paper 45.5 X 33.5 Value: $4,000 Starting bid: $2,000

Biography: Larry Jens Anderson is an Atlanta-based artist who was raised in rural Kansas and did not go to an art museum until his junior year pursing a BAE degree at Wichita State University. Once exposed to both the excitement of seeing wonderful art and experiencing figure drawing classes, he began an artistic career that led to both teaching and exhibiting. His work has been exhibited extensively throughout the US and internationally in Australia, Italy, China, Germany, France, Japan and Belgium and is included in numerous collections including MOCA GA, the Museum of Modern Art’s book collection, and the High Museum. For over thirty-one years, Anderson was a professor of art in colleges in Atlanta. Now retired from teaching college, Larry continues to exhibit. Themes have included sexual identity, AIDS, family, beauty, desire, through drawing, installations, video, painting, printmaking, sculpture and mixed media. In 2015, MOCAGA did a retrospective showing 101 pieces representing his career after moving to Atlanta in 1979. His career has also included the curation of 23 exhibitions with 13 of those with the TABOO art collective.

Maria artemis Large dark no. 3 2015 Charcoal on paper 42 X 54 Value: $7,500 Starting bid: $4,000

Biography: Maria Artemis maintains an active studio practice, exhibiting nationally and internationally for over 28 years. Her work is included in numerous private and public collections and she has received numerous awards grants, and Public Art Commissions. Including: The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia’s Working Artist Award {2008-2009); Drawings from the Large, Dark Series are in the collection of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, & the Museum of Contemporary Art of GA; National Endowment for the arts Fellowship; Mayor’s Fellowship in the Arts Award; Georgia Women in the visual Arts Award; Ford Foundation Grant and Adjacent Possible, Site work for the University of Minnesota’s Bio-medical Discovery District. Current Professional Activities include School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Faculty/ mentor, Low-Residency MFA Program and Commission for Charlotte, NC: Tectonic Suite, for the new Parkwood Light Rail Station. Maria is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2008/2009

Whitney wood bailey Ladies of the canyon 2016 Oil and mixed media on paper 64 X 44 Value: $7,500 Starting bid: $2,500

Biography: A Georgia native, Whitney Wood Bailey received her MFA degree in painting in 2008 from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, GA, and her BFA degree in painting from Auburn University. She also studied with the University of Georgia in Cortona, Italy as well as post-graduate study with Rhode Island School of Design in France. Awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Hambidge Center, Whitney was also a finalist for the Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award, and a featured artist in New American Paintings. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including Paris, Shanghai and Hong Kong as well as New York and around the U.S. Whitney currently lives and work in Brooklyn, NY.

Artist statement: Driven by questions of a metaphysical nature, Whitney’s work examines how design and orchestration within nature affects our consciousness, and how the extraordinary geometries within nature’s design demand the consideration of intelligent design as well as our notions of spirituality. She combines forms that are organic in creation with carefully placed and predetermined mark making. The linear hatch marks (“ticking”) in the work, inspired by visits to the ancient art caves of France, represent a form of structure applied to the naturally occurring elements within this painting process. The combination of the two suggests the idea of an intersection of faith and logic, and instinct and intellect; dualities she continues to explore in her work.

Temme Barkin-Leeds Battlefield 4 with jellybean target 2015 Videogame image transfer with acrylic and oil on paper 15 X 17.5 Value: $475 Starting bid: $180 Biography: Temme Barkin-Leeds received her BFA from Georgia State University and an MFA from American University in Washington, DC. Her socially conscious work has been the subject of three solo exhibitions and has been included in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States. She was a Resident Fellow at the Hambidge Center and a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH. In addition, Barkin-Leeds received the Elizabeth Baaart Biddle Award conferred by the full faculty in the MFA program at American University, Washington DC. She also received the International Education Foundation Scholarship from Georgia State University to study at the Santa Reparata International School in Florence, Italy. She was nominated by the faculty in the Art Department at Georgia State University for the school-wide Andrew West Award. In the past several years, she has been juried into New York exhibitions by critics Jerry Saltz, John Yau, and Nancy Princenthal. She has received numerous exhibition awards including purchase awards and awards of merit. She was selected by the Georgia Women’s History Month Committee and the Georgia Commission on Women to be honored at a reception highlighting Georgia women in the arts. She was the State of Georgia’s representative on the Millennium “Gift to the Nation” Committee of the Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies in Washington, DC. Most recently, she was adjunct professor at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia. Her work was featured in several publications including the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Burnaway, Arts Atl, Atlanta Jewish Times, Amlit, Paintpresent catalogue published by Loudon House Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky and Bound catalogue published by Women’s Caucus for Art.

Scott belville Global commemorative plates 1 and 2 2015 Acrylic ink on board 21 X 21 Each Value: $2,400 Starting bid: $850 Biography: Scott Belville has an active and distinguished career as a painter. He has exhibited his works in gallery and museum venues from Atlanta to New York, Chicago, Washington D.C. and regionally across the southeast. His artworks have garnered numerous grants and awards including two NEA Individual Artists Grants and a Ford Foundation Grant. Scott’s paintings are included in many important public and private collections; The Georgia Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center, The Joseph Hirshhorn Museum, The Greenville County Museum of Art, The Chase Manhattan Bank to name a few.

Paul stephen benjamin God bless america 2016 Valspar very black 5011-2 latex paint on tar paper 18 X 18 Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $750 Biography: Paul Stephen Benjamin received his BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MFA, with a concentration in Sculpture, from The Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University. Benjamin is a recent recipient of The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia’s Working Artist Project. Benjamin was also recipient of the 2014 Artadia Award. In 2016 Benjamin exhibited” Black is the Color” at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA and his video installation “God Bless America” was displayed at Poem 88. Paul is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2016/2017

Susan blackmon (Prior to) harmony 2016 Acrylic on canvas 48 X 60 Value: $5,000 Starting bid: $2,000

Biography: Susan Blackmon, originally from North Carolina, is now a Georgia based artist who has resided and worked here since 1980. She received a BFA from the University of NC, Greensboro and continued her art education at the Atlanta College of Art in 2004. Around 2002, after some years of employment as a graphic artist and as an assistant in two Atlanta art galleries, Susan shifted away from a representational approach, desiring to specifically focus on abstraction. She continued to develop through focused work at the Atlanta College of Art, and various workshops including the Fine Arts Workshop of Atlanta (participating for 4 years). Since then her work has exhibited both locally and nationally, with several solo exhibits. As well, Susan has been selected to be featured in several issues of Studio Visit Magazine and in the annual American Art Collector. Her work is in museum and gallery collections, including MOCA-GA and Hodges and Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC, and in both private and corporate collections nationally.

Lillian blades Growth 2016 Mixed media assemblage on wood panel 36 X 35 X 4 Value: $2,800 Starting bid: $1,000

Biography: Lillian Blades was born in Nassau, Bahamas in 1973 and currently resides in Atlanta, GA. She completed a BFA in Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah Campus and a MFA in Painting at Georgia State University. In addition, Lillian has studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and Caversham in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Her work appears throughout the United States, as well as The Bahamas, Trinidad, Germany and South Africa. Her public commissions include Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Jean Childs Young Middle School. As a public artist she enjoys collaborating with other artists and groups on large-scale assemblages such as The East Atlanta Library. Her artwork is also in the collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art and the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas. Lillian was the 2016 Visual Artist awardee for The National Black Arts Festival. She also received an Award of Excellence in Visual Arts by The Bahamas Consulate in 2016.

Clara blalock I have saved all my ribbons 2016 Oil on canvas 40 X 40 Value: $3,400 Starting Bid: $1,200

Biography: Native Atlantan, Clara Dodd Blalock is a graduate of the Atlanta College of Art with a painting major and printmaking minor and has been painting professionally for about 30 years. Clara produces oil and acrylic abstract works that are sold in galleries around the US and represented widely in corporate and private collections. Clara’s works have been included in several TV productions. She has had paintings accepted into and given awards in juried shows and participated in many invitational exhibits. Clara is a Member of Excellence of the Atlanta Artists Center where she has been President and Board Chair, and a member of the Fulton County Arts Council, which serves the Metro Atlanta area.

Amber boardman Innovations in makeup 2015 Acrylic on canvas 12 X 16 Value: $1,100 Starting bid: $500

Biography: Amber Boardman (born 1981, Portland, Maine) has exhibited her paintings and animation throughout the US, Australia and elsewhere internationally. Her work was included in Sydney Contemporary in 2015 and BAM's Next Wave Festival in Brooklyn, NY in 2010. Boardman has been the recipient of multiple awards, most notably Most Provocative Award (Atlanta Biennial), the Australian PostGraduate Award (University of New South Wales) and the Dame Joan Sutherland Fund Visual Arts Grant. She holds an MFA in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts, New York and a BFA in Studio Art from Georgia State University. Boardman is currently a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Her works are held in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Artbank Australia, and the City of Sydney.

Eileen braun Current 2015 Ceramic 17 x 16 X 8 Value: $2,500 Starting bid: $950

Biography: Eileen Braun was born in Boston, Massachusetts and has lived and worked in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia since 2004. She has her BA in Sculpture and Art Education from Indiana University. Her knowledge of clay is predominantly acquired through self-directed exploration and observations, resulting in an unfettered use of the material. Braun has exhibited nationally including The Ogden Museum of Southern Art (LA), San Angelo Museum of Art (TX), MESA Art Museum (AZ), AMOCA (CA), and MFA Boston (MA). Her work in numerous private and corporate collections and she received the NICHE Award in 2014 and 2015. Locally she has had work in 2 Hartsfield Jackson Airport exhibitions Ceramix: Georgia’s Creative Claymakers (2015-16), E-Merge: Contemporary Atlanta Artists (2013-4), and Georgia Artists Selecting Artists (2013) MOCA GA. She has been an avid supporter of MOCA GA as both a volunteer and contributor to the art auction since 2009. She is a Hambidge Fellow and has been a lifelong mentor in the arts throughout her career.

Lucinda bunnen Detritus in my pool 2014 Archival digital print 20 X 30 Value: $3,000 Starting bid: $1,500

Biography: Lucinda Bunnen is a photographer living in Atlanta. Lucinda travels worldwide to find subject matter for her work, and continues to exhibit widely both in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Southeastern United States. Lucinda is also the co-author of three books. In 1999, the artist was honored with a 30-year retrospective at the Atlanta College of Art, which included an award-winning catalogue. Lucinda’s work can be found in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, Russia; the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC; the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA; the High Museum in Atlanta and MOCA GA in Atlanta. In 2015, Lucinda received the 2015 YWCA Academy of Women Achievers, was also the WonderRoot Honoree and judged Women in Focus and the South Clayton Art Center Show. Recently, Lucinda has exhibited at the Morris Museum in Augusta, GA and the Wire Grass Museum in Dothan, Alabama.

Joe camoosa What you don’t see 2016 Ink and silkscreen ink on arches 18.75 X 26.125 Value: $1,200 Starting bid: $700 Biography: Joe Camoosa (b. Asbury Park, NJ) is an artist and musician who lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia and makes paintings and drawings in a variety of media that explore cartography and the relationships between color, space and movement. He received an MFA in painting and drawing from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia and his work is held in numerous corporate and private collections. He has exhibited in galleries in Atlanta, Nashville, Richmond and New York, and museums such as MOCA GA, Atlanta Contemporary, The Hudgens Center for the Arts, The Georgia Museum of Art, and most recently The Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences as part of their fourth annual Emerging Artists Exhibition. He is currently a member of the Studio Artists Program at Atlanta Contemporary and a 2016-2017 Walthall Fellow.

Philip carpenter Shears 2012 Color pencil drawing 32 X 20 Value: $2,000 Starting bid: $500

Biography: Phillip Carpenter has worked and exhibited in Atlanta since 1978. He received a Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts grant in1989 and was a Hambidge Fellow in 2001. Notable exhibitions include: The 1994 Atlanta Biennial at Nexus Contemporary Art Center; “Revival of the Figure” at City Gallery East in 1995; “Personal Circumstances” at Spruill Gallery in 2000; “Transitions” at MOCA GA in 2002; “Work and Play” at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in 2005; “Primary Color” at Marcia Wood Gallery in 2005; “Manipulating the Commonplace” at Swan Coach House Gallery in 2007; 17th Color Pencil Society of America Exhibition 2009 and 2015; “Play” at Spruill in 2009; “The Painted Photograph” at Southwest Arts Center. His work was exhibited in “Georgia Artists choose Georgia Artists” at MOCA GA and “Drawing Inside the Perimeter” at the High Museum of Art and recently in “Tell Me A Story’ at B Complex. His work is in private and public collections including the High Museum, MOCA GA, The Lagrange Museum, The Lamar Dodd Art Center at Lagrange College and Hartsfield Jackson International Airport. His work was included in the 2004 edition of “New American Paintings” and in the book “100 Southern Artists” by E. Ashley Rooney.

Inkyoung chun Stone wall 1 2010 Watercolor and pencil on paper 22 x 40 Value: $1,800 Starting bid: $400 Biography: Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, InKyoung Chun holds an MFA from Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Chun received the Emerging Artist Award 2012-2013 by the City of Atlanta Mayors Office of Cultural Affairs and participated in the 2013 WonderRoot Walthall Fellowship. Chun has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally including High Museum of Art of Atlanta, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Gallery 72 and Poem88. She recently participated in the show “Abstraction Today” at Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta, GA, “Sea(S) Arts International Exhibition”, Kefalonia, Greece and “Annual Juried Exhibition” at Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, GA. Chun’s painting has been added to the permanent collection of High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Her work is about defining a relationship between invisible and visible space. By rearranging her daily objects and creating organic forms as secret power, she expresses the hidden and mysterious space that resides in mind. Chun is represented by {Poem88} in Atlanta, GA.

Maurice clifford Flat water flat earth 2017 Oil on canvas 38 X 74 Value: $7,000 Starting bid: $4,000 Biography: Maurice Clifford was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina and studied at Yale University and the University of Georgia before he received his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and later went on to graduate studies in Computer Graphics & Media Arts at New York Institute of Technology. Clifford has shown work since the 1970s and his solo exhibitions have been featured at the Nexus Contemporary Center (now Atlanta Contemporary Center) in Atlanta, GA; and the Albany Museum of Art in Georgia. He has taught at the American College for the Applied Arts, American Intercontinental University, and the Art Institute of Atlanta. Clifford was included in the 2004 MOCA GA exhibition Selected Works: State of Georgia Art Collection. The artist says that his objective is "To use the visual arts and in particular visual virtual environments as an expressive medium for reflecting upon the human/personal condition." Clifford is also included in the MOCA GA Permanent Collection.

21 Â Â

Susan cofer Spiral 2002 Prismacolor 22.75 X 18.75 Value: $4,000 Starting bid: $2,750

Biography: Susan Cofer earned her BA in Art History at Hollins College in Roanoke, VA and continued her studies at Georgia State University. Her work has two distinct manifestations: drawings inspired by biomorphic forms painstakingly rendered in a series of vertical lines; and, sculptural portraits commissioned by friends and private patrons constructed mostly of papier mâché also with exacting detail. Cofer has exhibited extensively throughout the Southeast with solo exhibitions at the High Museum, Solomon Projects, Swan Coach House Gallery, Berry College, and Madison-Morgan Cultural Center. Her work belongs to many private, corporate and museum collections. She was featured in a solo exhibition of new works at MOCA GA in 2010, Absence of Certainty, alongside a group exhibition of drawings, Certain Artists, which she curated from MOCA GA’s permanent collection and her own own private collection.

About the work: “Spiral”

was chosen by Michael Rooks, Wieland Family Curator of Contemporary Art, High Museum of Art, to be included in Susan Cofer’s retrospective “Draw Near” at the High Museum, 2012-2013. It is typical of Susan Cofer’s work in that it is created from multiple vertical lines of colored pencil, each line separate from its neighbor. Cofer, an Atlanta native, originated this technique in 1973 and has been exploring the possibilities ever since. Her drawings are in museums and private collections in the USA and abroad.

Hope cohn perennial 2017 Acrylic on wood 24 X 30 X 2 Value: $2,200 Starting bid: $500

Biography: Hope Cohn is an artist and curator whose work is included in several private and corporate collections including King and Spalding, Alston and Bird, Neiman Marcus Corporation and the Highland Group. Hope received her Master’s Degree in painting from Pratt Institute and has taught at Georgia State University, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, SCAD Atlanta, Pratt Institute and The School of Visual Arts in New York. As a curator, Cohn has been responsible for numerous exhibitions including: Ceramix: Georgia’s Creative Claymakers and E-Merge: Contemporary Atlanta Artists at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport; SCORE: Sports + Art at MOCA GA; Nelson Mandela: Man of the People, Photographs by Peter Magubane; Katrina: Five Years of Reflection; Run for Cover: Design of the Record Album and Breaking New Ground: Intersections at the Crossroads of Art and Technology. Hope is currently working with MOCA GA on an inaugural exhibition at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Corrine colarusso Drawing at night, spinner, flyer 2009 White ink and blue ink on paper 16 x 20 Value: $900 Starting bid: $600

Biography: Corrine Colarusso has an MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University and a BFA from the University of Massachusetts in Painting. She has been the recipient of many awards and grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and a Fulbright-Hayes research and travel grant to India and Nepal. She has been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, the Cortona Program of the University of Georgia, and the Ossabaw Island Project. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is included in many public, private and corporate collections such as the High Museum of Art, The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, the Newport Art Museum and others.

About the work: This mixed media work on paper, is from the series Drawing at Night. Spinner, Flyer, is one of approximately 30 drawings which explore the pursuit of everyday twilight. Drawing in the evening, this work on paper, and the series as a whole, alters our sense of scale and imagines the everywhere and nowhere galaxy of night in the world and in us.

Kevin cole Stuck in the middle series promise iV 2016 Mixed media on canvas 10 X 12 X 3 Value: $1,500 Starting bid: $550

Biography: Kevin Cole received his B.S. from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, an M.A. in art education from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and an M.F.A. from Northern Illinois University. Within the last 25 years, he has received 27 grants and fellowships, 65 awards in art and 51 teaching awards. His artwork has been featured in more than 470 exhibitions throughout the United States within the last 25 years. Cole’s artwork is included in more than 2200 public, private and corporate collections throughout the United States. Public collections include, but are not limited to, the High Museum of Art, Arkansas Art Center, Yale University Art Gallery, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The David C Driskell Center University of Maryland at College Park; Dayton Institute of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, The Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Tampa Museum in Tampa, Fla. Corporate collections include Bank of America, IBM, M.Y. and King and Spaulding Law Firm. Private collectors include Michael Jordan, formerly of the Chicago Bulls; Dallas Austin, Film & Records Producer; Brad Sellers, formerly of the Chicago Bulls and Darrell Walker, former head coach of the Toronto Raptors. Cole has also created more than 35 public art works, including the Coca-Cola Centennial Olympic Mural for the 1996 Olympic Games. His artwork has been featured in more than 106 publications, recently in Scholastic Art with Dale Chihuly as well as The Washington Post, Sculpture Magazine, The Union Tribune in San Diego, Calif., and The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. Cole and his artwork has also appeared on the NBA Inside Stuff. Cole is represented by Hearn Fine Arts in Little Rock, Ark.; Marta Hewett Gallery in Cincinnati, OH .; Golden in Denver, Colo and September Gray Fine Arts, in Atlanta, Ga., and Chicago, Ill. Cole is also an Art Consultant for Savannah College of Art & Design in Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Cole recently had a piece included in the permanent collect National African American Museum of History and Culture at Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. 25

Don cooper Opening red bindu 2007 Acrylic on canvas 40 X 46 Value: $10,000 Starting bid: $5,000

Biography: Don Cooper was born in Texas, grew up in Georgia and has lived primarily in Atlanta since 1976. He received his MFA from the University of Georgia and is the recipient of a Fulbright Artist Grant, a MOCA GA Working Artist Project Grant and the Judith Alexander Artadia Award. He has had thirty solo exhibitions and 70 group exhibitions. His work is in the collection of the Albright Knox Gallery, the High Museum of Art, the Atlanta International Airport, Coca-Cola, USA, and the Morris Museum of Southern Art. He has travelled in the US, Britain, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Italy and China. His meditative, ritualistic paintings and digital images are inspired by the concept of bindu, a Sanskrit term for a central dot which represents consciousness, being and the sacred point of origin and return. Don is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2007/2008

Herbert lee creecy, Jr. Untitled 1985 Acrylic on paper 29.125 X 36.625 Value: $4,200 Starting bid: $2,000

Biography: The most renowned artist of Abstract Expressionism in the South was Herbert Creecy. Born in 1939 at Norfolk, Virginia, he grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. His education began with E. Rivers Elementary School in Buckhead, Atlanta. Creecy graduated from Northside High School, also in Buckhead, then attended the University of Alabama and graduated from the Atlanta School of Art. The French Government awarded him with a fellowship in 1964, where he studied with the famous English artist and printmaker Stanley William Hayter, founder of the influential Atelier 17 studio established in Montparnasse in 1927. Hayter influenced and taught print making to many famous artist including Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollack, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, and Marc Chagall. In Barnesville, GA, Creecy maintained his home and studio from an old cotton factory. Surrounded by his art, he developed his many ingenious techniques and creative motifs. One of these techniques utilized an air-brush to splay wet paint with a rhythmic effect. Another creation was his print making skills with polyurethane transfers, a skill where he applies the polymer on the canvas and uses a squeegee to press the liquid into the top layer of paint. Once dried, it accomplishes new found dimensions of space and random contours upon the canvas. Creecy exhibited his work in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, London and Italy. His art resides in many museums and institutions from the Whitney Museum, Corcoran, Norton, State of Georgia Art Collection, High Museum, Telfair, the University of Tennessee, and Clark Atlanta University. Corporate institutions have collected his work; the National Bank of Georgia, Portman Properties, the Marriot Marquis in Atlanta, the Waverly Hotel and the McDonald’s Corporation have preserved his legacy through their permanent collections.

Lucy currie Twitter 2015 Oil on canvas 16 x 20 Value: $850 Starting bid: $500

Biography: Lucy Currie received her BFA from the University of Georgia and her MFA from the University of California-Davis. She attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was a Core Fellow at the Glassell School of Art. Lucy paints small, seemingly simplistic paintings and drawings. "I am what you would call an 'instinctive' painter," she says. There is a trusting, child-like quality to her work that calls forth the strong emotions of childhood. Despite their simple form and subject matter, her paintings possess several layers of meaning from the historical to the psychological to the experientially visual. She is in MOCA GA's permanent collection and was recently in MOCA GA Permanent Collection Exhibition.

Glenn dair Oval vase with sgrafitti 2010 Stoneware, clay, shino glaze, reduction fired cone 10, refired cone 6 salt 12.5 X 11.5 X 6.5 Value: $175 Starting bid: $125

Biography: He received his Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Ceramics from the University of Georgia in 1975. His work is primarily focused on architecturally influenced vessel forms, is included in public, private and corporate collections, and was featured in the High Museum Tour of Art Gardens (2006-08), for which he created site-specific sculptural installations. His work is represented in Atlanta by the Signature Shop and Gallery. Glenn Dair has served as the Director of the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center Pottery Program since 1980.

Mario digirolamo Entering the eternal city 1955 Silver gelatin print 26 X 22 Value: $1,600 Starting bid: $600

Biography: Mario DiGirolamo is a physician and scientist who has pursued his artistic muse with a camera for over 6o years. His black and white images, capturing the simple beauty of everyday life, feature the people and places of his native Italy, of Europe and other countries around the world. Seven years in New York City produced a portfolio of urban American images. He likes to capture people in unposed moments in a composition that includes their natural environment.

Terri dilling TAKING FLIGHT 2015 ACRYLIC AND MIXED MEDIA ON PANEL 36 X 36 Value: $3,600 STARTING BID: $1,400

Biography: Terri Dilling is a painter and printmaker, inspired by the beauty and complexity of the natural world. She blurs boundaries between macro and micro viewpoints, and seeks a visual balance between order and chaos in her work. Terri received a BA from Indiana University, a BFA Georgia State University, and has also studied visual arts in England, Spain, and Italy. She has received numerous grants and awards, and has been published in New American Paintings, Fresh Paint Magazine and the Manifest International Drawing Annual. She helped found the Atlanta Printmakers Studio and served as president for six years. Her work is in public and private collections around the world, and she shows in Atlanta with Mason Fine Art.

31 Â Â

Joe dreher Open Wound 2016 Tar paper with red acrylic paint 132 X 36 Value: $2,000 Starting bid: $900

Biography: Joe is a graduate of Savannah College of Art & Design with a Master of Architecture Degree and the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Architecture Award, AIA Design Award and the Commitment to Sustainability Award. He is also a Hambidge Fellow. Joe considers himself a social artist and uses a number of methods and mediums to create his work including photography, murals, street art, wheatpaste, painting, sculpture, architecture, and poetry. People are his primary interest and it is his appreciation for people that informs so much of his creative work.

Craig drennen Holiday bandit 2016 Oil, aluminum foil, tinsel garland and rubber balloons on canvas 26 X 26 Value: $3,000 Starting bid: $700

Biography: Craig Drennen is an artist based in Atlanta, GA. He is represented by Samsøn gallery in Boston. His most recent solo exhibitions were “Ninth Mistress vs. Dutch AWFUL” at 9Ace gallery in Atlanta and “New Mistress vs. Old Athenians” at Brooklyn Fire Proof in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, and The New York Times. He teaches at Georgia State University, serves as dean of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and writes for Art Pulse magazine. Since 2008 he has organized his studio practice around Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. He will have a Working Artist Project exhibition in December 2017. Craig is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2016/2017

Sarah emerson Creep, flow and fall 2016 Acrylic and rhinestones on canvas 36 X 36 Value: $2,800 Starting Bid: $2,300

Biography: Sarah Emerson is an artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her paintings and installations present viewers with highly stylized versions of nature that combine geometric patterns and mythic archetypes to examine contemporary landscape. She uses the camouflage of beautiful colors combined with a deliberate composition to explore themes that reflect on the fragility of life, the futility of earthly pleasures, and the disintegration of our natural landscape. Emerson graduated from the Atlanta College of Art in 1998 and completed her Master’s Degree at Goldsmiths College, London in 2000. She has exhibited her work in galleries throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, including White Columns, NY, Cosmic Gallery, Paris, the MOCA Jacksonville, Fl., and the High Museum in Atlanta, GA. Her work has been published in Noplaceness: Art in a Post Urban Landscape, Stickers Deluxe: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art, and New American Paintings in 2012, 2007, and 2003. Sarah is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2014/2015

Jody fausett Camouflage 2006 Archival pigment print 39 X 51 Value: $6,000 Starting Bid: $3,000 Biography: Jody Fausett was born in 1973 in Tate, Georgia. He studied photography in Atlanta, Georgia at the Art Institute of Atlanta and later moved to New York where he found work in fashion and portrait photography. In 2004, he returned to Georgia to focus on his personal art. Fausett’s photographs have been in various group shows in New York, New Orleans, Oregon and Washington, and he mounted his first solo show at the University of Southern Illinois, Department of Motion Picture and Film in Chicago. His work has appeared in numerous publications and his first book, Second Place, was released in 2007 through GHava Press. He was chosen by Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles as one of Atlanta’s top ten tastemakers of 2009. One of Fausett’s photographs was the cover of Contemporary Annual, a British journal surveying photography around the world, and his multimedia piece “Suddenly, Last Summer” appeared on the cover of Art Papers. His work was also included in a lecture, “Out of the Ordinary: A Survey of Photographic Work by Atlanta-based Artists” at the High Museum of Art in 2000. In early 2011, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia recognized Jody Fausett as an up-and-coming talent, and his work was shown in the corresponding Movers & Shakers: MOCA GA Salutes the Rising Stars of the Georgia Arts Scene at MOCA GA. Possible Futures also selected Fausett's work for Atlanta Art Now's first book, NoPlaceness: Art in a PostUrban Landscape and Oxford American has picked him for one of the top “New Superstars of Southern Art.” In 2014 he was shortlisted for the Artadia Prize. Jody serves on the steering committee for Idea Capital Grants, which rewards experimental art projects in Atlanta. His solo exhibition “Crush Velvet” was shown at the Morean Art Center in St. Petersburg, Florida last spring. Jody is represented by Jackson Fine Art.

John folsom Through the ground glass #3 2016 Archival pigment print 19 X 15 Value: $900 Starting bid: $720

Biography: John Folsom (b. 1967) is a mixed media artist born and raised in Paducah, Kentucky. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University. His practice demonstrates the narrative potential of images through the intersection of painting and photography. Folsom’s photographic paintings have been widely exhibited for the past 20 years and can be found in many collections worldwide.

Jill frank Beach pose (green bathing suit) 2015 Archival inkjet print 48.75 x 39 Value: $2,800 Starting bid: $1,000

Biography: Jill Frank is a visual artist working primarily in photography. She received her BA in Photography from Bard College and her MFA in Studio Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has shown nationally and internationally, and selected solo exhibitions include Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago; Golden Gallery, Chicago; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Frank relocated to Atlanta in 2011 to teach at Georgia State University. Frank’s work deals with the negotiation and indeterminacy of dominant social and cultural narratives. Her current work investigates American “rites of passage,” and how they inform cultural status symbols and identity formation. Jill is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2015/2016

Eula ginsburg Swimming in a fantasy world 2016 Mixed medium print on paper 15 X 11 Value: $2,000 Starting bid: $400

Biography: Eula’s work depicts reality moving to fantasy. Or is it the opposite? The viewer must decide. Eula has a born witness expanding from war torn zones to sunny beaches. Her work is informed by association with accomplished leaders, and with the less fortunate, while her military family traversed the world. Risking exposing her age, she tells us that she was in Hawaii when Japan’s Yamamato attacked, after having been passing through Poland when the Nazi’s had attacked. So, loud noises dramatically resonate in her work and in her being. Eula works both in paint and in print mediums. Her work is represented in collections throughout the world. She has earned numerous awards and accolades. Ms. Ginsburg has advanced degrees in visual fine art, including painting and printmaking.

Jean glenn Yellow/brown 2008 Oil on canvas 48 X 48 Value: $7,000 Starting bid: $3,500

Biography: Jean C. Glenn was born in 1963 in Atlanta, GA. Through an application of paint with an element of the accidental, she seeks out the organic shapes that emerge and highlights the “individual” in a composition of many. The focus, for her, is on inner-connectivity. She is interested in the forms found in nature and how they are woven together to paint a picture. She draws inspiration from urban living, the energy it emits, the technicolor background and the integration of people and passions. She feels compelled to connect the dots, unite, spell out the unseen relationships that ties us all together. Emotion is defined through color, and it’s varying combinations. Texture is the exuberance in which each piece is tackled. Her aim is to take the viewer on a visual journey. One where they find themselves lost in the canvas.

Matt haffner Preservation 2009 Acrylic on panel 32 X 72 Value: $5,500 Starting bid: $2,700 Biography: Matt Haffner (MFA in Photography,1998) is an Associate Professor of Photography at Kennesaw State University. Matt’s mixed media works draw from myth, oral narrative, film noir, and the peripheries of the urban environment. He is an Atlanta based artist whose works are collected nationally and internationally, he has won numerous awards including an NEA Project Award, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia’s Working Artist Project, and is represented in Atlanta by WhiteSpace Gallery. Matt is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2008/2009

Hense Spray series 2012 Silkscreen and spray paint on paper 30 X 22 Value: $2,800 Starting bid: $1,500

Biography: Alex Brewer, also known as HENSE, is an American contemporary artist, best known for his dynamic, vivid and colorful abstract paintings and monumental wall pieces. He utilizes unique color and composition in his installations to evoke a bold presence in the varied spaces they inhabit. Brewer employs a great deal of thought arranging the shapes he uses, inspiring dramatic compositions and gestures in his finished products. His use of unique colors and patterns, his play with shifting shapes and surfaces, and his intense line quality are a contemporary counterpart to the post-modern masters working in minimalism and abstract expressionism in the mid-twentieth century. Brewer’s use of simplified geometric forms, un-modulated color and hard-edges common in minimalism is perfectly paired with the spontaneous mark making that was common in abstract expressionism. These influences on Brewer’s work exemplify a comprehensive look at contemporary, abstract painting. Brewer has received recognition as a contemporary abstract painter, exploring, color, form and material. His works in the realm of public art have garnered him national and international attention. He has also received numerous notable commissions internationally and throughout the United States. His largest commissioned work is in Lima, Peru amassing an impressive size of 137 feet tall and 170 feet wide.With the ability to transform a gallery space or City’s landscape, Brewer’s paintings can act as a unifying thread in a community. Brewer is always inspired by creative expression and process in the public realm and creates works that play an important role in the visual interactions and dialogue of a community.

Wanda hopkins Untitled 2006 Archival digital print 18.375 X 21.75 Value: $800 Starting bid: $600 Biography: Wanda Hopkins is a self-taught photographer from Atlanta, Georgia. Due to her Father’s Military career, she has been influenced by travel, diverse cultures and light. Hopkins’s experiences of working with Bruce Barnbaum, Fred Picker and Denis Reggie have impacted her way of seeing and photographing.

Ek huckaby The excluded way 2015 Glow in the dark paint on glass 14.5 X 12.5 Value: $300 Starting bid: $100 Biography: E.K. Huckaby (b. 1957 in Thomaston, Georgia) lives and works in Brooks, Georgia. He attended the Atlanta College of Art, graduating with a BFA in 1991. Huckaby has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including a Working Artist Project award from MOCA GA and an Individual Artists Grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts. His work has been featured in many group and solo exhibitions, including shows at the High Museum of Art, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and MOCA GA. Huckaby is admired for his unusual techniques and use of media. His work is collected nationwide. EK is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2013/2014

Audrey hynes Untitled (one through five) 2016 Inkjet print 14 x 43 Value: $1,000 Starting bid: $900 Biography: Audrey Hynes is an artist that works in sculpture, installation, photography, video, drawing, and books. Exhibitions include the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center via Dimensions Variable, Museum of Contemporary Art-DC, the Bass Museum, Dorsch-Emerson Gallery, Eyedrum, Columbia College Library, Naples Art Center, San Francisco Public Access Television Channel, Museum of Contemporary Art-Georgia, among others. Audrey attended the University of New Mexico (BFA, 1999), the San Francisco Art Institute (Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, 2005), the University of Miami (MFA, 2011), Ox-Bow Residency (2009), Vermont Studio Center (2010), and Harold Arts (2010).

Benjamin jones Saint francis of assisi 2000 Graphite and colored pencil on paper 17.75 X 16 Value: $2,100 Starting bid: $900 Biography: Benjamin Jones creates haunting images that reveal a distinct visual language. Subjects include current events and icons of popular culture; however, his most consistent subject is himself. Inhabiting an intriguingly indefinable space, each of these poignant self-portraits reveals the artist's innermost feelings and insecurities. Mixing whimsy with horror, humor with malevolence, Jones' forms become vehicles for messages about the struggle of life and all its paradoxes. These seductive and intimate drawings, paradoxical in themselves, create a tension between the purity of their intuition and the refinement of their presentation. Stylistic parallels have been drawn between Benjamin Jones' work and that of Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as with Jones' acknowledged influence, Jean Dubuffet and the works of Art Brut. However, his drawings are undeniably his own. Larry Rinder, former Curator of Contemporary Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, comments that Jones' drawings possess "...energy, vitality, those...impalpable feelings - the sense that the work had to be there, that it was compelled by some internal urgency on the part of the artist." Benjamin Jones' drawings are included in prominent museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, as well as significant corporate and private collections. Jones received a 1994 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Southern Arts Federation. In 2004 he was the recipient of the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. In 2006, Jones made his international debut at ArtLondon. He returned to London in 2008 as the featured artist in Drawing a Diversion; an exhibition at John Martin Gallery, in conjunction with Master Drawings London. Jones is a graduate of the State University of West Georgia. 45

Eric kaepplinger Other mirth 2016 Mixed media 5 X 5 X 36 Value: $4,000 Starting bid: $2,000

Biography: Born in 1983 in Park Ridge, Illinois, Kaepplinger studied fine art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he received his BFA. He now lives and works in Atlanta with his family. His artwork deals primarily in form invention and surface texture using carefully cut canvas, drawing and painting materials along with sculpture. The dome shape has become an important vehicle for his wall and floor sculptures. His most recent exhibition was last spring at Mason Fine Art. While being an artist he also designs and installs museum exhibitions

Susan ker-seymer pyramid 2016 walnut ink, acrylic and photo transfer on panel 12 X 12 Value: $900 Starting bid: $500

Biography: Susan Ker-Seymer works primarily in painting and printmaking and some sculptural installation. In addition to her individual art practice, Susan collaborates and exhibits with artist groups including Sixfold Collective, Atlanta, and Arête Visual Arts, in the UK. Her work has been exhibited in private and public galleries, and is in private collections regionally and in the United Kingdom. Susan is a native of New York State and lives and works in Atlanta GA, is a fellow of the Hambidge Creative Residency program, and a working member of the Atlanta Printmakers Studio. Her studio is in The Goat Farm Arts Center.

Judy Morris lampert white barn with red doors sparta, GA 2016 Photograph 22 X 27.25 Value: $1,650 Starting bid: $450 Biography: Born in Homestead, Florida in 1952, Judy Morris Lampert is an Atlanta-based artist who works in fine art photography. Her past careers include Nursing and Arts Administration. Family, history and a sense of place are common themes in her work. Lampert was adopted as an infant and is always using photography to connect to that past. She has traveled throughout the world photographing people and places. Her current work has taken her throughout the South photographing buildings as portraits and capturing an intimate sense of what the structure is about. She is represented by Barbara Archer Gallery of Atlanta and had a solo exhibition there in 2012. Her work is collected by institutions and individuals throughout the country. Lampert has a strong passion for supporting the arts in the Atlanta area and has served on the boards of Art Papers, the Art Reach Foundation, Atlanta Celebrates Photography and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences. She is most proud of becoming a Hambidge Creative Residency Program Fellow in 2014.

David landis Monarch 2016 Stainless steel 24 X 13 X 2.5 Value: $2,100 Starting bid: $700

Biography: David Landis is a sculptor whose work ranges from large scale public commissions to smaller private works. Landis is currently working on commissions for Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, CA, Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, CA, and recently created one of Atlanta’s largest permanent landscape installations - the 33 Oaks Project. His commissions include and can be viewed on the Atlanta Beltline, the new Alpharetta Library, the gardens of the Pierre Baudis Congress Center, Toulouse, France, the Albany Law Enforcement Center, Albany, GA, the US Bancorp Center, Minneapolis, MN, as well as Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Novelis corporation, Fulton County Government Center, Kennesaw State University, Cathedral St. Philip, Trees Atlanta, and the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

Jack lawing Cars and colored buildings 2014 Archival digital print 18.5 X 23.5 Value: $400 Starting bid: $100

Biography: Jack Lawing is a graduate of Harvard Law School, a certified translator of German and a book maker. A former lawyer, Jack began actively exhibiting his photographs in the early 1990s. Jack has participated in exhibitions at the Fine Arts Center, Kingsport, Tennessee; Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta; Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta; the Birmingham Museum of Art, and The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. His work was included in the 39th Kodak International Salon of Photography in Australia; the Westport Arts Center 1994 Photo Biennial; and Central Missouri State University’s Greater Midwest International Exhibition. Jack’s work is in MOCA GA’s permanent collection as well as that of the Birmingham Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. His work has been shown in numerous museum exhibitions including As They See It: Georgia Photographers at MOCA GA.

Elizabeth lide Boxwood house 2015 Mixed media 27 x 35 Value: $1,200 Starting Bid: $500 Biography: Elizabeth Lide is the recipient of a 2015/2016 Working Artist Project Fellowship from The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), selected by Saisha M. Grayson, Assistant Curator Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. She is a native of WinstonSalem, North Carolina and has a BFA from the University of Georgia and MFA from Georgia State University. She has been awarded residency fellowships to The MacDowell Colony, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), The Hambidge Center, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, and with The University of Georgia Department of Art in Cortona, Italy. Her solo exhibitions have included The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Sandler Hudson Gallery, The Arts Festival of Atlanta, La Mama in New York City, SECCA in Winston-Salem NC, and Window on Gaines in Tallahassee FL. Her work has been in 75+ group exhibitions including MOCA GA, The High Museum of Art, Carlos Museum at Emory University, A.I.R. Gallery in New York City, Atlanta College of Art, The University of Maryland, Carlsberg Glytotek Museum in Copenhagen, The Chautauqua Exhibition of American Art, The Upstairs in Tryon NC, Brenau College, The Swan Coach House and Eyedrum in Atlanta. Her artists’ books have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, The University of Damascus, The University of North Carolina, Duke University, Emory University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Iowa, The ACA Library at SCAD, Ruth and Marvin Sackner Collection, North Carolina Writers’ Network, and Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Her drawings are in collections at The High Museum of Art, MOCA GA and in numerous private collections. Elizabeth is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2015/2016

Paul light, jr. Celestial seam 2015 Oil on canvas 47 X 55 Value: $4,000 Starting bid: $1,500 Biography: Atlanta artist, Paul Light began developing an interest in American Abstract Expressionist painting at an early age which, has continued to be a large influence in his life and work. He works in a painterly, soft-edge style, creating a deeply emotional type of abstraction that is often described as full of energy and powerful. Light holds an MFA in Painting from SCAD Atlanta. He has been in many juried and invitational exhibitions at different galleries and venues in Atlanta including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and The Quinlan Center in Gainesville, GA. Light’s paintings have also been featured in several motion pictures and TV commercials. His work is held in private collections in Atlanta, Virginia and New York City and in and institutional collections such as the SCAD Permanent Collection.

Tyrus lytton Poem to an open sky 2016 Spray paint on canvas 96 X 138 Value: $15,000 Starting Bid: $10,000

Biography: Tyrus Lytton won his first drawing award at age six receiving an honorable mention for his crayon on newsprint piece entitled “Helicopter.” He received a BFA in Painting from The University of Georgia in 2006 and an MFA from The Savannah College of Art and Design in 2013. He has exhibited with UnionDocs in New York, Fleisher/Ollman in Philadelphia, and Fay Gold in Atlanta. Tyrus’ work is in private and corporate collections such as Disney, The Ritz-Carlton, Chase Bank, Novartis, and Inoh Japan.

Bri matheson Waterfall 2016 Acrylic on canvas 72 X 48 Value: $4,600 Starting bid: $2,800

Biography: Bri Matheson, self-taught artist, moved to Georgia in 2002 and began creating shadow boxes that incorporate treasured items saved from his childhood, evoking fond memories. Matheson’s current work is produced on canvas by applying paint using various palette knives to create vibrant abstract work. In 2014, Matheson and his wife, built a contemporary home on 25 acres in Athens, including a new studio filled with natural light and woodland views. Today’s work reflects the inspiration of that space and his growth as an artist. Matheson’s art medium has shifted thorough the years, but his self-expression has always remained uniquely his own.

Tim mccoy Ring of fire (eilean donan castle) 2007 Archival pigment print from monochrome film 40 X 50 Value: $1,200 Startiing Bid: $1,100 Biography: Photographer Timothy H. McCoy uses digital as well as vintage (photogravure, albumen, palladium) photographic processes to express his vision. His approach examines how photographic meaning is determined by choice of camera format and lens, photographic paper and process, as well as the "framing" of the image. Rather than photograph evanescent contemporary culture, he prefers that his images focus on cultural remnants left behind as metaphorical substitutes for archetypal concerns inherent in the human condition. His approach to color is to liberate it from its descriptive function so as to infuse the image with symbolic and expressionistic tonality. Photography has not been a lifelong passion. Tim’s love of sports was paramount and he played football, basketball, track and baseball. After graduation with an M.S. at the University of Texas at Austin in Pharmacology and military service (Captain, US Army, Ft. Sam Houston, TX), he attended medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio a received a combined MD/PhD. One weekend, he attended a workshop given by Frederick Sommer at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio. Hearing Fred recount his struggles in the art world and watching him work in the darkroom was a life-changing experience. Tim left medicine shortly thereafter to attend the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has also had the opportunity to learn from such renown photographers as Paul Caponigro, John Sexton, Dick Arentz, Chris James, and Marie Cosindas. His work is included in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Asheville Art Museum, NC; the Baldwin Photographic Collection, Murfreesboro, TN; and the Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GA. He has received numerous awards including, most recently, Third Place in the 12th Annual Alternative Processes Competition at Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY. His most recent solo exhibition, The Mark of Time, was shown at Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX, during the FotoFest 2016 Biennial. 55

Michi meko Only darkness 2016 Mixed media, acrylic, aerosol, graphite and glitter 30 X 22.5 Value: $3,200 Starting bid: $2,400

Biography: An atlanta-based artist, Michi holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of North Alabama. He has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the southeast including shows at Alan Avery Art Co., EyeDrum, Cobb Marietta Museum of Art and Art Basel Scion Installation 3 in Miami, FL. His numerous awards include the 2013 Flux Projects Grant, 2013 Wooder Root CSA Grant and 2010 Idea Capitalist Grant. He has completed many public works and projects throughout Atlanta. Represented by Alan Avery Art Company.

Artist statement: As a multidisciplinary artist, The work draws influence from rural southern culture and contemporary urban subcultures. The works exist in various mediums to convey narratives based in the personal and historic. One has developed a system of gathering that allows hybridizing and remixing the content into a multilingual dialect that endows ordinary and rejected objects with spiritual powers. Mashing up iconography, narratives establish a new identity alluding to conditions both physical and psychological. The work considers Black Buoyancy or black bodies afloat. Imploring Black Navigation as a means of understanding Blackness, the works are mapped movements of positioning within known patterns of everyday life. 56

Donna mintz Untitled (reliquary) 2008 Oil, mineral and pigment under glass 51 X 35 Value: $5,000 Starting bid: $2,000

Biography: Donna Mintz is a visual artist whose painting and installation is a meditation on memory and place. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and the Mobile Museum of Art, where her painting is currently on view in the ongoing exhibition American Art: 1945 to the Present. She has exhibited widely throughout the country, and has held solo exhibitions in such nearby venues as the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Georgia College Museum, and the Lamar Dodd Art Center. Mintz writes on the visual arts for BurnAway and ArtsATL, where she is a regular contributor, and is currently at work on a collection of essays on the subject of silence in art. She is a grateful fellow of the Hambidge Center and editor of The Hambidge Center: A Creative Sanctuary 80 Years in the Making, a book celebrating Hambidge’s first 80 years. She is represented by Sandler Hudson Gallery.

William mize untitled 2016 Acrylic on wood panel 60 X 60 Value: $6,800 Starting bid: $4,800

Biography: William Mize was born in Knoxville, TN in 1971. He studied fine art at Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL. Today, William lives and works in Decatur, GA with his wife and three children. His houses are like self-portraits – painted to reflect the human condition with emotion and honesty. This work helps William define himself in relation to the world around him where he explores the realization of identity using these seemingly impersonal spaces. He is intrigued by the power they possess to evoke a human presence where none exists. Like us, these structures are broken but beautiful containing layers and depth for the viewer to contemplate. The goal of his work is to capture attention, keep it, then reward it with thought-provoking interest and discussion. He has exhibited throughout the Southeast and nationally in museums and galleries. Recently he showed at the Mike Wright Gallery in Denver, CO and Mason Fine arts in Atlanta, GA. His work is in numerous public and private collections.

Katherine mitchell Weaving III 2006 Acrylic, chine colle and graphite on canvas 72 X 48 Value: $12,000 Starting Bid: $5,000

Biography: Katherine Mitchell was a MOCA GA Working Artist Project awardee in 2010-2011. In 2007 she was a City of Atlanta Master Series Artist for the year, with a major retrospective and catalogue. In 2005 she had a ten year survey solo exhibition at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and in 2006, a solo exhibition at the Factory, Kunsthalle Krems in Austria. These are but a few of the major exhibitions she has had over the years. She has shown at the American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters in New York City, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in D. C. Her work is in numerous museum collections, including those of the High Museum of Art, the J. B. Speed Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Arkansas Art Center, the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and many college and university collections. She has a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art, did post-graduate study at Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy, and holds an MFA from Georgia State University. She taught for 29 years in the Visual Arts Department of Emory University. She continues to exhibit widely and is currently working on an exhibition for 2017 at the Turchin Center at Appalachian State in Boone, N. C. She is represented by Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta. Katherine is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2010/2011

Jiha moon Nahan’s forty winks 2007 Chin colle and lithography Print: 25.5 X 30 Sculpture: 10 X 11 X 8.5 Value: $5,500 Starting bid: $1,800

Biography: Jiha Moon (b. 1973) is from DaeGu, Korea and lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Her works have been acquired by Asia Society, New York, NY, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. She has had solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, GA, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA, the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, The Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN and Rhodes College, CloughHanson Gallery, Memphis, TN and James Gallery of CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. She has been included in group shows at Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MI, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, Asia Society, New York, NY, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, White Columns, New York, NY, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, and theWeatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC. Her midcareer survey exhibition, “Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here” organized by Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and Taubman Museum is touring more than seven museum venues around the country until 2018. Jiha is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2012/2013

Myott Untitled nude 2016 Archival ink on plaster canvas 12 X 9 Value: $950 Starting bid: $500

Biography: Myott is a self-taught artist who has been painting, sculpting, and framing for over 30 years. Myott specializes in landscapes and figurative works in various media such as oil, mixed media, ink and stone. His artwork details the natural rhythms found in both nature and the human form. His artwork can be found in both private and corporate collections throughout the United States.

Eleanor neal Dancing spirits 2015 Wax monotype 34.25 X 26.75 Value: $1,500 Starting bid: $600 Biography: Eleanor received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her Thesis Exhibition was well received at the Sullivan Gallery at SAIC, 2016. Her work was featured in the Chicago Gallery Guide, summer 2016. Eleanor's art work has been featured in Anamesa 2014, the journal of New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Science. She has shown at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut in the International Footprint Biennial Exhibition curated by renowned artist Donald Sultan. Her work was featured in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, "Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists" Exhibition. Her work was featured in the Hampton University's International Review journal, where she won the prestigious Elizabeth Catlett Printmaking Award 2016, 2012. Eleanor is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. Eleanor has been accepted to the prestigious Vermont Studio Center Residency Program in 2017. Eleanor is a Hambidge Creative Residency Fellow. She has a studio at The Goat Farm Artists Center in Atlanta.

Artist statement: I create art work that speaks to the empowerment of women, cultural identity, and history. I am intrigued by stories from the women of West Africa, Guadeloupe and the Gullah Islands near the Georgia Sea Coast who fought to survive in a world of darkness, enslavement and chaos. Their connection to water lead to a sense of empowerment. The flow of water represents birth, cleanliness, spirituality, power and movement, the journey to a new world for a new life. It is this connection to water that drew me to the unique qualities of the Spanish Moss plant. Spanish Moss becomes the metaphor for survival by these women. Like the Spanish Moss on the tree that holds water within to sustain life, these women survived in spite of their physical, psychological abuse and isolation. The tree can be dead, yet the Spanish Moss thrives amongst death. Materials are important to my process. Treated papers, and beeswax, are twisted, crushed, torn, cut, and used to symbolize memories and place. The art works I create, the wax monotypes, collages, and abstract gestural drawings on canvas and paper resemble the complex, intricate, intertwining and interlacing and layering of nature with a connection to human presence. I use this to symbolize the order as well as disorder that existed in the lives of these women who are survivors of trauma. 62

Dorothy o’connor Shelter 2013 Archival pigment print 26 X 36 Value: $1,500 Starting bid: $1,000 Biography: Dorothy O'Connor graduated with degrees in Literature and Studio Arts. Her photographs and installations feature thoughtfully composed and hand-crafted scenes which combine elements of still-life, portraiture, landscape and performance to produce unique and evocative works of art. She has received grants from Possible Futures, FLUX and the Forward Arts Foundation to present her installations as public art. The lasting element of her installations, her photographs, have been exhibited in galleries throughout the U.S. In 2013, she was artist in residence at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville where she built and presented her installation, "Shelter." In 2016, she received a grant from Crusade For Art to build her latest Scene, “The Flood.” In 2014, 2015 and 2016, O’Connor was commissioned to create temporary public art pieces for Art on the Beltline. Ms. O'Connor's work is part of the permanent collections at MOCA GA, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, the Center for Fine Art Photography and is included in many private collections.

Masud olufani Man after treyyvon 2016 Pen and ink drawing 21 X 25 Value: $1,500 Starting bid: $1,200 Biography: Masud Ashley Olufani (MAO) is an Atlanta based actor and mixed media artist whose studio practice is rooted in the discipline of sculpture. He is a graduate of Arts High School in Newark, N.J., Morehouse College and The Savannah College of Art and Design where he earned an M.F.A. in sculpture in 2012. Masud has exhibited his work in group and solo shows in Atlanta, Georgia; New Orleans; Louisiana; Chicago, Illinois; Richmond, Virginia; Lacoste, France; and Hong Kong, China. The artist has completed residencies at The Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences in Rabun, GA.; and Creative Currents in Portobello, Panama. He is a recipient of a 2015 Idea Capital Grant; a Southwest Airlines Art and Social Engagement grant; a recipient of 2015-16’ MOCA GA Working Artist Project Grant; the SCAD Alum Artist in Residency Award, Savannah, GA; and is a 2014-15’ Walthall Fellow. He has been a featured actor in numerous television shows and films including Being Mary Jane; Devious Maids; Satisfaction; Nashville; ALL Eyez on Me: The Tupac Shekur Story; The Yard, and he was the on air host of Public Broadcasting’s 37 Weeks: Sherman on the March. Masud is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2015/2016

Lainey papageorge Forest bracelet 2013-14 Sterling, tourmaline, sphene, boulder opal and sapphires Inside Circumference: 8 Diameter: 3 Value: $3,200 Starting Bid: $1,500

Biography: The jewelry designs of Atlanta native, Lainey Papageorge, orbit the gems and minerals that have inspired her for over 40 years. Her special connection to nature, her sculptural approach, and her use of metals, stones and bones offers the viewer an insight into her true essence as a visual artist. The Museum of Contemporary Art of GA mounted a 40-year Retrospective of 120 pieces from private collections in 2014, a tribute to her powerful career as a jewelry artist. Drawing inspiration from her travels, she has residences in Atlanta and Ithaca, NY and maintains working studios in both locations.

65 Â Â

Jo peterson Branches/september 2014 India ink and acryilc glazes on wood panel 8 X 10 X 1 Value: $1,000 Starting bid: $500 Biography: Jo Peterson is a visual artist who works primarily with mixed media drawing and painting. She exhibits both locally and nationally, and is represented by the Sandler-Hudson Gallery in Atlanta, GA. She has pursued an active artistic career in the Atlanta area since 1976. Her work is part of both private and corporate collections throughout the United States. Jo received a BA in Art from American University in Washington, DC (1971), an MVA in Printmaking from Georgia State University (1976), and an MFA in Drawing from the University of Florida (1996). She has taught at several schools in Atlanta, among them the Atlanta College of Art and the Art Institute of Atlanta, and has been a full time professor in the School of Foundations at SCAD-Atlanta since 2007. She currently maintains a studio at Paradise Studios in Decatur, GA.

Mario petrirena The inevitability of the fading 2012 Photo collage on board 20 X 20 X .75 Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $1,000

Biography: Mario Petrirena is a Cuban born American artist living and working in Atlanta. He was born in Cuba in 1953 and came to the United States in 1962. Petrirena attended the University of Florida receiving his BA in Fine Art in 1977. He attended graduate school at Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Craftsman. He has been a visual artist for over 20 years, working in a variety of mediums including collage and clay. Petrirena is the recipient of several awards including the 2006 Pollock Krasner Grant. He has exhibited widely, nationally and internationally. His work is included in several museum collections including The High Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Museum of Contemporary art of Georgia and in numerous corporate and private collections. He is represented Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Junco sato pollack Sky cloud no. 3 2006 Dye sublimation on voided aluminum polyester organza 6 X 47 X 1.5 Value: $3,000 Starting bid: $500

Biography: Junco Sato Pollack has exhibited internationally in museums and galleries in major cities in the world. She has received honors, awards and grants during her long carrier as artist, including the 1997 Georgia Women for the Arts Award appointed by the Governor of Georgia, and as finalist in the International Art Textile Competitions in Brussels, Belgium and in Tokyo, Japan. Junco’s works are housed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and Design (MAD), New York; the Francis Loeb Library of the Harvard Graduate School of Design; the RIT’s Wallace Library; and in numerous private and corporate collections.

Sheila pree bright Young americans elisa iturbe 2007 Chromogenic print 35 X 45 Value: $3,850 Starting bid: $1,200

Biography: Sheila Pree Bright is an acclaimed fine-art photographer known for her photographic series #1960Now, Young Americans, Plastic Bodies, and Suburbia. She received national attention shortly after earning her M.F.A. in Photography from Georgia State University, and describes herself in the art world as a visual cultural producer portraying large-scale works that combine a wide-range of contemporary culture. Bright’s work is included in the book and exhibition Posing Beauty in African American Culture (Deborah Willis, W. W. Norton, 2009). Bright’s photographs appeared in the 2014 feature-length documentary Through the Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (Director: Thomas Allen Harris). Venues that featured her work include the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; FotoFest, Houston; International Center of Photography, New York and the Leica Gallery in New York. She is the recipient of several awards including the Santa Fe Prize (2006), and her work is included in numerous private and public collections, to name a few; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC, Oppenheimer Collection: Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland, KS, National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, GA and The Library of Congress, Washington, DC, The Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD and the University of Georgia, Athens, GA. Sheila is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2014/2015

Wynne ragland Fritz steam engine Carbon print with museum glass 2014 25 X 25 Value: $1,100 Starting Bid: $750 Biography: Wynne Ragland was born and raised in Birmingham, AL. He received a BFA from The Atlanta College of Art and a MFA from The School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology. Ragland's work has been featured and reviewed in numerous publications including a rare encore portfolio review in Computer Graphics World Magazine. He has exhibited in Atlanta, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, Princeton, Birmingham, Tokyo and in Beijing. His work is included in many public and private collections, including the MOCA GA permanent collection.

A note on the work: This Fritz Steam engine was used to run a Cotton Gin. The steam engine made growing cotton in the south possible. The image was photographed in Elloree, South Carolina.

Seana reilLy Crestline 2016 Liquid graphite on aluminum 60 X 16 Value: $2,400 Starting Bid: $1,900

Biography: Seana Reilly was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and now resides in Atlanta, GA. Ms. Reilly left her previous architectural career to become a professional studio artist. Her work is directly influenced by this professional history, as well as by an interest in buddhist thought and the sciences. She has works in the permanent collection of the High Museum, in various corporate and public collections, and has appeared in publications including the International Drawing Annual and New American Paintings.

leeAnna repass untitled 2008 Pastel on paper 45 X 72 Value: $13,000 Starting bid: $8,000 Biography: LeeAnna Repass's drawings aim to articulate liminal space between shifts in movement, an ache for stillness, and the desire to find a place outside of time’s effects. Her images of water are about how the substance can speak of wholeness in the face of entropy, and how shared patterning between nature’s minutia and the sublime at once comfort and inspire resignation. She is a graduate of the Atlanta College of Art, and has an exhibition list that features several solo shows at Mason Fine Art, inclusion in museum shows, and juried exhibitions across the Southeast.

Lucha rodriguez Creaturette fluorescente seis 2011 Hand cut and sewn paper with acrylic 29.5 X 23.5 Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $500

Biography: Lucha Rodriguez received her MFA in Printmaking from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010, and her BFA in Graphic Design from The Art Institute of Atlanta in 2006. Her work ranges from etchings, monoprints and colorful silkscreens, to immersive multi-layered installations of cut paper, each created with pink – the artist’s signature color. Rodriguez intricate imagery recall the inner workings of the body and the books of medical illustrations that fascinated her as a child inspire her forms.

Rocio rodriguez July 1, 2008 2008 Acrylic on canvas 25.5 X 30 Value: $5,000 Starting bid: $3,500

Biography: Rocío Rodríguez has been in over thirty solo exhibitions in contemporary art centers, museums and private art galleries and she has also participated in over ninety nationally curated group exhibitions. Ms. Rodríguez is the recipient of the Artadia Atlanta 2011 Award, a Cintas Fellowship, an Affiliated Fellowship Award at the American Academy of Art in Rome, Italy and two SAF/NEA Fellowships. Most recently she had solo exhibitions at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NYC, Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta, and the Huntsville Museum of Art in Alabama. In 2014 she was awarded an Artist Residency at Marfa Contemporary in Marfa,Texas, where she also had a solo exhibition in July of 2015. She has been commissioned by the High Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia to do temporary large-scale wall drawings in addition to the one done at her exhibition at Marfa Contemporary. In 2012 Ms. Rodriguez had a retrospective exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ga. Her work has been featured in two books; Out of the Rubble and NOPLACENESS: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape and her work is in numerous national public and private art collections. Reviews of her work have appeared in Art in America, Art Forum, burnaway.org, and artsatl.com.

M scoffield In Time 2010 Mixed media on panel 48 X 53.75 Value: $15,000 Starting bid: $10,200

Biography: Michael Scoffield, a native of Tennessee, received a BFA from Fisk University in Nashville and received his MFA from Georgia State University. He has been involved in many projects, including the “Amistad” exhibition curated by David Driskell, group exhibitions including: “Locating the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in African American Art” at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum in Washington, D.C., the MOCA GA exhibits “Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists” and “Dissolving Stereotypes/Forging New Dialogues: An Exhibition Beyond Race”, curated by Larry Walker in Atlanta Georgia, “100 @100” exhibition of the Welch School Galleries of Georgia State University, “Urban Chrysaliosis,” which he curated, at The Tubman African American Museum in Macon Georgia, and “The Red Clay Survey” exhibit at Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama He has also had solo shows in several regional museums and galleries including The Tubman African American Museum, Stan McCollum Gallery, City Hall Gallery East, and currently September Gray Gallery.

Corrina sephora Off into the distance of still waters 2015 Forged and fabricated steel Dimensions variable Value: $4,800 Starting bid: $1,300

Biography: Corrina began her life-long interest in metalworking at the age of five in her father’s workshop. After receiving her BFA in Sculpture and Metal smithing at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston in 1995, she moved to Atlanta, GA, where she opened a studio creating metalwork and mixed media. In 2005, Corrina received her MFA in Fine Arts and Sculpture from Georgia State University. Corrina has studied abroad and participated in Artist residencies internationally, in Scotland at the Scottish Sculpture workshop, Hungary at HMC, and in France, Italy and Spain in independent study abroad and residencies. Her awards include, “Best in Show” from North Charleston National Sculpture Exhibition, “Peoples Choice Award” and “Purchase Award” Ocala Outdoor Sculpture show, “Best in Show” from Annette Cone Skelton of MOCA, GA, Silver Award from Icarus International, and a Silver Sculpture Award from NOMMA, among various other awards for her works. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Temple Sinai, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, Greenfield Hebrew Academy, King and Spaulding Contemporary Art Collection, MOCA GA, and in many private collections nationally. She has exhibited throughout the Southeast including at the Brahm Museum in North Carolina and the Metro Cobb Museum in Marietta GA.

Robert sherer Submarine game 2014 Pyrography, wood stains and verneer 20 X 25 X 2 Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $400

Biography: Robert Sherer is an internationally exhibiting Atlanta-based artist whose work explores race, gender, sexuality and Southern identity. He is best known for his use of unconventional media and for four incidents of art censorship. He is currently represented by Kunstbehandlung Galerie, Munich, Germany; Rice-Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA., Sidetracks Gallery, New Hope, PA. and Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA.

Jerry siegel Pagent, dallas county, AL 2014 Archival inkjet print 24.5 X 28.5 Value: $2,200 Starting bid: $1,200

Biography: Siegel was born and raised in Selma, AL, and graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta. He was awarded the Grand Prize of the first Artadia Award in Atlanta in 2009. Artadia is a New York–based national program that awards artists of outstanding merit with substantial, unrestricted funds and connects them to a network of opportunities. His first monograph, FACING SOUTH, Portraits of Southern Artists was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2011, and features portraits of 100 Southern artists. This body of work has been featured in solo exhibitions at 6 Museums in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana. His next book, Black Belt Color, due in early 2017, focuses his attentions on documenting the unique, cultural landscape of the South, concentrating on the Black Belt region of Alabama. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, The Telfair Museum, Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, GA, Montgomery Museum of Art in Montgomery, AL, The Morris Museum in Augusta, GA, The Jule Collins Smith Museum in Auburn, AL, and The Mobile Museum of Art , Mobile, AL. A commissioned body of work for the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia, was featured in the 2009 solo exhibition Now and Then, Snapshots of the South. His work is in many private and corporate collections, including the Ogden Museum, High Museum, GA Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, MOCA GA, and many other Southeastern US Museums.

Deanna sirlin Wonder 2015 Mixed media on canvas 48 X 36 Value: $8,000 Starting Bid: $6,000

Biography: Deanna Sirlin received an MFA from Queens College, CUNY. She has received numerous honors, including a Rothko Foundation Symposium Residency in Painting, a grant from the United States State Department, a Yaddo Foundation Residency and a Creative Capital Warhol Foundation Award for its Art Writing Mentorship Program. She has been Artist in Residence at the Padies Foundation, Lempaut, France, and for the City of Nuremberg, Germany. Sirlin has had solo exhibitions at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy; The Centre for Recent Drawing, London, UK; Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center; and M55art in NYC. Her work has been commissioned for exhibitions at The New Orleans Museum of Art and The Georgia Museum; she was invited by Pawel Althamer to part be of his exhibition at the New Museum, NYC. Sirlin's work has been written about in The London Telegraph SundayMagazine, Art in America, International Art News, Art Papers Magazine, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta Magazine, Digital Art, Southern Living Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, Catalyst Magazine, and Flavourpill Magazine/London. Her book, She’s Got What It Takes: American Women Artists in Dialogue was published by Charta Art Books, Milan, Italy and NYC in 2013. Sirlin lives and works outside of Atlanta, Georgia.

Micah stansell Walkman 2013 Photograph 13 X 16.875 Value: $800 Starting bid: $150 Biography: Micah Stansell is an Atlanta-based video/filmmaker and installation artist. He received an MFA in Digital Filmmaking and the Arts from Georgia State University. His work has screened in galleries, museums and film festivals across the Unites States and internationally. Stansell has received several awards for his work. He was named Alumni of the Year for Georgia State University in 2014, 2013 Herradura Art Prize, 2011 Artadia Award, 2010 Working Artist Project Award from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, a Special Jury Prize for Innovative Filmmaking at the 2009 Atlanta Film Festival, and a 2008 Student Academy Award Nomination for his graduate work. Stansell's work has been reviewed in numerous publications including Art in America, Moviemaker Magazine, Atlanta Art Now: Noplacencess and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. Micah is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2010/2011

Whitney stansell Practice 2012 Waterbased media 28.5 X 20.75 Value: $1,200 Starting bid: $100

Biography: Whitney Stansell lives and works in College Park, GA. She has a BFA in Fibers and an MFA in Drawing and Painting. Her work ranges from fibers, sculpture, painting and drawing, to single and multi-channel film and video works, and installations. The work often explores ideas of family history, narrative traditions, and binary relationships that pull from contemporary issues influenced and informed by environment and location. Her work has been reviewed in numerous publications including Art in America, FiberARTS Magazine, and the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. She is represented by Whitespace Gallery

David swann Quiet journey 2012 Acrylic inks, acrylics and mixed media on canvas 36 X 36 Value: $3,600 Starting bid: $1,000

Biography:

A self-taught artist and commercial designer \ photographer \ writer living and working in Atlanta, Georgia, David's work has been shown throughout the United States and several foreign countries. His fine art works-on-paper and mixed-media works-on-canvas are in several public and private collections. David's work has been juried into numerous national exhibitions by such renowned jurists as Jane Jackson, curator of the Sir Elton John Photography Collection; Julian Cox, former curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta; Fay Gold, Fay Gold Gallery; Naomi Silva, IRevelar; and, Stephen Wirtz of the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, CA. In 1985, David was the first photographer to have work accepted into the prestigious Salon des Artistes Indépendants in Paris, France, since the group's inception in 1887. His aprés du bord was prominently displayed in the Grand Palais for the duration of the salon. In Before the Storm: A Random Truth Revealed David re-examines what we formerly embraced as an indisputable visual truth, submitting to a dramatic shift in our emotional color palettes— ultimately seeing hues formerly visited in a different light—sometimes disturbingly intimate and often less reassuring— then we had previously experienced them.

Katherine taylor Moving horizon/almost white 2015 Oil on canvas 48 X 36 Value: $9,000 Starting bid: $7,000

Biography: Katherine Taylor was born in Biloxi, MS, a city shaped by decades of natural disasters, thus her work in painting often examines visual relationships that mediate our experience of and response to destruction in the natural world. Featured in New American Paintings #112, #70 and #58, her works are the topic for review in numerous books and publications including Art Papers, The Boston Globe and Painted Landscapes: Contemporary Views. Taylor's work has been included in exhibitions internationally, including the Quebec City Biennale, Quebec, Canada; Diverseworks, Houston TX; The Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA; Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA; and in Atlanta, GA at; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and the High Museum of Art. Taylor received a Vermont Studio Fellowship for 2013 and 2015, a Working Artist Project award from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia for 2012/13 and participated as the Kirk Visiting Artist at Agnes Scott College for 2013/14. Taylor currently resides in Atlanta, where she is represented by Marcia Wood Gallery. Katherine is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2012/2013

Alexi torres Frida money 2016 Oil on canvas 37 Diameter Value: $7,000 Starting bid: $3,000 Biography: Alexi Torres was born in 1976 in Bermeja, a small village about 70 miles southeast of Havana, Cuba. From 1989-1991 he studied at Escuela Provicial de Artes in Mantanzas and 1991-1995 at Escuela Nacional de Artes in Havana. Torres has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad including, but not limited to: “Sun Light” Unix Gallery, NYC 2016. Jones Carter Gallery, Lake City, SC, 2016; Marietta Cobb Museum Of Art, Marietta, GA, 2014; DMoMA Lausanne, Switzerland, 2013; UNIX Gallery, New York, 2013 and 2016; Hoover Library, Alabama, 2013. Torres’s work can be found in major private and public collections, including the private collections of Will Smith, Delta Airlines, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Hoover Public Library, Museum of Art Matanzas, Cuba. He is the recipient of the following awards: 2014: People’s Choice Award; Red Clay Survey; Huntsville Museum of Art, 2014; Grand Prize N.Y. Art Festival, Miami Florida, 2004; Grand Prize "Mapa Conceptual”, Matanzas, Cuba, 2002; Second Place Roberto Diego, Provincial Salon of Visual Arts, Matanzas, Cuba, 2000. In 2003 the artist moved from Cuba to the United States where he maintains studios in Atlanta, GA and Zacundo, Costa Rica.

Gregor turk Urban tablet: Hong kong 2005 Ceramic 12.5 X 12.5 X 1 Value: $425 Starting bid: $225

Biography: Known for his public art installations, ceramic sculpture, photography, and mixed-media constructions, Gregor Turk often incorporates mapping imagery and cultural markings into his artwork. He has permanent public art installations at the Atlanta and Jacksonville airports. His work is included in the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, High Museum and numerous other public and private collections. Turk grew up in Atlanta, received his B.A. from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee and his M.F.A. from Boston University. Between degrees he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia. His studio is located in Atlanta. Gregor is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2011/2012

85 Â Â

Lisa tuttle Lady of the crosses 2016 Acrylic photographic print on matte paper 20 x 16 Value: $600 Starting Bid: $400 Biography: Lisa Tuttle’s artworks are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Federal Reserve Bank, and Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport, as well as numerous private collections. She is represented by Sandler Hudson Gallery, and her studio is located at the Arts Exchange. She has received a number of awards–an Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Year-in-Review award (with Alice Lovelace); a Soros Foundation/O.S.I. Documentary Photography Project grant, a King Baudouin Foundation Cultural Exchange Fellowship for residency in Belgium, a Caversham Center for Artists and Writers residency in South Africa, and two SAF/NEA Visual Arts fellowships – one for Sculpture (1991) and a second for Photography (1995).

Larry walker Emancipation erosion 2013 Acrylic and mixed materials on watercolor paper with plexiglass cover 31 X 41 Value: $6,000 Starting bid: $3,000

Biography: Walker utilizes painting, drawing, collage, and mixed materials as the primary processes for his work. His career spans 50+ years and includes an extensive exhibition record of more than 200 invitational and juried group presentations and more than sixty solo exhibitions in galleries, museums, and art centers in various parts of the country. Walker’s work is included in the permanent collections of numerous museums, private individuals, and corporations, including The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA); The Studio Museum in Harlem; The Huntsville Museum; The Los Angeles County Museum; The Collection of Hallmark Cards Inc.; The High Museum; The Georgia Museum of Art; The African American Museum in Dallas and most recently the Birmingham Museum in Alabama and other publicly accessible sites. Walker graduated from the renowned High School of Music and Art in New York City and holds a B.S. degree in Art Education as well as a Masters degree in Drawing and Painting from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. His 42-year teaching and administrative academic experience included six years in Detroit Public Schools, 19 years at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA (7 years as Department Chairman) and 17 years at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA (11 years as Director of the School of Art and Design). Now retired as a Professor Emeritus, Walker continues to add credits to his substantial accomplishments as an artist, visual arts supporter, juror, and curator. He recently received the 2016 Nexus Award from the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and he was recognized as a recipient of a 2016 Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities.

About the work: An acrylic and mixed material painting on watercolor paper has symbolic references to African American struggles and some oppressive elements melded to a compositional structure that seeks space and freedom beyond the edges. Larry is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2007/2008 87

Cosmo whyte Muddy wata 2015 Lithograph 26 1/2 X 31 Value: $600 Starting Bid: $500

Biography: Cosmo Whyte was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica in 1982. The Jamaican born artist attended Bennington College in Vermont for his Bachelor in Fine Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art for his Post-Baccalaureate Certificate and the University of Michigan for his MFA. He has exhibited in the US, Jamaica, Norway, France and South Africa. In 2010 he was the winner of the Forward Art emerging artist of the year award. In 2015 he was the recipient of the International Sculpture Center’s “Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award” and in 2016 he was the recipient of an Artadia Award. Cosmo Whyte is based in Atlanta, Georgia and Montego Bay, Jamaica and is currently a professor at Morehouse College.

Caomin xie Mandala #48 2015 Oil on canvas 64 X 48 Value: $8,000 Starting bid: $3,500 Biography: Caomin Xie (b. 1974) is a Shanghai & Atlanta-based artist, originally from China, and has been working in the US since 1999. From 1989 to 2000 he studied sculpture and painting at China Academy of Art and Savannah College of Art & Design. Xie holds a BFA in sculpture and an MFA in painting. Xie’s works have been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. His exhibitions include: The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006 at Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; Altered Traditions 2007, at Ethan Cohen Fine Arts in New York; Electronic Media Painting 2008 at Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art in China; solo exhibition Samsara at the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia in 2011; solo exhibition at the SCAD Art Museum in 2014, and Abstract Chinaat Shanghai Ming Yuan art Museum in 2016. Xie is also the winner or The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia Working Artist Project Award 2010-2011. His paintings have been collected by High Museum in Atlanta, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah Telfair Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia and HOW Art Museum in Shanghai China. Caomin is a MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) Fellow 2010/2011

Donate To MOCA GA

It’s hard to believe, but is it possible that none of these works will make it home with you? You can still show your support for these artists and for MOCA GA with a contribution in any amount! The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia proudly provides a space for engagement and enrichment amongst artists, collectors, and art enthusiasts. For more than 15 years MOCA GA has continued to produce quality exhibitions and programs as a means of connecting the community with the artists living and working in Georgia. Your generosity allows MOCA GA to continue to aid and encourage these artists. We appreciate your continued support! All gifts are tax-deductible.