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BRAIN DISEASES Stem cells open a window into the brain so that we can study its function in health and disease. Visit this station to:
• See how stem cells give us access to brain cells from patients with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, and other brain diseases • Hear how we are making 3D ‘mini-brains’ that reveal the way cells interact in the human brain — and why we launched them into space • Learn about the emerging role of inflammation and the immune system in neurodegenerative and mental health diseases, and the treatment opportunities it creates
T H E B O DY We are testing innovative ways to treat debilitating conditions such as diabetes, bone injury, and macular degeneration. At this station, you can:
• Learn about how we are making eye cells to treat blindness in people with macular degeneration • Find out about the novel research to make a functional cure for type 1 diabetes a reality • Hear how NYSCF scientists are growing personalized bone implants from stem cells
PERSONALIZED MEDICINE Stem cells will help us to create treatments tailored to each patient’s genetic blueprint and disease experience. Stop by this station to:
• See our robots in action and our one-of-a-kind technology that generates stem cells for personalized disease research • Hear how growing tumors in the lab is helping to personalize cancer therapies in our Women’s Reproductive Cancers Initiative • Talk to NYSCF scientists about how you can create your own personal stem cell line • Learn how we are using artificial intelligence to find better drugs, faster
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MARY FRANK Horse and Rider Paper, watercolor 29.5” x 41.5” Estimated Retail Value: $1,800 Mary Frank’s (b.1933) career as a painter, printmaker, and sculptor spans five decades. Largely self-taught, Frank was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Ar ts and Letters in 1984. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, among them two Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships, the Lee Krasner Award by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Grant. Her work is represented in many permanent collections, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Metropolitan Museum of Ar t and The Jewish Museum, New York; the Minneapolis Institute of Ar t, MN; the National Museum of American Ar t, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and the Ar t Institute of Chicago, IL. Graciously donated by Eileen and Richard Ekstract
ALEXANDRA PENNEY Fractured Botanicals, 2010 Pigment prints on moab fine art archival paper 24” x 24” Estimated Retail Value: $5,000 Alexandra Penney left a highly celebrated career in journalism to resume her earlier career in art. While working with leading photographers Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Helmut Newton, at Conde Nast, she decided to change direction by exploring digital photography. Her first New York City solo show, at the Julie Lavin Gallery, focused on large-scale digitally manipulated flowers, which have been a continuing focus of her work. The works she has donated to NYSCF’s Gala depict close-up floral imagery whose saturated colors and diffused forms push the envelope of digital photography’s capacity to convey painterly qualities. Her new series of ghost-like ephemeral portraits were the subject of a solo exhibition at the Jason McCoy Gallery, NY, in 2018, in which the subjects’ barely visible details disappear into the whiteness of the paper. Graciously donated by ar tist
RICHARD DUPONT Biometry 163, 2014 Oil on handmade Indian paper 30” x 22” Estimated Retail Value: $5,000 Richard Dupont’s (b.1968) Biometry Paintings char t the human impulse to trace one’s own presence, first recorded an estimated 30,000 years ago on the walls of the Lascaux Caves. The Paintings are both political and metaphysical, extending the existential gesture into the digital age of biometrics, surveillance, and big data. They derive not from a direct print of the body, but from a digital scan captured fifteen years ago on a military base in Ohio, which mapped the changing nature of the human form. Dupont’s works are included in numerous collections, including The Museum of Modern Ar t, the Whitney Museum of American Ar t, the New York Public Library Print Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Museum of Fine Ar ts, Boston, MA; the Cleveland Museum of Ar t, Cleveland, OH; and many others. In 2014 he was the recipient of the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) Visionary Award. Graciously donated by ar tist
JOHN NEWSOM Moment of Truth, 2019 Charcoal on paper 12” x 12” Estimated Retail Value: $5,000 John Newsom (b. 1970) is a mid-career painter who has been exhibiting in New York and abroad for the past thir ty years. His work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Ar t and The Whitney Museum of American Ar t, New York, NY and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Ar t, San Francisco, CA among other notable public institutional collections. A central subject in Newsom’s broad visual iconography is the large cat, a “beast” as the artist refers to it. Newsom is a painter of allegory, whereby a visual depiction of a thing might represent the mood or feeling of another. In this work for NYSCF, Newsom has created an original charcoal drawing of a tiger eye, titled Moment of Truth. Newsom says, “The image implies strength and is symbolic of earnestness. In facing challenges in life, one must rise above the current obstacle with focus and faith.” He has recently held solo exhibitions at Contra Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Brintz Gallery, Palm Beach, FL. Graciously donated by ar tist
PA M S Z T Y B E L North Coast Quartet, 2014 Watercolor 16� x 17.5� Estimated Retail Value: $4,000 New York ar tist Pamela Sztybel (b. 1956) is a painter and printmaker focusing upon ethereal landscapes and lilting floral compositions. She studied at The New School for Social Research and the New York Academy of Ar t, and has won fellowships to the Santa Fe Ar t Institute, with Wolf Kahn; The Vermont Studio Center ; and the Scuola Grafica in Venice, Italy. She has par ticipated as a visiting ar tist at The American Academy in Rome, and as a teacher at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica. She has taught workshops and lectured at Connecticut College, the West Liber ty State College in West Virginia, the Long Beach Island Foundation for the Ar ts in New Jersey, Claremont Graduate University, CA, and the Huntington Library in Pasadena, CA. She has had solo shows in New York at Spanierman Gallery, Wickiser Gallery, and Jill Newhouse Gallery. Her works can be found in numerous corporate and private collections. Graciously donated by ar tist
DAVID SALLE Untitled, 2019 Gouache on paper 14” x 10.5” Estimated Retail Value: $20,000 David Salle (b.1952) is an American painter, printmaker, and stage designer who has helped to define postmodern sensibility. He studied under the famed conceptual artist John Baldessari, who has been a lasting influence on his work. He is known for his collage-like paintings featuring overlapping imagery from a variety of sources, layering figures and patterns into colorful compositions rendered in a straightforward, uncomplicated style. Salle aspires to achieve the “simultaneity of film montage into painting.” In addition to his studio practice, he has frequently written for Artforum, The Paris Review, and ARTnews, among others. His paintings can be found in such noted collections as the Whitney Museum of American Ar t and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Gallery, London; the Ar t Institute of Chicago; and the National Gallery of Ar t, Washington, DC. Cour tesy of the ar tist and Skarstedt, New York and London
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TA R R A B A N D E T Stem Nucleus of Evolution, 2019 Mixed media 17”x13” Estimated Retail Value: $2,700 Tarra Bandet’s Stem Nucleus of Evolution transforms direct elements of nature into symbolic fragments of exquisite light, vibrant palettes and sculptural mixed-media designs. The constant creative expansion of the Universe speaking to us is mirrored back to the Universe through our fundamental human consciousness seeking a heightened awareness of its mysteries in nature and guides our ability to make quantum leaps in our intelligence. The Universe further expands knowledge of itself by revealing and communicating its mysteries into human consciousness to create something ingeniously new. The luminous mixed-media sculptural painting is representative of the artist’s more extensive thematic symbolist practice. Her work frequently explores the relationship between the complex narratives of the human condition, nature, and our evolutionary purpose in the Universe. Bandet’s artwork recognizes that our primary human origin first resides amongst nature’s magnificent origin. This origin unites the rich tapestry of symbolic narratives about the human condition throughout the entire history of all cultures. Through constant evolution in nature, we honor the source of our origin. We discover that we are merely a precious small piece in a unique puzzle, far beyond our comprehension. Ultimately, evolution captures our imagination and strengthens the foundation for higher learning and creation by forging a covalent bond between the Arts and Sciences. Graciously donated by ar tist
JESSIC A BROWNE-WHITE Red Riding Hood:The World is Out To Get You, 2015/2016 Mixed Media 9� x 12� Estimated Retail Value: $1,270 New York-based multidisciplinary ar tist Jessica Browne-White (b. 1978) is a Waking Dreamer, Energy Ar tist, and creator of the Body/Image/Object (BIO) Project. She creates two and three-dimensional ar tworks that layer and reflect the physical, emotional, spiritual, and creative lives of women. Her work is an ongoing exploration of how our biology affects our biographies (and vice versa); along with how we can shift and integrate our perception of our bodies, our self-image, and the object(ive) of our lives. Browne-White describes this work as a piece about the release of emotional fracturing, and exploring the color and texture of emotion beneath the surface we present to the world. Where are the cracks and pressure points, and can we find beauty in them instead of hiding them? Graciously donated by ar tist
ALEXANDRA PENNEY Fractured Botanicals, 2010 Pigment prints on moab fine art archival paper 24” x 24” Estimated Retail Value: $5,000 Alexandra Penney left a highly celebrated career in journalism to resume her earlier career in art. While working with leading photographers Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Helmut Newton, at Conde Nast, she decided to change direction by exploring digital photography. Her first New York City solo show, at the Julie Lavin Gallery, focused on large-scale digitally manipulated flowers, which have been a continuing focus of her work. The works she has donated to NYSCF’s Gala depict close-up floral imagery whose saturated colors and diffused forms push the envelope of digital photography’s capacity to convey painterly qualities. Her new series of ghost-like ephemeral portraits were the subject of a solo exhibition at the Jason McCoy Gallery, NY, in 2018, in which the subjects’ barely visible details disappear into the whiteness of the paper. Graciously donated by ar tist
ROBERT MANGOLD From the series Seven Original Woodcuts, 2000 Woodcut 8” x 10” Estimated Retail Value: $1,000 Robert Mangold (b. 1937), who has been creating Minimalist works for five decades, is known for his elegant and concise combinations of shape, line, and color. His paintings, drawings, and prints have been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and retrospectives at institutions ranging from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Musée D’Orsay, Paris. Featured in the Whitney Biennial four times, in 1979, 1983, 1985, and 2004, his work is included in dozens of international public collections. Mangold earned his BFA, 1961, and MFA, 1963, from Yale University, New Haven. He received a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1969 and has held various teaching positions, among them at the School of Visual Arts and at Hunter College, New York; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Graciously donated by Jeanne Collins and John Elderfield
AUDREY FLACK Marilyn, 2019 Hand drawing over screen print. Graphite and prismacolor 12” x 16” Estimated Retail Value: $4,500 Audrey Flack (b.1931), an American painter and sculptor, began her career as an Abstract Expressionist and moved on to gain notoriety for her work as a Photorealist painter. She was the first such painter to have a piece purchased by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her Marilyn paintings and drawings are par t of her vanitas series (a still life that alludes to the vanity of worldly pleasures and to life’s transient nature), serving as a commemorative meditation on the life, death, and celebrity of Marilyn Monroe. Flack’s work has been exhibited in many major museums, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Ar t, New York. Her monumental public sculptures include Civitas: The Four Visions, a set of four statues at the gateway to Rock Hill, SC, and Veritas at the 13th Judicial Couthouse, Tampa, FL. Graciously donated by ar tist
M AT T D I L L O N Flavian, 2019 Ink jet print A/P 46” x 34” Estimated Retail Value: $3,500 Matt Dillon, (b.1964) best known as an award-winning actor and film director, is one of the premiere voices within his generation of actors.Throughout Dillon’s illustrious film career, he has maintained an avid interest in the art-making process, having grown up in a family of artists himself. During his extensive travels, he has created “trip books”; visual journals functioning as his field diaries. In the process, he collages multiple scraps of ephemera found in the forms of photos and local memorabilia onto various papers. Dillon is an avid explorer of visual process and method. For his work titled Flavina, 2019, the artist began with a smaller version of the original artwork and developed it into a larger format “editioned piece”. The print exists as an individual artists’ proof. It highlights some of Dillon’s key motifs, including portraiture, implied landscape and expressionistic brushwork. Recent exhibitions include Think in Pictures held at Amelchenko in New York. Forthcoming projects include exhibitions at Alta Art Center, Malmö, Sweden; 8. Salon, Hamburg, Germany; and The Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, Vermont. Graciously donated by ar tist
CARROLL DUNHAM #4 Pencil, Charcoal, Wax Crayon on Paper 22.5” x 30” Edition: artist proof 3/5, edition of 40 Estimated Retail Value: $7,000 Carroll Dunham (b.1949) is known for his paintings of car toonish, humanoid forms such as penis-nosed men, bulbous shapes reminiscent of sexual or digestive organs, and direct, humorous compositions of exposed vaginas. Mixing elements of Pop Ar t, Surrealism, Neo-Expressionism, and Abstract Expressionism through a stylistically rich career joining abstraction and figuration, Dunham’s paintings and works on paper variously reference Arshile Gorky, Paul Gauguin, Philip Guston, and the comics of R. Crumb. His work is represented in many major museum collections, including The Museum of Modern Ar t, the Whitney Museum of American Ar t, and the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Ar t Institute of Chicago, Chicago; and the Museum of Contemporary Ar t, Los Angeles. Graciously donated by Eileen and Richard Ekstract
C H R I S TO The Floating Piers, Lake Iseo, Italy, 2017 Offset print of photograph by Wolfgang Volz with collaged fabric sample 27 7/8” x 17 ½” Estimated Retail Value: $3,000 Christo (b.1935) is an internationally renowned artist. His earliest sculptures were composed of cans and bottles—some as found and some painted or wrapped in paper, plastic, or fabric. With his late wife, Jeanne-Claude, he made incomparable works of daring scale, ironically maintaining a loyalty to his earliest materials and methods. For this year’s Gala, Christo has donated a lithograph depicting his sixteen-day-long Floating Piers installation, from 2016, which reimagined Italy’s Lake Iseo. His modular floating-dock system of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes, extending over nearly two miles, undulated with the movement of the surface’s waves. Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s monumental projects have included: Iron Curtain—Wall of Oil Drums, Paris; Wrapped Buildings, Bern, Switzerland; Chicago, Illinois; and Spoleto, Italy; The Wrapped Pont Neuf, Paris; The Gates, Central Park, New York; and Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California. Graciously donated by ar tist
EXP E RI E NC E S
EXPERIENCE ART AND ARCHITECTURE WITH PA U L G O L D B E R G E R Invite a friend to join you for a once-in-a-lifetime walking architectural tour with Paul Goldberger. Enjoy a personal discussion with Paul about the best—and the worst—of changing New York, as you explore your favorite par t of the city with fresh eyes and exper t insights from the Pulitzer Prizewinning architecture critic and contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Possible tours include: • The “new” Midtown skyline, exploding with a wave of new super-tall buildings, including two that are taller than the Empire State Building. • The extraordinary Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park – the final design of the late architect Louis Kahn, and one of the most iconic new public spaces in New York City. Restrictions: Tour specifics to be determined by mutual agreement with Paul Goldberger. Expires June 30, 2020. Graciously donated by Paul Goldberger
TWO TICKETS TO THE GREAT SOCIETY ON BROADWAY You and a friend can enjoy the new play about LBJ’s legacy: The Great Society. Capturing Johnson’s passionate attempts to build a just society for all, The Great Society follows his triumph in a landslide election to the agonizing decision not to run for re-election three years later. It was an era that would define history: the Civil Rights Movement, the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and the creation of some of the greatest social programs America has ever known—and one man was at the center of it all: LBJ. Restrictions: Dates:Tuesday,Wednesday, or Thursday performances between October 9, 2019 and November 19, 2019 Additional instructions on winning voucher
Graciously donated by Jeffrey Richards
T H E N E W YO R K YA N K E E S “ L E G E N D S S E AT S ” Invite three friends to join you in “Legends Seats” with the most coveted tickets in spor ts. “Root, root, root for the home team” directly above the dugout at Yankees Stadium. You’ll be so close to the action you could make the call at home plate. Enjoy a winning line-up of unparalleled comfor t, service, and convenience with a delectable selection of all-inclusive food and beverages, in-seat wait service, private restrooms, and exclusive access to the Legends Suite Club and Dugout Lounges. This ultimate Yankees experience is the baseball lover’s dream. Restrictions: 2020 Season, game subject to availability. Not valid for playoff games.
Graciously donated by Peter J. Goulandris & Dr. Karen Elizabeth Burke Goulandris
SUPER BOWL 54 T I C K E T PAC K AG E Super Bowl 54 will be in beautiful Miami, Florida on February 2, 2020. Feel the excitement and intrigue around the biggest event in American spor ts in person! You and a guest will watch the game LIVE from the upper level of the newly renovated Hard Rock Stadium, home of the Miami Dolphins. A complimentary parking pass is also included. Celebrate the NFL’s 100th season with this thrilling experience! Made possible by Stephen M. Ross and the Miami Dolphins Estimated Retail Value: $2,550
HOUSE SEATS TO BROADWAY’S FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME Enjoy two coveted house seats to the acclaimed, limited run of Freestyle Love Supreme — the original hip-hop musical phenomenon from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, and Anthony Veneziale — which just arrived on Broadway. Every performance, the crew takes the crowd on a freestyle, hiphop, improvisational, never-before-seen comedy ride. See it for the first time every time as the performers take suggestions from the audience and spin them into instantaneous riffs and full-length musical numbers. With special — and spontaneous — guest appearances from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, James Monroe Iglehart, and more, every night brings the unexpected. Restrictions: Limited run that will close on Jan. 5, 2020 Tickets are unavailable for the 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday shows, and all shows during Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s week Additional instructions on winning voucher
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THE PORTRAIT This is an opportunity to own a one of a kind, custom oil painting from realist painter Jackie Gordon. Working off any photo(s) of your choice, Jackie will create a truly customized work of art of any subject of your choosing. Jackie will also work with you if submitting multiple images to discuss which would translate the best onto canvas, and make the strongest painting. The painting will be a 16”x20,” on gallery edge canvas, ready for hanging. Jackie’s paintings exude an energy that transcends the photographic style. Her application of vibrant color, dramatic lights and darks and use of space allows her subjects to truly pop off the canvas. Much of the focus of her body of work features children, captured at the height of their innocence in unique moments in everyday life. Her work can be viewed at JackieGordonArt.com.
Restrictions: Subject to ar tist availability Graciously donated by Jackie Gordon Estimated Retail Value: $3,000
L E A D E R S H I P R E T R E AT International best–selling authors and sought-after seminar leaders, Greg Hicks and Rick Foster offer a one-day experience for leadership teams. Based on their acclaimed research across 70 countries as well as the latest in brain science, you’ll learn an evidenced-based approach for building hightrust, high-performance teams and organizations, including how to: • Keep employees in the executive function of the brain • Communicate directly and inspirationally • Convert major challenges into opportunities Greg and Rick have worked with prominent global companies like GE, Walgreens, Wells Fargo, Hilton, Mercedes-Benz and Google, with successful start-ups like Snapfish, FreshDirect, and SlightLife, and large healthcare centers (NYU Med Center and The Mayo Clinic.)
Restrictions Up to 18 par ticipants A minimum 3-month advance booking Venue not provided See www.FosterHicks.com for bios, testimonials and additional information. Graciously donated by Greg Hicks and Rick Foster Estimated Retail Value: $15,000
HAPPINESS WORKSHOP Greg Hicks and Rick Foster, best-selling authors of “How We Choose to Be Happy,” offer a one-day “happiness seminar” based on their research into the behaviors of the happiest people worldwide. The session brings together personal choice, biochemistry, neuroscience and the “executive function” of the brain – where human bonding and resiliency take place. A great experience for families, groups of individuals or teams, the workshop will be fun, interactive and life-transforming. You’ll learn: • Nine behaviors for inducing the biochemistry of a more joyful life • How to capitalize on your personality preference • How to reduce stress and enhance your sense of purpose
Restrictions Up to 20 par ticipants A minimum 3-month advance booking Venue not provided See www.FosterHicks.com for bios, testimonials and additional information. Graciously donated by Greg Hicks and Rick Foster Estimated Retail Value: $8,000
THE PORTRAIT Commission your own 12” x 18” por trait from celebrated por traitist Yigal Ozeri, renowned for his photorealistic painting technique. This is a rare and special oppor tunity to be por trayed with Ozeri’s signature ethereal beauty. His work can be found in permanent collections globally, including the Whitney Museum of American Ar t, The Jewish Museum in New York, The New York Public Library, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, The Frederick R. Weisman Ar t Foundation in Los Angeles, and the Alber tina in Vienna, among others.
Restrictions: Subject to ar tist availability Graciously donated by Yigal Ozeri Estimated Retail Value: $18,000
W I T H S P E C I A L AC K N OW L E D G E M E N T S TO : Gala Art Committee: Jeanne Collins and John Elderfield, Eileen and Richard Ekstract, Audrey Flack, Paul Goldberger*, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Richard J. Massey, PhD* and Tarra Bandet, John Newsom, and Elizabeth Sadoff for their guidance and leadership with the silent auction. *Art Committee Co-Chair
The artists, galleries, and individuals who donated art for the silent auction: Tarra Bandet, Jessica Browne-White, Christo, Matt Dillon, Carroll Dunham, courtesy of Eileen and Richard Ekstract, Richard Dupont, Audrey Flack, Mary Frank, courtesy of Eileen and Richard Ekstract, Robert Mangold, courtesy of Jeanne Collins and John Elderfield, John Newsom, Alexandra Penney, David Salle, and Pam Sztybel. Decor Art Gallery (at 456 Third Avenue, New York) for their donation of framing services for the silent auction. The individuals and organizations who donated one-of-a-kind experiences to the silent auction: Paul Goldberger; Jackie Gordon; Peter John Goulandris & Dr. Karen Elizabeth Burke Goulandris; Greg Hicks and Rick Foster; Jill Furman; Yigal Ozeri; Jeffrey Richards; Stephen M. Ross and the Miami Dolphins.
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