PRISMATIC: Southern Exposure's 2023 Art Auction Catalog

2023 Auction Catalog

PRISMATIC

Southern Exposure proudly presents PRISMATIC , our 2023 benefit art auction. We’re embracing the beauty of the spectrum, and inviting you to join us on Saturday, April 29 , for an in-person and hybrid event celebrating the boldness, brilliance, and brightness of the Bay Area art community. Even a single beam of light can bend into a rainbow.

Our Main Event will feature both a silent and a live auction (led by esteemed Bonhams Auctioneer Aaron Bastian), showcasing over 130 pieces of radiant art from some of the Bay Area’s most luminous new and established artists. Don’t miss the entertainment from local performers, delectable cocktails from Trick Dog, delicious hors d’oeuvres from Work of Art, and the joy of gathering safely with the vibrant SoEx community.

Live Auction

Saturday, April 29, 2023

6:00 PM

7:30 PM

8:30 PM

Doors Open

Live Auction

Silent Auction begins to close

Silent Auction

Bid online or via text on over 130 pieces of gorgeous artwork from some of the Bay Area’s leading new and established artists.

Register to Bid

Visit soex.org/auction to register for the auction and start bidding today! When you register to bid, you’ll gain the ability to view the full auction website, and to see each piece in gorgeous detail. Registering now will facilitate your online bidding process. You’ll receive real-time updates as other guests bid on the items you’re excited about.

Preview Exhibition

April 8 –27, 2023 in-person by appointment, and online

You can make a private appointment here to visit Southern Exposure’s gallery three weeks prior to the auction to preview the artwork.

VIP Preview

Thursday, April 13, 6:00 –8:00 PM

Become a SoEx Auction VIP and your support for our groundbreaking and boundarypushing programming can go even further. As a VIP ticket holder, you’ll be invited to our in-person VIP Auction Preview, where you’ll get to know more about the art and artists in our auction, have the first opportunity to “Buy-It-Now” for select works in advance of the main event, and enjoy delicious cocktails from our neighbors, True Laurel, charcuterie from Peckish Board, and more. You’ll also have the opportunity to make a private appointment to view the preview exhibition in advance of the main event.

Auction Rules

All acquisitions must be purchased in full. Each auction item is sold AS IS without warranty. Southern Exposure reserves the right to withdraw any item at any time before the actual sale. ALL SALES ARE FINAL WITH NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES.

Artwork Pick-Up + Shipping

Pick-Up: In-person attendees may take their artwork home the night of the event after confirmation of purchase; attendees who are not able to stay for art wrapping are welcome to make an appointment to pick up their work at a later date. Additionally, artwork will be available for pick-up after the event for remote bidders. Auction winners will be notified to make an appointment.

Shipping + Delivery: If you are not local, we can ship artwork to you via an art shipping company. Shipping will be billed to you at cost.

Payment

All payments must be made directly via our website at soex.org/auction . Sales Tax: 8.63% San Francisco sales tax will be charged on all sales.

Erina Alejo

Luca Antonucci

Johnna Arnold

Miguel Arzabe

Sholeh Asgary

JD Beltran

Kim Bennett

Ashwini Bhat

Libby Black

Sarah Blaustein

Ross Bleckner

Eva Bovenzi

Rachelle Bussières

Kelly Carámbula

Squeak Carnwath

Enrique Chagoya

Ajit Chauhan

Holly Coley

Richard Colman

Randy Colosky

Gina Contreras

Carolina Cuevas

Ali Dadgar

Rea Lynn de Guzman

Demart Denaro

Gene Dominique

Claire Dunn

Ricki Dwyer

Ebti

Lowell Edelman

Edgar Fabián Frías

Mary Finlayson

David Fullarton

ARTISTS

Dominic Garcia

Renée Gertler

Sheila Ghidini

Amos Goldbaum

Connie Goldman

Matt Gonzalez

Julia Goodman

Kellie Greenwald

Michael Hall

Kristie Hansen

Naomi Hawksley

Nicole Hayden

Taraneh Hemami

Cliff Hengst

Scott Hewicker

Graham Holoch

Sarah Hotchkiss

Tania Houtzager

Shao-Feng Hsu

Hughen/Starkweather

Sylvia Hughes-Gonzales

Colter Jacobsen

Jason Jägel

Packard Jennings

Chris Johanson

Josie Juantorena

Mary Anne Kluth

Michael Koehle

Christina La Sala

Noah Lang

Kris Lang

Ruth Laskey

Carrie Lederer

Charles Lee

Jessica Lin

Sarah Loomis

Cathy Lu

Kija Lucas

Nick Makanna

Michelle Mansour

Marbie

Kara Maria

Vanessa Marsh

Jet Martinez

Sanaz Mazinani

Alicia McCarthy

Anne McGuire

Daniel Arthur Mendoza

Adia Millett

Mary Morse

Hushidar Mortezaie

Nicole Mueller

Ranu Mukherjee

Parul Naresh

Amy Nathan

Mitsu Okubo

Kelly Ording

Jennie Ottinger

Gay Outlaw

Bussie Parker Kehoe

Alison Pebworth

Mitzi Pederson

Maya Pen

Keith Petersen

Ferris Plock

Carissa Potter Carlson

Helia Pouyanfar

Rachel Pozivenec

Mel Prest

J. John Priola

Rachelle Reichert

Kate Rhoades

Blaise Rosenthal

Byron Ryono

Sanaz Safanasab

Ron Moultrie Saunders

Dave Schubert

Azin Seraj

Jenny Sharaf

Alice Shaw

Brian Singer

Sarah A. Smith

Chanell Stone

Dharma Strasser MacColl

tamara suarez porras

Simon Tran

Esther Traugot

Helen Shewolfe Tseng

Ester Tuva

Isaac Vazquez Avila

Andy Vogt

Hannah Waiters

Johnny Wall

Leila Weefur

David Wilson

Jenifer K Wofford

Alice Wu

Arngunnur Yr

Haoyun Erin Zhao

Connie Zheng

Minoosh Zomorodinia

LIVE AUCTION

71. Cathy Lu

56. Jason Jägel

89. Ranu Mukherjee

62. Michael Koehle

55. Colter Jacobsen

58. Chris Johanson

82. Alicia McCarthy

4. Miguel Arzabe

116. Jenny Sharaf

9. Libby Black

10. Sarah Blaustein

ERINA ALEJO

No Amount of Money Will Save You

2020, Digital photograph

16” x 24” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1000

Starting Bid: $350

Artwork Description

From the series “My Ancestors Followed Me Here,” commissioned by SFMOMA in 2020, Erina Alejo traversed the 7.2-mile span of San Francisco’s Mission Street on foot to understand the pandemic’s impact on the neighborhoods where they grew up. Their photographs tell personal, incisive stories of Bay Area life that provoke larger conversations about the simmering tensions and injustices profoundly felt in these urban spaces towards collective activism and resistance. Edition 1 of 3.

Artist Bio

Erina Alejo (they/them/siya) is a cultural worker and lens-based artist whose work incorporates performativity, social practice, and public space to center and respond to care, community action, and cultural preservation. Their ethnographic practice as a timekeeper and oracle sustains longterm collaborative relationships with micro communities, including families, tenants, and service workers. This relationship-building work protects and archives these important narratives of anti-displacement resilience. Alejo’s artist practice informs their grantmaking work at the Office of the Vice President for the Arts at Stanford University, and organizing with neighborhoodbased grassroots organizations like San Francisco’s SOMA Pilipinas Filipino Cultural Heritage District. They are a third-generation San Francisco renter with family, and has work acquired by SFMOMA. Erina prefers to surf at dawn, pending conditions.

LUCA ANTONUCCI

Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker

2022, Color video print on paper

9” x 11” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $600

Starting Bid: $250

Artwork Description

In the 2022 series “OFF-SCREEN”, Luca Antonucci has frozen moments from popular movies in which nothing is “happening” on screen, elongating them into still images so that the viewer can develop a more complex relationship with the literal architecture of storytelling. Wielding a Sony Mavigraph color video printer, a tool historically used to print sonograms and other internal bodily explorations, he borrows unoccupied rooms from a variety of films in order to consider what they might tell us about our construction of shared realities. Confronting these spaces of non-action over and over again, the series documents the physical shape of film, separate from narrative.

Artist Bio

Luca Antonucci is a visual artist based in San Francisco and co-founder of the publishing practice Colpa Press.

JOHNNA ARNOLD

Energy + Form #5

2023, C-prints, thread and acrylic paint

12.25” x 18” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and framed by Michael Thompson

Retail Value: $2400

Starting Bid: $800

Artwork Description

Oil is a liquid formed from prehistoric life forms, transformed inside the earth. It facilitates the majority of manufactured forms we create, from building insulation to the wrapper on the side of the road. “Energy + Form” is a body of unique photographic C-prints. The forms are created in a color darkroom by blocking areas of light-sensitive paper, then exposing it to light. For these collaged prints (conglomerations), Johnna Arnold focuses on the interconnection between oil and the architecture of the city.

Artist Bio

Johnna Arnold is an artist, photographer, educator and urban farmer based in Oakland, CA. Her work investigates the environments we build and the ways these systems in turn affect our perceptions. Johnna has had multiple solo exhibitions at spaces including San Francisco Camerawork, Sarah Shepard Gallery and Traywick Contemporary. She has participated in group exhibitions at venues including the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Oakland International Airport, and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. She recently created public projects sponsored by the Palo Alto Art Center, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and the Oakland Museum of California. Her work is a part of multiple public collections including Pier 24 in San Francisco and UNESCO in Paris, France. She is a board member of Photo Alliance, a studio member at Real Time & Space, and is the co-director of the Peralta native garden in Oakland, CA.

MIGUEL ARZABE

Higher Learning

2023, Woven found academic posters

24” x 18” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Johansson Projects, framed by Mark Ryan Fine Art

Retail Value: $3750

Starting Bid: $1500

Artwork Description

Miguel Arzabe uses a paper weaving technique inspired by the Andean weaving tradition of the artist’s heritage. For this piece, salvaged posters were cut into strips and woven together. The posters promote a university artist talk by Bay Area artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez and an online university archive represented by an archival photograph of leaders from the Black Panther Party.

Artist Bio

Miguel Arzabe lives in Oakland and is a charter studio member at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco. He had recent solo shows at Shulamit Nazarian Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) and Johansson Projects (Oakland, CA). Arzabe’s work has been featured in such festivals as Hors Pistes (Centre Pompidou, Paris), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montreal), and the Geumgang Nature Art Biennale (Gongju, South Korea); and in museums and galleries including MAC Lyon (France), MARS Milan (Italy), RM Projects (Auckland), FIFI Projects (Mexico City), Marylhurst University (Oregon), the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, the CCA Wattis Institute, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Arzabe’s work is held in public collections such as Albuquerque Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of California, the de Young Museum, San Francisco Arts Commission, the State of California, as well as numerous private collections. He has attended many residencies including Facebook AIR, Headlands Center for the Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, Millay Arts, and Santa Fe Art Institute. He holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS from Arizona State University, and an MFA from UC Berkeley. In 2022, Arzabe was awarded the San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Award. In 2023, he was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a Golden Foundation Residency.

SHOLEH ASGARY

wadi000000025

2023, Fine art baryta print

5” x 5” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $500

Starting Bid: $200

Artwork Description

The title “wadi” is an Arabic term referring to an ephemeral riverbed that may or may not be dry. The term “ephemeral” is also widely used in stock markets. In both cases, scarcity or plenty creates the basis for capitalist exploitation. Interested in the relationship between the conjuring of water and the transitory nature of capitalism as detached from material, Asgary downloaded dozens of water images from stock photography websites, then used machine learning to create new images from the combination of water photos and specific graphs of international water stocks. Bearing an uncanny resemblance to water, at times the result is a pixelated, grainy river altered beyond recognition from the original source. “wadi000000025” is part of the Wadi series and an interactive website examining temporality, natural resources, and capitalism. (http://wadi. mspadjacent.com/about/)

Artist Bio

Sholeh Asgary is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary sound artist whose works implicate the viewer participant in future mythological excavations, bridging large swathes of time and history through water, water clocks, movement, light, imaging, voice, and sound. Asgary’s practice is a conglomeration of visual, sound, performance, and collective processes, all of which she is deeply dedicated to. Featured in Art in America’s 2022 “New Talent Issue,” Asgary has been supported by residencies including Headlands Center for the Arts, MASS MoCA, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, UCLA Art Sci, and ARoS Kunstmuseum. Her work has been presented by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Minnesota Street Project, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, 500 Capp St., Slash Art Gallery, and Ann Arbor Film Festival. Asgary holds an MFA from Mills College and BA from San Francisco State University.

JD BELTRAN

Blue Moon (Still there)

2023, Video from NASA, media player, custom hemispheric lens, wood frame

10” x 10” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $3000

Starting Bid: $800

Artwork Description

The artist’s new “Blue Moon” Series pays homage to one of the most iconic, meditative, poetic, and beloved celestial bodies—the moon. With actual footage of the moon from NASA, its detail magnified through a hemispheric lens, the works remind us that the moon is a source of comfort for past, present, and future generations which remains forever present in all of our lives—both physically and emotionally.

Artist Bio

JD Beltran is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, journalist, author, and designer whose artwork and films have been screened and exhibited internationally. Her work has been featured at the Walker Art Center, the Getty Institute, the Kitchen NYC, Ars Electronica, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the MIT Media Lab, the M.H. de Young Museum, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Her artworks have been commissioned for public art projects worldwide and she was awarded a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Fellowship, and residencies at Skowhegan, the Pilchuck School, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Stochastic Labs, and the Lucas Artists Residency at Montalvo Arts Center. She’s been awarded grants from Artadia, the MIT Media Lab, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Workshop Residence, Stochastic Labs, and Ars Electronica. She has served as a Commissioner on the San Francisco Arts Commission for over fourteen years (since 2009), and was appointed as its President for 8 years, from 2011 to 2018. She is a professor in Design at San Francisco State University.

KIM BENNETT EYES

2023, Acrylic paint on panel

12” x 9” x 0.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $400

Artwork Description

This painting centers around apple blossoms, water, rocks, and black eyed peas. Kim Bennett is interested in textile history, science fiction, gentle psychedelia, comics, poems, crime fiction, dogs, and humans. She imagines working in an alternate universe where all humans have been equally valued as creators and thinkers, so nothing she does has to involve revising anything or making up for past unfairness because art is a place where anything is possible, and time can be squashed or stretched.

Artist Bio

Kim Bennett is a Bay Area artist and teacher. She has a BFA from The Cooper Union, and an MFA from California College of the Arts, where she is an Adjunct Professor. She has had solo or twoperson exhibitions in the Bay Area at Stephen Wirtz, pied-a-terre, and Interface Gallery, as well as Conduit Gallery in Dallas, and Transmitter Gallery in NYC. She is the recipient of a Creative Time grant, a Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship and a Kala Institute Fellowship.

ASHWINI BHAT Beginning is the End is the Beginning

2019, Stoneware clay, underglaze, glaze, paint and glass media

8” x 7” x 7”

Courtesy of the Artist and Shoshana Wayne Gallery

Retail Value: $1200

Starting Bid: $500

Artwork Description

Through these coiled, knotted, ouroboros or snake-like forms in the “Beginning Is the End is the Beginning” series, Bhat explores concepts of linear vs cyclical time, interior vs exterior space, closed vs open forms, and solid vs fluid state, drawing our attention to moments of transition. The inspiration for the form also comes from the serotinous Jack pine cones. These seed pods require an environmental trigger in order to be released. The resinous pouch surrounding the seed melts during a forest fire and the seeds are spread and they thrive in a post-fire landscape.

Artist Bio

After thirty-five years in Southern India, Ashwini Bhat now works in the California Bay Area. Coming from a background in literature and classical Indian dance, Bhat uses ceramic sculptures, installations, video, and text to develop a unique visual language exploring the intersections between body and nature, self and other.

LIBBY BLACK Backpack

2021, Paper, paint, and glue

26” x 16” x 9”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $5500

Starting Bid: $2000

Artwork Description

“This piece was created during the pandemic. It was and still is what America and the world is going through right now. This piece hangs on your wall as a reminder to keep learning and be open to helping underrepresented communities thrive and grow.”

Artist Bio

Libby Black is a painter, drawer, and sculptural installation artist living in Berkeley, CA. Her artwork charts a path through personal history and a broader cultural context to explore the intersection of politics, feminism, LGBTQ+ identity, consumerism, addiction, notions of value, and desire. Her sculptural works are to-scale re-creations of objects (some from her own life, some fictional) made of paper, hot glue, and acrylic paint. She arranges these three-dimensional renderings of domestic objects, books, magazines, handbags, and shoes in still-life arrangements, creating hybrids that mix the real and the imaginary. Black also produces two-dimensional paintings and drawings based on imagery culled from disparate sources like fashion magazines, newspapers, her own photos, and books. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with such shows as “California Love” at Galerie Droste in Wuppertal, Germany; “Bay Area Now 4” at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; “California Biennial” at the Orange County Museum of Art; and at numerous galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Black has been an artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts; Montalvo Arts Center; and Spaces in Cleveland, OH. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Flash Art, and The New York Times. She received a BFA from Cleveland Institute of Art in 1999 and an MFA at the California College of the Arts in 2001. Libby is an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University.

SARAH BLAUSTEIN

Vessel Pink

2022, Ink and acrylic on canvas

15” x 20” x 3”

Courtesy of the Artist and Berggruen Gallery, framed by Sterling Art Services

Retail Value: $8500

Starting Bid: $3500

Artwork Description

Blaustein creates paintings from an exploration of personal sensation and of moments past and present. Blaustein’s “Vessel” works start with a reflection on the human vessel as a mysterious and powerful space for feeling, releasing, creating, birthing, and holding.

Artist Bio

Sarah Blaustein is a visual artist currently living and working in the Bay Area. She studied at the New York Studio School and the University of Michigan School of Art and Design. Blaustein has exhibited at Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco; Berry Campbell Gallery, New York; Prince Street Gallery, New York; and Hackett Mill Gallery, San Francisco. She currently has a solo exhibition titled “Sarah Blaustein: Present Tense” at the Institute of Contemporary Art San José. On May 5th, her solo-show “Sarah Blaustein: Recent Paintings” will open at Berggruen Gallery.

ROSS BLECKNER (On) Surrender

2010, Color aquatint

22.25” x 22” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Paulson Fontaine Press and Mary Boone Gallery, New York, framed by Sterling Art Services

Retail Value: $2500

Starting Bid: $1000

Artwork Description

“I use the flowers as a kind of starting form; they’re more like abstract flowers. They’re representations of things moving, things alive, then fading. And they also have so much geometry. They have a lot of things going on, formally and metaphorically... It has to do with consciousness. It’s like that place between, where things become one thing and lose their identity and become another thing. In art, that’s what abstraction is, that place where those changes can occur. I am trying to capture the moment of change, where one thing could actually become this other thing that you hadn’t thought about before.”

Artist Bio

Ross Bleckner makes large scale paintings that deal primarily with remembrance and loss. His paintings strike a balance between abstraction and representation and have often been described as memento moris. Another ongoing theme in his work has been the contrast between light and dark—between the glory and fragility of life. Bleckner’s first solo museum exhibition was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1988. His work has since been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including a midcareer retrospective organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1995. He has been represented in many group exhibitions devoted to abstraction, among other themes, as well as the Whitney Biennial (1975, 1987, and 1989), Biennale of Sydney (1988), and Carnegie International (1988). His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum, New York among others. He continues to live and work in New York.

EVA BOVENZI

Little Chalcedony

2021, Acrylic paint and Yupo paper mounted on Arches paper

13” x 17” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Pastine Projects, framed by Spot Design

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $400

Artwork Description

“Little Chalcedony” is a collage made from acrylic paint on Yupo paper mounted on warm-toned Arches paper. Collage is an integral part of Bovenzi’s art practice, as it allows her to easily experiment with composition and color choices. All her collages are abstract, never relying on found images or photographs. All of the components are created by painting, splashing, staining, etc. This series of collages began by looking at stones and minerals, especially chalcedonies, which are a form of quartz. Bovenzi then improvised on their forms and colors to create her own visual vocabulary.

Artist Bio

Eva Bovenzi is represented by Pastine Projects in San Francisco and Michael Warren Contemporary in Denver. She received her MFA from CCA in Oakland. She has exhibited widely in galleries, museums, and non-profit spaces. Her work is included in numerous collections, including the Long Beach Museum of Art; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Oakland Museum of California; and the Achenbach Foundation. Her work has been presented by the Cuenca Museum of Art in Ecuador and the Biennale Internazionale in Florence, Italy. She was an NEA Fellow at the Point Reyes National Seashore in 2016, and has received artist residency grants from the Djerassi Foundation, the Ucross Foundation, the Lucid Foundation, and Oehme Graphics in the United States; Casa Manilva and Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain; and Arte Studio Ginestrelle in Assisi, Italy.

RACHELLE BUSSIÈRES

Courbes (15 minutes)

2019, Unique analog lumen print mounted on aluminum

24” x 20” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Johansson Projects

Retail Value: $3200

Starting Bid: $1200

Artwork Description

Bussières’ work addresses the limits of both sight and knowledge through the creation of photographic exposures. She makes cameraless lumen prints, engaging with photographic materials as a means of exploring the impact of light on the psyche, environment, and social structures. Bussières exposes gelatin silver paper to different light sources, transforming the images into new artifacts.

Artist Bio

Rachelle Bussières’ work sits at the intersection of photography and sculpture, moving through a collision of materials and documents through the lumen photographic process. Her recent solo exhibitions include Melanie Flood Projects (Portland, USA), Penumbra Foundation (NYC, USA), Johansson Projects (Oakland, USA) and Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco, USA). Awards include the Penumbra Foundation Workspace Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts (Research and Creation), an honorable mention for the Snider Prize from the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and being a Finalist for the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize. Rachelle Bussières, originally from Quebec City, Canada, received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2015. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

KELLY CARÁMBULA

Barely Holding On

2022, Clay, wood, and wool

13” x 10” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Eleanor Harwood Gallery

Retail Value: $1400

Starting Bid: $600

Artist Bio

Kelly Carámbula is a San Francisco-based artist and sculptor. Her work explores elements of acceptance and control, often incorporating surprises that encourage the viewer to look closer, longer, or from a different perspective. She is continually interested and inspired by the tactile relationships between color and form— using clay, wood, and metal as her primary mediums. She has exhibited at Rare Device and Legion Projects in San Francisco.

SQUEAK CARNWATH Memorial

2006, Intaglio and lithograph

17” x 17” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Jane Lombard Gallery, framed by City Picture Frame

Retail Value: $1500

Starting Bid: $800

Artwork Description

“Memorial” portrays a black and white Portland vase beside a log, with a strand of DNA along the top edge.

Artist Bio

Squeak Carnwath draws upon the philosophical and mundane experiences of daily life in her paintings and prints, which can be identified by lush fields of color combined with text, patterns, and identifiable images. She has received numerous awards including the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Award from San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, two Individual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award for Individual Artists from the Flintridge Foundation, and the Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In 2019, she was inducted into the National Academy of Design and Art. Carnwath is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives and works in Oakland, CA.

ENRIQUE CHAGOYA

Disparate de bestia/Animal Folly (after Goya’s Proverbs)

2015, Etching and aquatinting

16.5” x 19.5” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble, framed by Spot Design

Retail Value: $1850

Starting Bid: $800

Artwork Description

This piece is based on Francisco Goya’s series of “Proverbios,” but with a contemporary theme of endangered species being hunted. A student of political economy who turned to art, Chagoya makes drawings, prints, and sculptures using pop and extemporaneous historic symbols to critique colonialism and the constant change of contemporary cultural paradigms. Through these media, he addresses the ongoing cultural clash between Western and non-Western societies with a surreal sense of humor. His concepts and perspectives draw from his experiences living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico Border, and also in Europe.

Artist Bio

Enrique Chagoya was born in Mexico City and lives in San Francisco. Chagoya has been the recipient of numerous awards such as two NEA artist fellowships; the National Academy of Arts and Letters in New York; residencies at Giverny and Cité Internationale des Arts in France; a L. C. Tiffany Fellowship; a National Academy of Design Induction and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Graphics Conference International in 2020; and a J. S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2021. His work is in the permanent collections of many national and international museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young Museum, and the Achenbach Collection at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco; the Museo Nacional de la Estampa and Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City, Instituto de Artes

Graficas de Oaxaca in Oaxaca City; and Artium Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vittoria-Gasteiz, Spain, among others. His solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper at George Adams Gallery in NYC opened on April 7, 2023.

AJIT CHAUHAN Untitled

2023, Erased postcard

16” x 13” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble, framed by City Picture Frame

Retail Value: $4000

Starting Bid: $1600

Artwork Description

This piece is from Chauhan’s series “Wet Webs,” created by erasing images into vintage postcards. The Buddhist image of Indra’s Net (in Sanskrit, Indrajala) is a metaphor used to illustrate the concepts of Sünyatã (emptiness), pratityasamutpada (dependent origination), and interpenetration – everything is connected and arises in relation to everything else. “Imagine a multidimensional spider’s web covered with dew drops. And each dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum” - Alan Watts on Indra’s Net.

Artist Bio

Ajit Chauhan lives in the sanctuary city of San Francisco, California. He works with adults with developmental disabilities at Creativity Explored. His work has been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, London; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; the Asian Art Museum; UC Davis Museum; the Grimm Museum, Berlin; the SONS Museum in Kruishoutem, Belgium; and White Columns, NY.

HOLLY COLEY

Centaurs Roam This Land

2022, Glazed stoneware

12’’ x 17’’ x 10’’

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2000

Starting Bid: $900

Artwork Description

“Centaurs Roam This Land” is a wheel-thrown and carved large stoneware pot. This pot was painted in black slip and carved to reveal the contrasting white clay beneath it. The interior is painted with black slip and sealed with Liquid Quartz, making it water-tight without the use of glaze. The shiny moons on the outside were painted with clear glaze and then 18 carat gold luster and fired again. The iron/manganese content of the slip burnt out the gold creating the surface you see. The characters carved on the surface are inspired by the animation landscapes of “The Last Unicorn,” among many other figments from the artist’s late 1980s childhood.

Artist Bio

Holly Coley is a Bay Area artist working in clay. Working with colorful narrative surface, her work is inspired by ancient art and contemporary mythology.

RICHARD COLMAN Birthday Painting

2023, Charcoal and acrylic on canvas

14” x 11” x 1.375”

Courtesy of the Artist and V1 Gallery

Retail Value: $3500

Starting Bid: $1400

Artwork Description

Colman explores connections to life and death and societal hierarchies through his paintings, which visually call into question perceptual logic. His work weaves thin mazes around body forms next to bold planes of color creating textural differences and depth alongside dynamical gradients that indicate some semblance of life and struggle to stay connected. Moving freely between figuration and abstraction, Colman’s paintings highlight relationships between figure and ground, with recurring motifs of flowers and heads, held between figures gently in their hands or as borders to the image, a poesy and journey through the use of emotive form and color combinations.

Artist Bio

Richard Colman (American, b. 1976, Bethesda, Maryland) lives and works between San Francisco, CA and Sandy Hook, CT. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Louis Buhl (Detroit, MI), Bim Bam Gallery (Paris, France), New Image Art (Los Angeles, CA), and V1 Gallery (Copenhagen, Denmark).

RANDOLPH COLOSKY Casement

2022, Oil on linen

36” x 30” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $5000

Starting Bid: $1500

Artwork Description

The history of manual labor is a fundamental influence in Colosky’s work. This painting references his time as a house painter and the skill required to cut in around windows and the repetitive aspects of this work.

Artist Bio

Randolph Colosky is a multi-disciplinary artist residing in Los Angeles, CA. He received a BFA in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1987. Colosky has been awarded grants from the Warhol Foundation for the Arts; the Fleishhacker Foundation; the Zellerbach Family Foundation; and Kala Art Institute. Colosky has shown extensively over the last 30 years and has had solo exhibitions at St Joseph’s Arts Society, San Francisco; Brilliant Champions Gallery, New York; the San Francisco Arts Commission Grove St Gallery; The Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Franciso; Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland; K Imperial Fine Arts, San Francisco; and Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco. Colosky has participated in group exhibitions with The Berkeley Art Museum; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Headlands Center for the Arts; The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; Incline Gallery; Highlight Gallery; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago; The Front Room, New York; Root Division; The Lab; and Southern Exposure.

GINA M. CONTRERAS

Pale Perspectives

2023, Acrylic and gouache on canvas

24” x 18” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1000

Starting Bid: $500

Artist Bio

Born in the Central Valley of California, Gina M. Contreras incorporates drawing and painting to examine the complexity of traditional and cultural standards. Contreras uses self-portraits to embrace the narrative between her conventional Chicana upbringing and her admiration for modern lowbrow culture of self-awareness and body acceptance. In 2008, Contreras received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and internationally. She currently lives and works in San Francisco.

CAROLINA CUEVAS Transparente

2020, Porcelain

5” x 6” x 6”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $500

Starting Bid: $300

Artwork Description

“Transparente” was part of an experimentation of materials and different firing processes during a ceramics residency in Hungary. Cuevas used a thin layer of porcelain, glaze, and punctured holes to create a vessel where light plays a significant role.

Artist Bio

Carolina Cuevas is a Cuban-American artist currently based in the Bay Area. Cuevas is currently pursuing her masters degree in Fine Arts from the California College of the Arts. Her work focuses on the merging of material and language. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Minnesota Street Project; the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco; the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles; International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemét, Hungary; and in the Kansas City Artist Coalition. She is the recipient of several awards including the Cadogan Contemporary Art Award, Cultura Power Fellowship, the Knight Foundation, McKeown Grant, and Rita and Irwin Scholarship Award. Her work is included in the collection at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.

ALI DADGAR King Prince

2022, Painting and screen print on wood

12” x 12” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Advocartsy

Retail Value: $850

Starting Bid: $350

Artwork Description

In this painting series, Ali Dadgar creates figures in places filled with tradition, history, humor, and contradictions. This performative character is placed in uncanny relationships with different spaces such as cultural facades or religious interiors of Iran-a hyper-real, estranged homeland from long ago visited in dream states. The main character is the otherness that moves through these hybrid places.

Artist Bio

Iranian born Ali Dadgar is a multi-disciplinary experimental artist working across image, text, object-based media, and performance. His latest solo exhibition “Disoriental,” opened in April 2022 at Advocartsy Gallery in Los Angeles. He is currently exhibiting at Roundweather Gallery in Oakland. Dadgar holds an MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley and a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts. For the present time, he is enjoying a fruitful and inspired practice in isolation and creativity.

REA LYNN DE GUZMAN Seams

2022, Acrylic and image transfer on paper mounted on panel 14” x 11” x 0.75”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $300

Artwork Description

This work explores the colonial history of piña fiber in the Philippines and its relationship with the idea of “Maria Clara” — the heroine of the 1887 Philipino novel “Noli Me Tángere” and the symbol for traditional feminine ideals of beauty and status, accompanied by stereotypes of chastity, demureness, light skin, passivity, and subordination. Popular Philippine concepts regarding beauty and status center on the normalization of skin-whitening products and championing of imported goods. De Guzman’s work challenges this colonial perspective. Through layering and a palette that evokes skin tones, she repudiates these imposed ideals by using material remnants intertwined with cultural legacies.

Artist Bio

Rea Lynn de Guzman is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator. Born in Manila, Philippines, she immigrated to the United States at age 14. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited work in the US, and internationally in Australia, India, and the Philippines. She is a recent recipient of the API Artist Futures Fund award and the National Endowment for the Arts’ Multidisciplinary Arts Grant. In 2019-2023, she curated the “Wander Woman” exhibition series — group shows featuring Bay Area-based, women of color artists with immigrant backgrounds. She has been featured in the Asian Journal Magazine, Hella Pinay, KQED Arts, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. She is currently the Manager of Community Partnerships at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has taught art at City College of San Francisco Continuing Education, de Young Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco Center for the Book, and Root Division, where she served as the organization’s first Filipina Teaching Artist Fellow in 2017.

DEMART DENARO

Mochi on the Moon, The Flowers grew up so fast, Mother made the rice.

2023, Pen and ink on cold pressed paper

18” x 24” x 0.1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2023

Starting Bid: $800

Artwork Description

The title of this piece is a haiku.

Artist Bio

Demart Denaro uses drawing to explore his dream life and his waking experiences of travel, tattooing, and climbing. Coming from multi-cultural backgrounds, his hybrid communities influence his aesthetic and interests. His current project is about developing a new type of platform for sharing and connecting with others through our dreams.

GENE DOMINIQUE Evening in Habana Centro

2017, Archival pigment print

16” x 20” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1100

Starting Bid: $500

Artwork Description

While there was a thaw in international relations between the United States and Cuba during the Obama administration, Dominique spent a week in Havana documenting the daily life of Cubans. “Evening in Habana Centro” depicts a normal scene of life in the city. The colorful Casa Nadia is typical of the guesthouses around the island also known as casas particulares. The vehicles in the scene are typical of those in Cuba-American vehicles built prior to the 1962 embargo of the island. About the old American cars, an owner told Dominique, “If someone has one of these cars on this island and is not making money transporting tourists, that person is a fool!”

Artist Bio

Gene Dominique lives and practices art in the East Bay. He earned a degree in photojournalism at San Jose State University and a law degree from UC Hastings College. After practicing law for thirty years, Dominique returned to his life-long passion eight years ago: a full-time art practice centered in photography. His explorations in photography include a deep dive into a variety of genres from documentary, abstract, and still-life to portraiture. Dominique’s work includes the documentary series “Still Here – African American Farmers in the 21st Century,” a study of the contemporary life of Black farmers in the United States. Volunteerism is an important element in Gene Dominique’s art practice. In 2016 he founded CameraAngels, a donation program that solicits used cameras and related gear for young people. In addition, Dominique is on the board of SF Camerawork and the Bay Area Photographers Collective. Dominique says he frequently looks to a quote by the photojournalist Gordon Parks for inspiration. About photography, Parks said, “You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It’s capable of doing both.”

CLAIRE DUNN Reflective

2022, Resin coated paper, found natural objects, natural textures, hair, saliva and broken mirrors

15” x 13” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1500

Starting Bid: $500

Artwork Description

Claire Dunn’s work is an exploration of luminosity, earthly matter, DNA, and star constellations. Although her images look like celestial bodies, they are a collage of analog macro photographs documenting patterns in nature, her own DNA (using hair and saliva), and small broken mirrors that have her fingerprints. Throughout history it’s been said that we come from the stars. Dunn maps her personal psyche, highlighting the beauty of the apparently insignificant and overlooked forms and patterns of nature. On these photograms, Dunn creates unique dynamic abstract drawings with different tools like sandpaper and Xacto knives.

Artist Bio

Claire Dunn is a San Francisco-based artist, psychologist, and curator. She was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she received her BS in psychology at Universidad del Salvador (USAL). She is currently pursuing an MFA at California College of the Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited in Argentina and in the USA, including Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Center, and Minnesota Street Project. Dunn has been an artist-in-residence at La Flecha del Arte in Argentina, and the Monson Arts Abbott Watts Residency Award in Maine, and is currently at the Recology Artist in Residence in San Francisco as a collective named “Nunca No” with Charles Lee.

RICKI DWYER Visceral Knowledge

2022, Wool, dye, and brass

48” x 45” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $5200

Starting Bid: $1250

Artwork Description

This work was handwoven from wool fiber dyed in the artist’s studio. After weaving, the work was felted to minimize the appearance of individual threads. Cast brass hardware was fabricated while in residence with the Kohler Co. foundry in Sheboygan, WI, 2022.

Artist Bio

Ricki Dwyer is an artist and educator working between San Francisco and Brooklyn. His practice considers the intersections of the material, industry, and the somatic. This research addresses weaving and craft in both theory and practice. He honors drapery as the negotiation that things will never fall the same way twice. This year, he exhibited his sculptures with Anglim/Trimble, The Berkeley Art Center, and the Biennale de Lyon (in collaboration with Nicki Green). His most recent text, “Decennial,” on weaving as a metaphor for mutual aid was published with the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in June. He has been artist in residence with Recology San Francisco, Jupiter Woods Gallery in London, The Textile Arts Center in New York, ACRE, and most recently completed a residency in the foundry of Kohler Co through the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Dwyer is currently on the Curatorial Council of Southern Exposure, teaching art history at CUNY York College, and holding a studio practice between Brooklyn and San Francisco.

EBTI Studio 14 window 72122

2022, Digital photograph

18’’ x 26’’ x 0.5’’

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $900

Starting Bid: $300

Artwork Description

An integral part of Ebti’s practice is working with repetition and the passage of time, decay, and change that comes with working in this way. Windows are another important part of her practice - they are portals or thresholds, and allow us to be both inside and outside at the same time. During Ebti’s graduate fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts, she photographed her studio window regularly. “Studio 14 window” is a series of 20 images of this studio window, taken over the span of one year (2021-2022) documenting different times of the day, year, and studio setups.

Artist Bio

Ebti is a multidisciplinary artist, a self-taught photographer, and a translator living between Cairo and San Francisco. She received her MFA in Fine Art from the California College of the Arts in 2021. “My practice is informed by translation, languages, theater, literature, music and my family’s making-traditions I never got to learn. Through this multifaceted, dislocated lens, I look at the idea of home, belonging, and attachment. Though my work is rooted in photography, I am constantly looking for new materials and methods that will best translate my ideas. Once I start working on a project, I embrace notions of accident and failure. My practice is ever-evolving and is influenced by my restlessness.”

LOWELL EDELMAN

Paul McCartney

2022, Watercolor and ink

16” x 20” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Artist Within

Retail Value: $500

Starting Bid: $150

Artist Bio

Humor, nostalgia, and a sophisticated graphic sense animate Lowell’s drawings. He has a deep connection to the specific bits of culture that impressed him in his youth. He remembers not only the commercials, songs, and newscasts he heard on the radio but also the model of the radio he heard them on. Often based on found images, his drawings incorporate text, sometimes copied from the source, sometimes invented from his own recollections and fantasies. He draws with pen, confident in his idiosyncratic interpretation of the source material. Lowell loves talking to people and sharing his observations and memories.

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MARY FINLAYSON

Pink Vase with Bamboo

2020, Gouache on maple

46” x 31” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Eleanor Harwood Gallery

Retail Value: $4200

Starting Bid: $1500

Artist Bio

Mary Finlayson is a San Francisco-based artist originally from Vancouver, B.C. Her background as an artist is in both painting and printmaking. She has a bachelors degree in Fine Arts from Queen’s University, a Graduate Degree in Art Therapy from the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute as well an Arts Education Degree from the University of British Columbia.

EDGAR FABIÁN FRÍAS

Alien Dimensions

2023, Giclée print on 100% cotton hot press, acid free paper 36’’ x 36’’ x 1’’

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2000

Starting Bid: $500

Artwork Description

Frías creates inter-dimensional imaginary and intuitive landscapes using abstract forms, soft colors, gradients, and intentional glitches. They see these as being meditative, soothing, and inviting expansive and oracular viewing. Frías has a strong interest in the divinatory qualities of artworks and in art’s ability to transcend language, cognition, and ordinary states of consciousness. These works are inspired by technological interfaces, internet subcultures, artificial intelligence, aliens, fairies, angels, and queer aesthetics. They hope that this work can invite in an element of curiosity, compassion, and contemplation mixed with a little bit of humor and mystery.

Artist Bio

Edgar Fabián Frías works in installation, photography, video art, sound, sculpture, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, social practice, and community organizing, among other forms. Frías is Wixárika and their family is from Mexico, though they have lived in the United States for most of their life. Their art addresses historical legacies and acts of resistance, resiliency, and radical imagination within the context of Indigenous Futurism, spirituality, play, pedagogy, animism, and queer aesthetics. Born in East Los Angeles in 1983, Frías received dual BA degrees in Psychology and Studio Art from UC, Riverside. In 2013, they received an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Frías received their MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley in 2022. Their work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Vincent Price Art Museum; ICA San Francisco; BAMPFA; MOCA Los Angeles; and Oregon Contemporary, among others.

DAVID FULLARTON

Our Flamboyant Behaviour

2022, Mixed media with colored pencil and graphite on board

11” x 21” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist and The Compound Gallery

Retail Value: $600

Starting Bid: $250

Artwork Description

This mixed media drawing was created using a combination of graphite, colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic, and a variety of collaged papers and tapes. Typical of much of Fullarton’s work, it juxtaposes images with text to address the banality and absurdity of everyday existence and investigate themes that are rooted in the human condition.

Artist Bio

David Fullarton is a Scottish born, San Francisco-based visual artist who creates mixed media drawings that combine images with text. He investigates themes that are rooted in the human condition and address the banality and absurdity of everyday existence. He uses uncompromising wit and dark humor to ruthlessly skewer contemporary neuroses and in the process highlight the shared humanity in our individual struggles and pleasures.

DOMINIC GARCIA Self Portrait 2022

2022, Digital print on archival paper

12” x 16” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $300

Starting Bid: $150

Artwork Description

Dominic Garcia is interested in themes of fantasy, science fiction, and the impossible. Growing up, he read Japanese manga, watched science fiction movies, and drew his own comic book characters. Garcia was always keen on alternate reality story arcs. He loved watching episodes when a “Star Trek” captain or an “X-Men” character would be faced with an evil version of themselves. Like many LGBTQ+ individuals, coming out and expressing himself was challenging and often felt like an internal battle. In this photo series, each photograph showing the same body in the same domestic space acts as a window or portal to an alternate reality, allowing a view into different versions of the self to express internal battles, emotions, or fantasies.

Artist Bio

Dominic L. Garcia is a Chicago-based photographer and San Francisco Art Institute alum. His projects are inspired by the great performance artists of the 1960s. Dominic uses his own body to convey ideas of obedience, labor, and societal isolation.

RENÉE GERTLER Just Wait

2022, Ink and color pencil on paper

18” x 24” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and framed by Small Works

Retail Value: $1800

Starting Bid: $900

Artwork Description

Gertler’s drawings engage with concepts of “optimistic geometry” – a method of drawing that engages with optimism in psychology, consciousness, memories, and sensibilities regarding logic, intuition, and paranormal experiences. Her work draws on memories, logic, and intuition, as expressed through number patterns, colored pencils, and architectural drawing skills gained through her studies as a landscape architect. The drawings employ an optimistic pastel and technicolor palette popular to the cultural landscape of Southern California of the 1990s where she grew up.

Artist Bio

Renée Gertler was born in Santa Barbara, California and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her drawings and sculptures explore ideas around metaphysical, psychological, and emotional landscape. She holds a BFA and MFA in Sculpture from the California College of Arts and studied landscape architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate Studies of Design. Her sculptures and installations have been exhibited at the Headlands Center for the Arts, New Langton Arts, Spaces Gallery, Southern Exposure, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, and Et. al gallery. She has been awarded the Anthony and Cadogan Fellowship, a Danish Arts Council Grant; and artist residencies at the John Michael Kohler Arts/ Industry program; Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio; Vermont Studio Center; Pilchuck School of Glass Emerging Artists Fellowship; the Macdowell Colony, and Kala Art Institute.

SHEILA GHIDINI Shelter in Place series

2021, Graphite and colored pencil on mylar

24” x 24” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Pastine Projects, framed by Spot Design

Retail Value: $1800

Starting Bid: $700

Artwork Description

This is a graphite and colored pencil drawing of interior spaces on mylar. During the pandemic and shelter in place, the artist completed about 40 of these overlapping interior space drawings.

Artist Bio

Sheila Ghidini’s work encompasses drawing, sculpture, installation, and site-specific public art. Her work has been shown and collected in private and public collections including The Archenbach Collection of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Runneymede Sculpture Farm in Woodside, CA; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She attended Hartford Art School, University of Hartford and did graduate work at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She completed an MFA in sculpture at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving the Sylvan and Pam Coleman Memorial Fellowship. She was an artist-in-residence at The Headlands Center for the Arts and The American Academy in Rome summer program. She has received grants from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, the Krasner-Pollack Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Marcelle Labaudt Memorial Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and the Svane Family Foundation. Her public art projects engage communities, architecture, and the landscape. She has created public gathering spaces in San Jose, Campbell, Emeryville, CA; and Aurora, Colorado. Sheila collaboratively designed two MUNI Transit shelters on 19th Ave., in San Francisco and one transit shelter in Lodi, CA. She has taught art in schools throughout the Bay Area, including San Francisco State University, University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, and California College of the Arts.

AMOS GOLDBAUM This Little Piggy

2020, Pen and gouache on paper

18” x 24” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1000

Starting Bid: $400

Artwork Description

This series combines and contrasts elements of drawing and painting, still-life and landscape, and architecture and nature all in one scene.

Artist Bio

Amos Goldbaum is a line drawer, street peddler, and muralist from San Francisco. You have probably seen his line drawings on a mural or an Upper Playground t-shirt. His murals including landscape mashups of SF in his distinct line-art style can be found throughout the city and as far away as Tokyo.

CONNIE GOLDMAN

Sight/Unseen IIX

2022, Oil on panel

16” x 16” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and K. Imperial Fine Art

Retail Value: $2500

Starting Bid: $1000

Artwork Description

Using a minimalist vocabulary and a reductive aesthetic that emphasizes the importance of space, rhythm, structure, and relations, Connie Goldman makes works of art that are concrete and essential approximations of her own emotional and intellectual experiences. The work reflects her interests in architecture, music, science, sculpture, and painting as well as the threads of commonality that run between them.

Artist Bio

Connie Goldman’s work mirrors the rhythm, structure, space, and relationships in music, architecture, language, sand science. Her work reflects the very real human need to know the universe. She utilizes essential means to describe the most basic of natural phenomena, the contradictory forces of stasis and flux. In her work, Goldman addresses the deep human need to stave off the real or perceived chaos in the universe. One of her goals is to create a sense of imperiled equilibrium or balance. And in the work, she strives to make concrete our present, past, and future connections to our origins. Goldman was born in El Paso, Texas. She has resided in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years. She holds an MFA in painting and drawing from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a BA in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. Goldman has exhibited internationally, and has work in public and private collections.

MATT GONZALEZ

He writes when it darkens, whistling

2023, Found paper collage

14” x 11” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Retail Value: $3200

Starting Bid: $1200

Artist Bio

Matt Gonzalez makes work from found paper he finds on the street or sidewalk. His recent work has focused on monochromatic colors. He is heavily indebted to early 20th century collage innovator Kurt Schwitters. He is a native of McAllen, Texas and received his BA from Columbia University in New York City. Gonzalez’s exhibitions have been reviewed in Art LTD: West Coast Art + Design, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, NY Arts Magazine, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Since 2014 has been represented by Dolby Chadwick Gallery.

JULIA GOODMAN

Untitled

2022, Watercolor

12” x 9” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and EUQINOM Gallery

Retail Value: $1500

Starting Bid: $600

Artwork Description

Julia Goodman has been making handmade paper since 2003 and making paper from old bedsheets and t-shirts since 2012. Both papermaking and watercolors are a process of moving color through water. When the pandemic started, Goodman had a ten-month-old. When her baby napped, she made watercolors at the dining room table. Three years later, when her studio was too cold, she still made watercolors at the dining room table.

Artist Bio

Julia Goodman’s work holds strong throughlines with the history of rag paper as she gathers, sorts, tears, soaks, and pulps fibers, transforming discarded bedsheets and t-shirts into malleable pulp. In 2020, watercolor became an integral part of her practice. Recent exhibitions include: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley; and Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco. Residencies include JB Blunk Residency, Recology SF, Creativity Explored, and Salina Art Center. Goodman’s work belongs in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Art and the DePaul Art Museum. She earned her MFA from California College of the Arts and a BA in International Relations and Peace & Justice Studies from Tufts University. Goodman lives and works in Berkeley with artist Michael Hall and their young child.

KELLIE GREENWALD Family

2022, Colored pencil on paper

16” x 20” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Artist Within

Retail Value: $500

Starting Bid: $150

Artist Bio

Kellie Greenwald’s drawings express her warmhearted nature. She is comfortable with a variety of subjects but prefers to draw people she cares about. Her favorite approach is to take a picture of a friend or family member and make a drawing based on the photograph. She typically starts with pencil, her line alternately swift and hesitant. She then goes over the line with black pen and finishes with dense fields of heavily applied colored pencil. The figures are often set against an abstract geometric background. Her portraits convey humor as well as dignity.

MICHAEL HALL Crumpled

2019, Watercolor on paper stretched over panel

12” x 9” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2200

Starting Bid: $850

Artwork Description

This painting is part of a series, “Belongings,” that stemmed from making work as a new father. Leading up to the birth of his son, Hall imagined conversations they could have one day. In response to his son’s imminent arrival, Hall began painting personal objects, books, records, and things around his studio that have played a role in his development as a person. These painted objects then became meditations on what he wanted to share with his son one day. After he was born, Hall painted at the kitchen table as the baby napped.

Artist Bio

Michael Hall is a Bay Area artist and educator whose recent drawings, paintings, and videos question and rediscover meanings assigned to personal objects and ephemera. Hall earned an MFA from Mills College and a BFA from California College of the Arts & Crafts. Hall is a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award, and an MFA Fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts. In addition to the Headlands, recent residencies include Joan Mitchell Center and Montalvo Art Center. Recent Bay Area solo exhibitions include Catharine Clark Gallery and Townsend Center for the Humanities. He is currently an Associate Professor of Fine Arts Practice at California State University East Bay.

KRISTIE HANSEN Tennessee is a DRAG

2023, Leather, plastic, metal, cotton, polyester, cardboard, feathers, nylon thread, glass, and stone

15.5” x 7” x 3.75”

Courtesy of the Artist and Don Soker Contemporary Art

Retail Value: $1300

Starting Bid: $650

Artwork Description

The recent anti-drag bill passed in Tennessee and those under consideration in other states are another assault on the LGBTQ+ community and on creative expression. Homophobia and transphobia run rampant globally and this law encourages hatred and will continue to further criminalize gender non-conformity.

Artist Bio

San Francisco-based Kristie Hansen is a conceptual artist working primarily in sculpture. Concerned with the disposable nature of today’s society, she seeks out discarded objects from secondhand stores and the street, focusing on those made from natural, sustainable materials. These unwanted commodities are manipulated to transform them into evocative works that raise questions about the environment, consumerism, community, beauty, and the world around us.

NAOMI HAWKSLEY

Untitled: (girl and dog)

2022, Graphite on paper

20” x 17” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $900

Starting Bid: $400

Artwork Description

“A universal girl is confronted by her observer. The public eye follows her inside, creeping into a private room. The resulting action is violent, tender, embarrassing, and lifelong.”

Artist Bio

Naomi Hawksley (b. 2000) is an artist based in San Francisco, CA and recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her practice explores the public and private viewership of femme bodies through multimedia 2-D works.

NICOLE HAYDEN Born Too Late

2022, Graphite and gold powder on paper

10” x 8” x 0”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $350

Artwork Description

Nicole Hayden has a love for vintage imagery and pop culture. She sifts through her collections of photographs and magazines choosing something which inspires her, and makes her feel emotional. Hayden often gravitates towards images of beautiful women, loneliness, confidence, and issues of self. Her most recent series of work plays with black and white narrative moments which are then overlayed by pattern. For this work, Hayden wanted to break away from the realism of her drawing and add another layer of depth, drips of gold across the paper.

Artist Bio

Nicole Hayden was born in Skokie, Illinois in 1979, and brought up in Chicago. She attended several art schools including the Art Institute of Chicago, and has exhibited in the Chicago Cultural Center. While still a resident in Chicago, Hayden took part in several young artist programs such as the Marwen Foundation and Gallery 37. These activities influenced the continuing of her education at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. While at KU, Hayden received scholarships for her figurative painting. After attaining a BFA from KU, she extended her fine art education at the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco, California. In the two year graduate program at CCAC, Hayden experimented and explored figurative painting, and has shown work in various art venues in the Bay Area including Southern Exposure, Sanchez Art Center, Gensler, Nexus gallery, The Lab, Hang Art, and Adler & Co. After receiving an MFA from CCAC in 2003, she found herself working for a decorative arts company, learning to master techniques such as woodgraining, gold leafing, Venetian plaster, and mural arts. Since the beginning of 2020, as store fronts began to close, Hayden has found herself immersed in wanting to beautify her neighborhood by creating outdoor murals with a variety of concepts. She has currently produced over 20 murals, and has found a new sense of appreciation for public art, street art, and working with communities to create uplifting visual experiences.

TARANEH HEMAMI ABSENCE

2016, Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle German etching paper 12” x 12” x 1.25”

Courtesy of the Artist and Ag Galerie

Retail Value: $1600

Starting Bid: $600

Artwork Description

In “Absence,” bodies, individually or in groups, are cutout from family photographs collected from Iranian diaspora communities. What remains are fragments of place; intimate: a backyard, a living room, a bed, a dining table – or in public: a classroom, a bridge, a brick road - that evoke a sense of longing. The silhouettes of the invisible hover over the spaces they once occupied, tracing the outlines of their remembrances within layers of time, stringing together new narratives of belonging.

Artist Bio

Taraneh Hemami explores themes of displacement, preservation and representation working with materials of history, organizing archives, collecting images, transforming data and information to draw connections between contradictory narratives. Her installations and public art projects respond to site and the architecture of the spaces they occupy, inviting participation and interaction by the public. Hemami’s recent projects highlight the collective struggle within Iran and its diaspora, investigating the universal connections between radical movements across times and geographies.

CLIFF HENGST

Take A Breather

2022, Watercolor on paper

12” x 9” x 0”

Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery 16, framed by Small Works

Retail Value: $2250

Starting Bid: $1000

Artist Bio

Cliff Hengst is an artist and performer who works and lives in San Francisco. He has exhibited work at SFMOMA, Southern Exposure, The San Francisco Arts Commission, and Gallery 16 in San Francisco. Hengst has performed and exhibited at Hauser & Wirth, L.A.; Machine Project, L.A.; the Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

SCOTT HEWICKER Soul Chamber

2022, Flashe and fabric dye

16” x 12” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery 16

Retail Value: $1125

Starting Bid: $400

Artwork Description

“I’ve been thinking about minerals, geodes, jewels; how a world builds up undetected over eons and is discovered through breakage; how a painter might try to guide unpredictable material processes through patience and faith and have something unbeknownst to them eventually revealed.”

Artist Bio

Scott Hewicker is an artist, writer, and musician based in San Francisco. He has an MFA from Stanford University and has exhibited his work at Gallery 16, Jack Hanley Gallery, Deitch Projects NY, Galleri Christina Wilson in Copenhagen, ICA Philadelphia, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

GRAHAM HOLOCH

The Devils Pulpit

2019, Archival pigment print on photo rag paper

20” x 16” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $950

Starting Bid: $350

Artist Bio

Graham Holoch, born in 1991, is an artist based out of San Francisco, CA. His work utilizes humor and wit to relate the intensities and mundanities of life. He is a founder of Eggy Press, an artistfocused, small press curatorial group. He is the primary caretaker of Ripley, a very talented chantilly-tiffany (cat). She has been featured in campaigns by numerous pet lifestyle brands and is totally available for more modeling opportunities.

SARAH HOTCHKISS

Oileán

2023, Flashe on canvas over panel

12” x 12” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2000

Starting Bid: $800

Artwork Description

The title is an Irish word for “island.” The image is inspired by a design in the Mac Durnan Gospels, a 9th or 10th century illuminated manuscript made in Ireland. The gospels are an example of “insular art,” a name that comes from the Latin word for “island.”

Artist Bio

Sarah Hotchkiss is a San Francisco artist and arts writer. Recent exhibitions include a two-person show at Marrow Gallery, San Francisco; a solo show at Friends Indeed, San Francisco; and group shows at the ICA San José; Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco; and Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles. Hotchkiss’ work has been featured in the San Francisco Arts Commission’s public art program and she has attended residencies at Skowhegan, ACRE, KHN Center for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. From 2020 to 2023, she co-ran an exhibition space on a 6-by-12-foot billboard in the Inner Sunset called Premiere Jr. She is a senior associate editor for KQED Arts & Culture.

TANIA HOUTZAGER Highpoint

2023, Plaster, felted fibers, gouache, and stretcher bars

13” x 17” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $700

Starting Bid: $250

Artwork Description

“Highpoint” is part of the artist’s current body of work exploring notions of deep time. The piece is an exercise in navigating the dissonance between one state and the next. The line leaves the surface of the canvas, becoming an entity in its own right. No longer acting as a support in delineating an image, it presses and holds the boundaries of the frame - the thing that ties it to convention. The gesture underpins a playful determination to relate to daily life while moving towards an altogether stranger state of being. Several pieces from this body of work are currently on view at the Marin Civic Center.

Artist Bio

Tania Jade Houtzager is a San Francisco and Marin-based artist whose work investigates the landscape of space and memory. Through a language of material gestures, she has built a process-based practice that encompasses site specific installation, sculptural interventions, and two- and three-dimensional pieces. She uses her personal history as a first-generation American, the quickly changing climate of the natural environment, and science fiction writing to fuel her work. Houtzager’s work has been exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, New York, Los Angeles, and Venice, Italy among others, including solo exhibitions at the Marin Civic Center, Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, and Gallery Route One.

SHAO-FENG HSU Night Swimming

2022, Unique photogram and gelatin silver print

25.25” x 21.25” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $4000

Starting Bid: $1500

Artwork Description

Growing up with asthma, Shao-Feng’s parents followed the doctor’s suggestion that putting him in a pool would help him strengthen his respiratory system, instructing him to submerge and hold his breath for a few seconds before coming up for air. This resulted in Hsu becoming a competitive swimmer through college. “On the darkest nights during new moons, I created “Night Swimming”, a series of breath photograms. While holding my breath underwater, I exhaled rings of air. Sensing my breath channel upward through the water, I used a flash to make exposures of the bubbles onto light-sensitive paper floating right below the water’s surface. The shape of the bubbles made visible not only my lung capacity but also the essence of life: breath.”

Artist Bio

From his native Taiwan — where he trained as a competitive swimmer — to Australia, Cambodia, Japan, and beyond, Hsu has immersed himself in aquatic cultures in an ongoing study of the impact of the Anthropocene Era on our waters. In December 2017, he was selected to participate in the Angkor Photo Festival Workshop, where he documented life in a village without proper sanitation and running water. He has collaborated with the environmental NGO RE-Think on projects to illustrate shoreline pollution. He is a graduate of the Creative Practices program at the International Center of Photography and a recipient of Rita K. Hillman Award of Excellence. During the pandemic lockdown, he co-founded fotodemic.org and cademy.biz. He is currently a Fellow at the Headlands Center of the Arts and teaches B&W darkroom at California College of the Arts (CCA) Photography Program.

HUGHEN/STARKWEATHER Islais Creek Water Lots, 1861

2021, Ink, salt, and pencil on paper

14.125” x 10.5” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2000

Starting Bid: $800

Artwork Description

The Islais Creek watershed runs through many neighborhoods in San Francisco to the Bay — today the creek is mostly forced underground. In 1861, property lots in the wetlands and mudflats at the mouth of Islais Creek were given to any buyer willing to pay $10 for the notary. By the 1930s, this 280-acre estuary had been filled in with rock quarried from Bernal and Potrero Hills. Today, the Islais Creek area is a key location for flood impact from sea-level rise and increased storm intensities.

Artist Bio

Hughen/Starkweather is the collaboration of artists Jennifer Starkweather and Amanda Hughen. Their research-based abstractions focus on engineered and natural water systems. With the increased pressures of the climate crisis, how will these inextricably interwoven systems fail or succeed together? Recent large-scale art commissions have included SFMOMA for the Chase Center, and the Union Square Central Subway station. Exhibitions include the Asian Art Museum, the Public Policy Institute of California, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the University of San Francisco. Residencies include Headlands, Recology, Skowhegan, Ucross, and Yaddo. They are the recipient of a 2020 Individual Artist Grant from San Francisco Arts Commission.

SYLVIA HUGHES-GONZALES mellowing flesh banana perfume

2023, Archival inkjet print (edition of 10)

8.5” x 11” x 0”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $300

Starting Bid: $150

Artwork Description

Sylvia Hughes-Gonzales works in sculpture and social actions to address themes of celebration and destruction and the ways they intersect. She makes objects, installations, and utilizes procession in urban spaces to explore invisibility, hospitality, loss, and the power of collective grief. In this photographic work, Hughes-Gonzales plays with everyday objects from her “anti-archive.” The “anti-archive” invokes universality and is a collection of non-precious objects that remind us of joy and impermanence.

Artist Bio

Hughes-Gonzales has spent most of her life in New Orleans, Louisiana and is presently based in Northern California. She has studied art and printmaking in Mexico, Louisiana, and South Africa and received her MFA from Mills College in Oakland, CA in 2021. She was the Graduate Fellowship recipient at Headlands Center for the Arts 2021-2022.

COLTER JACOBSEN To Pass...

2008, Correction fluid on Sunday comics

21” x 23.8” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble

Retail Value: $6000

Starting Bid: $2500

Artwork Description

In 2006, Jacobsen made a series called “Saddies” that consisted of using white-out fluid to cover the Sunday comics (Funny pages). The first one was made after a relationship fell apart. At first it was a kind of meditation, a way of dealing with frustration and sadness and a way to make himself feel better. Jacobsen continued making them years after, leaving only the things in the comics that felt mundane, everyday, and sad, yet what seemed pertinent to what was happening in the world at the time.

Artist Bio

Colter Jacobsen lives in Cedarville and Ukiah, California. He helps organize the annual ukiaHaiku festival and has a music radio show on KZYX & Z called Nomadic Nightcap. He shows work with Anglim/Trimble, Tibor de Nagy, and Corvi-mora.

JASON JÄGEL

Sun, Moon & Planets

2008, Gouache on paper

9.75” x 16” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $4000

Starting Bid: $1500

Artwork Description

Created in 2008, this line-based, narrative gouache painting is from the period Jägel was creating his 208-page artist book, “Seventy-Three Funshine.” About the piece Jägel says, “Often, I want works to contain a universe of gestures, glances and moments in time. How the paint behaves as well as the forms, marks and gestures invites viewers to experience sub-text. I want to provoke experiences of curiosity and investigation that might parallel my inward journey of creation.”

Artist Bio

Jason Jägel is a painter, educator, and commissioned public artist. His work uses the syntax of comics to conjure fictional worlds where anything can happen at any time, like everyday life. “I want to create a place with its own inner life and see what happens,” says Jägel. He received an MFA from Stanford University in 2002. His work is in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Jägel’s 2022 public commission, “Collectively Rising” is a 20x67-foot mineralsilicate mural in San Jose. In 2024, Michael Benevento Gallery (Los Angeles) will present a solo exhibition of Jägel’s work.

PACKARD JENNINGS

Scala Non-Naturae

2023, Ink and non-photo blue pencil on paper

12” x 9” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $350

Artwork Description

This is a process illustration for a poster representing a version of Aristotle’s Scala Nature, which constructs a hierarchy of existence, from God to mineral. Packard Jennings’ variation is steeped in the notion that our perceived separateness from and superiority to the natural world is linked to our global degradation/destruction. The final poster is traveling with an exhibition put together by Pedro Reyes, Artists Against the Bomb, and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

Artist Bio

Packard Jennings is a multi-disciplinary artist who employs social experimentation to explore the dynamics of public space and to address environmental and social injustice. He subverts power structures and experiments in how power may voluntarily relinquish its own power. His collaborative work with the Studio for Urban Projects focuses on community engagement, sustainability, and urban resiliency. Although he primarily works in public spaces, his work has been shown in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and internationally in Geneva, Turin, Paris, Stuttgart, Madrid, Ljubljana, Vancouver, and Barcelona. His work has been published in several books, including “Art and Agenda,” “Urban Interventions,” “The BLDG BLOG Book,” and “We Own the Night.” His work has garnered critical media attention in The Boston Globe, Artforum, Flash Art, the Believer, Adbusters, New American Painting, the Washington Post, and the front page of the New York Times.

CHRIS JOHANSON

Uniqueness of Life (Dave)

2023, Paint and tinfoil in thrift store frame

19” x 25” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Altman Siegel

Retail Value: $6000

Starting Bid: $2500

Artwork Description

This two-sided painting is a tribute to photographer Dave Schubert, who tragically passed earlier this year. From Chris, “Dave was a good old friend of mine and Johanna’s. I love his photography. He was quiet and patient and sometimes sly to get his pictures. He had a thoughtful lens to the world. His archive of photographs and negatives was saved from the storefront. It’s an incredible and deep body of work that spans decades. He lived for his art. It was the most important thing. This piece is about Dave and the uniqueness of a life, and about the inadequacies of the health care desert in this country. The tinfoil refers to the hecticness of self-care/self diagnosis of Dave and the countless others who fall through the cracks in this wealthy country filled with inequality.”

Artist Bio

California-native Chris Johanson is a key member of San Francisco’s Mission School. Johanson’s work plays between the techniques of figuration and abstraction, as he sees these two modes of working as interconnected expressions of strong beliefs in environmentalism, compassion, and peaceful co-existence. He has exhibited widely in museums and galleries internationally for the past twenty-five years. His work has been the subject of solo shows at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery (Saratoga Springs); the Portland Museum of Art; MoCA Pacific Design Center (Los Angeles); and the Modern Institute (Glasgow). Johanson has been featured in important group exhibitions including Glasgow International 2012 and the 2002 Whitney Biennial. He is represented by Altman Siegel Gallery, Awesome Vistas, The Modern Institute, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Georg Kargl, and Albert Baronian.

JOSIE JUANTORENA

Kitty Dreams

2021, Mixed media colored pencil, ink and pastel

20” x 16” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Artist Within

Retail Value: $500

Starting Bid: $150

Artist Bio

If Josie Juantorena had a shop of her own, you can bet that everything in it would be absolutely covered in spots, a la cheetah, leopard and giraffe. Josie has created entire outfits using this motif, including a painted “leopard skin” pillbox hat. She also draws and paints imagery of the animals themselves, and those of the jungle variety live side by side with squirrels and deer, drive trains and cars and are always, always smiling. Her whimsical world evokes the work of Marc Chagall, and any mention of French culture will set Josie off into tales of her early life in the Basque countryside.

BUSSIE PARKER KEHOE

Lipstick

2023, Discarded house paint

12” x 12” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $750

Starting Bid: $350

Artwork Description

Bussie Parker Kehoe loves to tinker with found and discarded materials in meticulous and unexpected ways, transforming the unwanted into something unrecognizable and new. Currently, this process includes pouring old unwanted house paint onto glass, letting the paint dry, then arranging the paint peels. She intentionally places each paint peel so that it connects to and supports the others surrounding it, in parallel to our experiences searching for connections and support.

Artist Bio

Bussie Parker Kehoe is a San Francisco-based mixed-media artist. Kehoe’s found object assemblages combine her need for creative exploration and her lifelong love of hunting for treasures among discarded everyday items. Kehoe’s work is all about transformation and reinvention, challenging the viewer to take a second look at something that was previously unwanted or overlooked. Kehoe studied printmaking and drawing at the University of Virginia, then put her art practice on pause while she practiced law, started a family, and taught art to preschool-aged children in Washington, DC. After a couple of family moves, the need to create could not be contained any longer and Kehoe opened her first studio in 2017 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She now resides in San Francisco, CA with her family and works out of her Mission District studio. Kehoe’s work has been shown in the Bay Area, Seattle, throughout North Carolina, and Virginia. She has work in the permanent collection of Hotel Indigo Winston-Salem.

MARY ANNE KLUTH

The Glacier

2023, Archival inkjet on Hahnemuhle paper

12” x 16” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1200

Starting Bid: $400

Artwork Description

Mary Anne Kluth makes hand-cut archival photo collages.

Artist Bio

Mary Anne Kluth is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores representations of nature through painting, collage, sculpture, and installation. Kluth grew up participating in many geologic field trips and camping trips all over the United States but has become obsessed with theatrical representations of the land that both evoke and circumvent cultural notions of the sublime and national identity. She has exhibited her work in the US and Asia, and currently has work on view at the Oakland Museum.

MICHAEL KOEHLE

Cloud Study 1

2023, Pigment print on laser cut paper on panel

16” x 20” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $4500

Starting Bid: $2000

Artwork Description

Cloud Study is made up of hundreds of laser cut strips of paper, each strip printed with a gradient. The strips are cut to match the color saturation at the corresponding point in the source image. They are then folded and glued to a panel.

Artist Bio

Michael Koehle received his BA in Art Practice at UC Berkeley, his MS in Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis, and his MFA in studio art from Mills College. He has received residency grants from the Headlands Center for the Arts, Autodesk Pier 9, and Djerassi. He is also the recipient of the general prize in the YouFab Global Creative Awards in Japan and the Murphy & Cadogan fellowship. Koehle lives and works in Oakland.

CHRISTINA LA SALA Gnomon

2023, Muslin, steel, salt, and plaster

60” x 8” x 8”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $4500

Starting Bid: $1500

Artwork Description

La Sala’s work is characterized by methodologies of research and process that result in works that explore process through concept and concept through making. Her work measures the passage of time as a sensual process enacted upon and through the body. Her research, tool creation, and methods use mundane materials that transform through different processes into meditations on the passage of time. The artist studied the coiled structures created by organisms like insects and mollusks and the accretive process that reveals the creation of form as an expression of a life cycle, especially as a spiral form built through repetition and adaptation.

Artist Bio

Christina La Sala is a scavenger, a collector, a researcher and a maker—of things, tools, and spaces. She was born in Philadelphia and currently lives in San Francisco. La Sala received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University Philadelphia, PA and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She spent her childhood in thrift shops, nature museums, and libraries where she developed a life-long love of dusty spaces, old things, the natural sciences, and visual display.

KRIS LANG Abstract Diorama 17 (Southern Oracle)

2022, Epson archival print on Canson Platine Fiber Rag

12” x 24” x 0.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $750

Starting Bid: $350

Artwork Description

These improvisational abstract dioramas are made using both found elements and purpose-built sculptural elements. Photographed elements are manipulated to generate patterns and repeats, that get made into paper sculptures. The use of printed backlit film allows for disorienting manipulations of space and the picture plane. Fragile, ephemeral, barely constructed, the final work is lit and photographed — all the effects are in-camera, yielding a fluid collaboration between the digital and analog realms. No digital manipulation or 3D rendering is used in these works.

Artist Bio

Kris Lang is a photographer and printmaker born in Colorado Springs, CO, and currently working in San Francisco. She received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 1998. Her works on fabric, portraits in etched velvet, have been exhibited nationally. Locally her work has been shown at Kala Art Institute, The Alameda Art Center, and with GenArt. She is also an artist collaborator, teacher, and digital printmaker at Electric Works, San Francisco.

NOAH LANG Moon (and Earth)

2023, Birch box, paper, insect pins, glue, paint, and aspirin

10” x 13” x 4”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1300

Starting Bid: $500

Artist Bio

Noah Lang is interested in the history of Cold War radio-based espionage, particle physics, and human perception that deal with the absence rather than presence of objects.

RUTH LASKEY Study for Twill Series (Sunrise Red/Soft Orange/Golden Yellow)

2007, Watercolor on graph paper

8.5” x 11” x 1.25”

Courtesy of the Artist and Ratio 3

Retail Value: $3000

Starting Bid: $1250

Artist Bio

Ruth Laskey was raised in San Luis Obispo, CA, 1975 and lives in San Francisco, CA. She has an MFA in Painting/Drawing, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2005); a BFA in Painting/Drawing, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (1999); and a BA Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA (1997).

CARRIE LEDERER

Quilt Constellation: In the Grass

2020, Acryla gouache, fabric, thread, yarn, glitter on paper

8” x 8” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Pastine Projects

Retail Value: $450

Starting Bid: $250

Artist Bio

Carrie Lederer is a painter, sculptor, and installation artist who exhibits her nature-inspired work across the United States. Lederer is a recipient of the prestigious Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Award, and she has completed public art commissions for Facebook, the City of Palo Alto, Sunnyvale and Menlo Park, UCSF Medical Center, Hudson Valley Seed Co., Imagery Winery, and private collections. She has built site-specific installations for Turtle Bay Museum, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Art Source, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and many others. Lederer has work in private collections including Oakland Museum of California, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Stanford Medical Center, First Western Trust Bank, and Prudential Insurance Co., NY. Her work was profiled in a cover story for “MUSES,” published by MSU Department of Arts and Letters, and included in New American Paintings. Lederer’s work has been widely reviewed in publications including ARTnews, San Francisco Chronicle, Diablo Magazine, and SquareCylinder. com. Lederer currently lives and works in Oakland.

CHARLES LEE Untitled

2021, Framed archival pigment print

18” x 24” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $4000

Starting Bid: $1200

Artwork Description

This is a piece from the series entitled “Been Here,” a project started in 2016, documenting the lives of Black Cowfolk. The U.S. iconography of the “Cowboy,” typically represented by a rugged white male, is based a fallacy. The icon of the U.S. cowboy was built on the deliberate obfuscation of the role of Black people in the development of U.S. western culture. By documenting Black ranchers, trail riders, ropers, equestrians, and animal trainers, the project “Been Here,” reconciles the truth at hand: Black men and women have been participating in rural life since the establishment of the colonies that became the United States. Lee’s intention is to further the discussion about what it truly means to be “American” and demonstrate that the “country life” is a lifestyle and not something to be sensationalized based on one’s race or ethnic make up. Black people participate in rodeos, raise cattle, listen to country music, and live in rural spaces rather than solely urban centers.

Artist Bio

Charles Lee (b. 1983, Honolulu) is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Charles Lee’s work lingers on the delicate borders of interior and exterior, self and world. Lee is the recipient of the 2022 Edwin Anthony & Adelaine Boudreaux Cadogan Scholarship and Contemporary Art Award, All College Honors Scholarship, the Graduate Merit Scholarship, the 2021 Pabst Open Door Grant and the 2022 Recology Artist in Residence. His work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally.

JESSICA LIN

Blossoms

2023, Acrylic paint and water soluble pastels on bristol paper

14” x 11” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $300

Starting Bid: $100

Artist Bio

Jessica Lin is a Taiwanese-American artist from the Bay Area. She recently graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is an alum of Southern Exposure’s Youth Advisory Board.

SARAH LOOMIS looking back...

2023, Gouache, pen and ink on wood

6” x 8” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $500

Starting Bid: $250

Artist Bio

Sarah Loomis is an interdisciplinary, visual artist working in small-scale paintings, drawings, mixed media shadow boxes, and installations to explore concepts of wounds and healing. Through the depiction of trees and human form, her work addresses issues of the delicacy of life and memory, injustice and devastation, and how these themes can exist both personally and collectively. Often with an environmental message about the massive devastation of landscapes or a commentary on societal issues, such as divorce or abuse, much of her pieces are deeply personal and based on her own life story. Loomis’ work has been exhibited in various shows around the San Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest.

CATHY LU Gourd Vase with Faces

2017, Stoneware, glaze and gold luster

9” x 5” x 5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1600

Starting Bid: $750

Artwork Description

Gourds 葫芦 (hú lu) were dried and used for keeping or transporting water, wine, medicines, and magic potions. However, as with many other objects and symbols in Chinese beliefs, they also had a homophonic relationship with another “hu”: 护 (hù), signifying protection and blessing ( 祜 hù). Thus, gourds in China were used as charms for scaring away harmful spirits and diseases.

Artist Bio

Cathy Lu (b. Miami, FL) is a ceramics-based artist who manipulates traditional Chinese art objects and symbols as a way to deconstruct the assumptions we have about Asian American identity and cultural authenticity. By creating ceramic-based sculptures and large-scale installations, she explores what it means to be both Asian and American, while not being entirely accepted as either. Lu unpacks how experiences of immigration, cultural hybridity, and cultural assimilation become part of the larger American identity.

KIJA LUCAS

In Search of Home, Bay Area 819

2022, Archival pigment print

24” x 20” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2295

Starting Bid: $900

Artist Bio

Kija Lucas uses photography to explore ideas of home, heritage, and inheritance. She is interested in how ideas are passed down and seemingly inconsequential moments create changes that last generations. Lucas has exhibited her work extensively at local arts organizations including SF Camerawork, Oakland Museum of California, and Headlands Center for the Arts. She received her BFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA in Studio Art from Mills College.

DHARMA STRASSER MACCOLL Senecio (pink)

2019, Gouache, ink, porcelain, thread on paper

15” x 15” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Traywick Contemporary

Retail Value: $3500

Starting Bid: $1200

Artwork Description

Dharma Strasser MacColl’s works on paper often start with accumulations of painted marks in gouache, and culminate in subtle, multi-layered surfaces to which she adds porcelain, thread, and leather; or from which she removes elements through intricate paper cutouts. The intrinsic physical properties of the materials are a primary focus in some works, while in others it is the related concern for how the materials respond to a variety of working processes. Experimenting with surprising applications of these materials often leaves behind traces of the artist’s hand, and invites both physical and perceptual encounters with the work.

Artist Bio

Dharma Strasser MacColl, b. 1971, currently lives and works in Marin county. Trained as a sculptor, MacColl has embraced a materials-based approach to drawing and painting in three dimensions. In both her medium-defying works on paper and in her sculptures, MacColl strikes a thoughtful balance between the abstract and the referential as objects from real life morph into gestural patterns and tactile compositions. Her unique approach results in work that challenges the conventional definitions of the ceramic medium. MacColl received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1997. Her work is included in prominent private and public collections including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Berkeley Art Museum, as well as Fidelity Investments, Linklater LLC, and UCSF San Francisco.

NICK MAKANNA

Rune Study VI

2019, Glazed stoneware

15” x 6” x 7”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $300

Artwork Description

Nick Makanna deftly merges interior and exterior in these objects as the shapes encased in negative space become as prominent as the forms themselves. Each piece could be a building in ruins, stripped of its walls, or in the midst of creation, a frame to be built upon. They are foundational structures, supportive and sound, but also carry an innate fragility, an airiness, a sense of levitation.

Artist Bio

Nick Makanna (b. 1988, San Francisco CA) received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2016 and his BA from Lewis and Clark College in 2010. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland; Andrew Rafacz, Chicago; Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco; and / slash art, San Francisco. He also has participated in group exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum; Richmond Art Center; and Alter Space, San Francisco.

MICHELLE MANSOUR

Little Warrior of Balance (Andalusite)

2019, Acrylic on Arches paper

11” x 9” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $400

Starting Bid: $200

Artwork Description

The focus of Mansour’s work is the interior space of the mind and related ontological meditations. The artist’s process includes layering translucent washes of color and building up a symmetrical system of intersecting strands of cells. Exponentially repetitive, cyclical, and meditative, her paintings explore the tensions and balance between the scientific and the spiritual.

Artist Bio

Michelle Mansour is an artist, educator, and curator as well as the current Executive Director of Root Division, a visual arts non-profit in SF. Her work as been shown in a variety of non-profit and commercial venues such as The de Young Museum, Bedford Gallery, Southern Exposure, Morris Graves Museum, and Minnesota Street Project, including solo exhibitions at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery, RB Stevenson Gallery (La Jolla), Berkeley Art Center, and Latham Square via ProArts. Mansour has work in a variety of collections including Nordstroms, Hilton Hotels, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, and the El Camino Hospital, and is the recipient of an Honorary Fellowship and multiple residencies from Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She received her MFA in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute and has participated in lectures and panels with the SF Arts Commission, Grants for the Arts, The Lab, SFAI, CCA, and USF among others.

MARBIE QUALITY TIME

2022, Paper collage

11” x 8.5” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Hashimoto Contemporary

Retail Value: $1200

Starting Bid: $400

Artist Bio

Marbie is an artist and professional skateboarder from a small town in Iowa, currently based in Oakland, California. Her paper collage and acrylic paintings express intense feelings of yearning, depression, anxiety, confidence, and identity. Vivid colors, robust shapes and ambiguous figures define her aesthetic and hint at the autobiographical nature of her work.

KARA MARIA Paradise #1

2002, Monoprint with chine-collé and acrylic on paper

34” x 24” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble

Retail Value: $1800

Starting Bid: $750

Artwork Description

“Paradise #1” is from a series of monotypes made at Trillium Graphics, Brisbane, CA in 2002. Kara was thinking about pollution and nature having just read Don DeLillo’s 1997 novel “Underworld.”

This is an early example of artwork that reflects her interest in the place of animals in our increasingly unstable environment. The prints were started at Trillium Graphics (using their printing press) and later completed in Kara’s studio with hand painted acrylic. The technique of chine-collé was used to apply the printed bird to the surface. In that process a paper of a different color/texture is bonded to the original print surface using the pressure of the press. In this case, the paper used for the chine-collé element was also printed individually before it was adhered to paper.

Artist Bio

Kara Maria is a visual artist working in painting and mixed media. Her recent work reflects on Earth’s biodiversity crisis and the place of animals in our increasingly unstable environment. Maria received her BA and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum (BAMPFA); the Crocker Art Museum; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and the San Jose Museum of Art, among others.

VANESSA MARSH

Mt. Hozomeen 13, Sunrise, North Cascades National Park, WA from the series The Sun Beneath the Sky

2020, Unique silver gelatin lumen photogram

20” x 24” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist and Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Retail Value: $2900

Starting Bid: $800

Artwork Description

“The Sun Beneath the Sky” is a series of lumen photograms made by exposing silver gelatin paper to sunlight using cut paper masks. The images take the subject of granite mountain ranges, landscapes that evoke solidity and magnitude, and transforms them into something ethereal and transparent. The titles refer to the naming conventions of old landscape photography masters and serve to ground the images in a sense of earthliness. Vanessa Marsh creates these images to highlight that these landscapes are part of a living system of interconnected and sometimes fragile parts, even as they may seem grandiose on an individual level.

Artist Bio

Vanessa Marsh (b.1978, Seattle, Washington) is a Portland, OR-based visual artist. Marsh creates imaginary landscapes and atmospheres through a mixed media process based in photography. Marsh’s work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions at venues including Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco, the SFO Museum, the Penumbra Foundation in New York, photoEye Gallery in Santa Fe, NM; and the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Marsh has been the recipient of a Jentle Foundation Fellowship (2018), a Rayko Photo Center residency (2014), a MacDowell Colony Fellowship (2007), and a Headlands Center for the Arts

MFA Fellowship (2004). Marsh’s images are held in institutional collections including the San Jose Museum of Art, the San Francisco Art Commission, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

JET MARTINEZ Calla (Mars Edition)

2022, 10-Color screen print on 410gsm Somerset satin tub fine art paper

14.25” x 19.25” x 1.0625”

Courtesy of the Artist and framed by Sterling Art Services

Retail Value: $1200

Starting Bid: $400

Artwork Description

This piece, featuring the calla lily, is part of a larger body of work Martinez has been exploring throughout the pandemic. The muted tones of these pieces reflect a more somber state of mind, in which it has not felt appropriate to make bright and colorful work. It’s been difficult to make plans for the future, when the present has felt so uncertain. This work explores a quiet aspect of creativity.

Artist Bio

An influential figure in Bay Area public art, Oakland-based artist Jet Martinez (b. 1973) is known for creating vibrant works of art that engage the traditions of Mexican folk art with contemporary aesthetics. Originally from the small beach town of Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico, and raised in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Martinez takes inspiration from his native culture’s rich traditions of pottery, weaving, and embroidery, enlivening the rigid architecture of urban environments with ornate patterns and abstract forms.

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LEE MATERAZZI

Bluish Blackish

2020, C-print

25” x 30” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Eleanor Harwood Gallery

Retail Value: $3000

Starting Bid: $1200

Artist Bio

Lee Materazzi is a contemporary artist from Miami, FL now living in San Francisco, CA. Materazzi uses her body as a medium alongside color and texture, at times responding to remnants of material or work left by her children in the studio. Her compositions are off-kilter and investigate autonomy – rejecting acceptable social norms that regulate the human body. Materazzi’s works are considered sculpturally, but exist only temporarily. She documents what she creates with medium format photography to preserve it. Her work has been shown internationally and is a part of numerous public art collections including The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, The Sagamore Collection, the Scholl Collection at World Class Boxing, and The Perez Art Museum where she was recently included in “My Body My Rules.”

SANAZ MAZINANI

Ali Qapu Palace, Music Hall, 1597

2010, Pigment print

33” x 33” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Stephen Bulger Gallery

Retail Value: $5000

Starting Bid: $2200

Artwork Description

Mazinani’s work has appeared in solo exhibitions at institutions including the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the West Vancouver Museum, and Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara. Her projects have been featured in venues throughout Canada as well as China, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Iran, Switzerland, the UAE, UK, and USA. Mazinani’s work has been written about in Artforum, artnet News, Border Crossings, Canadian Art, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, among others. She has received grants from the Canada Council, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts, and her work is held in public collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the City and County of San Francisco. She is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at the University of Toronto. She holds an undergraduate degree from Ontario College of Art & Design and an MFA from Stanford University.

Artist Bio

Mazinani’s work has appeared in solo exhibitions at institutions including the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the West Vancouver Museum, and Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara. Her projects have been featured in venues throughout Canada as well as China, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Iran, Switzerland, the UAE, UK, and USA. Mazinani’s work has been written about in Artforum, artnet News, Border Crossings, Canadian Art, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, among others. She has received grants from the Canada Council, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts, and her work is held in public collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the City and County of San Francisco. She is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at the University of Toronto. She holds an undergraduate degree from Ontario College of Art & Design and an MFA from Stanford University.

ALICIA MCCARTHY

Untitled (3)

2018, Color softground etching with drypoint on Somerset paper

20” x 24” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Pt. 2 Gallery, framed by Small Works SF

Retail Value: $3000

Starting Bid: $1250

Artist Bio

Alicia McCarthy was born in Oakland, California in 1969. She is known by her signature style of vibrantly colored, often woven, patterns on mixed media panels. Found wood and spray paint are two commonly used materials by the artist. McCarthy is a member of the Mission School, a movement that emerged in the 1990s in the Mission District of San Francisco. The movement encompasses a group of artists who take their inspiration from the urban culture of the Mission District, graffiti, and street art. The movement is accordingly associated with the use of nontraditional artistic materials and found objects. McCarthy received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994 and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007.

ANNE MCGUIRE Santa Fe Two

2017, Graphite and water color on paper

8” x 8” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Pastine Projects

Retail Value: $1600

Starting Bid: $800

Artwork Description

The artist painted this work in Santa Fe. From McGuire: “New Mexico had me dropping into the light and rain. I’d wake up early to paint and drink coffee. The process is very straightforward: I use a pencil to draw a grid on paper, then I fill it with a water color. This is a paean to time and is motivated by a broad spectrum of people, places, and things that most folks are familiar with even if only in their imaginations, such as harmony, hope, growth, the universe, meaning, magic, regret, forgiveness, the friends I got burned by and the friends I didn’t, dogs, cats, love, longing, rope, ponies, creeks, weave, stupid categories, songs, unreachable goals, random outcomes, breakdown of meaning, creation, perfectionism, flaws, and options.”

Artist Bio

Anne McGuire makes art, music, and poetry in San Francisco. The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive collected two of her large works in 2016 and she has a solo show at Pastine Projects in September 2023.

DANIEL MENDOZA Purple Pool Boys

2022, Watercolor and colored pencil on paper

12” x 9“ x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1000

Starting Bid: $400

Artwork Description

This drawing is of two friends on a vacation in Palm Springs - both men playing with their femininity in heels and underwear in this celebratory purple color/dreamscape. They’re drawn in this cartoony style to think about cartoons’ relationship to the past (Golden Age animation, and childhood) and a lot of the heterosexual and patriarchal propaganda that children are often fed through commercial movie narratives. By rendering the figures in this way, Mendoza is playing with the potential of images and alternative narratives to forge a freer or utopic future for his community and the viewer.

Artist Bio

Daniel Arthur Mendoza’s work is made from cut and sewn secondhand fabrics and drawings that celebrate queer history, joy, and friendship and its historical veiled-ness within the confines of daily life. Exploring themes of intimacy, repression, and refusal, Mendoza’s work reveals a longing to rediscover the past, confront the weight of patriarchal visual propaganda, and open oneself to potential, soft, hopeful futures. Mendoza received his MFA from UC Riverside in 2022. In 2013, he received a BA in Studio Art at UC Davis, and attended the Chautauqua Institution Schools of the Fine and Performing Arts in Chautauqua, New York. His work has been exhibited at The Mistake Room (Los Angeles, CA), Human Resources Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA), Rivalry Projects (Buffalo, NY), Guerrero Gallery (San Francisco, CA), and Incline Gallery (San Francisco, CA) among others. He is based in the greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area.

ADIA MILLETT

Red Roof

2018, Acryic paint on wood panel

10” x 10” x 1.25”

Courtesy of the Artist and Haines Gallery

Retail Value: $1200

Starting Bid: $500

Artwork Description

Weaving threads of African American experiences with broader ideas of identity and collective history, Adia Millett’s work investigates the fragile interconnectivity among all living things, shedding light on the multifaceted and complex parallels between the creative process and the nature of personal identity. Millett’s paintings feature abstracted, geometric shapes that imply movement - colorful forms expand and collapse freely among glittery backgrounds with hints of landscape and structural objects such as rooftops, windows, and doors. While the textiles draw on the domestic and artistic traditions of quilt-making, they are pieced together, combining culturally diverse fabrics.

Artist Bio

Adia Millett, originally from Los Angeles, received her BFA from the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA from the California Institute of Arts. She has exhibited at prominent institutions including the New Museum, New York; P.S. 1, New York; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; Oakland Museum, CA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta; The Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans; Barbican Gallery, London; San Jose Quilt and Textile Museum; California African American Museum, Los Angeles; and di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa. Millett has taught at Columbia College in Chicago, UC Santa Cruz, Cooper Union in NY, and California College of the Arts. She is currently based in Oakland, California.

MARY MORSE

Untitled (Hemingray)

2022, Acrylic on paper

8” x 8” x 0”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $200

Artwork Description

Insulators are glass or ceramic components critical to our communications and electrical infrastructure. The design of these objects favors utility and ease of mass production; However, when isolated, the viewer can also appreciate their striking aesthetic. This painting celebrates the beautiful interplay of material, form, and color of an electrical insulator removed from its industrial context.

Artist Bio

Mary Morse is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersection of climate and the infrastructure systems that support our modern lives. Her recent work uses delicate models of transmission towers to form sculptures that express the fragility of our power grid network. Morse is an MFA candidate at San Jose State University. She currently lives and works in the Bay Area.

HUSHIDAR MORTEZAIE

Iran Maiden, for the Daughters of Fire

2022, Mixed media and lycra velvet

30” x 28“ x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $250

Starting Bid: $100

Artwork Description

Hushidar Mortezaie, born in 1972, Tehran, Iran, is a fashion designer, visual artist, and graphic designer whose work explores the paradoxes of contemporary culture through fashion, gender identity, iconography, and branding. His work has been featured in publications including Vogue, Huffington Post, W magazine, and worn by Linda Evangelista, Beyonce, Britney Spears and featured in the TV series “Sex and the City,” as well as in the motion picture “Fight Club.” Mortezaie has shown his work at galleries including Southern Exposure, SOMArts, the Roski School of Arts USC, and the de Young Museum. The Hushidar Mortezaie archive, at the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at SF State, is the first-ever digital Iranian American LGBTQIA+ archive made possible by a grant from the NEA. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Artist Bio

Hushidar’s artwork is based on an Iron Maiden album, alluding to the defiant popularity of heavy metal in Iran, and how “Western-style” music is considered haram and illegal by the Islamic regime. A female freedom fighter wears a red headband with black writing – a reference to the headbands often worn by Shia fighters signaling that the wearer is willing to die and to give the wearer safe passage to heaven if killed, replacing the usual phrase, “The Innocent, The Martyr” with “Woman Life Freedom,” to pay tribute to the women and all who have risen up, and especially to those killed by the regime for their quest for the right to freedom and change. The figure holds a molotov cocktail labeled with “Baraye,” the title of a revolutionary song. The phrase Daughters of Fire is taken from a Forugh Farrokhzad poem, while the slogan “We are Victorious” in Persian, is bold at the bottom. The collage is digitally printed on velvet and made into a wearable tribute to the daughters of fire as they change history.

NICOLE MUELLER

Jet Stream

2021, Acrylic on canvas

24” x 24” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $700

Starting Bid: $250

Artist Bio

Nicole Mueller is a San Francisco-based multidisciplinary artist whose work includes largescale painting, murals, “stained glass” installations, mosaic work, and other forms of “expanded painting” that are vibrant, light-filled, and aim to transform public spaces with color and light. Driven by process, her work is abstract, highly saturated with color, and built with layers of collage-like shapes. Mueller’s work explores themes of transformation, impermanence, latent potential, energy and inertia, the complexity of color, states of flux, and the threshold between interior and exterior, the tangible and intangible. Mueller received her BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has been commissioned to create permanent public art projects in collaboration with the City of Tempe, Arizona and City of Alameda, California. Mueller is also co-host of Beyond the Studio podcast, a 2017 Alternative Exposure grantee.

RANU MUKHERJEE

breath 1

2022, Ink and UV inkjet print on paper

25.25” x 19” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery Wendi Norris

Retail Value: $4200

Starting Bid: $1750

Artwork Description

This ink drawing is part of a series of “breath” drawings of hands with things floating or suspended above them. They came out of the early experience of the pandemic, when touch was inhibited. The hand is positioned as behind the back. Mukherjee uses microphones and megaphones to evoke a sense of voice, performance, action, and rage. She makes the ink drawings on top of a print that is created in the process of printing digital patterns on and through the jamdani sari cloth. A lot of ink goes through the thin weave onto the paper, to make overlays of printed pattern. This particular drawing of a microphone and a megaphone is about speaking, listening, and the power of both of these as a public form. The patterns in the print are digital abstractions created from images of different instances of civic action for things Mukherjee thinks of as futurist ideas (environment and water protection, gender equality, racial justice, gun control, etc.) These things are never visible – they are abstract patterns – but conceived of as a way to embed this moment into the work and acknowledge that these movements continue whether they are visible or not.

Artist Bio

Ranu Mukherjee makes hybrid work in moving image, painting, and installation to build new imaginative capacities - guided by the forces of ecology, diaspora, motherhood, and transnational feminisms. Mukherjee has exhibited widely, including commissioned projects for the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, de Young Museum, Karachi Biennale 219, Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Jose Museum of Art, Singapore Bienniale, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Mukherjee is represented by Gallery Wendi Norris, who published her first monograph “Shadowtime” in 2021. She is Chair of Film at California College of the Arts.

PARUL NARESH

Rustic Traditions IV

2021, Screen print with madder, soy milk, and earth pigment on natural linen fabric

40” x 30” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $4000

Starting Bid: $1600

Artwork Description

Parul Naresh grew up in Northern India around rich textile traditions. As a printmaker, she works with natural fabrics and plant-based dyes, soy milk, and earth pigments. “Rustic Traditions” is a series that incorporates materials and techniques that are intimately linked to India’s history and narratives of colonialism: turmeric, an integral part of Hindu culture for its medicinal powers and auspicious value; indigo, a reminder of forced labor during British rule; and madder root, one of the earliest known sources for fabric dye. This print depicts plant life inspired by Mughalera paintings. Naresh uses a mud-resist printing technique that incorporates intentional fading to imply reluctance and struggle, and revives traditional methods that have been almost lost in textile processes due to the dominance of fast-fashion. As a fiber artist and a textile designer, Naresh continues to blur the line between art, craft, and fashion. Rooted in the cultures of ayurveda, yoga, and handicraft, with a meditative approach to art-making, her practice engages the mindful use of material and processes. Naresh believes, as a sustainable art practitioner, it is her responsibility to be aware how her work interacts, relates to, and impacts the environment it exists in. Thus, over the years, she has worked from the ground up to revive traditional methods through art and community work.

Artist Bio

Parul Naresh grew up in the Himalayan region of India and currently resides in California. She has a Masters in textile design from the National Institute of Fashion Design, India. As a printmaker, she works with natural fabrics using silkscreen, plant-based dyes, soy milk, and earth pigments. Taking inspiration from elements of nature, her work is focused on reproducing organic forms and textures. Naresh has exhibited her work internationally and has been an artist-in-residence and received fellowships from Kala Art Institute; Penland School of Craft, North Carolina; and Chalk Hill Artist Residency.

AMY NATHAN Grecian Bow

2022, Colored pencil and flashe vinyl paint on panel 12” x 6” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist and CULT Aimee Friberg

Retail Value: $1500

Starting Bid: $600

Artwork Description

“Grecian Bow” is from a series of drawings, which are close studies of photographs of ancient sculptures. It’s an ongoing project looking at how we acquire knowledge—the many filters, perspectives, and informed guesses that are part of any object’s narrative arc through time. Nathan’s work often focuses on tools and accessories women use to literally pull themselves together, like this bow which gathers flowing drapery to a close.

Artist Bio

Amy Nathan’s sculpture, painting, and installation-based practice asks questions about how meaning can be expressed through visual languages. Her work is guided by ideas such as the gendered nature of politics and power, classical mythology and contemporary literature, and the body’s visceral reaction to its environment. Nathan’s work has been exhibited at CULT Aimee Friberg, the Headlands Center for the Arts, Saint Joseph’s Arts Society, /room/, AORA London, Traywick Contemporary, Facebook, and with the International Sculpture Center. Her work has appeared in Artforum, Art Maze Magazine, New American Paintings and Sculpture Magazine. She holds an MFA from Mills College and was a Graduate Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts.

MITSU OKUBO

Forever Young

2021, Acrylic, gouache, and ink with Plexiglas on canvas

18” x 12” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $700

Starting Bid: $150

Artwork Description

Mitsu Okubo is a California artist. His favorite movies are “Robocop,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “The Third Man,” “Sleepaway Camp,” and “Wild at Heart.” He once met George A. Romero at a comic book convention and while talking to him, he was interrupted by a crowd of people who were passing by, surrounding a person he couldn’t yet see. The crowd eventually opened up to reveal the person being surrounded to be Stone Cold Steve Austin. Before he could respond to this lovely surprise, Stone Cold glanced over to Mr. Romero and loudly screamed “George!” leading to Romero to get out of his seat and respond “Steve!” The two of them promptly exchanged hugs and proceeded to chat and exchange stories about what they’d been up to. Meanwhile the artist was just standing there, two feet away, holding his autographed DVD copy of “Dawn of The Dead.”

Artist Bio

Mitsu Okubo is a California artist who makes work to reconcile his inadequacies as a failed landscape architect.

KELLY ORDING

Young and Free

2023, Acrylic on paper

20” x 20” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Pt. 2 Gallery, framed by Sterling Art Services

Retail Value: $5000

Starting Bid: $2000

Artist Bio

Based in Oakland, California, Kelly Ording has exhibited her work both in the U.S. and internationally since graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000. In addition to her works on paper, canvas and collages, Ording has created several large-scale public works and murals. Her public works and murals can be seen at the Palega Park Recreation Center and Unity Plaza in San Francisco, Oakland, Emeryville, Facebook Headquarters, Genentech, as well as other locations throughout the Bay Area and internationally. She has completed residencies at the Facebook Analog Research Laboratory, Menlo Park; and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley. She has been awarded the Master Artists’ Award at Kala Institute, and was the recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation Award. Her work is included in several collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art collection, the San Francisco Arts Commission Public and Civic Art Collection, the Alameda County Collection, JP Morgan Chase Collection and the Ellie Mae Collection, to name a few. She currently devotes all her time to her artwork and her family with fellow artist, Jet Martinez.

JENNIE OTTINGER

Young England Kindergarten 1980

2022, Oil on panel

12” x 9” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Rebecca Camacho Presents

Retail Value: $3000

Starting Bid: $1200

Artwork Description

Jennie Ottinger’s piece focuses on Diana, Princess of Wales. This piece is from her recent solo show: “Bad Luck, Dutch. Your Face is on the Tea Towels: the Princess Series.” The title is a reference to a conversation between Lady Diana Spencer and her sisters on the eve of Diana’s wedding to Prince Charles where she expressed nuptial doubts and her sisters encouraged her to proceed. In this body of work Ottinger recreates a public documentation of Princess Diana from her media arrival as Charles’s young girlfriend in 1980 through her death in 1997. Jennie’s abstract realist paintings investigate historical events through a contemporary feminist eye. With figures at once eerily distorted but recognizable, she documents gendered social norms and the power-holders who benefit from them.

Artist Bio

Jennie Ottinger was raised in Massachusetts and currently lives in San Francisco, CA. She has exhibited in the Bay Area, New York, Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles, and London. She was awarded an Investing in Artists grant from Center for Cultural Innovation, a fellowship at the Kala Art Institute, and was a 2010 finalist for the SECA award. Reviews of her work have appeared in Art in America, ArtSlant, Its Nice That, Hyperallergic, Artsy, and Huffington Post. Ottinger’s work was featured in New American Paintings and her recent solo show at Rebecca Camacho Presents gallery in San Francisco examined the public face of Princess Diana. She served on Southern Exposure’s curatorial committee and was an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts.

GAY OUTLAW

Croque-To-Go

2023, Oil-based inks, paper

10” x 13” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2000

Starting Bid: $800

Artwork Description

Relief print, edition 1/9

Artist Bio

Gay Outlaw works with a unique palette of materials, ranging from the traditional to the ephemeral. She draws upon her immediate environment as well as her personal history to craft forms that have a strong sense of pattern and play. Outlaw has been making sculpture since the early 90’s, when she was first recognized for her temporary works made of various types of pastry: puff pastry, spongecake, caramelized sugar, and fruitcake. She attended cooking school in France and worked in the food business before becoming an artist. She also studied photography at the International Center for Photography in New York City. Outlaw’s work has been exhibited and collected both nationally and internationally.

ALISON PEBWORTH

Erratic Pattern Drawing #1 North Adams,MA

2022, Paper, pen and watercolor

14” x 11” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $500

Starting Bid: $250

Artwork Description

Erratic Pattern Drawings are a form of meditation the artist uses when she is in a new place with access to limited art materials: just paper, pen and a small set of Schmincke watercolors. Pebworth starts with an abstracted image taken from her immediate surroundings and repeats the sequence and gesture of the drawing as she turns the page, allowing the process to form its own pattern.

Artist Bio

Alison Pebworth’s work focuses on long-range projects that combine painting, installation, and social interaction. Anthropological research and alternative forms of storytelling are the foundation for both two-dimensional and sculptural works. Pebworth is the recipient of awards from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Center for Cultural Innovation, the McEvoy Foundation, and GEN ART. A 2021 MacDowell Fellow, other selected fellowships include The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (NE), Recology SF (CA), Ucross Foundation (WY), Monson Arts (ME), Cannonball (FL), Space (Victoria, BC) and the Wurlitzer Foundation (NM). She has exhibited and toured her work to over thirty venues across North America including the Oakland Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the de Young Museum; the New Children’s Museum, San Diego; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; the Salt Lake Art Center, Utah; and Vivo Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC. She is currently in a year-long Research and Development Residency at Massachusettes Museum of Contemporary Art (MASSMoCA).

ALISON PEBWORTH

Erratic Pattern Drawing #2 North Adams,MA

2022, Pen and watercolor on paper

14” x 11” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $500

Starting Bid: $250

Artwork Description

Erratic Pattern Drawings are a form of meditation the artist uses when she is in a new place with access to limited art materials: just paper, pen and a small set of Schmincke watercolors. Pebworth starts with an abstracted image taken from her immediate surroundings and repeats the sequence and gesture of the drawing as she turns the page, allowing the process to form its own pattern.

Artist Bio

Alison Pebworth’s work focuses on long-range projects that combine painting, installation, and social interaction. Anthropological research and alternative forms of storytelling are the foundation for both two-dimensional and sculptural works. Pebworth is the recipient of awards from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Center for Cultural Innovation, the McEvoy Foundation, and GEN ART. A 2021 MacDowell Fellow, other selected fellowships include The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (NE), Recology SF (CA), Ucross Foundation (WY), Monson Arts (ME), Cannonball (FL), Space (Victoria, BC) and the Wurlitzer Foundation (NM). She has exhibited and toured her work to over thirty venues across North America including the Oakland Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the de Young Museum; the New Children’s Museum, San Diego; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; the Salt Lake Art Center, Utah; and Vivo Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC. She is currently in a year-long Research and Development Residency at Massachusettes Museum of Contemporary Art (MASSMoCA).

MITZI PEDERSON

Untitled (Black Cherry)

2019, Colored pencil on paper

15” x 18” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist and Ratio 3

Retail Value: $3000

Starting Bid: $1200

Artist Bio

Mitzi Pederson was born in Stuart, Florida in 1976 and lives in San Francisco, CA. She got an MFA in Painting & Drawing at the California College of the Arts in 2004 and a BFA in Printing, Painting, & Drawing; Minor in Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University in 1999. She graduated from L’Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts in Paris, France in 1998.

MAYA PEN City Nymph

2021, Photograph

17” x 11” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $300

Artwork Description

Pen created this persona for a promotional shoot for an album by the musical project “She-Nut.” Pen is a skilled prosthetics sculptor in addition to working as an artist in multiple media. She sculpted, molded, cast, and painted the silicone mask, chest prosthetic, and latex head piece portrayed here. This piece is a collaboration with photographer Kenzi Crash.

Artist Bio

Maya Pen Raquel is a self taught artist from the Philadelphia area, based currently in New Orleans, LA. She works across various mediums, including performance art, special effects, mask-making and puppetry, theater creation, installation arts, music, creative writing, and film. She believes in art as a cheap and accessible expression that can be used to celebrate, house, and protect communities in need. Her work is concerned with myth-making in relation to tangible and ethereal borders, a dying earth, and collective storytelling. She has a strong foundation in collaborative practices grounded in shared vision, equipment, educational resources, space, opportunities, and worker ownership. Her exhibition “We’ve Been Among You” with artist Juicebox Burton opens in May 2023 at Southern Exposure.

MAYA PEN

Entre La Vida y La Muerte

2022, Photograph

17” x 11” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $300

Artwork Description

From a series on mythological figures, this is a representation of the story of the origins of narcolepsy. This series is about the importance of fantasy and magic to our healing, ancestry, identities, and bodies. Pen spends several weeks in interviews and story sessions with members of her community, asking them to identify a feature, condition, tragedy, or triumph pertaining to the body. Pen then crafts prostheses, make-up, costumes, and sets to transform the sitter into a living myth. This piece is a collaboration with photographer Kenzi Crash.

Artist Bio

Maya Pen Raquel is a self taught artist from the Philadelphia area, based currently in New Orleans, LA. She works across various mediums, including performance art, special effects, mask-making and puppetry, theater creation, installation arts, music, creative writing, and film. She believes in art as a cheap and accessible expression that can be used to celebrate, house, and protect communities in need. Her work is concerned with myth-making in relation to tangible and ethereal borders, a dying earth, and collective storytelling. She has a strong foundation in collaborative practices grounded in shared vision, equipment, educational resources, space, opportunities, and worker ownership. Her exhibition “We’ve Been Among You” with artist Juicebox Burton opens in May 2023 at Southern Exposure.

KEITH PETERSEN

Untitled #507 (ink, sodium sulfate and dextrin)

2022, Archival pigment print on Hahnmühle German Etching 310gsm paper, Artist Proof (A/P)

24” x 36” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1250

Starting Bid: $500

Artwork Description

Working with photography and mixed media in a studio practice, Keith Petersen’s interest in the intersection of the natural sciences and art has led to a series of explorations of the alchemical interactions between natural and synthetic pigments and other compounds. He uses photographic processes to document the often unstable and ephemeral reactions between these substances.

Artist Bio

Keith Petersen is an artist and photographer based in Oakland, California. He has a studio at Norton Factory Studios in Oakland. He has a BFA from CCA and has shown work in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.

FERRIS PLOCK Mighty Mickey

2021, Gouache, 22k gold leaf, spray paint on birch panel 30” x 24” x 3”

Courtesy of the Artist and Harman Projects

Retail Value: $2000

Starting Bid: $1000

Artwork Description

This piece comes from a series of twenty five works exhibited from Plock’s 2021 solo exhibition at Hashimoto Contemporary Gallery in San Francisco. He loves reimagining important figures from his past; in this case he chose to intertwine his childhood infatuation with Mickey Mouse and his intense obsession with all subjects related to Robotech. Mickey Mouse was a celebrity in his house growing up. Robotech was something he stumbled upon as a latchkey kid. Channel 26 would have episodes of all the series of Robotech (an epic story set in the future with vehicles transforming into armored robots that battle various alien invaders). This piece has quite a bit of gold leaf accents. He enjoys working with gold leaf not only for its color but also for its ability to capture and reflect light.

Artist Bio

Ferris Plock is an artist living in San Francisco, CA. He brings a dedicated focus to his elaborate work, paired with a wild sense of originality and intricate pattern work. Plock’s work is often fueled by his deep appreciation and fascination with Japanese popular culture, past and present. Plock works in collaboration with his wife, Kelly Tunstall, and they create together under the name KeFe.

CARISSA POTTER CARLSON Holding Each Other

2021, Acrylic on paper

18” x 24” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $850

Starting Bid: $500

Artwork Description

Two bodies, offering comfort and acceptance, existing together without a certain future.

Artist Bio

Carissa Potter is a human longing for connection. She writes books, makes art & public commissions, and hosts the series Bad At Keeping Secrets (one of Substack’s featured newsletters of 2022) where she talks to other humans about the mess of being alive. Carissa is the founder of People I’ve Loved, the author of three books, one of AdAges 24 Most Inspiring People of 2021, and one of Cosmo Magazine’s 24 people making the world a better place.

HELIA POUYANFAR And the Sky Descended Upon Earth

2021, Photograph

30” x 20” x 4”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $350

Starting Bid: $150

Artwork Description

Pouyanfar’s conceptual work investigates the permanently transient state of the refugee body and its negotiation and reconciliation with place. Inspired by the Iranian saying “Aseman be zámin amád” (the sky descended upon earth), uttered during moments of great catastrophe, the photograph recontextualizes the erasure of horizons. In response to witnessing the tragedy of refugee bodies lost at sea, the sky’s metaphorical descension is seen as a form of protest and a poetic attempt to create a state of placelessness.

Artist Bio

Born in 1995 in Tehran, Iran, Helia Pouyanfar immigrated to California in 2014. She received her BA in Art Practice from University of California, Berkeley and her MFA in Studio Art from University of California, Davis specializing in sculpture and installation art. Pouyanfar has been the recipient of multiple awards, including the Lauren Krikorian Memorial Prize and Certificate of Excellence in Sculpture from UC Berkeley and Mary Lou Osborn Award and the 2021 Margrit Mondavi Graduate Fellowship from UC Davis. Pouyanfor’s works has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout California and abroad, including at the Manetti Shrem Museum in Davis, Axis Gallery in Sacramento, Root Division and Southern Exposure in San Francisco, Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, The Niche at Dovetail Magazine in Scotland, and the Plaxall Gallery in Queens, New York. She currently resides and maintains an art studio practice in the Bay Area.

RACHEL POZIVENEC Predecessor

2021, Pigment print

28” x 20” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $450

Starting Bid: $200

Artwork Description

“Predecessor” channels the ways in which the experiences of our ancestors are reflected in our own day-to-day contemporary lives, and how, in this way, one might say we become our own predecessors. The face of the baby is vulnerable and emotive, yet held by strong and firm hands. The ceramic face is hand sculpted porcelain clay and finished with acrylic paint.

Artist Bio

Rachel Pozivenec is a ceramics mask-maker who stages and photographs dreamlike scenes to excavate potential narratives. Her work seeks to confront the inherent vulnerability of the human experience, whilst communicating the compelling and indescribable unknown of this tension. Pozivenec’s first-generation background heavily informs the narrative of her work through a visual contemplation of ancestry and complicated identity. Her primary mediums are clay and digital photography and mixed medium (resin, fiberglass, foam) for mask commissions and fabrication work. Her work has been seen in the opera, music videos, dance performances, and claymation collaborations. She graduated with a degree in Psychology and is currently based in the Pacific Northwest with her big dog, Fred.

MEL PREST Ocean Sound

2021, Acrylic, mica, metallic acrylics on wood panel

14” x 11” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and K. Imperial Fine Art

Retail Value: $1800

Starting Bid: $500

Artwork Description

Prest created the painting “Ocean Sound” while at Willapa Bay Artist Residency, located on a 30x1 mile peninsula in southern Washington state. Feeling the presence of the ocean and the constant call of the waves was mesmerizing for her. This painting was an attempt to reflect the gritty salt touch, light reflections, and feeling of infinity Prest experienced there.

Artist Bio

Mel Prest is an American abstract artist whose work is focused on color and perceptual visual relationships. Prest’s work has been exhibited internationally including: The Drawing Center, New York; The Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Durham; IS Projects, Leiden; Saturation Point, London; and Nakaochiai Gallery, Tokyo. She has been awarded residencies at The MH de Young Museum; The Ragdale Foundation; The Sam and Adele Golden Artist Foundation; Willapa Bay AIR; The Wassaic Project; and Vermont Studio Center. Her work is held in collections at Apple; the Berkeley Art Museum; the Crocker Museum of Art; Google; Kaiser Permanente; Marin General Hospital; the Mills College Art Museum; Schneider Museum of Art; among others. She is represented by K.Imperial Fine Art in San Francisco. As an independent curator, Prest has organized shows in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Oregon, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, and Zagreb. She is a founding member of Transmitter, a collaborative curatorial gallery initiative in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Mel Prest lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

J. JOHN PRIOLA Fuchsia

2014, Archival pigment print (framed) edition 2/5

21.5” x 28.5” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble

Retail Value: $3500

Starting Bid: $1400

Artwork Description

“Fuchsia” is one image from a series called “Nurture” shown at Gallery Paule Anglim in 2015. The series looks at the way humans interact with nature, and vice versa. Priola studied with Hank Wessel and Larry Sultan, and uses soft eyes and personal investigation.

Artist Bio

J. John Priola is a contemporary visual artist working in photography and video. His work is known for refined presentation and print quality. Priola’s work has been included in numerous exhibitions, including “In A Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice” at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and “Prospect ‘96” at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany. His work was part of a five-year traveling exhibition, “Picturing Eden,” launching from the George Eastman House/International Museum of Photography and Film. His work is included in many private, corporate, and Foundation collections and museum collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Denver Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. Priola is the recipient of awards such as the John Anson Kittredge Fund, Aaron Siskind Foundation, and the California Arts Council. A new monograph was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2022. It features essays by Rita Bullwinkel and Claire Daigle, and a conversation with Alec Soth. He has taught in many degree programs such as San Francisco State University, California College of the Arts, ICP Bard and he taught at the San Francisco Art Institute for 25 years. He is represented by Anglim/ Trimble Gallery San Francisco.

RACHELLE REICHERT Sali

2023, San Francisco bay salt, redwood ashes, mixed media on panel 8” x 8” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1700

Starting Bid: $600

Artwork Description

This artwork is a continuation of the series “Saltworks.” This series is a material examination of the regional environmental, enveloping weather, and temperature present in the salt harvested from the San Francisco Bay. This particular work features salt that is tinted black with ashes of trees burned in California wildfires. Both ash and salt are collected by the artist during hikes around the Bay Area and the western United States.

Artist Bio

Rachelle Reichert lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Select exhibitions include the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Center for Contemporary Art at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, German Consulate in New York City, San Diego Art Institute, and Mills College Art Museum. Her work has been reviewed and published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Make: Magazine, California Home and Design, and New American Paintings. Her artwork and research is included in many public and private collections, including the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archive, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Library, Meta Headquarters, and Adobe Inc. Her artwork has been presented at the California Climate Change Symposium, San Francisco State of the Estuary Conference, and the American Geophysical Union Meeting. She earned her MFA from Mills College in Oakland, CA and a BFA from Boston University.

KATE RHOADES

Social Anxiety Hike

2023, Oil on panel

16” x 20” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $850

Starting Bid: $350

Artwork Description

“Social Anxiety Hike” is a landscape and a self-portrait of the artist crawling along a hiking trail in a ghillie suit, a type of camouflage clothing designed to resemble plants and forest debris. It is part of a years-long exploration of the ubiquitous LIE that nature is a place to find psychic peace.

Artist Bio

Kate Rhoades lives and works in Oakland, California. Her work has been presented in the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Santa Fe International New Media Festival. Rhoades has participated in exhibitions at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, Southern Exposure in San Francisco, and various venues, publications, hotel rooms, and alleyways across the globe. Since 2014, she has co-hosted the Bay Area’s number one arts and culture podcast, Congratulations Pine Tree. Rhoades was also a Jay DeFeo Prize winner in 2014 and one of the Fleishhacker Foundation’s Eureka Fellowship grantees in 2018.

BLAISE ROSENTHAL A Better Place

2020, Pastel, charcoal, earth pigments, and acrylic on canvas

20” x 25” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Johansson Projects

Retail Value: $2850

Starting Bid: $1000

Artist Bio

Blaise Rosenthal spent his first, most formative years in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. The elemental character of the environment became archetypal for him, forming him; forming what he is and has to share. He recalls dusty, bare feet and no shirt through dry summers, the sound of crickets at night, and stars beyond counting. It is from the residue of these experiences that Rosenthal makes his paintings. He has shown his works in solo exhibitions at Johansson Projects Gallery, Oakland, CA; Factory Outlet Gallery, Mokelumne Hill, CA; and Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA.

BYRON RYONO Untitled

2019, Bronze

6” x 6” x 6.5”

Courtesy of the Artist and Jack Fischer Gallery

Retail Value: $1000

Starting Bid: $350

Artwork Description

Byron Ryono’s work focuses on form, surface texture, positive/negative space, and color in 360 degrees. With these forms, in whatever way possible, his intuition and the material and/or objects dictate the making process. Second is a comment. Sometimes he feels an urge to convey a message, usually confronting social, environmental, and political issues. Usually in these cases, whimsy and/or irony are also an essential component. Some of his influences include Eduardo Chillida, Martin Puryear, and Robert Therrien.

Artist Bio

Byron Ryono is a sculptor who has exhibited work at the Jack Fischer Gallery, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and Chandra Cerrito Contemporary. He is represented by Jack Fischer Gallery.

SANAZ SAFANASAB

Blue Minarets

2021, Fiber art

8” x 20” x 0.2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $350

Artwork Description

Working across the disciplines of drawing, painting, fiber, and ceramics, Safanasab is interested in the quality of unruly lines and asymmetrical forms that help explore whatever is relational, fluid, various, and more importantly, uncertain. Linear movements can parallel and converge as weaving fabrics. This piece was inspired by the architectural form of goldaste (Persian: گلدسته ) or minaret (Arabic: مناره ) which is a type of tower typically built into or adjacent to mosques and generally used to project the Muslim call to prayer, and also serve as landmarks and symbols of Islam’s presence. The artist associates the form of goldaste/minaret with the male phallus, and leverages the image to criticize patriarchy, public surveillance, and political control. The pattern of “Blue Minarets” is inspired by an image of minarets covered by blue tiles over a clear blue sky in the background, with electrical lines between them. It is a yarn weaving on a jack loom.

Artist Bio

Sanaz Safanasab’s art is rooted in her hybrid identity through cross-cultural encounters. She is invested in creating afresh the cultural aesthetics of Iran, her native country, by depicting them reduced, displaced, and realized in a common place from her vantage point in the U.S. In 2022, she received the Cadogan Contemporary Art Award, among others. She has exhibited at SOMArts, 500 Capp Street, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICASF), Southern Exposure, Root Division, and more. She is an MFA student at San Francisco State University.

RON MOULTRIE SAUNDERS

Hand Sliding Through Water

2023, Photogram and gelatin silver print

14” x 11” x 0”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $750

Starting Bid: $300

Artwork Description

Ron creates photograms: photographs that are made without the use of a camera. He lays objects on top of silver-based photographic paper and then exposes it to light to create a silhouette image. His personal and public art projects begin by conducting research about the history and culture of people and place. With his ongoing series, “Beneath My Skin is The History of My Beauty,” he explores story and mythology as a gateway to talk about cultural history, family mythology, and personal identity.

Artist Bio

Ron Moultrie is a public artist, community activist, urban designer, landscape architect and educator who lives in San Francisco. He has created public artwork for SF Arts Commission and BART. He is a co-founder of Three Point Nine Art Collective and is on the advisory board of Black [Space] Residency and First Exposures. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States including solo shows for his ongoing series “Beneath My Skin Is the History of My Beauty” and “The Secret Life of Plants” at San Francisco International Airport, and group shows “The DeYoung Open;” “Hiraeth” at Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco;”Self:Scape” at Middlesex County College, New Jersey; and “Exposed: Today’s Photography/Yesterday’s Technology” at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. He is the recipient of 2021/22 Kala Fellowship Award and two Individual Artists Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. His work seeks to spark a sense of wonder, inspiration, and imagination in the viewer.

DAVE SCHUBERT

Untitled (Dash Snow in Tub)

2018, C print

11” x 14” x 0.05”

Courtesy of the Artist and Electric Works

Retail Value: $1500

Starting Bid: $750

Artwork Description

Dave took this photo on one of his many trips to NYC to visit his best friend, collaborator, and homie, Dash Snow. Late one night they were hanging out taking photos in Dash’s apartment and Dash came up with the idea of swimming in his polaroids. This is one of Schubert’s most wellknown as well as historically important photographs, and this photo was printed by Dave himself before passing away. This image was first used (and printed oversize) in the “Beautiful Losers” show which toured the globe. An artifact of friendship between two important photographers from the graffiti and street photography scene, this is a rare chance to own a color photograph that was hand printed by the artist.

Artist Bio

Dave Schubert was a documenter, a noticer, a seer. His photographs of the streets of Washington, DC and San Francisco preserved images of graffiti, skaters, sex workers, low-lifes, heroes, shoplifters, mothers, fathers, children, pets, cops — nothing escaped his lens. Schubert was dedicated both to the scholarship of photographic history as well to the best stalls at the flea market. He covered it all. Sadly we lost Dave this year, but are pleased to offer this photograph printed by him.

AZIN SERAJ

Foreign Exchange Series: In Honor of Syrian Refugees

2018-2020, Archival pigment print on linen paper, plexiglass

5” x 7” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1500

Starting Bid: $500

Artwork Description

Front: (1) Syrian refugees at Turkish border, photograph by Halil Fidan, 2013. (2) Norias of Hama, historic waterwheels located along the Orontes River in Syria.

Back: (1) Aftermath of Khalid ibn al-Walid mosque destruction in Homs, Syria. The mosque served as a symbolic site for anti-government rebels. The centuries-old mausoleum, a sacred pilgrimage site, was significantly damaged and burnt by the Syrian army’s operation against the rebels in 2013. The “Foreign Exchange” series incorporates the emblems taken from banknotes and utilizes images from news media to highlight voices of resistance from countries that have been impacted by U.S. national interests. The banknotes feature influential figures and monumental events that draw attention to socio-political tensions existing both within a country’s borders and beyond. “Foreign Exchange” offers an alternative platform to archive and share cultural currencies.

Artist Bio

Azin Seraj is an Iranian-Canadian citizen who currently lives in the United States. Seraj’s video, photography, and multimedia installations reflect the varied textures of her transnational experience of displacement, alienation, and unexpected connections. With an interdisciplinary approach to marginalized experiences, Seraj explores relationships between colonial histories, citizen journalism, activist networks and contemporary politics in the Southwest Asian, South Asian, and North African diaspora. Seraj’s work has been featured with SFMOMA, Tate Liverpool, Berkeley Art Museum, Minnesota Street Project, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Croatian Association of Artists, among others. She was the recipient of the 2019 Kala Media Artist Award.

JENNY SHARAF

the title is the image

2023, Paint on fabric over canvas

48” x 36” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Berggruen Gallery

Retail Value: $12000

Starting Bid: $4000

Artwork Description

Please note: A Studio Visit with the artist (in Bolinas or Sausalito) is included in auction price.

Jenny Sharaf is a San Francisco-based multidisciplinary artist who paints out of her studio in Bolinas. Her paintings, installations, videos, and happenings celebrate the process while reflecting on art history, counterculture, feminism, and abstraction. She is known for her graphic yet quasipsychedelic poured paint technique.

Artist Bio

Born in Los Angeles in 1985, Sharaf received her BFA from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and her MFA from Mills College, Oakland. Sharaf’s work is in the permanent collections of Ace Hotel, Google, Rachel Zoe Inc., Yoko Ono, and Capital One, among others. Sharaf presented an installation at the 2023 FOG Art + Design Fair entrance in San Francisco, with large-scale paintings and hand-painted upholstered objects, in sponsorship with SFMOMA. Sharaf’s murals are found in diverse settings, including Tokyo and Beirut. Her paintings, installations, murals, videos, and happenings celebrate process, while reflecting on art history, counterculture, feminism, and abstraction. Sharaf explores the mythology of California, Hollywood vernacular, and the quintessential “California girl” in the work, partly because of her family’s legacy in the film and television industry and growing up in Los Angeles.

ALICE SHAW Bent Tree

2022, Archival pigment print with 22k gold leaf

13.25” x 10.25” x 0”

Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery 16

Retail Value: $1200

Starting Bid: $500

Artwork Description

Alice Shaw applies 22K gold leaf over parts of her photographic images to hold the subjects she chooses to photograph in high regard. In her landscape work, she freezes these moments in time as a way of preserving the land in its natural beauty.

Artist Bio

Alice Shaw is an artist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was trained as a photographer but often incorporates other media into her practice, including sculpture, printmaking, drawing, and painting. Shaw has taught at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, the California College of the Arts, and the San Francisco Art Institute. She currently teaches at Mills College in Oakland, CA. She is an Artadia Grant awardee, and her work is included in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her book, “People Who Look Like Me,” was published by Gallery 16 in San Francisco, where her work is represented. In August of 2017, a permanent large-scale public artwork, “No Other Lands Their Glory Know,” was installed at the San Francisco International Airport in terminal G95.

BRIAN SINGER To Tame a Vixen

2023, Acrylic on vintage book

14” x 11” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $600

Starting Bid: $250

Artwork Description

This piece is part of a new series exploring notions of romantic archetypes in Western culture. Popular romance novels from the 60s and 70s are obscured with layers of acrylic paint, leaving ghostly remnants of fading norms.

Artist Bio

Brian Singer, also known as Someguy, is a San Francisco-based fine artist whose studio practice and large-scale public projects address a variety of social justice issues. With a meticulous rigor and legibility informed by his experience as a graphic designer and visual communicator, Singer’s work invites critical engagement through surprising juxtapositions of media and wordplay. Ranging from intimate works on paper to international participatory projects, Singer’s practice is unified by the desire to facilitate unexpected moments of human connection.

SARAH A. SMITH Wing

2023, Wood, glue, and hydrocal

12” x 5.5” x 3.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $350

Artwork Description

This wing is an assemblage of wood scraps glued together and coated with hydrocal (plaster). The half-moon shaped scraps used for the feathers are leftovers from a project Smith did over 10 years ago and saved in a sealed up box tucked away in a darkened corner. Smith worked with them as-is, with minimal modification, working quickly with the hot glue gun to form the gestural shape of the wing.

Artist Bio

Sarah Smith’s drawings, sculptures, and installations mix symbolic animal imagery with mythical tropes in surreal settings. Her work has been shown at Round Weather, Incline Gallery, Ampersand International Arts, SFAC Grove Street Windows, and Southern Exposure. She was an Artist in Residence at The Headlands Center for the Arts in 2006.

CHANELL STONE

Umbra

2021, Gelatin silver print

20” x 16” x 0”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $4000

Starting Bid: $1000

Artwork Description

In her new photographs made in California and Mexico, Chanell Stone embodies a practice of Black critical looking - and shows the power of seeing and being seen. The artists’ use of shadow play imbue elements of the natural world that act as a poetic metonymy for protection. Chanell Stone’s elegant formulation of herself as “sitter and seer,” illuminates the self-circuitry of a photographic practice that reckons with this predicament through methods of withholding. This self-portrait was shot in medium format, analog black and white photography, and printed with a traditional silver gelatin process.

Artist Bio

Chanell Stone is an artist living and working in Southern California. Through self-portraiture, collage, and poetry, Stone investigates the Black body’s intersectional states of being and connection to the natural world. In this, she negotiates potentialities for reconciliation and reprieve by upending historical and ancestral memories buried within the American landscape. Stone earned her BFA from the California College of the Arts and is currently an MFA Candidate at the University of California San Diego (2024 graduation). She has exhibited in institutions across the United States and internationally. Most recently, Stone’s work has been displayed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Pier 24 Photography and Museo Cabanas in Guadalajara. Her work has also been published in The New York Times, NPR, Aperture, Pop Magazine, and Vogue.

TAMARA SUAREZ PORRAS

To locate where we both exist

2021, Silver gelatin print

14” x 11” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $750

Starting Bid: $300

Artist Bio

Tamara Suarez Porras (they/she) is an artist, writer, and educator from South Brooklyn, NY and based in the Bay Area. Their work examines experiences of knowing, remembering, and forgetting. From within vernacular archives, they consider how photographic imagery is used to know the unknowable. Suarez Porras has exhibited nationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum, School at the ICP, En Foco Touring Gallery, and Deitch Projects in New York City, as well as fusedspace, Root Division, The Growlery, and Embark Gallery in San Francisco. Suarez Porras teaches at Stanford University, University of San Francisco, and California College of the Arts. They are a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and California College of the Arts.

SIMON TRAN Soursop and Shrimp Adjacent

2023, Acrylic on cradled wood panel 24” x 18” x 1.75”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2000

Starting Bid: $800

Artwork Description

Simon Tran starts with spontaneous meditative marks that gesture towards a sense of movement. These in-between motions are made solid through wavering line quality and shape. Each line is a breath and a prayer, gestures of positive redirection and cleansing. The shapes are almostsilhouettes of memories that resemble bodies meditatively perched or babies swaddled or even have a resemblance to fruit or flora. They take on perceived weight through intersecting layers which reference endless reconfiguration. Tran’s work is inspired by his parents who immigrated to the United States right before the Fall of Saigon in 1975. Their balance between a necessary assimilation to American culture while holding onto a heritage left behind guides the values he holds. Woven into the layers he paints are the cultural traumas of war and hidden meanings like family secrets.

Artist Bio

Simon Tran is a father, artist, and educator from Long Beach, CA. His art practice involves painting, drawing, installation, and murals. He received a bachelors in Art Practice from University of California, Berkeley. Currently, Simon is the Arts in Education Program Manager at Southern Exposure. Tran’s work has been shown at Berkeley Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, and various galleries around the country. He has created murals for Meta/Facebook, Chapter 510, and various locations in the Bay Area. Tran’s artwork has been placed in the Capital One Art Collection. Currently, he is working on an installation commission for the newly built Ohana Montage Children’s Hospital in Monterey, CA.

ESTHER TRAUGOT

Rock Pair

2018, Found stones and cotton yarn

3.75” x 6.75” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Muriel Guepin Gallery

Retail Value: $1000

Starting Bid: $350

Artist Bio

Esther Traugot’s installations include crocheted wrappings around found natural objects with hand-dyed yarns, investigating a personal relationship with the natural world. Her experiences growing up in the rural landscape amidst an idealistic farming community influence her interest in the relationship between nurturing and controlling nature. Traugot received her BFA from the University of California Berkeley in 2005, and her MFA from Mills College in 2009. Her work has been exhibited in the Bay Area at venues such as the Berkeley Art Center, the Bedford gallery in Walnut Creek, and the Robert F. Agrella Gallery at Santa Rosa Junior College, and nationally at the El Paso Museum of Art, the Irvine Fine Arts Center, the Samek Gallery at Bucknell University in PA. Her work has been exhibited in L.A., New York, and Paris. She has been commissioned for the permanent collections of Neiman Marcus in Walnut Creek, and Beverly Hills, CA. Esther Traugot is represented by Muriel Guepin Gallery in NY, and currently lives and works in Sebastopol, California.

HELEN SHEWOLFE TSENG Growth Spells (Blue)

2020, Watercolor on paper

11” x 8.5” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $600

Starting Bid: $300

Artwork Description

“Growth Spells” are an ongoing series of drawings made with experimental rituals, exploring mark-making, organic algorithms, non-machines, gradual processes, self-regulatory practices, time travel, and the opening of portals. Both words in the series title have dual meaning: growth referring to the nature of the drawings as they take shape, as well as personal change and transformation; spell as in a stretch of time, as well as a space of enchantment. Drawings are toolagnostic; marks are informed by the tool, what has elapsed on the page, and intuitive movement. All marks are valid and all drawings are self-healing. Each drawing is imbued with a time-based memory, and the artist often reports feeling transported to another plane while making a growth spell drawing, as if channeling an otherworldly energy flow.

Artist Bio

Helen Shewolfe Tseng is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and writer currently based in San Francisco. Their work is influenced by ancestral and diasporic relationships to place, folk spiritual practices, interspecies collaborations, trickster archetypes, and neurodivergence, and has taken the forms of drawings, paintings, books and zines, writing, rituals, talismans, talks, workshops, installations, participatory works, computational works, and combinations of the above. Previously, Tseng was a 2022 Artist in Residence at Montalvo Arts Center, the 2019 Designer in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, and a 2018-2019 Fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

HELEN SHEWOLFE TSENG Growth Spells (Red)

2020, Watercolor on paper

11” x 8.5” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $600

Starting Bid: $300

Artwork Description

“Growth Spells” are an ongoing series of drawings made with experimental rituals, exploring mark-making, organic algorithms, non-machines, gradual processes, self-regulatory practices, time travel, and the opening of portals. Both words in the series title have dual meaning: growth referring to the nature of the drawings as they take shape, as well as personal change and transformation; spell as in a stretch of time, as well as a space of enchantment. Drawings are toolagnostic; marks are informed by the tool, what has elapsed on the page, and intuitive movement. All marks are valid and all drawings are self-healing. Each drawing is imbued with a time-based memory, and the artist often reports feeling transported to another plane while making a growth spell drawing, as if channeling an otherworldly energy flow.

Artist Bio

Helen Shewolfe Tseng is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and writer currently based in San Francisco. Their work is influenced by ancestral and diasporic relationships to place, folk spiritual practices, interspecies collaborations, trickster archetypes, and neurodivergence which has taken the forms of drawings, paintings, books and zines, writing, rituals, talismans, talks, workshops, installations, participatory works, computational works, and combinations of the above. Previously, Helen was a 2022 Artist in Residence at Montalvo Arts Center, the 2019 Designer in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts and a 2018-2019 Fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

ESTER TUVA

Screen Time (36:04)

2020, Oil on gessoed paper

18” x 24” x 0.1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1500

Starting Bid: $600

Artist Bio

Ester Tuva is a figurative painter and weaver. She uses painting and weaving as methods of prolonging the time spent looking, especially at subjects that feel as though they should only be glanced at. Her artwork centers the kinds of things that she felt uncool for liking as a teenage girl, like pop music and celebrities. Tuva often references the images and media that she sought out when first figuring out her desires, anxieties, and queerness. While those references and ideas were gravely intense and illicit at the time, she considers them now with lightness and humor. Tuva graduated with an MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2022. Prior to CCA, she studied Psychology and Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.

ISAAC VAZQUEZ AVILA

Cielo’s Gate

2021, Gouache on artist made panel

10” x 8” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist and Pt. 2 Gallery

Retail Value: $1000

Starting Bid: $500

Artist Bio

Isaac Vazquez Avila (b. 1983 Mexico City) is a painter and sculptor living in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Avila’s practice traces his upbringing in Salt Lake City and California, embellishing memory with imagination and inspiration from his immediate surroundings. Avila received his BA from San Francisco State University in Latino/a Studies and MFA in 2016 from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to his practice, he runs a business called Avila Mio, designing murals, creating hand-painted signs and custom art installations for public and private clients. Avila has exhibited his work at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Guerrero Gallery (SF), Incline Gallery (SF), Right Window (SF), Tlaloc Studios (LA), and most recently Pt. 2 Gallery in Oakland.

ANDY VOGT What Burns

2022, #13/17 Variable Edition, three color relief print

18” x 12” x 0”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1000

Starting Bid: $400

Artwork Description

Andy Vogt grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC, and attended Carnegie Mellon University where he earned a BFA in Intermedia, a program focused on time-based media, performance, and installation. He lived in Pittsburgh, PA, until 2000. His current work using reclaimed wood from demolished buildings, started around 2004, a few years after moving to San Francisco. Since then, his work has been exhibited nationally and locally including solo shows at Eli Ridgway Gallery, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Southern Exposure, the Museum of Craft and Design, and Ampersand International Arts. Group exhibitions include Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, Swarm Gallery, and Adobe Books Backroom Gallery. He was also an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. Vogt lives and works in San Francisco, California.

Artist Bio

Andy Vogt grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC, and attended Carnegie Mellon University where he earned a BFA in Intermedia, a program focused on time-based media, performance, and installation. He lived in Pittsburgh, PA, until 2000. His current work using reclaimed wood from demolished buildings, started around 2004, a few years after moving to San Francisco. Since then, his work has been exhibited nationally and locally including solo shows at Eli Ridgway Gallery, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Southern Exposure, the Museum of Craft and Design, and Ampersand International Arts. Group exhibitions include Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, Swarm Gallery, and Adobe Books Backroom Gallery. He was also an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. Andy lives and works in San Francisco, California.

HANNAH WAITERS

Birds’ Landing

2023, Handmade accordion book with acrylic transfer printed shelf

5.5” x 5.5” x 5.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1000

Starting Bid: $400

Artist Bio

Hannah Waiters (she/her/they/them) was born, raised, and trained to make art in the Bay Area (of Ohlone Land), and is a visual researcher, conceptual artist, and educator. Her interdisciplinary research-based art practice interests include museum studies, Black Atlantic philosophy, historical phenomenology in art history, and historical materialism. In 2021, Waiters earned an MFA in Fine Arts and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies at California College of the Arts. During her graduate studies, Waiters received the Edwin Anthony and Adelaine Boudreaux Cadogan award. And in 2020, Waiters’ MFA artwork was exhibited at the de Young Open. Waiters’ work has headlined Hyperallergic and has been featured in KQED. More recently, Waiters exhibited with Slash Art Gallery using the gallery as a medium to reimagine community-centered art collections representing local visual culture. She has since shown with San Francisco Arts Commission, where she presented installation art focused on collecting time-based media visual culture surrounding the host institution in the Civic Center neighborhood. In 2023, Waiters will showcase a solo exhibition with Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, titled “The Tree Closes.”

JOHNNY WALL

Bon Jovi Discography

2022, Ink, colored pencil, and acrylic on paper

16” x 20” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Artist Within

Retail Value: $250

Starting Bid: $150

Artist Bio

Johnny is a huge fan of movie, television, and rock-and-roll narratives, which are subjects he returns to again and again in his artwork. Carefully drawn from the perspective of seeing his subject matter onscreen, Johnny pays close attention to gesture, movement and use of negative space. Crowding the edges of the composition, the action in Johnny’s version of these stories seems to continue beyond the scene. The strength of Johnny’s ties to family, friends, and celebrity heroes can be seen and felt in his sensitive portrayals of the people and animals in his world.

LEILA WEEFUR Blackberry Lexicon

2016, Letterpress print and blackberry ink on paper

6.5” x 4.5” x 0”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $3000

Starting Bid: $1000

Artwork Description

“Blackberry Lexicon” is from Weefur’s 2017 project “BLACKBERRY PASTORALE: SYMPHONY NO.

1.” The series deconstructs the Black Femme figure and the colloquial Black phrase,”The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice,” positing the Blackberry as a figure with a distinct racialized function. These letterpress prints utilized the pulp of the blackberry as ink, resembling bodily residue or evidence of a violent act. Referencing Yusef Komunyakaa’s 1992 poem “Blackberries” and Wallace Thurman’s 1929 novel “The Blacker The Berry,” the installation explores the kindred history of Blackberries with Black bodies and the contradictions of beauty, shame, admiration, and contempt.

Artist Bio

Leila Weefur (he/they/she) is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Through film and installation, they examine the performative elements connected to systems of belonging present in Black, queer, gender-variant life. Weefur is a lecturer at Stanford University and a member of The Black Aesthetic.

DAVID WILSON Corse

2018, Watercolor on found paper

14” x 12” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2700

Starting Bid: $1000

Artwork Description

From Wilson: “This watercolor was made while standing in the sea, facing the mountain in the south of Corsica. My family was in the water with me swimming while I painted. I used the sea water in the painting to activate the paint. I hope to bring my physical experience with the landscape forward into the mark-making. I built the frame for this piece with reclaimed old growth redwood. It is custom and hand-built for this painting.”

Artist Bio

David Wilson creates observational drawings based in direct experiences with landscape and orchestrating site-based gatherings that draw together a wide net of artists, performers, filmmakers, chefs, and artisans into collaborative relationships. He organized the experimental exhibition “The Possible” at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), received the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) 2012 SECA Art Award, and was the first artist in residence at The David Ireland House, where he now serves as Board President.

JENIFER K WOFFORD

Durian Plumes

2014, Intaglio print, artist proof, #5/10

15” x 12” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1200

Starting Bid: $500

Artwork Description

Durian (Southeast Asian fruits known for their spiky exterior, fleshy interior, and pungent aroma) have appeared in Wofford’s work occasionally but regularly over the past 15 years. It is always stylized in a rigid, geometric, bomb-like manner, implying tropical roots, self-protection, an ominous vessel for containment and transference. Volcanoes (specifically their plumes) have also featured regularly in Wofford’s work, as part of an ongoing inquiry into pressure, change, cataclysm, and consequence.

Artist Bio

Jenifer K Wofford is a San Francisco artist and educator whose work investigates hybridity, history, calamity, and global culture, often with a humorous bent. She is also 1/3 of the Filipina-American artist trio M.O.B. Her work has been shown at the Asian Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, OMCA, SJMA, Southern Exposure, and YBCA. She has also shown at New Image Art (Los Angeles), Wing Luke Museum (Seattle), DePaul Museum (Chicago), Silverlens Galleries (Philippines), and Osage Gallery (Hong Kong). Wofford’s awards included the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, the Eureka Fellowship, the Murphy Fellowship, and grants from SFAC, Art Matters, and CCI. She has also been artist-in-residence at The Living Room (Philippines), Liguria Study Center (Italy) and KinoKino (Norway). Wofford was born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, Dubai, Malaysia, and the Bay Area. A committed and active member of the Bay Area art community, Wofford serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors of Southern Exposure.

ALICE WU

Banana Chips

2022, Salvaged upholstery fabric, kapok, acrylic, and molding paste

6” x 9” x 3”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $300

Artwork Description

“Banana Chips” is a sculpture in three parts that can be displayed in any configuration, including distributed amongst friends, family, and strangers. “Banana Chips” wants to know who counts and who’s counting? Who checks what boxes? Who’s in the room, who’s at the table? Each “chip” signals visibility, representation, inclusion, connection, belonging.

Artist Bio

Alice Wu is an artist and designer who has shown at Southern Exposure, Kala Art Institute, Soft Times, and Berkeley Art Center. Alice has also exhibited at Exit Art (NYC), The Bronx Museum (The Bronx), Hanna Gallery (Tokyo). Alice has costumed performances at Southern Exposure, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Dance Theater Workshop, and ODC. Alice co-founded Feral Childe, an art and clothing line presented at MAK Center/Schindler House, Fritz Haeg’s Sundown Salon, High Desert Test Sites, and the Santa Fe Art Institute.

ARNGUNNUR YR Svínafellsjökull

2018, Artist print

8” x 10” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble

Retail Value: $750

Starting Bid: $300

Artwork Description

“Svínafellsjökull” is an image of a glacier in southeast Iceland that is rapidly melting. Yr has been witnessing the glacier’s changes throughout her visits and the formation of a new lagoon over her lifespan. This piece is part of Yr’s series “Witness,” which addresses the urgent action needed and rapid changes of glaciers due to climate change. The mood of the new work is at once ominous, projecting uncertainty and tension as it is warm and nostalgic, already projecting a land that was. The works aim to be a ballad, and a love song to a nature soon lost. They have a delicate, tender quality, but equally project a more violent, forlorn, and freakish side, like a deer in the headlights. The motifs are glacial landscapes around Iceland that the artist has been coming to since she was a child. The glacier has retreated greatly, insighting senses of loss and panic.

Artist Bio

Yr’s work was included in the North Atlantic Triennial and has been presented at the Portland Museum of Art; The Reykjavík Art Museum; the Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden; The LÁ Art Museum, Iceland; San Marco Gallery; and at the Harpa Hall, Reykjavík, Iceland. Upcoming exhibitions this year include the Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden and Alvar Gullichsen at Maison Louis Carré, Paris. Yr has upcoming solo exhibitions at Portfolio Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland; at Explora Journeys; and the Icelandic Embassy, Paris.

HAOYUN ERIN ZHAO

Sunset Dweller

2022, Oil-based monotype, acrylic, paper on wood panel

14” x 11” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1200

Starting Bid: $600

Artist Bio

Haoyun Erin Zhao is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, CA, primarily working in printmaking, painting, and installation. Rooted in her study of Eastern and Western Philosophy, her work explores the intangibility of perception through the physicality of her materials. Zhao is the recipient of Meta Open Arts, the Golden Foundation for the Arts, Edition/Basel Residency, Kala Art Institute Residency, Hearts in SF Project, etc. The artist’s work has been exhibited at the de Young Museum, Art Santa Fe Contemporary Art Fair, International Print Center New York, Galerie Kuchling Berlin, Root Division SF, Heron Arts, 111 Minna Gallery, and others. Her work is in the collections of IBM, Meta (Facebook), Kaiser Permanente, Boston Children’s Hospital, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and numerous private collections worldwide.

CONNIE ZHENG Seeds for Cosmic Unions

2021, Mixed media on cyanotype and silkscreen print

24” x 36” x 0”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $3000

Starting Bid: $1000

Artist Bio

Connie Zheng is a Chinese-born artist, writer, and experimental filmmaker based out of xučyun (Oakland, California). She works with maps, seeds, food, environmental histories, speculative fiction, field recordings, and hand-drawn animation. Her projects frequently include participatory scenarios and seek to diagram dynamic relationships between human and more-than-human worlds. Zheng’s work has been exhibited and screened nationally and internationally, through venues such as the Asian Art Museum, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Framer Framed (Netherlands) and Salt Beyoğlu (Turkey). Zheng has received fellowships and awards from the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and the Puffin Foundation, among other organizations, and her work is held in the collections of the Kadist Foundation and the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University. She has published essays in The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change, Errant Journal, and SFMOMA’s Open Space. She graduated with BAs in Economics and English from Brown University and an MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently a PhD student in Visual Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

MINOOSH ZOMORODINIA

Golden Routes

2018, Acrylic on medium-density fibreboard

26” x 10” x 0.25”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1100

Starting Bid: $500

Artwork Description

“Golden Routes” are recordings of time in space. Each piece in this series is a visualization of a walking route that has been documented using a GPS app. The form of the artist’s path is then laser cut from wood panel board. These delicate forms allow for a new way to visualize landscape. Zomorodinia invites us to consider the body as a drawing tool and slow movement through space as a form of valuable labor.

Artist Bio

Minoosh Zomorodinia is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist who makes visible the emotional and psychological reflections of her mind’s eye inspired by nature and her environment. She employs walking as a catalyst to reference the power of technology as a colonial structure while negotiating boundaries of land. Her strollings sometimes reimagine our relationships between nature, land, and technology, while addressing transformation of memories into actual physical space absurdly. Zomorodinia has received several awards, residences, and grants including the Kala Media Fellowship Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Recology Artist Residency. She has exhibited locally and internationally at Asian Art Museum San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Berkeley Art Center. She earned her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and holds a MA and BA from Azad University in Tehran. She currently lives and works in the Bay Area.

SILENT AUCTION GROUP 1

8. Ashwini Bhat

11. Ross Bleckner

32. Edgar Fabián Frías

35. Renée Gertler

36. Sheila Ghidini

38. Connie Goldman

43. Kristie Hansen

59. Josie Juantorena

66. Ruth Laskey

74. Nick Makanna

76. Marbie

78. Vanessa Marsh

83. Anne McGuire

86. Mary Morse

91. Amy Nathan

98. Mitzi Pederson

107. J.John Priola

118. Brian Singer

124. Helen Shewolfe Tseng

125. Helen Shewolfe Tseng

130. Johnny Wall

136. Haoyun Erin Zhao

SILENT AUCTION GROUP 2

2. Luca Antonucci

5. Sholeh Asgary

7. Kim Bennett

12. Eva Bovenzi

24. Rea Lynn de Guzman

25. Demart Denaro

27. Claire Dunn

31. Mary Finlayson

48. Scott Hewicker

52. Shao-Feng Hsu

69. Jessica Lin

88. Nicole Mueller

90. Parul Naresh

96. Alison Pebworth

97. Alison Pebworth

121. tamara suarez porras

112. Sanaz Safanasab

119. Sarah A. Smith

134. Alice Wu

135. Arngunnur Yr

137. Connie Zheng

SILENT AUCTION GROUP 3

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18. Holly Coley

21. Gina M. Contreras

22. Carolina Cuevas

23. Ali Dadgar

26. Gene Dominique

30. Lowell Edelman

33. David Fullarton

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49. Graham Holoch

50 . Sarah Hotchkiss

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79. Jet Martinez

81. Sanaz Mazinani

84. Adia Millet

87. Hushi Mortezaie

103. Carissa Potter Carlson

104. Helia Pouyanfar

111. Byron Ryono

117. Alice Shaw

122. Simon Tran

SILENT AUCTION GROUP 4

3. Johnna Arnold

6. JD Beltran

13. Rachelle Bussières

14. Kelly Carámbula

19. Richard Colman

20. Randy Colosky

29. Ebti

34. Dominic Garcia

37. Amos Goldbaum

39. Matt Gonzalez

40. Julia Goodman

41. Kellie Greenwald

47. Cliff Hengst

53. Hughen/Starkweather

54. Sylvia Hughes-Gonzales

57. Packard Jennings

60. Bussie Parker Kehoe

61. Mary Ann Kluth

63. Christina La Sala

64. Kris Lang

68. Charles Lee

84. Daniel Arthur Mendoza

92. Mitsu Okubo

93. Kelly Ording

94. Jennie Ottinger

95. Gay Outlaw

101. Keith Petersen

102. Ferris Plock

105. Rachel Pozivenec

106. Mel Prest

110. Blaise Rosenthal

114. Dave Schubert

115. Azin Seraj

120. Dharma Strasser MacColl

123. Esther Traugot

127. Isaac Vazquez Avila

128. Andy Vogt

138. Minoosh Zomorodinia

SILENT AUCTION GROUP 5

1. Erina Alejo

16. Enrique Chagoya

17. Ajit Chauhan

28. Ricki Dwyer

44. Naomi Hawksley

45. Nicole Hayden

46. Taraneh Hemami

51. Tania Houtzager

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72. Kija Lucas

77. Kara Maria

80. Lee Materazzi

99. Maya Pen

100. Maya Pen

108. Rachelle Reichert

109. Kate Rhoades

113. Ron Moultrie Saunders

120. Chanell Stone

126. Ester Tuva

129. Hannah Waiters

131. Leila Weefur

132. David Wilson

133. Jenifer K Wofford

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