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A T T A T T BUDDIESINBADTIMES.COM
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Art Attack November 14, 2019 Buddies in Bad Times Theatre 12 Alexander Street Pre-party & Final Viewing Starts at 7 pm LIve Auction Starts at 8 pm
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Tickets $40 Order online at buddiesinbadtimes.com/ artattack or by calling 416 975 8555
Presenting sponsor Bank of Montreal Framing sponsor Akasha Art Projects Inc. Catering sponsor Sassafraz Beer Sponsor Steam Whistle Design sponsor Awake Studio –– 1
Host Johnnie Walker Curatorial Committee Chris Ironside Keith Cole Paul Dotey R. Kelly Clipperton Suzy Lake Andrew James Paterson Auctioneer Charlene Nero Official Tuck Shop Bags Louise Lilliefeldt Tuck Shop Visual Merchandiser G Kyle Shields Graphic Design Awake Studio Event Producers Mark Aikman Sabah Haque Aidan Morishita-Miki
Special Thanks Rajni Perera, Nada Ristich & LouisMichel Taillefer at BMO, Kelly, Sonja, & Nancy at Akasha Art Projects, Dimitri at Image Foundry, Lindsey Cassel, Vasko Kocovski, Troy Seidman, Tak Pham, BoylesqueTO, Prasanna Mondal, Greg Wong, Heath V Salazar, Connie Tsang, Shane MacKinnon, Laura Baxter, Gustavo Cerquera Benjumea, Devan Patel, Rebecca Davison-Mora, our steering committee, staff, volunteers, and all of the people who generously donated the items up for bids tonight.
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Welcome message
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About Buddies
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Curator messages
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Artist limited edition
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Sponsor message
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Live auction collection
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Tuck shop
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Silent auction
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Donor listings
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How it works
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Production Manager Charissa Wilcox
Contents
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Credits
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Established in 1979, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is Toronto’s leading destination for artistically rigorous alternative theatre and a world leader in developing queer voices and stories for the stage. Buddies offers a year-round program that includes a full season of queer theatre, new works festivals, artist residencies, and intergenerational training and education initiatives. In its 40-year history Buddies has welcomed over one million people into its home in the heart of Toronto’s queer village and has premiered nearly 1,000 new works for the stage, making it the largest and longest-running queer theatre company in the world.
X O So thank you for being here and for supporting Buddies. We couldn’t do this without you. Yours, Evalyn
It is thanks to you that this work is possible. ArtAttack is a vital source of funding for our artistic programs, which increasingly rely on donor support. So bid early and bid often! Here’s just some of the good work that the money raised at ArtAttack makes possible. PUTTING QUEER STORIES ON STAGE Over the past 40 years, Buddies has premiered over 1,000 new works for the stage, making an indelible contribution to our country’s cultural conversation. These productions are consistently met with critical and popular acclaim, and introduce Toronto audiences to some of the most daring, exciting, and important artists our city has to offer. EMPOWERING QUEER ARTISTS Each year, the Buddies Residency Program supports dozens of artists in the creation of new theatrical works. We provide resident artists with the tools to create and the space to experiment, ensuring that queer artists in Toronto are given what they need to succeed. ELEVATING QUEER VOICES Our Community and Educational Programming offers a safe and empowering space for queer-identified folks to get free access to our artists and artistic programs, grow their artistic skills, engage in vital conversations, and forge intergenerational connections CREATING INCLUSIVE QUEER SPACES Buddies firmly believes that everyone should have access to the arts. That is why our ticket prices remain among the lowest in the city, why we have several programs in place to provide affordable or free tickets to people who need them, and why we continue to increase accessible performance options such as ASL Interpretation and Relaxed Performances. We also offer our events spaces at little to no cost to many charitable groups every year for their programming and activities.
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This idea that we can support what we love and have fun doing it is never more present than it is tonight. So many people visual artists, theatre makers, volunteers, neighbours, friends, and supporters - come out to raise money for vital artistic and community programming in a huge, raucous celebration of contemporary art.
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mix of queer folks. There is such an incredible community here at Buddies, and when they all come together, it’s magic. It’s this community that makes everything we do possible, and has allowed us to grow in to the largest queer theatre in the world. Because parties keep the lights on here at Buddies. So many times in our history, when we’ve needed money to put on a show or just pay the bills, someone We’ve also thrown would throw a party, our fair share of parties. I love a party everyone would buy at Buddies because a few drinks, and we’d make enough it brings together money to get by. such an eclectic For over 40 years, Buddies has challenged and inspired audiences with innovative, cutting-edge, awardwinning queer artistic programming. With the support of our community - people like you - we have made an unparalleled contribution to the acceptance and celebration of queer lives in Canada and advanced the possibilities of theatre into bold new territory.
Keith Cole I would like to dedicate the 2019 tuck shop to the memory of Katharine Mulherin. I met Katharine in 1997 at the beginning of her career. I last saw her on December 1st, 2018. Katharine and I were not close friends but we worked
together on many projects and with many artists. I was an employee of her gallery for 2 years. While employed at the gallery one incident sticks with me clearly and it gave me great insight into Katharine. ¶ Sojourner Truth Parsons (Sojo) had a gallery show with Katharine as she has had many times. One Saturday afternoon a woman walked into the gallery, screamed that the work was racist and stormed out of the gallery. The next day, same woman, same thing, but this time she demanded that the work be taken down. I told Katharine about these incidents and Katharine said that if the woman came in again, stop her and try and figure out her reasoning. Next Saturday – same woman, same thing. However, this time Katharine was there, with me, in the gallery. Katharine put the “Closed” sign in the gallery window and pulled three chairs into the centre of the gallery. We talked about Sojo’s work. Katharine listened to the woman’s concerns of racism and then Katharine spoke of Sojo’s past work, her history with the gallery and about Sojo’s personal life. It was clear that the woman who found the work racist had no understanding of Sojo as a person or as an artist. She had never seen any of Sojo’s past work and had no context for Sojo. None. ¶ Because of a discussion an understanding happened. No work was taken down, the exhibition was not cancelled, nothing was censored, and no feelings were hurt or careers ruined. Katharine believed in her artists and she believed in art. The woman who
once found the work to be racist came to a new appreciation for the work on the gallery walls. The woman also found some clarity. She discovered where Sojo was coming from as an artist and as a person. Thank you Katharine for allowing me to be included in that conversation. I will never forget you. ¶ I read somewhere (and I am paraphrasing here from my recollection) that the best way to erase an artist is to eliminate any and all memory of them. First, destroy their writings and artworks in order to kill their contribution to culture and art history. Have somebody make up new stories, new cultures and create new histories. Eventually and quickly, people will forget who that extinguished artist ever was. The entire world will forget even faster. ¶ 2019 is my last ArtAttack and I wish to thank everyone who was ever a part of this little shop that grew and grew. ¶ Have a wonderful evening at ArtAttack! Paul Dotey Buddies is having a bit of a silver fox moment right now. They just turned 40, and they’re looking really good. They’ve learned a little along the way, maybe taken a few knocks, but tonight they want to celebrate with their friends, and declare it’s another year here! ¶ I’m really happy to join Keith in the Rock Hudson Memorial Tuck Shop this year, we are so proud of what we bring to the night but also proud to introduce more people to Buddies itself. It’s an opportunity to introduce a new Torontonian to the art-buying game, or maybe it’s a queer artist
on the other side of the world who’s just agreed to donate their art to a place in Toronto called… Buddy something? ¶ I want to thank all of the artists who donated work to the Tuck Shop this year, some are retuning friends that needed no introduction to who we are and what we do, saying yes! right away. I also want to thank the committee at Buddies that guide this amazing night into existence each year, especially my volunteer team Chris Ironside and Keith Cole. ¶ To another year here, Paul. R Kelly Clipperton I love all these artists as visionaries and people. I’m drawn to distinct narrative, bold colours, rock n roll, and gayness. They all top it in spades. Very proud of this collection. Suzy Lake I was delighted to choose a wide range of my favourite aesthetics to support Buddies. I will always be blown away by Jeff Bierk’s strategies of working with Toronto’s street community. I was challenged and moved by Pamila Matharu’s recent exhibition at A Space after admiring her writings and activism for years. Susan Dobson conceptually and exquisitely celebrates photographic attributes and its history in her work. Andrew Harwood’s recent paintings expressively rejoice in the landscape. Chris Lacroix is a Ryerson grad - now living in Vancouver, whose work I felt the community should become more familiar with.
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Chris Ironside I am always amazed and so touched by the outpouring of generosity that the Toronto arts community has for Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and ArtAttack! This year is no different. R. Kelly Clipperton, Suzy Lake and Andrew James Paterson have each curated collections that showcase the talents of those artists they have selected and who have so generously donated their work. A huge thank you to the curators and all of the participating artists – you are what make ArtAttack! the success it is year after year! ¶ The Artist’s Limited Edition, which is now in it’s seventh year features a stunning hand embellished print by Torontobased artist Rajni Perera. Her print, “A Dangerous No” is a stunning work that exemplifies the concepts and aesthetics Rajni is known for. If you haven’t already, get yours today as there are only twenty in the edition and they won’t be around for long! Thank you, Rajni! ¶ I would like to thank the wonderful group of people that make up the steering committee. Mark, Keith, Paul and Cathrin – it is always a pleasure! ¶ I look forward to seeing you on November 14th, paddles raised high in support of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre! Good luck and bid often!
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Notes from our curators
RAJNI PERERA
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Rajni Perera’s work explores issues of hybridity, sacrilege and irreverence, indexical sciences, ethnography, gender, sexuality, popular culture, deities, monsters, and dream worlds. All of these themes marry in a newly objectified realm of mythical symbioses, made to act as Perera’s personal record of impossible discoveries. Her work actively engages in discussion with the viewing audience about the aesthetic treatment of gender and the non-European sacred and secular body in a popular culture context. Thus, her work creates a subversive aesthetic that counteracts oppressive discourse and acts as a restorative force through which people can move out of repressive modes of being and towards reclaiming their power. Her work has been featured in the Art Gallery of York University (Toronto ON), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto ON), and Art Fairs such as Art Toronto and Art Dubai. She lives and works in Toronto. Rajni Perera A Dangerous No Edition of 20 Exclusive to Buddies Archival Pigment Print, 18” x 24” $295 (unframed) $525 (framed by Akasha Art Projects) Printed by Image Foundry
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rajniperera.com Artwork courtesy of the artist and Patel Gallery
BMO Financial Group is proud to return for the eighth year as the presenting sponsor for ArtAttack. The funding and promotion of the arts and culture in Canada is an important priority for BMO, and we are especially pleased to be able to bring the visual arts together with the theatre arts for this evening in support of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.
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Respect for the individual and differing viewpoints, inclusion, and diversity are the fundamental values that shape the productions that Buddies in Bad Times stages. They are also values shared by BMO – values that shape our success. We at BMO look forward to building on the strength of our ongoing partnership with are proud to support Buddies in Bad Times so that we can continue toas they continuously strive to amplify the voices and experiences of often marginalized people in our community.
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Zamila Islam
General Idea
As Good As New
Ghent Scarf
2018 Oil and glitter on canvas 6” x 6” Estimate $330
1984 Screenprint on nylon fabric 30” x 30” Edition 348 of 500 Estimate $1,665
The work of Toronto-based artist, Zamila Islam, is best recognized for its excessivism. Her work plays with the juxtaposition of fine art and low-brow materials in addition to a diverse, graphic colour palette. Zamila’s subjects range from slick pretty boys from the pages of editorials to bold geometric abstractions, refusing to limit herself to a single approach. Zamila graduated from OCAD University’s Drawing and Painting program in 2018. za-mila.format.com / @za.mila
General Idea formed in 1967 in Toronto and over the next nearly 30 years, the trio made a remarkable contribution to post-modern art. With their subversive approach and interest in parody and appropriation, General Idea addressed a broad range of social and art-world issues including consumerism, media consumption, the cult of the artist and AIDS. Ghent Flag was created in 1984 to coincide with a General Idea exhibition at the Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst in Belgium.
Artwork courtesy of the artist
caviar20.com / @lovecaviar20
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Francisco-Fernando Granados
Jess Thalmann
letter
2019 Folded archival pigment print 17” x 22” Estimate $2,650
2019 Archival print on hahnemuhle paper 8” x 11” Estimate $1,150 Francisco-Fernando Granados is a Torontobased artist and writer. His multidisciplinary critical practice spans drawing, performance, installation, cultural theory, digital media, public art, and community-based projects. He has presented work in galleries, museums, theatres, artist-run centres, and non-traditional sites since 2005. His work draws from experiences of migration and queerness by using conceptual approaches and abstraction as strategies to structure the work.
Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
Such Places as Memories (Seattle)
Jessica Thalmann is an artist, curator and educator currently based in Toronto and New York City. She received a MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from ICP-Bard College and a BFA in Visual Arts from York University. She has worked at the Doris McCarthy Gallery, the Art Gallery of York University and Yossi Milo Gallery. Thalmann has shown at various venues, including the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Flash Forward Festival, Gallery TPW, Angell Gallery, Nuit Blanche, VIVO Media Arts Center, Aperture Foundation, International Centre of Photography, and Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair. jessicathalmann.com / @jthalmann1 Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
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francisco-fernando-granados.blogspot.com @franfergra
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Artwork courtesy of Caviar20
RAISE YOUR PADDLE
LOT 6 – Curated by Andrew James Paterson
We take a break from the bidding to give everyone in the room a chance to show their support. Get your paddle in the air to donate $50 to Buddies and help us deliver vital artistic and community programming in our 2019-20 Season.
Rae Johnson Liz In White Fur (from “The Comedians”) 2006 Digital print on acid-free paper, Oil and wax medium 12” x 9” Estimate $1,000 Rae Johnson began teaching drawing and painting at OCAD in 1988. She has lectured about her work across Canada in universities and art centres. In the early 1980s, Rae fwas a founding member of ChromaZone, a collective that spearheaded the figurative painting movement of the 1980s. Rae is known for her vibrant landscape paintings of Flesherton, Ontario (where she lives), as well as for her brutally honest and sometimes controversial excavations into the interior landscape of the female psyche. cuttsgallery.com
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Jason Perreault
Nancy Dawn Clemo
Untitled, LCB 07
tonal occulus 5
2018 Digital inkjet print 20” x 26” Edition 3 of 7 Estimate $1,300
2019 C-print photography collage 20” x 20” Estimate $700
Jason Perreault is an emerging artist based in Toronto and Montreal. With a background in theatre, he is influenced by narrative techniques and the desire to create characterbased images in his work. His photographs navigate the boundaries between fine art and fashion, conscientiously producing images that deal honestly and sensitively with sex, queer representation, and gender fluidity. Using selective models, provocative posing, and unconventional styling, Perreault’s fashion photographs seek to complicate and open dialogue around the industry’s view of the body.
Nancy Dawn Clemo is a multidisciplinary artist receiving a BFA in drawing & painting from OCADU in 2011 with a minor in photography. Toronto born, Clemo has exhibited her work throughout the city including ACT’s SNAP! silent auction and in 2013 exhibited with Leap-Second Gallery in London, England. Clemo has been granted through CUE, OAC & ARTREACH, through the artist collective Catscan, in support of their work with marginalized youth artists. The tonal occulus series was printed from film in a homemade darkroom, pushing the boundaries of what photography means, creating a series of images with no subject matter using a meditative gradation of tones.
jasonperreault.com / @jasonperreault
nancydawnclemo.com / @ nancydawnclemo
Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
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Susan Dobson
Jordan Browne
Woman as Sex Object (Achetez des pommes)
Daniel
2019 Archival pigment print 11” x 11” Edition 1 of 10 Estimate $900
2018 Archival pigment print 20” x 25” Edition 1 of 7 Estimate $500
Susan Dobson has exhibited her lens-based work in public galleries across Canada and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include Fotonoviembre (Tenerife, Spain), Images Festival (Vevey, Switzerland), Michael Gibson gallery (London, Ontario), and a CONTACT Photography Festival (Toronto). In 2019, she was long listed for the Scotiabank Photography Award. Dobson’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Toronto Archives, the Swiss Museum of Photography, and many others. She is Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, and she is represented by Michael Gibson Gallery.
Jordan Browne is a photo-based artist located in Toronto whose work focuses on the nude form and the ways in which body language and gesture can communicate underlying emotions. Browne obtained his BFA in Photography at the School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, in Spring 2016. He has participated in group exhibitions and auctions within the Toronto community and recently held his first solo exhibition Sweet Dreams, Francis at the Ryerson Image Centre’s Student Gallery.
susandobson.com / @susan.christina.dobson
Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
jordan-browne.com
Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
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LOT 11 – Curated by R Kelly Clipperton
Robert Davidovitz
Scotty Graham
Three Whole Halves
TO-004 - Postcards from the Capital
2019 Acrylic on panel 17” x 24” Estimate $2,200
2014 Acrylic 36” x 24” Estimate $950
Robert Davidovitz is an artist working in Toronto, Canada. His work has been exhibited in public galleries across Ontario, including Harbourfront Centre, Durham Art Gallery, Thames Art Gallery, and most recently at Museum London. Best known for his “Woven Paint” series, Davidovitz has been featured in various publications and press including the Huffington Post, Moco Loco, and Bizarre Beyond Belief. The artist would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the support of the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario, and the Toronto Arts Council.
Scotty Graham has produced a line of illustrated commercial art celebrating his most loved places in Toronto. Born and raised in the shadows of Detroit’s art deco skyscrapers and surrounded by the beautiful, empty remnants of a lost engine of industrial America, Scotty grew up daydreaming of city life, both past and future. His collection of colourful, bold and eyecatching illustrations provide the capital city, a colonial backwater in the early 20th century, with a romanticized history.
robertdavidovitz.com / @robertdavidovitz
Artwork courtesy of the artist
scottygraham.ca / @scottygraham.ca
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LOT 12 – Curated by Andrew James Paterson
LOT 14 – Curated by Andrew James Paterson
Andy Fabo
Oliver Husain
Barracks Interlude #1
untitled (Mastika Filem)
2017 Graphite, china marker, watercolour, and ink on paper 22” x 30” Estimate $2,400
2017 Watercolour on paper 9” x 12” each Estimate $1,500
Andy Fabo is a Toronto artist, art critic, curator and art educator. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, with a retrospective at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in 2005. His paintings and drawings are in museum collections across Canada and his videos (collaboration with Michael Balser) have shown globally. He is a pioneer of queer art in Canada, and two of his exhibitions – Studs (A Space, Toronto 1979), and Self-Portraits of an Alleged Keeper of a Common Bawdy House (The Funnel, Toronto 1980) – were landmark exhibitions for LGBTQ activism.
Oliver Husain is a filmmaker and artist based in Toronto and Frankfurt. His work has been included in shows at MOCA Cleveland, Onsite OCADU, and Nuit Blanche Toronto; and won awards at Lichter Festival Frankfurt and Short Film Festival Oberhausen. A retrospective of his films and videos was screened at Experimenta Festival, Bangalore in 2011.
visualaids.org/artists/andy-fabo
Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
husain.de
LOT 13 – Curated by Andrew James Paterson
LOT 15 – Curated by Andrew James Paterson
John McLachlin
Nina Levitt
Homework
Headlines (LESBI)
2000 Inkjet print on vinyl 13” x 23” Estimate $500
2018 Inkjet photograph on archival paper 13” x 19” Edition 2 of 5 Estimate $550
John McLachlin is an artist who lives and works in Toronto. John works primarily in photo-based print media. He has been a member of various collectives, including Spontaneous Combustion, Homogenius and Circle Jerk. John is a graduate of OCA and has exhibited across Canada, the USA and England. John’s work is held in private collections as well as the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery at UBC, the E.P. Taylor Research Library at the AGO and the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa. Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
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Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
For the past twenty years Nina has worked in photography, installation and video. Their practice examines the representation of women in popular culture and often relies on the recovery and manipulation of existing images. Nina’s work has been shown extensively in Canada, and in several shows in the UK and the US, and has been widely published and reviewed including feature articles in Parachute #100 and Canadian Art. Notable exhibitions include The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture (Vancouver Art Gallery) and Little Breeze (Doris McCarthy Gallery).
Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
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LOT 16 – Curated by Andrew James Paterson
LOT 18 – Curated by Suzy Lake
Alan Belcher
Jeff Bierk
Kill Me
Rockwood with Simone, November 24, 2014
1992 Offset print 46” x 33” Edition 38 of 50 Estimate $3,300
2019 Oil on photograph on panel 8” x 10” Estimate $700
balanelcher.com / @balanelcher
Jeff Bierk is a self-taught, multi-disciplinary artist, working with photography, sculpture, video, and paint. Born to the late artists, Liz and David Bierk, he learned the basics of photography and composition from this father. Jeff spent the majority of his teens and twenties lost to the opiate epidemic, addicted to OxyContin. His work has been exhibited nationally, engaging themes that grapple with grief, addiction, homelessness, and settler colonial constructs of beauty and masculinity. Through a practice of collaborative photography, Bierk disrupts the formal definition and economics of photojournalism, and problematizes the idea of the photographer as sole author of the photograph. @jeffari
Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
Artwork courtesy of the artist
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LOT 19 – Curated by Suzy Lake
Leila Zahiri
Pamila Matharu
Sugar Blessing #5
jaan, (otherwise, I speak the language of the colonizer) from the series mā boli
2014 Photo print 21” x 21” Estimate $750 Leila Zahiri is an Iranian-Canadian award winner conceptual artist graduated from Ontario College of Art & Design University in 2014. She has exhibited at well-reputed art galleries such as Ryerson Image Center and worked with art curator Jane Corkin. Artwork courtesy of Tak Pham
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Belcher is known for a directness and a sharp simplicity when approaching difficult subject matter. Works by Alan Belcher are held in several public collections which include the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Le Consortium (Dijon), Musee des BeauxArts (Montréal), Chase Manhattan Bank, Credit Suisse Collection; as well as various prominent private collections. Alan Belcher is represented by Galerie Lange + Pult (Zürich), greengrassi (London), Downs & Ross (New York), and in Toronto by MKG127 at 1445 Dundas St. W.
2017 Colour photograph of permanent tattoo 8” x 10” Artist proof (edition of 10) Estimate $1,150 Pamila Matharu is an immigrant-settler of Panjabi descent, born in Birmingham, England, based in Tkarón:to (Toronto). Primarily, she practices in visual arts (installation, new media, social practice), arts education, and advocacy. A graduate of the Visual Arts and Fine Arts B.Ed. programs from York University and a grant recipient of the Toronto, Ontario, and Canada Art Councils; most recently she was awarded the 2019 Images Festival Homebrew Award for her critically acclaimed first solo exhibition One of These Things Is Not Like The Other at A Space Gallery, Toronto (2019).
Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
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pamilamatharu.com / @pamila_matharu
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LOT 22 – BUDDIES PICK
Alison Postma
Maurice Vellekoop
Artificial Cave
Ne’er-do-Wells
2019 Archival pigment print 9” x 13” Edition 1 of 25 Estimate $350
2008 Ink and watercolour 11” x 15” Estimate $1,150 Maurice Vellekoop is an award-winning illustrator and cartoonist whose work has appeared in major magazines, advertising and books, for over thirty years. His comics work is currently on display at the Art Gallery of Hamilton’s blockbuster nationwide survey, This Is Serious: Canadian Indie Comics. This year also marked the debut of a Vellekoop-designed animated film called Love Lost And Found, a StoryCorps Short in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Maurice is currently at work on I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together, a graphic memoir to be published by Pantheon Books.
Alison Postma is an artist working primarily in photography, video, and sculpture. She graduated from the University of Guelph in 2016 and is now based in Toronto. In 2015, she was awarded the AIMIA/AGO Photography Prize Scholarship, and was long-listed for the New Generation Photography Award in 2018. Her work has recently been shown locally with the Drake Hotel Properties and as part of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. alisonpostma.ca / @rumalow
mauricevellekoop.com / @mauricevellekoop Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
LOT 21 – Curated by Suzy Lake
LOT 23 – Curated by R Kelly Clipperton
Christopher Lacroix
Ron Wolfson
Cradle. Coddle. Carry.
Billy Idol and Vanity, 1984
2019 Archival inkjet print 25” x 25” Edition 2 of 3 Estimate $1,800
1984 Photographic contact sheet on archival paper 30” x 24” Estimate $1,300
Christopher Lacroix (Canadian, b. 1986) holds a BFA from Ryerson University, ON (2012) and an MFA from the University of British Columbia, BC (2018). His work has been exhibited at The Polygon Gallery (Vancouver), window (Winnipeg), Artspace Contemporary Art Projects (Peterborough), and Forest City Gallery (London). Lacroix was the 2018 recipient of the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize. He currently lives and works in Vancouver.
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Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
A veteran photographer for more than 30 years, Ron has captured both the public and private moments of many celebrities. Joseph Di Fonzo aquired the rights to this contact sheet and images after the passing of his friend, Denise Matthews, known professionally as Vanity, shortly after her passing. She is captured here with Billy Idol, who she was dating at the time, after a Los Angeles performance in 1984. Artwork courtesy of Joseph Di Fonzo Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
Artwork courtesy of the artist and Georgia Scherman Projects Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
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LOT 24 – Curated by Andrew James Paterson
LOT 26 – Curated by Suzy Lake
Marc Audette
Andrew Harwood
Briseur d’Icon
Colpoy’s Bay, Mint and Sienna
1993 Cibachrome photographic print 16’’ x 20’’ Edition of 2 Estimate $550
2019 Acrylic on board 18” x 14” Estimate $500 Andrew Harwood is a Toronto-based artist currently working on the haunting landscape painting of his hometown Wiarton, Ontario portraying the loss of family by revisiting the landscapes of his youth and the spirit of the land. Harwood is the Executive Director of Artist-Run Centres and Collective Ontario. He has been the past Co-Director of Mercer Union, Director of Programming at A Space Gallery, and most importantly has run the independent galleries Zsa Zsa West, in Winnipeg, MB and Zsa Zsa, Toronto, ON. He is the co-founder of the West Queen West Gallery District and the Toronto Alternative Art Fair International Collective.
Marc Audette studied fine art at the University of Quebec in Hull and earned a Masters in Visual Arts from York University. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Galerie 44 (Toronto), the McLaren Art Centre (Barrie) and DiVA Videoart Fair (New York). Artwork courtesy of John Brown Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
@andrew_harwood1
LOT 25 – Curated by R Kelly Clipperton
LOT 27 – Curated by R Kelly Clipperton
Rob Croxford
R Kelly Clipperton
Cock on a Rock
Someone Else In My Place
2019 Acrylic on birch panel 20” x 20” Estimate $1,000
2013 Photograph on transparent plexiglass 36” x 36” Estimate $2,000
Rob has shown in over 125 juried & solo exhibitions and has participated in The Toronto International Art Fair, The Artist Project, The Winter One of a Kind Show and numerous arttrade shows! In the last year alone, he exhibited in Toronto, Caledon, Cleveland, California, and Chicago. Rob’s work is in the permanent City of Toronto’s Art Collection, and in the private collections of several Mayors, Alex Lifeson, Stuart McLean & Ann Marie MacDonald. You will find his art and his commissions in many private collections all over the world from Istanbul to California.
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Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
R.Kelly Clipperton is a Toronto based Renaissance Man whose most recent exhibit of photographs Agnes & Graydon sold out at Laurier Gallery this past May/June. He also published a 30 year retrospective of his work in a coffee table book titled If The House was On Fire, I’d Want You Around. kellyclipperton.com / @rkellyclipperton Artwork courtesy of the artist
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LOT 28 – Curated by Andrew James Paterson
LOT 30 – BUDDIES PICK
Ed Pien
Allanah Vokes
The Trickster
Mr. May
2016 Intaglio print with Chine-colle 10” x 12” Edition 4 of 21 Estimate $600
2019 Collaged Playgirl magazines on paper 40” x 40” Estimate $1,500 Allanah Vokes transforms information and imagery through elaborate systems of analysis, dissection, notation, and translation, creating works that occupy an ambiguous space between representation and abstraction. Her practice predominantly features collaborations with technology, using strategies such as photogrammetry, motion tracking, and computerized pen plotting to produce works in drawing, collage, and sculpture. She received her Bachelor of Arts Honours in Studio Art from the University of Guelph in 2015 and placed first in the University’s 47th Annual Juried Art Show.
Ed Pien lives and works in Toronto. Pien has shown extensively in venues that include the Drawing Centre, NYC; the Victoria & Albert Museum; The Goethe Institute, Berlin; The Art Gallery of Ontario; the National Art Gallery of Canada; and at MASS MoCA, Massachusetts. He has participated in the Montreal Biennale; the Sydney Biennale; the Moscow Biennale; the Beijing Biennale, and the Curitiba Biennial. The artist is represented by Birch Contemporary, Toronto, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Netherlands.
allanahvokes.com / @allanahvokes
edpien.com
Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
LOT 29 – BUDDIES PICK
LOT 31 – Curated by Andrew James Paterson
Ashlee Marcus
Ron Loranger
The Mona Lisa of Alexander Street
Pained Gray
2019 Textile, cotton fabric and threads, counted cross-stitch embroidery 12” x 16” Estimate $695
2009 Watercolour and ash 16” x 12” Estimate $500
Ashlee Marcus is a multi-disciplinary artist who holds a BFA Special Honours degree from York University and focuses her practice on hand embroidered textiles. Inspired by her work in the theatres and cabarets of Toronto, she combines found and original images with digital design software to create striking portraits in counted cross-stitch. Recent appearances include Stitch Fetish 7 at The Hive Gallery in Los Angeles and Hard Twist 14: Entwined at The Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. ashleemarcus.com / @ashleemarcus
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Artwork courtesy of the artist framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
Ron Loranger is a Toronto visual artist with a practice based mostly in painting going back to the early ‘80s. His preoccupation with using elements of non-traditional mediums mixed with watercolour led him to the incorporation of salt or cigarette ash during this very formal period of “Blobettes”. In the past, he has painted using the water from a multitude of rivers, making fires on the paintings, using the pigmented water from rain-soaked black iris. @dustmopp Artwork courtesy of the artist
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Kelly McCray Brad Steam #2 2016/2019 Digital photograph 12” x 19” Edition 1 of 3 Estimate $1,050 Kelly McCray has exhibited and curated extensively over the past 25 years. The Stephen Bulger Gallery featured his Lens Krafter book project in 2015. His Ken Portraits series was exhibited at the MOCCA in 2003, and in 2001 the Gnawts project was exhibited at Gallery TPW, for which he received the Pollock-Krasner Award. Past curatorial projects include the 2013 Rare & Raw show for the Leslie & Lonham Museum in New York as well as several Edward Day Gallery exhibitions. McCray currently curates for First Canadian Place / Brookfield, Toronto. @kellymccray7590
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Shawn Skeir
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Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects
Weaving Landscape 2016 Acrylic on wood panel 20” x 20” Estimate $600 Shawn Skeir has been a figure on the Canadian art scene for over two decades. His paintings, murals, and drawings can be found in collectors’ homes, buildings, hotels, magazine, advertising, and fashion. He’s gained recognition and representation in Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles. Seemingly spontaneous, the fluidity of the bold lines also convey an intense degree of concentration and the artist’s striking command of the optical effects of colour theory, exposing how both positive and negative space echo back and forth through his deft use of his palette. shawnskeir.com / @skeirgallery
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2019, Colour pencil, watercolour, acrylic, metallic paint, masking tape, embroidery, 8” x 10”, $200
Andrew Zealley 5. Make Pleasure not Pathology 2019, Colour print edition, 25” x 34”, Open edition, $125
4. first date 2019, Colour pencil, watercolour, acrylic, masking tape, 8” x 10”, $200
6. I’d Rather be a Cyborg than a Daddy 2019, Colour print edition, 25” x 34”, Open edition, $125
Bearpad 7. Six Pack 2017, Digital print 9” x 12”, $20 Chris Ironside 8. All Things That Glitter Can’t Be Gold #16 (Rose Quartz) 2019, Glitter and archival glue on paper 16” x 20”, $125
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Cristian Fowlie 9. VCR 2017, Digital print 12” x 12”, Edition 11 of 11, $35 Christopher Rouleau 10. Daddy 2019, Acrylic and enamel on birch, 15” x 20”, $200
Darryl Mabey 11. Diana 12. Grace 13. Andy 14. Madonna 2018, Digital print 12” x 12”, $40
Dennis Day 15. Salt & Pepper 2019, Inkjet paper cut outs in shadow box 16” x 13”, Edition 1 of 5, $200 Drew Shannon 16. The Swimmer 2019, Risograph print 11” x 15”, Edition 1 of 50, $25
Florent Manelli 17. Man With Yellow T-Shirt 2018, Gouache 8” x 11”, $80
Glen Hanson 19. Assorted Caricature Prints 8” x 10”, Satin finish prints on paper, $100
Jackie Lee 21. Low Light I 2018, Screen print 30” x 22”, Edition 6 of 25, $150
Graham Roumieu 18. Angel Treasures 2019, digital print, 9” x 13”, $50
J Bone 20. Physique Pictoral 80’s Edition 2019, Digital print 9” x 13”, $50
Jordan Blackburn 22. Bison 2017, Screen print 12” x 16”, Edition of 12, $50
Keith Cole Swanson Security 23. KCS Security Christmas Ornaments 2017, Mixed media $20-$60 Ken Fraser 24. Sailor 2019, Pen and ink 9’’ x 6’’, $20 25. Untitled 2019, Pen and ink and watercolour, 9’’ x 6’’, $20
Kid Icarus 26. Grizzly 2019, Screen print 18” x 24”, Open edition, $40 27. You’re Great 2015, Screen print 24” x 18”, Open edition, $35
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Levi Hastings 28. Swiss Hike 2018, Fine art print, 11” x 14”, $30
Nic Stevenson 31. Bon Appétit 2018, Textile, 18” x 18” $120
Paul Dotey 32. Beer 2016, Screen print 9’’ x 12’’, Edition of 8 $50 Pork Pie Brand 33. Cartoonist 2019, Screen print on cotton handkerchief 22” x 22”, Edition of 25, $15
Rob Wilson 34. untitled 2019, Digital print, 8” x 11”, $100 Romas Astrauskas 35. Bengal Tiger with Turquoise Eyes 2019, Acrylic on repurposed wood, 12” x 14”, $200
Ron Loranger 36. Cum Star 1 to 5 2019, Watercolour, various dimensions $100 Ryan Humphrey 37. Press 2019, Pencil on paper, 5” x 8”, $50
Sandi Falconer 38. The Donut Shop (from The Canadianist Issue 2) 2017, Letterpress, 8” x 10”, $20 Simon Muscat 39. Poop Slide T-Shirt 1983-2019, Print on textile, Size small, Edition 1 of 100, $55
40. Poop Slide Onsie 1983-2019, Print on textile, Size small, edition 1 of 50, $45 Tracy Hand 41. TV GUYS 2019, Silkscreen print, fluorescent inks, 11” x 14”, Edition of 30, $25
Trixie and Beever 42. Carousel Horses on the Loose Bed Tray 2019, Original art print, gliiter, and film on bamboo tray, 20” x 12” x 9”, $135 Zach Grear 43. Rock Hudson 2019, Marker and collage on paper, 8” x 10”, $100
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Mitchell Duncan 30. Bear Boy and the Pink Dream 2018, Gouache, acrylic, and ink, 16” x 20”, $200
Silent Auction
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LOT B Never Over It The limited edition environmentally conscious ÖVERALT collection designed in collaboration with eight African designers and IKEA. LOT C Crafty Bitch A collection of crafty gift certificates to The Workroom, Anice Jewellery, Gwartzmans, and Open Studio. LOT D The Art of Pleasure A gorgeous copy of Tom of Finland’s The Art of Pleasure from Glad Day Bookshop. LOT E Fresh Style Hibernate in style with a wardrobe makeover from Fresh Collective. LOT F Stage to Page A collection of queer plays, including an autographed copy of Gertrude and Alice, from Playwrights Canada Press.
LOT I Push it Real Good The ultimate self-care package: a gift certificate for in-home yoga sessions with Aman Banwait, a personal training package from Shane Train, a three-class pass to SoulCycle, and two float sessions from Float Toronto. LOT J Wine About It An eclectic collection of wines courtesy of Buddies’ Board of Directors, and a $25 gift certificate to go towards a wine tour in Niagara-on-theLake from Grape Escape. LOT K Screen Queen A Benefactor Level Membership to Inside Out that includes 16 free screening tickets to the 2020 Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival and other perks, plus 10 tickets to the screenings at the 2020 Hot Docs Festival. LOT L Purr An intricate, fully adjustable, handmade burgundy undercuts corset made from satin-finish elastic and gold-finish metal hardware with matching harness and leg garters from Toronto’s very own Panther Daze Designs.
LOT M Sass Me Dinner for four at Sassafraz in Yorkville. LOT N Nerdy A gift pack from Storm Crow Manor and a $50 gift card to Figures Toronto. LOT O Activist A collection of artist-made posters from the AIDS Action Now! POSTER/virus project. LOT P Stamp It A sheet of 35 AIDS stamps by General Idea featuring their iconic AIDS logo, courtesy of Top Drawer Vintage Art. LOT Q Book Club A collection of queer texts courtesy of Coach House Books. LOT R Rock Star An acoustic guitar courtesy of Long and McQuade. LOT S Hairography A new haircut and colour (or highlights) from Mikah Styles. LOT T Inner Peace A gift basket full of things you never knew you needed from Outer Layer. LOT U Biergärten A dining experience for six at the Biergärten, courtesy of Steam Whistle Brewing.
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LOT G Boots on the Runway Stomp your way through winter with a pair of boots from The Australian Boot Company.
LOT H Her Majesty’s Pleasure Spice things up with a fun pack of goodies from Good for Her, Toronto’s premiere sexuality store and workshop.
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LOT A Drama Queen The ultimate Toronto theatre package, complete with a 10-ticket pass to Buddies 20192020 season, plus a huge pack of Toronto Theatre tickets from our friends at Canadian Stage, Tafelmusik, Obsidian Theatre, TO Live, and more.
Donor Listings ARTISTS Romas Astrouskas @romasastrauskas Marc Audette Mark Bath @mark_bath Jordan Blackburn jordanblackburn.ca Bearpad shopbearpad.com
Graham Roumieu roumieu.com
Ken Fraser @k.fray
Keith Cole Swanson Security coleswanson.org
Drew Shannon drewshannon.ca
General Idea
Nicholas Krushenick
Scotty Graham scottygraham.ca
Nina Levitt ninalevitt.com
Shawn Skeir shawnskeir.com
Francisco-Fernando Granados francisco-fernando-granados. blogspot.com
Ron Loranger @dustmopp
Zach Grear zachgrear.com
Darryl Mabey darrylmabey-art.com Florent Manelli florentmanelli.com
Nic Stevenson stevenandsons.com
Joseph Di Fonzo
Glen Hanson glenhanson.com
Pamila Matharu pamilamatharu.com
Andrew Harwood @andrew_harwood1
Kelly McCray @kellymccray7590
Levi Hastings levishastings.com
John McLachlin
Leila Zahiri
Simon Muscat simonmuscat.com
Andrew Zealley @andrewzealley
Robert Davidovitz robertdavidovitz.com
Oliver Husain husain.de Kid Icarus kidicarus.ca
Susan Dobson susandobson.com
Chris Ironside chrisironside.com
Paul Dotey pauldotey.ca
Zamila Islam za-mila.format.com
Mitchell Duncan @uwu_boy
J Bone @originaljbone
Andy Fabo visualaids.org
Rae Johnson cuttsgallery.com
Sandi Falconer sandifalconer.com
Christopher Lacroix christopherlacroix.com
Jason Perreault jasonperreault.com Ed Pien edpien.com Pork Pie Brand porkpiebrand.com Alison Postma alisonpostma.ca Andres Quijano behance.net/andresquijano Christopher Rouleau christopherrouleau.com
Allanah Vokes allanahvokes.com Rob Wilson robwilsonwork.com Ron Wolfson
Figures Toronto figuresto.com Float Toronto float-toronto.com Fresh Collective shop.freshcollective.com Glad Day Bookshop gladdaybookshop.com Good For Her goodforher.com
GALLERIES
Grape Escape tourniagarawineries.com
Caviar20 caviar20.com
Gwartzmans gwartzmans.com
Georgia Scherman Projects georgiascherman.com
Hot Docs hotdocs.ca
Kid Icarus Print Shop kidicarus.ca
Ikea ikea.ca
Patel Gallery patel.gallery
Inside Out insideout.ca
Reactor Art + Design reactorart.com
Long and McQuade longandmcquade.com Mikah Styles at Eleven bit.ly/mikahstyles
Obsidian Theatre obsidiantheatre.com Outer Layer outerlayer.com Panther Daze Designs pantherdazedesigns.com Tak Pham Playwrights Canada Press playwrightscanada.com Sassafraz sassafraz.ca Shane Train SoulCycle soul-cycle.com Steam Whistle Biergärten steamwhistle.ca Storm Crow Manor stormcrowmanor.com Tafelmusik tafelmusik.org TO Live tolive.com Top Drawer Vintage Art The Workroom theworkroom.ca
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Rajnia Perera rajniperera.com
John Brown
Maurice Vellekoop mauricevellekoop.com
Tracy Hand
Rob Croxford robcroxford.com
Australian Boot Company australianboot.com
Coach House Books chbooks.com
Alexx Boisjoli rcboisjoli.com
Ryan Humphrey ryanhumphrey.co.uk
Anice Jewellery anicejewellery.com
Trixie and Beever trixieandbeever.com
Ashlee Marcus ashleemarcus.com
Nancy Dawn Clemo nancydawnclemo.com
Aman Banwait
Canadian Stage canadianstage.com
Jeff Bierk
Jordan Browne jordan-browne.com
DONORS
Jess Thalmann jessicathalmann.com
Andrew Sedgwick Guth andrewsedgwickguth.com
R Kelly Clipperton kellyclipperton.com
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Alan Belcher balanelcher.com
Cristian Fowlie cristianfowlie.com
How it Works Register Be sure to register and pick up your BMO Bidding Paddle in the Cabaret as soon as you arrive. With your paddle, you can bid on any lot in our live and silent auctions. Spend less time in the checkout line by authorizing the purchase of your items to either your Visa or MasterCard when you register and items successfully bid on can be immediately purchased. All you have to do is pick them up at the end of the evening!
The Rock Hudson Memorial Tuck Shop All items are available for purchase at set prices, which are listed in the catalogue and on display. Items can be purchased ‘cash-and-carry’ or put on account using the same bidder number you use for the live and silent auctions. Payment You can pick up and pay for your items any time throughout the evening. Buddies accepts Visa, MasterCard, debit, and cash.
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Silent Auction You can bid on items in the silent auction as often as you like using the same bidder number you use for the live auction. The silent auction will close just before the end of the live auction (we’ll take a short break after Lot 28 to let you get your final bids in). Watch the big boards at the side of the room - this is where the current highest bids are posted so you can keep your eye on your favourites.
Paying by Instalment Any purchase total of $1,000 or more can be paid for by instalment if you so choose. Speak to a staff member at the registration desk for more information or to set up an instalment plan before you start bidding. Tax Receipts If the final purchase price of an item in the live auction is equal to or greater than 120% of the posted estimated value, the purchaser will be issued a charitable tax receipt for the difference between the estimate and the selling price.
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Conditions of Sale Each lot contains an estimated value obtained from sources the ArtAttack steering committee believes to be reliable, but no representation or warranty as to the actual resale value is made or implied. Estimate values include value of framing, where applicable. All sales are final. No purchase can be returned, refunded, or exchanged. All items are sold as is, as exhibited. Buddies reserves the right to share the contact information of successful bidders with the artists whose work they have purchased.