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Additions are being made to the Art Auction Catalog, please check back Stella Alesi, Austin Ergyno 12" x 18" Oil on Panel Born in 1963 in Plainview, NY, Stella Alesi currently lives and works in Austin. Stella holds a MFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts and has exhibited her paintings consistently in Austin since her arrival in 1992. The Wildflower Center held an exhibit of her most recent paintings early in 2011, as well as featuring her work on its holiday card and Wildflower Days邃｢ poster this past year. Represented

by Davis Gallery, Austin.

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Arturo Almeida, San Antonio Araﾃｱa 35" x 47" Digital Print on Crane's Museo Paper AP Edition of 5 Arturo Almeida was born in Brownsville, TX in 1962. At a young age, Almeida moved to Corpus Christi where he later became an artist and independent curator. Almeida enrolled at Del Mar College and continued his studies in photography at San Antonio College and the Southwest School of Art and Craft. In 2000, Almeida established the Cafﾃｩ Latino Gallery. In 2003, Almeida joined The University of Texas at San Antonio as Curator of the UTSA Art Collection under President Ricardo Romo.

He studies in both composition and nature, reminiscent of the work of Edward Weston, Almeida's photography delivers dramatic visions of the everyday; elevating these common sights to a place where they stand alone as works of art. According to the artist, given the nature of digital photography, he prefers to use natural light. He enjoys the wide range of digital technology that is available to create a photographic image.

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Pedro Diego Alvarado, Mexico

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Lavender Fields 38" x 25" Serigraph Pedro Diego Alvarado was born in Mexico City in 1956 to a family of engravers and painters. His maternal grandfather was Diego Rivera, the famous artist. Following a short period at the Escuela de Pintura “La Esmeralda,” he attended the class of Gilberto Aceves Navarro in the Academia de San Carlos from 1974 -77. He moved to Paris in 1977 to study at the Ecole National des Beaux-Arts and Henri Cartier-Bresson became his friend and mentor. Back in Mexico, during the 1980s, he painted in the studio of the painter Ricardo Martínez and learned the Venetian Technique with the painter Vlady (Serge). In 1984, Alvarado held his first one man show in the Galería de Arte Mexicano, and in 1991 he painted a 60-square-meter mural for the lobby of the Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico.

Pedro Diego Alvarado presents individual exhibitions regularly and has participated in many collective shows in Mexico and internationally.

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Hillevi Baar, Houston Wildflowers 14" x 11" x 2" Mixed Medium Hillevi Baar was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in the West Indies and resides in Houston. She is known for her rendering and her intricate and elaborate threedimensional drawings. Generally, her subject matter addresses the nature of beauty and often incorporates imagery from the natural world. Ms. Baar has a MA. Most recently her work has been featured in the Musuem of Art in Islip, NY and group shows in Texas at dBerman Gallery in Austin and Philomena Gabriel Contemporary in Houston. She has twice received an Artists Fellowship Grant Award. Ms. Baar is in public and private collections that include the Hilton Convention Center in Orlando, FL; Conoco Phillips Corporation; Vinson & Elkins; Locke Lord Bissell Liddell; and Gaylord Hotels.

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Lisa Beaman, Austin King of Jacks 18" x 24" Oil on Canvas Lisa Beaman was born and raised in Bradford, MA, and received a BA in Art from the University of Massachusetts. She moved to Austin 25 years ago. Lisa worked in the fabric medium for 20 years, establishing herself as one of the leaders in the contemporary art quilt movement. In 1998, she began working with oil paint on canvas and found the medium allowed her

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to immediately and directly express and apply her ideas. Lisa's work is characterized by a bold expression of subject matter, manifest through a rich use of color and tone, which creates texture and depth on the surface of the canvas.

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Rebecca Bennett, Austin Possibilities Ahead 36" x 36" x 2.5" Oil on Canvas Born in Salinas, CA, Rebecca Bennett lived in New Jersey, Colorado, Missouri and Kentucky before moving to Austin 10 years ago. She credits her experience at the Barn Studio of Art in Millville, NY, for her lifelong interest in art. A psychology major, she also studied art in college in Florence, Italy, and again at the Austin Museum of Art. She is a graduate of Union College, Schenectady, NY. She exhibits extensively in Austin, and her work is included in the exhibits of DeLoitte, Boyar Miller Law Firm, Ernst & Young, etc.

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Sarah Bishop, Austin Bird With a Branch 21" x 18" Collage, Gouache, Ink and Pencil The artist says: "starting with a drawing of flowers in crayon at the age of 2, I wanted to be an artist and was always making “things.� After earning a BFA from UT in 1983, I embarked on dual careers as professional chef and designer, both of which offered outlets for creativity and use of color, texture, and design. My current work involves the synchronicity among components with a strong emphasis on design. I re-use vintage paper and am drawn to technical, scientific, geographical, and mathematical subjects because they provide an abstract appeal to both left- and right-brain aspects of myself. The natural environment (insects, animals, nests, grasses, plants, etc.) and vast expanses of West Texas are an important source of inspiration for me."

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Kate Breakey, Tucson

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Art Catalog - Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Rose IV 19" x 19" image Photograph Handcolored with Oil and Pencil The photographer's Small Death series elegiac portraits of tiny corpses, including insects, lizards, and especially birds - has won her international recognition. Born in Adelaide, Australia, Breakey attended art school then began teaching while pursuing photography. By enlarging each final print to a 32-inch square, she also increases its poignancy, and as a final tribute she paints the subject, applying several layers of transparent oils and then tracing over feathers, scales, etc. with colored pencils.

The results put her "in a class by herself", says Bill Wittliff. Represented by the Stephen Clark Gallery in Austin.

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Malcolm Bucknall, Austin A Dog and His Boy 12" x 14" matted Sepia Ink on Paper The artist says: "I am interested in themes of innocence and wonder, hope and vulnerability. Through precise renditions of ancestors, progeny, and enchantments that never were, I ask the viewer to "Remember when?" and to join in "Let's pretend." I look to delineate states of being and states of mind common to us all. There are narratives, recollections of goofy love, goosebumpy alarm, and magicked projections into other places and other bodies."

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Marc Burckhardt, Austin Figure 7 10" x 10" Mixed Media on Aged Paper Marc Burckhardt lives and works in Austin, in a 1910 farmhouse in the shadow of downtown. Born in Germany and raised in Texas, Burckhardt's work juxtaposes old world styles and symbols with contemporary themes. As a youth, Burckhardt traveled Europe each year with his family, a tradition he continues today.

The paintings, architecture, and perspectives he encounters in Europe combined with his studies of art history inform his work. Through the study and use of old masters' techniques such as glazing and layering varnishes, Marc achieves the texture and luminosity that distinguish his paintings.

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Maida Candler, Austin Refuge in the Flowers 24" x 18" Photograph

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Maida Candler is a freelance photographer, photography instructor, and writer whose work has appeared in the Jewel of the Maine Coast, Arizona Quick Guide, Guest Informant, and newspapers throughout the United States. She has also been a contributing editor and photographer for California Tour and Travel magazine.

"Refuge in the Flowers" was taken at the site of the Interdenominational Church in the Gonzales County ghost town of Cheapside, TX. As a counterpoint to its deprecating name, early spring brings rich and vibrant displays of bluebonnets, phlox, Indian paintbrush, and coreopsis. The churchscape was a heartfelt inspiration to the photographer!

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Laurel Daniel, Austin Loading Time at the Garden Shop 18" x 18" Oil on Panel Laurel Daniel's lifelong love for nature inspires her focused attention to the landscape. She is an avid en plein air painter and her fieldwork both feeds and motivates her larger studio work. Whether working outside or in, Laurel paints to better understand and capture the nuance of changing light. With a degree in studio art and 19 years in the graphic design business, she now paints full-time and teaches at the Austin Museum of Art. Her work is represented by the Davis Gallery in Austin and the Anderson Fine Art Gallery in St. Simons Island, GA, and is in many private collections.

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Susan Davidoff, El Paso Walks in a Dry Season 4 30" x 22" Monotype Susan Davidoff is an artist based in the Chihuahuan Desert of West Texas, creating drawings, paintings, prints, and collaborative installations that explore themes of structure and perception in the natural world. Davidoff's work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Hallmark Collection, and the El Paso Museum of Art, among others. She has been the recipient of a Mid-America NEA Fellowship and a Ford Foundation/PollackSiquieros Bi-national Art Award.

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Julie Davis, Austin Late Spring Fields 12" x 16" Oil on Panel

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A native Texan, Julie Davis is an emerging representational artist with a background in law and journalism. "The landscape provides my forms and figures. Growing up in West Texas, I fell in love with the land at a young age. With its complexity and dynamic character, I gravitate toward the outdoors as an artist because it rejuvenates and challenges me more than any other subject." With work in a range of private collections, Julie is represented by the Windrush Gallery in Sedona, AZ, and is participating in a group show at Austin's Davis Gallery in Spring 2011.

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Sydney Davis, Santa Fe Sterling Silver Wildflower Pendant Freshwater Pearl Necklace with Sterling Silver and Turquoise Sydney Davis resides in Santa Fe, NM and Seal Harbor, ME. She has been designing and making jewelry for 18 years. A graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, she shifted her focus from Wall Street to art in 1993. Sydney captures her design inspirations not only from the natural surroundings in New Mexico and Maine, but also from her travels with her husband and two children. Her work is shown at LewAllen and LewAllen Jewelry in Santa Fe. Fair Market Value $400 Min Bid $100 Bid Increment $50 Buy it now $400 click here for proxy bid information click here for buy it now rules

Chris DeDier, Austin Waterlilies & Birch 12" x 16" Watercolor Chris DeDier was born in Belgium and studied art history and design at the St. Lucas Institute in Brussels. He moved to Canada in 1986 and has lived in the U.S. since 1996. In his landscape paintings where the sky plays the major role, the colors and shapes of the clouds joined with the value of the light are directed by the moods and emotions of the moment. His paintings are available at the Davis Gallery, Austin and Gremillion & Co. Fine Art in Houston.

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Phil Durst, Austin High & Lonesome 33.5" x 40" Collage The artist says that, as a collagist, he is "drawn to pattern and repetition, which are also the hallmarks of quilting. As quilts were traditionally made with scraps and

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left-over fabrics, I like to work with materials that have also been cast off or designed for other purposes. I enjoy working with paint chips, old books, candy boxes and other packaging that all have such beauty, even though they were never designed to last. Such a tremendous amount of artistic talent, choice and color goes into such ephemeral packaging that I like to preserve its beauty."

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Dennis Fagan, Austin Swan 22" x 28" Photogravure Photographer and filmmaker Dennis Fagan lives and works in Austin. Dennis' images are in private collections internationally as well as the permanent collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Harry Ransom Center, The Polaroid Collection, The Wittliff Collection, and the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.

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Catherine Flowers, Austin Yellow Frog 8.5" x 11" French Dye on Silk The artist says" "my interest in silk painting began in San Francisco in 1990, soon after I graduated from Connecticut College with a degree in English & Art. While in college, I had concentrated my creative energy on photography; when I painted my black and white photos, my adoration for color emerged. I realized that I could paint on silk using vivid colors. My silk paintings concentrate on my love of nature especially its oddities and the beauty of its seasonal cycles. I am constantly amazed at the glory and intricacies of the natural world surrounding us."

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Susie Fowler, Spicewood Canyonside Urn 12" X 12" Stoneware / Porcelain Inlay The artist says: "I am pulled, as if by gravity, to investigate the patterns and shapes in nature. My medium is clay: fluid and flexible, able to capture the intricate

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scales of a lizard skin or the puncture of a pine cone. "Canyonside" is a landscape, with impressions of fossils collected from the cliff above the Pedernales River. Since 1971 I have enjoyed collaborating with collectors, creating stoneware and porcelain ceremonial pieces and architectural accents."

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Laurie Frick, Austin Less Sleep in Charlotte 17" x 17" Watercolor and Ink Laurie Frick draws from neuroscience to construct intricately hand-built works and installations to explore the nature of pattern and the mind. Born in Los Angeles, Frick lives in Austin and part-time in New York City. She completed an MFA from the New York Studio School in 2007. Formerly an executive in high technology, she also holds an MBA from the University of Southern California. Using her background in engineering and high technology, she explores science, compulsive organization, and the current culture of continual partial attention. Affiliated with Edward Cella Art & Architecture.

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Ryan Fugate, Houston Across the Plain 36" x 48" Acrylic The artist says: "my work is not about creating objective art of a physical subject though at times one may be represented.

Rather, it is about expressing and creating transcendental experience, inner states or what I call "Soul Scapes". For me, the creative process is a way to experience something greater than myself and becomes a spiritual experience and practice. My source of inspiration can come from anywhere: music, memory, feeling, or simply an idea waiting to be explored." Represented by 360 Degrees of Art in Houston.

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Satch Grimley, Austin Pop Resonance 23" x 30" Screen Print Satch Grimley is a native Austinite who has been painting and silk screening for over 15 years. Working out of his home studio,

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Satch's recent work uses serigraphy, painting, and collage to create works exploring the collision between man-made culture and nature. The studio is also a working print shop, producing numerous gig posters and fine art prints for designers and artists worldwide.

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Jan Heaton, Austin Hyde Park 6 25" x 25" Watercolor Jan Heaton's watercolors offer a personal viewpoint that celebrates nature and then abstractly reaches beyond the obvious.

Heaton's watercolors are inspired by the structure, color, line, and pattern of elements in nature that are often overlooked. Her work isolates details and exposes the viewer to an everyday object or place seen from a new scale or perspective. She incorporates her background in calligraphy and graphic design to create sensous organic forms.

Represented by Wally Workman Gallery in Austin.

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Joy Fisher Hein, Mico Lady Bird Planting Cherry Tree 12" x 9.5" Acrylic Joy Fisher Hein created the art for the multi-award winning book, "Miss Lady Bird’s Wildflowers", by Kathi Appelt.

Currently she is painting the art for "Bloomin' Tales, Seven Texas Wildflower Legends". The city of San Antonio selected Joy to design and paint 13 large art panels that interpret the history of Walker Ranch Historic Landmark Park. Joy has practiced organic gardening since the 70's and is a Texas Master Naturalist. She enjoys traveling and speaking throughout Texas and beyond about her love and knowledge of art and nature.

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Richard Hess, Austin Casanova 22" x 18" x 4" Raku Fired Pottery The artist says: "I am a full time potter/sculptor residing west of Austin and have been greatly influenced by the Bronze Age of China, the Terracotta Army of the

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First Emperor of China as well as American Folk Art. I use alternative methods of firing in order to obtain distinct and unusual surfaces on my horses, vases, lamps, clocks and other wares. I am represented by several galleries in central Texas including Artisans at Rocky Hill in Fredericksburg, Holland Street Gallery in Bellville and Sunset Canyon Pottery in Dripping Springs.

I am a member of the Texas Society of Sculptors and participate each fall in the Museum Day Show at the Umlauf Gardens."

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Sam Hurt, Austin Wild 12" x 16" Acrylic on Canvas Sam Hurt lives and paints in South Austin.

His paintings and drawings can be found at Avenue Gallery, in the fabulous section of South Congress Avenue, and on the web at samhurt.com or on the Sam Hurt Art page on Facebook. Two of his paintings have been displayed at Austin City Hall as part of The People's Gallery year long exhibits.

Before he became a painter, Sam created the comic strips Eyebeam, which is found weekly in The Austin Chronicle, Root Causes, which is found quarterly in Edible Austin, and Queen of the Universe.

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Darvin Jones, Austin Being of Ones Hour 1 24" x 36" Acrylic on Canvas Although Darvin would rather be an actor, iron chef, superhero or astronaut he has embraced his role as an artist. He sums it up; "life is art and art is life, they really are inseparable. I know it sounds clichĂŠd but most people have some idealized fantasy of artists - everyday life is where it all happens". Darvin studied sound art and musicology at Evergreen State College in Washington and earned a MA in soundscape composition at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.

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Glenda Kronke, Austin Blossom Bowl 4" x 9" x 9" Kiln Formed Glass The artist says: "I am a native Texan who has lived on both the East and West

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coasts. My love of glass began in 1983 and has followed me throughout my career. I am now a full time studio artist living in Austin. My strong connection to nature is rooted in my passion for hiking and exploring the outdoors. My work is a reflection of the awe and wonder I feel at nature's ability to create the rare and exotic. I strive to create textures that compel touch, colors that provoke memory, and shapes that expand reality.

Life/art ever evolves, seeking a vessel, a shape, a texture, a color - a path to expression. And once created, each possesses an essence of life, a statement of being."

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Janet Eager Krueger, Encinal Port Aransas Prickly 7.5" x 10.5" Gouache Janet Eager Krueger grew up in San Antonio. She received her BFA in Art History from UT-Austin and her MFA from UTSA in 1998. She helped develop the art program at Texas A&M International University in Laredo until her retirement in 2008. Krueger lives on a working ranch not far from Encinal where she is a full-time artist. She was named Texas State Artist in 2008. Her work is in the collections of the Kronkowski Foundation, the AT&T Arena, and Texas A&M University among others.

She is represented by the Hunt Gallery in San Antonio.

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Karen Kunc, Avoca, NE Frond 21" x 17" Woodcut & Intaglio Karen Kunc explores inventive color abstractions of the natural and humanfashioned world, creating visual impact, tensions, and ideas of strange beauty.

Kunc, born and raised in Nebraska, teaches printmaking at the University of NebraskaLincoln. She travels extensively, and has taught workshops around the world and served as a visiting artist to over 100 institutions. Kunc's works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and many others worldwide. She is represented in Austin by Gallery Shoal Creek.

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Jill Lear, Ketchum, ID Undisclosed II 30" x 38"

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Egg Tempera on Paper In her paintings and drawings, Jill Lear explores themes of proportion and space and has found trees to be an ideal means for dialogue. "Drawing for me is the intense satisfaction of investigating and recording an endless possible set of structural and spatial relationships within nature. It is the response to the rhythms as well as the structures within objects and spaces. It is the acknowledgement of precision, proportion, increment, order and how these elements create beauty of a certain kind."

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Suzanne Lewis, Austin Blue Umbrella 17" x 21" Photograph Suzanne Lewis is a native Austinite and fifth-generation Texan. She is the daughter of the late floral designer, R.A. Lewis - an early Wildflower Center supporter and Mrs. Johnson's florist for 50 years. Her first initiation to photography and painting came at the impressionable age of two under the tutelage of her father. She earned her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin and spent 17 years in California working as an ad agency art director and commercial photographer.

Suzanne has traveled all over the world on assignment and twice been a finalist for the pretigious Hunting Art Prize. She is represented by the Wally Workman Gallery in Austin.

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Andrew Long, Austin Garden Bloom 30" x 30" Acrylic on Baltic Birch Andrew Long's work has been widely exhibited including 20 To Watch (Austin Museum of Art), Paint: Out of Abstraction (Arlington Museum) as well as commissioned work by Institute of Contemporary Art (London) and Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, most recently a Byrdcliffe Colony/PollackKrasner Fellowship. His work has been featured in New American Painting, Editions #42, 72, and 84. Studio visits can be arranged directly with the artist: www.andrewlong.net Fair Market Value $3,400 Min Bid $1,900 Bid Increment $100 Buy it now $3,400 click here for proxy bid information click here for buy it now rules

Brooke MacKenzie, Austin Skies of Dio 120" x 45" Watercolor and Ink on Paper The artist says: "when I was five, my

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father built a skating rink for me behind our trailer in Aspen, CO. I was raised in both Colorado and Texas. In 10 years I attended seven universities in five countries. I received a BFA from The University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. I then found a "post post graduate post" in Biella Italy at the Universita della Idee with Michelangelo Pistoletto. I am interested in the collective nostalgia that represents each generation and culture." Represented by the Viridian Studio, Portland, OR. Fair Market Value $1,500 Min Bid $500 Bid Increment $100 Buy it now $1,500 click here for proxy bid information click here for buy it now rules

Katie Maratta, Austin Still Pond and Walking Horse 3" x 30" Graphite, Ink, and Pastel Katie Maratta grew up in West Virginia and attended Princeton University where she majored in fine art. After moving to Texas 14 years ago, she became interested in the state's unusual landscape, which was so different from the vertical, mountainous terrain of her childhood. Her "horizonscapes" now appear in galleries in Austin and Dallas and have been included in several juried competitions around the state. Her art was recently added to the Ronald McDonald House permanent collection.

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Alberto Mena, New York City Aurora Borealis 24" x 36" Diasec The artist says: "my work meditates on many aspects of dreams, the possible forms of alternate dimensions, and notions of other realities. I'm fascinated by humanity's proclivity to fear, and I explore the disorienting space between reason and reality. And I question the limits of our social and collective experience, and challenge the assumptions of our given world. They are images that may keep one suspended over a myriad choice of consciousness. To the viewer it may be a place of uneasiness, a sense of an impending event, and to others, perhaps a place of calm."

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Elizabeth Mericas, Austin Birdwatcher 10" x 5.25" x 3.25" Woodworking and Clay The artist says: "I was born an artist. One of my earliest memories was "drawing" in

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the pages of an encyclopedia set that my parents had just purchased from a door to door salesman. My next childhood memory was the spanking that followed, which didn't deter me because I later drew in the family Bible. I have studied at the Corcoran School of Art, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and at the Instituto de San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. A variety of artistic skills go into the making of a fairy door including woodworking, painting, stained and leaded glass, and sculpting to create the structures, knobs, hinges and daily accoutrements of a fairy's life.

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Marjorie Moore, Austin Chicken Masquerade 15.5" x 15.5" Graphite, Ink on Paper & Mylar Marjorie Moore has a BFA from Syracuse University and has been awarded a number of grants and fellowships. She has received the Creative Arts Program Award from the Cultural Council of Houston, an NEA Regional Fellowship in Drawings and Artists Books and a New Forms Fellowship from the New England Foundation for the Arts.

She is widely exhibited in galleries and museums in Texas, Maine and Boston, and her work is at the Art Museum of South Texas, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art and the Rose Art Museum.

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Bill Nowlin, Austin Gathering Reeds 27" x 21" Photograph Bill Nowlin's professional career as an electrical engineer didn't allow much time to explore his passion for photography. In 1996, he retired and renewed his love for photography and the great outdoors.

Photography's unique pairing of precision technology and creative freedom inspired both his interests in science and art. He says: "My favorite photographs are dramatic scenes that inspire the imagination - full of rich tones of vivid color. I enjoy looking at photographs where you can quickly tell what the subject is and appreciate it, but when you look deeper you find another layer of meaning - something that causes you to experience a unique, personal connection to the scene or the subject."

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Lesley Nowlin, Austin Little Dracula

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11" x 14" Photography / Archival Pigment Print Lesley Nowlin has centered much of her professional career on photographing and documenting people from the Latin American regions. Mesmerized by experiences far beyond her own realm, Nowlin has crossed borders to capture intimate portraits of people's lives and conditions. She has gracefully done this by relying on what drew her to photography in the first place; simply exploring and capturing on film what she sees. As a proponent of the image, Nowlin strives to grasp a moment in time that evokes enough power and mood to stand alone.

She focuses on the single telling image, making it her goal to let it speak for itself.

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Lisa Orr, Austin Locally Thrown for Locally Grown 16" x 4" Ceramics For 26 years Lisa Orr has been a professional potter and student of ceramics. She completed an MFA at the NYSCC at Alfred University in 1992 and later received grants including a Fulbright and a MAAA/NEA. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and the permanent collection of WOCEF in Korea.

Currently she teaches, lectures and shows nationally and internationally.

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Laurence Parent, Wimberley Red Rock Ranch, Texas 18.5" x 24" Photograph Laurence Parent was born and raised in New Mexico. After receiving a petroleum engineering degree at The University of Texas at Austin, he practiced engineering for six years before becoming a freelance photographer and writer specializing in landscape, travel, architecture, and nature subjects. He has had 39 books published.

Laurence's latest works are "Big River, Rio Grande" published in 2009 and "Death in Big Bend", published in 2010. Commerical clients include Southwest Airlines, TempleInland, BBVA Compass Banks, and Cox Enterprises.

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Beverly Penn, Austin Botanicals 5 @ 6" x 3" x 1" Bronze The impulse to arrange the wild variety of the natural world to fit an intellectual

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symmetry is a fundamental human urge.

Beverly Penn's sculture speaks to the power of this desire. Her work explores the contradicting need to both idealize and modify the natural environment. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships including a Rockefeller Foundation residency in Bellagio, Italy. She has also received nine Texas State University Faculty Research Grants involving research in Mexico, Italy, Spain, and New York.

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Maxine Price, Wimberley Baseline Green 24" x 24" x 2.5" Oil Born into a military family, Maxine Price went to school in seven different states in the US and Germany. After receiving her BFA degree at The University of Texas at Austin, she lived in Austin until moving to Wimberley in 1996. She works in oils using a palette knife to apply wet paint into wet paint, layering thicker pigment over thinner pigment, often scratching or scraping into the wet surface. Price works spontaneously and intuitively allowing for unplanned surprises and accidental happenings. The final results show the energy and the emotion involved in the creation of each painting. She is represented by Russell Collection Fine Art. Fair Market Value $1,800 Min Bid $600 Bid Increment $100 Buy it now $1,800 click here for proxy bid information click here for buy it now rules

Damian Priour, Austin Chair in a Blue Box 4" x 4" x 4" Glass Damian Priour is a sculptor of large-scale public and private works. In his chosen media of glass and native Texas stone, the glass is used as a metaphor for water. His sculptures have been widely exhibited and are included in many important collections throughout the world. His large-scale works are represented in public art collections of several cities including Austin, Palm Springs, Frisco, Grand Prairie, and Corpus Christi. He has taught classes in creativity at the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle and Centro del Arte in Monterrey, Mexico. Prior is the founder of The Texas Chair Project.

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Somers Randolph, Santa Fe Sterling Silver Alana Pendant Sterling Silver on Silk Cording Each piece of SOMERS jewelry begins as a soapstone sculpture, hand carved by the

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artist. Lost wax casting and meticulous finishing are used with stunning results, for jewelry that goes beyond the decorative to the elemental. Form is timeless, and to wear these organic distillations is to connect with nature on a profound level. A Santa Fe sculptor known for his larger pieces, he has also spent 30 years carving in miniature. When his wife, Hillary, discovered a trove of these tiny sculptures, she was inspired. They cast selected pieces in precious metals, turning stone into silver and gold, together creating the SOMERS Collection.

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Ana Reign, Austin Pink Turquoise Necklace Sterling Silver and Pink Turquoise Ana Reign Designs, Inc. is an artisan boutique design company that creates dynamic jewelry that transcends fashion and art. With unique hand selected semiprecious stones, fresh water pearls, and 1920's vintage brooches, jewelry designer Ana Reign creates one-of-a-kind museum quality pieces that defy time. Her jewelry is a juxtaposition of romantic elements of Czarist Russian beauty and modern art.

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Richard Reynolds, Austin Echinopsis Hybrid "Maria Piazza" 37" x 37" x 2" Photograph on Canvas Richard Reynolds has been photographing nature for more than 40 years, 33 of those as a professional photographer. He graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in Professional Photography. He taught lab and studio techniques and managed the photo lab for The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Journalism from 1976-1980. In 1983, he became Chief Photographer for the Texas Tourist Development Agency, a post he held until 1990 when he began his own stock photography business specializing in Texas landscapes.

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Priscilla Robinson, Austin Three Poppies 41" x 31" Acrylic on Handmade Paper of Cotton on Panel Priscilla Robinson is best known for her

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handmade paper constructions and collages. She cooks and beats the plants and then saturates the embossed papers with acrylic paint to create unique and sturdy interpretations of nature. Robinson has represented the US in many international biennales and is known worldwide as an innovator of contemporary handmade paper. Her work is represented locally by Wally Workman Gallery.

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John Mark Sager, Austin DeNatura Deorum 22" x 15" x 13.25" Assemblage Sager says: "Cross-pollination has always been a major factor in the arts. Literature, music and architecture have seeded my artwork, sometimes blossoming into fruition, always leaving a trace of growth."

His current passion is altered books, but he continues to work in collage and steel.

His unique assemblages and collages have been exhibited from Dallas to Denver, New York to New Mexico, Berlin to Budapest to Bratislava. He is represented by HooksEpstein Galleries in Houston.

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Francesca Samsel, Austin Private Moments 40" x 12" Viscosity Etching Francesca Samsel splits her time between printmaking and public art. The public art is large outdoor murals and some sculpture. Her large public outdoor murals can be seen in Philadelphia, Yonkers, Buffalo, and Annapolis among many others.

When not up on scaffolding painting walls she can be found in her printmaking studio. She holds an MFA from University of Washington and a BFA from California College of Art. She and her family recently moved to Austin where she is busy setting up a new work environment and getting acquainted with the community. She is represented by Gallery Shoal Creek in Austin.

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Kerry Schroeder, Austin What Came First 12" x 12" Acrylic on Wood Panel Kerry Schroeder’s allegorical paintings offer insight into our environment and

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ourselves. Her work reflects her fascination with and attraction to nature, where she discovers symbols and metaphors of human experiences such as emergence, growth, transformation, struggle, fragility, and survival. Using acrylic on wood panel, Kerry presents isolated, representational forms as a way into the subject and the story of the painting. Through a back-and-forth process, she applies colors, marks, shapes, and symbols, then scrapes and wipes, allowing to emerge what wants to be revealed and known. Kerry lives in Austin and her work is represented by galleries in Santa Fe, Nashville, and Atlanta.

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Kendra Scott, Austin Necklace and Earring Set In 2002, Kendra Scott combined her love for fashion with her creative talents and began her own line of jewelry. Today, the Austin based designs of Kendra Scott Jewelry have a home in a new flagship boutique in the heart of Austin and can be found at top retailers throughout the country. As Kendra continues to grow her company, she remains committed to her three core philosophies: family, fashion, and philanthropy.

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Sarah Stevens, Austin Untitled 25.5" x 18" Mixed Media The artist says: "I want to create moments of growth and decay. By repeating and combining simple actions that mirror the natural processes of cellular life, I attempt to create and preserve a specimen in a static moment of reproduction and death.

I use high key color and found fibrous materials with gestural and painterly markmaking to create anatomical topographies that are ambiguous in both form and medium." Born in 1983 in Austin, Sarah Stevens received her BA in studio art from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, in 2006.

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Logan Stollenwerck, Fredericksburg Metal Roses 22" x 14" x 12" 16 Guage Carbon Steel Sheet Metal

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Logan Stollenwerck has worked in marble and metal for more than 15 years, an art perfected with years of study under Italian masters. After studying art at Baylor University, he became interested in Baroque and Renaissance figurative sculptures and studied marble sculpture and mold-making under Matte Avignon in Florence, Italy. He also apprenticed under Maestro Marco Paoli at the Laboratorio di Scultura in Piestrasanta, Italy. His work has been recognized with awards at local art shows.

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Eliza K. Thomas, Austin Shadow Blossom 17.5" x 14" Pencil, Charcoal on Paper Eliza K. Thomas is an Austin-based artist who was born in Boston and grew up both in Austin and New Orleans. She attended Barnard College, earning a BA in Italian.

Thomas spent the winter of 2005 in Provence on a painting residency, which marked the beginning of her art career.

Most recently, Thomas was invited to participate as a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center. Galleries that have featured her work include Wally Workman Gallery in Austin, Grand Contemporary in Lafayette, LA, and Guthrie Contemporary in New Orleans and Houston.

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Maria Tucker, Austin Pink Evening Primrose Freshwater Pearl Necklace with Pate de Verre Flower A Texas native, Maria Tucker lives and works in Austin, and has been designing and making jewelry for nine years. A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, she has practiced landscape architecture in Boston, Virginia, New York, and Texas. She began her study of jewelry making in Manhattan as a way to work creatively with her hands. Her timeless designs draw inspiration from both nature and ancient iconography. Her work has been featured in the Austin AmericanStatesman, Tribeza, and Domino magazines and can be seen at Eliza Page in Austin.

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Megan Van Groll, Austin Still Life with Peaches 15" x 22" Prismacolor Pencil on Cotton Rag Paper Megan Van Groll uses contemporary realism and figurative painting to explore contemporary feminine identity, from both a personal and cultural perspective. Her

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most recent body of work focuses on the poignant and conflicted relationship many women have with food, ranging from visceral, textural still lifes to dynamic, narrative portraits. Van Groll is a BFA graduate of the Drawing and Painting program at the University of North Texas, and she also studied painting in Florence, Italy, at the Lorenzo De Medici - Art Institute of Florence. Her work is held in private collections in both Texas and Italy.

New work is available for view by private studio visits.

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Flo Vazquez, Austin Abstracted Landscape Panel 7" x 11.5" x 1" Glass Vazquez says: "I have arrived at this point in my life from a richly varied past.

Beginning professional life with a biology degree, I have morphed from research assistant to pharmaceutical sales representative to firearms examiner for the TX Dept. of Public Safety Crime Lab. In 1998, I dedicated myself to art on a full time basis. As an oil painter, my work was represented and collected both in the US and internationally. I began simple explorations in glass in an effort to stimulate a move to abstraction. Glass became a way to describe imagery less literally than my painting, and eventually I developed it as my primary medium."

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William Wahlgren, Austin Passing Rain 18" x 24" Oil on canvas Wahlgren says: "I was born and raised in the Midwest and later graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1996 my family and I moved to Austin, where I continue to explore the environment as a subject. Although my work has always reflected my response to the land around me, my most recent paintings are less naturalistic and focus on the subtle yet boundless aspects of the sky. My work is shown in established galleries in and outside of Texas, and it is included in several private collections."

Represented in Austin by Davis Gallery.

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Peggy Weiss, Austin Picnic 17" x 27"

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Digital Collage Peggy Weiss has worked in digital collage for 10 years and her work continues to evolve with the medium. Advances in digital technology have enhanced her ability to capture startling detail and create mysterious imagery. Weiss is intrigued by ordinary photographs from the past and is inspired by the idea of exalting these amateur snapshots into truly unusual and often inexplicable moments in time.

Peggy Weiss received a BA degree from The University of Texasat Austin and has lived and worked in Austin, since the mid1970’s. She and her husband, Ron, have owned and operated Jeffrey's Restaurant for over 35 years.

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Dena Wenmohs, Cypress Mill Fire Within 24" x 24" x 2" Oil The artist states: "it never occurred to me to ask permission to do anything- whether it was riding my horse into a grocery store when I was 4, or running a ranch alone after becoming widowed, or creating a painting using no grays! I am passionate about my art, ranch, family, friends, chocolate and the big skies of Texas and all that is beneath them. I own The Bunkhouse, an art workshop and retreat facility on the Wenmohs Ranch that is a magnet to other artists and keeps me fully in touch with the art world, and inspires me to create more, learn more and paint more. I really don’t know how I could paint any more than I do. I paint every single day."

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Caroline Wright, Austin Ominous Sky 16" x 20" Monotype Caroline Wright is a painter and a cellist and finds the disciplines to instruct each other. A native Texan, Wright attended Brown University and lived in France and Italy before returning to her hometown of Austin. Her paintings are both exuberant and contemplative, embodying the longing to be grounded and free at the same time.

Music, movement, and landscape merge as she captures the earthy rhythm of a song or the last light of day. Wright enjoys collaborating with musicians, dancers, and filmmakers, to explore how these art forms overlap.

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