SILENT AUCTION CATALOG
SATURDAY, JUNE 8 8 to 11pm
VIP Cocktail Hour & Sneak Preview: 7 to 8pm General Admission Tickets: $90 VIP Tickets: $140
Join us for a festive evening of art-inspired cocktails and delicacies from the area’s finest restaurants, along with exceptional art and creative happenings. Participate in our silent auction and engage with AAC residents in their studios. All proceeds benefit AAC’s exhibition, education, and resident artist programs. VIPs will gain exclusive early access to this year’s unique cocktail and food pairings along with a sneak preview of our silent auction, and the chance to view a special performance by Lorenzo Cardim. VIPs will be automatically entered to win a unique VIP-only raffle prize.
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Arlington Arts Center | 3550 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22201 | www.arlingtonartscenter.org
SILENT AUCTION ARTISTS & SELECTED ARTWORK
MICHÈLE COLBURN Native Washingtonian, Michèle Colburn joined AAC’s resident artists in 2014. Her work is sociopolitical in nature, and often explores themes of violence inside and outside America’s borders. With a keen interest in materiality, her works have been exhibited locally and nationally in Boston, Denver, Philadelphia, New York, and Los Angeles, with three solo shows in Washington, DC. Colburn earned her BA, in Art History from Franklin and Marshall College, a Graduate Teaching Certification in Education, and an MFA from American University. She continues her art teaching in the DMV.
LOT 1 Lawyers, Guns, and Money (Mountain Majesties), 2019 Acrylics and gunpowder on paper with bullet hole 10 ½ x 12 ½ in Starting Bid: $200
LEE GAINER Lee Gainer is a visual artist who creates meticulous works that examine how memories are constructed and recalled. Her work has been exhibited nationally including solo exhibits at the Arlington Arts Center, GRACE in Reston, Virginia, and Hillyer Art Space in Washington, D.C. She attended VCU on scholarship where she received a BFA, Cum Laude, in Communication Arts. Lee has held many roles at AAC including Resident Artist (2010 - 2015), member of the Board of Directors (2011 - 2013), and volunteer (2007 - 2016).
LOT 2 Gold Beach Resort, 2012 Acrylic on cradled panel 14 x 11 in Starting Bid: $250
LOT 3 Poolside Bar & Grill, 2012 Acrylic on cradled panel 14 x 11 in Starting Bid: $250
ROXANA ALGER GEFFEN Roxana Alger Geffen is from New York City and studied visual art at Columbia College as an undergraduate. She received her MFA in painting from Boston University. She was represented by the Wingspread Gallery in Northeast Harbor, Maine and La Motta Fine Arts in Hartford, CT, and has shown her work nationally and internationally. In 2005, Geffen moved to DC with her husband and children, and in 2013 began her residency at the Arlington Arts Center.
LOT 4 Wrap + Hive, 2019 Cotton floss, nylon shoelace, cotton tape, cotton calico, cardboard 12 x 12 x 1 in (framed) Starting Bid: $475
LOT 5 Wrench + Patch, 2018 Metal machine part, canvas tape, cotton, thread 12 x 15 x 1 in (framed) Starting Bid: $500
LOT 6 Pushmi-pullyu, 2019 Denim, batting, paper tickets, bias tape, thread, cotton fabric 12 x 15 x 1 in (framed) Starting Bid: $500
LOT 7 Brush + Poke, 2019 String, brass nails, nylon fabric, wool, grosgrain ribbon 15 x 12 x 2 in (framed) Starting Bid: $500
SARAH HARDESTY Sarah Hardesty’s drawings, paintings, and installations have been included in numerous exhibitions including VisArts, Rockville, MD; Metro Micro Gallery, Arlington, VA; ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY; Davidson Contemporary, New York, NY; MPG Gallery, Boston, MA; Wheaton College, MA; the Tucson Museum of Art and MoCA Tucson, AZ. She has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Wassaic Project, the Carriage House at Islip Art Museum, Santa Fe Art Institute and Vermont Studio Center. Grants include the Joan Mitchell Foundation, a Leon Levy award, and a VFIC Mednick Fellowship. She received her MFA in Painting from the University of Arizona in 2005, and her BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College in 1998. She was born in Strong, Maine and currently lives and works in the Washington DC area. She is an assistant professor of art at Marymount University in Arlington, VA and is a current recipient of Marymount’s START grant to support her new body of work being done at the Arlington Arts Center.
LOT 8 Untitled, 2017 Acrylic on wood panel 14 x 18 in Starting Bid: $800
LOT 9 Lifted, 2016 Acrylic and ink on wood panel 11 x 17 in Starting Bid: $650
LOT 10 Eclipse, 2018 Acrylic and ink on paper and vellum 9 x 6 ¾ in Starting Bid: $300
BECCA KALLEM Becca Kallem is an Arlington, VA based artist and educator. Her work has been exhibited in Washington, DC at Transformer, with NLS Gallery at the (e)merge art fair, Hillyer Art Space, and Heiner Contemporary, among other arts spaces. Kallem’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures explore identity, perception, and communication. She was part of AAC’s renowned exhibition PLAY: Tinker Tech and Toy during the summer of 2015.
LOT 11 Dream Sketch (detail), 2019 Graphite and colored pencil on paper 12 x 12 in Starting Bid: $200
BRIDGET SUE LAMBERT Bridget Sue Lambert’s large-scale photographs of dollhouses reveal domestic scenes that are at once tantalizing and unsettling. Lambert takes the dollhouse, a diminutive and nostalgic plaything, and enlarges and subverts its typical use. She imagines, and meticulously constructs, vignettes that manipulate the sense of time and space, and allow secret/cinematographic moments to unfold while suggesting a living narrative. Selected objects, sparse rooms and atmosphere echo desire, fear, destruction, hope, love, faith, anticipation and expectation. Lambert creates scenes in which viewers can draw their own conclusions and examine and explore their own experiences. She wants to emphasize and give meaning to situations women and men find themselves in and how our physical space visually reflects and reveals our inner fears and hopes. Bridget Sue Lambert is in private and public collections including the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Collection, the Wilson Building Art Collection and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank. Lambert lives in Washington, DC, was a resident artist at AAC from 2009-2015 and is represented by Civilian Art Projects in Washington, DC.
LOT 12 Take the Pressure Off Yourself, 2008 Pigment print 12 x 18 in Edition of 3 Courtesy of Civilian Art Projects Starting Bid: $150
LOT 13 Finally Found the Feeling, 2012 Pigment print on photo luster 18 x 12 in Edition of 5 Courtesy of Civilian Art Projects Starting Bid: $150
STEPHANIE LANE Stephanie Lane, of Bethesda, Maryland, has been a practicing artist for decades. She focuses on two dimensional imagery, ranging from photography, digital media, and trompe l’oeil murals to abstract drawing and painting, at times combining several of these genres into one image. Her murals may be found in both corporate and residential venues. She is both a fine art photographer and a National Geographic Image Collection Photographer. Currently she is an instructor at AAC, where for seven years she has taught adult classes in Figure Drawing and Painting, and in Painting and the Creative Process. Her current body of work is focused on exploring that in-between place where energy transforms the metaphysical into its physical state. Connections, duality, and how thought and desire influence the manifestation of physical forms is a constant inquiry. The irony of opposites, merging, emergence and boundaries continue to fascinate. She is very process driven.
LOT 14 It’s a Wild World, 2018 Oil on acrylic ground paper 25 x 17 in Starting Bid: $300
LOT 15 Steadfast, 2018 Oil on acrylic ground paper 25 x 17 in Starting Bid: $300
LOT 16 Gaea’s Place, 2019 Oil on board 24 x 24 in Starting Bid: $450
MARISSA LONG Marissa Long is an Arlington, VA-based artist, and became a resident at AAC in May of 2017. Her work has been exhibited internationally in cities like London, Cape Town, and Berlin and locally at various DC spaces including Transformer, the Katzen Art Museum, and Civilian Art Projects, where she held her first solo exhibition. Her photographs, often depicting sculpture and assemblage, touch on themes of absurdity. Common realities are made strange and uncanny, and familiar objects like flowers, tchotchkes, candles, and candies become signifiers loaded with human emotion.
LOT 17 Untitled (1), 2017 Archival inkjet print 11 x 14 in Starting Bid: $400 An original artwork created for Arlington Cultural Affairs as part of the Art on the ART bus program.
LOT 18 Untitled (2), 2017 Archival inkjet print 14 x 11 in Starting Bid: $400 An original artwork created for Arlington Cultural Affairs as part of the Art on the ART bus program.
RYAN MCCOY Ryan McCoy is an artist based in the Washington, DC area. He works in various media but his practice is centered around the creation of large, iconic paintings. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is included in numerous private collections throughout the US, Europe, South America, and Australia. In March 2016, he began a long-term residency at Arlington Arts Center, which will continue through 2022. He earned his MFA and BFA from George Mason University and is an Adjunct Professor of Art and Design at various schools in the Washington, DC metro area. He is represented by Long View Gallery in Washington, DC.
LOT 19 Untitled (death of a distant light V), 2018 Oil, emulsion, pine needles, straw, sea-water residue, and baby powder on canvas 13 x 16 ½ in Starting Bid: $650
LOT 20 Path III, 2018 Oil, emulsion, enamel, ash, pine needles, baby powder and straw on canvas 14 x 14 in Starting Bid: $600
LOT 21 Untitled (ghost 0013), 2016 Acrylic, enamel, charcoal, and Roll-a-tex on linen 34 x 34 in Starting Bid: $1,200
LOT 22 Untitled (signal II), 2015 Acrylic, enamel, and Roll-a-tex on linen 35 ½ x 24 in Starting Bid: $1,200
OLIVIA TRIPP MORROW Olivia Tripp Morrow received her BFA at Syracuse University, graduating cum laude with a BFA in December of 2012. Her most recent works are video and sculptural installations inspired by themes of the body, memory, and identity, as well as feminism and sexuality. Morrow has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, in Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia, New York, Canada, and France. She has a permanent installation at the National Institute of Health (Bethesda, MD), and installations on-loan at the NoMA Business Improvement District (Washington, DC), and at the Arlington Art Center, where she is a current Resident Artist.
LOT 23 Hanging Diamond No. 5, 2018 Digital print on paper 32 x 32 in (framed) Starting Bid: $700
LOT 24 Blue Medallion No. 1, 2018 Digital print on paper 26 x 26 in Starting Bid: $450
JEN NOONE Jen Noone is a multi-media artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. Born and raised in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Noone received her BA in Art Education from Saint Joseph’s University (PA) and earned her MFA in Studio Art at American University (DC). Noone investigates materials that are familiar to the contemporary consumer in an attempt to understand herself and her surrounding world. Underlying poetics, motivations, politics, and metaphors are revealed through the processing and contemplation of the materials. Noone was recently highlighted as one of Interview Magazine’s artists on the verge. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post and exhibited at the Arlington Arts Center (VA), Katzen Museum (DC), WAS Gallery (MD), and Connersmith (DC). Currently, Noone teaches fine arts classes at American University, Northern Virginia Community College, and Montgomery County Public Schools.
LOT 25 Topless & Barefoot [on a] Sandy Beach, Under The Twilight [with my] Sole Mate, 2017 Essie nail polish on Seascape print from Amazon.com 10 ½ x 14 ½ Starting Bid: $125
LOT 26 Purple Icon, 2016 Amethyst, Maybelline EyeStudio Color Plush Silk Eye Shadow in Purple Icon 1 ½ x 9 x 6 in Starting Bid: $145 (shelf included)
LOT 27 Best Bunch, 2017 Beads from old necklace, jewelry findings, jewelry wire 2 ½ x 5 ½ x 3 ½ in Starting Bid: $145 (shelf included)
JUNG MIN PARK Jung Min Park is a resident artist at Arlington Arts Center (VA). Her works have been selected for solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including Annapolis Maritime Museum (MD), DC Arts Center (DC), Greater Reston Arts Center (VA), Hillyer Art Space (DC), The Painting Center (NY), and Gallery 175 in Seoul, Korea. She won first prize from the Water Works show at Maryland Federation of Art and two awards from Korea Modern Cultural Art Association. Park has received a fellowship from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a grant from the Korean Ministry of Cultures, Sports, and Tourism. She earned her MFA from Pratt Institute (NY) and two BFA’s from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago (IL) and Korea National University of Arts.
LOT 28 The Park Path, 2009 Mixed Media on paper 13 ¼ x 12 ¾ Starting Bid: $400
LYRIC PRINCE Born and raised in Richmond, VA, Lyric Prince received her B.A. in Fine Arts from Saint Joseph’s University, and has recently completed a M.S. in Science, Technology, and Society from Drexel University. Current research background and interests include medical anthropology, mass media representation of the body, and visual culture online. Her past experience includes digital installations, blogging, and drawing/painting large-scale works in live settings.
LOT 29 Dotted, Lined, 2018 India ink and paper 10 x 21 in (Triptych; 10 x 7 in each panel) Starting Bid: $50
PAM ROGERS Pam Rogers is a painter/sculptor whose work explores the territory between the nature and the role of the artist as they engage with nature. Born in Boulder, Colorado, Rogers has a BA in art history from Wellesley College, an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and a certificate in botanical illustration through a program in Kew Gardens, England. Additionally, she has studied art history and anthropology at the University of Colorado in Boulder. After six years in the competitive residency program at Arlington Arts Center in Arlington, Virginia, Rogers has recently relocated her studio to Denver, Colorado. Her work has been exhibited internationally as well as national, including recent solo shows at the Reston Arts Center and The Arlington Arts Center in Virginia and Hillyer Art Space in Washington, D.C., The Gintner Botanic Gardens, Richmond, VA as well as the Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta GA. Rogers has worked on numerous curatorial projects and received a fellowship with the DCAC Curator/Mentor Program. She was a 2015 Sondheim Semi-Finalist and she has received fellowships at multiple artist residency programs, including the Ucross Foundation, Hambidge Center for the Arts, I-Park, Ragdale Art Center, Mass MoCA, and Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Brush Creek Arts Foundation. Rogers continues to work as an independent illustrator on various projects for the Anthropology Department.
LOT 30 Disruptions, 2018-2019 Plant, solid and mineral pigments, ink and graphite on panels 12 x 12 x 2 in Starting Bid: $300
AUSTIN SHULL Austin Shull was born in Washington DC and is a multidisciplinary artist and a current artist-inresidence at Arlington Arts Center. He received an MFA from the School of Visual Art and a BA from Bard College. Shull participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program (NY) and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (NY). He has also completed residencies with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center (NY). Shull has exhibited his work nationally and internationally at venues including the Cooper Union, Syracuse University, International Print Center, Pratt Institute, Nurture Art, Exit Art, and Socrates Sculpture Park (NY), the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago (IL), the ACC Gallery in Weimar, Hall 14 Gallery in Leipzig, and the Chiado Museum in Lisbon.
LOT 31 Requisition (diptych), 2018 Archival pigment print 22 x 16 in (each panel) Starting Bid: $900
JESSICA VAN BRAKLE Jessica van Brakle’s artwork is about growth, beauty, and the cyclical aspects of nature. Combining construction cranes with decorative patterns and botanicals, these icon images entwine to form an integrated view of the industrial and organic, strength and fragility, creation and evolution. Van Brakle received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art + Design and her MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park.
LOT 32 Center of Gravity, 2014 Acrylic and ink on canvas 12 x 12 x 2 ½ in Starting Bid: $650
ALICE WHEALIN Alice Whealin’s artworks present unusual and potential structures in our world of innumerable possibilities. She finds inspiration for her artworks from nature and science, and from many other art forms, including music, textiles and literature. Her formal studies in Fine Arts include earning her B.A. in Art from Rowan University, NJ. She received a stipend grant for her apprenticeship to The Johnson Atelier, Princeton, NJ. She was awarded a teaching fellowship to the MFA program for The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA with Tufts University, Medford, MA. Leaving Boston, she moved to DC and served as staff at The Phillips Collection in DC. She exhibited her sculptures and drawings in their annual James McLaughlin Memorial Staff Exhibitions. Alice Whealin’s artworks have been selected for numerous curated exhibits, including at The Painting Center, NY, Charles Krause/Reporting Fine Art Gallery, DC, Robert Brown Gallery, DC, Howard County Fine and Performing Arts Center, MD. the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, DC and the Museo Della Carta in Fabriano, Italy. Her works have been exhibited in museums and galleries nationally. Her artworks are included in private collections. Museum collections with her work include the Museo Della Carta in Fabriano, Italy. Alice Whealin currently lives and maintains her studio in Arlington, Virginia.
LOT 33 Untitled 3 (wp.17.4), 2017 Ink and watercolor on Fabriano paper 14 x 11 in (framed) Starting Bid: $350
LOT 34 Untitled 2, 2013 Ink and watercolor on paper 20 x 16 in Starting Bid: $450
LOT 35 Untitled 1, 2013 Ink and watercolor on paper 20 x 16 in Starting Bid: $450
DAWN WHITMORE Dawn Whitmore is a Washington, DC-based visual artist whose work focuses on mythology, gender and identity. She received a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art in 2005. Her work has been shown in numerous venues including: Mesa Museum of Contemporary Art (AZ), Hemphill Fine Arts Carroll Square Gallery (DC), Area 405 (MD), and Spring Gallery (NY), and was also featured during DC FotoWeek and the Dumbo Arts Festival in NYC. She has collaborated with the Jane Franklin Dance Company (2016/17) for two stage productions. She received an Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission of the Arts & Humanities in 2016 and 2017, and an Individual Project Grant for 2018.
LOT 36 Integration, 2019 Graphite, acrylic paint on Arches 24 x 18 in Starting Bid: $275
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AAC is 501(c)(3) non-profit visual arts center. All proceeds will benefit AAC’s exhibition, education, and resident artist programs. 50% of the price of each ticket is tax deductible.
Arlington Arts Center | 3550 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22201 | www.arlingtonartscenter.org