Benefit Art Auction

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BENEFIT AUCTION 4 . 14 . 2012

Original artwork from over 150 artists 2012 featured Artist | Hong Chun Zhang

Underwrit ten by

Biemer’s Barbecue, Boulevard Brewing Company, Checkers, Culinaria, Evan Williams Catering, Four and Twenty Blackbirds Pastries, Free State Brewery, HyVee, Pachamamas, Wheatfields

lawrence arts center

BENEFIT ART AUCTION Original artwork from over 150 artists 2012 featured Artist | Hong Chun Zhang

4.14.2012

Hong Chun Zhang—Featured Artist Susan Tate­—Executive Director Ben Ahlvers—Exhibitions Director Rachel Forrest—Exhibitions Program Intern Ric Averill—Auctioneer Music from Floyd the Barber Underwritten by: The Eye Doctors Optometrists, Dr. Brown, Dr. Harvat & Dr. Hamilton Contributors: Emprise Bank, Callahan Creek, Printing Solutions, Ann Dean Photography, Biemer’s BBQ, Bittersweet Floral and Garden, Boulevard Brewing Company, Checkers Foods, Culinaria, Evan Williams Catering, Four and Twenty Blackbirds Pastries, Free State Brewery, The Invisible Hand Gallery, HyVee, Pachamamas, Wheatfields Special thank you: All volunteers, Lawrence Arts Center staff and board, Spencer Museum Student Advisory Board, Free State High School and Free State volunteers, Emma Hoyle, Allen Chen, Alicia Kelly, Grant Ahlvers, Grace Carmody, Tom Carmody, John Bullock, Julie Carter, Ellen Chindamo, Evan Williams

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Lawrence Arts Center Staff Susan Tate­—Executive Director Ben Ahlvers—Exhibitions Director Ric Averill—Artistic Director, Performing Arts Margaret Weisbrod Morris—Director of Programs

& Partnerships

Candi Baker—Dance Program Director Laurie McLane-Higginson—Curator of Arts Education Linda Reimond—Arts based Preschool Director Heather Hoy—Development Director Amy Albright—Marketing Coordinator/Graphic Design Rick Yarnell—Director of Business Steve Richardson—Facilities Manager Jessica Conner—Studio Coordinator Emma Hoyle—Office Manager

Lawrence Arts Center Board John Bullock—President Grace Carmody Tom Carmody Carol Ann Carter Julie Carter Larry Chance Ellen Chindamo Lindy Eakin Brian Horsch Lisa Leroux-Smith Michel Loomis Molly Murphy Mike Orozco Jim Otten Maria Preston-Cargill Dru Sampson Dan Schriner Evan Williams

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2012 BENEFIT ART auction

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING US Thank you for joining us in our annual benefit auction.

This event, and therefore our entire exhibitions program, is made possible by the generosity of artists, caterers, optometrists, designers, printers, and many volunteers who believe that a vibrant artist community is a priority for the region.

The annual Benefit Art Auction supports our ability to offer five exhibition spaces to artists who work in a diverse spectrum of mediums at all stages of their careers. The auction makes it possible for the Lawrence

Arts Center to have an exhibitions director and to offer curatorial and technical assistance to artists.

Through our exhibitions program, we work to connect people to original arts every day of the year, planning art talks, exhibitions, receptions, Final Fridays, films, and studio tours. In addition,

Arts Center exhibitions

programming includes project-based residencies that provide opportunities for artists to create and exhibit new work.

The Lawrence Arts Center is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to providing the best in contemporary exhibitions, performance, and arts education in an artist-centered environment.

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Congruity

L01 AngIe PICKmAn

hand cut paper, 19”x23”: $445 Angie Pickman lives and works as a full-time cut paper artist in Lawrence, Kansas, often operating under the moniker, “Rural Pearl.” She received her bachelor’s degree from Benedictine College in 2001 and her master’s degree from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 2004. She worked in New York City for a number of years before returning to Kansas in 2009 to pursue her artistic career full-time. She exhibits at galleries and art fairs nationally, does illustration work, and teaches various classes and workshops at the Lawrence Arts Center. www.ruralpearl.com

Solitude

L02 mArgAret morrIS

Acrylic on Masonite, 32”x24”, 2009: $2,200 Margaret is active in the arts education and arts administration community. She has presented on education and the arts in national forums such as the Arts Education National Forum, National Endowment for the Arts and the US Department of Education. Morris holds a B.F.A in painting and printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and holds a Masters degree from New York University. She is currently the director of programs and partnerships at the Lawrence Arts Center.

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Collections

L03 CAroL Ann CArter

digital drawing, 24”x20”, 2012: $950 Carol Ann Carter has worked in intaglio printmaking, mixed media painting, fiber construction, multimedia installation-performance, digital imaging, and video. “The objects and spaces I utilize suggest the creative field in which I play my work. It is a field of art and design where I practice movement and exchange of elements across boundaries. I am motivated by the dialogues among materials, intelligence or disciplines by a kind of character conversion where one thing influences or develops by virtue of occupying space with another: red and green pigment meant for a painting, find their way to a chair…or when foot pain assists, over time, in the development of a shoe form. The field for these considerations is wide open.” Carter joined the faculty of the University of Kansas in 1996.

The Other Side

L04 JACK CoLLInS

paint, cardboard, paper, wire, 48”x48”, $3000: $3,000 Jack states that his work is an abstract expression of his thoughts. “I don’t approach a canvas to depict a literal emotion or object, but rather allow my experiences, ideas, fears, etc. to organize themselves onto a surface with paint. Over the last year I’ve had a couple life altering experiences over which I had no control. This painting and its surface is considerably more active than most of my work.” This painting is Jack’s most recent work, created for the Lawrence Arts Center.

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Yellow Boy

L05 Ben AHLverS

ceramic, glaze, 20”x12”, 2012: $550 Ben Ahlvers is an active artist who primarily uses clay and ceramic processes. His art can be found in collections around the country, and he has exhibited his work internationally. He has taught workshops around the country and received the Kansas Arts Commission’s Mid-Career Fellowship. Ben earned an M.F.A. from Ohio University and a B.F.A from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He now lives in Lawrence, Kansas where he serves as exhibitions director at the Lawrence Arts Center. In May 2012, Ben and his work will be featured in Ceramics Monthly. www.benahlvers.com

Prairie spring

L06 JAn gAUmnItz

mixed media monoprint: $2,300 As a child, Jan lived on a farm, near a lake in Minnesota. The close association with nature had an enduring influence on her life and art. Gaumnitz prefers to be outside “seeing, experiencing, remembering, collecting and photographing,” than creating a work of art inside her studio.

By investigating sources for new or old ideas, challenging new techniques and materials, yet following basic fundamentals of art, she works to present a unique expression in a variety of media. Her wide array of work is seen on her website, jangaumnitzstudio.com.

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Brighton

L07 Steven grABer

giclée print, artist’s proof, 41”x33”: $600 “I like to create art that invites viewers to participate—the more they wonder about the reality of the drawing, and the scene it reveals, the more they become engaged by the image.” www.stevengraber.com

Untitled

L08 vernon BreJCHA

blown glass, 13”x4”: $700 Vernon Brejcha is one of the pioneers of the modern glass studio movement. Over 40 years ago, he studied at the birthplace of artist glass with Harvey Littleton at the University of Wisconsin. From there, he developed glass studios for Tusculum College in Tennessee and the University of Kansas. Being a native of Kansas, the theme of Vern’s work has been about life and passion on the prairie. Vern’s students have become renowned as teachers and studio artists. His work is represented in over fifty museums worldwide. He has also done major corporate commissions and is represented in private collections on every continent.

Since retiring from the University of Kansas he continues to work in his personal studio south of Lawrence, Kansas.

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Floating

L09 mArgUerIte Perret

platinum print encased in Plexiglass, 28�x60�, 2012: $1,800 Marguerite Perret is a multi-media installation artist who explores issue-based, interdisciplinary connections between art, science and medicine. She collaborates with artists, scientists, writers, public agencies, museums and healthcare professionals. Perret has exhibited widely and has been commissioned to create large-scale, site-specific temporary public art works. She has been awarded a variety of artist residencies, project grants, and support to travel internationally where she documents natural history and medical museum collections as part of an ongoing project that explores the specimen/artifact as a product of how we represent and consume nature and our bodies. Marguerite Perret is an associate professor of art and design at Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, where she teaches digital imaging, foundations design, and special topics courses in art and ecology, and science and art. www.ruralpearl.com

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Evanescence: Milkweed 4

L10 CHrIS WoLF eDmonDS

24”x24”: $1,200 Chris states, “Much of my work is inspired by the art of nature whose images are more transitory, often evanescent. It was a blustery day when I photographed this milkweed pod and after a few clicks of my shutter, the seeds were whirled away under silky propellers to recommence their life cycle.” Chris Wolf Edmonds has been creating original quilts since 1969. She has painted and printed her own fabrics since 1983. www.chrisedmondsstudioquilts.com

Smoke and Flame

L11 LoUIS CoPt

oil on canvas, 16”x20”: $1,650 Artist Louis Copt graduated from Emporia State University in 1971 with a degree in art. Copt began his career as a full time artist in 1985 after returning from a summer of study at the Art Students League in New York City. The focus for Copt’s painting has been Kansas in general and specifically the Flint Hills, the annual prairie burning, and most recently, figurative painting. Louis has taught at the Lawrence Arts Center for over 14 years and has led travel and painting workshops to France, Spain, and Italy. He has also taught at the University of Kansas. www.louiscopt.com 9

Flint Hairs

L12 Hong CHUn zHAng

Chinese ink, watercolor on rice paper, 2’x6’ each, 2012: $3,500 (each) Hong was born in 1971 during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She received her B.F.A from Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and her M.F.A. at the University of California, Davis. Her graduate and post-graduate work was recognized with a Skowhegan Artist Residency Scholarship (2003), a Dedalus Foundation M.F.A. Fellowship (2004), and Pollock Krasner Foundation grant (2006). Her work is in a number of public and private collections such as Sylvain Levy/ DSL Collection (France 2011), the Origo Family Foundation (Switzerland 2009), the White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection (Australia 2008), the Kansas City Collection (2010), Spencer Museum of Art at University of Kansas (2006), Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University (2010), and The Ministry of Culture of China (Beijing 1994). She exhibits nationally and internationally at different venues such as the The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., The Third Chengdu Biennale in China, the Lawrence Arts Center, the Portland Museum of Art Biennale, the Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento, and BRIC Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Flint Hairs was completed as part of “Hay Wire,” a 2012 solo exhibition at the Lawrence Arts Center that refers to her life experience in rural Kansas and in urban China. www.hongchunzhang.com

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I want to buy a vowel.

L13 JAnet DAvIDSon-HUeS

digital print, 15”x30”: $500 Janet Davidson-Hues focuses on language, image, object, movement, and sound to create mixed media paintings and installations as well as performances and videos. Davidson-Hues, M.F.A. graduate from the KU and former assistant professor of art at Indiana State University, has exhibited her work nationally in over 75 exhibitions and internationally in Germany, Italy, and Israel. www.janetplanet16.com.

Rhythmic Transformations

L14 StePHen JoHnSon

artist’s proof, 12.25”x49”: $1,000 Rhythmic Transformations represents the life-cycle of entrepreneurship and innovation: the spark of an idea (lights); the struggle to find the right direction (highways); scale, motion, and forward momentum (gears, conduits, waves); success, experience and wisdom (tree); and starting over (seeds, light).

This original composition was created for Pipeline (the nation’s premier technology entrepreneur fellowship program) in conjunction with entrepreneurs Tim Lockyear of Beloit Solutions Group and 2012 Innovator of the year Kyle Johnson of Audio Anywhere.

Johnson’s work is in numerous private and permanent collections, including the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and the New Britain Museum of Art, Connecticut.

Solo exhibitions of his work have been featured at the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York; the Katonah Museum of Art, New York; and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas.

Among his public art is a large mosaic mural at the DeKalb Avenue subway station in Brooklyn, New York and a 58-foot long mural at the Universal City Metro Station in North Hollywood, California.

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Power Lines

L15 moLLY mUrPHY

oil on canvas, 30”x40”: $1,150 Molly Murphy is a painter and curator from Lawrence, Kansas who works out of her painting studio in the Crossroads Arts District in Kansas City, Missouri. Her work investigates aspects of memory in its many facets. Murphy has completed special exhibitions on the topic for Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas and BNIM Architects in Kansas City.

Most recently, she was awarded a fellowship as 2012 Visual Artist in Residence in Seaside, Florida to create a series of work based on the neuroscience of memory as it relates to the abstract work of art. She serves on the board of directors of the Lawrence Arts Center and as coordinator for Final Friday Art Walks in Downtown Lawrence, Kansas.

Her work has been shown from Amsterdam to L.A., and is in private collections across the country.

Cypress Walnut Coffee Table

L16 rICK SteIn

wood: $1,650 “In a world driven by instant gratification, honest craft stands out as a counterpoint to the frenzy rampant in our culture. Whether it’s furniture making, painting, jewelry making, or any other tangible craft or art, the process inherently requires patience, attention to detail, and a willingness to demand the best, most consistent effort from the creator. Furniture making demands my best effort, my most skilled and practiced work, and all of my concentration. I can’t rush, work casually, or accept less than my best.” www.thunderworksinc.com

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Double Dip

L17 ArCHIe SCott goBBer

archival ink-jet print on stretched canvas, 13”x18”, 2010: $600 Archie’s art can be found in many museums around the country. He has also earned several national awards for his creativity. He is represented by the Dolphin Gallery in Kansas City. www.archiescottgobber.com | www.ruralpearl.com

Between the Lines

L18 eLIzA BULLoCK

monotype with collage and cotton thread stitching 20.25”x27.5”: $550 Eliza received her B.F.A from Ohio University in Graphic Design in 1995.

After graduating, she moved to San Francisco and worked as a graphic designer in the publishing industry. Missing a connection with fine art and with making things by hand that had a more tactile, textural quality, Eliza began making monotypes in 2000 in San Francisco.

In 2002, she moved to Florence, Italy where she participated in an intensive monotype workshop and further developed her skills and passion for monotype printmaking. When Eliza discovered the Lawrence Arts Center’s John Talleur Printmaking Studio, she was finally able to turn art making into a more primary focus in her life. www.elizabullock.com.

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Haven

L19 CLAre Doveton

oil on canvas, 36”x36”: $1,500 Clare Doveton was born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas. Doveton moved to New York City in 1994, where she received her B.F.A in fine arts painting at Parsons School of Art and Design. Over the last 17 years she has shown in galleries throughout New York City, San Francisco, and the Midwest. In 2004, she moved her studio back to Kansas. Doveton’s work is in numerous private and public collections nationally. www.claredoveton.com

Embedded 3jt

L20 tIm ForCADe

Jacquard tapestry woven of 100% cotton thread via computer-aided loom, 40”x60”: $4,500 Tim Forcade has combined his education in drawing and painting with experimental photography and multi-media works resulting in numerous exhibitions and installations. His work has been collected and shown nationally and internationally. Upcoming exhibits include a solo at Albrecht-Kemper Museum opening September 14 of 2012.

This is a Jacquard tapestry created from an abstract photographic image of ice. It is not a print. The image was painstakingly color indexed and scaled to the thread color palette and detail of a 10,000 hook computeraided Jacquard loom. The piece is made up of numerous color weaves.

These are the Jacquard equivalent of the individual color printing plates used in lithography or wood block printing—though weaves also add texture as well as defining color. The final tapestry Embedded 3jt was woven pixel-by-pixel, thread-by-thread into a cotton fabric. www.forcadeimages.com

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Conversations with Pragmatism

L21 Jen UneKIS

latex, acrylic and oil pastel on plaster board 17”x21”: $250 Jen Unekis began studying art and design with an emphasis in ceramics in 1983. Her work at that time was primarily in clay. Still holding onto her love of texture and color, Jen began working in multi-media in 1988. Today Jen’s work is done in a two dimensional context. All of her paintings are done on solid surfaces. This lends itself to creating a layered, textural painted surface with an importance being placed on subtle lines, broad shapes, the interaction between color and the play of light on the surface. Jen lives in a little yellow bungalow near the river with her daughter, Adeline, and husband, David, where she has a business that provides decorative interior painting along with an art studio. www.ruralpearl.com

Cloud Teapot

L22 SAm CHUng

China painted porcelain, 9.5”x8”x4”: $650 Sam Chung was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and received his M.F.A. from Arizona State University and his B.A. degree from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. In between undergrad and grad school he worked as a special post-bac student at the University of Minnesota.

Chung taught at Northern Michigan University and is now teaching at Arizona State University. He has had exhibitions at Cervini Haas, AKAR, Dubuque Museum of Fine Art, Sherry Leedy, Santa Fe Clay, Lacoste, Taipei County Yingge Museum, and the Incheon World Ceramic Center.

Chung has work in the collections of the Crocker Art Museum, Incheon World Ceramic Center (Korea), Guldagergaard (Denmark), Shepparton Art Gallery (Australia). Chung has held residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Watershed, Guldagergaard (Denmark), The Pottery Workshop (China). Chung’s work has been included in such publications as Contemporary Ceramics, The Art of Contemporary American Pottery, The Complete Guide to High Fire Glazes, and Masters of Porcelain. www.samchungceramics.com 15

Te Deum

L23 JoHn gArY BroWn

oil on canvas, 36”x44”,1997: $ Brown took first prize at Nelson Gallery’s Mid-America juried exhibition in Kansas City, purchase award at Joslyn Gallery in Omaha, purchase award at the Institute for Arts and Letters in the Childe Hassam Program in New York, and has works in 50 museums, as well as in both corporate and private collections.

Body Bundle

L24 CAroL Ann CArter

mixed media construction, 24”x10”x8”: $3000 Carol Ann Carter has worked in intaglio printmaking, mixed media painting, fiber construction, multimedia installation-performance, digital imaging, and video. “The objects and spaces I utilize suggest the creative field in which I play my work. It is a field of Art and Design where I practice movement and exchange of elements across boundaries.

I am motivated by the dialogues among materials, intelligence or disciplines-by a kind of character conversion where one thing influences or develops by virtue of occupying space with another: red and green pigment meant for a painting, find their way to a chair…or when foot pain assists, over time, in the development of a shoe form. The field for these considerations is wide open.” Carter joined the faculty of the University of Kansas in 1996.

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Wilt Chamberlain, Basketball Legend

L25 BILL SneAD

shot on 4 x 5 speed graphic Royal Pan film, black and white inkjet print, 27“x 15.75”, 1956: $450 About the only thing Bill Snead has been longer than he has been a journalist is a Kansan. From his days as a UPI photographer in Vietnam to being a photo editor at National Geographic to being named “White House Photographer of the Year” while at the Washington Post, Snead’s roots eventually pulled him home.

Kansas Series # 7

L26 StAn HerD

oil on canvas, 12”x 16”, 2010: $1,100 Herd’s work has been featured on CBS’s Sunday Morning, NPR’s All Things Considered and What Do You Think?, Dateline NBC, Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine, The New York Times, The New Look of Paris and The London Telegraph. A book about his earthworks, Crop Art and Other Earthworks, (Henry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994) details Herd’s artistic journey through stunning pictures and stories. www.stanherdart.com

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Black and Blue Head

L27 tom BArteL

ceramic, 12” x 8” x 10”: $1,100 Tom Bartel has participated in over 300 exhibitions and has work included in many public and international collections. He is currently an associate professor at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He received his B.F.A. from Kent State University and his M.F.A. from Indiana University-Bloomington. Tom has numerous publications to his credit, including American Craft, Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, Ceramics Art and Perception as well as many other periodicals and books.

Mick Jagger, on the set of Performance

L28 BAron WoLmAn

signed photograph, 16”x24”: $550 Baron Wolman was the original Chief Photographer for Rolling Stone magazine during rock music’s heyday in the 1960s. In an era when photographers and musicians were part of the same explosive scene, Wolman had virtually unlimited access to his subjects. Baron has had the unique opportunity to photograph some of the most influential musicians in history. www.fotobaron.com

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Enter the Rice Cooker

L29 roger SHImomUrA

screenprint, published by Greenpeace, printed by Brand X Editions, N.Y.C, 36”x41”, 1994: $3,500 Roger Shimomura is a distinguished professor emeritus from the University of Kansas. He has had over 130 solo exhibitions and has lectured as a visiting artist at over 200 universities, art schools and museums. Among his many awards he has been cited as a distinguished alumnus from the University of Washington, in Seattle. In 2011, he was selected to be a USA Fellow. He is in the permanent collections of over 85 museums nationally and his personal letters are being collected by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. His work is currently featured in “Asian American Portraits of Encounter” at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. He is represented by galleries in New York City, Seattle, Kansas City, and Santa Fe.

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Purity

L30 JUStIn mArABLe

original hand-pulled serigraph / monoprint 15”x33”: $600 Justin Marable was raised in Robinson, a northeastern Kansas farm town. Throughout his life, Justin has learned and wandered within the boundaries of his Midwestern homeland, observing the landscape and landmarks of the surrounding region. Printmaking, drawing, and music have become his main methods of artistic expression. Justin graduated from the University of Kansas in 2005 with a B.F.A. in printmaking. He currently resides in the Kenwood neighborhood of Topeka with his wife and daughters. Justin exhibits his work regularly in both solo and group shows. He works full time at his home as an artist, husband, and father. www.justinmarable.com

Green Light at Sundown

L31 LISA groSSmAn

oil on canvas, 20”x24”: $1,600 Lisa Grossman is a painter and printmaker whose work focuses on the open spaces and prairies of eastern Kansas and the Kansas river valley. Grossman has had 19 solo shows around the Midwest and on either coast. Her work is included in the collections of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas, and the Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University, as well as in numerous public and private collections. She is a 2009 recipient of the Kansas Arts Commission’s Mid-Career Fellowship.

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Red Wall

L32 rICK mItCHeLL

color photograph, 36”x48”: $950 Rick Mitchell has worked with photographic materials since 1970.

He earned degrees in art from the University of Kansas and Rutgers University and served on the faculties of Rutgers, Baker University and the University of Kansas. He has also served as the executive director of the Agricultural Museum of the State of New Jersey and director of the exhibition program at the Lawrence Arts Center. He is currently an independent artist and writer living in Lawrence, Kansas. www.rwmitchellimages.com

1+1 (set of two)

L33 KrIStIn morLAnD

sequin, bead, acrylic, ink, 26”x24”: $1,100 Kristin Morland has a B.F.A degree from the University of Kansas where she studied painting and weaving. She has been using hand sewn sequins and beads as her main medium for 12 years. www. kristinmorland.com

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Hair (top image)

L34 Hong CHUn zHAng oil on canvas, 5’x5’, 2012: $6,000 Hair was completed as part of “Haywire,” a 2012 solo exhibition at the Lawrence Arts Center that refers to her life experience in rural Kansas and in urban China.

Hay (bottom image)

Hong CHUn zHAng

oil on canvas, 5’x5’, 2012: $6,000 Hay was completed as part of “Haywire,” a 2012 solo exhibition at the Lawrence Arts Center that refers to her life experience in rural Kansas and in urban China.

Catalog available (2012).

Hong received her B.F.A from the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing and her M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis. Her work is featured in the current exhibition “Asian Portraits of Encounter” at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

see Hong’s full biography on page 10

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Live auction

RAISE the PADDLE This year’s Raise the Paddle is dedicated to support of the Lawrence Arts Center’s Artist in Residence program. This program is vital to our ability to offer the best in arts education, performing arts, and contemporary exhibitions. Visiting artists from around the world work with preschoolers through adults, teach in our studios and in the community, exhibit, create new work in dance, theater, or visual arts, challenge us, and inspire us.

Short Term Invitational Residencies are awarded to visual and performing artists who are commissioned to create new work, exhibit, and present to the public at the Arts Center.

Project-Based Residencies support area artists who wish to learn new mediums and/or who need temporary studio space to complete special projects. Artists receive use of studio space at the Arts Center, a materials stipend, and private instruction in any medium.

Residencies in Ceramics and Printmaking are 12 month programs awarded to ceramics and printmaking artists with M.F.A. degrees, and are chosen by Arts Center staff, other artists, and curators from over 100 applications. They receive living space, a monthly stipend, curatorial and technical support, instruction in teaching workshops and classes, and a solo exhibition of new work created at the Arts Center. They teach classes and care for studio spaces at the Arts Center.

Thanks to program sponsors Anne and David Hollond and Jan and Jack Gaumnitz. Thanks to the Poehler Lofts Development for the donation of off-site work space for large scale and long term Lawrence Arts Center projects.

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Silent AUCTION Silent Auction Instructions Over 100 items in this auction are offered through the Silent Auction. Silent Auction items are displayed with a Silent Auction bid card (“S”) below the identification label. To place a bid, print your name clearly on the card. (There is a minimum 50% bid on all auction items.) Please honor the minimum bid increase of $10.

Include your phone number so that we can contact you if you are not present to pick up your work at the end of the auction. Bids made without full names and phone numbers may result in your not receiving the item. Bids may be placed until 7:15 p.m. in the middle gallery and 7:30 p.m. in the large gallery on auction night, April 14, just before the Live Auction begins.

The names of winners of Silent Auction items will be posted during the Live Auction on April 14. You may claim your Silent Auction item after 8:30 p.m.

On April 15, telephone calls to winners who were not present on auction night will be made to inform them of their winning bid and to arrange for the pick-up of the item. We ask that winning bidders claim their items as soon as possible.

BUY OUT OPTION Silent Auction items are available for “buy-out” at 200% of the posted retail value. Bids of that amount or more are not considered buy-outs until the item has been purchased. To buy-out an item, see the receptionist in the lobby. Once paid for, the item will be marked sold and will be available for pick-up after 8:30 p.m. April 14 or afterwards.

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S02 Steven Hertzog &

Ann Frame Hertzog

photography, 24”x16”, July 4, 2011: $375 Steven Hertzog is a graduate of Emerson College and the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston with fine arts degrees in photography and film.

Steven has over 30 years experience in editing, producing, photographing and directing all forms of audio/visual media from documentaries, commercials and industrials to motion picture advertising campaigns. Steven built an illustrious career as an editor, producer and creative director, creating the campaigns of A-List films including What Lies Beneath, Castaway, Die Hard, Last of the Mohicans, White Men Can’t Jump, Gross Pointe Blank, A Beautiful Mind, and RockStar.

In addition to having his own photography business, Creative Road Studio, he and his wife, Ann Frame Hertzog, are partners in the local full service creative marketing company Kern Group Inc. www.CreativeRoadStudio.com | www.KERNgroupinc.com

Lion Man

S03 AMBER HANSEN

graphite and colored pencil on paper, 30”x22”: $250 Artist Amber Hansen holds an M.F.A. in drawing and painting from the University of Kansas and a B.F.A in painting and drawing from the University of South Dakota. Since 2010, Hansen has held the position of artist in residence at the University of Kansas and is actively exhibiting and performing both locally and nationally in the mediums of film, drawing, and musical performance. Hansen has been the lead artist in many public murals located throughout the Midwest. She has been the lead assistant to artist David Loewenstein in community-based murals projects in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, (2010) and Joplin, Missouri, (2011).

Creating a dialogue between her formal education and the ethics of her rural upbringing has led Hansen to create socially engaged public work that raises questions about the ethics of animal welfare and food.

Danforth Chapel

S04 ROBBIN LOOMAS

digital painting, 16”x20”: $350 Robbin Loomas, an award winning photographer and digital artist, received her B.F.A in photography from the Kansas City Art Institute. She has her own photo studio, Sterling Image, in Lawrence, Kansas. Robbin creates paintings from her photography and does commissioned work from the images of others. She teaches this technique and painting style at the Lawrence Arts Center and to professionals throughout the Midwest.

When people look at the artwork produced by Robbin Loomas the first question is, “Is that a photograph or a painting?” The answer is “yes.” It is a blending of photography, painting and technology. Digital painting is an emerging art form where traditional painting techniques and styles are applied using a computer as a tube of paint and a digital tablet and stylus for a paint brush. Beginning with an original 25

photograph she then use the computer to transform the image. Each brush stoke is applied individually, by hand.

“I consider the camera my sketchbook. When I look through the lens I see the beginning of a work if art. It is the bones on which to build.” Each image calls for it’s own special treatment. There is no one workflow I follow. Some images remain simply enhanced photographs with little more done to them than would be done in the darkroom. Other images become something more. I believe our roles as artist is not simply to capture what we see but to translate and transposes what is there.” www.sterlingimagphoto.com

Ode to Janice

S05 CARLA TILGHMAN

weaving, cotton, rayon, 32”x32”: $500 Carla Tilghman, owner and lead designer for Lapin Textiles, has been creating quality woven textiles for over a decade. She makes both oneof-a-kind art pieces as well as industrially woven production textiles. www.lapintextiles.com

Complicated Summer

S06 LIZA MACKINNON

monotype with chin colle’, 24”x29”: $200 Liza MacKinnon is a Lawrence artist working in a variety of mediums. She landed in Lawrence five years ago and fell in love with the community and the Lawrence Arts Center, spending all her free time in the print and ceramic studios. She is a regular participant in shows such as the Bizarre Bazaar, Holiday Art Fair, and Art in the Park. Liza has shown her fine art at Krzyz Studio in Kansas City, the Lawrence Public Library, the Lawrence Arts Center, and 1109 Gallery in Lawrence, Kansas. Liza hosts art and creativity workshops for children and adults and is delighted to be working with the Lawrence Arts Center as a teacher for the first time.

Sea to Shining Sea

S07 PAUL & DEB CHAUSSE

Plexiglass, stained glass mosaic, 55”x21”: $1,800 Paul and Deb Chaussee display their work at summer art fairs. They currently have pieces for sale at the Kansas City Jazz Museum Gift Shop, Gifted Hands Gallery at Kansas City’s Crown Center, 1109 Gallery in Lawrence, Kansas, and the Betty Ford Alpine Garden Gift Shop in Vail, Colorado.

La Gloria, Isla Mujeres Yucatán

S08 ANN DEAN

digital photography, 13”x16”: $200 Ann says, “I love photography because it gives me a chance to savor the fleeting moments in time that we all take for granted and that give our lives meaning.” Specializing in event, portraiture and travel photography, Ann currently works in Lawrence, Kansas as a freelance photographer. Her photojournalistic approach allows for a wider range of interpretation and captures the essence of each occasion. Ann teaches photography classes at the Lawrence Arts Center and the Spencer Museum of Art. www.anndean.zenfolio.com

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Silent auction Twin Towers

S09 JANET SATZ

limited edition archival pigment ink print, 25”x28”: $1,000 Janet Satz’s multi-layered mixed media collages, fusing representation and abstraction, dramatically evoke the sights and dynamism of the urban environment. Twin Towers suggests a reference to 9/11 and the twin towers of New York’s former World Trade Center.

Her work is currently featured on the cover of the Kansas City Voices magazine and a recent profile on her art can be viewed online in the REVIEW art publication (May 10, 2011). Born in Chicago, she has degrees from Pratt Institute and New York University. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including American Century, Sprint, General Electric, and Mercedes Benz Corporations, and the School of Engineering, Kansas University.

Landscape Vessel Form

S10 INGE BALCH

stoneware: $250 Inge has been teaching ceramics, sculpture, and design at Baker University since 1988. She is also the curator of The International Cone Box Show.

Shadow Box Prairie Twister

S11 BILL COLLINS

sterling silver with gems, 1.75”X1.25”: $350 After finishing his undergraduate work in jewelry and design at the University of Kansas, Bill worked in northern California with several fine jewelry manufacturers. After ten years of designing and creating jewelry for others, Bill promoted himself to the position of full-time stay-at-home dad and part-time custom jeweler. In 1991, Bill and his family moved back to Lawrence, Kansas where he has been working independently now for almost 20 years designing and making many wonderful pieces for clients. www.collinsjewelrydesign.com

Untitled

S12 JESSICA CONNER

ceramic, 12”x12”: $150 Jessica is currently the studio coordinator at the Lawrence Arts Center.

She received her M.F.A. from Fort Hayes State University, and was the ceramics artist in residence at the Lawrence Arts Center in 2006-07.

European Vacation: Garden Gnome Visits Paris, France

S13 CONNIE EHRLICH

Oil on canvas, 36”x12”: $850 Connie graduated from the University of Kansas in 1993 with an M.F.A. degree in painting. Since then she has been a full-time artist, exhibiting her work nationally. This painting is from the series, “Toys on Vacation.”

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Offering at Magic Pile (Bird)

S14 ERIC DOBBINS

ink, watercolor, 7” X 9”, 2010: $200 Eric Dobbins is the creator and former director of Wonder Fair: Art Gallery, Shoppe & Studio and co-creator/ co-director of Field Trip Publishing!

He received his B.A. in visual communication and illustration from the University of Kansas in 2006. Eric and his wife live in Kansas City, Missouri where he works as director of alumni relations at the Kansas City Art Institute.

Eric makes drawings, prints, comics, and other fun collectibles and merchandise. He is a founding member of Asteroid Head Art Club. www.ericdobbins.com

Glacier

S15 KAY TRIEB

photography: $250 Kay is a full time professional photographer.

www.kaysimages.com

Clearing Ice Storm, Fence and Tree, Douglas Co., Kansas

s16 ROGER SPOHN

photography, archival giclee print, 20”x24”: $300 Roger spent his early years in the southeastern portion of Kansas, and from that early rural environment developed a deep appreciation for nature and for the open landscape. Living in Lawrence during the late 70s to attend the University of Kansas, he began an independent study of landscape and architecture photography. www.rogerspohn.com

Sunset Slumber

S17 BRIAN HORSCH

ceramic, 7”x7”x8”: $230 Brian has been creating hand-built ceramic sculpture since 2008 when he was introduced to the medium at the Lawrence Arts Center. He tends to focus on animal forms, whether real or imaginary, and many of his pieces are functional with animal features. Prior to his interest in clay, he carved sculpture out of various hard woods.

Untitled

S18 CARLA ASPENBERG

print of shattered glass,18”x18”: $280 Carla Aspenberg, printmaker and sculptor, received an M.F.A. in sculpture from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 2006 and a B.A. in studio art from Bard College in 2002. Her prints have been included in exhibitions such as “New Prints 2011 / Winter” at the International Print Center New York and “Borderline” at Rush Arts Gallery.

She has completed residencies at Pilchuck Glass School, Wilson College, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is currently printmaking artist in residence at the Lawrence Arts Center. www.carlaaspenberg.com

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Mixing Bowl

S19 JOE PINTZ

handbuilt earthenware, 12.5”x12.5”x5.5”: $150 Joe Pintz’s functional and sculptural ceramic work explores the role that domestic objects play in fulfilling our physical and emotional needs. Inspired by his Midwestern roots, Pintz often recreates hand tools and other seemingly mundane objects. In the process, the dense meaning of these objects is transferred into clay. Pintz earned his B.A. in anthropology and urban studies at Northwestern University. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He also was a resident artist and Lincoln Fellow at the Archie Bray Foundation. In 2009, he received an Emerging Artist award from the National Council in Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). Pintz was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2011. His work has been shown internationally and he is assistant professor of art at the University of Missouri. www.iconceramics.com

Funeral Urn

S20 EDWARD NOONEN

porcelain: $150 Ed is currently employed with Fire and Medical Department in Lawrence, Kansas. He received his B.F.A in ceramics from the University of Kansas in 1985. Ed and his wife Melissa McCormick have pursued creating ceramic art since graduating.

Suitcase Stack

S22 JEROMY MORRIS

toner transfer, spray paint, acrylic on wood, 10”x40”: $200 Born in Denver, Colorado Jeromy now lives and produces in Lawrence, Kansas. His bachelors degree is in visual communications and graphic design from the University of Kansas. Jeromy is a co-founder of Fresh Produce Art Collective and current resident artist at Lost Art Space in downtown Lawrence. www.jeromymorris.com.

Peony

S23 JUDITH BRAWLEY

digital photography, 20”x20”: $300 Judith photographs subjects in nature to find formal relationships within abstract composition. She studied printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute and has a B.F.A in printmaking from Lone Mountain College, San Francisco, California. Her work is in numerous private collections nationally and internationally. www.judithbrawley.com

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Huddle

S24 LORA JOST

scratchboard, 12”x12”: $275 An artist with a studio in Lawrence, Kansas, Lora exhibits, illustrates, teaches, writes, and works in artist in residence programs and with community groups. She co-authored, with Dave Loewenstein, Kansas Murals: A Traveler’s Guide (2006, University Press of Kansas), recognized as a Kansas Notable Book, 2007, by the Kansas Center for the Book.

Lora received an M.F.A. in 1992, with an emphasis in nonstatic forms, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received a B.A. in 1988 from Bethel College, also studying at the American University and the University of Kansas. www.lorajost.org

Pathways by a Moss Covered Rock

S25 HEATHER SMITH JONES

conté drawing and acrylic on paper 26.5” x26.5”: $650 Heather Smith Jones is an artist, author, and instructor working in mixed media on paper, painting, and letterpress. She owns and operates her letterpress business Blue Sparrow Press. Her book, Water Paper Paint, Exploring Creativity with Watercolor and Mixed Media, was published in 2011. Smith Jones teaches young artists in the arts-based preschool at the Lawrence Arts Center. Smith Jones’ paintings and drawings are represented in several galleries in the Midwest, including Signs of Life in Lawrence, and on the East Coast. Her work is in the public collections of the Sprint Corporation and Emprise Financial Corporation, in addition to many private collections around the world. In 2001 Smith Jones earned her M.F.A. from the University of Kansas, and her B.F.A in painting from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina in 1996. www.heathersmithjones.com

Spring Landscape

S26 KAREN MATHEIS

oil on prepared paper: $350 Karen is the creator and author of Larryville Artists, a blog about the Lawrence arts scene. She is also curating an upcoming figurative exhibit at the Lawrence Arts Center. www.larryvilleartists.blogspot.com | www.woo D.C.uts.org

Spring Sprang

S27 ARDYS RAMBERG

metal and more, 14”x4”: $280 Be it music, a wedding ring, color, or twisted steel, Kaw Valley native Ardys Ramberg works from the heart. The East Lawrence Recreation Center, Cottin’s Hardware, residences, and human beings offer opportunities for presentation of her work.

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Silent auction Mrs. Bean

S28 MATT WOODARD

charcoal pastel, 21”x29”: $850 Matt says, “It’s refreshing to venture off this beaten path of style I’ve been on, every now and then. Jump the trail and locate an avenue to revive my creativity when it becomes a bit stagnant. One such departure led me to flip the pages of my old sketchbooks along with the abundance of past works by those who came before us. It left me with this quirky and whimsical character I have grown to love.”

This Weird Place I Found in the Woods

S29 LEE PIECHOCKI

watercolor and acrylic on paper, 8”x10”: $600 Lee currently lives and makes paintings in Kansas City, Missouri.

Stum-tailed Stink

S30 KRISTI ARNOLD

mixed media and collage on fabriano, 11”x11”: $350 In 2001, Kristi earned a B.F.A in painting from the University of Kansas and an M.F.A. in painting and printmaking from the University of Connecticut in 2005. She traveled to Krakow, Poland to complete a Fulbright Fellowship at the Akademia Sztuk Pieknych w Krakowie. In 2008, she was awarded the position as the artist in residence at the University of Kansas, where she spent two years teaching and focusing on her work. Kristi’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad including Australia, South Korea, Bulgaria, Poland, and Austria. She is a recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including a recent International Postgraduate Scholarship, International Postgraduate Award and a Postgraduate Research Scholarship from the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. In 2011, she was an artist in residence at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium.

Currently, Kristi is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts in Sydney, Australia, where she continues to research the perception of “beauty” and the evolution of the term “grotesque.” www.kristi-arnold.com

14K matte gold hoop earrings w/raven’s wing pearl drop

s31 ELLEN CHINDAMO

14K gold and raven’s wing pearl: $245 A Lawrence native, Ellen has been a fundraiser for 17 years and also is a professional jeweler and graphic designer.

Boom-Boom Swami Box

S32 LAURIE MARLOWE

enamel on copper, silver foil, wood, velvet silk 5”x7”x3”: $85 Laurie works with metals, enamels, ceramics, paints, and glass. “My greatest passion is designing, engineering, and creating mixed media designs that communicate a mystery, bewilderment, or wordless expression. I draw ideas from nature, theology, mysticism, travels, and personal encounters.”

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Ira’s

S33 ROXANNE GRABER

photograph, 10/50, 37”x29.5”: $300 Roxanne is a self-taught photographer. When the demand for her husband’s artwork took them into the world of printmaking, she taught herself stone lithography. Roxanne writes, “We had much success with our lithographs, but we wanted to return our focus back to the watercolor and charcoal drawings and being able to have multiple images of that particular technique. Fortunately, modern technology afforded the opportunity to work with digital imagery and gicleé printing. Soon I found that with the background that I had developed over the years of exposure to various techniques through exhibits, outdoor festivals, gallery receptions, books and manuals, etc. there were images in my mind that I wanted to capture to express what I felt as my art. The digital camera is the perfect instrument for me.“

Prairie Landscape

S34 RACHAEL RADEMACHER

fused and slumped glass with Kansas limestone B.A.se, 14’’x4’x10’’: $175 Each piece begins with an inspiration: a glimpse of a sunrise through the trees, a vivid sunlit field of wildflowers, or an antique quilt. “My work with glass has trained my eye to be alert for the bright colors hidden in the world around us. A single color may start me on the quest to represent the image I’ve seen from the various colors and textures of glass available to me. Spread out around me on the work table in my studio, the pieces take on the look of a puzzle in process. Each piece of glass is cut and ground to fit into its slot in the composition. Finally, the various pieces fall into place and the puzzle is complete.”

Examination

S35 NORMAN AKERS

Monotype, 19”x15”: $850 Norman Akers was born and raised in Fairfax, Oklahoma. He is a member of the Osage Nation. He received a B.F.A in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1982, and a certificate in museum studies from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1983. In 1991, he received an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Akers has had solo exhibitions at the Lawrence Arts Center, Jan Cicero Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, and the Gardner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State University. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including, “Mapping: Motion and Memory in Contemporary Art,” Katonah Museum, Katonah, New York; “Unlimited Boundaries, The Dichotomy of Place in Contemporary Native American Art,” Albuquerque Museum; Albuquerque, New Mexico, “Who Stole the Tee Pee?” at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Museum, New York, New York, and “Pathology of Symbols, I Space,” Chicago, Illinois.

His paintings are in several collections including the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York; Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana; National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C.; and Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. He taught painting and drawing at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He currently teaches at the University of Kansas.

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Silent auction Woven

S36 MARTY OLSON

mixed media, 14”x11”: $250 A local product, Marty Olson is steeped in Lawrence culture. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico (almost too many years ago to count), with his family, Marty planted his roots here at age five. He is a graduate of Lawrence High School and attended Northwest Missouri University on an art scholarship. Marty’s passion is exploring the artistic process. He is fearless in this exploration of painting, and recently is obsessed with works on paper.

Element Earrings

S37 NICHOLe collins

18k yellow gold, oxidized silver 2”x.5”: $176 Nichole Collins is a metalsmith and jewelry artist. She received a B.F.A. in metalsmithing and jewelry design from the University of Kansas and has studied at Lahti Polytechnic in Lahti, Finland. Several years ago she and her husband, Mike, began to make jewelry together. They now reside in a small Kansas town and travel to fine art fairs across the country to exhibit their work.

From the maxim series (Kundera, happiness)

S38 JANE WAGGONER DESCHNER

found photos, cotton and metallic threads 11.875”x8.875”: $500 Jane Waggoner Deschner‘s embroidered found photographs were the subject of a feature article, “Deduction, Speculation, and Fantasy,” in Fiberarts magazine (September/October 2010). 2011 saw her work at the Lexington Art League in Lexington, KY, and in invitational shows in Arizona, Kansas City, Montana, and Wyoming. In 2010, her work was included in “Ucross: Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies,” Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY; “connective threads,” Brooklyn, NY; “Sensational Remix,” Syracuse, NY; and “Zone: Embroidered Digital Commons,” Manchester, UK. In 2012–13, she will have solo exhibitions at the Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana; Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas; and Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California.

Unknown Series #6

S39 MARSHALL MAUDE

wood fired stoneware, 25”x25”x13”: $1,800 Marshall Maude is a ceramic artist and assistant professor of ceramics at the University of Kansas. Marshall received his M.F.A. in 2003 from the University of Kansas. He did Postbaccalaureate studies in wood fire ceramics and kiln construction at Northern Arizona University. He has shown his work in solo, two-person, and group exhibitions nationally and in Korea. “I focus on creating work that alludes to motion, chance and time to evoke a sense of mystery, which, while being open to individual interpretation, is grounded by the earth and our relationship to it as humans. “

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Untitled

S40 GWEN KERTH

acrylic, 18”x18”: $250

Sculptural Pendant

S41 JIM CONNELLY

Medium, 7/8”x1-3/8”: $940 Jim is semi-retired, and he is now a house painter, gardener, businessman, uncle, chef, golfer, comedian (according to him), repairman, and metal smith. Jewelry is his top priority with his work represented in two locations in downtown Lawrence, Kansas— Spectator’s and Marks Jewelers. Jim is available by appointment and for commissions. He can be reached through Silver Works and More Gallery in Lawrence, or through lawrencemarketplace.com

Copper Current II

S42 PAM SULLIVAN

mixed media, 12”x9.5”: $200 Pam Sullivan was born and raised in Leavenworth, Kansas. She received a B.F.A from the University of Kansas. In 2002 she returned to Lawrence after 35 years. During that time, she moved with her husband (a naval officer) and raised a son, started a wholesale needlework design business, and served on the board of local, regional, and national needlework organizations. She has continued to study with artists in the United States and England, has exhibited in juried and invitational shows, has been featured on HGTV, and recently published for a second time in Fiberarts Design Book 7.

Spring Rain

S43 PAM SULLIVAN

mixed media, 5”x5” (each): $200

Catalpa

S44 MARGIE KUHN

watercolor, 18”x14”: $1,300 A former Lawrence Lion, Margie earned an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Kansas and was a student of Roger Shimomura. www. margiekuhn.com

The Waves of Negril (Jamaica)

S45 GEORGE PALEY

cast bronze, aluminum, copper, and found objects: $450 “This piece was inspired by the women of the Arab Spring. They have been driving force for the changes in Egypt and Libya and are still struggling in Syria. They have tasted freedom and want to be recognized as real human beings. I would like to thank all of the artists who have contributed to this year’s auction and to the many artists who have contributed so much over the years.”

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Silent auction You Can’t Be Young Forever

s46 JENNIFER JARNOT

ink and graphite on mylar, 14”x11”: $175 Jennifer Jarnot is a professional artist living and working in Lawrence, Kansas. She received her undergraduate degree from SUNY at Fredonia (magna cum laude) and her M.F.A. in painting and drawing from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Jennifer has exhibited her work regionally, nationally, and internationally with several group exhibitions in Mexico, and a collaborative project with Alvin Gregorio and Josiah Lopez in the Philippines. She has twice been included in Snap to Grid at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, and numerous group exhibitions in Denver, Boulder, Albuquerque, Memphis, and Fredonia, New York.

Her work is held in private collections throughout the United States and most recently, England. Jennifer is a full time faculty member at Baker University where she teaches painting, drawing, digital media, and printmaking. www.jennjarnot.com

Ta Ra Dum #2

S47 SUSAN GRACE

watercolor, 34”x44”: $1,200 Susan Grace is an artist whose oil paintings of figures and heads explore distortion, fragmentation, and repetition. Over the years her depiction of the figure has shifted from being representational to a more abstract portrayal that plays with a contrast between luminous fields of color and detailed, repetitious marks. The figures often occur in series in which their general form remains similar. However, subtle changes in gesture, color, and configuration give the opportunity for new interpretations of a possible narrative or change in mood.

Her paintings have been exhibited widely at galleries and museums throughout the United States, such as ARC Gallery, Chicago; Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Georgia; World Trade Center, New Orleans; Kirkpatrick Center Museum Complex, Oklahoma City; Wichita Art Museum, Kansas; Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin; The Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green; and Riverside Art Museum, California. She has received numerous awards for her work. Although she studied painting informally in Athens, Greece, her academic background is primarily in literature and theater, and she taught courses in modern American and European literature in universities in the United States and Greece before becoming a full-time painter. Her study of literature continues to inspire and influence her paintings. She maintains a studio in Lawrence, Kansas, where she has lived since 1989. www.susangracestudio.com

A Question of Time

S48 ROBERT ZERWEKH

oil on panel, 7”x5”: $700 For Robert Zerwekh, realistic still life oil painting has been an avocation since the early 1970s. He has been in numerous juried and invitational shows and has received several awards. Zerwekh has done many commissioned paintings and his work is in collections throughout the country.

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Late Summer Biden Flowers, Haskell-Baker Wetlands

S49 MATT NEEDHAM

photograph, chromogenic print 16”x20”: $100 “When I’m not busy with weddings, you’ll find me wandering around downtown Lawrence with my family, shooting my favorite local music, or exploring the back roads, woods, and prairies of Kansas. There are some beautiful and fantastic places out there in an often overlooked landscape.

I also enjoy cooking, reading, camping, good coffee, good beer, visiting art galleries, and hunting for morel mushrooms.”

Rooted

S50 BAILEY MARABLE

Sterling Silver Jewelry: $100 Bailey Marable studied jewelry and art education at the University of Kansas, receiving a couple of degrees in 2005. She puts that education to use every day as she teaches art at Royal Valley High School and makes jewelry in her spare time. Along with those endeavors, Bailey is doing her best to make Topeka cool and is raising some really wonderful girls. Last year, she rediscovered her love of sterling silver and tiny saw blades.

Kansas Corn - Wrapped and Unwrapped

S51 JOELLE FORD

mixed media (plaster, canvas, white ceiling paint), 20”x24”: $800 “Mixed media, assemblage, and collage are particularly interesting to me since many facets of art and materials are represented. Even though my work is very different in manner of application and the corresponding finished results, one thread of continuity exists—the utilization of materials found, usually items that were no longer thought to have value. Implementing mundane objects beyond their traditional use is challenging, personally rewarding, beneficial to the environment and sometimes humorous.”

Neckpiece

S52 GRACE CARMODY

sterling, 14K gold, 16” chain, 1”x2” pendent: $350 Grace Carmody received a B.F.A and M.F.A. in design and metals from Kansas University, where she studied under Gary Nemchock and the late Carlyle H. Smith. Her work has been featured in over 100 exhibitions and can be found in the Spencer Museum Gallery Shop.

About this necklace: “Since I began designing and creating jewelry in the 70s, I have accumulated many small silver, gold, copper, and bronze pieces that I designed, and were not actually incorporated into my designs. I now have designed a necklace that uses these pieces. All components are finely finished by hand and assembled into this signature piece.”

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Silent auction Atlas

S53 JENNIFER BRICKER-PUGH

acrylic on canvas: $350 “My artwork is a window into my personality. It is a diary of my life, deeply personal and always evolving. Whether created in a mood of discontent or of joy, my paintings are bright and vibrant and encompass the best parts of who I am. My art is best created in the moment. It is not sketched or preconceived, but spontaneous and raw. This is when my true self is captured. Primarily, my work is non-objective with forays into abstract expressionism. Using oil and acrylic paint along with texturing products, my objective is to create art that brings life to the space in which it occupies. I am inspired by nature and the cosmos, serenity and chaos and the beauty that evolves from both. With every canvas and every stroke of color, I strive to create beautiful pieces that will bring happiness to those who view them.”

Floating Deity

S54 SUE ASHLINE

gouache and sumi ink on paper 25x30: $600 Sue Ashline lives and works in Lawrence, Kansas. Her paintings are in numerous private and public collections. She has a day job at the Spencer Museum of Art.

Labor of Love

S55 DAVID VERTACNIK

sculpture/mixed media, 27”x10”x9”: $1,400 David Vertačnik received his M.F.A. from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, New York, in 1975 and his Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana State University in 1972.

Since 1979 he has taught ceramics at the University of Kansas. The agrarian in him chose to live on a small farm where he built his studio and manages a small orchard of apples and peaches. His interest in the land arises from his background, having grown up on a working farm in the Midwest. He has always been attracted to images of plants, agricultural tools, and the fruitful soil, using them to describe and symbolize life cycles, such as fertility, growth, depletion and renewal. His art has been viewed in numerous solo, two-person, and group exhibitions in the United States and Slovenia. His work is held in public and private collections, including those belonging to Bethel College, Newton, Kansas; the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, Colorado; the Overland Park Convention Center, Overland Park, Kansas; and the City of Most na Soci Slovenia and the former President of Slovenia, Milan Kucan. David employs a wide range of materials in fabricating his sculptures. These include ceramics, steel, cast bronze and found objects. Several of his sculptures are designed for outdoor sites, some created with elements that move freely in space. www.davidvertacniksculpture.com

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Wizard Stir-Fry House

S56 AARON STORCK

acrylic, graphite, glitter pen, pigment print on cotton rag, 12”x12”: $600 Aaron Storck is an interdisciplinary artist who works with a combination of installation, performance, painting, video, photography, and creative writing. At age 18, he left New York to attend the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, where he earned a B.F.A in 2001. Mr. Storck returned to New York City, but left again in 2006 to continue his art practice in Lawrence, opting for the “curious cultural context, the lovely open spaces and the inexpensive square footage.” Mr. Storck has participated in Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project residency, Lawrence Arts Center’s project-based residency, and most recently a three month residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. His work was featured in New American Paintings #90, and he exhibited at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in 2010, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in 2011, and he looks forward to a solo show at the Salina Art Center in 2012. In addition, Aaron has shown in New York City, Berlin, Chicago, St. Louis, and extensively in Kansas City, Missouri and Lawrence, Kansas.

His works are held in numerous private collections. www.aaronstorck.com

Ship and Shell, from Me and Lucia series

S57 ISADORA STOWE

acrylic, graphite, ink on graph vellum and mylar mounted on 1/2” thick birchwood, 7”x8”: $500 Isadora Stowe is a New Mexico-based visual artist and educator whose work focuses on the narrative of family environment translated and coded into complex interior landscapes. Stowe’s images and installations hang in seemingly infinite and simultaneously physically contradicting spaces—the other-worldly illustration of the complex relationship between the negotiation of home, marriage, and family identity. She is the recipient of several awards and grants for her work including an award for excellence from the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Stowe currently teaches foundation design in the art department at the University of Texas at El Paso. www.isadorastowe.com

Snake Woman

S58 CHRISTA DALIEN

silkscreen: $75 Christa Dalien is originally from Minnesota where she received her B.F.A in painting. She moved to Lawrence, Kansas to receive her M.F.A. in printmaking. She works in a variety of mediums including installation, drawing, painting, and printmaking. Her work has been shown locally and nationally, including the Soo Vac Gallery, Minneapolis; All Rise Gallery, Chicago); and Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City. She is currently a Charlotte Street Foundation Urban Culture Project studio resident. In addition to working in adult Printmaking, she works with outreach and children’s programming through the Lawrence Arts Center, and is a Cultural Arts Instructor with the Mattie Rhodes Foundation in Kansas City.

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S59 ALLEN CHEN

ceramic, 17”x20”x23”: $600 Allen Chen was born in 1979 in Taiwan and immigrated to California in 1991.

He received his B.F.A in spatial arts from San Jose State University in 2005 and M.F.A. in studio arts from the University of Notre Dame in 2009. Allen has since completed an artist residency at Mendocino Art Center in California and a long term artist in residence program at the Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana. Allen is the Lawrence Arts Center ceramics artist in residence.

Dot-plants with Pants

S60 MELISSA McCORMICK

cone 04 earthenware with colored slips and glaze, 12”x18”x6”: $200 Melissa McCormick graduated with a B.F.A in ceramics from the University of Kansas in 1985. She returned to school to earn a Pharm. D. degree in 1999 and currently works as a retail pharmacist. She spends her spare time creating ceramic sculpture in the home studio she shares with her husband, Ed Noonen, potter/firefighter.

The Vanir

S61 paul hotvedt

oil on panel, 7”x8”, 1996: $400 Paul Hotvedt is an artist living in Lawrence, Kansas. Paul has taught painting at the Lawrence Arts Center and has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Kansas. www.paulhotvedt.com

Porch Swings and Everything In Between

S62 alicia kelly

screenprint, graphite, cut paper, 15”x19”: $200 Alicia Kelly believes in the power of animals and the healing qualities of good cookies. She received her B.F.A in printmaking from the University of Kansas.

Untitled

S64 deb stavin

photograph, 12”x12”: $150 ”My work has long focused on familiar sights in exotic places, like India and Africa. Lately I’ve been concentrating on exotic sights in familiar places, like this unexpected tiger sighting in my own Lawrence front yard.”

Black and Taupe

S65 liz kowalchuk

silk scarf, 11”x62”: $85 Liz Kowalchuk is an associate professor in the department of visual arts at the University of Kansas and currently serves as the associate dean of the School of the Arts. With degrees in drawing and painting (B.F.A, University of Georgia), painting (M.F.A., University of Illinois), and art education (Ph.D., Ohio State University), Kowalchuk researches how the arts and artists function in communities, create a sense of place, and contribute to civic engagement. In her creative endeavors, she makes useful things from recycled and found materials.

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Orange and Brown

S66 liz kowalchuk

silk scarf, 10”x60”: $75

Posey Necklace

S67 rachel sudlow

sterling silver, 2”: $90 Rachael Sudlow teaches metals at the Lawrence Arts Center. Her work centers around natural objects and themes, while using primarily sterling silver, natural stones, and beads. Rachael’s work is retailed at stores across the United States and internationally, as well as in the recent Peruvian Connection clothing magazine. Her work is available on her website. www.rachaelsudlow.com

2-wheel Dollie Cup

S68 dan anderson

porcelain decal and tin toy with aluminum wall-mounted shelf, 3”: $100 Dan Anderson’s contemporary iconography in both form and image provides a humorous and insightful approach to ceramic vessel making. Ceramic stains, glazes, decals, underglazes, and sandblasting the surface on traditional wood-fired surfaces lends that unique counterpoint to both old and new tradition in his work. Dan is professor emeritus from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Happy Birthday Langston Hughes!

Thanks For The Cake.

S69 jason BArr

acrylic & gloss on wood panel, 33”x25”: $450 This image of a birthday cake for Langston Hughes was inspired by the mysterious disappearance of a corner piece on the 2012 anniversary of his birthday, celebrated at the Lawrence Arts Center with creative writing awards and a birthday party.

Jason Barr is a prolific mixed media artist. He received a printmaking degree from the University of Kansas. He is a founding member of Asteroid Head Art Club and a former owner of Wonder Fair Art Gallery, and is also the creator and host of the A.D.D. Podcast on iTunes. He currently lives and works with his family in old North Lawrence. He works at a feverish pace to create as much work as possible, utilizing bright colors, drips, and juvenile imagery to create a light-hearted attitude that alludes to a dark underbelly.

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Yellow Mask Head

S70 tom BArtel

ceramic, 14” x 12” x 10”: $1,100 Tom Bartel has participated in over 300 exhibitions and has work included in many public and International collections. He is currently an associate professor at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He received his B.F.A from Kent State University and his M.F.A. from Indiana University-Bloomington. Tom has numerous publications to his credit, including American Craft, Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, Ceramics Art and Perception as well as many other periodicals and books. www.tombartel.com

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Silent auction Glen Tairie, near Prosen, Angus, Scotland

S71 jon blumb

ink jet print from scanned negative, 24”x8.8”, 2009: $400 Jon Blumb has worked from his downtown Lawrence, Kansas studio since 1990. He frequently photographs art, products, people and dogs, and makes prints of his outdoor subjects. His panoramic photographs depict both natural and built environments, favoring the impact of traditional black and white tonalities. This image was scanned from a black and white negative and printed by the ink jet process. The subject of this landscape is Glen Tairie, located in Angus County of Scotland, where changing weather conditions offer many chances to enjoy this rugged highland landscape in a variety of dramatic moods.

Egg Triple Decker

S72 bill bowerman

archival digital print, 24”x18”, circa 2008: $400 Bill Bowerman has been an active artist for 25 years. In 2001, he used his flatbed scanner to record a ginkgo leaf and discovered (as others had) that the scanner can capture remarkable images of 3-D objects. Since then he has explored many ways to make fine art using a scanner. The auction piece, “Egg Triple Decker,” has won awards and has been used on a book cover (Oxford University Press). Bowerman is represented by several galleries in Kansas and Missouri, including the Signs of Life Gallery in Lawrence, Kansas. He is a past president of the Lawrence Art Guild and the Lawrence Photography Alliance. www.bowermanscanography.com

Time Together

S74 eric conrad

fabric, 2005: $600 Eric Conrad lives in Lawrence, Kansas and teaches at Emporia State University. He completed a B.A. in mathematics and fine art from Kalamazoo College in Michigan and did his undergraduate study at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, and Rhode Island School of Design, where he received an M.F.A. in painting and printmaking in 2000. www.eric-conrad.com

Leaning leaf

s75 bill dentler

photography, 16”x22”: $150 “I’ve always enjoyed looking at the world, finding shapes and relationships. Photography helps me look a bit closer at the world and try to capture my feelings. As a biologist, I use microscopes to explore cells and molecules. For personal work, I use film and digital cameras to explore the world from my back yard to wherever I can travel. Ideally, my images communicate my feelings, stimulate a viewer’s imagination, and help us look a bit more closely at our world.”

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Koru

S76 diane guthrie

photograph, 20”x24”, January, 2012: $380 Diane Guthrie publishes in national and regional publications, specializing in home and garden magazines. “Koru” is her study of organic life. Koru is a Māori name given to the shape of the New Zealand fern as it unfurls and grows. It has deep spiritual significance and represents peace, tranquility, personal growth, awakening and positive change. It is associated with harmony and renewal, an emblem of new life and hope for the future.

Teapot

S77 jason hess

reduction cooled wood fired stoneware with feldspar inclusions, 2011: $175 Jason Hess is a professional ceramic artist and professor who lives in Arizona and instructs at Northern Arizona University. As an “avid wood firer,” his research for over 15 years has focused on the alchemy of the process—how the clay color, wood type, kiln design, and ash dispersion at high temperatures work together to “render a surface that is unattainable in other ways.” His ceramic art has been featured in over 125 exhibitions worldwide. Jason has participated in residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, and at the Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China. He has also received numerous research grants from Northern Arizona University to research his medium and for the construction of the kilns. Jason’s work is either utilitarian or refers to utility in form, while the presentation is more like characters relating to one another. He holds an M.F.A. degree from Utah State University.

The Three Graces

S78 ted johnson

conté crayon, 2008: $150 Ted participates in the Valley Lane Studio Figure Drawing Group, where he enjoys capturing moments in gesture drawings from live models.

Beach Picnic

S79 gerry miller

acrylic, 36”x48”: $850 Gerry Miller is a 1947 graduate of the University of Kansas in the painting department. She has been a Lawrence resident for 20 years and paints daily in her home studio. Gerry’s work can be found on her Kansas City art dealer Eva Reynolds’ website http://www. evareynoldsfinearts.com/index.php/Artists/gerry_miller/.

Sculpted Hand Mirror

S80 will orvedal

wood (walnut and spalted elm) 1”x7”x13”: $175 Will Orvedal is a chemist by training, a maker by nature, and a self-taught woodworker. In 1973, Orvedal began a new life as a studio furniture maker. He hopes his work is characterized by thoughtful design and commitment to usefulness, durability, precise workmanship, and sensitive use of a fine natural material. He is still at it in his rural Lecompton, Kansas shop.

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Silent auction Eight Sided Vellum Mask with Beads

S81 nancy bjorge

LED light box, 10”x10”x2”: $300 Nancy was born in Shanghai, China and raised in Hong Kong. She received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and an M.A. in art education and M.F.A. in art metal from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been actively showing, mainly in one person shows nationally and internationally.

She grew up in the Chinese tradition of paper folding and now applies those skills in creative modern design. Her sensitivity to colors, forms, and shapes is cleverly expressed in the myriad ways she introduces new possibilities to an old art form. www.nancybjorge.com

Netting with Plastic Ring

S82 nancy bjorge

LED light box, 10”x10”x2”: $300

Gadugi Safecenter

S83 leslie kulva

screenprint on reclaimed chipboard 9”x20”: $30 Leslie lives and works in Lawrence, Kansas. She creates a variety of prints in the Test Kitchen Print Studio. www.prideofgumbo.com/leslie

Kid Congo

S84 leslie kulva

screenprint on reclaimed chipboard, 9”x20”: $30

Black Holes

S85 mary anne jordan

silkscreened dyes and textile, pigment on cotton, 27” x20”, 2012: $600 Mary Anne Jordan is a professor in the textile program in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. She received her M.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Art and B.F.A at the University of Michigan. Her work has been shown nationally across the United States and internationally in Japan, Poland, South America, France, Canada.

In 2005-2006 Jordan was a Research Fellow at the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska. She has taught workshops at Arrowmont, Haystack, Penland, Splitrock, and the Quilt and Surface Design Symposium. Jordan’s work has been published in various exhibition catalogs, magazines and journals such as Fiberarts, Surface Design Journal, and American Craft.

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The Seeker

S86 MArgo kren

lithograph: $90 Kren identifies primarily as a painter but has worked in other media, such as drawing, printmaking, ceramic, and video art. She received her B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. She taught at Kansas State University for 31 years and retired in 2003. Her work has been featured in exhibits all over the world, including Germany, Australia, and Japan. Her work has also been included in several magazines and the book, Le Blues Braillant, written by poet Beverly Mathern. Kren has received several awards for her work, including the Kansas Arts Commission Artist Fellowship Award in 2000 and the Governor’s Art Award of Kansas in 1989.

Moon Glow

S87 michael krueger

lithograph and silkscreen with glow-in-the-dark ink, 30” x 22”, 2010: $800 Michael Krueger was born on January 5, 1967 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Michael’s artwork reflects a deep interest in American history, contemporary American culture, and personal memoir. He has given over 100 lectures and workshops, including Cranbrook Academy of Art, RISD, City College of New York, Edinburgh College of Art, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts. He has recently had solo shows at Sunday L.E.S., New York, New York, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Recent group exhibitions include, KRETS Gallery, Malmo, Sweden; Baer Ridgeway, San Francisco, California; Ambacher Contemporary, Munich, Germany; Glasgow Print Studio, Scotland, UK; Adam Baumgold, New York, New York; Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri; Western Exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois; NY The Drawing Center, New York, New York; Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, Rhode Island; Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California. www.michaelkrueger.us

Receiver

S88 stephanie lanter

earthenware, wire, fuse, hardware, 8”x5”x18” 2012: $200 Stephanie Lanter, full-time ceramics instructor at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas, has exhibited her ceramic, fiber and mixed-media sculpture nationally. In addition to completing threeyear visiting artist/teaching positions at Wichita State University and Washburn University, she has been awarded residencies at the Red Lodge Clay Center (Montana), The Anderson Ranch (Colorado), The Archie Bray Foundation/Jentel (Montana/Wyoming) and the Mendocino Art Center (California). Her reviews have been published in journals such as Ceramics Monthly and Ceramics: Art and Perception. She received an M.F.A. from Ohio University in 2002. Her most current project, The Waiting Room, is a collaborative, travelling multimedia exhibition, book, and workshop/lecture series. www.stephanielanter.com | www.thewaitingroomproject.com

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Silent auction Christmas Sleigh

s90 gladys sanders

mixed media: pen, found objects, & artisan papers, 24”x24”: $500 Gladys N. Sanders is a retired mathematics teacher and mathematics coordinator and “self-taught” artist. She has been interested in the arts all her life, even using art in teaching to help illustrate mathematical concepts. Gladys has always had a fascination for paper and textiles and uses papers, fabrics, and shredded paper in her creations. Her favorite artistic endeavor is her “ladies,” stylized depictions honoring her two remaining sisters.

Glow In Dark Snake Gourd

S91 dave van hee

wood, wire, gourd, luminescent paint, 6”x6”x53”, 2011: $150

Blue Flock

S92 DONIKA WILEY

intaglio, 15”x20”, 2010: $350

Strength of Form in Fog

S93 carolyn young

color photography; film,17” x 22”, 1996: $225 Carolyn creates two-dimensional works based in nature, landscapes, and abstract photography.

Black Cross

S94 ken grizzell

serigraph, 18”x18”, edition 1/9, 2004: $550 Ken was born in Great Bend, Kansas in 1937. He attended Fort Hayes State University for his undergraduate education and Wichita State University where he received his M.F.A. in sculpture and painting. Ken taught for 38 years at the university and high school levels. He retired in 1999 and is now living in Lawrence, Kansas.

Catnap

S95 sally piller

moku hanga (Japanese woodblock print) 15.25”x12.25”: $100 Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Sally Piller attended the University of Kansas to pursue printmaking. She received her B.F.A in 1977. Piller can be found making woodcuts and intaglio prints in her home studio and in the John Talleur print studio at the Lawrence Arts Center.

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Untitled

S96 yoonmi nam

engraving, 11”x14”: $375 Yoonmi Nam was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, spending part of her youth in Canada. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from Hongik University in Seoul, Korea. She moved to America to study at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking in 2000. Her work considers the cross-cultural experience and sense of transience through prints, installations, and drawings. Her recent research interests include the study of traditional ink paintings and woodblock prints from East Asia, including those from Japan, Korea, China, and Tibet. She is currently associate professor of art at the University of Kansas.

Great Grandma and Grandpa

S97 Jeremy rockwell

computer keys on panel, 24”x36” each: $1000 (pair) Artist Jeremy Rockwell has always been inspired by the process of using found and repurposed materials. Based on cross stitch pieces made by his great-grandmother, this diptych is part of an ongoing series that explores the connection between modern technology and iconic imagery. Rockwell currently resides in Lawrence, Kansas. www.jeremyrockwell.com

Advice Series #12

S98 jeffrey mckee

screenprint, 12”x18”: $85 STUDIO IKE believes in truth and honesty in design. He also believes in fun. www.studioIKE.com

Band-aid Head

S99 clinton ricketts

etching and chine collé: $300 Clint Ricketts is a printmaker, painter, and teacher currently living in Lawrence, Kansas. He recently received his M.F.A. from the University of Kansas and has taught design and printmaking courses at Emporia State, Washburn University and Missouri Western State University.

Clint’s art has been exhibited locally at galleries including The Wonder Fair, The H & R Block Art Space, The Kansas City Art Institute, and The Invisible Hand Gallery. Clint’s work has also been seen nationally and internationally in the publication New American Paintings and in galleries including the International Print Center of New York; OK Mountain of Austin, Texas; the Coyne Gallery of The University of Syracuse; and Hongik University in Seoul, Korea.

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Silent auction Pink Lotus

S100 mary tuven

color photography, 18”x24”: $185 A native Minnesotan, Mary has lived in Lawrence, Kansas for many years. She is attracted to water, its many moods, reflections, wildlife, and vegetation. The third generation of photographers in her family, she is pleased to see her daughter and grandchildren continuing the tradition.

Koi Kazoo

S101 juniper tangpuz

corrugated plastic, ping pong B.A.lls, chrome decal, 28”x16”x12”: $500 “I, Juniper Albert Tangpuz, hereby dedicate my life to exploring the diverse culture of art making. I believe that experience will help me understand the translation of visual languages into the unique language of my artistic expression.”

Wheat State Golden

S102 emily markoulatos

acrylic on woodburned panel, 10”x24”: $135 Emily Markoulatos is a 1998 fine arts graduate of Iowa State University.

Using a woodburning technique combined with layers of paint and oil pastel, she creates a subtle texture that give her paintings depth and movement. The Kansas and Iowa landscapes and their people provide inspiration for her abstract paintings. www.emilymarkoulatos.com

Lodestar

S103 susan mccarthy

oil pastel, 19”x25”: $375 Susan graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.F.A in printmaking. She worked as a freelance artist in Lawrence for 20 years.

Recently, she returned to school to obtain a masters degree in art history at Boston University and is now residing in Lawrence, Kansas where she continues to research and create art.

Memories Etched in Stone

S104 cima katz

lithograph, 17”x22”: $875 Cima is a faculty member in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas in the expanded media area. She has been in the Lawrence area since 1978. She has exhibited internationally for many years.

Untitled

s105 JEff eaton

enamel on plywood: $300 Jeff Eaton operates the Pride of Gumbo screen printing shop in Lawrence Kansas. He is also a member of the band, Split Lip Rayfield. www.prideofgumbo.com

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Kansas wheat plate and bowl

S106 helen martin

stoneware, 12” x 12” x 3”: $75 Helen has been creating pottery in Lawrence for many years.

Untitled

S107 whitney jacobs

photograph, 16”x20”: $140 Whitney has a Master of Visual Arts Education, and teaches photography and art history at Topeka High School. She and her students participate regularly in the ARTSConnect Topeka First Friday Artwalk, showing in the historic Topeka High School Art Gallery, as well as exhibiting in the ReThink Topeka Exhibition and Art Walk. Whitney has taught a variety of classes to both children and adults at the Lawrence Arts Center since 2004, including workshops, after school, and outreach programs. Her curiosity is driven by the art making process rather than the product, and she enhances the delivery of lessons with her background knowledge and capabilities to work with a wide variety of media. Whitney enjoys traveling abroad and teaching arts camps at the Lawrence Arts Center during her summers. She is an exploratory artist who enjoys fusing different mediums together. In her free time you can find her photographing her favorite muse, her daughter Scout.

Vase

S108 bob gent

blown glass, 7”x3”: $70 Bob states that he has long had the goal of becoming a designer craftsman, as it allows him to explore ideas independently, with few constraints on his aesthetics. “After earning my B.F.A in graphic design and spending many years working for other artists, I designed and built my own studio. This studio is a small shop with the capacity to melt one hundred pounds of crystal at a time and working capability for a twelve by twenty-four inch piece, though most work is on a smaller scale. My style employs tightly controlled, bright colors, simple shapes, and a playful design sense. Much of my work is enhanced by the decorations which start out as long rods of color (or canes) that I make from imported glass. These rods can either be used as lines, or can be further manipulated into dots or swirls of vibrant color. I begin each piece by choosing a background color and reactive decorations. This reaction between background and embellishment sets up a conversation that can be evocative of anything from a love sonnet to a heated political argument. Producing a form requires gradually building up successive layers of glass on the blowpipe, blowing into it to achieve the desired volume. I use wooden and metal tools to shape the piece. After transferring it to another rod, I open the form and shape the lip. I am producing a new body of work using fusing, which involves manipulating sheet glass into patterns, then firing the glass in a kiln to melt the design together into one piece. The fusing process allows me to have greater control of the decorative process, letting me develop patterns unavailable in the hot shop. My work reaches completion in being a part of people’s lives, taking that conversation into their living spaces and bringing an aesthetic pleasure from the utilization of everyday objects.” www.BobGent.com

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Silent auction Pitcher

S109 sarah gross

porcelain, glaze, 8”x4”, 2012: $75 Sarah Gross was born in New York City and currently works as the visiting artist and technician in ceramics at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. She received a B.A. in studio art at Carleton College and an M.F.A. in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has completed residencies at Greenwich House Pottery, the Lawrence Arts Center, and Grand Valley State University. In 2010 she was named an Emerging Artist by Ceramics Monthly. She has exhibited her sculpture and functional pottery across the country. www.sarahgrossceramics.com

Şehitali, Ankara

S110mark slankard

archival pigment-dye print, 19.5” x 15.5”, 2011: $800 Mark Slankard is a Cleveland-based artist whose photographic and video works have been exhibited and screened widely, including in venues such as the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Columbia University, Texas Tech University, Visual Studies Workshop, SoHo Photo Gallery, and Ohio State University’s Wexner Center. His work is featured in Robert Hirsch’s textbooks Exploring Color Photography and Light and Lens. Slankard’s work explores the influences of landscapes and built environments.

Slankard received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio University in 2002 and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Indiana University in 1996, where he also studied photography. He is a 2002 National Graduate Seminar Fellow of The Photography Institute at Columbia University. Slankard is currently an assistant professor at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mark Slankard is a 2011 Creative Workforce Fellow. The Creative Workforce Fellowship is a program of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, made possible by the generous support of Cuyahoga County citizens through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. He was also awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Award for 2011.

Keeps and Holds

S111 kelly clark

photolithography with cut paper, and colored pencil, 11 x 15”, 2008: $350 Kelly John Clark lives and works in Lawrence, Kansas, where he earned his Masters Degree in printmaking in 2006. He attended the University of Texas in Austin, where he completed his Bachelor of Fine Art in 2002. Kelly taught for two years in the printmaking department at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he instructed students from all areas of the school in a variety of approaches to traditional and alternative printmaking. Kelly has organized and participated in a number of trade portfolios and group exhibitions, including “This Process Cannot Save Us” at the 2008 Southern Graphics Conference in Richmond, Virginia; “Draw”at the Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis, Minneapolis; “Wild Reserve” at the Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri; and “Thumbs 49

to the Heavens” at the Wonderfair Gallery in Lawrence, Kansas. In February of next year he will be hanging his first solo show, which will be comprised of large scale colored pencil drawings on paper.

In addition, to maintaining an active studio practice from his home, Kelly helps out at a local gallery, bartends at night, and is learning to hot compost, garden, and recycle seeds. www.kellyjohnclark.com

SCM Bottle

S112 allen chen

ceramic, 10”x10”x23”, 2012: $200 Allen Chen was born in 1979 in Taiwan and immigrated to California in 1991. He received his B.F.A in spatial arts from San Jose State University in 2005 and M.F.A. in studio arts from the University of Notre Dame in 2009. Allen has since completed an artist residency at Mendocino Art Center in California and a long term artist in residence program at the Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana. www.allenchenart.com

Floating

S113 marguerite perret

platinum print encased in Plexiglass, 28”x60”, 2010: $1,800 Marguerite Perret is a multi-media installation artist who explores issue-based, interdisciplinary connections between art, science, and medicine. She collaborates with artists, scientists, writers, public agencies, museums, and healthcare professionals. Perret has exhibited widely and has been commissioned to create large-scale, site-specific temporary public art works. She has been awarded a variety of artist residencies, project grants, and support to travel internationally where she documents natural history and medical museum collections as part of an ongoing project that explores the specimen/artifact as a product of how we represent and consume nature and our bodies. Marguerite Perret is an associate professor of art and design at Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, where she teaches digital imaging, foundations design and special topics courses in art and ecology, and science and art.

Set of Cups

S114 jenn holt

ceramics: $65 Jennifer Holt is originally from Columbus, Ohio. She received her B.F.A in sculpture from Ohio University and her M.F.A. in ceramics from Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville.

Holt’s ceramic sculptures and installations have been exhibited in many national juried and invitational exhibitions, including The NCECA Clay National Biennial, Louisville, Kentucky; and Full & Spare: Ceramics in the 21st Century at the Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University.

Her work was also featured in Ceramics Monthly’s 2007 Emerging Artist issue. She was artist in residence at the Lawrence Arts Center in 2008.

She is currently faculty at Northern Arizona University.

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Silent auction Yellow Hammer

S115 marwin begaye

woodcut, 14”x18”: $280 Marwin Begaye is an assistant professor of printmaking and painting.

Begaye has received degrees in illustration and graphic design (Art Institute of Pittsburgh, A.A., 1991), painting (Institute of American Indian Arts, A.A., 1994, and University of Oklahoma, B.F.A., 2003) and printmaking (University of Oklahoma, M.F.A., 2006). His research has concentrated on the issues of cultural identity, especially the intersection of traditional American Indian culture and pop culture. He has also conducted research in the technical aspects of relief printing and the use of mixed-media.

His work has been exhibited nationally across the United States and internationally in New Zealand, Argentina, Paraguay, and Estonia. He has received numerous awards, including the Oklahoma Visual Artists Coalition’s Visual Arts Fellowship (2007) and Red Earth (2009).

Renewal

S116 marwin begaye

woodcut, 13”x17”: $280

Discuss Thrower: Wilcox Classical Museum, Lawrence, Kansas

S117 luke jordan

digital photograph, inkjet print, 23”x16”, 2011: $800 Luke Jordan received a B.F.A in Art and an M.F.A. in Photography from the University of Michigan and he has been an active artist and teacher since that time. Concentrating on photography and video, Jordan uses a wide range of processes and technologies to create his work. Aside from traditional darkroom and digital processes, experience includes large format color photography, video installation, alternative/historical printing processes, and pinhole photography; his teaching over the last twenty years has reflected these interests, and he has taught at KU, Kansas City Art Institute, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Washburn University.

In addition to teaching, Luke is the Staff Photographer for the University Theatre at the University of Kansas and he is a Specialist in Photography at the Spencer Museum of Art. He has taught at KU since 1988.

Teapot

S118brenda lichman

B-mix/soda fired/flashing slip, 6”x7”x7”: $165 Brenda Lichman grew up in Brookfield, Wisconsin. She received her B.F.A. in ceramics from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 1998 and her M.F.A. in ceramics with a minor in drawing from the University of North Texas in 2002.

In 2008, Brenda curated and organized “Line to Volume,” an exhibition of thirty nationally known ceramic artists for the NCECA conference in Louisville, Kentucky. Brenda was named Emerging Artist by Ceramics Monthly magazine in May of 2009, and received a merit award from the University of Dallas Regional Juried Ceramic Competition that same year.

Brenda works as a studio potter in Wichita, Kansas where she also teaches ceramics and drawing at Wichita State University. Her work is represented by Red Lodge Clay Center, AKAR, 18 Hands Gallery, and Santa Fe Clay. www.brendalichman.com 51

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S119 jordan schranz

oil on panel: $300 Jordon Schranz (born 1975, Chicago Heights, Illinois) is a New York based visual and sound artist, musician, curator, and educator. His painting and installation work has been shown nationally and internationally at the El Paso Museum of Art, the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez, Museo de la Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Columbia, and at the Black and White Art Gallery, New York. He is the double bass player and co-composer for The Eastern Seaboard, a member of the avant-rock group Quivers with guitarist Ninni Morgia, and previously a member of the Psych-rock group La Otracina. Since 2005 he has produced and distributed experimental, free jazz, noise, and avant-rock from an international roster of artists on his own label, Tiger Asylum Records. In 2007 he curated “Frequencies” at the Black and White Gallery Project Space, an experiential and holistic exhibition that captured facets of the DIY music community of Brooklyn. He is also the Fine Art Department head for the Sessions College for Professional Design.

He received his Bachelors in Fine Arts in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore and is currently pursuing a masters in fine arts in combined media from CUNY Hunter College, New York. www.tigerasylum.com/jordonschranz

Untitled

S120 tim von holten

C-print, 24” x 30”: $325

Mutation #15

S121 andrew hadle

acrylic on paper, 11”x15”: $150 A native of Kansas and currently residing in the American Southwest, Andy Hadle is an aging Generation Y artist. Having come of age during the dot-com boom and the rise of communication, he is inspired by the spastic behavior and energy within the current social landscape.

His work grapples with this shift in pace of cultural evolution, in terms of its visuals, its mediums, and its side effects. Andy Hadle is currently working toward a Master of Fine Art at Arizona State University. www.andrewhadle.com

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