ART at MIRAFLORES Lehmann Hall | Music Academy of the West | December 2-18, 2021
PRESENTED BY THE WOMEN’S AUXILIARY View a curated collection of coveted works available for bidding by artists Mara Abboud, Sherri Belassen, Stanley Boydston, Connie Connally, Colette Cosentino, Dorothy Churchill-Johnson, Douglas DaFoe, Karen Frishman, Rafael Gaete, Ruth Ellen Hoag, Myla Kato, Rod Lathim, Karen Lehrer, Paulo P. Lima, America Martin, Nicholas Mayfield, R. Nelson Parrish, Sylvie Rich, Joan Rosenberg-Dent, Kerrie Smith, and Brian Woolford. Special thanks to Auxiliary member Casey Turpin for curating Art at Miraflores.
Welcome to Art at Miraflores, an Online Auction Art Gallery. This guide serves as your portal to the auction, with titles of the artwork and information about the artists. Simply use your phone to click on the QR code that will take you directly to the Online Auction to bid.
Thank you for your visit today!
Supporting the Academy’s mission of providing full scholarships for Academy fellows and the local SING! Children’s Chorus There are 58 counties in California. Santa Barbara County ranks third highest in percentage of students living in poverty and second highest in percentage of students experiencing homelessness. The Music Academy of the West and Women’s Auxiliary hope to make a change in the lives of children right here in Santa Barbara through music. Sing! is our groundbreaking FREE program doing just this! We’d love your help in supporting our Online Auction Dec 2 - 18. We have an incredible number of fabulous items you can bid on as well as amazing artwork by local artists. In the spirit of the Winter Season of Giving, the Auxiliary is also hosting Holiday Magic on Sat, Dec 18 at the Academy, a community event where children under the age of 17 attend free of charge. What can be more fun than FUNdraising with a bagpiper, magician, sugared donuts, tamales and much, much more. Come join us as champions and supporters of a most worthy cause!
MARA ABBOUD Calico Cats
Silk Screen 30” x 30” Value: $700 Minimum Bid: $350
Fifteen separate silk screens went into creating MARA ABBOUD’s piece. Each screen was hand pulled and her painting style is uniquely her own. Interweaving a palette of spectacular colors with fantasy designs, achieving a jewel-like tapestry effect reminiscent of tiles and stained glass. Measuring 30”x30,” this limited-edition silk screen has been signed and numbered by the artist. A local Santa Barbara resident, Mara Abboud’s art has received international recognition for her brilliant innovation and unusual technique. Her art has appeared in 26 publications including Architectural Digest.
SHERRI BELASSEN This Side of the Moon Oil on Canvas 48” x 48” Retail Price: $12,000 Minimum Bid: $10,000
SHERRI BELASSEN’s paintings and philosophy remain distinctive and one-of-a-kind, not unlike
the artist herself. “It’s not so much about what I paint, but about the space in which the subject exists,” she says. By using line to separate and connect spatial elements to figurative elements, she strives to evoke a feeling of spatial quality wherein the figures are connected to a space larger than themselves. 2
STANLEY BOYDSTON Low Tide
Low Tide
Acrylic and Tape on Canvas 38” x 51” Retail Price: $9,200 Minimum Bid: $4,500
Acrylic and Tape on Canvas 11” x 14” Retail Price: $900 Minimum Bid: $450
Works were inspired by a solo piano performances at the Music Academy. Throughout his four-decade career STANLEY BOYDSTON has allowed himself to explore myriad styles and mediums, from painting to performance art, photography and sculpture. Those many forms of expression generated a years-long evolution of style and, until recently, Boydston’s work was primarily about color, shapes, and outlines.
DOROTHY CHURCHILL-JOHNSON Matilija Poppies Oil on Canvas 60” x 48” Retail Price: $10,000 Minimum Bid: $8,800
Inlet
Oil on Canvas 48” x 36” Retail Price: $4,500 Minimum Bid: $4,200
DOROTHY CHURCHILL-JOHNSON is known for mural-size contemporary realist oil
paintings in which she seeks to synthesize representation with other contemporary influences such as pattern and decoration; neo-pop; surrealism and abstraction. Churchill-Johnson’s work has been collected by museums, major corporations, five-star hotels, and private collectors nationally and internationally. 3
CONNIE CONNALLY Changing Places II Oil on Canvas 50” x 52” Retail Price: $15,600 Minimum Bid: $10,920
The Gardens 2021 Inspired by a visit to Music Academy of the West
Cobalt Migration Oil on Canvas 36” x 36” Retail Price: $10,250 Minimum Bid: $7,175
Oil on Canvas 6.5” x 9.5” Retail Price: $1,100 Minimum Bid: $770
CONNIE CONNALLY paints stunning canvases of complex elegance, with imagery that merges harmoniously and nearly completely both representational reference and powerful abstraction. Connally’s work is shown in the Longview Museum of Fine Arts, The Art Museum of South Texas, The Grace Museum, and Southern Methodist University, among others.
COLETTE COSENTINO Growth
Oil on Canvas 60” x 48” Retail Price: $12,500 Minimum Bid: $7,000 The delight of using one’s imagination and the natural world inspire COLETTE COSENTINO to paint. She approaches her canvases with childlike abandon. All is spontaneous. Her paintings turn any environment into a retreat, calling upon the elements that surround the artist. The sea, the sky, land. She often says she is inspired by the idea that something wonderful is about to happen. 4
DOUGLAS DAFOE
Hummingbird
Acrylic on Wood 31” x 31” Retail Value: $3,000 Minimum Bid:$2,500
Fledglings
Acrylic on Wood 32” x 32” Retail Value: $3,000 Minimum Bid: $2,700
Frolicking Brittle Stars
Jellyfish
Acrylic on Wood 44” x 57” Retail Value: $5,500 Minimum Bid: $4,900
DOUGLAS DAFOE
was born and raised in Santa Barbara and had a 40-year career as a cabinet maker and general contractor. While developing this craft, he became fascinated with and studied mid-century modern architecture and furniture, appreciating the precise attention to detail that gave each piece its clean yet inviting form. Delving into the play of light and color, shapes and dimensions, angles and proportions, he creates pieces of art that marry all these facets. He describes his work as “threedimensional tessellations in wood and paint.”
Acrylic on Wood 82” x 24” Retail Value: $3,200 Minimum Bid: $2,500
Wheatgrass
Acrylic on Wood 70” x 26” Retail Value: $3,500 Minimum Bid: $3,200
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KAREN FRISHMAN Watery Dreams Mixed Media 30” x 15” Retail Price: $495 Minimum Bid: $350
Using acrylics, washes, vintage paper, stencils, handmade stamps, and more, KAREN FRISHMAN enjoys combining various elements to create abstract collage art that offers an element of surprise. She loves using bold and unexpected color combinations on canvas, wood, and watercolor paper and using resin. She is currently a member of the Santa Barbara Abstract Art Collective and Co-Chair of Santa Barbara Visual Artists. She has contributed works to both the Feast Your Eyes fundraiser at The Arts Fund, and ARTSEE, hosted by the Abstract Art Collective.
RAFAEL GAETE 54 Colors from Light Blue to Pink Oil on Canvas 60” x 84” Retail Price: $12,000 Minimum Bid: $10,000
Chilean-born artist RAFAEL GAETE’s first exhibition Microemotions and Microsensations was presented in the gallery of the Marriot Hotel (Santiago, Chile) in 2001. His drawings and paintings have been inspired by Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Gaete’s work has been exhibited by the Artamo Gallery and Can(n)on Studio. 6
RUTH ELLEN HOAG The French Hornist
The Tubist
Acrylic 40” x 26” Retail Price: $4,000 Minimum Bid: $3,400
Acrylic 40” x 26” Retail Price: $4,000 Minimum Bid: $3,400
Unaccompanied Cello Acrylic 30” x 30” Retail Price: $4,000 Minimum Bid: $3,400
Harmony
Acrylic 26” x 40” Retail Price: $4,000 Minimum Bid: $3,400
A nationally recognized award-winning artist, RUTH ELLEN HOAG is well known for her use of vibrant saturated color and figurative themes and settings. Hoag is honored to have been juried into, and medal in, American Watercolor Society, a highly esteemed organization for an artist to be in affiliation. She is very connected to her local art community as a founding member of Santa Barbara Studio Artists and owner of GraySpace Art Studio in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone. 7
MYLA KATO Glorious Goleta Slough Giclee 24” x 72” Retail Price $1,600 Minimum Bid: $800
MYLA KATO was a life and painting student at the Brentwood Art Center
from ages 13 to 17, and later went on to earn a degree in Graphic Design. She devotes herself to plein air painting and figure drawing and gravitates towards creating artwork that’s loose and dynamic. Her paintings and drawings are known for their bold movement, color, and vivid texture.
ROD LATHIM Bolero
Sculpture – Repurposed Grand Piano 63” x 28” x 56” Retail Price: $10,000 Minimum Bid: $4,800
Clarinade
Beaded Neon Sculpture 28” x 8.5” x 8.5” Retail Price: $2,000 Minimum Bid: $1,500
ROD LATHIM is attracted to vintage objects which have a patina of history, hinting at the lives of
the people who used them to work, manufacture, create and sustain life. The diverse pieces he finds all over the United States speak to him and often inform the addition of neon light, which brings them back to reincarnated life. 8
KAREN LEHRER Breathe
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Wood Panel 29” x 29” Retail Price: $2,500 Minimum Bid: $2,250
Cloud Forest
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Wood Panel 30” x 30” Retail Price: $2,500 Minimum Bid: $2,250
Sunset & Shadow
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Wood Panel 36” x 48” Retail Price: $4,500 Minimum Bid: $4,050
KAREN LEHRER is an American artist whose paintings have been widely exhibited in the United
States. The themes of her works are changeable and are contingent upon her personal inspiration, focus, interests, travel, as well as the seasons of the year. Lehrer is often surprised at how her compositions mirror her outer visual experiences. Her engaging multi-layered pieces are created using acrylics and collage on wood or paper. 9
PAULO P. LIMA Zuma
Zephir (The Son
CelluClay/Plaster/ Mixed Media 57” x 12” x 12” Retail Price: $4,750 Minimum Bid: $4,750
The Look of Love Mixed Media 16” x 20” (framed) Retail Price: $750 Minimum Bid: $750
of the Serpent) AirDry Clay/Plaster/ Sand/Mixed Media 57” x 12” x 12” Retail Price: $4,750 Minimum Bid: $4,750
Regaining Paradise Acrylic Painting 16” x 20” Retail Price: $750 Minimum Bid: $750
A Brazilian born community artist based in Santa Barbara, PAULO P. LIMA is a sculptor, among many other mediums for his artistry. He is dedicating his time to create ensembles that are dressed with recycled materials found in Southern California and other parts of the world. Lima has also worked on more than 60 abstract paintings using a variety of techniques, including mixed media and acrylic. 10
AMERICA MARTIN Bach, Seaweed + Fish
Oil Spray Paint, Acrylic Oil on Canvas 55” x 76” Retail Price: $21,000 Minimum Bid: $18,000
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles. America is a painter and a sculptor. The magnetic pull of Martin’s work is authentic, generated by both her ability to express a unique gesture that speaks to a universal truth (thus, we recognize it instantly) and her exceptional skill at rendering that truth via the human form.
NICHOLAS MAYFIELD Soul Child
Acrylic on Canvas 48” x 60” Retail Price: $12,000 Minimum Bid: $8,000
World Creator NICHOLAS MAYFIELD is an artist, designer, and custom furniture maker from the Inland Empire. His designs are all emboldened with a cartoonish theme and bright colors. His concept is Nicholas Mayfield Over Everything. Mayfield’s artistry was featured by the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. 11
R. NELSON PARRISH
#89-91 (Untitled) Series of 3 Pieces
Featherweight to a Cinderella
Color, Wood, and Bioresin 20” x 20” x 2.5” Retail Value: $21,500 Minimum Bid: $10,000
Conga Drums, Color and Wood
Reacting to Southern California living, Alaskan R. NELSON PARRISH voices his work through color. Drawing from skiing, surfing, and auto racing, Parrish uses personal experience as source material. The objects are comprised of resin, pigmented resin, racing stripes, wood, and fiberglass, resulting in a hybrid of painting and sculpture.
Drums generously donated by LP Music
Retail Value: $10,000 Minimum Bid: $7,500
SYLVIE RICH Hendry’s Beach Acrylic on Canvas 48” x 60” Retail Price: $2,500 Minimum Bid: $800
SYLVIE BUTERA RICH’s acrylic-based paintings illuminate beauty, movement, and depth in the
natural world, with a specific focus on the California Central Coast. Art has been a lifelong passion for Sylvie. This passion found renewed focus in 2016, inspired by the need to connect with nature and the beauty of our natural world amidst a changing social backdrop. Unique landscapes, color, and tranquility are defining themes in her work. Sylvie is a wife and mother of three children, teaches social justice education at Antioch University, and works for the Aaple Academy Foundation at San Marcos High School. 12
JOAN ROSENBERG-DENT This collection was inspired by the music of jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell.
Boo-Lu
Cheeta
Grease Monkey
Polka Dots and Moonbeams
Porcelain on Canvas 12” x 12” x 9” Retail Price: $2,000 Minimum Bid: $1,500
Porcelain on Wood Panel 13” x 13.5” x 8” Retail Price: $3,000 Minimum Bid: $2,000
Porcelain, Jute on Wood Panel 12” x 14” x 6” Retail Price: $3,000 Minimum Bid: $2,000
Paper, Porcelain on Wood Panel 12” x 12” x .5” Retail Price: $1,000 Minimum Bid: $325
JOAN ROSENBERG-DENT is a sculptor working mainly in porcelain and mixed media. Her
work is in several permanent museum collections including Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, Detroit Institute of Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Canton Art Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Special Collections, Butler Institute of American Art, Arnold Glimcher Collection, and in many private collections. 13
JOAN ROSENBERG-DENT Continued Wavy Gravy
Porcelain, Wire on Wood Panel 24” x 12 “ x 3.5” Retail Price: $3,500 Minimum Bid: $2,500
Second Balcony Jump Porcelain, Wire on Wood Panel 18” x 24” x 7” Retail Price: $3,000 Minimum Bid: $2,000
Wholly Cats
Porcelain, Canvas, Jute on Wood Panel 13” x 22” x 8” Retail Price: $3,000 Minimum Bid: $2,000
Punjab
Porcelain, Rope, Canvas on Wood Panel 8” x 10” x 2” Retail Price: $1,500 Minimum Bid: $1,000
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KERRIE SMITH
Flora Ficciones Series – Marilyn Misterios
Light Patterns 15
Inspired by a visit to Music Academy of the West
Acrylic/Metallics/Canvas 60” x 72” x 2” Retail Price: $10,000 Minimum Bid: $7,000
Acrylic/Photographic/Wood Panel 20” x 20” x 1.5” Retail Price: $2,400 Minimum Bid: $1,680
KERRIE SMITH is an Artist and Art Educator and President of the Art Council Westmont Ridley-
Tree Museum of Art. She founded the non-profit organization Art Walk for Kids/Adults with outreach programs for artists with disabilities. She also created art curriculums approved and used by the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission for at-risk/developmentally disabled youth and adults.
BRIAN WOOLFORD
BRIAN WOOLFORD spent
Pond
Mixed Media, Acrylic on Canvas 21” x 21” framed in a black floater frame
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his work life in Honolulu, Hawaii with little time for art or travel. In 2010 he retired and moved to Santa Barbara, California. He paints abstract landscapes, places that he has distant memories of or destinations he would like to visit. Brian wants his paintings to invite you on a journey that is intellectual, emotional and dreamlike with his careful and creative use of paint. Some of his tools for applying paint are unconventional including brushes made from packing materials.
ART at MIRAFLORES
ONLINE AUCTION ART GALLERY Open to the public Dec 2-18, 1-4 pm Music Academy, Lehmann Hall
THANK YOU The Music Academy applauds and thanks the Women’s Auxiliary Co-Chairs for A Winter Season of Giving Judy Astbury and Ashley Woods Hollister. Bravi! to Committee Co-Chairs Heidi August, Laurel Finster, Jane Giles, Claire Johnson, Jenna Koffel, Lisa McCollum, Tedde Minogue, Valeska Parrish Voiges, Sandra Walther, and Jennifer Zacharias. Many thanks to Auxiliary Chair Meg DiNapoli and the Auxiliary Board Officers.
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