Autumn Art Auction 2024 by ndmoa-auction-catalog

Autumn Art Auction

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Social at 6:30 pm Auction begins at 8 pm

Auction Rules

• Each registered guest will receive a bidding card as part of the price of admission. Upon receiving the bidding card, each guest will be asked to sign a statement vowing to abide by the Rules of the Auction listed in this catalog.

• Each bidder will only use his or her own bidding number during the Auction.

• All sales are final.

• In September 2002, the Office of the North Dakota State Tax Commissioner determined that the gross receipts from the sales made at the Auction are subject to sales tax of 7.25%. This does not apply to out-of-state buyers who have works shipped to them.

• In the event of a dispute between bidders, the auctioneer shall either determine the successful bidder or re-auction the item in dispute.

• Purchasers may pay for items at any point following the sale of a work but must pay for all artwork before the conclusion of the evening unless other arrangements are in place. Absentee bidders will be charged on the evening of the Auction or an invoice will be sent the next business day.

• Proceeds from the sale of works of art will be split between the Artist and the Museum 50/50. At times, the House will bid if representing absentee buyers. The range indicates artist’s established price for similar works.

Front cover: Suyao Tian, Space Between, 2023, water based media, 41.5 x 29.25 inches

Back cover: Arvin K. Davis Jr. , 8, 2020, mixed media , 24 x 17.75 inches

David Gorder, Auctioneer

Autumn Art Auction

is sponsored by the following businesses, non-profits, and individuals.

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Lot 1

Gretchen Bederman

Mandan, North Dakota

Embrace, 1998

Graphite and mushroom ink on paper

71 x 23.75 inches

Range: $1,100 – 1,300

Artist Gretchen Bederman’s favorite subjects are horses, women, vessels and birds. She weaves her images with representation and abstraction. She paints and draws in a variety of media, and sculpts in ceramic clay. She hopes that her images resonate with and bring pleasure to viewers.

Bederman was born and raised in Houston, Texas. At the age of eighteen, she took off to explore the world. As a young artist, she spent time in Austin, San Francisco, Chicago, Santa Fe, and abroad, in Florence and Milan. Then in 1980, a twist of fate landed her in North Dakota. In 1993, she obtained a BFA from Moorhead State University and an MFA from the University of North Dakota in 1996. After teaching art for more than twenty years, she now enjoys spending time in Mandan, creating art.

Donated to the Museum by Richie Aanderud in memory of Sandra Aanderud to benefit the permanent collection.

Isabel Chavier

Mendota Heights, Minnesota (Untitled), 2024

Mixed media

18.5 x 15 inches

Range: $300 – 500

According to the artist, Currently, I’m exploring textile and paper collage as a way of creating structural compositions. I draw on my background in Architecture to inform my work by juxtaposing materials typically used in studio model making with softer things usually associated with ‘craft’ arts. I am currently based in Minnesota, but grew up in Aberdeen, South Dakota. I’m forever inspired by the prairie colors, the variety and textures of the grasses and the huge horizon.

Lot 2

Lot 3

James Culleton

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Violin, 2024

Powder coated steel

17.5 x 19.75 inches

Range: $250 – 350

James Culleton studied art at the University of Manitoba, receiving his BFA in 1997. While living in Montreal, he received a grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec to rediscover his French roots. Soon after, he published his first book, Contouring Quebec, in which he used GPS and blind contour drawing to document his movements through the province. The multi-talented Culleton was awarded a commission to create a series of steel sculptures for the façade of the West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg. He also composes and performs music, designs furniture, paints, draws, and explores many other creative outlets. For example, he made a video, a CD, a book, and a watercolor exhibition based on spending three summers at the Museum’s McCanna House, Artist-in-Residence Program. His project, Dear Margery, opened in September 2017 with a reception at the residence.

Lot 4

Jodi Reeb

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Earth + Sky, 2023

Encaustic, oil, and collage

18 x 24 inches

Range: $600 – 800

Jodi Reeb lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has been a full-time artist specializing in nature-based art and sculpture for 28 years. This year, she was awarded a two-week residency at the Museum’s McCanna House Artist-in-Residence Program. Reeb was the recipient of the Artist’s Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board in both 2021 and 2018. In 2020, she was selected for the Hinge Arts Residency Program through the Springboard for the Arts in Minnesota. Her work, which has been shown nationally and received numerous awards, is held in many private and corporate collections. Recently, she completed a commission for Google Headquarters in New York City. Reeb holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, where she taught printmaking in the Continuing Studies program for over nine years. Her studio is located at the Carriage House at Casket Arts.

Lot 5

Ingrid Restemayer

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Nesting Underground, 2021

Mixed media

30.5 x 23 inches

Range: $2,200 – 2,500

Ingrid Restemayer is a fiber artist and printmaker originally from North Dakota now based in Minneapolis. My work is made up of recognizable imagery in the form of intricate etchings on handmade papers, successively punctuated by hand-embroidery. In the Northern Plains one learns to find excitement and inquiry in the slightest variation. In this often frozen landscape—the only interruption to low snow drifts is the regular linear patterns of farmland. My continual lines of running stitches were born out of inspiration from those windblown spaces. At times my work has a hint of storytelling with the use of my intaglio images. The etchings themselves are intimate studies of animals exploring the expressions conveyed by their organic movements captured in a still, illustrated moment. I stitch by hand, using needle and thread—not by machine. Things made by the human hand often have the power to promote further human interaction. I want my work to remind society that non-mechanized art and imagery is still achievable and still experiential.

Lot 6

Punchgut

Fargo, North Dakota

B Reel, 2024

Mixed media

24 x 24 inches

Range: $700 – 1,000

Punchgut has been featured in The Art of Modern Rock , The Art of Electric Frankenstein , Rockin’ Down the Highway , and High Times , among a slew of other publications, magazines, and international art shows. Punchgut has received mention in the Wall Street Journal and a Punchgut collaboration can be seen in the Walt Disney film, Sky High . Notably, Punchgut is the label illustrator for Drekker Brewing out of Fargo, ND. According to the brewery, our designs and brews have been tagged all over the globe and we owe [Punchgut] xxoos .

Lot 7

Guy Nelson Apple Valley, Minnesota Keep Looking, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

14 x 11 inches

Range: $1,300 – 1,500

Nelson lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota; he holds an MFA from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY). His work has been exhibited in notable group exhibitions at galleries such as WICK, Minneapolis, MN; Transmitter Gallery, NY; Field Projects, NY; the Java Project, NY; Burnette Gallery, Woodstock, NY; Peninsula New York, NY. He has had solo exhibitions at Transmitter Gallery, NY; ChaShaMa, NY; UICA in Grand Rapids; and most recently at WICK in Minneapolis, MN. His work is also in private collections throughout the United States.

Lot 8

Guy Nelson

Apple Valley, Minnesota

Weathered, 2023

Acrylic on canvas 14 x 11 inches

Range: $1,300 – 1,500

Guy Nelson is an artist who explores the natural world and its relationship with human needs and challenges. His work focuses on the shared environment of plants and humans and emphasizes the importance of balance and preservation. Nelson uses acrylic on canvas and linen as his preferred media, and he also incorporates acrylic spray paint to create a surface that emulates the outdoors, which he finds atmospheric and mysterious. When he’s not in the studio, Nelson is involved in conservation and land stewardship, planting trees, managing a deciduous forest, and maintaining over one hundred acres of native grasses.

Lot

Tia Keobounpheng Minneapolis, Minnesota WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE (Study) , 2022-2024

Pencil, Colored pencil, thread on wood

11.5 x 5.5 inches

Range: $400 – 600

Tia Keobounpheng (b. 1977 Virginia, MN) is a multidisciplinary artist of Finnish and Sámi descent based in Minneapolis, MN. Her abstract geometric “unwoven” tapestries break apart traditional craft methods in order to speak to her own mid-life negotiations with the generational patterns she’s inherited. Her solo exhibition REVEALING THREADS at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) was on view in 2023. Keobounpheng’s work is part of the permanent collections of Mia, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the North Dakota Museum of Art, the University of St. Thomas, and numerous private collections in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York City, Washington DC, Miami, Albuquerque, Lake Tahoe, and Los Angeles. Most recently, Keobounpheng completed a 10’ x 20’ custom commission for the University of St. Thomas that was installed in August 2024 on their campus in St. Paul, MN.

Lot 10

Stuart Klipper

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Lake Waubon, South Dakota, 2009

Epson print

12.5 x 36.5 inches

Range: $2,400 – 2,700

Sponsored by Olson, Juntunen, Boettner & Cobb.

Stuart Klipper, born in the Bronx in 1941, attended the University of Michigan and has lived in New York City, Stockholm, and now Minneapolis. He has made six visits to Antarctica, starting in 1987, with five under the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Klipper has also worked in the Far North, including Greenland, Iceland, and Lapland. In 2009, he reached the North Pole, joining the select few who have visited both Poles. His explorations span Australia’s Outback, Israel’s deserts, Costa Rica’s rainforests, and more. With more than 30,000 photographs, his project, The World in a Few States , began in 1980. Klipper has received numerous grants, including two from the Guggenheim Foundation. His work is held in major museums like the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. His books include THE ANTARCTIC: From the Circle to the Poles (2008).

Lot 11

Anthony LaFromboise

Dunseith, North Dakota

Traditional Maple Syrup Birch Bark Bucket, 2024

Birch wood and willow

7.5 x 10.75 x 5.5 inches

Range: $400 – 500

Anthony Lafromboise is known as a traditional Anishinabe Birch Bark Basket Maker. He is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and lives in Dunseith, ND. For over forty years, Lafromboise and his family have harvested birch bark at Turtle Mountain, continuing a cherished tradition. The craft of making wigwass baakoon (birch bark buckets) has been passed down through generations. Birch bark is gathered in spring and mid-summer, then cut and sewn with lacing made from the inner bark of the basswood tree. To strengthen the bucket, a ring of ash sapling or willow is added around the top. In Chippewa tradition, these buckets were given as gifts to visiting tribes or dignitaries, often filled with maple syrup, wild rice, or dried corn. They were decorated with etched designs or porcupine quills dyed using plants, honoring an ancient custom of craftsmanship and respect.

Lot 12

Linda Olson

Minot, North Dakota

Blue Lace, 2022

Stoneware

18 x 7.5 x 7.5 inches

Range: $350 – 500

Linda Olson retired from teaching at Minot State University, where she served as the Division of Art and Professional Communication Chair. Her artworks have been exhibited in galleries throughout the region and included in juried exhibitions by nationally recognized jurors. Olson’s work is in several public collections, including the Skien, Norway Art Center, the University of North Dakota, Bemidji State University, and the Wind River Historical Center, as well as private collections. Raised in McHenry County, North Dakota, Olson graduated from Minot State University with majors in Art, English, and Psychology. She earned a Master of Arts from the University of Montana in 1987 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of North Dakota in 1990. Olson currently serves as the North Dakota Council on the Arts Region 2 Representative, a role she’s held for the last five years.

Lot 13

Doug Pfliger

Beulah, North Dakota

Dog #290 Steam Punk Dog, 2021

Wood, metal, and acrlyic paint

8 x 3 x 10 inches

Range: $150 – 250

Proceeds of Dog #290 Steam Punk Dog donated to the Museum by the artist.

Doug Pfliger recently returned to North Dakota after six years in Santa Fe, New Mexico. During the 2020 pandemic lockdown in New Mexico, Pfliger found the isolation beneficial for his art, leadi ng to a creative renaissance where he transformed numerous series from simple notes and sketches into completed works. Humor has been a significant element in Pfliger’s art since the mid-nineties, used both to amuse and provoke dialogue, helping him navigate and make sense of today’s uncertainties. Pfliger holds an AAS from Bismarck State College (1978), a BSE from Minot State University (1984), and an MFA from the University of North Dakota (1998). He taught art for 13 years at both elementary and university levels before retiring in 2021. Pfliger now resides in Beulah, ND, and continues his studio work.

Lot 14

Bill Harbort

Minot, North Dakota

Once in a Blue Moon, 2024

Mixed media, collage

27 x 21 inches

Range: $400 – 500

Bill Harbort is best known for his pop art, mixed media collages that celebrate calendar girls, clip art, advertisements, and ephemera from pop culture. He has long exhibited at “lowbrow” art galleries across the country. Harbort builds his collages with torn paper, ephemera, and kitsch objects in shallow relief, paint, airbrush, rediscovered frames and various adhesives. He is a professor in the Art Department at Minot State University where he teaches foundation art classes, graphic design, and illustration courses. He is a co-founder and co-organizer of NOTSTOCK, Minot State University’s signature live arts event that spotlights the arts at Minot State University and in the community.

Lot 15

Josh Johnson

Bloomington, Indiana

Table Thoughts/Tabled Thoughts 2022 - 2023

Found bench top, inlayed furniture fragments, pine, and fir

32 x 40.5 x 2.25 inches

Range: $1,100 – 1,300

Sculptor Josh Johnson is a scavenger craftsman, carving and joining low materials with traditional woodworking techniques. His work combines fragments of found objects from his surroundings to reflect lived and remembered spaces. His research is informed by place, exploring the shift between sculptural and pictorial perception, the gathering of subjects from different times, and the selective nature of memory. Johnson earned a BFA from the University of North Dakota and an MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has exhibited nationally, including at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, the Soo Visual Art Center in Minneapolis, Colorado State University, and the North Dakota Museum of Art. In 2016, he received a Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship and was twice a finalist for the William and Dorothy Yeck Young Sculptor’s Competition at Miami University in Oxford, OH. He currently lives in Bloomington, IN.

Lot

Heidi Goldberg

Walcott, North Dakota

Nine Muses Unraveling, 2024

Woodcut

18 x 14.5 inches

Range: $700 – 900

Heidi Goldberg’s work comes from a place of honest curiosity and a passion for artmaking. This body of work comprises printmaking methods of woodcut, etching, lithography, screenprint, letterpress, monotype, alternative matrices, linen and print weaving, linen sculpture, and experimentation. On a whim, Goldberg took a printmaking class in college, thinking it would be similar to a graphic design course. Five semesters into printmaking later and working exclusively with intaglio, Goldberg fell in love with working on copper plates. This passion carried her to both France for a year, and to the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, where she continued expanding her knowledge of printmaking with an MFA in Printmaking and Works on Paper. For Goldberg, Though the size of my prints are generally limited by my little printing press, I enjoy working large scale when I take the prints to the loom.

Lot

Deborahmae Broad

Hawley, Minnesota

Our Prairie Home, 2015

Color trial proof 13

Donated to the Museum by Richie Aanderud in memory of Sandra Aanderud to benefit the permanent collection.

17.5 x 23.25 inches

Range: $600 – 900

Deborahmae Broad is one of the top practitioners of wood engraving in the United States. This master printmaker retired from teaching from Moorhead State in 2003 to be a full-time artist. She works in a renovated granary and chicken coop (Prairie Press) on her farmstead in Hawley, Minnesota. She graduated from Hollins College with a BFA and received an MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. For Broad, animals serve as stand-ins for human beings and their foibles. This is a device as old as Aesop. The animals are pictured in clear relief against neutral backgrounds. We are meant to examine and interpret their attributes as universal characteristics , according to the artist.

Lot 18

Kim Benson

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Night Games (Yellow Bloom), 2015

Oil and mixed media on canvas over panel

15.5 x 12.25 inches

Range: $1,000 – 1,200

Proceeds of Night Games (Yellow Bloom) donated to the Museum by the artist.

Kim Benson (b. 1986, Denver, CO) received her MFA from University of Wisconsin, Madison, and her BFA from the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, MN. Benson’s work is in numerous public and private collections; including Walker Art Center, Plains Art Museum, and North Dakota Museum of Art. In addition to her most recent solo exhibition at Jessica Silverman Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Benson’s work has been included in group exhibitions at MANA Contemporary (Jersey City, NJ), Museum of Wisconsin Art (West Bend), Plains Art Museum (Fargo, ND), Rochester Art Center (Minnesota) and NADA Chicago Invitational. She has enjoyed residences at La Macina di San Cresci, Adams State University, McCanna House with the North Dakota Museum of Art, Jentel Foundation, and the Soap Factory. Benson lives and works in Minneapolis, where she is an adjunct professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Lot 19

Kim Benson Minneapolis, Minnesota

Night Games (Green Bloom), 2015

Oil and mixed media on canvas over panel 15.5 x 12.25 inches

Range: $1,000 – 1,200

Proceeds of Night Games (Green Bloom) donated to the Museum by the artist.

According to the artist, My process has become a type of chaos management. I strive to create a painting that plays with the viewer’s comprehension of space, form, and illusion by complicating the visual pathways. I am a materialist who is continually fascinated with the processes of painting. I utilize a myriad of different techniques including but not limited to brushing, spraying, sanding, scraping, rubbing and printing. Along with the mechanics I am equally interested in the history of painting. Currently, I am looking back to the 17th century Dutch still-life genre, in particular the paintings by Maria van Oosterwijck, for both their array of metaphors and formal configurations, and even further back to the Etruscan tomb paintings from 4th century BCE for their rich and distressed surfaces suggesting ideas of loss, decay, and transformation. By referencing these sources and delving deep into process, I consider my own conceptual concerns in order to build my personal painting language.

Lot 20

Nancy Fresie Cranston, Rhode Island

Towards the Mountains, Western Sky, 1997

Oil on linen

12 x 12 inches

Range: $800 – 1,000

Proceeds of Toward the Mountains, Western Sky donated to the Museum by the artist.

Nancy Friese spends time between her home in Rhode Island and her farmstead in Buxton, North Dakota. North Dakota Museum of Art Founding Director, Laurel Reuter, writes of her work, Her landscapes are crowned with billowing, shifting, life-filled clouds befitting the granddaughter of a famous Plains weatherman, the legacy of a child raised in homes where dinner table conversations were dominated by the weather. Friese has received numerous grants and fellowships, including NEA Fellowships, the Japan-US Friendship Commission Creative Artist Fellowship, a Giverny Fellowship, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She has shown in the US, Europe, China, and Japan. Her works are in corporate and museum collections. She has an MFA from Yale and studied at the University of California-Berkeley, and the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She teaches at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where she is a Mellon faculty Fellow in the Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Department of the RISD Museum.

Lot 21

Mollie Douthit

Grand Forks, North Dakota and West Cork, Ireland

Missing Teeth, 2024

Oil on panel 7 x 9 inches

Range: $800 – 1,000

Mollie Douthit (b. 1986) is an oil painter in West Cork, Ireland, originally from Grand Forks, North Dakota, where she has divided her time between the two since 2012, with a Post Baccalaureate from Tufts University and an MFA from Burren College of Art at NUIG.

Notable achievements include the 2013 RHA Hennessy Craig award, a solo exhibition at the North Dakota Museum of Art, two Elizabeth Greenshields Grants, a 2022 Arts Council Bursary, and the acquisition of three works by the Arts Council of Ireland and Crawford Gallery, Cork. Her work has gained recognition in publications such as Hyperallergic, The Irish Times, and New American Paintings. Douthit has enjoyed residencies at the Tony O’Malley Residence and the Vermont Studio Center. Recent exhibitions encompass Molesworth Gallery, Highlanes Gallery, RHA, and a solo show at the Butler Gallery.

Lot 22

Walter Piehl

Minot, North Dakota

17 or so Boots: Cowgirl Stuff, 2022

Acrylic on Canvas

36.75 x 24.75 inches

Range: $4,500 – 5,000

Walter Piehl draws and incorporates drawing into his acrylic paintings. He does not use drawing to make studies for paintings but as a primary medium, either embedded into paintings or as separate works of art. His goal is to make his surfaces dance with subtle variations. In 2008, Walter Piehl was awarded the Bush Foundation’s first Enduring Vision Prize worth $100,000. Earlier, he received the 2005 North Dakota Governor’s Award for the Arts. Piehl has twice served on the Board of the North Dakota Council on the Arts, for several years on the Board of Trustees of the North Dakota Museum of Art, and is on the founding governing board of the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame in Medora. He recently retired from teaching at Minot State University.

Lot 23

Jack Dale

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Lush, 2010

Oil on canvas

48 x 48 inches

Range: $2,000 – 2,200

Jack Dale was born and raised in St. Paul and attended the University of Minnesota on a hockey scholarship. Dale played on the 1968 US Olympic Hockey team and for three years as a professional before suffering a career-ending knee injury. He turned his attention to art which he had studied in college and has been a painter for more than 40 years. Dale has had numerous solo and group shows and his paintings have been collected all over the country. He maintains a studio in the Northrup King Building in northeast Minneapolis a nd a home garage studio where he creates abstract expressionist paintings. His paintings will be remembered not for the images they repres ent but for the emotions that they evoke.

Lot

Adam Kemp

Grand Forks, North Dakota

Virus Blossom, 2024

Acrylic on canvas

9.5 x 9.5 inches

Range: $600 – 800

Proceeds of Virus Blossom donated to the Museum by the artist.

Adam Kemp, the unofficial Artist-in-Residence of the region, operates his studio, You Are Here, in downtown Grand Forks, passionately advocating for art. Born in 1962, Kemp was raised in the village of Ugley in Essex, northeast of London. In one of Kemp’s most elaborate team projects, he recruited over four hundred community members to participate in a massive forty foot painting. Of the collaborators, thirtysix were special needs adults, including his daughter Hanna, who was also art director, contributed over one hundred figure drawings to the painting. The finished artwork was then transferred onto a city bus for one month. In the artist’s own words, I’m not sure I can expect to be more successful than that.

Continental Skin #3, 2023

Ceramic, wood

11 x 15.5 x 6 inches

Range: $1,500 – 1,700

Lot 26

Zoran Mojsilov

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Chernobyl, 2024

Wood and stain

40 x 20 x 16 inches

Range: $3,000 – 3,500

A Yugoslavia-born sculptor, Zoran Mojsilov received his art education at the University of Belgrade and later trained with the renowned Yugoslavian sculptor Matija Vukovi. As a conscientious objector, he taught art at a military psychiatric hospital and later went to Paris to escape the narrow confines and restrictions of the state-controlled art establishment in communist Yugoslavia. Mojsilov moved to the US in 1986, settling in the Twin Cities. Since then, he has participated in numerous exhibitions across the United States. He became promin ent as a creator of large-scale public art, completing several projects in the US, France, and Serbia. Mojsilov’s sculptural assemblages are starkly massive, using raw materials found in nature or left over from human activity. He works with natural properties of stone, wood, and metal, without trying to embellish or disguise their original looks or the way they are put together. In 1998, the Museum commissioned Mojsilov to create Couch Potatoes , three granite rock sculptures that are placed north of the Museum’s main entrance.

Lot 27

David Opdyke

Queens, New York

A clear-eyed assessment, 2009

Ink and colored pencil on paper 22 x 35 inches

Range: $4,500 – 5,500

Lot 28

Chris Pancoe

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Yesterday’s Catch, 2023

Mixed media

16 x 24 x 5.25 inches

Range: $750 – 900

Chris Pancoe is a multimedia artist, with a penchant for working with clay, wood, snow and ice. Because of his diverse art background and eclectic skill set, he is often contracted to fabricate and/or design various projects that your average builder would be afraid to take on. After his tenure at The University of Manitoba as the Sculpture and Ceramic Technician, Chris is the now the Artistic Director and Coowner of Anvil Tree, Winnipeg’s newest design, build and art fabrication company. When he’s not at work, he can be found in his studio feeding Gronk—his woodstove, fixing broken items, making art and drinking coffee or a malt beverage out of a handmade mug.

Lot 29

Dyan Rey

Columbus, Ohio

Ocean Memories, 1996

Mixed media collage

35.5 x 28.5 inches

Range: $600 – 1,000

Proceeds of Ocean Memories donated to the Museum by the artist.

Dyan Rey, a North Dakota native with a rich exhibition history, has roamed from the West Coast to the East Coast and now calls Columbus, Ohio, home. Inspired by Italian painter Morandi, her work reflects a unique love for vivid colors and simple forms interplaying. This notable piece, Ocean Memories , is part of a series of collages she created from torn-up drawings and paintings on paper. Originally untitled, Rey later named it Ocean Memories after realizing it evoked the longing she felt for the ocean and the seaside village of Provincetown, where she had lived before moving to Grand Forks. The composition blends organic shapes and elements from various drawing and painting experiments, a process that often informs her oil paintings. The North Dakota Museum of Art has featured her work in the China Vase series, as well as a publication titled Foreign Exchange: Poems by Eliot Glassheim and Collages by Dyan Rey .

Lot 30

Shirley Rayner

Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Forgotten Pond, 2023

Water based media on paper 21 X 29 inches

Range: $800 – 1,000

Shirley Rayner is an award winning artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a lifelong learner, she studies continuously and has centered many of her travels around workshops with other artists. Rayner began painting in oils after attending the Plein Air Festival in Door County. She later switched to gouache, using it mainly as an exercise to gather reference material rather than create finished paintings. Looking ahead, she hopes to participate in a Plein Air festival. She describes her process as a balance between careful finished work and absorbing as much as possible from the environment. Rayner’s love for landscapes stems from her rural upbringing and her father, an avid outdoorsman. She finds her best work comes from exploration on the road and aims to continue capturing landscapes wherever she travels.

Lot 31

Ryan Stander

Minot, North Dakota

A Slight Misconflation, 2011

Lithograph

19.5 x 14.5 inches

Range: $400 – 500

Ryan Stander is an Associate Professor of Art at Minot State University where he teaches photography, directs the BFA program, and codirects Flat Tail Press. Originally from the farmlands of northwest Iowa, Stander is a transplant to central North Dakota. His education alternated between art and theology [MFA from the University of North Dakota, MA in Theology from Sioux Falls Seminary (SD), and a BA in Art from Northwestern College (IA)]. Stander’s artistic practices mirror his interdisciplinary education, moving among printmaking, book-arts, and a variety of photographic practices. With research interests that bring the visual arts and theology into dynamic conversations, Stander is particularly interested in the structures that shape practices of place, memory, and religion.

Lot 32

Tim Schouten

Winnipeg, Manitoba

24 x 18 inches

Tokio Home, Spirit Lake, 2012

Oil, pigment, beeswax, microcrystalline wax, damar resin, on birch panel

Range: $2,000 – 2,200

Tokio Home, Spirit Lake , was created in 2012 for the collaborative project, Songs for Spirit Lake , initiated by Laurel Reuter and NDMOA. The project reflected on contemporary life on the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation and the painting depicts a view across the highway from the town of Tokio on the reserve, where Reuter grew up. Tim Schouten is a painter who works primarily in encaustic. His practice probes the edges of landscape, language, history, and kinship. His work incorporates figuration, text, and abstraction as systems for discovery and disclosure. He lives and works as a settler on Treaty 1 Territory in Manitoba, Canada. His painting career spans four decades, and his work is held in numerous private, corporate, and public collections, including the Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba, the Province of Manitoba, the North Dakota Museum of Art and Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Spirit Lake.

Lot 33

Shirley Rayner

Winnipeg, Manitoba

In My Room, 2023

Soft pastel on paper

13.5 x 18.75 inches

Range: $400 – 600

Shirley Rayner is an award winning artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a lifelong learner, she studies continuously and has centered many of her travels around workshops with other artists, including Cheng Khee Chee, David Taylor, Liz Haywood Sullivan, and Marc Grandbois to name a few. She primarily enjoys painting landscapes but also enjoys painting the figure and still life. Working from life is important for accuracy so when the weather makes it possible, Rayner enjoys the challenge of painting on location to quickly capture the “magic of the moment.” She works in many mediums including acrylic, oil, and soft pastel for which she has received several awards and signature status with the Canadian Pastel Artists group. Other professional memberships include the Oil Painters of America and the Manitoba Society of Artists. In My Room was painted during her two-week residency at the Museum’s McCanna House Artist-in-Residence Program.

Lot 34

Jessica Wachter

Bismarck, North Dakota

You Got Me Walking On Water, 2018

Mixed media on paper

32.5 x 24 inches

Range: $1,800 – 2,000

Jessica Wachter is a celebrated abstract expressionist artist from Bismarck, North Dakota, known for translating personal narratives of celebration, struggle, love, and loss onto large-scale canvases with vibrant color, rich textures, and dynamic compositions. Her passion for art emerged as a means of self-expression following her childhood dyslexia diagnosis, finding freedom in the creative process. Wachter’s work, featured in exhibitions across the US, includes notable shows at the Celebration of Fine Art in Scottsdale, AZ, Art Basel in Miami, FL, Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art in Laguna Beach, CA, the Capital Gallery in Bismarck, ND, and the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, ND. Her paintings are part of the permanent collection at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum, and she founded the Jessica Wachter Visual Arts Scholarship for female NDSU students. Through her work and advocacy, Wachter is committed to empowering women in the arts and elevating diverse voices.

Lot 35

Adam Kemp

Grand Forks, North Dakota

Oak Tree, 2024

Acrylic on canvas

48 x 36 inches

Range: $1,400 – 1,600

Adam Kemp, the unofficial Artist-in-Residence of the region, operates his studio, You Are Here, in downtown Grand Forks, passionately advocating for art. Born in 1962, Kemp was raised in the village of Ugley in Essex, northeast of London. From age fourteen to nineteen, Kemp’s sketches favored watercolors, allowing him the liberating combo of creating art and cycling. At sixteen, he embraced the expansive possibilities of painting various subjects, diving into the newfound realm. Kemp holds an MFA in Sculpture/Fine Art from the University of North Dakota.

Lot 36

Suyao Tian

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Space Between, 2023

Water Based Media

41.5 x 29.25 inches

Range: $5,500 – 6,500

Lot 37

David Opdyke

Queens, New York

Rise, 2023

Cut postcards and ink on paper 14 x 11 inches

Range: $2,400 – 2,600

David Opdyke is a New York-born artist (1969) whose work explores globalization, consumerism, and humanity’s impact on the environment. His art is in prestigious collections like the Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, and The Washington Convention Center. In 2024, WNET New York Public Media commissioned him to produce a 30-minute film, which will be broadcast in April of 2025. Earlier in 2020, a book on his postcard project “This Land” was published by Monacelli Press/Phaidon, featuring essays by Lawrence Weschler and Maya Wiley. The proceeding exhibition was held at the North Dakota Museum of Art in 2019. Opdyke also participated in the Museum’s group exhibition, Artists and War in 2008 - contributing a large-scale paper airplane installati on. He resides and works in Ridgewood, Queens, NY.

Lot 38

Arvin K. Davis Jr.

Minot, North Dakota

CMYK: Out of Ink, 2020

Mixed Media

16.5 x 15.5 inches

Range: $600 – 800

Arvin K. Davis Jr. offers bright colors, fine line work, powerful brushstrokes, and the intentional use of disorder to explore th emes.

My artistic perspective spans irreverence, issues with mental health, and social commentary. Life is absurd, with obstacles, chances, impasses; the journey isn’t a straight line.

Davis has exhibited in previous group exhibitions in Milan, Italy and New York.

Lot 39

Arvin K. Davis Jr.

Minot, North Dakota

8, 2020

Mixed media

24 x 17.75 inches

Range: $1,000 – 1,300

Arvin K. Davis Jr. offers bright colors, fine line work, powerful brushstrokes, and the intentional use of disorder to explore th emes.

My artistic perspective spans irreverence, issues with mental health, and social commentary. Life is absurd, with obstacles, chances, impasses; the journey isn’t a straight line.

Davis has exhibited in previous group exhibitions in Milan, Italy and New York.

Lot 40

Matt Anderson

Emerado, North Dakota

Snake in the Grass, 2024

Ink, watercolor, graphite

36 x 80 inches

Range: $2,500 – 3,000

Matthew B. Anderson is an experienced and passionate art educator who believes in the transformative power of arts education. As the Arts in Education Director for the North Dakota Council on the Arts (NDCA), Matthew works closely with educators and community leaders to enhance the lives of every student in North Dakota. With a Master’s Degree in Fine Art from the University of North Dakota and over 15 years of experience in the field, he is committed to advocating for and promoting the importance of art education for all learners.

This allegorical drawing presents a dramatic scene of tension and harmony. At its center is a massive, golden snake, its body coiled sinuously through a dense field of tall corn stalks. The snake, often a symbol of danger or temptation, appears calm but watchful. Scattered around the snake are several white mice, creatures that are typically prey to such a predator. The scene might symbolize the delicate balance between life and death, predator and prey, trust, survival, and interconnectedness. The rich, detailed texture of the snake’s scales and the verdant, swaying plants add to the sense of a world where danger and peace exist side by side.

Lot 41

Robert Archambeau (1933–2022)

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Double Gourd Vase, 2016

Stoneware

9.75 x 5 x 5 inches

Range: $1,800 – 2,200

Donated to the Museum by the Estate of Robert Archambeau.

Robert Achambeau grew up in Toledo, Ohio, and spent four years in the Marines. He attended undergraduate school at Toledo University, the Toledo Museum of Art School and Bowling Green State University (Ohio – BFA). He received his MFA degree from Alfred University in 1964. Achambeau taught at the Rhode Island School of Design for four years before accepting a teaching position at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, where he headed the ceramic program until his retirement in 1991. In 2003, he was the recipient of Canada’s highest artistic honor, the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. Achambeau maintained two studios, one in Bissett, Manitoba, and one at the University of Manitoba, until his passing in 2022.

Lot 42

Kevin J. Jeffrey

Grand Forks, North Dakota

Hurdsfield 2, 2024

Acrylic on canvas

24 x 48 inches

Range: $800 – 1,000

Proceeds of Hurdsfield 2 donated to the Museum by the artist.

Kevin Jeffrey was born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Jeffrey is a photographer turned painter. He graduated from the University of North Dakota, while spending a considerable amount of time in the art department studying various media. Over the years, he worked for the Williston Herald, the Center for Aerospace Science, as a lecturer in the Communications Department at the University of North Dakota, and for 30 years, he worked at Minnkota Power Cooperative as a multi media specialist.

Lot 43

Paul Gronhovd

Grand Forks, North Dakota

Ancestral Spirits and the Ikat Dress, 2024

Inkjet pigment

23 x 34 inches

Range: $800 – 1,200

From the artist: My background in photography goes back to the time spent in my father’s darkroom. This is where I first experimented with making silver prints and learning about cameras. My interest in the visual arts led me to formally study printmaking and photography at Moorhead State University and the University of North Dakota (UND) and culminated in a 30-year career in graphic arts and photography at the UND Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) in Grand Forks. After retiring from the EERC, I started to pursue a more personal style of photography. I have regularly contributed my artwork to the North Dakota Museum of Art’s annual Autumn Art Auction since 2017.

Lot 44

Heidi Goldberg

Walcott, North Dakota

Tilt-A-Whirl, 2023

Woven prints (intaglio, woodcut, linen)

52 x 60 inches

Range: $3,500 – 4,000

Lot 45

Susana Amundaraín

Minot, North Dakota

Time Slivers, 2021

Acrylic and collage on canvas

24 x 12 inches

Range: $450 – 600

Susana Amundaraín is a Venezuelan-born American artist living and working in Minot, North Dakota. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Amundaraín’s work is represented in museums in the United States and South America, as well as in many private and corporate collections, such as PepsiCo, ALCOA, Empresas Polar Foundation, and others. One of her main interests is the interconnectedness of art forms. Her paintings and mixed media works on paper and canvas lie somewhere between abstraction and representation, and her images have been described as poetic and compelling, many times seen as lyrical abstractions. Amundaraín holds a Master of Fine Arts degree, with emphasis in painting and performance art, from the University of Denver in Colorado. She has also been a Visiting Scholar in Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City.

Lot 46

Susana Amundaraín

Minot, North Dakota

Origami with Blue, 2024

Collage and acrylic on canvas

24 x 24 inches

Range: $600 – 800

Susana Amundaraín’s paintings reflect the veiled mysteries and lights of uncharted territories, like those found in the rain forests and mesa mountains (tepuys) of her home country. She was also enchanted by visual poetry and text, which took her to the theatrical space as scenic designer and librettist. Susana generally builds her paintings through a multiple layering of color transparencies and eroded surfaces, in a balance between a structured space and a formless atmosphere. H er media includes acrylic and collage on canvas and paper, installations, scenic designs and text.

American art historian and critic, Phyllis Tuchman, observed, Susana Amundaraín’s luminous, layered abstractions are beautiful and profound. With them this Venezuelan artist simultaneously addresses aesthetic as well as philosophical issues.

Lot 47

Marley Kaul (1939–2021)

Bemidji, Minnesota

The Leaving , 2015

Acrylic on canvas

46 x 72 inches

Range: $5,000 – 6,000

Sponsored by Capital Resource Management.

Marley Kaul’s paintings have been in almost all of the Autumn Art Auctions, and are included in the North Dakota Museum of Art’s permanent collection. In August of 2021 he died of pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease. Sandy Kaul, her son Stephen Kaul, and her daughter Allison Kaul DeLeone wish to acknowledge Laurel Reuter, Founding Director of the North Dakota Museum of Art, for championing Marley’s work over the last fifty years, and they also thank the patrons of the Museum, many of whom now own Kaul’s paintings. In early 2025, Mill Studio Press will publish a large, hard-cover book covering Kaul’s sixtyyear career as an artist including about 312 paintings.

Lot 48

Micah Bloom

Minot, North Dakota

Apple Unicorn Flotilla, 2024

Acrylic and graphite on panel 12 x 9 inches

Range: $350 – 400

Micah Bloom received his Master of Fine Arts (Painting and Drawing with a minor in Printmaking) from the University of Iowa. He makes art in many modes and media, and co-directs the printmaking-focused Flat Tail Press. He is a Professor in the Art Department at Minot State University and shares four daughters and two sons with his wife, Sara. In 2015, Bloom’s exhibition Codex was named the inaugural exhibition of the Museum’s Art Makers series, which is underwritten by Dr. William F. Wosick of West Fargo. This series allows artists to create new bodies of work based in a singular idea or theme which become solo exhibitions at the Museum.

Lot 49

Avis Charley

(Spirit Lake Dakota/Diné)

Las Vegas, Nevada

Reflections , 2020

Oil on canvas

40 x 30 inches

Range: $8,500 – 9,500

Lot 50

Walter Piehl

Minot, North Dakota

Head On American Minotaur, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

48 x 36 inches

Range: $6,900 – 7,500

Lot 51

Carlos Pacheco

Tucson, Arizona

Off-World #2, 2024

Archival inkjet print

23.5 x 23.5 inches

Range: $400 – 600

Carlos Rene Pacheco is a photographer and new media artist based in Arizona. Once an aspiring astronomer, he became disenchanted with applied physics and mathematics and exchanged his view through a telescope for a view through a camera lens. Through this filter Pacheco explores issues of memory, technology, science, and photographic archives in his work. He received his BFA with an emphasis in Photography from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 2011, and received his MFA in Photography + Integrated Media from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in 2014. He has served as an Assistant Professor of Art in the School of Art at Minnesota State University Moorhead in Moorhead, Minnesota where he taught photography and art from 2015 to 2023. Pacheco continues to exhibit his work nationally and has been featured on PetaPixel and HuffPost.

Lot 52

Avis Charley (Spirit Lake Dakota/Diné)

Las Vegas, Nevada

Sneaking a Look , 2024

Colored pencil on antique paper

15.75 x 10.5 inches

Range: $1,800 – 2,000

Avis Charley, a visual artist of Spirit Lake Dakota and Diné heritage, was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She earned her BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM, renowned for its focus on Native American arts and culture. Charley’s journey began with ledger art, a traditional form historically practiced by Plains Indian tribes. Initially a male-dominated genre, she brought a woman’s perspective to this art form, contributing significantly to its evolution. Through her art, Charley aims to preserve and transmit the cultural heritage and experiences of Native American people to future generations, embodying a powerful narrative of resilience and identity in her creations.

Lot 53

Barb Hatfield

Brooklyn, New York Stones, 2022

Ink and charcoal on paper

11.5 x 8.25 inches

Range: $500 – 700

Barbara Hatfield, born in Grand Forks, ND, and currently living in New York, NY, received her Master of Fine Arts from Parsons The New School for Design in New York, NY, and a Bachelor of Science in Art from Minnesota State University, Moorhead. Her work is driven by inquiry, focusing on the energy, frequency, and tone of each piece. Influences include the poetic and philosophical lessons of Asian art and the openness of her native landscape. Her work, often visually spare, reflects nature’s paradoxical strengths and fragilities. Hatfield finds endless engagement in the pleasure of working with her hands and an appreciation for the integrity of materials. She has presented solo exhibitions in New York, Minnesota, and North Dakota, and her work is included in numerous private collections across the United States, Japan, Switzerland, France, and Germany, as well as the permanent collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art.

Lot

Bradford Hansen-Smith

Grand Forks, North Dakota

Untitled , 1992

Paper plates

4 x 16 x 6 inches

Range: $600 – 700

Bradford Hansen-Smith is a working artist. He is also a teacher. Wholemovement™ is the process of learning geometry through folding paper circles. Developed by Hansen-Smith, this teaching guide shows geometry can be derived from the circle, offering a fun way to introduce children (or adults) to a better understanding of geometry. Children enjoy folding the paper plates, while adults can appreciate the deeper discussion of mathematical principles. Of interest to origami and mathematical paperfolding enthusiasts, the paper circle offers a new world of possibilities to people of all ages.

According to the artist, Drawing and making things is how I have always explored and understood the world around me. I made a living as a sculptor for many years before needing to know more about spatial patterns of movement and how they worked. Buckminster Fuller was my introduction to geometry.