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Vacation at Shipps Landing on Marco Island
Donated by Drs. Michael and Ann Brown
• One-week stay on the 17th floor of private condo
• Two bedroom, two bath with one king bed and two full beds.
• Sleeps up to 6 with pull-out couch.
Available by request June through August. Airfare not included.
Shipps Landing on Marco Island offers a luxury, resort-style waterfront experience with direct access to the beach, featuring 3 heated pools, spas, a fitness center, and tennis courts. Located on the island's southern tip, it provides stunning panoramic views, a private beach, and proximity to Caxambas Pass for nature activities like watching dolphins and birds.
Lot 25b
Private Dinner with Museum Chef, John Cho
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• Chef will prepare, plate, and serve the entire meal in your home.
• Experience is for up to 12 people.
The cost of all food and beverages is the responsibility of the winning bidder.
Lot 25a
Lot 1
Avis R. Veikley
Minot, North Dakota
Pecking Order, 2024 Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
Range: $500 – 700
Avis R. Veikley recently retired from Minot State University where she served as Director of the Northwest Arts Center and Percussion Instructor in the Division of Performing Arts. She received her BS degree in Music and Art from MSU, and Master of Music from Northern Illinois University at DeKalb. She worked as a graphic designer for over 20 years before joining the faculty and staff of MSU. She has studied painting and drawing at the Woodstock School of Art in Woodstock, NY, Art Students League of Denver, and Art Students League of New York. She continues to be a partner in the family farm with her three nephews.
According to the artist, I grew up on our family farm near Glenburn, ND. As a farm kid, I have some history with chickens—feeding them, gathering their eggs, shooing them into the coop at night, and yes, dispatching them to the frying pan. I encountered the three ladies in “Pecking Order” on a visit to an acquaintance’s farm a couple of years ago. I found them colorful and exotic compared to my childhood chickens—my mother refused to raise anything but (all-white) Leghorns.
Lot 2
Doug Pfliger
Beulah, North Dakota
Three Amigos – Doug’s Dogs #363/#364/#365 , 2023
Wood, metal, paint and fiber
5.25 x 6.5 x 2.5
Range: $300 – 500
All proceeds of this sale 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, leading 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 midnineties, 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 3
Michelle Mullet
North Reading, Massachusetts
Guston “Grain Bins” , 2025
Acrylic on wood
6 x 8.75 inches
Range: $250 – 350
Michelle Mullet is a self-taught artist who paints hard edge geometric abstraction and Brutalist Architecture in an abstract style. She exhibited her first solo show at Boston City Hall in December 2024. She recently finished an artist residency at McCanna House and she will travel to Venice next year for a residency at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica. She continues to work while recovering from breast cancer this year.
According to the artist, My work investigates the levity of the human spirit in the midst of tremendous hardships. After recently surviving breast cancer, I’m interested in the endurance and strength that it takes to walk in joy despite the heaviness of chronic illness. I love these structures because they embody fortification and they offer shelter from the storm.
Lot
4
Michelle Mullet
North Reading, Massachusetts
Welcome to Grand Fork s, 2025
Acrylic on wood
8 x 10 inches
Range: $400 – 500
Mullet continues, I like to paint Brutalist architecture with a bright, joyful palette. My work combines unexpected color gradients with powerful, concrete structures to create a series of work that I call “The Architecture of Happiness.” Saturating brutal, concrete structures with rich, delicious color transcends ideas of feminine/masculine and brings viewers into a space where we question what makes a space feel safe and how do we view our own dystopian reality through this brighter lens? I’m influenced by the color theory of Josef Albers, the playfulness and minimalism of Barbara Hepworth and the quiet, gentle paintings of Giorgio Morandi.
Lot 5
Barry Dima
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Jaco Bean , 2025
Ash, pine, leather, acrylic paint, and wax
9 x 16 x 8 inches
Range: $900 – 1,100
Sponsored by Adams Hardwood Floor Sanding & Restoration.
Barry Dima is a woodworker based in Grand Forks. He’s drawn to the forms and carving from 17th-century England and New England, sometimes loosely called Jacobean furniture, among other names. This chest is a scaled-down version of full-size linen chests from the period. Like those makers, Dima carves by hand with gouges and chisels. His pieces often sit around the intersection of simple, traditional forms; solid wood; low relief carving, including sgraffito; and paint. His work is in private collections around the United States and has been featured in Fine Woodworking magazine and the websites of Popular Woodworking and Fine Woodworking.
All proceeds of this sale donated to the Museum.
Lot 6
Joe Christensen
Hopkins, Minnesota
Untitled , c. 2003
Stoneware
25 x 12 x 12 inches
Range: $350 – 450
Joe Christensen was born and raised in Eagan, Minnesota, and maintained a studio in Hopkins, MN. He had clients, big and small, from all over the globe. According to Christensen, Clay and paint are magical and seductive materials for me. The nature of clay is to bring to life any form that one can imagine and skill will allow for. The fluid nature of turning a pot on the wheel brings the mind to the still point that seems to be so lacking in life. Time seems to flow away. In turning a pot I desire both scale that has a human quality a nd a certain ‘ rightness’ of form. When a pot is glazed and goes into the kiln one can only hope for the fire to bring its power to transform the raw earth materials into something timeless - to capture the moment it was created on the wheel. The best pots look all directions in time.
Lot 7
Robert Archambeau
Winnipeg, Manitoba
All proceeds of the sale donated to the Museum by the Estate of Robert Archambeau.
Double Gourd Vase , 2016 and 2018 (L to R)
Stoneware
8.25 x 5.75 x 5.75 and 9.5 x 6 x 6 inches
Range: $500 – 600
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) and received his MFA degree from Alfred University in 1964. Robert 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. Robert maintained two studios, one in Bissett, Manitoba, and one at the University of Manitoba, until his passing in 2022.
Lot 8
James Culleton
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Horse , 2020
Powder-coated steel
44.75 x 58 inches
Range: $800 – 1,200
James Culleton is a Canadian multimedia artist and designer living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Culleton received his BFA with Honors in 1997 from the University of Manitoba. Though known for his blind contour drawings, since 2010 he’s been creating steel sculptures as public art. His first sculptures were of music instruments on the facad e of the West End Cultural Centre but he has gone on to make a 25’ wide Red River Wagon Wheel installation celebrating the Corduroy Road in Richer. Manitoba, as well as a 70’ tall pitchfork made of steel coming to Gackle, North Dakota in 2026. His interests in rural art and history stem from a three summer long residency at the Museum’s Artist-inResidence, McCanna House, where the multi-talented Culleton created an album of music around rural North Dakota which also had a book and watercolor exhibition which debuted in North Dakota in 2017 and continued to Winnipeg and Portage La Prairie in Manitoba.
Lot 9
Paul Gronhovd
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Gravel Pit Holdout , 2024
Ink jet print
Sponsored by AcrePro Farm Agency.
24 x 36 inches
Range: $1,000 – 1,200
My background in photography goes back to the time spent in my father’s darkroom. This is where I first experimented with making silver gelatin 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 began pursuing a more personal style of photography, and this last year has presented me several opportunities. Through the Public Arts Commission (PAC) I received the 2025 Mayor's Choice Award that led to my exhibition “Sightlines: Journey Through the Act of Seeing,” currently on display at Grand Forks City Hall through May 2026. Also this year my photography is on display at the New Altru Hospital along with works of other local artists. I have regularly contributed my artwork to the North Dakota Museum of Art annual art auction since 2017.
Lot 10
Bill Harbort
Minot, North Dakota
Wildheart , 2025
Mixed media collage
25.5 x 44.5 x 1 inches
Range: $600 – 800
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, 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 coorganizer of NOTSTOCK, Minot State University’s signature live arts event that spotlights the arts at Minot State University and throughout the community.
Lot 11
Sam Johnson
St. Joseph, Minnesota
Spherical Vase , 2024
Wood fired stoneware
11 x 11.75 x 11.75 inches
Range: $400 – 500
Samuel Johnson is an American potter known for his unique, functional ceramics, often made through a traditional wood-firing process. His pieces reflect a fascination with the interplay between order and organic irregularity, resulting in surfaces marked by natural variations and dark, shadowy textures. Johnson studied painting and ceramics at the University of Minnesota before apprenticing with noted potter Richard Bresnahan. He further honed his skills in Denmark and Japan, where he explored Scandinavian and Japanese ceramic styles and later earned graduate degrees from the University of Iowa. Johnson’s work has been shown in over 100 group and solo exhibitions and is included in the permanent collections of the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, The North Dakota Museum of Art, and the Rourke Art Museum.
Lot
12
Fawzia Khan
Hopkins, Minnesota
Birds on Birch , 2024
Bronze, birchwood
6 x 47 x 6 inches
Range: $1,500 – 1,700
Fawzia Khan is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Hopkins, Minnesota. Khan’s work is best described as social commentary. She examines issues that reveal humanity’s frailties and foibles, engaging viewers and opening space for dialogue and reflection. Working in a variety of media, she uses art to examine societal conflicts. To see the “other’s” point of view acknowledges our shared humanity and creates the opportunity for understanding and resolution.
Khan received Minnesota State Arts Board grants in 2020 and 2024, and was a 2022 and 2025 McKnight Fiber Artist Fellowship finalist. Her work is included in many public and private collections and she is one of the featured artists on the Twin Cities Public Television program MNOriginal. Khan is an active member of two national multi-ethnic artist collectives, the Habibtis and the Paglees, and the Interfaith Artists Circle in the Twin Cities. She has been a juror for the Minnesota State Fair Arts Competition and served to develop a public art program in Hopkins, MN. She is a current member of Form + Content Gallery in Minneapolis.
Lot
13
Micah Bloom
Minot, North Dakota
Try Angle , 2025
Acrylic and oil on found board
29 x 57 inches
Range: $900 – 1,200
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, Micah’s exhibition Codex was named the inaugural exhibition of the Museum’s Art Makers series, which is underwritten by Dr. William F. Wosick of 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 14
DeborahMae Broad
Hawley, Minnesota
Wild Blue Yonder , 2023
Wood engraving
20 x 25.5 inches
Range: $800 – 1,000
Sponsored by Olson, Juntunen & Cobb, Ltd.
Deborahmae Broad is one of the top wood engravers in the United States. She retired from teaching printmaking at Minnesota State University Moorhead in 2003 to be a full time artist. Her studio is a renovated barn on the farm where she lives with her husband and their animals. She has a strong interest in the emotional lives of animals and their place in the world.
Lot 15
Kim Benson
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Morning Gest , 2025
Mixed media
21.5 x 17.75 inches
Range: $1,800 – 2,200
All proceeds of this sale donated to the Museum by the artist.
Kim Benson (b. 1986, Denver, CO) received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. 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 the NADA Chicago Invitational. She has enjoyed residencies 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 of art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota.
Lot 16
Kim Benson Minneapolis, Minnesota
Night Gest , 2025
Mixed media
21.5 x 17.75 inches
Range: $1,800 – 2,200
All proceeds of this sale 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 17
Matt Anderson Emerado, North Dakota
Imago Mundi, Nova (Image of the World, New) , 2025
Ink and watercolor on paper
32 x 48 inches
Range: $1,500 – 1,700
I’m a North Dakota artist working in isometric landscape drawing and painting. Using pen-and-ink and watercolor, I build tessellated grids that hold fields, shelterbelts, farmyards, and river meanders—part map, part imagination. Isometric geometry and agricultural pattern guide the structure; the work looks at how land is organized and how that shapes interpretation. By day I serve as the Arts in Education Director for the North Dakota Council on the Arts, partnering with teachers and artists statewide; that service keeps my studio grounded in community and rural life. I hold an MFA from the University of North Dakota and have been exhibiting for over twenty years.
Lot 18
Patricia Marquard
Minot, North Dakota
Rhapsody in Ice , 2020
Watercolor
24 x 30 inches
Range: $600 – 900
Currently I am an artist/art teacher residing in Minot, North Dakota. I teach art, K-12 at White Shield School, on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. Periodically I am an art demonstrator for Arts in the City, and Suite 1, Minot, ND. I compete in Art festivals, and exhibit yearly. I am resuming a more active pace in art after teaching music for several years. A Wisconsin native and art graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, I have won awards at art competitions in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. A highpoint in my career has been creating a Christmas ornament for the White House Christmas tree.
I paint with an Impressionistic style. My artist’s philosophy is that while form is concrete, it can be combined and rearranged. Color is relative and can be used in any way that the imagination can perceive. My realism in drawing sometimes has surrealistic overtones. My media are oil, watercolor and colored pencil.
Lot 19
Christine Kirouac
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Mars St. Castro San Francisco , 2019
Colored pencil and graphite on paper
30 x 22 inches
Range: $2,500 – 2,800
Christine Kirouac is a Winnipeg-based Métis interdisciplinary artist and writer with thirty-five years of experience exhibiting in museums and galleries across Canada, the United States, and Europe. She has received grants from the Manitoba Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and the National Film Board of Canada, and has taught at colleges in North Carolina as well as serving as Professor of Visual Arts at Western University in London, Ontario. She has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre for Performing Arts and Vermont Studio Centre, and will be artist-in-residence at the McCanna House in summer 2026. Recent accomplishments include a public art commission, Six Indigenous Medicinal Plants, for the Red River New Medical Simulation Training Facility (2024), and the publication of Body of Trust with author Steve Mitchell (Scuppernong Editions, 2025). Kirouac is also a community activist in Winnipeg’s North Point Douglas neighborhood.
Lot 20
Christine Kirouac
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Greystone Terrace Castro San Fransisco , 2021
Colored pencil and graphite on paper
30 x 22 inches
Range: $2,500 – 2,800
Kirouac’s drawn projects arise from a compulsion to connect with environments she calls “home” through close observation. In Castro Drawings , San Francisco joins Winnipeg and North Carolina as places where she grounds herself in the organic details near where she stays. Through a daily practice of walking and drawing, she captures the compact and vibrant gardens of the Castro district, a steep and densely built neighborhood she has returned to for over twenty years. Here, natural growth is confined to hidden plots, crowded pots, and succulents that cling to stairs, windowsills, and sidewalks. Black burgundies, blush pinks, fuchsias, and creamy mint plants, many with explosive forms, evoke an otherworldly presence. Her relationship with these plants is intimate, bound by a shared need to inhabit even the smallest spaces, yet to strain and expand in unexpected ways. This series meticulously renders that paradox with precision and care.
Lot 21
S. Catrin Magnusson
Stillwater, Minnesota
Continental Skin 2 , 2024
Stoneware clay, wood
21 x 17 x 4 inches
Range: $1,500 – 1,700
Magnusson holds an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, a BFA in photography and sculpture from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and AS degrees in Film Production and Screenwriting from MCTC. Recent exhibitions include Subterranean , a solo show at The Phipps in Hudson, WI, Thought/Process at Artistry in Bloomington, MN, the Duluth Art Institute’s Biennial, and Hard/ Soft at the Center for the Arts in Wausau, WI. She is the recipient of the Jerome Film Production Grant and has exhibited her work regionally in numerous galleries and film festivals. Her practice spans sculpture, fiber, film, and photography. Magnusson’s work, which often draws on the iconography of geology, explores the forces of tectonic movement, displacement, and the remnants of violent natural processes. Born in Sweden, her family’s emigration left her attuned to themes of movement and transformation, connecting these vast natural processes to personal experience and timelines.
Lot 22
Gretchen Bederman
Mandan, North Dakota
Defiant Girl on Her Horse , 2023
Encaustic
12 x 12 inches
Range: $500 – $700
Bederman’s favorite subjects are horses, women, vessels and birds. She weaves her images with representation and abstraction. She paints in a variety of media including encaustic and sculpts in ceramic clay. She hopes that her images resonate with and bring pleasure to viewers.
Gretchen 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 and 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 Minnesota State University Moorhead and an MFA from UND in 1996. She taught art for over twenty years. She now enjoys just making her art (and more) mostly in Mandan.
Lot 23
Susana Amundaraín
Minot, North Dakota
Dancing Ladder , 2025
Paper, canvas, acrylic, mica, pencil on canvas
16 x 16 inches
Range: $500 – 700
Susana Amundaraín is a Venezuelan-born American artist living in Minot, North Dakota. She has exhibited nationally and internati onally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Amundaraín’s work is represented in museums in the US and South America, as well as in many private and corporate collections, such as PepsiCo, ALCOA, Empresas Polar Foundation, and others. Her paintings and mixed media works on paper 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 at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City and she’s currently presenting a solo exhibition at the Taube Museum of Art in Minot.
Lot 24
Anne Kingsbury
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Beaded Fish , 2024
Mixed media
15 x 11.375 inches
Range: $2,000 – 2,500
All proceeds of this sale donated to the Museum by the artist.
Anne Kingsbury is a Milwaukee based artist. She co-founded and directed Woodland Pattern Literary Center from 1979 to 2018, navigating a double life as an arts administrator and visual artist. These dual roles informed her work, seamlessly blending text and image to weave narratives, elevating everyday activities into art. Her mixedmedia creations have graced the pages of 20 publications, and she has actively participated in 85 major exhibitions, including a recent exhibition at the Museum titled Slow Improvisation; a Frame of Mind (November 14, 2024-March 9, 2025). Appointed a lifetime Fellow at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters in 2008, Kingsbury garnered the Wisconsin Visual Art Achievement Award: Legacy Award in 2020 and the Milwaukee Arts Board Artist of the Year in 2021.
Lot 25
Guy Nelson Apple Valley, Minnesota
Milkweed , 2025
Acrylic on linen
Sponsored by Dr. William F. Wosick.
36 x 30 inches
Range: $3,500 – 3,750
Guy Nelson lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Born in Fargo, North Dakota, he holds an MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and a BA from Minnesota State University Moorhead. Nelson is the most recent selected artist for the Museum’s Art Makers series. His solo exhibition, Tales from the Understory , was held in the spring, accompanied by a published catalogue. Nelson has exhibited in multiple solo exhibitions, including WICK in Minneapolis, MN; Transmitter Gallery in NY; ChaShaMa in NY; and the SpringBreak Art Show in NY. Recent group exhibitions include 325 Project Space in Queens, NY, and the De Vos Art Museum in Marquette, MI.
Lot 26
Justin Sorensen
Bowling Green, Ohio
Untitled , 2012
Graphite on acrylic ground on paper
22.375 x 29.75 inches
Range: $1,900 – 2,200
All proceeds of this sale donated to the Museum by the artist.
Justin Sorensen is an Ohio-based artist whose work explores time, religion, technology, and literature. Working across drawing, sculpture, performance, and installation, his practice ranges from durational projects to intuitive investigations.
He earned his BFA from Kutztown University and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Sorensen’s work has been exhibited at David Krut Projects (New York, NY), Wesley Theological Seminary (Washington, DC), Divisible (Dayton, OH), the Granoff Center (Providence, RI), Beeler Gallery (Columbus, OH), Space Place (Russia), and Urban Shaman (Canada). In 2016, he presented Stalking the Snow Leopard at the North Dakota Museum of Art as part of the Art Makers Series. In 2018, he received a fellowship from the Nagel Institute to study art and religion in China. Most recently, he was awarded an Individual Excellence Award (2D) from the Ohio Arts Council for 2025.
Sponsored by Mangata Medical Spa.
Lot
27
Tia Keobounpheng
Minneapolis, Minnesota Artist, 2025
Pencil, colored pencil, thread on wood
12 x 6 inches
Range: $2,400 – 2,600
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 was on view in 2023. Keobounpheng’s work is part of the permanent collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, 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 28
Ingrid Restemayer
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Year of the Golden Elephant , 2019
Etching and hand-embroidery
49.5 x 25.5 inches
Range: $3,000 – 3,500
I am a fiber artist and printmaker originally from North Dakota now based in Minneapolis, MN. My work is made up of recognizable imagery in the form of intricate etchings on handmade papers, collaged and punctuated by hand-embroidery. My continual lines of running stitches and fields of French knots were born out of inspiration from the windblown spaces of the Northern Plains. Though fiber is not typically a minimalist medium, my work emulates this peaceful beauty in its monotony while also conveying calmness through repetition, at times with a hint of storytelling.
The etchings themselves are intimate studies of individual animals. I explore not the textbook form of the species, but rather the expressions conveyed by their organic movements captured in a still, illustrated moment of individual personality.
I stitch by hand, using needle and thread–not by machine. This is the age of instant electronic communication. Sustainable tactics in art creation, things made by the human hand often have the power to promote further human interaction. I want my work to remind society that nonmechanized art and imagery is still achievable and experiential.
Lot 29
Diana Thorneycroft
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Battle of Queenston Heights (Battle of 1812) , 2013
Digital photograph ed. 11/20 20 x 30 inches
Range: $2,900 – 3,200
Diana Thorneycroft is a Winnipeg artist who has exhibited across Canada, the US and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo and Sydney. In 2019, Thorneycroft embraced stop-motion animation, premiering Black Forest Sanatorium at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Thorneycroft has won many awards, including the Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction, and the Winnipeg Arts Council Making a Mark Award, among others.
This photograph is from a series called ‘Canadians and Americans (best friends forever…it’s complicated).’ According to the artist, The poster I had made for the backdrop is ‘The Battle of Queenston Heights’ by James Dennis (1778-1855). This was the first major battle in the War of 1812, and despite the Americans having more soldiers and power, the result was a British victory. In my photograph the NFL football players outnumber the CFL hockey players, but flying pucks are doing more damage than the footballs. Both Canada and the US claim victory, but in truth, it was the First Nations people who truly lost out. High up on the hill you can see a warrior overlooking the immigrants fighting over his land.
Lot 30
Lewis Ableidinger
Harvey, North Dakota
Sponsored by C&M Ford.
Abode of Iron Desolation (Near Tuttle, ND) , 2020
Archival inkjet print
15.75 x 19.75 inches
Range: $500 – 800
Lewis Ableidinger (b. 1983) grew up on a farm near Kensal, ND. He attended Minnesota State University Moorhead and received a BS in Graphic Communications (2006) and a Bachelor of Music (2007). In 2023 he published his first monograph, Driving Through Flyover Country , with “Subjectively Objective”. Driving Through Flyover Country is an examination of the people and places of the Midwestern United States. Lewis currently lives in Harvey, ND, where he works as an engineer for CPKC Railway as well as in freelance photojournalism. His photos have appeared in The New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , Bloomberg Businessweek , and other publications.
Lot 31
Wayne Gudmundson
Bad Medicine Lake, Minnesota and Tucson, Arizona #20-757 , 2024
Archival Piezography ink print with nine shades of black, Edition of 3 12.5 x 16.5 inches
Range: $1,000 – 1,400
Born in Fargo, ND, Gudmundson earned his MFA in photography from the University of Minnesota. His photographs are in the collections of many institutions, including: the Museum of Modern Art, Center for Creative Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Denver Art Museum, and The Library of Congress. His photographs have appeared in eleven books, several public television documentaries, and an expansive number of exhibitions over the past fifty-three years. He taught photography for twenty-five years in the department of Mass Communications at Minnesota State University Moorhead. For several years, he served as director of the New Rivers Press, the oldest nonprofit literary press in the country. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus and divides his time between Minnesota, Arizona, and France.
Lot 32
Wayne Gudmundson
Bad Medicine Lake, Minnesota and Tucson, Arizona #21-952 , 2024
Archival Piezography ink print with nine shades of black, Edition of 3 12.5 x 16.5 inches
Range: $1,000 – 1,400
In June of 2024, Gudmundson carried out an extended photo shoot in the village of Trampot, France. A French non-profit named AlléesAvenues, dedicated to the education and preservation of tree-lined avenues, invited him for this shoot which resulted in a subtle but stunning series of beautiful black and white photographs.
It is clear that these landscapes in France resonated with the North Dakota native. For those familiar with Gudmundson’s work, there is a similar sensibility infused here not only in the glimpses of vast open terrain interrupted by trees, but by the balance between nature and humanity. As noted by his French hosts, Gudmundson seemed to feel at home in the Trampot landscape.
Lot 33
Nancy Friese
Cranston, Rhode Island
Avondale Farm Preserve Spring , 2007
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Range: $10,000 – 15,000
Nancy Friese works in arboretums, national land trusts, and open-air sites. She resides in Rhode Island and North Dakota. Her numerous grants and fellowships include two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the Japan-US Friendship Commission Creative Artist Fellowship, a Giverny Fellowship, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her work has shown in the USA, Europe, China, and Japan and is in corporate and museum collections. She has an MFA from Yale University and studied at the University of California-Berkeley, the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and Yale University Summer School of Music and Art. She teaches at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD.) Nancy served on the RISD Museum Board of Governors and the North Dakota Museum of Art Foundation among others. Most recent 2025 solo shows were at the Armory’s IFPDA in NY and at the Florence Griswold Museum in CT. Sponsored by McGough Construction.
Lot 34
Marley Kaul
Bemidji, Minnesota
A Myth Revisited , 2020
Egg tempera on panel 19.5 x 15.5 inches
Range: $3,900 – 4,200
Sponsored by Altru.
Marley Kaul’s paintings have been included in nearly every one of the twenty-eight 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. The new book, Marley Kaul, Paintings released this September is now available in the Museum Gift Shop.
Lot 35
Roberta Paul
Newton, Massachusetts
3:00pm , 2001
Acrylic on panel
15 x 13 inches
Range: $2,500 – 3,000
All proceeds of this sale donated to the Museum by the artist.
Boston-based Roberta Paul received her MFA from the University of North Dakota. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her works are in the collections of several museums and private collections. Her keen eye and incisive use of line capture a range of subjects from people, animals, as well as inanimate objects, all with the same invigorating energy, passion, and curiosity about the world. Paul is also deeply invested in the bonds we form with other people. In her series of clock drawings, she lovingly copies drawings made by her father that were produced for neurological testing. Tracing and expanding his drawings became a process of collaboration, reproducing his line made her feel like her father was with her while at the same time, working on such an enlarged scale, transformed his line into her line. Clocks also serve as universal markers of time, reminding us to cherish rather than fear time.
Lot 36
Punchgut
Fargo, North Dakota
Smiley , 2024
Mixed media
20 x 11 x 9.5 inches
Range: $700 – 900
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 internationa l art shows. He’s 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 37
SHOCK UC MSK
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Untitled (Rapture Sports) , 2024
Spray paint, house paint, and marker, on industrial plexiglass sign 18 x 12 inches
Range: $500 – 600
SHOCK UC MSK is a painter, sculptor, and multidisciplinary artist whose practice emerges from the lineage of graffiti writing, reimagined for the present moment. A member of the legendary MSK crew, he has spent the past two decades building a body of work rooted in movement, adaptation, and raw creative force. He developed a reputation not only for his distinctive visual style but also for his relentless work ethic and commitment to the evolution of the form. At the core of his work is a deep relationship with surface, material, and site, often painting on salvaged industrial objects.
A respected figure in both underground and institutional context s, SHOCK has exhibited nationally and continues to produce ambitious projects across disciplines. His work resists convention, favors intuition, and reflects the world back to us unfiltered, layered, and alive.
Lot 38
Francisco Reyes Jr.
Lakewood, California
Cut The Shit , 2020
Serigraph, Artist Proof
24 x 18 inches
Range: $500 – 800
Francisco Reyes Jr., also known as Never Made, is a Los Angeles-born and raised artist and designer whose work spans fine art, limited edition screen prints, merchandise, and large-scale murals. With over 15 years of experience in graphic design, Francisco’s roots in music and skateboarding shaped a relentless DIY ethic that continues to guide his creative path.
Reyes has taken on commissioned work for top clients like Lana Del Rey, Wrangler Jeans, Osiris, Hurley, Epitaph Records, and Hellcat Records. As he continues to blur the lines between design agency, art, and merchandise, Francisco is steadily growing Never Made into both a brand and a visual language—rooted in the ethos that things are never made; they’re earned through discipline, hustle, and persistence.
Lot 39
Ryan Stander
Minot, North Dakota
Untitled , 2024
Lithograph
12.5 x 8.5 inches
Range: $400 – 600
Ryan Stander is an Associate Professor of Art at Minot State University where he teaches photography, directs the BFA program, and co-directs Flat Tail Press. This body of work explores the experiences associated with traumas’ undoing of a life and body. Using self-portraiture as an investigative tool, the work explores the effects of health-related trauma. Each image is rooted in personal experiences grappling with the ambiguities of fear and hope, life, death, and legacy, as well as family and community. More than objects, these self-portraits are a therapeutic and confessional way to reclaim agency in one’s own narrative.
According to the artist, On April 23, 2022, my son’s birthday, I was diagnosed with a massive tumor in my chest. In an instant, my life was turned upside down and unraveled into steady stream of appointments, tests, and biopsies. Finally, a diagnosis and lifesaving surgery came. Yet, this journey will never be over. Trauma is the suffering that remains.
Lot 40
Michael Conlan
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Tree Row in White , 2023
Oil on canvas
39.375 X 39.375 inches
Range: $3,000 – 4,000
Michael Conlan is a visual artist and educator living in Grand Forks, ND. He is an Assistant Professor of Visual Art at the University of North Dakota. Conlan’s interdisciplinary studio practice draws upon the artistic tradition of depicting the American landscape, with a focus on the Northern Plains. Conlan’s abstraction of the landscape motif down to its basic formal properties centers around the idea of place and his relationship with the "prairie."
The subject of Conlan’s work primarily focuses on the region’s vernacular motifs and historical depictions of the openness of the prairie landscape. The vast prairie landscape and its multifunctional horizon line serve as a transitional element that acts as both a separation and a unifier. A celebration of the horizon line within a field of white is a recurring theme he employs in multiple bodies of work. The abstraction of the horizon/ transitional line allows Conlan to explore the landscape in non-traditional means by employing formal studies of making and conceptual meaning.
Lot 41
Dan Jones
Fargo, North Dakota
Property Line XII, 2025 Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches
Range: $2,800 – 3,200
Dan Jones is among the best known painters of the landscape of western Minnesota and southeastern North Dakota. The Red River Valley provides Jones with endless subjects, from moonlit plowed fields to 100-year-old barns. Jones, a native of Fargo, ND, didn’t start painting until the early 1980s. In 2013, the North Dakota Museum of Art published the book Dan Jones: Charcoal written by Founding Museum Director Laurel Reuter, who also curated the accompanying exhibition. Fellow North Dakota artist Terry Jelsing states, Dan has a love of the landscape tradition, with its historical roots, but he’s also developed a vision all his own. When viewers look at his work, they may see a grove of trees on a sunny afternoon, fields strewn with hay bales and distant buildings, but Dan’s vertical/horizontal organization of shape, line and color remind me of the abstract expressionists. The mood of his work is neither melancholic nor cheerful, reminiscent of artists such as Diebenkorn, Wolf Kahn, and Clyfford Still, evoking a kind of quiet emptiness, humanly warm and untouchably transient.
Lot
42
Marley Kaul
Bemidji, Minnesota
Ascension Gravity Denied , 1994
Acrylic on canvas
47 x 64 inches
Range: $5,900 – 6,100
Sponsored by All Seasons Garden Center.
Marley Kaul was born in Good Thunder, Minnesota, in 1939. Growing up on a family farm, Kaul experienced the rhythms of agrarian life, which deeply influenced his artistic vision. In 1962 Kaul earned a Bachelor of Science in secondary art education at Mankato State University. While there, he met art student Sandra Staehle, and they married in fall 1962. He accepted a one-year teaching position at Bemidji State University, which turned into a 30-year tenure track role. He took a year’s leave of absence to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in painting at the University of Oregon, Eugene. Returning to BSU in northern Minnesota, Professor Kaul inspired generations of students in painting and drawing. Continuing to create his own artworks in oil, watercolor, casein, gouache, and egg tempera, Professor Kaul was also a working artist and a role model for students.
Lot 43
Adam Kemp
Grand Forks, North Dakota
White Tree, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 inches
Range: $1,600 – 2,000
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.
Lot 44
Delia Touché
Fargo, North Dakota
Owinza Wanagi, 2022
Woodcut relief
29 x 21.5 inches
Range: $650 – 850
Delia Touché was born in Devils Lake, North Dakota and is part of the Spirit Lake Nation. They are a Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Assiniboine artist based in the Midwest. Their work acknowledges the estranged and complex relationship they have with their Indigenous culture. Their practice is influenced by familial archive, Dakota and Assiniboine cultural framework, Native nuances, gallows humor, Indigenous diaspora and pop culture. Delia has exhibited at the M Contemporary Art (Ferndale, Michigan), Plains Art Museum (Fargo, North Dakota), The Art Galleries at Austin Community College (Austin, TX), Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan), BULK Space (Detroit, Michigan), Minnesota Center for Book Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota) among others including venues in Europe. They hold a BFA in Drawing from Minnesota State University Moorhead and a MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art where they received the Gilbert Fellowship.
Lot 45
Walter Piehl
Minot, North Dakota
Head Case II: American Minotaur , 2025
Acyrlic, mixed media
24 x 30 inches
Range: $3,700 – 4,100
Featured in Cowboys and Indians, Nancy Coggeshall reflects on the career of Walter Piehl: The action in Piehl’s work derives from his process. He begins with a flourish of colored-chalk outlines to underpin the image. He slaps, dribbles, and smears acrylic pain t on the canvas quickly and energetically, something he wants his viewers to perceive. His use of bold primary and secondary colors, along with strong brushstrokes, conveys the action and danger of rodeo. Virile and vibrant, his work thrums and thuds, jolts and jars. Cowboys say that’s exactly how rodeo feels.
He is still with his wife, Becky, whom he met ‘at the pencil sharpener’ in the first grade, dated in high school, and married after college. Piehl taught at Minot State from 1970 until recently, living with his family near where he started out in life, in view of prairie and horses and immersed in the cultures he champions.
Lot 46
Walter Piehl
Minot, North Dakota
Pink Corriente Blue Horns: Skull Series , 2025
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Range: $3,700 – 4,100
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. The artist 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.
Lot 47
Frank Sampson
Boulder, Colorado
What’s For Supper, 2024
Acrylic on panel
28 x 31 inches
Range: $2,400 – 2,600
Frank Sampson is inspired by his mother’s tall tales of animals and the circus. Sampson, 97, is a native of rural Edmore, North Dakota but moved to Boulder, Colorado where he became a professor of art at the University of Colorado. Born and raised on a farm, Sampson was the fourth of five sons. For his first eight grades of school, he attended a two-room country school, where he had no art instruction. But that didn’t fetter his urge to create. I would copy art on calendars — usually they were paintings — and Christmas cards , he recalled.
In 2019, at the age of 92, the Museum mounted Sampson’s retrospective exhibition of paintings and prints. Sampson, wishing a bulk of his work would stay in his home state museum, donated 62 works of art to the permanent collection. At 97, Frank spends his days in his studio where he continues to paint and prepare for exhibitions around the US.
Lot 48
Talon Stammen
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Till det Nya Landet, Amerika (To the New Land, America) , 2025 Cottonwood, milk paint
Chest: 19.5 x 28 x 14, Vessel: 18 x 8.5 x 18.5 inches
Range: $1,000 – 1,200
Talon Stammen, PhD, is a naturalist and craftsman whose work is rooted in the ecology of the boreal forest. He earned his doctorate in Biology at the University of North Dakota and conducted ecological fieldwork in Voyageurs National Park. Based out of the log home he built by hand on Lake of the Woods, Minnesota, he continues a family legacy of fine woodworking, crafting boxes and bowls that explore the relationship between form and function, linking art and ecology. Introduced to the craft at the bench of his grandfather, Arthur Grabowski, he works with traditional tools and raw materials to create pieces that embody both utility and beauty. His work—whether in science or in craft—reflects a lifelong exploration of the structures that shape life and the enduring bond between Man and Nature.
Lot 49
Linda Olson
Minot, North Dakota
Aesthetic East , 2025
Shino glazed stoneware
5.375 x 15.5 x 15.5 inches
Range: $300 – 600
Linda Olson is a professor emeritus at Minot State University. She serves as a North Dakota Council on the Arts representative and is the president of the Board of the American Rock Art Research Association, a non-profit dedicated to the conservation and education of petroglyph and pictograph sites. Olson’s artwork is exhibited in regional galleries as well as national juried exhibitions. Her work is in several public collections including the Skien, Norway Art Center, University of North Dakota, Bemidji State University, the Wind River Historical Center and several private collections.
According to the artist, I get lost in the process, and I find that the most important aspect of making. I am inspired by the most recent experiences and works I make to push further, investigating and growing. I hope that the viewer finds joy in these objects.
Lot 50
Jalen DeCoteau
Lincoln, Nebraska
FANCY SHAWL , 2024
Ink on paper
19.75 x 25.75 inches
Range: $250 – 500
Jalen DeCoteau is an illustrator from the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota. He received a BFA in Visual Arts with a drawing emphasis from the University of North Dakota and is currently attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for his MFA in studio art. Jalen’s work is influenced by his experiences of living on the reservation and the comic books and graphic novels he read growing up.
In the artist’s own words, I explore themes of history, resilience, and identity in contemporary Native American culture. While the work directly alludes to the past, present, and future effects of co lonization on American Indigenous life and culture, I emphasize the characters’ strength and resilience as they navigate evolving traditions within a world undergoing rapid change. Contemporary cultural events such as the powwow serve as a backdrop to much of my work to celebrate the adaptability of Native traditions, while I critique historical events which are impactful to Indigenous people by satirizing popular media and Native stereotypes.
