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Au t umn Art Auction volume 26 | 2026

North Dakota Museum of Art

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Capital Resource Management "U Take the Subway," Punchgut Punchgut (Fargo, North Dakota) U Take the Subway, 2012, mixed media, 36 x 24 inches. 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. 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.

"Maple Memory Box with Carved Leaf," Talon Stammen Talon Stamen (Grand Forks, North Dakota) Maple Memory Box with Carved Leaf, 2026, dovetailed red maple sides, pine base and lid, milk paint and shellac, 8 x 17 x 17 inches. Talon Stammen, PhD, is a naturalist and craftsman whose work is rooted in the ecology of the boreal forest. 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. How to Purchase: Contact the Museum directly or buy your tickets at the event. Tickets are $25 each or $40 for two. Chances to win one or both works of art. Need not be present to win. Drawing held at the conclusion of the Live Auction.

Lot 1 Blaire Engel

Minot, North Dakota This is Our Land, 2026 High fire ceramic

18 x 23 x 10.5 inches Range: $250 – 350

Blaire Engel is a ceramic artist and educator based in Minot, ND. She holds a BFA from Brandon University and is currently an MFA candidate at Vermont State University. Her current work focuses on her relationship to the land in ND and back home in Canada. Her sculptures of birds not only symbolize this relationship visually, but also physically with the incorporation of gathered organic materials.

Lot 2 Sue Bradbury

Grand Forks, North Dakota Bouquet 036, 2023 Fabric on canvas

12 x 12 inches Range: $250 – 400

Sue Bradbury is a visual artist and designer living and working in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Sue studied visual art and design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA. Her work primarily explores traditional ideas of beauty through contemporary materials and functional design. Sue’s fine art studio practice runs alongside a successful fashion design practice, where she uses contemporary materials and transforms them into garments and accessories that explore beauty, function, and discovery.

Lot 3 Patricia Marquard

Minot, North Dakota Cologne Cathedral, Interior, Exterior, 2005 Watercolor

37.25 x 27.25 inches Range: $700 – 900

In the artist's own words, 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 exhibits yearly. I am enjoying participating in art auctions, specifically the NDMOA Art Auction. 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 mediums are oil, watercolor and colored pencil.

Lot 4 Linda Olson

Minot, North Dakota Little Linden Leaves, 2024 Stoneware

9 x 14 x 14 inches Range: $550 – 650

Since 1990, Linda Olson has taught studio arts at Minot State University. Currently she is a full professor and chair of their Division of Art and Professional Communication. Having been required to wear many hats during her lifetime, Olson enjoys working with several art forms; ceramics being her medium of choice. Since 1988, Olson has been researching and documenting Native American rock art sites in the United States. Her art and ceramics take inspiration from this practice, utilizing earthen colors, sand, and rock. For this work, leaves have been imprinted around the vessel, leaving a space where the natural element would have been prior to firing. The juxtaposition of the lightened areas to the rest of the vessel is reminiscent of figures one might find upon rocks across the west.

Lot 5 Christine Kirouac Winnipeg, Manitoba Cottonwood, 2026 Colored pencil on paper

20 x 16 inches Range: $500 – 600

Christine Kirouac is a Winnipeg-based Métis artist and writer whose interdisciplinary projects are a negotiation between (dis)placement and (non)acceptance. Through her provocative artwork, she combines humor, fearlessness and personal intimacy to expose the struggles of translating and transcribing “belonging.” In her alluring, absurd, and open-ended artwork Kirouac prefers a trail of impressions and questions to linger. Her quest has evolved across various forms, but her commitment to drawing has become an act of preserving not only memories of place but also of herself. Her drawings house her experiences.

All proceeds of this sale donated to the Museum by Thomas Barry Fine Arts.

Lot 6 Ken Moylan

Minneapolis, Minnesota Easel Painting #1, 1989 Oil paint on panel, birch, and cherry wood veneer on wood 77 x 18 x 3 inches Range: $4,000 – 5,000 Ken Moylan combines many traditional and historical styles, materials and techniques of painting, sculpture and architecture within his finely crafted images and objects. Executed in intricate detail and created with a variety of materials and techniques appropriate to the subject, culture and historical context of each individual piece, Moylan's artwork defies the categories of painting or sculpture. Instead he combines the two media to create hybrid image/objects that integrate realist painting into an architectural frame, meticulously designed and constructed in forced perspective. Moylan integrates a variety of materials such as wood veneer, faux stone, gold or silver leaf into his objects and frames to enhance the beauty, illusion or realism of his work. This work, Easel Painting #1, was the first in a series of four easel paintings.

Lot 7 Lewis Ableidinger

Harvey, North Dakota Farmstead South of Denhoff, ND, 2024 Archival inkjet print 15 x 20 inches Range: $350 – 450 Lewis Ableidinger (b. 1983) grew up on a farm near Kensal, ND. He attended Minnesota State University Moorhead where he was able to study with photographer Wayne Gudmundson and graduated in 2007 with a B.S. in Graphic Communications and a Bachelor of Music. In 2023 Lewis published his first monograph, Driving Through Flyover Country, which documented the landscape and people of the Midwest. He was a Top 50 Finalist for Photolucida Critical Mass 2025 and a recipient of the 2025 Critical Mass Michael Reichmann Anniversary Prize. Lewis's photographs have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and Bloomberg Businessweek. Lewis lives in Harvey, ND, where he works as a locomotive engineer and freelance photographer.

Lot 8 Lewis Ableidinger

Harvey, North Dakota Sunset South of Kongsberg, ND, 2024 Archival inkjet print 15 x 20 inches Range: $350 – 450 Ableidinger uses the landscapes of the northern Great Plains of North America to explore themes of memory, life, death, and afterlife. He states, As one gets older the prospect of death becomes more prevalent, not only of your own life but of those around you. People you envisioned living forever when you were young are suddenly gone, and you know the same fate awaits you at some point in the future. This allows me to explore some of the questions about the afterlife and perhaps even find solace in that no one is ever really gone if we remember them.

All proceeds of this sale donated to the Museum by the artist.

Lot 9 Armando Ramos Ventura, California Fragment Still, 2025 Clay and metal 19 x 13 x 13 inches Range: $1,400 – 1,600

Armando Ramos, based in California, is a contemporary artist and educator known for his sculptures, ceramics, and paintings. He currently heads the Sculpture Department and chairs the Art Department at Santa Barbara City College, exploring themes of duality and tension in his artistic practice. In Fragment Still, a blue ceramic egg is poised atop a twisted steel frame, which functions as a sort of setting, as if for a precious jewel. In this case, he presents us with an image that evokes the natural world and birth cycle alongside consumerist materials and production. This series of clay sculptures uses primary lines to explore the complexities of space, manipulating line thickness to convey depth. The lines traverse the space, some bending or curving in response to gravity, while others remain rigid and unyielding. Color accents punctuate the edges of each form, expanding and intensifying their contours.

All proceeds of this sale donated to the Museum by the artist.

Lot 10 Armando Ramos Ventura, California Tamulate, 2025 Clay 22 x 12 x 12 inches Range: $1,700 – 1,900

Armando Ramos was the second artist featured in the Museum's Art Makers Series, in 2015. Underwritten by Dr. William F. Wosick, the Art Makers award is given annually to regional artists, or those with connections to the region, to support the creation of new works based on a singular idea or theme. Ramos was also featured earlier this year in the Museum exhibition, Art Makers: 10 Years, celebrating the legacy of the Series. Excerpt from a recent exhibition, My art practice serves as a playful counterpoint to the darker images and ideas that bombard us through mass culture. I utilize irony and humor to evoke a sense of parody in my work. As an artist, I am interested in the manipulation of images from everyday life and popular culture, and I explore how this visual information can be redirected to give life to my creations.

Lot 11 William Charles Harbort aka Billy Chuck Minot, North Dakota Dakota Love, 2026 Mixed media collage

28 x 40 x 1 inches Range: $500 – 600

Bill Harbort, also known as Billy Chuck, is a Minot based graphic designer, illustrator, and collage artist. Apart from making art he is also a professor at Minot State University since 1996 and co-founder/ organizer of NOTSTOCK, an annual hands-on arts event. Working mainly with torn paper, ephemera, kitsch objects, and paint, he describes his style as Pop Art Collage. His work deals with themes of true love, temptation, and existence beyond this time and place.

Lot 12 James Culleton

Winnipeg, Manitoba Crow and Barbed Wire, 2026 Powder coated steel

20.5 x 48 inches Range: $700 – 900

James Culleton is a Canadian multimedia artist and designer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is a multifaceted designer who uses his skills as a painter, sculptor, and musician to feed his passion for creativity. Known for his use of blind contour drawing, his work can be seen all over Winnipeg. His public art graces the façade of the West End Cultural Centre and he has published three books of his drawings. Culleton graduated from Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba in 1998 and was hired as a designer by Palliser Furniture shortly after, assuming the role of Design Director. Today, his designs can be seen across stores in North America and have claimed multiple awards, the most recent from the American Society of Furniture Designers. Images of birds appear often in his work, with crows being the most frequented by the artist. Currently he teaches design at Red River College in Winnipeg.

Lot 13 Barbara Hatfield

New York, New York A Poem in Four Verses, 2005 Ink on paper

All proceeds of this sale donated to the Museum. 12.5 x 9.5 inches each Range: $2,500 – 3,000

I've presented solo exhibitions in New York, Minnesota and North Dakota. My work is in numerous private collections in the United States, Japan, Switzerland, France and Germany and in the permanent collection of the North Dakota Museum of Art. The subject matter of my work is time and space, an exploration of emptiness as a lively, active force. My vision and sensibility is shaped, in part, by the openness of my native landscape where I could see the ever-present dome of sky as it changed through hours and seasons. Important influences include my study of the poetic and philosophical lessons of Asian art. My work, conceptually rich and often visually spare, reflects nature's directness and its paradoxical strengths and fragilities. The pleasure of working with my hands and my appreciation for the integrity of my materials is endlessly engaging. —Barbara Hatfield

Lot 14 Barton Lidicé Beneš New York, New York Ossuary, 2001 Screenprint, ed 40/40

All proceeds of this sale donated to the Museum. 29 x 34 inches Range: $3,000 – 5,000

Barton Lidicé Beneš was born in Westwood, New Jersey, November 16, 1942, and educated in the early 1960s at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Beneš became internationally known in the 1980s as a “money artist” when he used recycled currency as a collage medium on sculptural and flat forms. In 1989, Beneš had his first solo show in North Dakota as part of the grand opening of the North Dakota Museum of Art in its new home, a renovated 1907 gymnasium on the campus of the University of North Dakota. Later in life, Barton began making “Museum Pieces,” displays of collectible objects (often belonging to well-known personalities) and relics, which he mounted, labeled, and placed in museum-like containers. The North Dakota Museum of Art’s Donor Wall, created by Barton, exemplifies this style.

Lot 15 Deborahmae Broad

Twin Valley, Minnesota Pride, 2020 Wood engraving with screenprint colors 18 x 24 inches Range: $500 – 700 Deborahmae Broad was born in Newport News, Virginia in 1954. After graduating from Southern Seminary Junior College in Buena Vista, Virginia in 1975 with an Equitation studies certificate, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia in 1977 and then a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennesee in 1980. Since her childhood, horses have been a constant subject in her artistic practice, as well as, everyday life, now living with all of her animals on a 240 acre farm near Twin Valley, Minnesota. She states, I have a strong interest in the emotional lives of animals and how they fit in the world.

Lot 16 Samuel Johnson

Saint Joseph, Minnesota Bud Plates, 2025 Ash glaze on stoneware

All proceeds of this sale donated to the Museum by the artist. 11 inch diameter (6 plates) Range: $400 – 500

Samuel Johnson was born on the Eastern prairie of the Red River Valley in 1973. After studying painting and ceramics at the University of Minnesota at Morris, his practice began as an apprentice of Richard Bresnahan, founder and director of the Saint John's Pottery. Over the next five years, his work evolved from his travels to New York, Denmark, and Japan, where he researched Scandinavian Ceramic design, assisted in private porcelain studios, and collaborated with Japanese ceramicist Koie Ryoji. Since earning his graduate degree in fine art from the University of Iowa, he has been teaching at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University (MN). In an interview with Voyage Chicago, he states, I wasn't initially drawn toward making unglazed utilitarian pottery with dark surfaces, but over time, I began to see this as a way to evoke a sense of mystery and stillness. Both seemed an effective response to a culture which celebrates quick and insignificant revelations. My work is also imprecise. When shaping a vessel, I might use a tool to scrape or beat a form that may otherwise seem rigidly structured and symmetrically balanced. Sometimes small stones in the clay crack and burst through the surface. The clay and fire are both irregular and natural forces. But when one thinks about it, so are we.

Lot 17 Beth Dorsey

Minneapolis, Minnesota Chaotic Patterns I, 2025 Monoprint

23 x 23 inches Range: $600 – 800

Beth Dorsey is a Minneapolis based printmaker whose work evolves from the layering of images, marks, and colors. Domestic and industrial elements provide the main inspiration for her work. Through a process of happenstance, she creates imagery of blinds, woven scraps, building facades, windows, and textured materials. Her work begins with a plan but when the unexpected happens, she leans into and builds upon the irregularities and unintentional.

Lot 18 Beth Dorsey

Minneapolis, Minnesota Chaotic Patterns II, 2025 Monoprint

23 x 23 inches Range: $600 – 800

According to the artist, My interest in printmaking is long standing, starting during my undergraduate years. Printmaking is a process of working in layers. Typically, when I start a series, I have only a vague idea of what I want to create, through the process of adding layers, the work emerges and a direction develops. I am intrigued with repetition within patterns, and ways to slyly manipulate and break their rhythm. A metaphor for life.

Lot 19 Bernice Ficek-Swenson Golden Valley, Minnesota Disintegration, 2025 Archival pigment print

15 x 45 inches Range: $500 – 1,000

For over 30 years former North Dakota resident Bernice Ficek-Swenson has explored her imagery based on soil and stones from historic, political and spiritual sites. This long-investigated theme spans her photography, book arts, and installations which have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her most recent solo exhibition was Language of the Land at the Strata Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Reflecting on her image, Disintegration, Strata Gallery director Jennifer Van wrote, “Bernice Ficek-Swenson’s soil-based compositions echo the layered history of the land itself, reminding us of the quiet power of environmental memory.”

Lot 20 Morgan Reeder Fargo, North Dakota Continuum, 2025 Oil painting on fabric

43 x 48 inches Range: $1,500 – 2,000

Morgan Reeder is an interdisciplinary artist based in Fargo, North Dakota, currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at North Dakota State University. With a foundation in painting and sculpture, Reeder’s practice explores surrealism, the figure, and the environment through experimental media. Influenced by artists such as Peter Deligdisch and Salvador Dalí, her work merges intricate detail and abstraction with dreamlike imagery. Since 2022, Reeder has exhibited regionally in juried exhibitions and public art projects, including Fargo’s Utility Box Project and the Downtown Fargo Streetlight Gallery. Currently, Reeder is investigating the human relationship with the environment by creating non-traditional painting surfaces and incorporating mixed media to construct a multidimensional narrative.

Lot 21 Jalen DeCoteau Lincoln, Nebraska INTERTRIBAL, 2025 Ink on paper

18 x 24 inches Range: $800 – 900

Jalen DeCoteau is an illustrator and comic creator from Belcourt, North Dakota, and is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. Jalen received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art with an emphasis in drawing from the University of North Dakota, where he spent time learning how to make comics. Now Jalen is pursuing his Masters of Fine Arts in Studio Art with a dual emphasis in Drawing and Printmaking at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, using his work to tell stories that draw from the interpretive nature of the Oral Tradition, influenced by his life growing up on the Turtle Mountain Reservation.

Lot 22 David Opdyke

Ridgewood, New York Supply Side, 2006

Ink on paper 14 x 17 inches Range: $1,800 – 2,000

Born in post-industrial Schenectady, New York in 1969, David Opdyke makes artwork that explores globalization, capitalism, and civilization’s abusive relationship with the environment. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the North Dakota Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum and the Washington Convention Center in DC. Awards include NYFA Fellowships, a NYC Percent for Art commission, and residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell. In 2024, WNET Public Media commissioned him to create a 30-minute animation which premiered on PBS broadcast and streaming platforms. His project Someday, all this was featured in Climate Week NYC 2022 at the Javits Center, and was installed in a pop-up collaboration with the Climate Museum in Soho. Monacelli Press/Phaidon published a book based on his large-scale postcard project This Land, including essays by Lawrence Weschler and Maya Wiley. He lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens (NY).

Lot 23 EWOK HM MSK

Santa Ana, California Transmission 080626, 2026 Spray paint on paper

24 x 18 inches Range: $2,000 – 3,000

George R. Thompson IV (EWOK HM MSK) is an American painter, muralist, graphic designer, and graffiti writer whose work has helped define the visual language of contemporary graffiti for more than three decades. A founding member of HM (Heavy Metal) and later an internationally recognized member of AWR (Art Work Rebels) and MSK (Mad Society Kings), Thompson has developed one of the most distinctive approaches to letter-based painting to emerge from American graffiti. Rooted in the formal discipline of the letter while continually expanding its possibilities, his practice moves fluidly between graffiti, abstraction, and contemporary painting through works on paper, canvas, murals, and public commissions. Thompson lives and works in California.

Lot 24 SHOCK UC MSK

Minneapolis, Minnesota Areciebo, 2026 Copper, ceramic, threaded rod, glass bowl, bolts, springs, and plastic 27.75 x 6 x 7 inches Range: $2,500 – 3,500 SHOCK is a prolific graffiti artist based in the Twin Cities, encompassing Saint Paul and Minneapolis. With a career spanning over 22 years, SHOCK has lived in and drawn inspiration from Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia, cities that have significantly influenced his artistic evolution. His creative process draws from science and science fiction, elements of the natural world, Futurism, ancient symbols, early computer art, and Art Deco. He is captivated by the raw beauty found in corporate art, abandoned buildings, industrial electrical equipment, blueprints, and infographics. Moving between Midwestern cityscapes, he built a reputation on work ethic, commitment to the craft, and style. His practice spans diverse mediums, including performance, video, sculpture, design, clothing, magazine publications, graffiti, printmaking, music, and writing. Currently, SHOCK creates art from objects salvaged from abandoned warehouses, grain silos, factory floors, and overlooked spaces across the country. These objects, with their unique histories, serve as raw materials for his transformative art.

Lot 25 Sarah Hultin

Park River, North Dakota A Layer of Me, 2026 Mixed media and oil on panel

72 x 48 inches Range: $4,000 – 4,500

Sarah Hultin is a North Dakota artist whose paintings and mixed-media works are rooted in the rural landscape of the northern plains. She draws inspiration from weathered farmsteads, old houses, open fields, changing skies, and the textures of aging walls and interiors. Blending expressive abstraction with recognizable imagery, Hultin explores memory, place, resilience, and the ways personal history becomes embedded in the spaces we inhabit. She works from her studio in Park River, North Dakota. A Layer of Me reflects the idea that our history becomes a layer of us. The places we have lived, the experiences we carry, and the landscapes that shape us remain present even as we continue to change.

Lot 26 Dan Jones

Fargo, North Dakota Property Line, 2026 Charcoal on paper 6 x 18 inches Range: $1,500 – 1,800 Dan Jones is a painter of place, his own place, the utterly flat landscape of the Red River Valley and the rolling hills that flank the forty-milewide and two-hundred-mile-long valley, which isn’t a valley at all but the flood plain of the ancient Lake Agassiz. Meandering through the Valley today is the Red River of the North, slowly making its way from its source at the northeastern tip of South Dakota to the Hudson Bay, some 550 winding miles north. The prairie slough along with its sister marshlands, the wooded rivers and draws, the undulating wetlands, fully occupy the landscape, leaving small space for shrinking towns and expanding cities. This is the land that entices Dan Jones into the open to make preliminary sketches, which back in his studio evolve into finished works of art.

Lot 27 Mollie Douthit Malmo, Sweden For the Guild, 2025 Oil on linen panel

13.75 x 10.5 inches Range: $1,300 – 1,500

Originally from North Dakota, Douthit has lived and worked for many years in Ireland, and is now based in Malmö, Sweden. She holds a BFA from the University of North Dakota; Post Baccalaureate from Tufts University, Boston; and an MFA from Burren College of Art, NUIG. In the artist's own words, I paint scenes from my life to visually communicate my emotional connections to objects, people, and places. From memory I draw the scenes out: the layout of a room, the color of the carpet, and texture of interior walls. Oftentimes, I paint from a bird’s eye view — coming in from above and floating through the architecture, as if I am watching events unfold rather than participating in them. This can result in distorted perspectives such as doorways being foreshortened, and walls elongated. I see these paintings as works of autobiographical fiction, and in the process of creating them, I have become aware of the fragility of memory.