Megan Brabec: I was raised in Elk River, Minnesota, and moved to Moorhead area in order to pursue education in fine arts at Moorhead State University. Even though creating art has been dear to my heart for years, I am now studying fine art with an emphasis in painting. I focus on the psychological aspects of human interactions by placing our emotions in universal situations. In order to successfully achieve this study, I question the viewer’s perspective by creating double images and/or surrounding the human form in infinite space.
I created this painting in particular to address a personal relationship that lasted throughout all of my teen years. The subjects are children who portray our child-like beliefs and disconnections to the adult world. Also, the figures are formed Lot #10
overlapping each other in order to express the conformity of people’s actions. Finally and most importantly, the cylinder tube
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the boy holds is a manifestation of the memories and invested
Elk River, Minnesota
years that can only to be held in the past. Megan was recommended for the auction by her painting
Things Aren’t What They Seem, 2012 Oil on canvas
professor Zhimin Guan.
18 x 24 inches Range: $250 - 350
Kevin Flicker graduated from the University of Minnesota, Morris, in 1974 with degrees in Psychology and English. Afterwards he followed an irrepressible interest in ceramics by enrolling in numerous classes to develop his skill. In 1985 he sought out an apprenticeship with Richard Bresnahan at the Saint John’s Pottery. In 1987 he returned to the University of Minnesota, Morris, as a ceramic instructor, a position he has held since. In 2001 he received a Distinguished Teaching Award and many of his students have successfully entered graduate programs, residencies, and apprenticeships. Kevin exhibits frequently, and his works have been featured in twenty-six solo and group shows in the last decade. Kevin’s passion is to create high-quality, functional ceramics— Lot #9
vases, cups—from local materials. His quiet, unassuming wares are surprisingly elegant. Their profiles are inevitably clean and
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strong, and their surfaces are often adorned with glassy green-
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gold rivulets of glaze that he creates from local clays and wood
Lidded Bell Jar, 2000
ash. Glaze and iron-rich slip also accentuate Kevin’s adept
Woodfired stoneware
carving of natural motifs on some of his pieces, reflecting his love
16 x 17 inch diameter
of his native Minnesota and the Midwest prairie.
Range: $400 - 500
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