2020 O What a Night! Auction Catalog

O WHAT A NIGHT! LIVE ART AUCTION

2020

O WHAT A NIGHT! ONLINE LIVE ART AUCTION

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 8 P.M. WWW.OGDENMUSEUM.ORG/OWHATANIGHT With the health and safety of its supporters in mind, Ogden Museum of Southern Art has transitioned its annual O What a Night! Gala to an online format, featuring live and silent art auctions that will support the Museum’s educational mission to share the art and culture of the American South.

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O WHAT AN AUCTION! L IVE AUCTI ON A RTIST S JOHN ALEXANDER WALTER ANDERSON JOHN BARNES ARON BELKA LYNDA BENGLIS

THORNTON DIAL GEORGE DUNBAR WILLIAM GOODMAN SIMON GUNNING SALLY HELLER

MALLORY PAGE AYO SCOTT AMANDA STONE TALLEY JOHN ISIAH WALTON CARL JOE WILLIAMS

SI L ENT AUCTION ARTIST S LESLIE ADDISON NIC BRIERRE AZIZ MAC BALL RON BECHET RAINE BEDSOLE JACKSUN BEIN SOFIA BELKIN MARK BERCIER CHRISTA BLACKWOOD ANDREW M. BLANCHARD BLVXMTH MICHAEL ANDREW BOOKER SESTHASAK BOONCHAI DOUGLAS BOURGEOIS WENDO BRUNOIR CARLOS CANUL DAN CHARBONNET VIRGINIA ROUGON CHAVIS LANGDON CLAY MAUDE SCHUYLER CLAY THERESA COLE ASHLEIGH COLEMAN MICHAEL ROQUE COLLINS KARA CROWLEY THERESA CRUSHSHON TONY DAGRADI SARRAH DANZIGER STEPHEN PAUL DAY EARL DISMUKE DR. BOB D-TAG MAGGIE DUNLAP WILLIAM DUNLAP MICHAEL EBLE

JAMES FLYNN BECKY FOS JOHN GARGANO MITCHELL GAUDET SOPHIA GERMER ROSEMARY GOODELL SHAWN HALL L. KASIMU HARRIS MIKE HARTNETT JORDAN HESS MARCIA B. HOLMES SUSAN JAMISON MILES KINNEY DAVID KNOX SHARON KOPRIVA CASEY LANGTEAU DAVID LAMBERT ANNE LANE ERICA LARKIN GAUDET CHARLES MUIR LOVELL SHAWNE MAJOR SARAH MARTZOLF JONATHAN MAYERS MOLLY MCCALL BECCA MCGIRNEY SELINA MCKANE MICHAEL MEADS KRISTIN MEYERS GREG MILES LEROY MIRANDA, JR. LARA MORGAN DAVID RAE MORRIS RANDALL D. MOSMAN, JR.

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KELLY A. MUELLER AMY NEWELL NEAL NOVAK JON OSBORNE SHERRY OWENS SIBYLLE PERETTI ANN PERICH CAROL PEEBLES MATTHEW PHELAN SUSAN PLUM ASHLEY PRIDMORE RJ RAIZK NIKKI ROSATO BRITTAN ROSENDAHL DAN RULE RHENDA SAPORITO CLAIRE CHRISTINE SARGENTI CYNTHIA SCOTT ISABELLA SCOTT RICHARD SEXTON AIMEE FARNET SIEGEL JOEY SLAUGHTER JOSHUA “JDOT_SMITH” SMITH MARK SPIERS JILL STOLL LEONA STRASSBERG STEINER TRENITY THOMAS NELL C. TILTON ALEXIS WALTER ED WILLIFORD GEORGE YERGER CAROLINE YOUNGBLOOD ANTONIA ZENNARO MONICA ZERINGUE

O WHAT AN AUCTION! L IVE AUCTION IN ST RUC TIO NS HOW TO BID: 1. Go to www.ogdenmuseum.org/owhatanight and click the button which takes you to the live auction site.

2. Click the Join button. Enter your email address in the pop-up box, and accept the terms and conditions. Enter your information and follow the prompts to register.

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4. Enter your password and hit confirm. You will receive a notice when your account is approved for bidding.

5. Place your bid now and/or during the evening of the live auction. You can visit the live auction site linked at www.ogdenmuseum.org/owhatanight.

6. If your registration was successful, you will see a bid button. Click the bid button to bid at the amount listed.

You can place your live auction bid now and/or on Saturday during the live auction!

You can also set up phone bidding. Bidding by phone will avoid the 5% buyers premium for the buyer. Instructions for setting up phone bidding are available at www.ogdenmuseum.org/owhatanight. A volunteer will call you during the live auction to place your bid.

SI L ENT AUC TION IN ST RUCTIO NS HOW TO BID: 1. Visit givergy.us/owhatanight to view the silent auction.

2. Click the piece you would like to bid on, enter the desired amount in the “enter amount” field and click “place bid.”

3. Enter your contact information and your credit card information and confirm your bid.

Silent auction bidding closes at 5 p.m. on Sun., Oct. 18.

Contact owan@ogdenmuseum.org or 504.539.9616 with questions. For info, visit www. ogdenmuseum.org/owhatanight.

LOT NO. 0101

AMANDA STONE TALLEY AMANDA STONE TALLEY, SPELLCASTER, 2019, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 48 X 36, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

Amanda Stone Talley was raised in Louisiana before leaving to earn a B.A. from Mary Baldwin College and an M.F.A. from SCAD in painting. She returned to her hometown in 2000, settling in historic New Orleans where she continues to work from her studio gallery. Taking many forms, whether drawing, painting, or creating light boxes, Talley’s work is uniquely identifiable. Her process is all about the movement and energy in the moment of painting; her style is abstract-expressionistic in nature, but figure and form frequently emerge from the reverberating compositions. Mostly inspired by the vibrant culture of New Orleans, which is reflective in her use of color and lines, each piece is completed in one session. Amanda’s main objective is to evoke the moment of that piece’s creation. This lends her work the liveliness that has captivated so many collectors. She continues to be one of the most sought after artists of her generation.

LOT NO. 0102

WILLIAM GOODMAN WILLIAM GOODMAN, LOYAL HEART, MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS, 36 X 36, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

William Goodman is a mixed-media artist and muralist living and working in Jackson, Mississippi. He has spent over a decade honing his unique aesthetic which is known for its blend of graffiti, collage, and culture references. His paintings and murals are recognizable for their contemporary edge, and his art is part of many notable private and museum collections and shown at international galleries.

Goodman’s corporate portfolio includes work for businesses including Coca-Cola, EstÊe Lauder, Graduate Hotels, Lululemon and Viking Range.

LOT NO. 0103

SALLY HELLER SALLY HELLER, CAUGHT IN A MAELSTROM, FROM THE CALAMITREES SERIES, 2007, CHROMOGENIC PRINT, 50 X 40, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

Sally Heller’s art encompasses multi-material installations and the permanent works she fashions from those hand-built constructions. Her materials range from low-end craft components to stainless steel. Permanent sculptures include a public sculpture installed in downtown New Orleans, funded by a 2008 Joan Mitchell grant, and a stainless steel sculpture commissioned by a private collector. ⁣⁣Heller’s work has been exhibited at the Lawndale Art Center, Houston; the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Depauw University, Indiana; Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta; Montserrat College of Art, Massachusetts; Miami University; Ohio State University, Athens, Ohio; Kemper Fine Art, New York City; Louisiana Museum of Science and Art, Baton Rouge; and Scope, Miami. Recently, she had a solo show at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. Heller has been awarded residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Civitella Ranieri, Umbria, Italy; the Vermont Studio School, Johnson, Vermont; and Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY. She holds a B.S. from University of Wisconsin and an M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University.

LOT NO. 0104

MALLORY PAGE MALLORY PAGE, THE ONE LIGHT, 2020, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 40 X 30, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

Mallory Page, born in 1983, is a New Orleans-based artist specializing in large-scale, thinly-layered monochromatic paintings. Her enveloping works, each rendered in a soft hue, call attention to the delicate color palette in which they are created only to vigorously complicate and question any designation of that dreamlike palette as “feminine.� She has been featured in Whitewall, Vogue, Domino and Cultured, among other publications, and her work is held in private collections internationally.

Page is a graduate of Louisiana State University. She travels back and forth between her home in New Orleans and her studio on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain.

LOT NO. 0105

ARON BELKA ARON BELKA, MAPO KINNORD, 2018, OIL ON CANVAS, 48 X 48, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND LEMIEUX GALLERIES

New Orleans-based artist Aron Belka is best known for his large format paintings that pull between abstraction and representation. Belka earned his B.F.A. in illustration from Utah State University in 1998. He has exhibited in numerous venues including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, the Alexandria Museum of Art, SCOPE New York and a solo exhibition at the Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art in Georgia. He won the Juror’s Choice Award at the 2017 Huntsville Museum of Art’s Red Clay Survey and was an artist in residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans in 2016 as well as at Cill Rialaig in Ireland in 2019. Belka’s paintings hang in numerous private and public collections, including the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation and the Alexandria Museum of Art. He is represented by LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans and Quidley and Company Fine Art in Naples, Florida.

LOT NO. 0106

JOHN ISIAH WALTON JOHN ISIAH WALTON, 3 HOURS OF RAIN, OIL ON CANVAS, 48 X 72, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

John Isiah Walton was born in 1985 in New Orleans, where he currently lives and works as a fine artist. His work has been exhibited in New York City, Austin, Texas, Los Angeles, North Carolina and Tokyo. His notable exhibitions include the solo exhibitions Beaucoup Humidity in 2015 curated by Diego Cortez and God Willing in 2016, both at P339 Gallery in New York. He has been included in group shows at the New Orleans Museum of Art and in 2019, the Level Artist Collective exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

LOT NO. 0107

george dunbar GEORGE DUNBAR, CERRIDWEN, FROM THE SURGE SERIES, 2019, MOON GOLD AND PALLADIUM OVER TAUPE CLAY WITH DIE-KEEN, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND CALLAN CONTEMPORARY

George Dunbar was born in New Orleans in 1927. He studied at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and later received a B.F.A. from Grande Chaumiere in Paris in 1953. His public works can be viewed at such esteemed museums as the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the British Museum and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Dunbar received the Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 for his contributions to art and culture in Louisiana. He was also awarded the Delgado Society’s Distinguished Art Award by the New Orleans Museum of Art in 2001.

Dunbar currently works and resides on Bayou Bonfouca in Slidell, Louisiana.

LOT NO. 0108

lynda benglis LYNDA BENGLIS, SUNSPOT/MOON GLOW, 2020, ED. 1/5 AP, CAST PHOSPHORESCENT PIGMENTED POLYURETHANE, 12 X 12 X 5 3/4, EDITION OF 12, 5APS, LY.06810, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

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Since the 1960s, Lynda Benglis (b. 1941, Lake Charles, Louisiana) has been celebrated for the free, ecstatic forms she has made that are simultaneously playful and visceral, organic and abstract. Benglis began her career in the midst of Postminimal art and has pushed the traditions of painting and sculpture into new territories throughout her career. Comprised of a variety of materials—from beeswax, latex and polyurethane foam to later innovations with plaster, gold, vaporized metals, glass, ceramics and paper—her works demonstrate an enduring fascination with process.

The embrace of flowing forms, color and sensual surfaces attests to her inventive and radical spirit. Benglis’s experimental videos expand her interest of process to new media, featuring performative actions and using technological mediation to explore themes of physical presence, narcissism, sexuality and gendered identity.

Through her multifarious practice, Benglis continues a long-running investigation of the proprioceptive, sensory experiences of making and viewing her works. Her monumental work, Power Tower, is currently part of the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition sponsored by The Helis Foundation. Her exhibition, Elephant Necklace, was featured at Ogden Museum in 2019.

LOT NO. 0109

John Barnes JOHN BARNES, URBAN STUDIES II, 2016, RED OAK AND SCREWS, 48 X 36, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

John Barnes was born in the community of Bogalusa, Louisiana in 1971. When he turned four, his family moved to Baton Rouge, where the public school system provided him with his earliest introduction to art making. Art remained a curiosity for Barnes. He attended Southern A&M University and he completed his studies with a B.S. in art in 1997. Barnes also attended Memphis College of Art and was awarded a M.F.A. degree in sculpture in 1999. ⁣⁣Barnes began his academic career in New Orleans at Dillard University, where he currently directs the visual arts program. His work has been featured in major publications such as Art Forum magazine, as well as in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. Barnes recently participated in the Joan Mitchell Center’s studio artist residency. Brooke Davis Anderson awarded him with first place in the Ogden Museum’s 2015 Louisiana Contemporary. He was also included in Ogden Museum’s 2020 exhibition, What Music is Within: Black Abstraction from the Permanent Collection.

LOT NO. 0110

SIMON GUNNING SIMON GUNNING, WAITING #3, 2018, OIL ON CUSTOM MADE BIRCH PANEL, 40 X 30, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

Australian-born Simon Gunning has lived in New Orleans’ Bywater neighborhood for over 30 years. His appreciation for the local scenery has never waned, as is evident in his renowned, intricately-composed oil paintings of the Southern Louisiana landscape. His compositions reflect familiar scenes – lush swamps interrupted only by egrets, ibises and anhingas; ships lined up in the winding Mississippi river; industrial cargo lifts and cranes dotted with spotlights reflecting in the placid water; dogs and cats frolicking in streets lined with shotgun homes and jutting stoops. Despite his veneration, his compositions are never sentimentalized. His edgy style of painting has been described as “an iconic personal statement about life, death, sorrow, and a love affair with an exotic land.” He has a startling ability to capture scenes at the most felicitous time of day, rendering the light and color that is so unique to the landscape.

Simon Gunning was born in Sydney, Australia in 1956. He studied painting and drawing from 1976-1978 at the National Gallery School of Art and the Victorian College of Art in Melbourne, Australia. In 1999, he was awarded a Visual Artist Fellowship by the Louisiana Division of the Arts. His work is included in many public and private collections including the New Orleans Museum of Art; Percent for Art Collection at Louis Armstrong International Airport and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, all in New Orleans; as well as in private and corporate collections in Paris, London, Los Angeles and Australia.His exhibition, Simon Gunning and the Southern Louisiana Landscape, opened at Ogden Museum in 2016.

LOT NO. 0111

CARL JOE WILLIAMS CARL JOE WILLIAMS, FIRST DAY OF INDOCTRINATION, 2017, ACRYLIC AND COLLAGE ON FOUND DOORS, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

Carl Joseph Williams was born in New Orleans in 1970. Art was Williams’ first love.

At 14, he was accepted into The New Orleans Center for Creative Art ( NOCCA) where he received his formal training. Upon completing high school, Williams continued his studies at the Atlanta College of Art. In Atlanta, Williams flourished in his craft; graduating in 1994, he went on to produce solo exhibitions, he participated in several group exhibitions and completed several public art projects. Williams’ work has been displayed in several venues throughout the United States, including Journeys, an installation at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and Williams’ Sculptural Trees installation on the median of Veterans Boulevard. In 2013, Williams had a solo exhibition at the George Ohr Museum in Biloxi, Mississippi and was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell NOLA Studio Artist Residence Program. Williams was also selected to participate in the 2014 Crystal Bridges State of the Art Discovering exhibition. In 2019, the work of Carl Joe William was included in the Level Artist Collective exhibition at Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

LOT NO. 0112

john alexander JOHN ALEXANDER, GREAT BLUE HERON WITH ATTITUDE, 1994, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER, 47 X 35.5, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

John Alexander, a skilled draftsman and a sharp-eyed satirist, has spent a career rendering the dark side of man, the glorious side of nature and the destruction of both. He describes his work as a “glimpse of paradise before the wrecking ball hits.” His keenly observed nature drawings and paintings play a central role in his career. The artist was born in 1945 in Beaumont, Texas and received an M.F.A. from Southern Methodist University in 1970. In the late 1970s, John Alexander left Texas for New York. He divides his time between New York City and Amagansett. John Alexander had a major retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2007 and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in 2008. One World, Two Artists: John Alexander and Walter Anderson opened at Ogden Museum in 2012.

LOT NO. 0113

walter anderson WALTER ANDERSON, UNTITLED II, WATERCOLOR AND GRAPHITE ON PAPER, 8.75 X 10.5, COURTESY OF MICHAEL WILKINSON

Walter Anderson was born in 1903 in New Orleans. In 1918, his family purchased land in Ocean Springs, Mississippi and in 1928, the Andersons opened Shearwater Pottery, which is still a thriving family pottery in Ocean Springs today.⁣⁣ In 1945, Anderson and his family moved into a small cottage at Shearwater. From then until his death, he lived a reclusive life working at the pottery and spending an increasing amount of time on his beloved Horn Island. Anderson would take a rowboat from Shearwater to the island, where he would attempt to capture the environment through extensive logs and watercolors. He filled over ninety journals with reflections of nature. ⁣⁣Ogden Museum holds several works by Anderson in its permanent collection, some of which are currently on view.⁣

LOT NO. 0114

THORNTON DIAL THORNTON DIAL, FISHING FOR LOVE (WOMEN WITH CATFISH), 1990, WATERCOLOR, INK AND PENCIL ON HANDMADE, 100% COTTON RAG PAPER, 30.5 X 22, COURTESY OF THE ARNETT FAMILY

Thornton Dial was a pioneering African American artist best known for his largescale assemblage paintings. He melded complex themes like Civil Rights history, archaeology and construction, through the use of materials like cow skeletons, American flags and rebar. Often referred to as an “outsider artist,” Dial’s work is highly biographical. Born into poverty on a sharecropping farm on September 10, 1928 in Emelle, Alabama, Dial’s youth was filled with hardship. Though he never received any formal art training, he made sculptures from found objects from a young age. In the late 1980s, he came to the attention of the influential, Atlanta-based collector, Bill Arnett. Arnett went on to bring Dial’s work to national prominence.

Since the 1990s, Dial’s work has gained cultural acclaim and recognition, leading to inclusion in several important exhibitions, including the 2000 Whitney Biennial.

The artist died on January 25, 2016 in McCalla, Alabama. Today, his work is among the collections of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

LOT NO. 0115

AYO SCOTT AYO SCOTT, WHAT GOOD IS BEING BLACK, COLLAGE AND ACRYLIC ON 100% RAG PAPER MOUNTED ON PLYWOOD, 63 X 48, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

Born in New Orleans, Ayo Scott attended Xavier University of Louisiana and graduated with a degree in art and graphic design in 2003. He went on to graduate school at The Institute of Design in Chicago. After completing some graduate work, he took time off to focus on his work and eventually moved home to be with family after Hurricane Katrina. Once back in New Orleans, he began a home renovation business called NOYO Designs Inc. In 2008, Scott had a solo exhibition at the McKenna Museum of African American Art and his work has been included in exhibitions at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Louisiana Art and Science Museum. In 2011, Ayo was honored as the recipient of the Love in the Garden award from the New Orleans Museum of Art. In 2014, Scott’s work was shown in The Lies We Believe at Octavia Art Gallery, presenting his mixed media works alongside his large-scale digital drawings. Scott is the son of nationally renowned artist, John T. Scott.

OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT BID IN SILENT AUCTION There are over 100 works of art available in the O What a Night! silent auction.

Visit givergy.us/owhatanight to see the available works. Bidding opens Thursday, October 12 at 12 a.m. and ends Sunday, October 18 at 5 p.m. Not only does your silent auction purchase support Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s educational mission to share the art and culture of the American South, but this year, a portion of silent auction sales benefit artists who generously donated work to this important fundraiser. Work is available for pick-up at Ogden Museum and can be shipped if you are bidding from outside of New Orleans.

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