Bruce Adams • Laylah Ali • Jozef Bajus
Alan Belcher • Michael Bosworth • Jay Carrier
Charles Clough • Michael Costello • Marion Faller
Jackie Felix • Erin Finley • Dorothy Fitzgerald
Hollis Frampton • GeoVanna Gonzalez
Biff Henrich • Janet Jackson • Lester Johnson
Felice Koenig • David Kramer • Suzy Lake
Erin Long • Michael Mararian • David Mitchell
Mary Ann Moncada • Julian Montague
Nicholas Ruth • Kathleen Sherin • Robin Winters
About Our Auctioneer
Christopher Mahoney is the Senior International Specialist in the Photographs Department of Phillips auction house. He has been a professional in the field of fine-art photography since 1991 and is one of the foremost experts on the evaluation and sale of 19th, 20th, and 21st-century photographs. In his positions at Swann Galleries, Sotheby’s, and Phillips he has handled many of the most significant photographs and photograph collections to come to auction. He was instrumental in the 2014 sale of 175 Masterworks to Celebrate 175 Years of Photography which, totaling $21 million, holds the record for most successful auction of photographs ever. He has researched, written about, and sold the work of such auction-record-setting photographers as Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Robert Frank, and Robert Mapplethorpe, among many others. Born and raised in Buffalo, Chris earned a BFA in Photography from New York University and Master of Arts and Humanities degree from the University of Buffalo. He remains an active photographer and an avid proponent of postal art.
LOT 100
Bruce Adams (1952—2021)
R & D Figures 3 & 4, 1993
acrylic on canvas
19.5 x 29.5 inches
$450 / $1,200
Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various painting styles. In exploring the act of painting, Adams peels back the layers of meaning inherent in art making and viewing. He has exhibited extensively regionally and internationally, and his work is included in numerous private, corporate, and museum collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Castellani Museum, UB Anderson Gallery, and Burchfield-Penney Art Center. In 2007 Adams was given an extensive mid-career survey exhibition titled Bruce Adams, Half Life 1980-2006 at the UB Anderson Gallery. In 2016. His body of work titled Myths and Lies was exhibited in a solo exhibition at the Castellani Museum in 2014. www.adams-studio.com
LOT 101
Laylah Ali
Portrait of Angie, 2020 mixed media on card 6 x 4 inches
$3,200 / $5,000
Laylah Ali is an artist best known for her paintings of meticulously drawn, colorful, allegorical figures, including her long running “Greenheads series” and her recent paintings, “The Acephalous series.” Ali’s works are included in the permanent collections of numerous public institutions, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, among many others.
LOT 102
Jozef
Bajus
Inca Rain, 2023
paper, ink, cutouts
15 x 11 inches
$300 / $750
Jozef Bajus (Slovakian-American, 1958- ) was born in 1958 in Kezmarok, Czeckoslovakia. From 1979-1985, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design/AFAD in Bratislava, Slovakia, where he received his BFA and MFA in 1985. He is currently an Associate Professor of Design and Coordinator of Fiber/Design Program at Buffalo State College (BSC) in Buffalo, NY.
Jozef is an award-winning fiber and mixed media artist and was the recipient of the 2016 Langley Kenzie Award, which was gifted to one outstanding artist from the Art in Craft Media biennial, at the Burchfield Penney Art Center (fall 2015) with a solo show in honor of Ms. Kenzie. He also received the 2008 Esprit de Corps Award at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo and the President’s Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creativity 2008, BSC, Buffalo. Jozef’s work has been exhibited worldwide, including: Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Japan, Korea, USA and Canada. His one-person shows include: Lendfield 2014 at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, The Combing Wave – Recent Works 2008 at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Collectors Gallery, Curved Circle 2006 at the Buffalo Art Studio and at the Museum & Art Gallery of Koloman Sokol in Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia, 2006.
Jozef taught fiber workshops at the American Craft Museum, NYC in 2001, the Penland School of Art and Craft in 2005, the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in 2007,2010, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in 2000, 2008 and Split Rock in 2009. His artworks are in numerous public collections including: The Moravian Art & Craft Museum in Brno, Czech Republic, the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava, Slovakia, the Racine Art Museum in Racine, WI, the Gregg Museum of Art & Design in Raleigh, NC, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY. Jozef’s artworks are also included in numerous private collections in Europe, Canada, Japan, and USA.
LOT 103
Alan Belcher
________jpg, 2012 glazed ceramic edition 105/125
10 x 7.5 x 2.75 inches
$1,000/ $2,000
Alan Belcher is a Toronto based visual artist whose conceptual work is decidedly multi-layered and object orientated. He has been recognized in the past as an originator of a tactile fusion of photography and object-making. A transparency of vision and simplicity of fabrication with a concentrated regard for materials remain hallmarks of his serial productions. Belcher is known for a directness and a sharp simplicity when approaching difficult subject matter. A sense of humour and a reverence for a Pop sensibility, as well as a hands-on approach, invade much of his work.
A self-taught artist, he was co-founder and co-director of Gallery Nature Morte with artist Peter Nagy in New York’s East Village (1982–88).
Works by Alan Belcher are held in various public collections which include the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Le Consortium (Dijon), Musee des Beaux-Arts (Montréal), Deste Foundation (Athens), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Zurich), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Chase Manhattan Bank, Credit Suisse Collection, Dropbox HQ (San Francisco), The Progressive Insurance Art Collection (Ohio), MoCA San Diego, Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC (Vancouver), and Musée Nicéphore Niépce (Chalon-sur-Saône, France) —as well as numerous prominent private collections.
Alan Belcher works with, and is represented by: Tara Downs in New York City, greengrassi in London U.K., Hunt Gallery in Toronto, and Galerie Eli Kerr in Montréal. for further information please refer to his website and archive at balanelcher.com
LOT 104
Michael Bosworth
California Screen, 2019
giclee print
14 x 24 inches
$400 / $750
Michael Bosworth is an artist and educator based in Buffalo, NY. Bosworth received his MFA in photography from the University of New Mexico, a BFA in Art and a BA in English from the University at Buffalo. He has exhibited work at galleries such as the Charles Bank Gallery(New York, NY), Sean Kelly Gallery(New York, NY), Hallwalls(Buffalo, NY), Burchfield-Penney Art Center(Buffalo, NY), Visual Studies Workshop(Rochester, NY), Big Orbit Gallery(Buffalo, NY), CEPA Gallery(Buffalo, NY), and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery(Buffalo, NY). His Commissioned public art project include Field Notes(Syracuse, NY), Second Site(Buffalo, NY), A Small Atlantis(Buffalo, NY), and Direction(Buffalo, NY). and the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY. Jozef’s artworks are also included in numerous private collections in Europe, Canada, Japan, and USA.
LOT 105
Jay Carrier
Mother and Child on Wolf’s
Back/Hoop Dreams, 2024 mixed media on paper 30 x 22 inches
$1,800 / $2,500
Jay Carrier is a visual artist born on Six Nations to Onondaga and Tuscarora parents, who currently lives and works in Niagara Falls, NY and holds a BFA from the University of Illinois-Champlain. Carrier studied painting at The College of Santa Fe, New Mexico As well as participating in the MFA program from the University of Illinois. Carrier has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions including Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, The Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, NY, The Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, The Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Fenimore House Museum, Cooperstown, New York, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York, Woodland Cultural Center Museum, Brantford, Ontario, Canada, Chautauqua Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Chautauqua, New York and the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York. His work can be found in numerous private and public collections.
LOT 106
Charles Clough
Clufffalo 790, 2023
24 x 32 inches
$1,500 / $4,800
Charles Clough was born in Buffalo, New York in 1951. He attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Ontario College of Art in Toronto, University at Buffalo and New York University and has taught at Columbia University and the Rhode Island School of Design. He established his art studio in 1971 and has presented his work in more than 70 solo, and, more than 150 group, exhibitions. He has received grants and fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. His works are included in the collections of more than 70 museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 1974 Clough founded Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, with Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Michael Zwack, Nancy Dwyer, Diane Bertolo and others in Buffalo. Most recently, Clough is a recipient of a 2016 Fellowship in the field of Fine Arts from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. www.clufff.com
LOT 107
Michael Costello
Dancers at the Bar 6, 2013 charcoal and oil pastel on paper 22 x 30 inches
$900 / $2,800
Courtesy Michael and Gina Beam
Michael Costello is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and has exhibited widely since 1980 in both group and solo exhibitions. HIs work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, Federal Reserve, Kemper Collection, The Boston Public Library, The Abrams Collection, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
LOT 108
Marion Faller
Halloween, NYC, c. 1970
gelatin silver print
10.5 x 10.5 inches
$400 / $1,200
Marion Faller was an accomplished documentary photographer of cultural traditions and public displays celebrating seasonal events, folklore, popular religious customs, and displays of patriotism.
She was born Marion Sudol in Passaic, N.J., in 1941 and attended Hunter College, where she received a BA, and the University at Buffalo, where she earned her MFA. She taught both studio and history courses in photography at Hunter, Marymount Manhattan College, Colgate University, and UB. She retired from the latter institution as a professor of photography in 2006.
Faller had an impressive career of exhibitions across the United States and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, CEPA Gallery (Center for Electronic and Photographic Arts), and Light Work. Her photographs are in many public collections including the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, Walker Art Center, Visual Studies Workshop, Light Work, Fenimore Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Buffalo Seminary, and Addison Gallery of American Art.
In 2001-2002, Faller participated with eight other photographers in a collaborative on-line project known as “Flagging Spirits,” hosted by the University of Massachusetts, Boston to document patriotic displays of flags after the events of September 11th, 2001. In connection with that project, she offered a statement about the motivation behind her work, with particular focus on her ongoing documentation of flags and patriotic displays that remains relevant for the range of work that she produced both prior to and after this period:
In addition to her many solo projects, she was a frequent collaborator with her husband, experimental filmmaker and photographer Hollis Frampton.
LOT 109
Marion Faller
Halloween, NYC, c. 1970
gelatin silver print
30 x 30 inches
$400 / $1,200
Marion Faller was an accomplished documentary photographer of cultural traditions and public displays celebrating seasonal events, folklore, popular religious customs, and displays of patriotism.
She was born Marion Sudol in Passaic, N.J., in 1941 and attended Hunter College, where she received a BA, and the University at Buffalo, where she earned her MFA. She taught both studio and history courses in photography at Hunter, Marymount Manhattan College, Colgate University, and UB. She retired from the latter institution as a professor of photography in 2006. Faller had an impressive career of exhibitions across the United States and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, CEPA Gallery (Center for Electronic and Photographic Arts), and Light Work. Her photographs are in many public collections including the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, Walker Art Center, Visual Studies Workshop, Light Work, Fenimore Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Buffalo Seminary, and Addison Gallery of American Art.
In 2001-2002, Faller participated with eight other photographers in a collaborative on-line project known as “Flagging Spirits,” hosted by the University of Massachusetts, Boston to document patriotic displays of flags after the events of September 11th, 2001. In connection with that project, she offered a statement about the motivation behind her work, with particular focus on her ongoing documentation of flags and patriotic displays that remains relevant for the range of work that she produced both prior to and after this period:
In addition to her many solo projects, she was a frequent collaborator with her husband, experimental filmmaker and photographer Hollis Frampton.
LOT 110
Jackie Felix
Untitled, 1984
monoprint on paper
22 x 29 inches
$400 / $1,000
Jackie Felix (1929-2009) earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (1981) and Master Fine Arts (1983) degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She received many awards and residencies, including the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1997. Important artist residencies include the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, NY in 1997; Artpark in Lewiston, NY in 2000 and Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio in 2000. Her art was presented in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and South Carolina. She was commissioned to produce paintings and murals for public view in the Buffalo Museum of Science and Hallwalls’ former home in the Tri-Main Building. She also taught painting, printmaking and drawing at various institutions in New York State. The Burchfield Penney Art Center owns an enormous 11-panel storyboard painting, 2 large oil triptychs, 5 paintings on paper, and 5 monotypes. In 2012, a major retrospective of her work, Storyboard: The Sexual Politics of Jackie Felix was exhibited at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo.
LOT 111
Erin Finley
Grief, 2018
acrylic and gouache on paper
13.5 x 11 inches
$400 / $1,200
Erin Finley is a Canadian artist whose work has been exhibited at Hallwalls (Buffalo), Paul Petro (Toronto), Sarah Lawrence (New York), Queen’s University (Kingston), CBGB’s (New York), La Porte Peinte Centre Pour Les Arts (Burgundy), Allegheny College (Pennsylvania) and Femina Potens Gallery (San Francisco). She has received research support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, University of Calgary, Université du Québec a Montréal, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Erin Finley teaches drawing at OCAD University in Toronto and obtained an MFA from the University of Calgary in 2004. www.erinfinley.com
“As a feminist artist, I am interested in images of powerful women as agents of change. This drawing is inspired by Rita Hayworth, who’s “Gilda” is considered the ultimate film noir heroine (in the film of the same name). In the most scandalous scene in that film, Gilda sings “Put the Blame on Mame” while performing a nightclub dance, famously causing a stir with the slow tease of her glove removal. In my drawing, Gilda is portrayed much older than she is in that film - and, to my mind, the character has become an “Expendables” action hero. She wears a third eye, akin to Frida Kahlo’s use of the same symbol. In my drawing, the third eye features Gilda’s girlfriend.”
LOT 112
Dorothy Fitzgerald
Face The Facts, 2007 oil, oil stick, photograph, vinyl letters on paper
30 x 22 inches
$600 / $1,500
She paints in a studio with Lake Ontario to the North and cornfields to the South. Her works are emotional responses to her life as a mother, a woman and her environment, to which she can authentically speak. She is primarily an oil painter who draws in her paintings because she feels line and its variations hold interest. She is intrigued by contradictions.
SELECTED exhibitions include: Women”s Work (Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center), lakelines, (solo, Indigo Gallery, Buffalo), eco Art Fair ( Chelsea Highline Loft), Human Rights Permanent Art Collection (Texas and Mexico) International Museum of Art and Science (IMAS), I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands (Indigo Gallery,Buffalo), Emerging Converging (Hallwalls, Buffalo), TOPSPIN 10 Retrospective (Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston), echo Art Fair (Buffalo), bookMARKS (Syracuse), Regional Artist Collection (Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo), NY Collects Buffalo State (Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo). Recalculating: take next right at roller coaster road (solo, Castellani Museum, Niagara University), Wolf Dreams and Irish Eyes (solo, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua), Who would like to see Mary again? (solo, Carnegie Art Center, N Tonawanda), Distance 2 Passage (solo, Asheville, NC).
Collections in: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Germany. Represented by: Resource:Art, A Samuels & Tucker Collaboration, www.resourceartny.com
LOT 113
Hollis Frampton
Untitled (John Chamberlain in his studio), 1963
gelatin silver print
11 x 14 inches
$600 / $2,000
Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) was an internationally renowned filmmaker, theorist/writer, educator, and early pioneer of digital art. One of the major figures to emerge from the New York avant-garde film community of the 1960s, he is widely considered one of the primary architects of what is often called structural cinema, a style of experimental filmmaking that uses the basic elements of cinema to investigate formal issues at the expense of traditional narrative content.
Born in Wooster, Ohio, he was a child prodigy and attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts (submitting his application on his own) from 1951-54, where his classmates and friends included future artists Carl Andre and Frank Stella. Failing to graduate from Phillips, he entered Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio in 1954, though he never received a diploma there, either. In 1956 he befriended the poet Ezra Pound, who was completing his epic Cantos at the time. Two years later he moved to New York City, rooming with Andre and Stella, and began photographing his artist friends--a pursuit that soon led him to filmmaking. This transition paralleled the rise of experimental cinema in New York City in the early 1960s and the emergence of Jonas Mekas’s Filmmakers Coop.
Retrospective screenings and exhibitions of Frampton’s films and other works have been shown internationally at institutions such as the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Museum of Modern Art and Anthology Film Archives in New York City, Rijksmuseum and Stedelijk van Abbemuseum and filmuseum in the Netherlands, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, among many others. In 2012 the Criterion Collection released A Hollis Frampton Odyssey, a DVD collection of 24 of his short films dating from 1966 to 1979.
LOT 114
GeoVanna Gonzalez
Untitled (Rooster), 2024
35 mm photograph archival print
28.5 x 42 inches edition of 5 + 2 AP
$1,450 / $2,000
GeoVanna Gonzalez is a Miami based artist. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California where she received her BFA at Otis College of Art and Design. Her work desires to connect private and public space through interventionist, participatory art with an emphasis on collaboration and collectivity. Through her work she addresses the shifting notions of gender and identity, intimacy and proximity. Her most recent work performs these possibilities by collaborating with movement and sound based artists. These improvisations are political acts, analyzing and critiquing what it means to share public space as womxn, queer folks and people of color.
Her work has been shown at various institutions including The Institute of Contemporary Art, Station Contemporary Arts Museum, NSU Art Museum, The Bass Museum, Fringe Projects, and The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. Gonzalez received awards and residencies from South Arts’ Southern Prize and State Fellowship, WaveMaker Grant, The Ellies Visual Arts Award, The South Florida Cultural Consortium, Santa Fe Art Institute Residency Santa Fe, Franconia Sculpture Park, Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts, and CAMPO. Her work is in permanent collections at Miami-Dade County Art in Public Place and University of Maryland Art Gallery.
LOT 115
Biff Henrich
Untitled, 1981 color photograph
30 x 40 inches
$500 / $1,000
Biff Henrich is a photographer. He was born in Erie, PA. It was 1971 before he got his first camera while attending Hamlin University in St. Paul, MN. He received his Master of Fine Arts at University at Buffalo and his Bachelor of Arts at Hiram College in Ohio. Henrich has exhibited nationally at places including the Pyramid Gallery in Rochester, Artists Space in New York, the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, the California Museum of Photography, PS1, and the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston. He teaches at University at Buffalo in the Visual Arts Department. His work is in numerous private and public collections including the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Burchfield Penney Art Center, and the Castellani Art Museum. Henrich lives and works in Buffalo, NY.
LOT 116
Janet Jackson
In Search of the Grid #1 1996
double weave with hand-dyed linen
24.5 x 18.25 inches
$250 / $750
Janet Jackson (American, 1936–2024) earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Fiber Arts and Color Theory from Arizona State University. She was Associate Professor in the Art Department of the State University of New York at Geneseo, where she directed the textile program and mentored a generation of young artists and weavers.
During her 20-year tenure at Geneseo, Janet taught fabric design, loom weaving, textile constructions, 2-D design, and History of Costume & Fashion. She is a nationally-known and award-winning fiber artist, with an extensive exhibition record, including several international exhibitions. While on the faculty of SUNY Geneseo, she exhibited at the New York State Museum in Albany and in the Art in Craft Media show at the Burchfield Art Center at Rockwell Hall of Buffalo State College.
During her last five years at Geneseo, her focus turned to digital weaving—designing pieces on the computer then interfacing computer and loom to create a finished product. A year-long sabbatical at the College of Textiles of North Carolina State University in 1994–1995 enabled her to further build her expertise in digital design, and decided her next life move. After retirement from SUNY Geneseo in 1999, she was was offered and accepted the position of Adjunct Professor of Textile Design at NC State’s College of Textiles in Raleigh, where she taught digital design for weaving, knitting, and printing for three years before moving to Southport, NC.
She was married to writer, poet, and professional wine guru, Bernie Ledermann. They moved from Southport back to Raleigh, where they were active with the North Carolina Museum of Art and Artspace, a nonprofit visual arts center located in Downtown Raleigh, where they stayed until relocating back to Western New York in the fall of 2019, to be close to their four children and four grandchildren. Janet died on February 26, 2024, one month to the day after her 88th birthday and just twelve days after Bernie.
LOT 117
Janet Jackson
In Search of the Grid #2 1996 double weave with hand-dyed linen
24.5 x 18.25 inches
$250 / $750
LOT 118
Lester Johnson
(1919—2021)
Lower Broadway 1, 1973 color lithograph
25 x 35.25 inches
$750 / $2,250
Courtesy UB Art Galleries Charitable Trust
Lester Johnson was an American artist and educator. Johnson was a member of the Second Generation of the New York School during the late 1950s. The subject of much of his work is the human figure. His style is considered by critics and art historians to be in the figurative expressionist mode. Lester Johnson was born in 1919 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From 1942 to 1947, he attended the Minneapolis School of Art, where he studied under Alexander Masley, a former student of Hans Hofmann in Munich, Germany. Johnson moved to New York City in 1947. His first studio and apartment was on 6th Street and Avenue A, next door to the painter Wolf Kahn. His next residence and workspace was a loft on St. Marks Place that he shared with Larry Rivers. In 1949, Johnson married Josephine Valenti, an art historian, and moved into a house on 2nd Ave and 2nd Street, which the couple shared with Kahn.[3] In 1961, Johnson briefly left the city for an artist-in-residence position at Ohio State University. Upon returning to New York City, Johnson shared a studio with the painter Philip Pearlstein. In 1964, Johnson was invited by Abstract Expressionist painter Jack Tworkov to teach at Yale,[4] where he served as the Director of Studies Graduate Painting from 1969 to 1974. Johnson retired from teaching at the Yale School of Art and Architecture in 1989. In New York, Johnson exhibited at the Martha Jackson Gallery, Zabriskie Gallery, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, and James Goodman Gallery. He has also been exhibited at several museums, including group shows at the Solomon R. Guggenheim, The Whitney, Museum of Modern Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was elected a member to both the American Academy of Arts & Letters and National Academy of Design. Throughout his career, Lester exhibited extensively with Donald Morris Gallery in Detroit, Michigan and with David Klein Gallery in Birmingham, Michigan
LOT 120
Felice Koenig
Pharmakon 1, 2009
polystyrene, acrylic paint
23 x 23 x 4 inches
$1,500 / $6,500
Courtesy Key Bank
Felice Koenig is a visual artist and educator. She was born in Highland Park, Illinois and received a BFA from Southern Oregon University in 1999 and an MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2003. She moved in 2007 to Buffalo, N.Y., where she is a faculty member at Daemen College. Koenig works in acrylic, watercolor, graphite, and ink. The meticulously constructed paintings for which she is best known are created by adding layer after layer of acrylic paint onto the canvas (or, occasionally, another surface). To borrow the name of a Burchfield Penney group show in which she was featured, they display “an overabundance of detail.” This approach creates physical depth, giving individual pieces a sculptural quality and generating visual tension as they both pull the viewer in to examine how they are made and push him or her away to make sense of the overall object. Such works can be compared to a microscopic closeup of pores and blood vessels, thus suggesting the vulnerability of the human body—though they can also be read as simultaneously reflecting and rejecting the sensory overload that is such a key aspect of contemporary life.
Koenig has exhibited her paintings in Munich, Germany; Guangzhou, China; and in New York, Buffalo, Chicago, San Antonio, and Portland,Ore., among other cities.
She is represented in the permanent collection of the Albright Knox Art Gallery and the Burchfield Penney, as well as private collections in New York, Buffalo, Seattle, Chicago, and other cities, and she has created artwork for book covers and public art projects. In addition to her solo work, she has collaborated with media artist Meg Knowles on a videotape and installation.
LOT 121
David Kramer
Snoozer, 2024 pencil on paper
13.5 x 9.5 inches
$600 / $1,800
A child of the 1970s, David Kramer pulls from that formative decade, re-crafting its lifestyle advertisements and distinctive interior design into paintings, drawings, and installations both nostalgic and ironic. His compositions resemble the advertisements that, as he claims (with the tongue-in-cheek humor that shapes his output), modeled his future: “I felt certain that my future would look a lot like what I was looking at in those ads. […] I am still hoping to grow up and get my hands on those things.” Text is central to Kramer’s work. He overlays what he calls “one-liners” onto his images, revealing the falsity of the idealized vision they present and the disillusionment of adulthood. In Plan (2011), the phrase, “In case of emergency…plan B and C,” frames a still life of whiskey and cigarettes, motifs that appear in many of his works. American, b. 1963, New York, New York
LOT 122
Suzy
Lake
Vote Bruce 10165, 2005, printed 2022
archival inkjet print edition of 6
14 x 11 inches
$250 / $1,000
Suzy Lake began her art practice in 1968. Following the social and political unrest of the 1960’s she emigrated from Detroit to Montreal (1968), and then to Toronto in 1978. Active to the needs of her communities, she was a co-founder of Vehicule Art Inc. (Montreal, 1972) and the Toronto Photographers Workshop (Toronto, 1978). Concurrent to her practice, Lake taught for 40 years in Montreal, Toronto, and received Professor Emerita status from the University of Guelph in 2008.
Lake was among the first female artists in Canada to adopt performance, video, and photography to explore the politics of gender, the body, and identity. In 1993, she was the subject of a major mid-career retrospective, Point of Reference, organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in 1993. Suzy has participated in significant conceptual or feminist exhibitions such as: WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (LA MOCA and tour, 2007-08), Identity Theft: Eleanor Antin, Lynn Hershman, Suzy Lake, 1972-1978 (Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2007), Held Together With Water (Sammlung Verbund, Vienna and tour, 2008) and Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-80 (2010).
Suzy continues to address the relationship of the individual to societal forces in order to reveal constructions and restraints that have been built into our culture. In 2013, Suzy was awarded the Dazibao artist book prize and launched Suzy Lake: Performing an Archive in 2015. In 2014 the Art Gallery of Ontario presented a full-career retrospective with a substantial book titled Introducing Suzy Lake; both books are available through Amazon. In 2017, the Scotiabank Photography Award published a monograph of her work with Steidl Publishing.
LOT 123
Erin Long
Days In The Cubicle, 2021
acrylic and pastel
24 x 30 inches
$400 / $1,200
Erin Long grew up in West Falls, New York. After graduating from Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, she lived and worked in Colorado, Massachusetts, and California. In 2017, Long returned home to East Aurora, New York and began painting full-time. She has sold hundreds of pieces to collectors in the United States and Europe and has participated in shows in the Buffalo area and in Santa Fe, NM. Long is an Exhibiting Member in the Buffalo Society of Artists and sits on the Board of Directors of Hallwalls Conte mporary Art Center. She owns a retail Art & Home store, ERLO Contemporary at 712 Main Street in East Aurora and co-hosts East Aurora’s ArtWalk in the Spring and Fall.
LOT 124
Michael Mararian
Dopey, 2010 from the series Snow White
acrylic on paper on wood
32 x 26 inches
$750 / $2,500
Traditionally known for his humorous and thought provoking paintings that often address such issues as gross consumerism, school violence, and societal pressures, artist Michael Mararian has now turned his attention to the world of fiber arts and the craft of needle-felting wool.
Everyday items such as plungers and cameras are meticulously recreated and brought to “fuzzy” life, creating for the viewer, a whimsical stage of contradiction and amazement.
Michael is a graduate of the Art and Theater program at the University of Bridgeport as well having studied at the Arts Student’s League in New York City. His work has previously been shown worldwide at Corey Helford Gallery and Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles, Bristol City Museum in Bristol England, Antonia Fraunberg Gallery in Dusseldorf, Germany and locally at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center and The Burchfield Penny Art Center.
LOT 125
David Mitchell
Belka and Strelka, Upon Their Return To Earth, 1960, 2019 from the series Notes On Simian Starchildren, edition 4 of 6
25 x 25 inches
$600 / $1,400
David Patrick Mitchell is an artist, designer, independent curator, and freelance creative director. For a number of years he served as Curator and Artistic Director of CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY. Following his time at CEPA, he and artist Kyle Marlar opened a clandestine gallery space in the San Rafael neighborhood of Mexico City He has been awarded two NYSCA Individual Artist Grants and continues to exhibit locally, nationally, and internationally.
This piece is from a companion exhibition of print and sculptural works derived from research materials that accompanied a large scale multi-media installation. The installation took form as a physical beachfront installed within a disused building and included an immersive animated video recreation of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The installation was a reimagining of a pivotal moment within our collective culture — one which served to further erase the distinctions between our mediated reality and our lived reality and which further complicated our relationship to technological progress.
LOT 126
Mary Ann Moncada
Figure By The Sea, 1987
acrylic and ink on paper
29.25 x 39.5 inches
$700 / $1,800
Courtesy Gerald Mead
Mary Ann Moncada, a native of Mexico, began her art studies in the United States when she came to this country in the mid-1970s. Graduating from West Liberty State College in 1979, she went on to acquire a Master of Arts degree from the West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia. Moncada has taught painting at West Virginia University and the Oglebay Institute in Wheeling. Since moving to Buffalo in 1982, she has done at conservation work. Working in mixed media, she has had several group and one-person exhibitions in the mid-Atlantic states including the Anton Gallery in Washington, D.C. and the Monongalia Arts Center in Morgantown.
LOT 127
Julian Montague
Angle/Pink Mass, 2021 canvas duck cloth, found fabric
35 x 24 inches
$1,600 / $3,000
Julian Montague is an artist, illustrator, graphic designer, and photographer based in Buffalo. His artwork includes a wide range of mediums and approaches, from long term conceptual projects to geometric abstraction. Much of his recent work is influenced by his fascination with the hard lines and soft shapes of modernist mid-century art and graphic design. His work has received attention from Dwell, Frieze, It’s Nice That, and many others. In 2021 The New York Times recommended his Instagram account as one of the top art accounts to follow. Montague has work in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Martin Z. Margulies, the Norton Museum of Art, the Progressive Insurance Company, and numerous private collections. The Burchfield Penney Art Center is presenting a mid-career retrospective exhibition of his work this summer.
This piece is from an ongoing series in which Montague uses old fabric (worn-out clothing, old sheets, tablecloths, and scraps left over from other projects) to make new work. The series is inspired by a desire to use the materials that the artist has at hand that would otherwise be thrown away. Those familiar with Montague’s recent paintings will recognize some familiar motifs in this series.
LOT 128
Nicholas Ruth
Watch
This Space III, 2019 screenprint and colored pencil from the series Watch This Space, edition 5 of 5
20 x 24 inches
$300/ $500
Nicholas H. Ruth is a Professor of Art at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, in New York. Ruth received a BA from Pomona College, and earned an MFA in Painting from the Meadow’s School of Art at Southern Methodist University. His work has been included in more than 150 exhibitions nationally and internationally, and is in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Rockwell Museum, the Memorial Art Gallery, and the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Ruth’s work explores the relationship of the built environment and human desire.
LOT 129
Kathleen Sherin
Blue Knot Blue, 2001 collographic monoprint on Rives BFK
30 x 30 inches
$700/ $1,200
Kathleen Sherin main studio practice is printmaking. She earned an MFA from the University of Buffalo in painting and printmaking and has been using her unique methods of creating one-of-kind prints since that time.
Sherin creates one-of-kind prints using direct, non-chemically mediated methods. In each series she explores a theme. Her works are created on an etching press employing various direct printmaking techniques (collagraph, relief printing, drypoint, carborundum, chine collé, and monoprint techniques).
As a very physical and intuitive printmaker she approaches printmaking with the directness of a painter and an eye for contrasts of a collage artist.
She has been a studio artist at Buffalo Arts Studio since 2002 and creates her larger prints at the UB Community Access Printshop. A continual working artist for over 30 years, she has an extensive exhibition history, both regionally and nationally with works in public and private collections. She resides on Buffalo’s west side with her husband, and a dog.
Her website is www.ksherin.com
LOT 130
Robin Winters
my cup runneth over or a watched pot never boils, 2024 watercolor and collage with handmade glass hook 15 x 10.25 inches
$1,500/ $3,000
Education: San Francisco Art Institute, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program
One-Person Exhibitions include: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; Mary Boone Gallery; The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago; Brutto Gusto, Berlin; Beacon Project Space; Corning Museum of Glass, NY; Rathbone Gallery; Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Group Exhibitions include: De Appel, Amsterdam; Dinter Fine Art; Arizona State University Art Museum, Temple; Paula Cooper Gallery; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; New Museum of Contemporary Art; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Silverstein Gallery; Plus Ultra Gallery; Queens Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve, Geneva
Collections include: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Smithsonian Museum, D.C.; Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Belgium; Museum of Modern Art; Brooklyn Museum Publications include: Art in America, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, Miami Herald, Art International, Artforum, BOMB, Elle, Avenue
Awards And Honors include: New York Foundation for the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Engelhard Foundation Grant