POWER ON: Southern Exposure's 2022 Art Auction Catalogue

2022 Auction Catalog

Live Auction POWER ON POWER ON POWER ON Saturday, April 23, 2022

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Artists ALEXANDMUSHI (ALEX NICHOLS & MUSHI WOOSEONG JAMES) LUCA ANTONUCCI JOHNNA ARNOLD MIGUEL ARZABE SHOLEH ASGARY HERNAN BAS MARK BAUGH SASAKI JD BELTRAN KIM BENNETT LEO BERSAMINA LISA K. BLATT LUKAZA BRANFMAN-VERISSIMO VAL BRITTON RACHELLE BUSSIÈRES CRAIG CALDERWOOD KELLY CARÁMBULA ENRIQUE CHAGOYA AJIT CHAUHAN JEFFREY CHEUNG JOHN CHIARA RANDY COLOSKY MARY CONRAD TIMOTHY CUMMINGS VERONICA DE JESUS GENE DOMINIQUE CHRIS DUNCAN ALICIA ESCOTT RODNEY EWING KOTA EZAWA KEN FANDELL DAVID FULLARTON GUILLERMO GALINDO BENICIA GANTNER RENÉE GERTLER MATT GONZALEZ REA LYNN DE GUZMAN DIANE ANDREWS HALL KRISTIE HANSEN 4

NICOLE HAYDEN TARANEH HEMAMI DANA HEMENWAY ANGELA HENNESSY TODD HIDO TANYA HOLLIS GRAHAM HOLOCH SARAH HOTCHKISS CARRIE HOTT TANIA HOUTZAGER HUGHEN/STARKWEATHER COLTER JACOBSEN JASON JÄGEL CHRIS JOHANSON DAVID KASPRZAK MARY ANNE KLUTH MICHAEL KOEHLE CHRISTINA LA SALA NOAH LANG KRIS LANG JESSICA LIN SAM LOPES CATHY LU KIJA LUCAS NATHAN LYNCH NICK MAKANNA MICHELLE MANSOUR KARI MARBOE KARA MARIA VANESSA MARSH LEE MATERAZZI ALICIA MCCARTHY ANNE MCGUIRE JENNA MEACHEM JIM MELCHERT ROBERT MINERVINI JULIO CESAR MORALES NICOLE MUELLER NATANI NOTAH KARI ORVIK

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MARCEL PARDO ARIZA ERIK PARRA MERYL PATAKY ALISON PEBWORTH KEITH PETERSEN CARISSA POTTER CARLSON MEL PREST AMY RATHBONE RACHELLE REICHART KATE RHOADES BLAISE ROSENTHAL BYRON RYONO JAMES SANSING AZIN SERAJ JENNY SHARAF ALICE SHAW EBTIHAL SHEDID JENNIE SMITH TRAVIS SOMERVILLE RUTH TABANCAY CHARLENE TAN SAM TCHAKALIAN SARAH THIBAULT SIMON TRAN TNT TRAYSIKEL KATHERINE VETNE STEPHEN VINCENT ANDY VOGT HANNAH WAITERS AMANDA WALTERS BENJI WHALEN DEIRDRE WHITE DAVID WILSON JENIFER K WOFFORD ROCHELLE YOUK MARYAM YOUSIF HAOYUN ERIN ZHAO MINOOSH ZOMORODINIA

LIVE AUCTION 19. JEFF CHEUNG 62. MICHAEL KOEHLE 56. JASON JAGEL 57. CHRIS JOHANSON 55. COLTER JACOBSON 103. JENNY SHARAF 81. ROBERT MINERVINI 121. DAVID WILSON 77. ALICIA MCCARTHY 31. KOTA EZAWA

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30. RODNEY EWING 33. CARLOS FERNANDEZ 35. GUILLERMO GALINDO 46. ANGELA HENNESSY 58. DAVID KASPRZAK 59. DAVID KASPRZAK 60. DAVID KASPRZAK 61. MARY ANNE KLUTH 84. NATANI NOTAH 98. BYRON RYONO 106. JENNIE SMITH 108. RUTH TABANCAY 109. CHARLENE TAN 111. SARAH THIBAULT 118. AMANDA WALTERS 124. MARYAM YOUSIF

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4. MIGUEL ARZABE 12. LUKAZA BRANFMAN-VERISSIMO 25. VERONICA DEJESUS 26. VERONICA DEJESUS 40. KRISTIE HANSEN 48. TANYA HOLLIS 66. JESSICA LIN 67. SAM LOPES 69. KIJA LUCAS 70. NATHAN LYNCH 74. KARA MARIA 76. LEE MATERAZZI 83. NICOLE MUELLER 89. ALISON PEBWORTH 90. ALISON PEBWORTH 96. KATE RHOADES 104. ALICE SHAW 119. BENJI WHALEN 120. DEIRDRE WHITE 126. MINOOSH ZOMORODINIA

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8. JD BELTRAN 9. KIM BENNETT 23. TIMOTHY CUMMINGS 36. BENICIA GANTNER 39. DIANE ANDREWS HALL 54. HUGHEN/STARKWEATHER 87. ERIK PARRA 88. MERYL PATAKY 92. CARISSA POTTER CARLSON 93. MEL PREST 110. SAM TCHAKALIAN 113. SIMON TRAN 115. STEPHEN VINCENT 122. JENIFER K WOFFORD

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2. LUCA ANTONUCCI 5. SHOLEH ASGARY 7. MARK BAUGH-SASAKI 10. LEO BERSAMINA 11. LISA K. BLATT 13. VAL BRITTON 20. JOHN CHIARA 21. RANDY COLOSKY 28. CHRIS DUNCAN 32. KEN FANDELL 38. MATT GONZALEZ 42. TARANEH HEMAMI 43. TARANEH HEMAMI 44. TARANEH HEMAMI 45. DANA HEMENWAY 47. TODD HIDO 49. GRAHAM HOLOCH 50. GRAHAM HOLOCH 51. SARAH HOTCHKISS 65. NOAH LANG 72. MICHELLE MANSOUR 75. VANESSA MARSH 79. JENNA MEACHAM 80. JIM MELCHERT 85. KARI ORVIK 86. MARCEL PARDO ARIZA 99. JAMES SANSING 100. JAMES SANSING 105. EBTIHAL SHEDID 107. TRAVIS SOMERVILLE 112. TNT TRAYSIKEL (MIKE ARCEGA AND PAOLO ASUNCION) 114. KATHERINE VETNE 117. HANNAH WAITERS SOEX .ORG/AUCTION |

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1. ALEXANDMUSHI 3. JOHNNA ARNOLD 6. HERNAN BAS 14. RACHELLE BUSSIÈRES 15. CRAIG CALDERWOOD 16. KELLY CARÁMBULA 17. ENRIQUE CHAGOYA 18. AJIT CHAUHAN 22. MARY FERNANDO CONRAD 24. REA LYNN DE GUZMAN 27. GENE DOMINIQUE 29. ALICIA ESCOTT 34. DAVID FULLARTON 37. RENÉE GERTLER 41. NICOLE HAYDEN 52. CARRIE HOTT 53. TANIA HOUTZAGER 63. CHRISTINA LA SALA 64. KRIS LANG 68. CATHY LU 71. NICK MAKANNA 73. KARI MARBOE 78. ANNE MCGUIRE 82. JULIO CÉSAR MORALES 91. KEITH PETERSEN 94. AMY RATHBONE 95. RACHELLE REICHERT 97. BLAISE ROSENTHAL 101. AZIN SERAJ 102. AZIN SERAJ 116. ANDY VOGT SOEX .ORG/AUCTION |

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ALEXANDMUSHI Two Chairs, Mist in Mulino, Italy #2 2017, Archival pigment print mounted on aluminum 24” x 32” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and MODERNISM INC. Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $800

Place Bid Artwork Description Two Chairs is a non-verbal and durational performance for the camera in which Alex and Mushi each have a chair and they attempt to play together. In this piece, two chairs are silently pulled over hills and through fields of mist; Mushi grabs Alex’s chair; Alex pulls the chair back. In the absurdity of these actions, they discover something akin to two people talking at the same time.

Artist’s Bio ALEXANDMUSHI is a collaboration between Alex Nichols and Mushi Wooseong James from MODERNISM INC. based in San Francisco. This ongoing collaborative project consists of two names, two people and thousands of conversations examining humanity’s central theme: connection. They are conceptual artists engaged in social practice, performance, and process-based documentation including photography, video, writing, and installation. They have exhibited their works in the US, Asia, and Europe. They are the recipients of artist residencies in California, Taiwan, and Mexico. Alex and Mushi have participated and worked with: The American Anthropological Association; AIASF; Djerassi Residency; Bamboo Curtain Studio; Centro Fotografico Alvarez Bravo Oaxaca; Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco; Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture San Francisco; MACO Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Oaxaca; MOCA Taipei; Recology San Francisco; University of San Francisco; and Zonamaco Art Fair.

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LUCA ANTONUCCI I couldn’t agree more at any other time 2022, Color video print on paper and accompanying book 5.75” x 8.25” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $400 Starting Bid: $250

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Artwork Description This artwork is part of a series of color video prints made with a Sony Mavigraph, a tool primarily used to print sonograms, for the exhibition Off-Screen at Bass & Reiner through April 17, 2022. These photographs of unoccupied rooms in interstitial moments from various films are an attempt to document the physical shape of film, apart from narrative.

Artist’s Bio Luca Antonucci is the co-founder of the publishing practice Colpa Press as well as the San Francisco Art Book Fair; he is also a member of The Basement, an artist collective and studio space located in San Francisco’s Mission District. He has had solo shows at Bass & Reiner; John McNeil Studio; City Limits; and Pro Arts Gallery & Commons. He has been in group shows at institutions including: SFMOMA; Minnesota Street Project; and Spins and Needles, Canada.

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JOHNNA ARNOLD 2007 Mazda 3, Ohio to Oakland #2 2021, Unique chromogenic print 30” x 35” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and Sarah Shepard Gallery, framed by Small Works SF Retail Value: $5,000 Starting Bid: $2,000

Place Bid Artwork Description This photograph is from the body of work From Inside This Earth. Using a cameraless technique, Arnold employs the color darkroom like a microscope, creating a unique analog chromogenic print by enlarging individual samples of used motor oil. Details are magnified and colors inverted, taking a repugnant substance and turning it into dreamscapes. This work focuses on our relationship with the earth, the interconnection between oil and the architecture of the city, and the instrumental role crude oil plays in our daily lives.

Artist’s Bio Johnna Arnold is an artist, photographer, educator and urban gardener in Oakland, CA. Her work explores interconnections between our lives and our constructed environments. Johnna’s recent projects include analog photograms made from used motor oil, prints made from crude oil, and a participatory meditation project. She had past exhibits with the Headlands Center for the Arts, Oakland International Airport, and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. Johnna’s Expanding Space Project is part of the Creative Attention Exhibition on view until May 21, 2022 at the Palo Alto Art Center, and her solo exhibition Energy + Form is at the Sarah Shepard Gallery through April 2022.

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MIGUEL ARZABE Elvis Crespo 2022, Woven found posters 28.5” x 25” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Johansson Projects, framed by Spot Design Retail Value: $3,500 Starting Bid: $2,000

Place Bid Artwork Description Miguel Arzabe makes colorful and dynamic abstractions: weavings, paintings, and videos. Drawing inspiration from the cultural techniques and motifs of his Andean heritage, Arzabe weaves the fragments together revealing uncanny intersections between form and content, the nostalgic and the hard-edged, failure and recuperation. In this piece, a concert poster found on a chain link fence under the highway near the artist’s studio is woven together with a poster from a thrift store.

Artist’s Bio Miguel Arzabe lives in Oakland and is a charter studio member at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco. He had recent solo shows in 2021 at Shulamit Nazarian Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) and Johansson Projects (Oakland, CA).

Arzabe’s work has been featured in such festivals as Hors Pistes (Centre Pompidou, Paris), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montreal), and the Geumgang Nature Art Biennale (Gongju, South Korea); and in museums and galleries including MAC Lyon (France), MARS Milan (Italy), RM Projects (Auckland), FIFI Projects (Mexico City), Marylhurst University (Oregon), Berkeley Art Museum, Albuquerque Museum of Art, the de Young Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has held many residencies including Facebook AIR, Headlands Center for the Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, and Santa Fe Art Institute. He holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS from Arizona State University, and an MFA from UC Berkeley.

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SHOLEH ASGARY Ghateli 2021, Embossed cotton rag paper 7” x 7” x 0.05” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $900 Starting Bid: $350

Place Bid Artwork Description One of 19 unique cotton rag prints embossed with a single casting of Sholeh Asgary’s breath, this work is part of the “Ghatel” series that speculatively maps aerial views of Qanats (ancient Persian underground aqueducts), touching upon power systems of labor, with references to land and body. Through a process akin to a psychomagic act of breathing water over the landscape, “Ghateli” offers an intimate casting of a singular breath. While in residence at MASS MoCA in 2021, the artist created a plaster casting with her breath, which was used to create an embossing tool from melted down plastic water bottles.

Artist’s Bio Sholeh Asgary is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary sound artist whose works implicate the viewer-participant into future mythological excavations, bridging large swathes of time and history through water, water clocks, crude oil, movement, light, imaging, voice, and sound. Asgary’s work has received support through numerous residencies and awards, most recently including a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant (2021), Minnesota Street Project/Adjacent (2022), UCLA Art Sci (2021), MASS MoCA (2021), Headlands Center for the Arts (2021), and Real Time & Space (2021). She has exhibited and performed at such institutions as ARoS Kunstmuseum, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Currently residing in Oakland, CA, she is a Lecturer at UC Berkeley and serves on the Curatorial Council for Southern Exposure. Asgary holds an MFA from Mills College and BA from San Francisco State University.

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HERNAN BAS The Renaissance Man 2013, Softground, spitbite, and drypoint print on paper 21” x 17” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Paulson Fontaine Press, Lehman Maupin Gallery (New York), Victoria Miro Gallery (London), and Perrotin, framed by Painters Place Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $600

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Artwork Description This print is one of a series Hernan Bas created at Paulson Fontaine Press in 2013, where he employed etching into his painting process for the first time.

The addition of this technique changed the way Bas thought about layering paint in his work. The print is named for the artist’s first impression of the subject of the print’s character.

Artist’s Bio Hernan Bas makes paintings tinged with nihilist romanticism. Influenced by the writings of Joris Karl-Huysmans and Oscar Wilde, his portrayals of boyish exploration and supernatural landscapes are both elaborate and theatrical and depict androgynous figures engaged in rituals of courtship, love and death. Bas has shown at the Kunstverein (Hanover, Germany), the Rubell Family Collection (Miami, FL), the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NYC), and the Venice Biennale and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The artist is represented by Lehman Maupin Gallery (NYC), Victoria Micro (London), and Perrotin Gallery.

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MARK BAUGH-SASAKI Between Memory and Landscape - Waypoint 2022, Archival pigment print and light diffuser 11” x 14” x 1.25” Courtesy of the Artist and re.riddle Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $500

Place Bid Artwork Description Baugh-Sasaki says, “My relationship with my father has always centered around landscape. As his memory degrades, our relationship has changed; memory and experience have become embedded in place.” This image is of Castle Rock, one of the prominent geological formations that defined the Tulelake Segregation Center in Northern California. As a teenager, Baugh-Sasaki’s father was imprisoned there as part of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Artist’s Bio Mark Baugh-Sasaki is an interdisciplinary artist whose art practice focuses on our connection to place through embedded narratives in both the built and the natural landscape. He received his BFA in 2004 from Carnegie Mellon University and his MFA in 2017 from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He has been a resident at Headlands Center for the Arts and an Honorary James Irvine Fellow at Djerassi Resident Artist Program. He is a recipient of The Hopper Prize and the Cadogan Award, and his work is included in the public collections at Recology Artist in Residence Program and the University of San Francisco. He is currently represented by San Francisco gallery re.riddle.

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JD BELTRAN Untitled (Timescapes) 2022, Vintage restored Victorian Birdseye Maple “Perfecscope” Stereographic Viewer (circa 1895), 10 stereographic cards (including vintage cards from the early 1900s, plus custom-created cards of current San Francisco landscapes) 8” x 7” x 14” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $4,000 Starting Bid: $600

Place Bid Artwork Description A vintage Victorian stereographic viewer includes 10 then-and-now stereographic cards—vistas that virtually transport you to selected landscapes of San Francisco in the late 1800s, and over a hundred years later, to those exact locations now. The piece also includes creation of your own custom stereographic timescape card from an image of your choosing.

Artist’s Bio JD Beltran is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, journalist, writer, and cultural strategist. Her artwork has been screened and exhibited internationally including at: the Walker Art Center; the Getty Institute; the MIT Media Lab; the Kitchen NYC; Ars Electronica; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the M.H. De Young Museum; and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She has been commissioned for public art projects worldwide, including in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She also has received the Public Art Network award for creating one of the most outstanding public artworks in the United States. She’s achieved grants from Artadia, the MIT Media Lab, the San Francisco Arts Commission, & Stochastic Labs. In addition, Beltran was awarded a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Fellowship, residencies at Skowhegan, the Pilchuck School, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Stochastic Labs, and the Lucas Artists Residency at Montalvo Arts Center.

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KIM BENNETT C.H. 2021, Archival ink on Stonehenge paper 22” x 30” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,800 Starting Bid: $700

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Artwork Description This series comes out of Bennett’s embroidery practice, begun as a way to model stitches and evolving into a sort of autonomous lace form. It is inspired by Italian whitework and cutwork embroidery c. 1600, and cellular automata—modeling systems for complex patterns that appear to think on their own by combining fractal and chaotic patterns, created by computer scientist and theoretical physicist Stephen Wolfram.

Artist’s Bio Kim Bennett has a B.F.A. from the Cooper Union and an M.F.A. from California College of the Arts, where she is an Adjunct Professor. She has exhibited her work in the Bay Area at Stephen Wirtz Gallery, Pied-a-terre, Interface Gallery, Transmitter Gallery in New York, and Conduit Gallery in Dallas. She is the recipient of a Creative Time commission, a Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, and a Kala Parent Artist Fellowship.

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LEO BERSAMINA Flyover II 2018, Acrylic on panel 30” x 40” x 2.5” Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble Retail Value: $6,000 Starting Bid: $1,500

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Artwork Description Bersamina’s work draws on the abstracted aerial landscapes of regions where he has traveled. This work is part of a series completed in 2018.

Artist’s Bio Leo Bersamina was born in San Francisco, California and grew up surfing and fishing on the coast. Bersamina began studying art and design in Santa Cruz, California, later attending San Francisco State University to earn his BA with an emphasis in Studio Art. He received an MFA in Painting at Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Along with his extensive studio practice, Bersamina has also taught Studio Art at Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley, PontAven School of Contemporary Art and Diablo Valley College (where he currently is a tenured instructor). Bersamina continues to exhibit nationally and internationally, and his work is found in many collections, including at the Oakland Museum of California; Google; Capital One Bank; Microsoft; Swiss Bank; and The Gap.

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LISA K. BLATT Untitled (heatscape) 2012-2018, Archival pigment print 8” x 10” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $500 Starting Bid: $200

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Artwork Description Camping with an international space team (NASA included), Lisa K. Blatt has photographed remote locations ranging from Antarctica to Atacama (the world’s driest desert). This “heatscape” was taken at a ground zero site for climate change in Chile. Using a heat sensitive scientific camera, her “heatscape” images offer a different way of viewing landscapes presenting the Earth’s features as light defined by the Earth’s temperatures.

Artist’s Bio Blatt’s art has been exhibited internationally in The Shanghai Biennial, The Havana Biennial, Contemporary Art Platform, Kunstverein Haus, US Embassy, Museo de Tigre, Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Moderna Museet, Asian Art Museum, Contemporary Jewish Museum,and Phillips Museum. Some of these exhibits are located as far as Cuba, China, Argentina, and more. She has garnered accolades and recognition, notably from world-renowned photographer Cindy Sherman, The Smithsonian Magazine, and two international photo award nominations from SFMoMA Curator Emerita Sandra S. Phillips.

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LUKAZA BRANFMAN-VERISSIMO When our webs become the roots of our utopic kinship 2022, Acrylic, spray paint, flashe, and black gesso on wood panel 18” x 24” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and SEPTEMBER Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $800

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Artist’s Bio Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo is an artist, activist, educator, storyteller & curator who lives and works between Ohlone (Oakland, CA) and Powhatan land (Richmond,VA). Their work has been included in exhibitions and performances at Konsthall C (Stockholm, Sweden), SEPTEMBER Gallery (Kinderhook, NY), EFA Project Space (New York City, NY), Leslie Lohman Museum (New York City, NY), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA) and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA), amongst others. Lukaza received their BFA at California College of the Arts and MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and is a current member of Moments Co-op (Oakland, CA) and Book/ Print of Color Collective. Their artist books and prints have been published

by Endless Editions, Childish Books, Play Press, Press Press, Sming Sming and Night Diver Press.

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VAL BRITTON Longitude #1 2015, Acrylic, ink, collage, and cutout paper 12.5” x 12.5” x 1.5” Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery Wendi Norris Retail Value: $1,200 Starting Bid: $800

Place Bid Artwork Description This piece is part of a body of work that Britton began while in residence at the Golden Foundation in 2015. Much of this work was initially influenced and inspired by the loss of her father, a truck driver. Based on roadmaps, routes he traveled, and an invented conglomeration of those passageways, these works pieced together the past and make up the parts she could not know. Using directional elements in homage to her father’s commute-heavy job, she uses this abstract piece to chart the emotional spaces we inhabit.

Artist’s Bio Val Britton was the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2010) and the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship (2015). She has exhibited at institutions including the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA; Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA; Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA, among others.

Britton’s work is held in numerous public collections including the Arkansas Arts Center; Cleveland Clinic Fine Art Collection, OH; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; de Saisset Museum; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; National September 11 Memorial & Museum, NY; New York Historical Society; New York Public Library; and the San Jose Museum of Art, among others. Britton was commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission to create a permanent public artwork for the San Francisco International Airport; the artwork opened to the public in 2015.

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RACHELLE BUSSIÈRES Untitled (Full Sun 3pm) 2018, Archival pigment print of scanned lumen mounted on aluminum 40” x 30” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Johansson Projects Retail Value: $4,250 Starting Bid: $1,800

Place Bid Artwork Description Bussières’ work addresses the limits of both sight and knowledge through the creation of photographic exposures. She makes cameraless lumen prints, engaging with photographic materials as a means of exploring the impact of light on the psyche, environment, and social structures. Bussières exposes gelatin silver paper to different light sources, transforming the images into new artifacts.

Artist’s Bio Rachelle Bussières’ work sits at the intersection of photography and sculpture, moving through a collision of materials and documents through the lumen photographic process. Her recent solo exhibitions include Melanie Flood Projects (Portland, USA), Penumbra Foundation (NYC, USA), Johansson Projects (Oakland, USA) and Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco, USA). Awards include the Penumbra Foundation Workspace Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts (Research and Creation), an honorable mention for the Snider Prize from the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and being a Finalist for the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize. Rachelle Bussières, originally from Quebec City, Canada, received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2015. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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CRAIG CALDERWOOD Fashion Fair Death Shroud 2021, Fibre tip pen on cotton paper 11” x 14” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $1,800

Place Bid Artwork Description When Calderwood worked at the mall, they imagined it as their final destination: when they pass away, would their corpse have a “Can’t Sleep, the Clowns Will Eat Me” shirt draped over their face in front of floral bouquets at a Sears Portrait Studio? Would the air be filled with the nostril burning scents of Sun-Drenched Linen Candles? How many mall-goers would be eating a corn dog or a fried cheese stick in front of them? What mold or living thing would pierce through that patchwork shroud and begin anew? This work on paper explores these questions.

Artist’s Bio A self-taught artist, Craig Calderwood’s intricate and decorative works are rendered through a personal vernacular of symbols and patterns. Recalling the private languages that underground communities of queer and trans people used for safety for decades, Calderwood develops these patterns and symbols though research into history, personal narratives, and pop cultural moments.

They then arrange them into constellations to tell stories both personal and fantasized. Utilizing low-end materials like fabric paint, polymer clay, found fabrics and fibre tip pens, Calderwood explores ideas around desire, biodiversity, and otherness. They also look at how material practice forms its own language for safe and coded communication within hostile environments.

Calderwood has shown at Minnesota Street Projects; SOMArts; and the Oakland Museum of California. Their gallery affiliations include Unspeakable Projects in Manhattan, NY and Black and White Projects in San Francisco. Their work has been featured in publications such as Juxtapoz and KQED Arts.

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KELLY CARÁMBULA Stand Out 2022, Clay and wood 9.25” x 9.5” x 3” Courtesy of the Artist and Eleanor Harwood Gallery Retail Value: $400 Starting Bid: $200

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Artwork Description Kelly Carámbula’s work explores elements of control (and lack thereof) and imperfection, often incorporating surprises that encourage the viewer to look closer, longer, or from a different perspective. She is continually interested and inspired by her children’s artwork—the relationships between color, form, and texture, and the way nature hands us small surprises if we take the time to look. This piece is part of a body of work made in 2021-2022.

Artist’s Bio Kelly Carámbula is a San Francisco-based artist and sculptor. Her work has been featured in BUST magazine, food52.com, seriouseats.com, and Better Homes and Gardens. She earned her BFA in Graphic Design from Western Michigan University.

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ENRIQUE CHAGOYA Return to Goya Caprichos, Number 63 2021, Etching with aquatint on paper 15” x 13” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble, framed by SF Art Framing Retail Value: $1,100 Starting Bid: $400

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Artwork Description Chagoya began this series appropriating Goya’s Los Caprichos in 1999 for his own suite of prints, revisiting the work in the context of today’s political and social issues.

More about the series here: artistproject.metmuseum.org/1/enrique-chagoya/

Artist’s Bio Enrique Chagoya is American, born in Mexico City. His work is focused on the constant changes of culture with humor and a critical perspective. He is currently a professor at Stanford University’s department of Art and Art History and his work can be found in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Metropolitan Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art; SFMOMA; and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, among others. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021, two NEA artist fellowships, residencies at Giverny and Cité Internationale des Arts in France, a Tiffany fellowship, and a Lifetime Achievement Award in printmaking from the Southern Graphics Conference International in 2022.

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AJIT CHAUHAN The Seven Last Words of Christ 2019, Erased record cover 16.5” x 16.5” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $1,200

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Artwork Description The work in this series is made by erasing part of the image on record covers.

Nothing is added or glued or collaged. Information is removed to reveal a form, like a Rorschach test, from a discarded item. It becomes a form of resuscitating or salvaging. Chauhan says of this series, “Sometimes I wonder how many actual hands have these records passed through. I like the idea of value accruing over each exchange rather than devaluing.”

Artist’s Bio Ajit Chauhan’s work has been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, the Berkeley Art Museum, Asian Art Museum, UC Davis Museum, the Grimm Museum in Berlin, the SONS Museum in Kruishoutem, Belgium, White Columns NY, Jack Hanley Gallery, Annarumma Gallery, SVIT Praha, Et al. / Et al. etc., Fused, Anglim/ Trimble, Headlands Center for the Arts, and recently at the KMAC Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.

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JEFFREY CHEUNG Untitled 2022, Acrylic on canvas 30” x 24” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and Jack Hanley Gallery Retail Value: $3,500 Starting Bid: $1,400

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Artist’s Bio Jeff Cheung is a native Bay Area artist and the co-founder of Unity Press and Unity Skateboarding. Cheung graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz and has exhibited widely in the Bay Area and at Hashimoto Contemporary (New York); Jeffrey Deitch Projects (Los Angeles); City Bird Gallery (Paris); and V1 Gallery (Copenhagen). He’s had solo exhibitions at New Image Art (LA), Hashimoto Contemporary (San Francisco), BimBam Gallery (Paris) and Pt.2 (Oakland) and has been a resident artist at the Bedford Stuyvesant Artist Residency in Brooklyn.

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JOHN CHIARA Post at Franklin 2019, Archival pigment print on Fujiflex paper 10” x 8” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Haines Gallery Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $800

Place Bid Artist’s Bio John Chiara received his B.F.A. in Photography from the University of Utah in 1995, and his M.F.A. in Photography from the California College of the Arts in 2004. He has been an artist in residence at Crown Point Press, San Francisco, in 2006 and in 2017; at Gallery Four, Baltimore in 2010, and at the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts in 2010. In 2012 Chiara was one of thirteen international artists whose work was included in the exhibition Crown Point Press at Fifty at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C., and at the de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He curated and participated in an exhibition In Conversation - June Schwarcz and John Chiara at the Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California in 2012. The Pilara Foundation commissioned Chiara a second time in 2013 for the group exhibition A Sense of Place at Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco. Concurrently, Chiara’s work was included in Twisted Sisters: Reimagining Urban Portraiture at the Museum Barengasse, Zurich, Switzerland, and in Staking Claim, a California triennial invitational at the San Diego Museum of Photographic Art. In 2015, Chiara was one of seven artists featured in Light, Paper, Process, Reinventing Photography, at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

In 2016, Chiara’s work was shown at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York.

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RANDY COLOSKY Nightshade 2022, Oil on Belgian linen 36” x 30” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and Upstart Modern Retail Value: $5,500 Starting Bid: $2,000

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Artwork Description Colosky’s painting process is a meditative focus on brush movement, the viscosity of the paint, breathing, and patience. The linen is treated to emulate the chaotic field of the background environment. The painted lines are based on motifs the artist has been working with for decades, thematically related to pipelines, maps, highways, spectrum emissions, and the ways Colosky navigates through space and time.

Artist’s Bio Colosky received a BFA in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1987. Colosky has been awarded grants from the Warhol Foundation for the Arts, The Fleishacker Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the KALA Art Institute Residency. His recent public projects include: large-scale sculptures for ArtPark Oakland, CA and 2 installations at the 101 California Building Atrium in San Francisco. Colosky has presented solo exhibitions at the SFAC Grove St Gallery, The Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, K Imperial Fine Arts, and Ampersand International Arts. Colosky has participated in group exhibitions with Incline Gallery, Highlight Gallery, Southern Exposure, and Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago).

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MARY FERNANDO CONRAD Art for your Car #22 2022, Ceramic 6.4” x 6.6” x 3.4” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $500 Starting Bid: $250

Place Bid Artwork Description Art for Your Car is part of a series. Mary Fernando Conrad compares art to California’s robust car culture. If your car is like her car, it packs in a lot of personal belongings. To Fernando Conrad, art and cars are both a physical experience. As cars allow us to travel from place to place, art goes from a shrine to a home.

Artist’s Bio Mary Fernando Conrad investigates social infrastructure through the use of vernacular materials such as neon signage, plastic and packaging. Recent shows include solo exhibitions at Ictus Gallery and Michael Rosenthal Gallery (both San Francisco). Group shows include In The Fullness of Time: 20th Anniversary Show at the Luggage Store Gallery. She also recently installed a sculpture as part of the Tenderloin National Forest/Luggage Store Annex where she completed a residency in 2006. She received her Bachelors of Arts, cum laude in English Literature from Cornell University and a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University after attending the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Born in the United States, Conrad lived abroad for many years in France and Indonesia, as well in Sri Lank during her childhood. Upcoming exhibitions include a group show in June with Arion Press and a solo exhibition in 2023 at Gospel Flats Farmstand Gallery.

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TIMOTHY CUMMINGS Neverland, AP8 2001, Monotype on digital print with handwork 6.25” x 5” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Catharine Clark Gallery Retail Value: $750 Starting Bid: $400

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Artwork Description This is a one-of-a-kind, hand-painted artist proof printed by Trillium Press/ Electric Works by Noah Lang and Andrea Antonaccio.

Artist’s Bio Cumming’s work has been exhibited at LACE Gallery (Los Angeles); the Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach); the Hunterdon Art Museum (Clinton, New Jersey); and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco). In 2013, Cummings was an artist-in-residence and subject of a solo exhibition at Transarte Institute in São Paulo, Brazil. His work is represented in the permanent collection of Di Rosa Gallery in Napa, California and in the personal collection of Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson, owners of the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Cummings’ exhibitions have been reviewed in the San Francisco Examiner, Artweek, Art Papers, Flash Art, and Details. He has had numerous solo exhibitions at Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York and at Catharine Clark Gallery, both of whom represent his work.

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REA LYNN DE GUZMAN Sleeve Fragment 2015, Monoprint on paper mounted on panel 20” x 16” x 1.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $800 Starting Bid: $300

Place Bid Artwork Description This work explores the colonial history of piña fiber in the Philippines and its relationship with the idea of “Maria Clara”—the heroine of the 1887 Philipino novel “Noli Me Tángere” and the symbol for traditional feminine ideals of beauty and status, accompanied by stereotypes of chastity, demureness, light skin, passivity, and subordination. Popular Philippine concepts regarding beauty and status center on the normalization of skin-whitening products and championing of imported goods. De Guzman’s work challenges this colonial perspective. Through layering and a palette that evokes skin tones, she repudiates these imposed ideals by using material remnants intertwined with cultural legacies.

Artist’s Bio Rea Lynn de Guzman is a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary artist. Born in Manila, Philippines, she immigrated to the US at age 14. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited work throughout the US and internationally. She was Kearny Street Workshop’s Featured Artist in 2017.

In 2019-2020, she curated “Wander Woman” and “Wander Woman 2,” highlighting Bay Area women artists of color. She has been featured in the Asian Journal Magazine, Hella Pinay, KQED Arts, and SF Chronicle, among other publications.

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VERONICA DEJESUS Nash 2007, Pen on paper 23” x 39” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble Retail Value: $1,400 Starting Bid: $800

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Artwork Description DeJesus draws on faith, curiousity, finding answers, and never giving up.

Artist’s Bio Veronica De Jesus illustrates the varied splendor of American life. Her work explores identity and the ways we hide and reveal elements of our personalities. Her Memorial Drawings, featured in a recent solo exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum, are a series of illustrations complemented with text, honoring the many people who have influenced our collective culture and reflecting on loss and mourning. She has also exhibited nationally and locally at Anglim/Trimble; the Wattis Institute; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Royal Nonesuch Gallery; and Eleanor Harwood Gallery. She has a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from UC Berkeley.

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VERONICA DEJESUS Reliant 2007, Pen on paper 23” x 39” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble Retail Value: $1,400 Starting Bid: $800

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Artwork Description DeJesus draws on faith, curiousity, finding answers, and never giving up.

Artist’s Bio Veronica De Jesus illustrates the varied splendor of American life. Her work explores identity and the ways we hide and reveal elements of our personalities. Her Memorial Drawings, featured in a recent solo exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum, are a series of illustrations complemented with text, honoring the many people who have influenced our collective culture and reflecting on loss and mourning. She has also exhibited nationally and locally at Anglim/Trimble; the Wattis Institute; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Royal Nonesuch Gallery; and Eleanor Harwood Gallery. She has a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from UC Berkeley.

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GENE DOMINIQUE Jeopardy 2019, Archival pigment print on cotton paper 20” x 24” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,700 Starting Bid: $700

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Artwork Description “Jeopardy” is a composite made of real and imagined elements, creating tension and foreboding as one decides what happens next.

Artist’s Bio Gene Dominique earned a BA in photojournalism at San Jose State University and a law degree from UC Hastings College and practiced law for thirty years.

In 2015 Gene returned to his true passion: a full-time art practice centered on photography. Gene’s explorations in photography include a deep dive into a variety of genres from documentary, abstract and still-life to portraiture.

He has exhibited widely. Gene’s current work includes the documentary series, Still Here—African American Farmers in the 21st Century, which is a study of the contemporary life of Black farmers in the United States. Volunteerism is an important part of Gene’s art practice. In 2016 he founded CameraAngels, a donation program that solicits used cameras and related gear for young people. In addition, Gene is on the board of SF Camerawork.

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CHRIS DUNCAN Untitled (6 month exposure) 2020, Sunlight, time, and paint on fabric 18.75” x 20.5” x 1.5” Courtesy of the Artist and Rebecca Camacho Presents Framed by Small Works SF Retail Value: $4,500 Starting Bid: $1,000

Place Bid Artwork Description Duncan utilizes the sun and the moon, as well as time and tides, as conceptual and compositional prompts for experiments in sonic and visual endeavors.

In his long term sun exposure works, sunlight and the passing of time are harnessed to create images which exist in a liminal space between painting and photography. In a simple and reductive process, store bought colored fabrics are draped over objects or architectural structures, leaving them outside to the elements for periods ranging from six months to a year. There is no emulsion or chemical process used – just time and exposure to the sun. The fabric is both placed and harvested on full moons, marking time by celestial cycle, bookending the embedded light of the sun with the light of the moon. Upon harvest, the fabric is sun-bleached and weathered with the dimensionality of the object or area it once covered – providing fades, contrasts and unpredictable compositions. In an intuitive gesture, the fabric is cut, sewn, painted into, or stretched and left as is. The work is meant to honor time and capture the energy of the locale in which the exposures occur.

Artist’s Bio Christopher Robin Duncan is a multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Rebecca Camacho Presents; V1 Gallery (Copenhagen); Human Resources (Los Angeles); Romer Young Gallery; Et al. Gallery; and Headlands Center for the Arts. His work has also been featured in shows at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha); the Berkeley Art Museum; the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery; Pier 24; and the Museum of Modern Art (New York). He runs LAND AND SEA—a small press and project space in Oakland California, with his wife Maria Otero.

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ALICIA ESCOTT Disarticulated Production (untitled acorn) 2021, Ink on found plastic construction material 11” x 9” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $450 Starting Bid: $125

Place Bid Artwork Description This work is from an installation focusing on the entanglements of built worlds and natural ecological systems. Each drawing is hand-rendered on scraps of plastic construction material then melted back together. The acorns represent a meditation on possibilities inherent in a seed, linking these seeds to social justice movements germinating in the dark unknown soil of the pandemic. It likens the ways Oaks entwine their roots underground to support each other and the proliferation of mutual-aid in this time.

Escott’s work is informed by science and the examination and undoing of cultural narratives. She is interested in how we each negotiate our dayto-day realities and responsibilities amid an awareness of the overarching specter of the climate crisis, mass-extinction, the subsequent (individual and collective) experience of loss, heartbreak and longing, and the related social and political unrest they produce.

Artist’s Bio Alicia Escott’s work has been shown in over 90 art institutions, museums, galleries and alternative spaces including Berkeley Art Center, The Headlands, and Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work has been written about in The SF Chronicle, Momus, and many more. She has been Artist in Residence at The Growlery, Recology SF, Irving Street Projects, Djerassi, Anderson Ranch, and The JB Blunk residency. Escott is a founding member of 100 Days Action who were recipients of the 2017 YBCA 100 List Award and is half of the Social-Practice Project The Bureau of Linguistical Reality featured in The Economist, The New Yorker, The SF Chronicle, KQED and many others.

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RODNEY EWING Broken Shadows 2020, Silkscreen on vintage ledger paper 29.25” x 26.25” x 0” Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Retail Value: $5,000 Starting Bid: $2,750

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Artist’s Bio Rodney Ewing’s drawings, installations, and mixed media works focus on his need to intersect body and place, memory and fact to re-examine human histories, cultural conditions, and events. His work has been exhibited at Jack Shainman Gallery (New York); SFMOMA; Museum of African Diaspora; The Drawing Center (New York); Root Division; Jack Fischer Gallery; Nancy Toomey Fine Art; and Euqinom Gallery. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at Recology; the De Young Museum of Fine Arts; Djerassi; Headlands Center for the Arts; and Bemis Center for the Arts (Omaha). Ewing received his BFA in Printmaking from Louisiana State University and his MFA in Printmaking West Virginia University.

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KOTA EZAWA National Anthem (Jacksonville Jaguars) 2019, Watercolor on paper 8” x 16.5” x 0” Courtesy of the Artist and Haines Gallery Retail Value: $5,000 Starting Bid: $2,750

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Artwork Description A meditation on protest and patriotism, solidarity and hope, National Anthem is a critically acclaimed series by Kota Ezawa.This series is comprised of an animated video, a suite of related lightboxes, and watercolors. First exhibited at the 2019 Whitney Biennial, National Anthem depicts professional NFL athletes “taking a knee” during The Star-Spangled Banner to protest police brutality and the oppression of people of color.

Artist’s Bio Ezawa’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Baltimore Museum of Art, SITE Santa Fe, Hayward Gallery Project Space (London, UK), and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Ezawa participated in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and Shanghai Biennale 2004. He received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in 2003, a SECA Art Award in 2006, and a Eureka Fellowship in 2010. His work is included in the collections of: Art Institute of Chicago, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Museum of Modern Art (NY), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art.

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KEN FANDELL Crystal Messages (Desert/Ocean) 2014, Archival ink on color photograph 18.5” x 23” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and Traywick Contemporary Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $1,200

Place Bid Artwork Description The title of this photo-based work references the 1946 book Southern California: an Island on the Land, describing the region as “paradox: a desert that faces an ocean.” Fandell embraces this paradox in his Crystal series, using crystals as representative of American culture in the West, where mysticism and pop culture collide.

Artist’s Bio Ken Fandell has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, with exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL); the Honolulu Museum of Art; the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; the University of Delaware; the Asheville Museum of Art; and the Houston Center for Photography.

His work is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art (New York); and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. He has received prestigious awards from Artadia, the Fund for Art and Dialogue, and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. He lived for many years in Chicago, where he was Chair of the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Fandell now lives and works in Southern California, where he is the Michael G. and C. Jane Wilson Chair in Arts and Humanities at Harvey Mudd College.

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CARLOS FERNANDEZ Untitled 2015, Digital print 8” x 11” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Creative Growth Retail Value: $350 Starting Bid: $150

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Artist’s Bio Carlos Fernandez explores the intersections of geometry and repetition with reductive application. His exploration of images recalls the hard-edged, coloristic simplicity of Ellsworth Kelly. Fernandez draws inspiration from generic symbols, creating compositions that neutralize icons of their usual associations. Mundane objects are transformed from symbol to shape drawn

by Fernandez’s hand. Fernandez also works digitally, using an iPad to create surreal tableaus of patterns that reverberate against a litany of appropriated symbols and utilitarian icons. Fernandez has exhibited with local galleries including Southern Exposure and Creative Growth Gallery, as well as at Outsider Art Fairs in both NYC and Paris.

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DAVID FULLARTON Upgrade Now To Avoid Disappointment 2015, Graphite, mixed media, and broken smartphone screen 17” x 13” x 1.5” Courtesy of the Artist and The Compound Gallery Retail Value: $500 Starting Bid: $200

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Artwork Description This piece is part of a series using mixed media assemblages, including portrait drawings mounted behind a smashed smartphone screen. Accompanying the assemblage is a piece of hand-lettered text. The drawings function as small vignettes that feature a forlorn cast of misfits. This cast of reprobates attempts to eke meaning out of the banality of our diminished contemporary existence.

Artist’s Bio David Fullarton is a Scottish born, San Francisco based visual artist who creates mixed media works that combine images with text. He finds inspiration in the often-overlooked minutiae of daily existence. His illustrations have been featured in numerous publications and he has shown throughout the Bay Area. He is represented by The Compound Gallery in Oakland.

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GUILLERMO GALINDO Filament Cactus Ritual

2021, Acrylic ink on handmade Japanese paper, edition of 12 24” x 37.5” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Magnolia Editions Framed by Sterling Art Services Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $1,500

Place Bid Artwork Description This pattern was created by abstracting cactus textures as part of Galindo’s Sonic Biogenesis project. It was printed at Magnolia Editions on Japanese paper from Awagami Paper in Japan. Galindo’s “genome scores” consist of graphic representations of his musical compositions and artwork merging textures of plants, animals, and microbes.

“Artist’s Bio Guillermo Galindo is an experimental composer, sonic architect, performance artist, and visual media artist. Galindo’s work redefines the conventional limits between music, the art of music composition and the intersections between art disciplines, politics, humanitarian issues, spirituality and social awareness. Galindo’s graphic scores and three-dimensional sculptural cyber-totemic sonic objects have been shown at major museums and art biennials in America, Europe, and Asia including documenta14 (Athens/Kassel); Pacific Standard Time; The Cantor Museum at Stanford University; The High Line (New York); Westmorland Museum; The Institute for Contemporary Art (Boston); Pace Gallery (New York); and the San Jose Museum of Art. His work is part of the permanent collections of The Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas; The Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Florida; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and The National Gallery in Washington DC. Guillermo Galindo teaches at the California College of Arts in San Francisco, was a Mohr Visiting Artist at Stanford University, a resident artist at Vanderbilt University, and a Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar 2019 at the Rollins Cornell Arts Museum. He has also been a recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Grant.

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BENICIA GANTNER Nebulita.8 2021, Vinyl collage on paper 16” x 13” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Traywick Contemporary Retail Value: $2,200 Starting Bid: $800

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Artwork Description Well-known for her intricate work in vinyl collage, Gantner’s larger practice showcases a unique relationship with color and form that can best be described as a hybrid approach, which allows her to move fluidly between two and three dimensions with both minimal and exuberant gestures. Her work reverberates from the push and pull of competing influences: organic vs manufactured, analog vs digital and reductive vs cumulative, until a clarity emerges from chaos.

Artist’s Bio Currently living and working in Marin County, Benicia Gantner has shown extensively since receiving her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work is held in numerous public collections including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Crocker Museum, Sacramento, and the US Embassies in Afghanistan and Georgia; as well as in notable corporate collections such as UCSF Hospitals, Fidelity, Visa, Twitter and Charles Schwab. She has been represented by Traywick Contemporary since 1999.

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RENÉE GERTLER Cadence 2018, Ink, color pencil on paper 19” x 22” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist, framed by Mark Ryan Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $800

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Artwork Description Gertler’s drawings draw on memories, logic, and intuition, as expressed through number patterns, colored pencils, and architectural drawing skills gained through her studies as a Landscape Architect. The drawings use an optimistic pastel and technicolor palette popular to the cultural landscape of the 1990s.

Artist’s Bio Renée Gertler holds a BFA and MFA in Sculpture from The California College of Arts. She studied landscape architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate Studies of Design. Her sculptures and installations have been exhibited at the Headlands Center for The Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Di Rosa Preserve, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, New Langton Arts, Spaces Gallery, Southern Exposure, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, and Et. al gallery. She has been awarded the Anthony and Cadogan Fellowship, a Danish Arts Council Grant and artist residencies at the John Michael Kohler Arts/ Industry program, Spaces, Cleveland Ohio, Vermont Studio Center, Pilchuck School of Glass Emerging Artists Fellowship, The Macdowell Colony and Kala Art Institute.

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MATT GONZALEZ Astonished, sees us as one 2021, Found paper collage 14.5” x 11.75” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Dolby Chadwick Gallery Retail Value: $2,400 Starting Bid: $600

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Artist’s Bio Matt Gonzalez was born in 1965 in McAllen, Texas. He earned a BA from Columbia University and a JD from Stanford Law School. In addition to a practicing artist, Gonzalez is Chief Attorney at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. His art can be found in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento). He recently had his third solo show with the Dolby Chadwick Gallery.

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DIANE ANDREWS HALL Hermit Thrush/Bach/Blue Dot 2022, Gouache on sheet music 12.25” x 9.25” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $800

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Artwork Description This piece is a gouache painting of a Hermit Thrush on Bach’s Goldberg Variation sheet music.

Artist’s Bio Diane Andrews Hall was born in Dallas, Texas in 1945 and lives in San Francisco, California. She studied art at Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans and received her M.F.A. from the Hoffberger School of Painting at The Maryland Institute of Art. For over two decades she has been featured in more than two dozen solo and group exhibitions, primarily in New York and California. During the 1970s, Hall was a part of T.R.Uthco, a multi-media performance art collective based in San Francisco.

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KRISTIE HANSEN Revolution 1 2019, Wood and leather 18” x 21” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and Don Soker Contemporary Retail Value: $2,100 Starting Bid: $750

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Artwork Description Revolutions represent the connectivity of all earthly beings and the cycle of life. This piece is created using dried-out invasive weeds secured with second-hand belts of organic origin. In 2020, wildfires burned through the land, like a revolt transforming America’s landscape. At the same time, revolution was in the air with countless protests against police killings and the resurgence of Black Lives Matter. All the activism was a light of hope amidst the darkness.

Artist’s Bio Kristie Hansen is a self-taught San Francisco-based conceptual artist working primarily in sculpture. Hansen has been exhibiting her work in traditional and non-traditional art spaces up and down the California coast since 2011, including Don Soker Contemporary Art; Summer School; Queens Nails Projects; MAC; and Maison Margiela. Her work has also been included in numerous group shows at Southern Exposure; Ratio 3; and Berkeley Art Center. In 2016, she had a residency with local clothing designers, N.I.C.E. Collective and she consistently donates artwork to SF Skate Club for their fundraiser.

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NICOLE HAYDEN Younger than Springtime 2022, Graphite on paper 18” x 24” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist, framed by Mark Ryan Retail Value: $1,400 Starting Bid: $600

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Artist’s Bio Nicole Hayden received a BFA at The University of Kansas and studied at The California College of the Arts. Hayden has shown work in various art venues in the Bay Area including Southern Exposure; Sanchez Art Center; Gensler; Nexus Gallery; The Lab; Hang Art; and Adler & Co. Since the beginning of 2020, as store fronts began to close, Nicole has found herself immersed in wanting to beautify her neighborhood by creating outdoor murals with a variety of concepts. She has currently produced over 20 murals, and has found a new sense of appreciation for public art, street art, and working with communities to create uplifting visual experiences.

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TARANEH HEMAMI Talisman (from Excavation series) 2022, Glass fritts on wood panel 7” x 7” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,600 Starting Bid: $600

Place Bid Artwork Description Hemami’s piece is from her Excavations series based on an array of displaced objects on display in various museums around the world. The image depicted in this glass mosaic is taken from a gold pin talisman meant to protect the bearer. The original pin dating back to 11th-12th century was excavated in Nishapur, Iran. It has been part of the Metropolitan Museum’s collection since 1940.

Artist’s Bio Taraneh Hemami works with materials of history, organizing archives of images, data, and information to weave complementary and contradictory narratives made manifest in objects and installations. She explores themes of displacement, preservation, and representation in her collective and curatorial projects, creating experimental projects in collaborative projects with artists, writers and scholars. Hemami has exhibited widely including at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Southern Exposure; The Lab; Birmingham Museum; Boghossian Foundation; and at the Sharjah Biennial. She has received many awards for her projects from Creative Capital; Creative Work Fund; Center for Cultural Innovation; California Humanities; National Endowment for the Arts; San Francisco Arts Commission; Zellerbach Foundation; and Kala Art Institute. Her works are in the collections of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as well as public art collections across the Bay Area. She teaches at California College of the Arts, and proudly serves on the Board of Directors at Southern Exposure.

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TARANEH HEMAMI Fist (from Fabrications series, black) 2014, Powder-coated aluminum 8” x 6” x 0.25” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $600 Starting Bid: $200

Place Bid Artwork Description Hemami’s Fabrications project transforms, exalts and commodifies the graphic imagery of the underground culture of protest to create objects of both fine art and of the everyday using historical archives from collections belonging to the Iranian Student Association of Northern California (1954-1984) as source and inspiration. The project explores decades of collective activism inside Iran and in its diaspora while investigating the universal connections between radical movements across times and geographies.

Artist’s Bio Taraneh Hemami works with materials of history, organizing archives of images, data, and information to weave complementary and contradictory narratives made manifest in objects and installations. She explores themes of displacement, preservation, and representation in her collective and curatorial projects, creating experimental projects in collaborative projects with artists, writers and scholars. Hemami has exhibited widely including at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Southern Exposure; The Lab; Birmingham Museum; Boghossian Foundation; and at the Sharjah Biennial. She has received many awards for her projects from Creative Capital; Creative Work Fund; Center for Cultural Innovation; California Humanities; National Endowment for the Arts; San Francisco Arts Commission; Zellerbach Foundation; and Kala Art Institute. Her works are in the collections of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as well as public art collections across the Bay Area. She teaches at California College of the Arts, and proudly serves on the Board of Directors at Southern Exposure.

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TARANEH HEMAMI Fist (from Fabrications series, red) 2014, Powder-coated aluminum 8” x 6” x 0.25” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $600 Starting Bid: $200

Place Bid Artwork Description Hemami’s Fabrications project transforms, exalts and commodifies the graphic imagery of the underground culture of protest to create objects of both fine art and of the everyday using historical archives from collections belonging to the Iranian Student Association of Northern California (1954-1984) as source and inspiration. The project explores decades of collective activism inside Iran and in its diaspora while investigating the universal connections between radical movements across times and geographies.

Artist’s Bio Taraneh Hemami works with materials of history, organizing archives of images, data, and information to weave complementary and contradictory narratives made manifest in objects and installations. She explores themes of displacement, preservation, and representation in her collective and curatorial projects, creating experimental projects in collaborative projects with artists, writers and scholars. Hemami has exhibited widely including at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Southern Exposure; The Lab; Birmingham Museum; Boghossian Foundation; and at the Sharjah Biennial. She has received many awards for her projects from Creative Capital; Creative Work Fund; Center for Cultural Innovation; California Humanities; National Endowment for the Arts; San Francisco Arts Commission; Zellerbach Foundation; and Kala Art Institute. Her works are in the collections of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as well as public art collections across the Bay Area. She teaches at California College of the Arts, and proudly serves on the Board of Directors at Southern Exposure.

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DANA HEMENWAY UNTITLED (EXTENSION CORDS - TWO ORANGE) 2022, Wood, extension cords, lights, paint 36” x 6” x 3” Courtesy of the Artist and Eleanor Harwood Gallery Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $700

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Artwork Description Dana Hemenway’s work is rooted in the excavation and elevation of utilitarian objects to make visible what has become habituated in our built environments.

Hemenway uses these functional items as materials to form traditionally fiber-based crafts—lights and cords are woven through ceramics or the gallery wall, extension cords are transformed into macramé chains.

Artist’s Bio Dana Hemenway is an artist, curator, and educator based in San Francisco.

Hemenway has had residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE); ACRE (Stueben, WI); SÍM (Reykjavik, Iceland); and The Wassaic Project (Upstate New York). Dana is the recipient of The San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant and a Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure Grant. She just completed a public art commission for SFO’s Terminal 1, which opened in May of 2020. Dana has exhibited her artwork locally, nationally, and internationally. From 2015-2017, Dana served as a co-director of Royal Nonesuch Gallery, an artist-run project space in Oakland, CA. She is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery.

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ANGELA HENNESSY Orbits (#3) 2022, Synthetic hair and foam 19” x 15” x 4” Courtesy of the Artist and Pt.2 Gallery Retail Value: $2,400 Starting Bid: $1,000

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Artist’s Bio Angela Hennessy is an Oakland-based artist and Associate Professor at California College of the Arts, where she teaches courses on visual and cultural narratives of death and textile theory. Through writing, studio work, and performance, her practice questions assumptions about death and the dead themselves. Hennessy creates ephemeral and celestial forms constructed with everyday gestures of domestic labor—washing, wrapping, stitching, weaving, brushing, and braiding. Her work has been featured in Sculpture Magazine; The New Yorker; Nat Brut; Surface Design Journal; Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture and recently in exhibitions at SOMARTS; The Museum of the African Diaspora; Pt. 2 Gallery; and Southern Exposure. She has received awards from Artadia, Svane Family Foundation, Aninstantia Foundation, and Joan Mitchell Foundation.

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TODD HIDO #11925-2492, from the series The End Sends Advance Warning 2021, Archival pigment print 16” x 20” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Casemore Kirkeby Framed by Sterling Art Services Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $1,200

Place Bid Artwork Description Todd Hido is often asked how he finds his pictures. It’s simple: he drives along mundane roads and spaces until something calls out. If the scenery looks off, evokes sadness, or sparks an interest in him, he takes the photos of the subject. Then, he continues on his drive, repeating the process of photographing interesting scenes.

Artist’s Bio Todd Hido’s photographs are in private and public collections, including at the Getty, Whitney Museum of American Art, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Pier 24 Photography holds the archive of all of his published works.

Hido has published more than a dozen books, including the award-winning monographs House Hunting and Excerpts from Silver Meadows. His Aperture titles include Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude and Intimate Distance: 25 Years of Photographs. His latest book is Bright Black World.

His upcoming publication,The End Sends Advance Warning, will be published in 2023.

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TANYA HOLLIS Untitled (from Facts as Feelings) 2022, Gesso, plaster, paper, and wax on muslin over wood panel 8” x 8” x 1.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $800 Starting Bid: $300

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Artwork Description Hollis’ piece is from a new series of meditative works, Facts as Feelings.

Layers of muslin, gesso, plaster, paper and wax are accumulated through a repetitive sanding and polishing process known as “worrying”. The surface results in static texts, images, and artifacts. This surface appears to be arising, but is suspended under a polished veneer.

Artist’s Bio Tanya Hollis is a visual artist and archivist living and working in San Francisco. Hollis has shown work in a variety of spaces in the Bay Area, including Right Window Gallery; DZINE; SF Camerawork; and Little City Gardens.

Hollis also serves as a curator at Right Window Gallery and was a founding member of Nonsite Collective.

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GRAHAM HOLOCH Crater Sized Hole 2019, Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 24” x 20” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $900 Starting Bid: $400

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Artwork Description “Crater Sized Hole” is the imagined view of the young person from the image titled “Red Boy”. The title is a reflection of the nature in which a crater is nothing more than a hole to many. Haleakalā is a sacred place, but to many, it is just another vantage point to take in on a family vacation.

Artist’s Bio Graham Holoch is an artist and curator based in San Francisco, CA. As a founding member of the alt-publishing group Eggy Press, he is committed to the tradition of small-press publishing and edition making. His practice employs a documentary style of image making to capture moments of spontaneity. His work is an exploration of self. Photos are treated as materials, akin to letters forming words. Holoch has exhibited with Double Strength at Gallery 16 (San Francisco); North Gallery (Oakland); and Test Strip Gallery (Oakland).

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GRAHAM HOLOCH Red Boy 2019, Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper 24” x 20” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $900 Starting Bid: $400

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Artwork Description This photograph is from the series “A Lazy Bug Goes On Vacation”. “Red Boy” is an image of an anonymous young person in a red hoodie standing in front of the Haleakalā Crater. The subsequent image in exhibition was the child’s presumed view into the crater. All the work was made in 2019 on a family vacation to Maui.

Artist’s Bio Graham Holoch is an artist and curator based in San Francisco, CA. As a founding member of the alt-publishing group Eggy Press, he is committed to the tradition of small-press publishing and edition making. His practice employs a documentary style of image making to capture moments of spontaneity. His work is an exploration of self. Photos are treated as materials, akin to letters forming words. Holoch has exhibited with Double Strength at Gallery 16 (San Francisco); North Gallery (Oakland); and Test Strip Gallery (Oakland).

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SARAH HOTCHKISS Serpent 2021, Gouache on paper 14” x 14” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,400 Starting Bid: $500

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Artist’s Bio Sarah Hotchkiss is an artist and arts writer based in San Francisco. She is the Senior Associate Editor for KQED Arts & Culture, where she writes about the local visual arts and film scene. In 2019, she received the Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Foundation grant for visual art journalism. Hotchkiss co-runs the project space Premiere Jr., a 6-by-12-foot billboard in the Inner Sunset.

She watches a lot of science fiction, which she reviews in a semi-regular publication called Sci-Fi Sundays. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Friends Indeed (San Francisco); and group shows at Guerrero Gallery (San Francisco); and Cheymore Gallery (Tuxedo Park).

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CARRIE HOTT Tellers and Givers (lamp two) 2018, LED sign, clay, wood, paint, and solar polycarbonate 19” x 20” x 4.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $4,500 Starting Bid: $800

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Artwork Description “Tellers and Givers’ are sculptures Hott imagines could exist in a future where our current LED signs are repurposed as light sources In the boxes, the electronics are reconfigured from signals to lights. They are rewired to remove their legibility, so that their sole function is light. They are propped up on handmade ceramic forms modeled from electrical infrastructure components.

Artist’s Bio Carrie Hott is an interdisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California. She is invested in documenting and disentangling the technological systems that deeply shape our lives. She has presented her work as part of exhibitions and projects across the country, most recently at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Recology San Francisco, and the Museum of Capitalism in Oakland.

She is the recipient of the Artadia Award, a Cultural Humanities grant, and has had residencies at Mills College and Headlands Center for the Arts. She currently teaches in USF’s Department of Art + Architecture and UC Berkeley’s department of Art Practice.

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TANIA HOUTZAGER On the Boil 2021, Gouache, charcoal, plaster, linen 20.6” x 20.6” x 1.75” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $600 Starting Bid: $175

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Artwork Description “On the Boil” is part of a current body of work that explores the nature of transitions and inflection points. Houtzager says, “The work began while looking back on 2020, a year that was impossibly hard. Not only was this because of the rise of the Covid-19 pandemic, but also from the two miscarriages I had that year on my journey towards parenthood. The piece is a reflection on the fiery determination and optimism that can result from having to adjust to new realities.”

Artist’s Bio Tania Jade Houtzager is a San Francisco and Marin-based artist whose work investigates the environment through sculptural intervention and abstraction.

Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, New York, Los Angeles, and Venice, Italy, including solo exhibitions at the Marin Civic Center; Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture; and Gallery Route One. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2017 and a Masters in Design from the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand in 2012. In addition to her artistic practice, Houtzager also manages Marinship Studios and ran Embark Gallery until its closing in 2020.

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HUGHEN/STARKWEATHER Disappearing Lake (Tulare) 2022, Gouache, ink, and pencil on paper 23.5” x 17.5” x 0” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $400

Place Bid Artwork Description Hughen/Starkweather’s current series Pipe Dreams examines the increasingly fragile natural and engineered structures that deliver clean drinking water in the American West. As human-made structures become inextricably interwoven with natural water systems, how might these systems fail or succeed together?

Until 100 years ago, central California’s Tulare Lake was a 700+ mile shallow marsh teeming with wildlife and migrating birds. Today, it is farm fields and contaminated agricultural drainage ponds.

Artist’s Bio Hughen/Starkweather is the collaboration of San Francisco artists Jennifer Starkweather and Amanda Hughen. Their site-specific, research-based artworks reinterpret complex narratives about place with new and unexpected forms.

Their exhibitions include the Asian Art Museum, the Public Policy Institute of California, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the University of San Francisco. Residencies include the DeYoung Museum, Headlands, Recology, Skowhegan, Ucross, and Yaddo. Recent large-scale art commissions have included SFMOMA for Chase Center and the San Francisco Central Subway Station at Union Square. Starkweather received an MFA from Tyler School of Art; Hughen received an MFA from University of California, Berkeley.

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COLTER JACOBSEN DARK PASSAGE (EVERY COLOR FROM THE BOOK ‘DARK PASSAGE’ BY DAVID GOODIS) 2004, Gouache and graphite on paper 22” x 30” x 0” Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble Retail Value: $8,000 Starting Bid: $3,000

Place Bid Artwork Description Colter Jacobsen’s work uses books and media to draw reference for his art.

(Every Color in David Goodis’ Book,) Dark Passage is a representation of every color that is mentioned in the book and the film noir movie “Dark Passage.”

Jacobsen emphasizes the importance of color within these media pieces, using yellow, gray, and violet to signify love and orange as evil.

Artist’s Bio Colter Jacobsen lives and works in San Francisco, CA. He earned his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001 and is a recipient of SFMOMA’s prestigious SECA Art Award, which granted him a solo exhibition at the museum in 2011. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions, including: Anglim Gilbert Gallery; Callicoon Fine Arts (New York); the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (La Jolla, California); and more. Group exhibitions include Mythos, Psyche, Eros: Jess and California (2019), and A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions (2016-17), both at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); People’s Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2014); and more. His work can be found in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and KADIST; The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; and The Museum of Everything (London).

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JASON JÄGEL Maybe Goddamn 2020, Gouache on paper 15” x 11” x “ Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery 16, framed by SF Art Framing Retail Value: $3,700 Starting Bid: $1,500

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Artist’s Bio Jason Jägel is a painter, educator, and commissioned public artist. His work uses the syntax of comics to conjure fictional worlds where anything can happen at anytime, like everyday life. “I want to create a place with its own inner life and see what happens,” says Jägel. He received an MFA from Stanford University in 2002. His work is in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art (New York); Hammer Museum (Los Angeles); and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Jägel has completed twelve commissioned public artworks in San Francisco, all in the context of transforming neighborhoods and innovative large-scale projects. His 2018 commission, The Author & Her Story, is a 13x34 foot ceramic tile mosaic installed at San Francisco International Airport’s new Harvey Milk Terminal 1.

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CHRIS JOHANSON Untitled 2022, Double-sided painting: acrylic on paper, aluminum foil (front); acrylic on board (back); in artist’s frame 12” x 15” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Altman Siegel Retail Value: $4,000 Starting Bid: $1,600

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Artwork Description Chris Johanson’s piece is a colorful double-sided painting with an aluminium foil backing.

Artist’s Bio California-native Chris Johanson is a key member of San Francisco’s Mission School. Johanson engages with the meditative qualities of art-making and sincere direct communication through painting and sculpture. Johanson’s work plays between the techniques of figuration and abstraction, as he sees these two modes of working as interconnected expressions of strong beliefs in environmentalism, compassion and peaceful co-existence. He has exhibited widely in museums and galleries internationally for the past twenty-five years. His work has been the subject of solo shows at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery (Saratoga Springs); the Portland Museum of Art; MoCA Pacific Design Center (Los Angeles); and the Modern Institute (Glasgow).

Johanson has been featured in important group exhibitions including Glasgow International 2012 and the 2002 Whitney Biennial. He is represented by Altman Siegel Gallery, Awesome Vistas, The Modern Institute, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Georg Kargl, and Albert Baronian.

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DAVID KASPRZAK Untitled (Visitors 2) 2020, Graphite on archival Bristol board 12” x 9” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $500

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Artist’s Bio David Kasprzak is an artist, curator, designer, and publisher based in San Francisco, CA. He holds an MA from the California College of the Arts. He has curated exhibitions and exhibited artwork in both national and international venues, including: The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts; Objectif Exhibitions (Antwerp); the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale; the Berkeley Art Museum; The Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco); SFMOMA; and the Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art (EKKM). He was an artist in residence at Iaspis in Stockholm, Sweden, and The Headlands Center for the Arts. He teaches in the graduate program at the California College of the Arts and co-runs Colpa Press, a design and publishing house in San Francisco.

He is one-third of Will Brown, a collaborative group whose main objective is to manipulate the structures of exhibition-making as a critical practice.

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DAVID KASPRZAK Untitled (Visitors 3) 2020, Graphite on archival Bristol board 12” x 9” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $500

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Artist’s Bio David Kasprzak is an artist, curator, designer, and publisher based in San Francisco, CA. He holds an MA from the California College of the Arts. He has curated exhibitions and exhibited artwork in both national and international venues, including: The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts; Objectif Exhibitions (Antwerp); the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale; the Berkeley Art Museum; The Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco); SFMOMA; and the Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art (EKKM). He was an artist in residence at Iaspis in Stockholm, Sweden, and The Headlands Center for the Arts. He teaches in the graduate program at the California College of the Arts and co-runs Colpa Press, a design and publishing house in San Francisco.

He is one-third of Will Brown, a collaborative group who’s main objective is to manipulate the structures of exhibition-making as a critical practice.

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DAVID KASPRZAK Untitled (Visitors) 2020, Graphite on archival Bristol board 12” x 9” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $500

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Artist’s Bio David Kasprzak is an artist, curator, designer, and publisher based in San Francisco, CA. He holds an MA from the California College of the Arts. He has curated exhibitions and exhibited artwork in both national and international venues, including: The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts; Objectif Exhibitions (Antwerp); the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale; the Berkeley Art Museum; The Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco); SFMOMA; and the Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art (EKKM). He was an artist in residence at Iaspis in Stockholm, Sweden, and The Headlands Center for the Arts. He teaches in the graduate program at the California College of the Arts and co-runs Colpa Press, a design and publishing house in San Francisco.

He is one-third of Will Brown, a collaborative group who’s main objective is to manipulate the structures of exhibition-making as a critical practice.

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MARY ANNE KLUTH Untitled Mac OS Study 2022, Archival pigment print, Hahnemuhle paper, and PVA 9” x 14” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,100 Starting Bid: $400

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Artwork Description Kluth’s work is a hand cut archival photo collage using theme park landscapes, matching an image of Yosemite distributed with a Mac OS update.

Artist’s Bio Mary Anne Kluth studied at UC Berkeley as an undergraduate, received her BFA from CCA(C), and obtained an MFA from SFAI. She has exhibited at such places as the Oakland Museum of California; the San Jose ICA; the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History; the Contemporary Jewish Museum; and the Las Vegas Contemporary Art Center, as well as in galleries in CA, WA, NV, WI, Hong Kong, and Japan.

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MICHAEL KOEHLE Wave Study I 2022, Pigment print on laser cut paper on panel 18” x 18” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $3,200 Starting Bid: $1,000

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Artwork Description “Wave Study I” is made up of hundreds of laser cut strips of paper, each strip printed with a gradient. The strips are cut to match the grayscale at the corresponding point in the source image. They are then folded and glued to a panel.

Artist’s Bio Michael Koehle received his BA in Art Practice at UC Berkeley, his MS in Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis, and his MFA in studio art from Mills College. He has received residency grants from the Headlands Center for the Arts, Autodesk Pier 9, and Djerassi. He is also the recipient of the general prize in the YouFab Global Creative Awards in Japan and the Murphy & Cadogan fellowship. Koehle lives and works in Oakland.

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CHRISTINA LA SALA Stone’s Throw 2019, Muslin, salt, steel wool, and wire 20” x 40” x 6” Courtesy of the Artist and Paul Mahder Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $800

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Artwork Description Fossils provide an opportunity to reflect upon how we perceive and contextualize time on a personal and planetary scale. A fossil is an artifact of time transformed - a shadow, an imprint, a pattern of time. “Stone’s Throw” was created using salt and steel wool to create rust patterns on muslin that are coiled into forms inspired by fossils.

Artist’s Bio Christina La Sala received her BFA from The Tyler School of Art, Temple University and her MFA from SFAI. Christina spent her childhood in thrift shops, nature museums, and libraries; she developed a lifelong love of dusty spaces, old things, the natural sciences, and visual display. “Stone’s Throw” is part of a series of works inspired by ammonite fossils from the Cambrian era mass extinction that left behind traces and specimens in stone as evidence of their life-cycles. Christina’s work has been shown at Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsburg, CA; ZKU, Berlin, Germany; and Alter Space, San Francisco, CA, among others.

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KRIS LANG Abstract Diorama: Fog and Foiled Papercuts 2020, Archival pigment print on Canson Platine fibre rag paper 17.375” x 12.375” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $550 Starting Bid: $250

Place Bid Artwork Description These improvisational abstract dioramas are made using both found elements and purpose-built sculptural elements. Photographed elements are then manipulated to generate patterns and repeats, being made into paper sculptures subsequently.

The use of printed backlit film allows for disorienting manipulations of space and the picture plane. Fragile, ephemeral, and barely constructed, the final work is lit and photographed. No digital manipulation or 3D rendering is used in these works.

Artist’s Bio Kris Lang makes abstract dioramas reveling in the intersection of sculpture, printmaking, digital imaging and traditional photography. Seeking that place where inscrutability tips over into resonance, she’s building and decorating new wings for her memory palace. Lang is a photographer and printmaker born in Colorado Springs, CO, and currently working in San Francisco. She received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 1998. Her works on fabric, portraits in etched velvet, have been exhibited nationally. Locally her work has been shown at Kala Art Institute, The Alameda Art Center, and with GenArt. She is also an artist collaborator, teacher, and digital printmaker at Electric Works, San Francisco.

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NOAH LANG Sternenzelt

2022, Wooden box, acrylic paint, foam, and pins 6” x 8” x 3” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $750 Starting Bid: $300

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Artwork Description In this work, Lang continues his visual depiction of the “invisible” space around us. Whether it is the space between stars, the antenna towers that relay our communication, or Cold War listening stations used in spycraft— Lang’s work concerns itself with separation. It concerns itself with the means used to close the distance between ourselves, both on a terrestrial and interstellar level.

Artist’s Bio Noah Lang has been making artwork from childhood on, starting in his father’s studio. He has exhibited in and around the Bay Area as well as New York, NY and Pittsburgh, PA. He runs the San Francisco contemporary art gallery and printmaking studio, Electric Works, with his wife. Without a physical space, Electric Works continues to program in different venues, from art fairs, to public programming, to pop-up spaces.

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JESSICA LIN Drowning in Plastic 2018, Acrylic on canvas 40” x 30” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,800 Starting Bid: $350

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Artist’s Bio Jessica Lin is a Taiwanese-American artist from the Bay Area currently studying Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of Design. She is committed to and interested in branding and identity, and accessible design. She is a member of Southern Exposure’s Youth Advisory Board.

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SAM LOPES Untitled

2020, Ink, colored pencil, and gouache on paper 18” x 18” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Sticks Framing and Fine Art Retail Value: $800 Starting Bid: $300

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Artist’s Bio Sam Lopes is a trans painter from the Bay Area. His drawings and paintings are collage-like narratives, weaving together different styles of mark making and palettes to create a visual representation similar to how he experiences memory. Sam has a BFA in Printmaking from RISD and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from CCA. His work has been shown at Blankspace Gallery in Oakland, and in spaces in Providence, Boston, New York, Portland, Mexico, San Francisco, Seattle, and LA.

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CATHY LU Girls Playing with Vase 2018, Watercolor on paper 36” x 29” x 1.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $800

Place Bid Artwork Description This watercolor piece is inspired by “Boys Playing,” a traditional Chinese genre of art that depicts boys playing. This genre portrays the foreshadowing of their future successes as adults. Lu’s version has replaced all the boys with girls in states of mischievous play.

Artist’s Bio Cathy Lu is a ceramics-based artist who manipulates traditional Chinese art imagery and presentation as a way to deconstruct the assumptions we have about Chinese identity and cultural authenticity. By creating ceramic-based sculptures and installations, she explores what it means to be both Asian and American, while not being entirely accepted as either. Unpacking how experiences of immigration, cultural hybridity, and cultural assimilation become part of American identity is central to her work. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and her BA & BFA from Tufts University.

She has participated in artist in residence programs at Root Division, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Bemis, OH), Recology SF, and the Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, MT). Her work has been exhibited at Johansson Projects, Aggregate Space, Jessica Silverman Gallery and the Chinese Culture Center SF. She was a 2019 Asian Cultural Council/Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation Fellow. She currently teaches at California College of the Arts and Mills College.

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KIJA LUCAS Still, Life: Untitled (Vase with Plastic Flowers 2) 2022, Archival pigment print 20” x 16” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,800 Starting Bid: $750

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Artwork Description This work was created while in residence at Recology San Francisco.

Artist’s Bio Kija Lucas uses photography to explore ideas of home, heritage and inheritance.

She is interested in how ideas are passed down and seemingly inconsequential moments create changes that last generations. Her work has been exhibited at Oakland Museum of California, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, California Institute of Integral Studies, Palo Alto Arts Center, Intersection for the Arts, Mission Cultural Center, and Root Division, as well as Venice Arts (Los Angeles, CA) La Sala d’Ercole/Hercules Hall (Bologna Italy), and Casa Escorsa (Guadalajara, Mexico). Lucas has been an Artist in Residence at Montalvo Center for the Arts (Saratoga, CA), Grin City Collective (Grinnell, IA), and The Wassaic Artist Residency (Wassiac, NY). Lucas received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from Mills College and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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NATHAN LYNCH Mirror for This Year 2021, Glazed ceramic 9” x 8.5” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery Retail Value: $1,800 Starting Bid: $900

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Artwork Description This sculpture is slightly smaller than the size of a head and may reflect some of one’s face. The degree of distortion represents the feelings many had in the last year and beyond. Some things are clear, some unclear.

Artist’s Bio Nathan Lynch was raised in Pasco, Washington, an agricultural community in the shadow of Hanford Nuclear Power Plant. The futility of this environmental contradiction gave Lynch an acute sense of location and deep appreciation for irony. His concerns for political conflict and environmental upheaval are filtered through absurdity, hand fabrication, and dramatic devices of storytelling. Recent projects include Doubledrink—a drinking fountain for Headlands Center for the Arts—and nest module design for the Cassin’s Auklet on the Farallon Islands. Lynch is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Ceramics Program and Glass Program at CCA, and represented by Rena Bransten Gallery.

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NICK MAKANNA Portal Protector XVIII (Moss Diamond) 2021, Glazed stoneware and fluorescent plexiglass 11” x 15” x 4.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $600

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Artwork Description “Portal Protector XVIII (Moss Diamond)” is part of a larger series of “Portal Protectors,” ceramic window grates backed with colored plexiglass. The plexiglass protects the viewer from an unknown, possibly foreboding beyond housed behind the grate, creating a confusing delineation of what is interior and exterior space. The work is inspired by the variety of flowery wrought iron window grates that dot the city as well as cathedral architecture and stained glass.

Artist’s Bio Nick Makanna creates ceramic sculptures that revel in architectural ruin as a site for radical possibilities. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2016 and his BA from Lewis and Clark College in 2010. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Andrew Rafacz Gallery (Chicago IL), Guerrero Gallery (San Francisco, CA) and / slash art (San Francisco, CA).

Group exhibitions include the Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley, CA), Richmond Art Center (Richmond, CA) and Alter Space (San Francisco, CA).

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MICHELLE MANSOUR Of the Ever and True (1) 2013, Acrylic, ink, and silicone on muslin on panel 36” x 36” x 2“ Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $4,500 Starting Bid: $1,500

Place Bid Artwork Description Michelle Mansour’s paintings are a meditation on the space between science and spirituality––where the physical and metaphysical intersect. She layers translucent color, building a symmetrical system of intersecting strands of cells. With thousands of tiny dots, Mansour creates an ethereal space where constellations gather and disperse. Globules emerge from the surface as tissue-like prayer beads. This cyclical process becomes a devotional practice in contemplating the exquisite balance between certainty and faith.

Artist’s Bio Michelle Mansour is an artist, educator, and curator as well as the current Executive Director of Root Division, a visual arts non-profit in San Francisco.

Her work as been shown in a variety of non-profit and commercial venues such as The deYoung Museum, Bedford Gallery, Southern Exposure, Morris Graves Museum, and Minnesota Street Project, including solo exhibitions at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery, RB Stevenson Gallery (La Jolla), and Berkeley Art Center. Mansour has work in a variety of collections including Nordstroms, Hilton Hotels, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, and the El Camino Hospital.

Mansour is the recipient of an Honorary Fellowship and multiple residencies from Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She has also curated and co-curated several exhibitions including 2x2’s at ProArts and Metaphysical Abstraction: Contemporary Approaches to Spiritual Content. Mansour received her MFA in Painting from SFAI.

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KARI MARBOE Doppelganger

2019, Porcelain and glaze 7” x 7” x 4” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $800 Starting Bid: $300

Place Bid Artwork Description “Doppelganger,” a work from the solo exhibition Duplicating Daniel, traces artist Kari Marboe’s attempts to recreate an original sculpture by the ceramicist Daniel Rhodes and recorded as missing from the Mills College Art Museum. The exhibition included Marboe’s attempts to create physical ‘replicas’ of Rhodes’ sculpture and other renditions developed in the course of her research, and not based solely on the formal properties of the missing work.

Artist’s Bio Kari Marboe takes on the role of an artist and detective flattening as many data points as possible around the history of people, objects, and experiences in order to create new narratives that intertwine with our present moment.

She presents her work in the form of ceramic sculptures, clay printed onto watercolor paper, archival images, accidentally stolen keys, and other sitespecific elements. Marboe earned a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2008 and MFA from UC Berkeley in 2012. She has exhibited work at the Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art, CA, Greenwich House Pottery, NY, Mills College Art Museum, CA, A-B Projects (Nicole Seisler), CA, 500 Capp Street/Southern Exposure, CA, Berkeley Art Center, CA, Museum of Craft and Design, CA, Wave Pool Gallery, OH, Museum of Northern California Art, CA, Jacksonville University, FL, and the Waffle Shop Billboard, PA. She has also participated in residencies at Greenwich House Pottery, NY, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, ME, Mutual Stores, CA, and Elsewhere Museum, NC. Marboe lives in the Bay Area and is an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts.

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KARA MARIA Palette Painting #174 2022, Acrylic on paper 4.5” x 3” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble, framed by SF Art Framing Retail Value: $800 Starting Bid: $300

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Artwork Description Kara Maria has been using watercolor blocks as palettes to mix water-based paints on for many years. She saves the palettes once they are covered in daubs of paint—her own recycling project. In 2010, Maria began cutting the palettes into smaller pieces to create “Palette Paintings”—small excerpts from the larger whole. This particular “Palette Painting #174” had been accumulating paint for many years. Maria declared it “finished” in 2022.

Artist’s Bio Kara Maria is a visual artist working in painting and mixed media. Her recent work reflects on Earth’s biodiversity crisis and the place of animals in our increasingly unstable environment. Maria received her BA and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum (BAMPFA); the Crocker Art Museum; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and the San Jose Museum of Art, among others. Artwork is available through Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA; Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID; and Mark Moore Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA. 162

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VANESSA MARSH Landscape #32, from the series Everywhere All at Once 2016, Archival pigment print from drawing and photogram techniques 24” x 24” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and Dolby Chadwick Gallery Retail Value: $2,800 Starting Bid: $800

Place Bid Artwork Description The series “Everywhere All at Once” continues in Vanessa Marsh’s practice of combining drawing and photogram techniques to create imaginary landscapes.

Although fabricated, these landscapes consider our everyday relationships with the landscape around us, both symbiotic and destructive.

Artist’s Bio Vanessa Marsh is a Bay Area and Portland, OR based visual artist. Marsh creates imaginary landscapes and atmospheres through a mixed media process based in photography. Marsh’s work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions at venues including Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco, Foley Gallery in New York, photoEye Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, and The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Marsh has been the recipient of several awards and artist residencies including a Google Artist Residency (2022), Jentle Foundation Fellowship (2018), a Rayko Photo Center residency (2014), a MacDowell Colony Fellowship (2007), and a Headlands Center for the Arts MFA Fellowship Award (2004). Marsh’s images are held in institutional collections including the San Jose Museum of Art, the San Francisco Art Commission, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

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LEE MATERAZZI babyskin 2020, C-print 25” x 18” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and Eleanor Harwood Gallery Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid: $800

Place Bid Artwork Description Lee Materazzi’s work evolves through experiments of color composition and balance as she manipulates remnants of everyday life. Materazzi paints everything monochrome, herself included. As the shape of each object is explored in its raw discarded state, so are these parts of the psyche – suppressed emotions and insecurities of disconnectedness. Straddling a storage rack with a tin of markers behind her, her arms rest on the shelf below.

Artist’s Bio Lee Materazzi is a contemporary artist from Miami, FL now living in San Francisco, CA. Materazzi uses her body as a medium alongside color and texture, at times responding to remnants of material or work left by her children in the studio. Her compositions are off-kilter and investigate autonomy- rejecting acceptable social norms that regulate the human body.

Materazzi’s works are considered sculpturally, but exist only temporarily.

She documents what she creates with medium format photography to preserve it. Her work has been shown internationally and is a part of numerous public art collections including The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, The Sagamore Collection, the Scholl Collection at World Class Boxing and The Perez Art Museum where she was recently included in “My Body My Rules.”

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ALICIA MCCARTHY Untitled 2022, Colored pencil and spray paint on paper 11.5” x 15.25” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Berggruen Gallery, framed by Small Works SF Retail Value: $4,000 Starting Bid: $1,500

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Artist’s Bio Alicia McCarthy was born in Oakland, California in 1969. She is known by her signature style of vibrantly colored, often woven patterns on mixed media panels. Found wood and spray paint are two commonly used materials by the artist. McCarthy is a member of the Mission School, a movement that emerged in the 1990s in the Mission District of San Francisco. The movement encompasses a group of artists who take their inspiration from urban culture of the Mission District, graffiti and street art. The movement is accordingly associated with the use of non-traditional artistic materials and found objects. McCarthy received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994 and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007.

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ANNE MCGUIRE Spring 2018, Graphite and watercolor on paper 30” x 30” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Pastine Projects, framed by Spot Design Retail Value: $7,000 Starting Bid: $2,800

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Artwork Description First, Anne McGuire draws a grid on paper. Then, she fills each square with watercolor. The line of color is a meditation on time, harmony, growth, and the universe.

Artist’s Bio Anne McGuire makes art and music in San Francisco. Her video “Strain Andromeda The” was recently restored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive in Hollywood (screening April 14); and her video “When I Was a Monster” is on view now at Haus Mödrath in Cologne, Germany as part of James Richards’ solo show When We Were Monsters.

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JENNA MEACHAM Eternal Recurrence of the Same (part of the ongoing series, Absence is the Constant) 2020, Archival pigment print from 120 negative 20” x 24” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $400 Starting Bid: $200

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Artwork Description Jenna Meacham is interested in photography’s ability to rebel against its intended purpose: to preserve memories. We take photographs to try to hold onto a memory, but these empty spaces that replace what once was captured are beautiful, abstract, and allow the viewer to insert their own narrative into them.

Artist’s Bio Jenna Meacham is a multidisciplinary artist in the Bay Area who received her MFA from SFSU in 2018. Meacham uses sculpture and photography to make work about memory, loss, longing, and intimacy. Her work rarely takes the same form twice. In her multiple and varied works, she hopes to connect to her viewer’s own personal relationships, and help viewers gain a new perspective on connection. Meacham received the Headland’s graduate fellowship in 2018.

She has shown in galleries throughout the Bay Area including Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin Society for Artists, Southern Exposure, and Root Division.

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JIM MELCHERT Broken Shards Broken Circles 2019, Broken and glazed porcelain 18” x 18” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and Paul Kotula, Detroit Retail Value: $3,500 Starting Bid: $1,500

Place Bid Artwork Description Jim Melchert’s work of the past thirty years can be described, at once accurately and poetically, as a transcendent exploration of mending. Using commercially-manufactured floor tile as his primary material, Melchert engages in deliberate breakage and consequent, system-based repair and elaboration.

“I’ve been working with tile for quite a few years now, trying to see what can be done with it, and I’m finding that what intrigues me most about it now is that when you drop it and it breaks, the breaks reveal a structural element inside the tile.” - from an interview with Jim Melchert by Renny Pritikin for the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art. He says, “When a tile breaks, the shock will find a path through the molecules where the bond between them is weak, like rivers that take the path of least resistance.”

In 1958, Melchert took a summer course with Peter Voulkos in Missoula which changed the direction of his life and work dramatically.

Artist’s Bio Jim Melchert has been at the center of the Bay Area’s artistic growth and served as Visual Arts head at the NEA and Director of the American Academy at Rome. His work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the University Art Museum at UC Berkeley. Melchert has worked in a variety of media, including drawing, film, and ceramics. The path of his artistic development is conceptual, and his ideas led him to a unique process involving ceramic tiles: breaking them, drawing on them, reassembling them and painting the new constructions with glaze.

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ROBERT MINERVINI Beyond the Pale 2020, Acrylic on canvas over shaped panel 24” x 48.5” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery Retail Value: $9,000 Starting Bid: $3,500

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Artist’s Bio Robert Minervini’s work examines spatial environments and notions of utopia in large-scale, multi-layered paintings, murals, and public artworks. His work engages subject matter that addresses the impact of humanity on the landscape. His work has been exhibited nationally, including solo shows with Hirschl & Adler Modern, NYC; Edward Cella Gallery, LA; Rena Bransten Gallery, SF; as well as group exhibitions with the San José Museum of Art, Torrance Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Palo Alto Art Center, Schneider Museum of Art, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

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JULIO CÉSAR MORALES Jalapeños (from the Narco Headlines series) 2014, Ink and watercolor on paper 8.5” x 11” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery Wendi Norris Retail Value: $2,400 Starting Bid: $900

Place Bid Artwork Description This work is part of the Narco Headlines series that Julio César Morales developed in 2018. Morales has been researching and chronicling activities along the border for more than two decades and has amassed an archive of over 800 news stories that detail absurd, atrocious, and inventive stories of activities along the border. These headlines are brought to the surface through text-based watercolors or his ongoing “Narco Headlines” series.

Artist’s Bio Julio César Morales investigates issues of migration, underground economies, and labor on the personal and global scales. Morales’ practice explores diverse mediums specific to each project or body of work. He has painted watercolor illustrations that diagram human trafficking methods, employed the DJ turntable, produced video and time-based pieces, reenacted a famous meal— all to elucidate social interactions and political perspectives. Morales’ artwork has been shown at venues internationally, including SFMOMA; Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; MUCA Roma (Mexico City); and the Istanbul Biennale. In 2021, his work was presented in a solo exhibition at MOCA Tuscon.

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NICOLE MUELLER Heat Wave 2021, Acrylic on canvas 24” x 24” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $700 Starting Bid: $250

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Artist’s Bio Nicole Mueller is a San Francisco-based painter, muralist, and installation artist. Driven by process, her abstract works are highly saturated, built with layers of collage-like shapes. Her work explores the complexity of color, states of flux, dichotomies within painting, the transitional nature of being, and the threshold between interior and exterior, the tangible and intangible. Mueller earned her BFA in Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, MD in 2011. She has been an artist-inresidence at ArtPoint (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco), Vermont Studio Center, and Proyecto ‘ace in Argentina. She has completed permanent public projects in collaboration with the City of Alameda, California Arts Council and Downtown Alameda Business Association. Mueller also co-hosts Beyond the Studio, a podcast that interviews working contemporary artists about their professional practices, which received an Alternative Exposure grant from Southern Exposure in 2017.

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NATANI NOTAH Come In the Water is Nice 2021, Watercolor, graphite, and white out strips on archival paper 14” x 11” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid: $800

Place Bid Artwork Description This mixed media drawing was recently exhibited as part of the group exhibition titled AH’-WAH-NEE’, which was curated by Fawn Douglas for the Donna Beam Gallery at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). This particular work on paper explores themes of disembodiment, fragmentation, and transformation.

Artist’s Bio Natani Notah is an interdisciplinary artist and a proud member of the Navajo Nation. Her current art practice explores contemporary Native American identity through the lens of Diné womanhood. Notah has exhibited her work at institutions, such as Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA); apexart, New York City; NXTHVN, New Haven; Tucson Desert Art Museum, Tucson; Gas Gallery, Los Angeles; The Holland Project, Reno; Mana Contemporary, Chicago; Axis Gallery, Sacramento; SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, and elsewhere.

Notah has received awards from Art Matters, International Sculpture Center, and the San Francisco Foundation. Her work has been featured in Art in America, Hyperallergic, Forbes, and Sculpture Magazine and she has completed artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Grounds for Sculpture, Headlands Center for the Arts, This Will Take Time, Oakland, and Kala Art Institute.

Notah holds a BFA with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Cornell University and an MFA from Stanford University. Currently she is a 2021-2023 Tulsa Artist Fellow.

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KARI ORVIK “It’s gonna be a beautiful night #1,” from the series ‘Sound and Color’ 2021, Gelatin silver print and lumen print 20” x 16” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $325

Place Bid Artwork Description ‘Sound and Color’ is a series started during the pandemic, involving darkroom interventions with light, photographic paper, and audio formats. In 2020, Kari Orvik was asked to make photos of The Stud, San Francisco’s oldest queer bar, before it closed. During the ensuing isolation of the pandemic, Orvik experimented with sound, color and materials as a way to give visual form to what could be expressed about the sanctuary and healing of queer community found in the music itself, when gathering was not possible.

Artist’s Bio Kari Orvik is a photo-based artist and educator. Through film and found materials, her work engages ideas of presence and absence, exploring what we hold onto, what we let go of, and where we place value. She has shown at the Oakland Museum of California, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Petersen Museum in LA, SF Camerawork, and has held residencies at Recology SF (the dump) and Headlands Center for the Arts. She operates a tintype portrait studio in San Francisco, and has taught at Stanford University, San Francisco Art Institute, City College of SF, and UC Berkeley.

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MARCEL PARDO ARIZA Osos 2019, Pigment print in artist-made frame 22” x 18” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid: $800

Place Bid Artwork Description Pigment print in artist-made frame

Artist’s Bio Marcel Pardo Ariza is a trans visual artist and curator that explores the relationship of representation, kinship and queerness through constructed photographs, color sets and installations. Through staging varied subjects and anthropomorphic objects, Ariza deploys sets as a resource to the possibility of (re)building a story, while materializing potential yet attainable narratives fundamental to envisioning present and future prospects. Ariza’s work illustrates their commitment to celebrating the erroneous, navigating intergenerational connection and questioning arbitrary paradigms while playing with the rigidity that is often present in the photographic medium.

Ariza is the recipient of the 2020 San Francisco Artadia Award, Tosa Studio Award (‘17), Alternative Exposure grant (‘18,‘19) and a Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Award (‘15). Their work has been recently exhibited at the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries (SFAC); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA); Palm Springs Art Museum; R/SF Projects; Minnesota Street Projects; and Guerrero Gallery, UNTITLED Art Fair; De:Formal Gallery, New York, NY and NoPlace Gallery, Columbus, OH. Ariza is a former member of the Curatorial Council at Southern Exposure, a co-founder of Art Handlxrs* and studio member at Minnesota Street Project.

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ERIK PARRA Latin roots III

2018, Acrylic on panel 14” x 11” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Maybaum Gallery Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $800

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Artist’s Bio Erik Richard Parra was born and raised along the vibrant border metroplex of El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Erik has exhibited internationally in alternative spaces, commercial galleries and museums. He has had solo exhibitions in San Francisco, Portland and Reno and group exhibitions in Berlin, Brazil, Los Angeles, London and New York. In the Bay Area Erik’s work has been exhibited at Blankspace Gallery, Johansson Projects, The Headlands Center for the Arts, Root Division, Southern Exposure, Kala Art Institute, the Berkeley Art Center, and most recently at Eleanor Harwood Gallery. His work is widely held in private and corporate collections in the US and abroad. Erik’s work has been included in publications including New American Paintings, the SF Bay Guardian, and the LA Times. He holds a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Currently he maintains a studio based in the Bay View section of San Francisco, California.

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MERYL PATAKY Ru’ach 2022, Soft glass, neon gas, and candles 14” x 24” x 10” Courtesy of the Artist and Pt. 2 Gallery Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid: $1,000

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Artwork Description An altar piece created with fire and breath, Ru’ach means breath or spirit in Hebrew and represents one of the elements of the soul in Kaballah. After suffering 2 miscarriages, this work was created during a New Moon with healing and conjuring intentions. Red represents vitality and strength.

The process in glass bridges disciplines in glass, representing a spiritual growth and development. The work and its process follows the artists practice of “Invocation Through Fabrication.”

Artist’s Bio An artist of many disciplines and mediums, Meryl Pataky focuses on the relationship between her own hands and material. Informing her material selection is a meditation on the elements of the periodic table; she brings into her work an awareness of the history of these elements from their origins in the universe, to their applications in culture and myth. Both a personal and process driven narrative drive her further forward. Pataky is the founder of She Bends, an organization supporting women and gender expansive artists bending their own neon. Pataky is represented by Part 2 Gallery in Oakland, CA.

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ALISON PEBWORTH Hermit Hut Drawings (1) 2022, Pen and Watercolor on paper 14” x 11” x 0” Courtesy of the Artist, framed by Painters Place Retail Value: $500 Starting Bid: $200

Place Bid Artwork Description The Hermit Hut Drawings are variable pattern drawings developed as meditation devices over a winter spent working in a small, wood-fire-heated cabin in the woods of Massachusettes while in residence at Mason Hill Farm. This artwork features rounded organic shapes.

Artist’s Bio Alison Pebworth’s work focuses on long-range projects that combine painting, installation and social interaction. Pebworth is the recipient of awards from The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, The Center for Cultural Innovation, The McEvoy Foundation, and GEN ART. A 2021 MacDowell Fellow, other selected residencies include The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (NE), Recology SF (CA), Ucross Foundation (WY), Monson Arts (ME), Cannonball (FL), and Space (Victoria BC) and an upcoming fellowship at the Wurlitzer Foundation (NM.) She has exhibited locally at Southern Exposure, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the DeYoung Museum, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, and The Oakland Museum.

She has toured her work to over thirty venues across North America including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; The Salt Lake Art Center, Utah; and Vivo Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC and The New Childrens Museum, San Diego. She is currently on her 4th yearlong tour across America developing new work.

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ALISON PEBWORTH Hermit Hut Drawings (2) 2022, Pen and Watercolor on paper 14” x 11” x 0” Courtesy of the Artist, framed by Painters Place Retail Value: $500 Starting Bid: $200

Place Bid Artwork Description The Hermit Hut Drawings are variable pattern drawings developed as meditation devices over a winter spent working in a small, wood-fire-heated cabin in the woods of Massachusettes while in residence at Mason Hill Farm. This artwork features rounded organic shapes.

Artist’s Bio Alison Pebworth’s work focuses on long-range projects that combine painting, installation and social interaction. Pebworth is the recipient of awards from The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, The Center for Cultural Innovation, The McEvoy Foundation, and GEN ART. A 2021 MacDowell Fellow, other selected residencies include The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (NE), Recology SF (CA), Ucross Foundation (WY), Monson Arts (ME), Cannonball (FL), and Space (Victoria BC) and an upcoming fellowship at the Wurlitzer Foundation (NM.) She has exhibited locally at Southern Exposure, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the DeYoung Museum, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, and The Oakland Museum.

She has toured her work to over thirty venues across North America including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; The Salt Lake Art Center, Utah; and Vivo Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC and The New Childrens Museum, San Diego. She is currently on her 4th yearlong tour across America developing new work.

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KEITH PETERSEN Untitled #446 2021, Archival pigment print 44” x 44” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,700 Starting Bid: $900

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Artwork Description This work explores the connections between science, nature and art. Working with photography and mixed media in a studio practice, Keith Petersen’s interest in the intersection of the natural sciences and art has led to a series of explorations of the alchemical interactions between organic and synthetic pigments and other elements. Petersen uses photographic processes to document the often unstable and ephemeral reactions between these substances.

Artist’s Bio Keith Petersen is an artist and photographer living in the East Bay. He works as a photographer specializing in Fine Art and Antique documentation. Nature and the climate crisis are a primary influence on his creative practice; his work addresses transformation as a way to think through the impact humans have on the natural environment, for better or worse. His studio process involves several stages; the mystery of what may emerge is underscored by the abstract qualities of Petersen’s images. He graduated from CCAC with a BFA in Photography, and has shown work in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.

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CARISSA POTTER CARLSON Untitled Breakfast Full Table 2022, Acrylic on arches cold press 44” x 64” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Eleanor Harwood Gallery Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $800

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Artist’s Bio Carissa Potter is an artist who lives and works in Oakland, California. Her prints and small-scale objects reflect her hopeless romanticism through their investigations into public and private intimacy. Potter received her MFA in Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2010 and is a founding member of Colpa Press and the founder of People I’ve Loved. Carissa has worked with the ICA in Boston, BAM/PFA, SFMOMA, De Young Museum, CCA, The Body Shop, Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters, The Hammer, and Pinterest to name a few. Carissa has also served as a mentor in Southern Exposure’s One-on-One Mentorship Program.

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MEL PREST Fuzzy Logic

2021, Acrylic on wood panel 14” x 11” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and K. Imperial Fine Art Retail Value: $1,800 Starting Bid: $700

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Artwork Description This work reflects Mel Prest’s continued interest in painting phenomena and feelings.

Artist’s Bio Mel Prest’s paintings mobilize color, line, and perspective to activate kinetic perceptual phenomena. She lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Prest’s work has been exhibited internationally including: The Drawing Center, New York; The Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Durham, NC; IS Projects, Leiden, The Netherlands; McKenzie Fine Art, New York; Saturation Point, London, UK; Nakaochiai Gallery, Tokyo. Prest has been awarded several residencies, and as an independent curator, has organized shows in Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich and Zagreb. She is preparing for her first solo museum show, opening in October.

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AMY RATHBONE comes round 2021, Ink and watercolor on paper 6.5” x 6.5” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist, framed by Spot Design Retail Value: $900 Starting Bid: $300

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Artist’s Bio Amy Rathbone works in installations, sculptures and drawings. The installations are typically built through quiet, repetitive gestures; the residual markings of the actions are what remain. Rebar tie wire, drilled holes, spray enamel, light/shadow and everyday objects are typically employed while working directly on to the walls and floor of a space. Rathbone’s work has been featured in exhibitions domestically and internationally, and she also participated in several university shows including: Vital Signs at Tulane University; Running Around the Pool at the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts; and Periphery at the Oregon College of Art and Craft.

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RACHELLE REICHERT Waterless Ocean 2019, Graphite on paper 10” x 13.5” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist, framed by Spot Design Retail Value: $1,800 Starting Bid: $700

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Artwork Description This graphite drawing is a photorealistic rendering of a satellite image of the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, the largest salt flat in the world. What was once a sea has now taken on global interest for the land’s lithium deposits.

This drawing is a part of a research-based series in which earth-imaging satellite photography is used to analyze landscapes in the Americas impacted by the global metabolism for energy resources and the current transition from fossil fuel to minerals and metals.

Artist’s Bio Rachelle Reichert lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area (Chochenyo Muwekma Ohlone territory). Select exhibitions include the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Center for Contemporary Art at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, German Consulate in New York City, and the San Diego Art Institute. Her work has been reviewed and published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Make: Magazine, California Home and Design, and New American Paintings. Her artwork has been presented at the California Climate Change Symposium, San Francisco State of the Estuary Conference, and the American Geophysical Union Meeting.

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KATE RHOADES King of the Hill 2021, Oil on panel 12” x 16” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $350

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Artwork Description This is an oil painting of Kate Rhoades hiding in a large pile of vegetation and it is inspired by Rhoades’ fraught relationship with nature, her own body, and death.

Artist’s Bio Kate Rhoades lives and works in Oakland, California. She has mounted solo exhibitions at the Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art, Telematic, and Royal NoneSuch Gallery. Rhoades has participated in exhibitions at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, Southern Exposure in San Francisco, and various venues, publications, hotel rooms and alleyways across the globe. Since 2014 she has co-hosted the Bay Area’s number one arts and culture podcast, Congratulations Pine Tree with her partner in crime, Maysoun Wazwaz.

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BLAISE ROSENTHAL Bird of Night 2020, Charcoal, earth pigments, and acrylic on canvas 38” x 29” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and Johansson Projects Retail Value: $3,950 Starting Bid: $1,800

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Artwork Description Blaise Rosenthal’s paintings demand a rigorous and calculated process involving the use of earth pigments, charcoal, pastel and acrylic applied through cycles of washes, staining and repetitive drawing. Underpainting and the dynamic nature of the media act as a foil during the drawing phase of the process to Rosenthal’s tendency towards perfectionism, imbuing each composition with an underlying organic character that enriches their distilled abstract language.

Artist’s Bio Blaise Rosenthal spent his first, most formative years in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. The elemental character of the environment became archetypal for him, forming him; forming what he is and has to share. He recalls dusty, bare feet and no shirt through dry summers, the sound of crickets at night, and stars beyond counting. It is from the residue of these experiences that Rosenthal makes his paintings. He has shown his works in solo exhibitions at Johansson Projects Gallery, Oakland, CA; Factory Outlet Gallery, Mokelumne Hill, CA; and Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA.

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BYRON RYONO Untitled

2021, Bronze 11” x 7” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and Jack Fischer Gallery Retail Value: $1,300 Starting Bid: $350

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Artwork Description This work in bronze is inspired by Martin Puryear and Eduardo Chillida.

Artist’s Bio Byron Ryono is an artist whose practice is constantly dynamic and evolving; try, learn, try again, learn something new, tweak, succeed sometimes, fail sometimes, evolve, repeat. Past exhibits include works at the Jack Fischer Gallery, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and Chandra Cerrito Contemporary. He is represented by Jack Fischer Gallery.

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JAMES SANSING Trophy Grizzly Bear 2022, Cement, wood, and plastic 14” x 4.5” x 2.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $400 Starting Bid: $150

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Artwork Description Animal head trophies done specifically for POWER ON, Southern Exposure’s 2022 Art Benefit Auction.

Artist’s Bio James Sansing is an artist and filmmaker from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a graduate from the San Francisco Art Institute. In San Francisco, his work has been shown at Ampersand International Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Mark Wolfe Contemporary, Headlands Center for the Art and Pacific Film Archive. He has won awards and residencies from Pollock Krasner Foundation, Pirkle Jones Fund, Recology, Headlands Center for the Arts, and among others.

His work has been shown nationally in LA, NY, Chicago and internationally in Berlin, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and others.

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JAMES SANSING Trophy Rhinoceros 2022, Cement, wood, and plastic 14” x 4.5” x 2.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $400 Starting Bid: $150

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Artwork Description Animal head trophies, work done specifically for POWER ON, Southern Exposure’s 2022 Art Benefit Auction.

Artist’s Bio James Sansing is an artist and filmmaker from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a graduate from the San Francisco Art Institute. In San Francisco, his work has been shown at Ampersand International Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Mark Wolfe Contemporary, Headlands Center for the Art and Pacific Film Archive. He has won awards and residencies from Pollock Krasner Foundation, Pirkle Jones Fund, Recology, Headlands Center for the Arts, and among others.

His work has been shown nationally in LA, NY, Chicago and internationally in Berlin, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and others.

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AZIN SERAJ Foreign Exchange Series: 1. In Honor of Naji al Jerf 2018-2019, Archival pigment print on linen paper, plexiglass 5” x 7” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $500

Place Bid Artwork Description Naji al Jerf was a Syrian journalist, filmmaker, activist, editor and cofounder of the citizen journalist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.

He risked his life by taking a vow to expose ISIS war crimes/uncovering their secrets in Syria and was assassinated by ISIS in Turkey in 2015. He was amongst the first journalists who documented the Syrian Civil War and shared it with the world. The Foreign Exchange series incorporates the emblems taken from banknotes and utilizes images from news media to highlight voices of resistance from countries that have been impacted by U.S. national interests. The banknotes feature influential figures and monumental events that draw attention to socio-political tensions existing both within a country’s borders and beyond. Foreign Exchange offers an alternative platform to archive and share cultural currencies.

Artist’s Bio Azin Seraj is an Iranian-Canadian citizen who currently lives in the United States. Seraj’s video, photography, and multimedia installations reflect the varied textures of her transnational experience of displacement, alienation, and unexpected connections. With an interdisciplinary approach to marginalized experiences, Seraj explores relationships between colonial histories, citizen journalism, activist networks and contemporary politics in the Southwest Asian, South Asian, and North African diaspora. Seraj’s work has been featured with SFMOMA, Tate Liverpool, Berkeley Art Museum, Minnesota Street Project, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Croatian Association of Artists, among others. She was the recipient of the 2019 Kala Media Artist Award.

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AZIN SERAJ Foreign Exchange Series: 2. In Honor of Syrian Refugees 2018-2020, Archival pigment print on linen paper, plexiglass 5” x 7” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $500

Place Bid Artwork Description Front: (1) Syrian refugees at Turkish border, photograph by Halil Fidan, 2013. (2) Norias of Hama, historic waterwheels located along the Orontes River in Syria.

Back: (1) Aftermath of Khalid ibn al-Walid mosque destruction in Homs, Syria.

The mosque served as a symbolic site for anti-government rebels. The centuries old mausoleum, a sacred pilgrimage site, was significantly damaged and burnt by the Syrian army’s operation against the rebels in 2013. The Foreign Exchange series incorporates the emblems taken from banknotes and utilizes images from news media to highlight voices of resistance from countries that have been impacted by U.S. national interests. The banknotes feature influential figures and monumental events that draw attention to socio-political tensions existing both within a country’s borders and beyond. Foreign Exchange offers an alternative platform to archive and share cultural currencies.

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Azin Seraj is an Iranian-Canadian citizen who currently lives in the United States. Seraj’s video, photography, and multimedia installations reflect the varied textures of her transnational experience of displacement, alienation, and unexpected connections. With an interdisciplinary approach to marginalized experiences, Seraj explores relationships between colonial histories, citizen journalism, activist networks and contemporary politics in the Southwest Asian, South Asian, and North African diaspora. Seraj’s work has been featured with SFMOMA, Tate Liverpool, Berkeley Art Museum, Minnesota Street Project, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Croatian Association of Artists, among others. She was the recipient of the 2019 Kala Media Artist Award.

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JENNY SHARAF Untitled (THE HAPPY PAINTING) 2022, Paint on fabric 40” x 30” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist and Berggruen Gallery Retail Value: $7,000 Starting Bid: $2,500

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Artwork Description Sharaf is committed to pouring paint and does not use brushes. Her process is always done without edits.

Artist’s Bio Jenny Sharaf is a multidisciplinary artist from Los Angeles, and has lived and worked in San Francisco for more than a decade. Her paintings, installations, murals, videos, and happenings celebrate process and the artist’s intuition, while reflecting on art history, counterculture, feminism, formalism and the rhetoric of abstraction. Sharaf’s process is instinctual, spiritual and meditative. Sharaf earned her MFA from Mills College, and currently paints in Bolinas and practices ceramics in Sausalito. Her works appear in both domestic and international galleries, such as Haw Contemporary in Kansas City, Missouri, the WIP Gallery in Beirut, Lebanon, and the Air Project Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland.

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ALICE SHAW Buds

2021, Archival pigment print with gold leaf 17.25” x 11.5” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery 16 Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid: $1,000

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Artist’s Bio Alice Shaw is an artist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Trained as a photographer, Shaw often incorporates other media, including sculpture, printmaking, drawing, and painting. Shaw currently teaches at Mills College in Oakland, CA. She is an Artadia Grant awardee, and her work is included in the collection of the SFMOMA. Her book, People Who Look Like Me, was published in 2006 by Gallery 16 in San Francisco, where her work is represented. In August of 2017 a permanent large-scale public artwork, No Other Lands Their Glory Know, was installed at The San Francisco International Airport.

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EBTIHAL SHEDID Wall 5420 2020, Archival pigment print 5” x 7” x 0.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $500 Starting Bid: $125

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Artist’s Bio Ebtihal Shedid is an Egyptian artist based in San Francisco. She has an MFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco. She is a poet without a mother tongue, driven by Sehnsucht – a longing so deep, it has no beginning and no end. Her practice is informed by translation, languages, theater, literature, music and her family’s making-traditions she never got to learn.

Rooted in photography, her work is also constantly looking for new materials and methods that will best translate her ideas.

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JENNIE SMITH Lowest Low Tide 2020, Watercolor and graphite 30” x 15” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $1,200

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Artwork Description This work is inspired by a walk to Mile Rock Beach during one of the lowest tides of the year.

Artist’s Bio Jennie Smith lives near the Pacific Ocean; the space where land comes in contact with the sea seeps its way into her work. She entwines narrative threads to describe the gravity, wonder, and reverence of her subjects, drawing what is close, what is beyond physical reach, and what is from the realm of the imagined. Smith received an MFA from University of California, Berkeley, and a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Her work was featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, New York and she has been an artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito.

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TRAVIS SOMERVILLE A Family Tradition 2003, Photographs with monoprint and handwork in custom conservation binding 12” x 41” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Maus Contemporary and Electric Works Retail Value: $3,200 Starting Bid: $1,800

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Artwork Description The tumultuous history of race relations in the South has been, in large part, buried and left to fester in the years since the Civil War. Born in Georgia and raised throughout the South, Travis Somerville picks at these old wounds by exposing the popular objects and iconography of Southern culture.

His critical eye works in the shadow of his own nostalgia and consequently attempts to reconcile the idealism of his religious upbringing with the racial and political turmoil of his past.

Artist’s Bio The work of Travis Somerville functions as a craft of anti-nostalgia, critical memory, and his sharp insistence that images and material objects are never inanimate relics of a past far removed from our present or future lives. Somerville has been featured in publications including The Washington Post, Art in America, FlashArt, Art Forum and The Los Angeles Times. His work is included in numerous collections, including SFMOMA, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Laguna Art Museum, the DeYoung Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the CAC Malaga in Spain.

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RUTH TABANCAY Devour III 2017, Hand-embroidery, polystyrene tray, and embroidery floss 6” x 8” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $350

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Artwork Description What if there were organisms that could digest polystyrene, a material that can take 500 years to degrade? There are! Researchers have found that larvae of the mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor) and of superworms (Zophobas atratus) can do just that. For ‘Devour III’, Ruth Tabancay embroidered larvae that have eaten their way through a polystyrene meat tray.

Artist’s Bio Ruth Tabancay is a graduate of UC Berkeley, UCSF School of Medicine, and California College of the Arts who currently resides in Berkeley, California.

After 11 years in private practice, she left medicine to study art. Her work has been exhibited regionally and nationally at The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft; and World Financial Center, New York City. Her work is in the collection of the Oakland Museum of California.

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CHARLENE TAN Research and Remembering; Materials Study 2022, Cowrie shells, pearls, glass seed beads, digital print, wood, PVA glue 28” x 23” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $5,000 Starting Bid: $1,500

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Artwork Description Tan’s work is inspired by her Filipina-Chinese-American identity, reconnecting with her artistic heritage of tribal weaving patterns of the Philippines.

Using found image patterns freed of scale and color, she traces the patterns to form muscle memories of cultural labor that were once commonplace with her ancestors and painstakingly applies shells, gems, and beads to build up the intricate patterns in three dimensions.

Artist’s Bio Charlene Tan is an interdisciplinary artist, whose work is thematically focused on the immigrant diaspora and its repercussions, post-assimilation identity, and anthropological investigations of nationalism and cultural heritage. ​ Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in the US, and is part of several private collections. She holds a BA History and Theory of Contemporary Art with a focus on New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. Houston, Texas born, she lived in the Philippines before moving to San Francisco for her education and work, and is currently a visiting artist at Minnesota Street Studios.

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SAM TCHAKALIAN Untitled 1984, Ink on paper 22.5” x 30” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and MODERNISM INC. Retail Value: $4,000 Starting Bid: $2,000

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Artist’s Bio Sam Tchakalain [1929-2004] was a painter, printmaker, and teacher born in Shanghai in 1929. His family relocated to California in 1947, where set up his studio in San Francisco in 1957 and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1966 to 2001. His solo shows include a twenty year retrospective at the Oakland Museum in 1978, as well as shows at the Portland Center for the Visual Arts, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, and the San Francisco MoMA. Tchakalian’s work is represented in collections of the San Francisco MoMA, the Oakland Museum and the Milwaukee Art Center.

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SARAH THIBAULT Flowers 2022, Oil on canvas 12” x 9” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Fahrenheit Madrid, with verification via Fairchain Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid: $1,500

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Artist’s Bio Sarah Thibault’s exhibition experience includes projects with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Interface Gallery, HILDE Gallery, Steve Turner Contemporary, Mark Wolf Contemporary and ART in Embassies. Her work has been featured in The San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, Artsy, CARLA, San Francisco Magazine, SFAQ, The Examiner, The Huffington Post, and 7×7.

She is the founder of the online publication Artists + Travel and a Charter Resident of the Minnesota Street Project studios since 2016. She holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts, a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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TNT TRAYSIKEL (MIKE ARCEGA AND PAOLO ASUNCION) TNT SIDECARAOKE (SING-AND-RIDE EXPERIENCE) 2018, Live experience Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $400 Starting Bid: $150

Place Bid Artwork Description TNT SideCaraoke is a social practice artwork where participants perform karaoke through the built-in karaoke system in TNT Traysikel, a mobile sculpture funded by SFAC. Two participants will be able to cruise the streets of San Francisco in a rare Filipino sidecar while singing karaoke. This 30-minute experience is completely unique, absurd, and 100% exhilarating!

Artist’s Bio TNT Traysikel, a collaborative project led by Michael Arcega and Paolo Asuncion, is a mobile sculpture and a site for joyous singing (TNT SideCaraoke) and collecting narratives for archiving and broadcasting Filipinx American contributions and achievements through a forthcoming film (funded by SFAC).

TNT SideCaraoke has been presented at SFMOMA; YBCA; Exploratorium; Saint Joseph’s Arts Society; Kapwa Gardens; and other venues in San Francisco. It will be featured at the Asian Art Museum in June 2022. Michael Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation.

His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He has degrees from SFAI and Stanford University, and is an Associate Professor of Art at San Francisco State University. Paolo Asuncion is an art director, graphic designer and an independent filmmaker. His films have garnered awards in the New York, Lisbon, French Riviera, Toronto, and Tokyo Motorcycle Film Festival.

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SIMON TRAN Magic Water Seeps into the Hamlet 2022-2016, Acrylic and India ink on cradled wood panel 24” x 24” x 0.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,300 Starting Bid: $800

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Artwork Description Simon Tran’s painting process is meditative and redirects personal and cultural traumas. The work is an amalgamation of layers balancing strife and fluidity.

Artist’s Bio Simon Tran is a father, artist, and educator from Long Beach, CA. His art practice involves painting, drawing, installation, and murals. He received a bachelors in Art Practice from University of California, Berkeley. Currently Simon is the Arts in Education Program Manager at Southern Exposure. His work has been shown at Berkeley Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, and various galleries around the country. Simon’s artwork is in the Capital One Art Collection.

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KATHERINE VETNE Inheritance (Hobstar) 2022, Melted lead crystal pitcher, silver nitrate, and lacquer 7.5” x 5” x 0.5” Courtesy of the Artist and Catharine Clark Gallery Retail Value: $1,300 Starting Bid: $600

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Artist’s Bio Katherine Vetne uses traditional painting and craft-based techniques to explore contemporary social concepts. She received a BFA from Boston University and an MFA from SFAI. Vetne’s work was featured in Heavy Metal – Women to Watch 2018 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her 2019 debut solo exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery was supported by an Individual Artist Grant through the San Francisco Arts Commission. Vetne was featured in a 2021 exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and featured in the accompanying monograph, Crafting America. Vetne lives and works in the Bay Area.

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STEPHEN VINCENT Haptic Text Fire 2021, Ink on paper 17” x 21” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble Retail Value: $1,700 Starting Bid: $680

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Artwork Description Freehand drawing on handmade Yucatan paper.

Artist’s Bio Stephen Vincent resides in San Francisco. His drawings for this exhibition were done during the COVID lockdown. The linework is a sensuous and physical apprehension of his immediate surroundings, whether that is at a poetry reading, listening to music, or a basketball game. Not site-specific, the drawings are hermetic explorations of an interior life during a time we were all confined inside. Vincent’s haptic process is a calligraphic mode of liberating syntax and convention from language, a way to “draw” out a response. Other works have been featured in gallery shows at Braunstein Quay, Steven Wolf Gallery, and Jack Hanley Gallery.

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ANDY VOGT Only A Shell

2022, Alcohol ink on paper 12” x 9” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $750 Starting Bid: $400

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Artwork Description Acrylic on arches; cold press paper.

Artist’s Bio Andy Vogt grew up in the suburbs of Washington DC and attended Carnegie Mellon University where he earned a BFA in Intermedia, a program focused on time based media, performance and installation. He lived in Pittsburgh PA until 2000. His current work using reclaimed wood from demolished buildings, started around 2004, a few years after moving to San Francisco. Since then, his work has been exhibited nationally and locally including solo shows at Eli Ridgway Gallery, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Southern Exposure, The Museum of Craft and Design and Ampersand International Arts. Group exhibitions include Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, Swarm Gallery and Adobe Books Backroom Gallery. He also was an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. Andy lives and works in San Francisco, California.

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HANNAH WAITERS Phantasmagoria

2021, DC print on plexiglass 20” x 7” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $750 Starting Bid: $350

Place Bid Artwork Description Phantasmagoria is part of a series of plexiglass editions exhibited at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House that helped encourage viewers to participate in this 2021 installation which focused on the importance of seeing and celebrating everyday Bay Area street style and the role that images play in recording local cultural histories.

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Working across social practice, photography, video, sculpture, theories of historical materiality, and site-specific interventions, Hannah Waiters’ interdisciplinary art-historical praxis expands the idea of “fine art” exhibitions, enlarging ideas about the potentialities of community outreach as art. Spanning Black Atlantic philosophy and historical phenomenology in art history, Waiter’s work looks to her own personal narrative relating to the Black Lives Matter era in the Bay Area. Waiters’ interdisciplinary practice redresses the gaps in visual culture in the Bay Area, where she was born, raised, and trained to look at art in the wake of the Black Lives Matter era as a Black visual researcher and educator. This often looks like community-centered installations daylighting “unfinishedness” as a theme and means towards freedom and visual cultural activism. In 2021 Waiters earned an MFA in Fine Arts (honors) and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies at California College of the Arts. She received the Edwin Anthony and Adelaine Boudreaux Cadogan award, later exhibiting at the de Young Open. More recently, she has exhibited with with Slash Art, using the gallery as a muse reimagining community-centered art collections. She has since shown with San Francisco Arts Commission, presenting an installation focused on collecting marginalized new media visual culture within the Civic Center neighborhood.

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AMANDA WALTERS Reptile Lovers (of the Freelance Star) 2020, Hand-dyed cotton appliqué 47” x 35” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,500 Starting Bid: $550

Place Bid Artwork Description The text in this work is from a newspaper article printed in 1977. The author uses the honeymoon metaphor to talk about the Python and Boa Constrictor problem in the Everglades. Today, the small mammal population there has shrunk by around 90%, including animals like raccoons, rabbits, and bobcats.

The snakes are non-native and likely former pets, released by their humans when they got too big. They have no real predators; alligators are an even match. Today they are a significant problem.

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Transplanted from the state of Florida, Amanda Walters is an interdisciplinary artist who writes, weaves, sews, and makes ceramic sculptures. Her works explore the strange and well manicured history of her home state, but also cover the geographic region of the tropics, the construction of landscape, and page 9 stories from the newspaper. She is also one half of the social practice collaborative, Feral Fabric, that works with unhoused folks in the Bay Area, making textile art. Walters received her MFA in Studio Practice and MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts, and her BFA with emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has shown nationally at Berkeley Art Center, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Wattis, Perry Family Center, San Francisco, and Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, among other places.

She is based in Oakland, California.

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BENJI WHALEN Incompletists 2022, Pastel on paper 6” x 7.5” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble, framed by Underglass Retail Value: $450 Starting Bid: $175

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Artist’s Bio Benji Whalen was born in New York’s East Village and first lived in the storefront theater space of his mother’s company, Poor People’s Puppets.

From New York, he moved to Vermont to live with his father on the commune of the Bread and Puppet Theater. Whalen returned to New York to attend Columbia College, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1991. He moved to San Francisco after graduation, and for several years wrote and published short fiction in addition to working as a visual artist. He earned an MFA in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1997, where he was awarded a Cadogan Scholarship, and in 2002 was awarded an Artadia grant. Since that time, Whalen has had multiple solo shows in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Copenhagen. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Honolulu Museum of Art, Microsoft, and other institutions. He lives and works in San Francisco.

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DEIRDRE WHITE Sum of Our Parts 2007, Oil on canvas stretched over panel 31” x 37” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid: $800

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Artwork Description Part of a series of work based on catastrophic environmental events, this was conceived as fantastical landscape based on mid-century modern architectural illustrations combined with historical images of catastrophic flooding in the north counties of California.

Artist’s Bio A San Francisco native, Deirdre White has a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and an MFA in Studio Art from UC Davis, where she worked with Wayne Thiebaud and Squeak Carnwath. She recently had solo shows at Ampersand International Arts and Analog Gallery in San Francisco, exhibiting her work throughout California and nationally. Her work has been featured on the album covers of John Dwyer (of Thee Oh Sees), The Sandwitches, and Sarah Beth Nelson, and on WHYY in Philadelphia’s Friday Arts segment. In 2018, Deirdre was awarded the Jon Imber Painting Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. She is a Lecturer at UC Davis and adjunct at City College of San Francisco in Studio Art. She has lived and painted in the Mission on the border of Potrero Hill since the late 1990s.

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DAVID WILSON Canyon 2018, Sumi ink on paper 60” x 46” x 2.5” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $7,500 Starting Bid: $3,000

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Artwork Description A large-scale work on paper made on a hill in Wildcat Canyon. Working on a single large piece of paper rather than smaller sections is a new exploration for David Wilson, and the markings of hands and feet holding the paper in the wind are evidence. This piece features an artist-built frame made of reclaimed, old-growth redwood and is glazed using Optium plexiglass with the highest quality anti-glare, museum grade UV protection.

Artist’s Bio David Wilson is an artist based in Oakland CA. He creates observational drawings based in direct experiences with the landscape. David also orchestrates site-based gatherings that draw together a wide net of artists, performers, filmmakers, chefs, and artists into collaborative relationships. He organized the experimental exhibition—The Possible—at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, had a solo Matrix exhibition at BAMPFA, received the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s SECA Art Award, and was recently the first artist in residence at The David Ireland House.

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JENIFER K WOFFORD Rupturre!! 81/82 2021, Ink and acrylic on paper 20” x 16” x 0” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,950 Starting Bid: $750

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Artwork Description Working in an aesthetic loosely inspired by the design palette of the 1980s, Wofford investigates an array of dates and sites of calamity and collapse, both public and personal, in her ongoing “Rupturre!!” project.

Artist’s Bio Jenifer K Wofford is a San Francisco-based artist and educator whose work investigates hybridity, history, calamity and global culture, often with a humorous bent. She is also 1/3 of the Filipina-American artist trio M.O.B. Her work has been exhibited locally at the Asian Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, OMCA, YBCA, SJMA, and Southern Exposure, as well as Wing Luke Museum (Seattle), DePaul Museum (Chicago), Silverlens (Philippines), and Osage (Hong Kong). Wofford received a 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. Other awards include the Eureka and Murphy Fellowships, and grants from SFAC, Art Matters, and CCI. A committed and active member of the Bay Area art community, Wofford serves on Southern Exposure’s Board of Directors, and teaches in Fine Arts and Philippine Studies at the University of San Francisco. Wofford holds degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA) and UC Berkeley (MFA).

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ROCHELLE YOUK gat shadow

2021, Ink on 180gsm mouldmade paper 12” x 12” x 1” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $500 Starting Bid: $150

Place Bid Artwork Description The Korean Gat, a woven horsehair hat, was worn only by the male aristocracy of the Choseon era. It is a labor-intensive object made by skilled craftspeople.

Often, because of their gender and class, women would never wear or own a Gat themselves. This print, depicting the weave pattern used to make the hats, recalls the ghostly presence of the unnamed women behind these beautiful objects. Its letterpress printed in a muted grey ink, in contrast to the tar black of the original object.

Artist’s Bio Since moving to the Bay Area, Rochelle Youk’s work has been exhibited at Root Division, The Performance Art Institute, The Kitsch Gallery, Southern Exposure and the Berkeley Art Center, where she is also a member of the Program Committee. In 2016, she was in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and more recently was a studio artist at Kala Art Institute. After getting an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, Youk has worked for over 10 years as a bookbinder at the local letterpress book publisher, The Arion Press, where she completed an apprenticeship in bookbinding in 2012. She currently manages the bindery and also works independently for local artists and designers, in addition to maintaining a studio practice of painting, drawings, & sculpture influenced by Korean folk crafts out of the Dogpatch Collective in San Francisco.

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MARYAM YOUSIF Dishdasha Girl on Paprika Pot 2019, Glazed stoneware 25.25” x 5.25” x 5” Courtesy of the Artist and The Pit Retail Value: $2,500 Starting Bid: $1,000

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Artist’s Bio Maryam Yousif was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1985 and lives in San Francisco, California. She received a Master of Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2017, and received a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Windsor, Ontario in 2008. Yousif has had solo and two-person exhibitions with The Pit (Los Angeles, CA), Andrew Rafacz (Chicago, IL), Guerrero Gallery (San Francisco, CA), / slash art (San Francisco, CA), and RSF Projects (San Francisco, CA). Yousif’s work has been featured in exhibitions such as Wild Frontiers, The Pit, Los Angeles, California, Dog Days, The Pit, Palm Springs, California, Sleight of Hand, The Center for Craft, Asheville, North Carolina and The Lands Beyond, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, California.

She’s currently a finalist for SFMOMA’s SECA award and was a finalist for the Museum of Art and Design’s Burke Prize.

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HAOYUN ERIN ZHAO Maze #5 2019, Acrylic on plexiglass and museum board 21” x 21” x 2” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $1,000

Place Bid Artwork Description With a playful approach, this work explores interactions of light, color, and form while creating spatial wonder and encouraging curiosity. Balancing control, chance, and intuition, the artist employs techniques of stenciling and painting to compose rhythmic compositions that form a unique visual language.

Artist’s Bio Haoyun Erin Zhao is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, CA, working in printmaking, painting, sculpture, and installation. Rooted in her study of Eastern and Western Philosophy, Zhao’s work explores the intangibility of perception through the physicality of her materials. Zhao’s the recipient of Meta Open Arts, Edition/Basel Residency, Kala Art Institute Residency, Hearts in SF Project, etc. The artist’s work has been exhibited at de Young Museum, Art Santa Fe Contemporary Art Fair, International Print Center New York, Galerie Kuchling Berlin, Root Division SF, Sanchez Art Center, etc. Her work is in the collections of IBM, Meta (Facebook), Kaiser Permanente, Children’s Hospital of Orange County, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Guizhou Minzu University (China), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (NYC), Kala Art Institute, and numerous private collections.

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MINOOSH ZOMORODINIA Golden Routes 2019, MDF and acrylic 31” x 13.5” x 1.4” Courtesy of the Artist Retail Value: $1,200 Starting Bid: $400

Place Bid Artwork Description Minoosh Zomorodinia makes abstract forms which are recordings of time in space using GPS. She makes them as if they are new places,​referencing colonialism. By reshaping boundaries, Zomorodinia uses satire to challenge the concept of value of land​in​the Digital Age.

Artist’s Bio Minoosh Zomorodinia is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist who makes visible the emotional and psychological reflections of her mind’s eye inspired by nature and her environment. She employs walking as a catalyst to reference the power of technology as a colonial structure while negotiating boundaries of land. Her strollings sometimes reimagine our relationships between nature, land, and technology, while addressing transformation of memories into actual physical space absurdly. Zomorodinia has received several awards, residences, and grants including the Kala Media Fellowship Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Recology Artist Residency. She has exhibited locally and internationally at Asian Art Museum San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Berkeley Art Center. She earned her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and holds a MA and BA from Azad University in Tehran. She currently lives and works in the Bay Area.

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