2074: Southern Exposure's 50th Anniversary Art Auction

Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 6:00 PM 3030 20th St. San Francisco, CA 94110

Step into the future as Southern Exposure proudly presents 2074, our triumphant 50th anniversary art auction and fundraiser. We’ve been bringing you what’s new since 1974, and we can’t wait to see what the next 50 years will bring. Join us on Saturday, April 13, for a visionary evening showcasing over 140 of the Bay Area’s most celebrated emerging and established artists during an in-person and hybrid event we’ll be talking about for years to come. Time waits for no one, but art carries us all.

Our Main Event will feature both a silent and a live auction (led by esteemed Bonhams Auctioneer Aaron Bastian), showcasing over 130 pieces of radiant art from some of the Bay Area’s most luminous new and established artists. Don’t miss the entertainment from local performers, delectable drinks by Barebottle Brew Co. and WildWonder, delicious hors d’oeuvres by Work of Art Catering, and the joy of gathering with the vibrant SoEx community.

REGISTER TO BID

Visit to register for the auction and start bidding today! When you register to bid, you’ll gain the ability to view the full auction website,see each piece in gorgeous detail. and receive real-time updates as other guests bid on the items you’re excited about. Register now, and you’ll be able to click links directly from this catalog to where you can place your bid!

VIP PREVIEW

Thursday, April 4, 6:00 - 8:00 PM

Become a SoEx Auction VIP and your support for our cutting-edge and innovative programming can go even further. As a VIP ticket holder, you’ll be invited to our in-person VIP Auction Preview, where you’ll get to know more about the art and artists in our auction, have the first opportunity to “Buy-It-Now” for select works in advance of the main event, and enjoy delicious cocktails from our neighbors, True Laurel, charcuterie from Peckish Board, sweet treats by Z Cioccolato, and more. You’ll also have the opportunity to make a private appointment to view the preview exhibition in advance of the main event.

PREVIEW EXHIBITION

March 30 - April 11, 2024, In-person by appointment

You can make a private appointment here to visit Southern Exposure’s gallery two weeks prior to the auction to preview the artwork.

SILENT AUCTION

Bid online or via text on over 130 pieces of gorgeous artwork from some of the Bay Area’s leading new and established artists.

LIVE AUCTION

Saturday, April 13, 2024

6:00 PM Doors Open

7:30 PM Live Auction

8:30 PM Silent Auction begins to close

AUCTION RULES

All acquisitions must be purchased in full. Each auction item is sold AS IS without warranty. Southern Exposure reserves the right to withdraw any item at any time before the actual sale. ALL SALES ARE FINAL WITH NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES.

ARTWORK PICK-UP AND SHIPPING

Pick-Up: In-person attendees may take their artwork home the night of the event after confirmation of purchase; attendees who are not able to stay for art wrapping are welcome to make an appointment to pick up their work at a later date. Additionally, artwork will be available for pick-up after the event for remote bidders. Auction winners will be notified to make an appointment.

Shipping & Delivery: If you are not local, we can ship artwork to you via an art shipping company. Shipping will be billed to you at cost.

PAYMENT

All payments must be made directly via our website at www.soex.org/auction.

Sales Tax: 8.63% San Francisco sales tax will be charged on all sales.

ARTISTS

Luca Antonucci

Miguel Arzabe

Sholeh Asgary

Saif Azzuz

John Bankston

Jeremiah Barber

JD Beltran

Leo Bersamina

Greg Borman

Val Britton

Nyame Brown

Enrique Chagoya

Ajit Chauhan

Takming Chuang

Holly Coley

Randy Colosky

Mary Conrad

Carolina Cuevas

Torreya Cummings

Diane DallasKidd

Sergio de la Torre

Chris Duncan

Claire Dunn

Ricki Dwyer

Ebti

Dwight Eschliman

Kota Ezawa

José Figueroa

Sienna Freeman

Benicia Gantner

Renée Gertler

Sheila Ghidini

Alexander Kori Girard

Michael Hall

Diane Andrews Hall

Kristie Hansen

Naomi Hawksley

Nicole Hayden

Jamil Hellu

Cliff Hengst

Scott Hewicker

Graham Holoch

Sarah Hotchkiss

Tania Houtzager

Shao-Feng Hsu

Hughen/Starkweather

Sylvia Hughes-Gonzales

Colter Jacobsen

Packard Jennings

Marta Johansen

Chris Johanson

Pantea Karimi

David Kasprzak

Asma Kazmi

Bussie Parker Kehoe

Koak

Michael Koehle

Danym Kwon

Heesoo Kwon

Christina La Sala

Kris Lang

Carrie Lederer

Cathy Lu

Kija Lucas

Pablo Manga

Michelle Mansour

Kara Maria

Vanessa Marsh

Lee Materazzi

Alicia McCarthy

Anne McGuire

Daniel Arthur Mendoza

Alan Miknis

Robert Minervini

Golbanou Moghaddas

Mila Moldenhawer

Yedda Morrison

Parul Naresh

Rhys Nguyên

Kelley O’Leary

Mitsunori Okubo

Jennie Ottinger

Erik Parra

Nathaniel Parsons

Namita Paul

Keith Petersen

Nicole Phungrasamee Fein

Mário Pires Cordeiro

Ferris Plock

Carissa Potter Carlson

Helia Pouyanfar

Mel Prest

Amy Rathbone

Rachelle Reichert

Yunfei Ren

Jerome Reyes

Kate Rhoades

Nathalie Roland

Leonard Rosenfeld

Anthony A. Russell

Byron Ryono

Sanaz Safanasab

Oleg Savunov

Andrew Schoultz

Erik Scollon

Jenny Sharaf

Alice Shaw

Stephanie H. Shih

Brian Singer

Sarah A. Smith

Sunny Smith

Jessica Snow

Lucy Stark

tamara suarez porras

Charlene Tan

TNT Traysikel (Mike Arcega & Paolo Asuncion)

Madeleine Tonzi

Simon Tran

Helen Shewolfe Tseng

Pablo Tut

Ester Tuva

Henna Vainio

Isaac Vazquez Avila

Andy Vogt

Deirdre White

Jenifer K Wofford

Lena Wolff

Alice Wu

jes young

Maryam Yousif

Erin Zhao

Minoosh Zomorodinia

GALLERY PARTNERS

Altman Siegel

Anglim/Trimble

Berggruen Gallery

Rena Bransten Gallery

Rebecca Camacho Presents

Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Electric Works

Jack Fischer Gallery

Fraenkel Gallery

Gallery 16

Eleanor Harwood Gallery

Hashimoto Contemporary

Hosfelt Gallery

Johansson Projects

Anthony Meier Fine Arts

Pastine Projects

Paulson Fontaine Press

Romer Young Gallery

Sarah Shepard Gallery

Don Soker Contemporary

Traywick Contemporary

SILENT AUCTION

HOST COMMITTEE

DESTINY

Robin Ducot

POSTERITY

Drusie & Jim Davis

Catherine Foo & Aaron Bastian

Rachel & Keith Petersen

Robin and Geoffrey Strawbridge

EVENTUALITY

Nicole Avril & Daniel Gelfand

Rebecca & Vince Camacho

Mary & Tony Conrad

Marc Mayer & Geoff di Girolamo

Micaela Heekin & Chris Hart

Brian Singer & Laura Hapka

Dan Toffey & Julia Harter

PROPHECY

Nilus De Matran & Jennifer Morla

Sienna Freeman & Jess Hubbard

Taraneh Hemami & Mohsen Emaminouri

Catherine & David Kevane

Susan Krane

Trisha Lagaso Goldberg & Dave Goldberg

Gallia Levy & Alfred Yan

The Mauro Family

Gay Outlaw & Bob Schmitz

Felisa Preskill & Zachary Royer Scholz

Josh Riedel & Erin Price

Sharon Tanenbaum & Matty Person

Olivia White Lopez

TOMORROW

Abner & Clare Nolan

Amy & Peter Charles

Jenifer K Wofford

Jennifer Roy & Traci Des Jardins

Michelle Kriebel & Ted Arleo

Tracy Wheeler & Paul Rauschelbach

Valerie Wade

CONTRIBUTORS

PLATINUM SPONSORS

Bill Banyai & Bonnie Bridges

DIAMOND SPONSORS

Randi & Bob Fisher

GOLD SPONSORS

SILVER SPONSORS

BRONZE SPONSORS SPONSORS

MEDIA SPONSOR

BEVERAGE SPONSORS

FRAMING SPONSORS

Artisans of San Francisco

City Picture Frame

Mark Ryan Fine Arts

Orion Custom Framing

The Painters Place

Eric Rose Art Services

SF Art Framing Services

Spot Design

Sterling Art Services

CONSPIRATORS

AUCTION CO-CHAIRS

Sienna Freeman and Dan Toffey

AUCTIONEER

Aaron Bastian

AUCTION COMMITTEE

Sienna Freeman

Allison Harding

Valerie Imus

Becky Koblick

Mathilda LaZelle

Marc Mayer

Margaret McCarthy

Teaque Owen

Mário Pires Cordeiro

Emma Rosenbaum

Dan Toffey

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dan Toffey, President

Marc Mayer, Vice President

Olivia White Lopez, Vice President

Qianjin Montoya, Treasurer

Brian Singer, Secretary

Christy Chan

Sienna Freeman

Susan Krane

Sriba Kwadjovie Quintana

Ranu Mukherjee

Angie Rivera

Rosie Williams STAFF

Valerie Imus, Artistic Director & Co-Director

Margaret McCarthy, Executive Director & Co-Director

Teaque Owen, Development & Events Coordinator

Emma Rosenbaum, Marketing & Communications Coordinator

Simon Tran, Artists in Education Manager

Mário Pires Cordeiro, Exhibitions & Facilities Coordinator

Minoosh Zomorodinia, Documentation Coordinator

Sloane Holzer, Communications Intern

Lucia Pistone, Programs & Exhibitions Intern

Ashleigh Abe, Community Arts & Development Intern

DESIGN BY

Justin Carder

Southern Exposure (SoEx) is an artist-centered nonprofit organization committed to supporting diverse visual artists. Through our extensive and innovative programming, SoEx strives to experiment, collaborate and further educate while providing an extraordinary resource center and forum for Bay Area and national artists and youth in our Mission District space and off-site, in the public realm. Since 1974, SoEx has been a vital part of the Bay Area arts ecosystem, and your generous support of our auction will allow new, emerging, and experimental art to flourish in the year ahead.

ARTISTS A THROUGH F

Fuzzy Logic, on view November 17-December 18, 2000 at Southern Exposure’s Project Artaud location. Photographer unknown.

LUCA ANTONUCCI

He’s very tired

2022, Color video print on photographic paper

9” x 11” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $350

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“He’s very tired,” a still from Possession , 1981 film by Andrzej Zulawski, was part of the 2022 exhibition “OFF-SCREEN” at Bass & Reiner. Made with a color video printer, a tool historically used to print sonograms and other internal bodily explorations, Antonucci borrows unoccupied rooms from a variety of films in order to consider what they might tell us about our construction of shared realities. By focusing on empty spaces, these images are the equivalent of holding one’s breath, caught in-between scenes.

ARTIST BIO

Luca Antonucci is a visual artist based in San Francisco and co-founder of the San Francisco Art Book Fair and publishing practice Colpa Press. His work has been exhibited at Bass & Reiner Gallery, SFMOMA, SOMArts, Et al., Minnesota Street Projects, and Southern Exposure, amongst other venues. Working primarily in photography, his work is deeply rooted in obsolete media formats, approaching printmaking as a way of resuscitating images.

MIGUEL ARZABE Study for Calculus

2020, Woven acrylic on Yupo 24” x 23” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Johansson Projects

Retail Value: $4,000

Starting Bid: $2,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Miguel Arzabe reuses postcards as a means of giving them a second life. When he first started collecting postcards, they were meant to be a gift for a friend, but they opened up an inquiry into perception and ways to measure space in the natural world. The web has an inherent latitudinal and longitudinal quality, easily becoming a device of measurement. The pieces in this series are made by carefully removing and scratching off the upper layer of the postcard in a completely subtractive process; nothing is added. Arzabe uses etching tools to “draw” or engrave the surface in an act of semiotic deconstruction—making by destroying. Attention to the small, often inconspicuous things. the found, the accidental, but also the abstract and energetic qualities of places, things, and materials form the inherent vocabulary of the work.

*The value here includes framing by Sterling Art Services.

ARTIST BIO

Miguel Arzabe is a charter studio member at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco. He has had recent solo shows at Shulamit Nazarian Gallery (LA) and Johansson Projects (Oakland). Arzabe’s work has been featured in exhibitions at MAC Lyon; MARS Milan; RM Projects, Auckland; FIFI Projects, Mexico City; the Contemporary Jewish Museum; Berkeley Art Museum; the CCA Wattis Institute; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Southern Exposure. Arzabe’s work is held in public collections such as Albuquerque Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of California, the de Young Museum, San Francisco Arts Commission, and the State of California, as well as numerous private collections. In 2022, Arzabe was awarded the San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Award. In 2023, he was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a Golden Foundation Residency.

SHOLEH ASGARY

Nafas

2024, 3D printed resin

3” x 3” x 3”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $350

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Nafas” is a part of the series “Ghatel,” which mapped aerial views of Qanat systems, or ancient aqueducts that were built in what is now Iran. Asgary embossed her breath onto cotton rag paper and translated this shape in a further act of psychomagical transformation into a resin object that is both fragile and self-containing, much like a drop of water. With “Nafas,” Asgary seeks to visibilize the hidden labor behind these ancient waterways—every breath that shaped the waterways and every breath that was lost in the process—as she traces her own lineage across time.

ARTIST BIO

Sholeh Asgary (b. Iran, 1982) is an interdisciplinary artist who researches how the auditory characteristics of a location reveal its underlying conditions and our relationship to place—echoing the near-perpetual movement across borders that characterized Asgary’s formative years. Situating the body as a site of knowledge, the work takes form as visual, sound, and collective processes. The resulting artworks implicate the viewer in mythological excavations that bridge large swathes of time and history through water, water clocks, crude oil, movement, light, imaging, and voice. Featured in Art in America’s 2022 “New Talent Issue,” Asgary is a Bay Area Now 9 triennial artist, a 2023 Artadia Finalist, a Getty Pacific Standard Time (2024-25) exhibiting artist, and a member of Southern Exposure’s Curatorial Council. Institutions such as Headlands Center for the Arts, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, The Lab, Kadist, and ARoS Kunstmuseum have supported her performance and interdisciplinary work.

SAIF AZZUZ

You can’t get rid of us

2022, Found wood, vinyl, oil, ink, and wood glue 18.75” x 15.5” x 5”

Courtesy of Saif Azzuz and Anthony Meier

Retail Value: $8,000

Starting Bid: $6,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Saif Azzuz’s “You can’t get rid of us” is a series of sculptural wall works from their Scrap Wood series. This process has been a way for Azzuz to utilize every leftover piece of wood that they have in their studio in an effort to reduce the waste from their art practice, and give a second life and story to our tree friends. Azzuz’s mother lives on the Yurok Reservation in what is known in Humboldt County, an area known for its logging industry. Spending time there has inspired in the artist a desire to conserve wood.

ARTIST BIO

Saif Azzuz (b. 1987) is a Libyan-Yurok artist who resides in Pacifica, CA. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Painting and Drawing from the California College of the Arts in 2013. Azzuz has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, TX in 2025 and has exhibited widely in the Bay Area including exhibitions at 1599dt Gallery, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, ICA SF, Pt.2 Gallery, and Southern Exposure; Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York; Jack Barrett, New York; and at Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris. Azzuz is a 2022

SFMOMA SECA Award finalist and has participated in the Clarion Alley Mural Project and the Facebook Artist in Residence program. Selected public collections include Rennie Museum; de Young Museum - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Gochman Family Collection; Facebook; North Carolina Museum of Art; University of St. Thomas; Stanford Health Care Art Collection; and UBS Art Collection.

JOHN BANKSTON

Music

2024, Acrylic on Arches hot press 100% cotton paper on panel 12” x 9” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery

Retail Value: $4,500

Starting Bid: $2,400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Music” by John Bankston is a continuation of his series “The Capture and Escape of Mr. M”, first presented in his exhibition at the Studio Museum of Harlem. The saga, which comments on oppressions and repressions in American society, is based on slave narratives, S&M imagery, Igbo masquerade and fairy tales. The story follows a somewhat callow Mr. M, who was captured by the alien henchmen of Mr. L and brought to the Rainbow Forest at Mr. L’s request. Mr. M escapes but is forced to learn the ways of his new environment. These vignettes are painted in a matte acrylic paint reminiscent of gouache but resistant to water, on cotton watercolor paper chosen for its absorbency and velvety texture.

ARTIST BIO

John Bankston is a San Francisco-based painter who has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. In addition to solo exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the de Young Museum in San Francisco, he has participated in many significant group shows, including Freestyle (Studio Museum in Harlem); Thirty Americans (Rubell Family Collection, Miami); and Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol (Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh). Among his numerous achievements are a SECA Award from SFMOMA, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, an Artadia grant and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. His works are represented in a number of major public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the de Young Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the University of California Berkeley Art Museum; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum (Cornell University); and the Rubell Family Collection. Bankston was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, and received his M.F.A. in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his A.B. from the University of Chicago. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

JEREMIAH BARBER

Our work indicates that mobile pupils may be widespread

2023, Archival digital pigment print, 1 of 3 + 1 artist proof

15” x 20” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2,000

Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Jeremiah Barber’s “Our work indicates that mobile pupils may be widespread” is from a series of digital photocollages which apply Darwinian concepts of genetic variation, mutation, and drift in various animal species’ systems of vision to technology. Imagining cameras and microphones as autonomous, living things in the earliest stages of evolution, Barber’s work utilizes macrophotography and 3D modeling to speculate an independently evolved camera. Inspired by recent scientific discoveries around plant and animal consciousness, this project suggests the limits of our own knowledge-building tools when compared to the expansiveness of nonhuman knowledge. *The value here includes framing by SF Art Framing.

ARTIST BIO

Jeremiah Barber is a San Francisco-based artist whose work explores perception and communication through performance, installation, and speculative design. Central to his work are anticipated failures: constructed realities, knowledge gaps, and a future designed through our bodies, which are fundamentally unreliable. Barber has been commissioned for projects nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Southern Exposure; and the I-Park Foundation. In 2015 he received the Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation. In addition to his solo practice, Barber cofounded the artist collective 100 Days Action. He teaches sculpture at the University of California Davis.

JD BELTRAN

Moon, Stars [Horologium], and Sea (what shall we do in the time we have)

2024, Media player, super-black paint (sky), Swarovski crystals (stars), custom video (sea), ebony stained hardwood frame

8” x 8” x 1.75”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $6,000

Starting Bid: $2,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

JD Beltran’s work is influenced by film, painting, and media, as well as beauty, time, and the moon.

ARTIST BIO

JD Beltran is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, curator, writer, and designer whose artwork and films have been screened and exhibited internationally including at the Walker Art Center, the SFMOMA, the MIT Media Lab, the Kitchen NYC, Ars Electronica, the Getty Institute, the M.H. DeYoung Museum, Southern Exposure, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Her artwork has been commissioned for public art projects worldwide, including a PAN award for creating one of the top public art projects nationwide, and an NTAA award for creating one of the top art+technology artworks worldwide. She was awarded an Artadia grant and a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Fellowship, and residencies at Skowhegan, the Pilchuck School, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Stochastic Labs, and the Lucas Artists Residency at Montalvo Arts Center. She’s also achieved artist grants from Skowhegan, the MIT Media Lab, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Workshop Residence, Stochastic Labs, and ARS Electronica.

LEO BERSAMINA

Grand Canyon II

2023, Acrylic on linen

24” x 11” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble Gallery

Retail Value: $4,000

Starting Bid: $2,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Grand Canyon II” is from a series that is based on retracing significant places that were transformative in shaping the artist’s vision of the world.

ARTIST 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 finish his BA with an emphasis in Studio Art. He received an MFA in Painting at Yale School of Art. Along with his extensive studio practice, Bersamina has also taught Studio Art at Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art and Diablo Valley College (where he currently is a tenured instructor). Bersamina exhibits nationally and internationally, including at the San Jose ICA; Oakland Museum of California; Bilpin International Ground for Creative Incentives, NSW, Australia; and the Berkeley Art Center. His works are included in many corporate and private collections, including the Oakland Museum, Google, Capital One Bank, Microsoft, Swiss Bank, and The Gap. His 2022 mural covers Adobe’s San Jose North Tower.

9 GREG BORMAN

Portrait #22

2023, Monotype on paper

18” x 14” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Greg Borman’s exploration of his own psychology is the basis for his creative work. Mirroring the multiplicity of the self, “Portrait #22” draws upon Borman’s shifting thoughts and feelings, representing different aspects of his psyche. Using a variety of tools to sketch in ink rolled onto Plexiglas, Borman’s practice physically connects him with the process of making images.

ARTIST BIO

Greg Borman’s creative journey began in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he immersed himself in the vibrant DIY punk scene. There, he honed his craft, writing songs, performing with multiple bands, and contributing to local zines. After receiving his BFA at the University of Cincinnati, Borman moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he has resided ever since. He furthered his education, earning an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, alongside obtaining an MLIS (Master of Library and Information Science) from San Jose State University. Since 2019, Borman has dedicated his focus to the exploration of printmaking, particularly monotypes, collaborating with studios in Berkeley and San Francisco. His work has garnered recognition through extensive exhibitions both within the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

10 VAL BRITTON

Net #7

2019, Acrylic, ink, watercolor, colored pencil, collage on paper

13.5” x 18.75” x 0.25”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $4,000

Starting Bid: $2,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Val Britton’s abstract landscapes come from her careful, layered joining of paint, collage, and thread, serving as twinned expressions of loss and regeneration. Invoking the everyday, Britton’s practice incorporates found materials and natural pigments while drawing upon the visual languages of mapping and cartography. These intricate scenes materialize both two-dimensionally and as installation, seemingly referring to worlds beyond themselves.

*The value here includes framing by Spot Design.

ARTIST BIO

Val Britton is an artist whose immersive, collaged works on paper, as well as her sitespecific installations, explore physical and psychological spaces. Her fragmented, exploded landscapes draw on the language of maps to engage memory, history, and the possibilities of abstraction. An award-winning public artist with permanent commissions at San Francisco International Airport and NYC Percent for Art among others, Britton’s work is part of numerous collections, including: the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, the Cleveland Clinic, de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, Facebook Headquarters, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Legion of Honor, Library of Congress, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New-York Historical Society, NY Public Library Print Collection, and the San Jose Museum of Art. Britton has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in museums, galleries, art fairs, universities, and nonprofit institutions both nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship. Born in New Jersey, Britton spent 14 years in San Francisco before relocating to the Pacific Northwest. She now lives in Portland, Oregon. She received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts.

NYAME BROWN

Headlands

2019, Watercolor on paper

48” x 34” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $4,000

Starting Bid: $2,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Brown is an Afrofuturist artist working in various media to address the Black imagination as a new space for perception. Reimagining contemporary notions of Blackness in visual culture and building up scaffolded narratives around art historical references, hip hop, and personal history, he challenges traditional representation and subverts it, calling on the rich, surreal language found in folklore and African American hyperbole. “Headlands” was created while in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. The landscape was made plein air while hiking, and the portrait was added upon returning to the studio. Brown says, “The landscape looked like African American hair to me. I imagined the mountains as hairstyles on Black heads. The piece is a start to a new investigation of African Americans’ relationship to nature and global climate change.”

ARTIST BIO

Nyame Oulynji Brown received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and MFA from Yale School of Art and Architecture. He is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award and the Richard Driehaus Foundation Individual Artist Award, as well as a sitespecific public commission for the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation. His participation in Theaster Gates’ Black Artist Retreat in Chicago was followed by residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts (for work on his project The Mapping of Aaron, A Model for Radical Blackness), Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. Brown has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of the African Diaspora, the Hearst Museum at St. Mary’s College (John Henry’s Adventures in a Post-Black World), and the West Virginia University Art Museum. He has participated in group exhibitions in numerous spaces, including the Museum of Harlem, the Hyde Park Art Center, and the Oakland Museum of California.

ENRIQUE CHAGOYA Codex Ytrebil

2022, Hand pulled color lithograph on hand made paper, Edition of 25 31” x 30” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble Gallery

Retail Value: $4,200

Starting Bid: $2,750

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Codex YTREBIL” (liberty backwards), is based on a series of small religious books known as Testeriano codices, which were painted by anonymous Indigenous artists in the 16th century as part of a Catholic conversion system employed by Spanish missionaries. Enrique Chagoya’s version of the codex is not religious, but functions as a secular catechism, using a nonlinear vision of a colonial legacy spun out of control. In a world where the truth is understood backwards, Chagoya’s work uses visual humor to address this reality via reversed script.

*The value here includes framing by City Picture Frame.

ARTIST BIO

Enrique Chagoya was born in Mexico City and lives in San Francisco. Chagoya has been the recipient of numerous awards such as two NEA artist fellowships; the National Academy of Arts and Letters in New York; residencies at Giverny and Cité Internationale des Arts in France; a L. C. Tiffany Fellowship; a National Academy of Design Induction and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Graphics Conference International in 2020; and a J. S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2021. His work is in the permanent collections of many national and international museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young Museum, and the Achenbach Collection at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco; the Museo Nacional de la Estampa and Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City, Instituto de Artes Graficas de Oaxaca in Oaxaca City; and Artium Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vittoria-Gasteiz, Spain, among others. Chagoya’s solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper at George Adams Gallery in NYC was on view in 2023. His work will be included in Southern Exposure’s 50th anniversary exhibition in Fall 2024.

ENRIQUE CHAGOYA

Life at the Border of Language

2023, Hand pulled color lithograph with hand painted silver ink, Edition of 25 21.5” x 36” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble Gallery

Retail Value: $3,600

Starting Bid: $2,250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

In “Life at the Border of Language,” a physical border echoes both the US/Mexico border and the many other sites of division which exist between people. These forces may not be visually obvious—class status, religious affiliation, and ethnic stereotypes, amongst others— but are just as real as physical means of separation. Despite our external differences, Chagoya’s art reminds us that we are all one human species. Ancient line drawings between the portraits serve as a key to an alternative way of seeing, portraying how pre-Columbian people represented themselves.

*The value here includes framing by City Picture Frame.

ARTIST BIO

Enrique Chagoya was born in Mexico City and lives in San Francisco. Chagoya has been the recipient of numerous awards such as two NEA artist fellowships; the National Academy of Arts and Letters in New York; residencies at Giverny and Cité Internationale des Arts in France; a L. C. Tiffany Fellowship; a National Academy of Design Induction and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Graphics Conference International in 2020; and a J. S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2021. His work is in the permanent collections of many national and international museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young Museum, and the Achenbach Collection at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco; the Museo Nacional de la Estampa and Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City, Instituto de Artes Graficas de Oaxaca in Oaxaca City; and Artium Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vittoria-Gasteiz, Spain, among others. Chagoya’s solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper at George Adams Gallery in NYC was on view in 2023. His work will be included in Southern Exposure’s 50th anniversary exhibition in Fall 2024.

AJIT CHAUHAN

Close Reading

2019, Erased postcards

12” x 23” x 0.75”

Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble Gallery

Retail Value: $6,000

Starting Bid: $4,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Ajit Chauhan reuses postcards as a means of giving them a second life. When he first started collecting postcards, they were meant to be a gift for a friend, but they opened up an inquiry into perception. The web has an inherent latitudinal and longitudinal quality, easily becoming a device of measurement. The pieces in this series are made by carefully removing and scratching off the upper layer of the postcard in a completely subtractive process; nothing is added. Chauhan uses etching tools to “draw” or engrave the surface in an act of semiotic deconstruction–making by destroying. Attention to the small, often inconspicuous things: the found, the accidental, but also the abstract and energetic qualities of places, things, and materials form the inherent vocabulary of the work.

*The value here includes framing by Sterling Art Services.

ARTIST BIO

Ajit Chauhan (b. 1981) has exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London, White Columns NY, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and others, with an upcoming solo exhibition at Galerie Stadtpark Krems. Chauhan’s art is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Saatchi Gallery in London; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; the SONS Museum Belgium; the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art; and others. Chauhan works with adults that have developmental disabilities.

TAKMING CHUANG

Fountains

2024, Ink, clinical drape sheet, acid free mounting board, gampi hinges, Optium acrylic, waxed maple frame

22.2” x 20.2” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2,500

Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Ink rubbing is an art form for the study and preservation of treasured objects. Chuang adapts this tradition to investigate his personal archive of vernacular photographs, taken by the artist in the 90s-early 00’s as an adolescent/young adult. He traces or obscures the subjects of his pictures by incising outlines and inscriptions onto the surfaces of original c-prints. These markings are transferred onto clinical drape sheets with water and ink to create impressions of Chuang’s memories.

ARTIST BIO

Takming Chuang creates prints, photographs, and sculptures inspired by various preservation practices. Influences include skincare, fitness, food preservation, craft traditions, object conservation, funerary customs, historic restoration, and museology. Seemingly disparate and innocuous, these references contribute lasting physical and emotional impressions upon bodies. Chuang’s work has been featured in exhibitions and residencies at SculptureCenter, NY; White Columns, NY; Hessel Museum of Art, NY; Camden Arts Centre UK; Headlands Center for the Arts; Southern Exposure; and the Berkeley Art Museum; among others. He received an MFA from UC Berkeley (2017) and a BA in Economics (2000) from SUNY Binghamton. Born in New York City (1978), Chuang lives in San Francisco and works in Oakland.

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HOLLY COLEY Strawberry Ghost

2023, Glazed stoneware

10” x 4” x 4”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $400

Starting Bid: $150

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

The strawberry surface is part of a larger collection of Fruit Pots–ceramic forms inspired by ancient shapes covered in bright contemporary surface designs.

ARTIST BIO

Born in LA county and raised in the desert of Southern California, Holly Coley comes from a family of artists and crafts people. An artist and educator, she is the owner of Pinckney Clay Studio in San Francisco. Coley studied drawing, painting, and sculpture at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, and SFCC. As an artist working in education, she has worked with many arts education nonprofits in the Bay Area, such as the San Francisco Art Education Project, Streetside Stories, Root Division, The Crucible, and Southern Exposure.

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HOLLY COLEY

Strawberry Vase

2023, Glazed stoneware

10” x 4” x 4”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $400

Starting Bid: $150

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

The strawberry surface is part of a larger collection of Fruit Pots–ceramic forms inspired by ancient shapes covered in bright contemporary surface designs.

ARTIST BIO

Born in LA county and raised in the desert of Southern California, Holly Coley comes from a family of artists and crafts people. An artist and educator, she is the owner of Pinckney Clay Studio in San Francisco. Coley studied drawing, painting, and sculpture at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, and SFCC. As an artist working in education, she has worked with many arts education nonprofits in the Bay Area, such as the San Francisco Art Education Project, Streetside Stories, Root Division, The Crucible, and Southern Exposure.

18 RANDY COLOSKY

Brave New World

2012, Painted cast plaster

1” x 12” x 12”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Randy Colosky’s “Brave New World” explores industrial materials, often deemed lowbrow, as well as unorthodox processes within his approach to craft. He recontextualizes their functions in order to reveal the aesthetic nature of tools and materials. This piece is related to the traces left on cutting tables in wood shops after fabrication, as well as to the breakdown of urban infrastructure.

ARTIST BIO

Randy Colosky received a BFA in ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1987. Colosky has been awarded grants from the Warhol Foundation, the Fleishacker Foundation, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. Colosky has shown extensively over the last 30 years, and has had solo exhibitions at the St Joseph’s Arts Society, Brilliant Champions Gallery, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary in Oakland, K Imperial Fine Arts, and Ampersand International Arts. Colosky has participated in group exhibitions with the Berkeley Art Museum, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Incline Gallery, Highlight Gallery, Southern Exposure, Kavi Gupta Gallery, The Front Room, Root Division, and The Lab in San Francisco. His public works can be found at Facebook Menlo Park, Embarcadero Square, Tahlia Beach Stairs, and several private architectural scale commissions. His work is in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, the Alameda Municipal Art Collection, Ellie Mae Inc, The Battery, and Sonoma State University.

19 CAROLINA CUEVAS

Un Clavo Saca Otro

2023, Fiber, clay, rusty nails

27” x 10” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Un Clavo Saca Otro” by Carolina Cuevas is part of a series created during a residency at the Institute of Contemporary Arts SF. The title of the piece directly translates to “one nail removes another.” The phrase has many interpretations, most of them surrounding relationships, but Carolina’s favorite use of it is in reference to new beginnings, as the series marked a new chapter in the artist’s practice.

ARTIST BIO

Carolina Cuevas (b. 1998) is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator based in the Bay Area. She received her MFA from the California College of the Arts and her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. Her practice is rooted in the history of altarmaking and the intricacies of language, primarily within American and Caribbean society. Both evolving and adapting to their surroundings, altars and language are vital sources of inspiration which invoke the joining of communities, the creation of rituals, and oral traditions. Cuevas combines materials like textiles and clay with found or foraged materials in order to depict these ideas. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Minnesota Street Project; Berkeley Art Center; the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco; San Jose’s Quilts and Textile Museum; International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemét, Hungary; and the Kansas City Artist Coalition. She is the recipient of several awards, including one from the Knight Foundation, as well as the Barclay Simpson Award, Cadogan Contemporary Art Award, and Cultura Power Fellowship. Her work is held in the San Jose’s Quilts and Textiles permanent collection.

20 TORREYA CUMMINGS

Untitled Sailor’s Knot (ethernet cable)

2024, Sand-cast pewter

7” x 4” x 0.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Following a performance on a sailing ship at the SF Maritime historic park, Torreya Cummings was inspired by the way that old ropes were woven into mats. As an artist in residence at Recology SF, this practice evolved, and they began working with discarded cables found in e-waste bins. The ethernet cables, ubiquitous in daily life, gained an archaeological feel after they were sand cast in metal. Each piece is unique, as the mold is altered and ultimately destroyed once it is cast.

ARTIST BIO

Torreya Cummings is a project-based visual artist working with ideas of histories, futures, and locales, particularly around unlearning dominant narratives of the American West. Their work includes photography, sculpture, installation, performance, and video. Cummings uses drag aesthetics, substitutions, hardware store materials, the relationship of history and fiction, landscape, research, ambivalence, theater tricks, bad illusions, props, sets, dioramas, and interpretive sites as source material. Their solo projects have been presented at the Oakland Museum of California, Aggregate Space Gallery, and have presented performances with Machine Project, Southern Exposure, and the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, among others. Cummings received an MFA in sculpture from California College of the Arts, and lives and works in Emeryville, CA.

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DIANE DALLASKIDD Rows (Punch Card Series)

2023, Acrylic and pierced paper

18” x 24” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Sarah Shepard Gallery

Retail Value: $2,500

Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Diane DallasKidd’s work, “Rows (Punch Card Series)” was inspired by the roots of computer data storage in the Jacquard loom punch cards used for weaving complex patterns. Using an awl, she pierced holes through painted paper, utilizing the contrast of the white torn edges against the matte black background to delineate a pattern. She then painted over sections of the perforations to reveal another layer of line, an exercise in how pattern might hold and express numeric information.

*The value here includes framing by Painters Place.

ARTIST BIO

Diane DallasKidd was born and raised in San Francisco and graduated from San Francisco State University with a BFA in Textile Art. She traveled to Japan to continue studies under Tsuyoshi Kuno, a 4th generation master dyer who adapted centuries-old dyeing techniques to create new material for avant-garde designers such as Issey Miyake and for productions such as Cirque du Soleil. Learning from artists who push creative boundaries while honoring traditional process continues to influence DallasKidd’s own artwork. Her work has been exhibited at Sarah Shepard Gallery; Root Division; the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art; and Arts Benicia.

22 SERGIO DE LA TORRE

DACA

2023, Silkscreen on paper

30” x 22” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,000

Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Immigration is a central theme in Sergio De La Torre’s artistic practice. Moving beyond just producing works of art, De La Torre seeks to actively collaborate with the subjects of his work. “DACA” celebrates the dreams of more than 700,000 DACA recipients, while pushing for a legislative solution which will ensure permanent legal protection. Protecting the DACA program is only the first step: securing a pathway to citizenship for the millions of undocumented individuals in this country is the ultimate goal. *The value here includes framing by Orion Custom Framing Services.

ARTIST BIO

Sergio De La Torre has worked with and documented the manifold ways by which citizens reinvent themselves in the city they inhabit, as well as site-specific strategies they deploy to move in and out of modernity. De La Torre’s works invoke collaborations with his subjects, inviting both intimate and critical reflections on topics related to housing, immigration, and labor. Through video documentary, photography, public art, installations and other forms, he tries to approach the lives of these individuals not as victim-subjects, but rather as a part of a broader effort to reexamine the meaning of their actions in the context of shifting global conditions. His work has appeared in the Istanbul Biennial; Bienal Barro de America; NYMOMA; Atelier Frankfurt; Centro Cultural Tijuana; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Southern Exposure; Tribeca Film Festival; and Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia. Sergio is an Assistant Professor in the University of San Francisco Art and Architecture Department.

23 CHRISTOPHER ROBIN DUNCAN

FROST MOON - NOVEMBER 2022

(6 month exposure summer to fall)

2022, Sun, time, thread, paint on fabric

20” x 16” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Rebecca Camacho Presents

Retail Value: $5,000

Starting Bid: $3,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Sunlight and the passage of time converge to create images which straddle the realms of painting and photography. Duncan exposes vibrant fabrics to the elements for six months, devoid of any emulsion or chemical intervention. Only the alchemy of time and sun alters the material. The fabric is placed and harvested under the watchful gaze of full moons, marking time by celestial rhythms. Weathered and sun-bleached, the faded fabric create serendipitous compositions. In response to the patterns, Duncan deftly cuts, sews, and paints onto the transformed canvas.

ARTIST BIO

Christopher Robin Duncan (b. 1974) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California. Duncan utilizes the Sun and the Moon, as well as Time and Tide, as conceptual and compositional prompts for experiments in sonic and visual endeavors. Outside of his studio practice, Duncan runs LAND AND SEA, a small press out of Oakland, with his partner Maria Otero. He holds an MFA from Stanford, a BFA from CCA and his work has been featured in exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum; V1 Gallery (Copenhagen); Human Resources (Los Angeles); Et al. (San Francisco); San Francisco Arts Commission; Southern Exposure; and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. His work can be found in many collections such as Berkeley Art Museum; SFMOMA; and Kemper Art Museum. He is represented by Rebecca Camacho Presents (SF) and Halsey McKay (NY).

24 CLAIRE DUNN

Again and Again

2022, Carved drawings on unique gelatin silver print with mirror fragments

15.25” x 13.25” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,350

Starting Bid: $700

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

In this collection of photograms, Claire Dunn explores the patterns, textures, and innate celestial properties of earthly matter. These abstract images combine her analog macrophotographic documentations of patterns found in the California landscape; imprints of her own hair, saliva, and fingerprints; as well as impressions left behind by broken mirror fragments. Dunn carves unique abstract drawings into each photogram with a variety of tools including exacto knives, nails, and sandpaper.

ARTIST BIO

Claire Dunn is an artist, traveler, psychologist, curator, and educator based in San Francisco. She was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she received her BS in psychology at Universidad del Salvador (USAL). She received an MFA from California College of the Arts (CCA) in 2023. Her artwork has been exhibited widely in Argentina and in the USA, including Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Berkeley Art Center; Minnesota Street Project; Palo Alto Art Center; and the Argentinian Embassy in Washington, DC. Dunn has been an artist-in-residence at La Flecha del Arte in Argentina and the Monson Arts Abbott Watts Residency Award in Maine. She participated in the Recology Artist in Residence in San Francisco as one half of the collective known as Nunca No.

25 RICKI DWYER

Untitled

2024, Cotton, linen, dye, stretcher bars, and tacks

21” x 14” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $3,750

Starting Bid: $1,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Ricki Dwyer’s work comes from a new series of paintings made using a loom. Handwoven linen canvas is inlaid with botanical imagery in bamboo thread. Following the weaving process, the work is then dip-dyed with textile dye. Variations in color occur due to differing material qualities in individual dye particles.

ARTIST BIO

Ricki Dwyer, an artist split between San Francisco and Brooklyn, explores the convergence of material, industry, and the somatic in his work. His research delves into weaving and craft, both in theory and practice. His latest publication, “Decennial,” delves into weaving as a metaphor for mutual aid and was released by the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art last June. Dwyer has held residencies at Recology, Jupiter Woods Gallery in London, the Textile Arts Center in New York, ARTHAUS Havana, and most recently at the foundry of Kohler Co. in Wisconsin. His work has been exhibited at La Biennale de Lyon; the Berkeley Art Center; Anglim/Trimble Gallery; Eleanor Harwood Gallery; and the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. Currently, he serves on the curatorial council of Southern Exposure and teaches writing at Parsons School of Design.

EBTI

Ode to home

2024, Photo collage

13” x 13” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $700

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Ebti’s “Ode to home” piece is an inkjet print collage on palm fronds woven by their sister with silk thread. Ebti’s work explores issues of home and often draws on the motif of the palm tree to examine our cultural baggage around notions of exoticism. 1/1

*Value includes framing by Artisans Framing.

ARTIST BIO

Ebti is a multidisciplinary artist, a photographer, and a translator living between Cairo and San Francisco. She has an MA in translation and intercultural studies from Johannes Gutenberg Universitat, Mainz, and an MFA from California College of the Arts. Ebti is part of Right Window Collective, Off Hours Collective and is sitting on the curatorial council at Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco. Her work has been shown in galleries throughout the US and Egypt. She currently teaches visual arts and photography at Performing Arts Workshop in San Francisco.

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DWIGHT ESCHLIMAN

Sao Paolo, Brazil, 1 hour, 521-621pm, June 10, 2023

2023, Archival pigment print

18” x 18” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Sarah Shepard Gallery

Retail Value: $2,000

Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Sao Paolo, Brazil, 1 hour, 521-621pm, June 10, 2023” was made in Brazil as a part of Dwight Eschliman’s ongoing series, “One Day”. His work uncovers the intertwined relationship between light and color, naming how our perception of color shifts under the influence of forces like the reflection of light off surfaces. For each execution of “One Day,” a photograph of one static point in the sky is taken every second for 24 consecutive hours. Each of these 86,4000 photographs then becomes a pixel in a larger composition.

ARTIST BIO

Dwight Eschliman is San Francisco-based commercial photographer and animator who has found critical success over the past fifteen years bringing his precise, clean, and conceptual aesthetic to commercial campaigns for a plethora of well-known brands and companies. His ongoing series, “One Day,” reflects on the passage of time. He plays on this by meticulously cataloging and deconstructing time through photographs, breaking them down into one-second increments—86,400 of them in a single day, in a single place, repeated in multiple locations. His work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine , Wired , and Time , amongst others.

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KOTA EZAWA

Stairs

2009, Spitbite aquatint with cine collé on Somerset white paper, AP, Edition of 35 14.5” x 16” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Fraenkel Gallery

Retail Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Stairs” is a print made at Paulson Fontaine Press from an image of a scene from Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 film “Battleship Potemkin,” credited as the earliest example of montage in film. In the film, there are 160 cuts in the sequence. Ezawa drew the first frame of each cut, then transferred it onto a copper plate. The shapes were then painted with asphaltum and then etched using a step etch process.

*The value here includes framing by City Picture Frame.

ARTIST BIO

Kota Ezawa has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, California; SITE Santa Fe; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; and the Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, among others. He participated in the Whitney Biennial 2019 and the 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), SFMOMA, and Whitney Museum of American Art.

MARFECO (MARY FERNANDO CONRAD)

Landscape

2010, Cardboard, astroturf, watercolor paper, embroidery thread, and money 15” x 15” x 0.5”

Courtesy of the Artist and CULT Aimee Friberg

Retail Value: $4,000

Starting Bid: $2,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Marfeco’s piece “Landscape” is inspired by their interest in fungibility, specifically the fungibility of land.

ARTIST BIO

Marfeco / Mary Fernando Conrad is a multifaceted artist based in both San Francisco and West Marin County, California. Her artistic exploration delves into social infrastructure, utilizing vernacular materials like neon signage, plastic, and packaging to convey her message. Notable exhibitions include the Cult/Aimee Friberg Projects 10th Anniversary Show, showcasing Conrad’s distinctive approach. Beyond her creative pursuits, Conrad has contributed to the arts community by proudly serving on the board of Southern Exposure. Although born in the United States, Conrad’s experiences extend globally, having spent significant time living abroad in France and Sri Lanka, enriching her perspective and creative process.

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JOSÉ FIGUEROA

07/07/2018 “Pond Party”

2018, Mixed media on water color paper

22” x 28” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $700

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Since 2013, José Figueroa has kept a visual journal cataloging his daily surroundings from an extracorporeal perspective. His drawings evolve, using text and ethnographic principles, resulting in images which act like panoramic, long-exposure captures. This archive of his holds over 1,500 drawings, from fieldwork in China to exploring Angel Falls in Venezuela, and mundane scenes like dinner parties and visits to a sex club.

ARTIST BIO

José Figueroa is an Oakland-based artist and educator born in Caracas, Venezuela. Figueroa uses postmodern strategies to create artworks that reflect on the fragility of fleeting moments, the complications of intertwined identities, and the impossibility of a single perspective. Best known for his map-like drawings that document (in playful detail) his surroundings, Figueroa is a keen observer of life. A self-described “impressionist,” Figueroa is fascinated with the intersection of the mundane and the extraordinary, often seeking to capture grandiose or humble elements of everyday life. Figuero has exhibited at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Southern Exposure; Berkeley Art Museum; and the Embark Gallery, as well as the Drawing Center and Longwood Arts Project in New York, among others. He attended the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, earned a BFA from the Cooper Union, and completed his MFA at the University of California, Berkeley.

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SIENNA FREEMAN

Three Cups, Three Fishes

2020, Hand cut and assembled found images, self-generated photos, plastic resin, pigment, and flocking 16” x 20” x 0.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Three Cups, Three Fishes” is part of a series of faux velvet paintings by Sienna Freeman, which begin as hand-made collages, cast in plastic resin, and then flocked with textile fiber. The visual imagery often involves the body and corporeal positionality, process, or transition. Many of the works are inspired by the visual language of 1970s-era Hammer Films, particularly lesbian classics like “The Vampire Lovers” and “Twins of Evil.”

ARTIST BIO

Sienna Freeman (she/her) is a San Francisco-based visual artist, arts writer, and currently serves on Southern Exposure’s Board of Directors. With an MA in Visual & Critical Studies and an MFA in Fine Art from the California College of the Arts, along with a BFA in Photography from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, she brings a rich background to her work. Her art has been exhibited in galleries across the United States and abroad, including Switzerland, London, Belgium, and Canada. Additionally, her writing has been featured in publications such as Feral Fabric, ArtPractical.com, and DailyServing.com, among others. In 2019, Freeman published the visually captivating “Red Gold,” a sixty-eight page novel, with FUZZ press.

ARTISTS G THROUGH K

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32 BENICIA GANTNER

Soft Stone Space.13

2023, Vinyl collage, graphite, metal leaf, relief print on paper, unique 19” x 13” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Traywick Contemporary

Retail Value: $3,000

Starting Bid: $1,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Well-known for her intricate work in collage, Benicia Gantner’s practice showcases a unique relationship with color and form, developing a hybrid approach which allows her to move fluidly between two and three dimensions. “Soft Stone Space.13” came from a series of works Gantner made during an artist residency where she had access to printmaking facilities and materials. These technologies helped her to create a series of unique relief prints, to which she added layers of vinyl collage, metal leaf, and graphite drawing.

*The value here includes framing by Eric Rose Art Framing.

ARTIST 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 Afgahanistan 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.

RENÉE GERTLER

I Know Places

2023, Glass beads, plaster, paper media, paint, and black tourmaline 12” x 15” x 9”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $3,000

Starting Bid: $1,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Renée Gertler’s sculptures are crafted from papier-mâché, featuring surfaces adorned with beads, minerals, and crystals. Through her work, Gertler delves into the realms of memory and intuition, exploring the intricate interplay between logic and emotion. Drawing inspiration from mysticism, architecture, and psychology, Gertler’s pieces merge disparate elements from these world-making realms.

ARTIST BIO

Renée Gertler was born in Santa Barbara, and lives in Berkeley, California. Her drawings and sculptures explore ideas around metaphysical, psychological, and emotional landscapes. She holds a BFA and MFA in Sculpture from the California College of the Arts, and studied landscape architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate Studies of Design. Her sculptures and installations have been exhibited at Southern Exposure; Eleanor Harwood Gallery; Et. al; and The MarinMOCA; and Anglim/Trimble. She has been awarded 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.

34 SHEILA GHIDINI

Yellow Chairs

2023, Graphite and colored pencil on mylar

20.5” x 20.5” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Pastine Projects

Retail Value: $1,400

Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

In Sheila Ghidini’s “Yellow Chairs,” the shape of a chair serves as a leitmotif. Ghidini considers the form as a marker in space, as a symbol of both presence and absence, and as a fundamental architectural component which also holds memory. She is interested in calling attention to the ubiquitous (but often overlooked) spaces between things, as well as the shadows cast by them.

ARTIST BIO

Sheila Ghidini’s work encompasses drawing, sculpture, installation, and site-specific public art. Her work has been shown and collected in private and public collections including the Achenbach Collection of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Runneymede Farm Sculpture Park in Woodside, CA, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She attended Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, and did graduate work at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She completed an MFA in sculpture at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving the Sylvan and Pam Coleman Memorial Fellowship. She was an artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and the American Academy in Rome summer program. She has received grants from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, the Krasner-Pollack Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Marcelle Labaudt Memorial Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Her public projects engage communities, architecture, and the landscape. She has created public gathering spaces throughout California, including San Jose, Campbell, and Emeryville. Ghidini collaboratively designed two transit shelters; one on 19th Ave. in San Francisco and one shelter in Lodi, CA.

A. KORI GIRARD

chameleon dream

2023, Acrylic on board

11” x 9.25” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $3,500

Starting Bid: $1,800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

A. Kori Girard’s “chameleon dream” was made by layering washes over each other. In this case there is no under painting—Girard has relied on the spontaneous immediacy of each gesture to inform the next.

ARTIST BIO

Alexander Kori Girard was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1979. The artist graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2001, receiving degrees in both graphic design and illustration. Solo exhibitions of Girard’s work have taken place at Johansson Projects in Oakland, California and Curator’s Cube in Tokyo, Japan. Group exhibitions featuring Girard’s work have taken place at: Gallery 16 in San Francisco, California (2020); Ace Hotel Gallery in Kyoto, Japan (2020); the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California (2020 and 2015); Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2017); Vice Gallery in Mexico City, Mexico (2011); MoCA in Los Angeles, California (2011); Triple Base Gallery in San Francisco, California (2010); Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco, California (2009); and Southern Exposure in San Francisco, California (2009). Girard’s work is held in the public collections of: the Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley California; the Collection of the US Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique; and the Ace Hotel Kyoto in Japan; as well as numerous private collections.

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DIANE ANDREWS HALL

Hall

2023, Oil on canvas mounted on wood

9.75” x 9.75” x 0.5”

Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery

Retail Value: $3,500

Starting Bid: $1,800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Diane Andrews Hall’s work is inspired by the artist’s immediate surroundings and the culmination of countless hours spent lingering in the garden outside her studio. With light, movement, time, and natural phenomena as subjects, Andrews Hall pays homage to the beautiful complexity of the natural world, rendering birds and plant-life in exquisite detail, with an acute sense of wonderment. This robin visited her birdbath last winter. *The value here includes framing by Painters Place.

ARTIST 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 MFA 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.

37 MICHAEL HALL

An Evening With

2022, Watercolor on paper stretched over panel 12” x 9” x 0.75”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2,200

Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Michael Hall explores the subtle significance of everyday ephemera, delving into poetic moments, lost histories, and the connections forged through information exchange. His work renders these elements at a 1:1 scale, honoring the individuality and lived experiences of objects. Marks, folds, stains, and other imperfections, especially evident in mass-produced items like records, books, or, in this case, a concert ticket, transform each object into a singular entity, despite its multiplicity.

ARTIST BIO

Michael Hall is a Bay Area artist and educator whose drawings, paintings, and videos examine the nuanced meanings of ephemera that surround us. This is uncovered through observed, poetic daily moments, researching lost histories, and exploring connections formed through the exchange of information. He focuses on the act of recording, attempting to slow the inevitable march of time through mindful observation. Hall earned an MFA from Mills College and a BFA from the California College of the Arts & Crafts. He is a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award, and an MFA Fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts. In addition to the Headlands, recent residencies include Joan Mitchell Center and Montalvo Art Center. Recent Bay Area solo exhibitions include Catharine Clark Gallery and Townsend Center for the Humanities. Hall has taught throughout the Bay Area, including at the Creative Growth Art Center, where he began their video production and digital media program, and abroad at Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art in Pont Aven, France. He is currently an Associate Professor of Fine Arts Practice at California State University, East Bay.

38 KRISTIE HANSEN

Fixated 005

2020, Leather, glass beads, nylon thread, and metal 5.5” x 6” x 3”

Courtesy of the Artist and Don Soker Contemporary Art

Retail Value: $850

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

During the pandemic, connection became a lifeline and a necessity as well as a luxury for many people. An online beading class during these times influenced Kristie Hansen’s “Fixated 005,” part of a series of sculptures using leather pockets, recycled beads, nylon thread, and metal.

ARTIST BIO

Kristie Hansen is a San Francisco-based conceptual artist working primarily in sculpture. Her inspiration comes from years of shopping second-hand fashion and transforming vintage material into assemblage objects. Through her process, she manipulates unwanted commodities into evocative works that address consumerism, our changing climate, and the beauty we can find in discarded remnants. 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, Berkeley Art Center, Bass & Reiner, SF Skate Club, and 1599fdt. In 2016, she had a residency with local clothing designers, N.I.C.E. Collective, and in 2024 she participated in the Cycladic Arts Residency in Paros, Greece.

39 NAOMI HAWKSLEY

Untitled (Gift II)

2023, Graphite on paper

15” x 20” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Naomi Hawksley is drawn to graphite for its immediacy, which she feels allows for playful, unpredictable compositions, as well as a certain delicacy. Her work explores issues of identity and self-presentation.

ARTIST BIO

Naomi Hawksley (b. 2000) is an artist based in San Francisco, CA. She graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022. Her practice works through processes of recontextualizing and dismantling conventional images, worldbuilding, and escapism using drawing and lithographic printing techniques. Hawksley has shown at Southern Exposure, Co-Prosperity, Sulk Chicago, and Solo Show, and is currently working as a curator at London-based label and collective odyXxey.

40

NICOLE HAYDEN

So Good To Be Alive

2023, Acrylic on panel

14” x 11” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,800

Starting Bid: $900

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Nicole Hayden’s “So Good To Be Alive” uses vintage imagery and color palettes to ignite a sense of nostalgia. She draws on her collection of photos and magazines from the 1950s and 1960s and intuitively layers images underneath the colorful patterned foreground, creating a new open-ended story. Persona, the gaze, and female empowerment are all subjects which arise in her storytelling as she explores the juxtaposition between pattern and figurative realism.

ARTIST BIO

Nicole Hayden (b.1979, Skokie, IL) received a BFA from the University of Kansas and studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts. She has shown work in various art venues in the bay area including Southern Exposure, Sanchez Art Center, Gensler, Nexus gallery, The Lab, 111 Minna, Hang Art and Adler & Co. The onset of the pandemic in April 2020 prompted Hayden to shift her focus to painting murals on the plywood-covered streets, sparking a newfound passion and sense of community responsibility towards public and street art.

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JAMIL HELLU

Lady Justice

2023, Screenprint on paper

25.5” x 19.5” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Rebecca Camacho Presents

Retail Value: $2,400

Starting Bid: $1,400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Amidst the rise of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation across the nation, Jamil Hellu embodies “Lady Justice ‘’ for the camera. Reflecting on the meaning of justice, Hellu’s work is rooted in the fundamental understanding that all people are deserving of equal rights. This work is an active response, confronting discrimination while advocating for equity and social change. *The value here includes framing by Mark Ryan.

ARTIST BIO

Jamil Hellu is a visual artist whose work focuses on the fluidity of identity, cultural heritage, and queer representation, often pointing to the tensions found in the evolving discourse on sexuality. He is a photography lecturer in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University and is represented by Rebecca Camacho Presents in San Francisco. Through a multidisciplinary practice rooted in photography and spanning video, sculpture, and installation, Hellu’s projects interrogate the dominant patriarchal ideology of masculinity while challenging preconceived notions about gender expression. His art fosters empathy and dialogue, ultimately promoting a more inclusive and equitable world. Hellu holds a Masters in Fine Arts in Art Practice from Stanford University and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been discussed in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Artforum, and VICE. He has held multiple art residencies including at the Headlands Center for the Arts and the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. He has exhibited at Minnesota Street Project; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; the Cantor Art Center; SF Camerawork; apexart; Kala Art Center; and Southern Exposure. Public collections holding his work include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cantor Arts Center; and the Blanton Museum of Art.

42 CLIFF HENGST

Lorelei 2022, Ink on paper

8” x 6” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

*The value here includes framing by SF Art Framing.

ARTIST BIO

Cliff Hengst is an artist and performer who works and lives in San Francisco. He has exhibited work at SFMOMA, Southern Exposure, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and Gallery 16 in San Francisco. Hengst has performed and exhibited at Hauser & Wirth, Machine Project in Los Angeles, the Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum, Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga, New York, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, and at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

43

SCOTT HEWICKER

Sun Sifting Through The Grey /Enter In, Reach Me With a Ray

2024, Fabric dye and acrylic on canvas

10” x 8” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery 16

Retail Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Scott Hewicker’s “Sun Sifting Through The Grey/Enter In, Reach Me With a Ray” takes its title from a lyric from the song “The Kiss” by Judee Sill. It’s a song you would play at a funeral if you wanted everyone to cry. It’s just perfectly beautiful. Sometimes Hewicker feels the need to force sadness out of himself to find a little hope, like the time he saw this ray of light through a crystal in his kitchen window late at night. It was a dark night and it’s a dark time but sometimes in fleeting moments, light makes its way through and reveals its quiet secret.

ARTIST BIO

Scott Hewicker is a painter, writer, and musician based in San Francisco. He has an MFA from Stanford University and has exhibited his work at Gallery 16, Jack Hanley Gallery, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Deitch Projects NY, Galleri Christina Wilson in Copenhagen, and ICA Philadelphia.

44 GRAHAM HOLOCH

Water Runneth Over and Over and Over

2020, Archival pigment print on photo rag paper

17.25” x 21.5” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $900

Starting Bid: $500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

The still-life was made in the artist’s home studio. 2/3

ARTIST BIO

Graham Holoch (b. 1991) is an artist and marriage family therapist based in San Francisco, CA. He graduated from CCA in 2014 with a BFA in photography. While there, he founded Eggy Press, an artist-focused, small-press publisher, and curatorial group. Currently, Holoch is writing this bio and trying to design a hoodie graphic using seashells. He is a masterful comedian, having done stand-up publicly twice (to much critical acclaim).

45 SARAH HOTCHKISS

Harlequin Holodeck

2022, Acryla gouache on canvas over panel 24” x 24” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $5,500

Starting Bid: $3,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Sarah Hotchkiss creates geometric paintings that reference found graphics such as board games, puzzles, book covers, and optical illusions. Drawn to imagery that often serves a utilitarian function, Hotchkiss’ paintings use hard-edged graphic qualities and color combinations that often result in scintillating optical effects. These pieces do not conceal their origins, but playfully build systems of self-contained logic, which Hotchkiss hopes will be pleasurable for viewers to untangle.

ARTIST BIO

Sarah Hotchkiss is a San Francisco-based artist and arts writer. Her recent exhibitions include “NEOGEONEOGEO” at Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, and “Altered Perception” at the ICA in San José. Sarah’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at venues such as OCHI, Best Practice, and Berggruen Gallery. She has also contributed to public art programs by the San Francisco Arts Commission and completed residencies at Skowhegan, Jentel, ACRE, KHN Center for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2023, she published “High Contrast,” an artist book of high-contrast paintings with Colpa Press. She also co-ran the innovative Premiere Jr. exhibition space. Currently, Hotchkiss serves as a senior associate editor for KQED Arts & Culture.

TANIA HOUTZAGER

Of Course I Still Love You

2023, Mop heads, plaster, flashe, and wood 35” x 20” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $3,500

Starting Bid: $1,400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Tania Houtzager’s “Of Course I Still Love You” was made using deconstructed mop heads, plaster, and a found frame. The mop heads were unwoven and knotted into a fragile fabric with exposed and fraying ends, and the delicate assembly was then soaked in plaster to make the piece more durable.

ARTIST BIO

Tania Jade Houtzager is a San Francisco-based artist whose process uses a language of material gestures to explore notions of perceived space as well as the fallibility of memory. Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, New York, Los Angeles, and Venice, Italy among others, 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. In addition to her art practice, she runs an artist studio complex in Sausalito called Marinship Studios and an educational art history website called Sartle.com.

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SHAO-FENG HSU Night Swimming

2022, Unique silver gelatin print

20” x 16” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $700

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

On the darkest nights during new moons, Shao-Feng created “Night Swimming,” a series of breath photograms. While diving underwater, he exhaled rings of air and captured the journey of each breath as it ascended, employing flashes to imprint the ethereal bubbles onto lightsensitive paper, gently buoyant beneath the surface. In this elegant dance between darkness and illumination, the bubbles revealed not only the depths of lung capacity but also whispered tales of life’s essence: breath, immortalized in shimmering patterns.

ARTIST BIO

Shao-Feng Hsu is a photographer whose practice revolves around the intricate interactions between humans and aquatic environments. He earned his MFA from the California College of the Arts (CCA) in 2022, receiving the Dennis Leon and Christin Nelson Scholarship. He holds a One-Year Certificate in Creative Practices from the International Center of Photography (2019) and received the Rita K. Hillman Excellence Award. In 2020, Hsu co-founded ‘Cademy and Fotodemic. Hsu is the recipient of Jury’s Choice Award of Forecast 2023 at SF Camerawork; Photolucida Top 50 of Critical Mass 2023; and a participant in the International Juried Exhibition 2023 at the Center for Photographic Art, Carmel. He was a Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts 2022-2023 and has also been invited to participate in a Yaddo residency in 2024. Hsu’s work has been exhibited globally, with showcases at Kyotagraphie in Kyoto, Root Division, The Lab, Right Window, and Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco, as well as Galeria Beta in Bogota. Publications and features include +KGP Books, Lenscratch, Blind Magazine, Fraction Magazine, SF Chronicle, 48 Hills, and the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.

HUGHEN/ STARKWEATHER Notch and Release (Dam Removal)

2024, Gouache, graphite, ink, and salt on paper 15.25” x 15.5” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $3,500

Starting Bid: $1,800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

This work is from Hughen/Starkweather’s series “Pipe Dreams,” which explores how engineered systems control and distribute water across a landscape. As water infrastructure becomes more inextricably woven into ecosystems, how might these natural and engineered systems fail or succeed together—especially as climate extremes exert unforeseen pressures? Dam removal can restore rivers, ecosystems, and communities; indeed, the world’s largest dam removal project is taking place along the Klamath River in California and Oregon.

*The value here includes framing by SF Art Framing.

ARTIST BIO

Hughen/Starkweather is the collaboration of visual artists Jennifer Starkweather and Amanda Hughen. Their research-based work references places where water meets land, and the increasing pressures on engineered infrastructures interwoven with natural ecosystems in those places. Solo exhibitions include the Asian Art Museum, the Public Policy Institute of California, and the University of San Francisco. Artist residencies include Headlands Center for the Arts, RecologySF, Skowhegan, Ucross, and Yaddo. Recent largescale commissions include SFMOMA and the Union Square Central Subway station in San Francisco. They are the recipient of a 2020 Individual Artist Grant from San Francisco Arts Commission. Starkweather received an MFA from Tyler School of Art; Hughen received an MFA from the University of California, Berkeley.

49 SYLVIA HUGHESGONZALES

Eris

2023, Archival inkjet print

11.75” x 8” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $600

Starting Bid: $300

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

In this photograph, Sylvia Hughes-Gonzales continues to work with flora in various media. The contrast of decaying flowers, bathed in soft, beautiful, warm glowing light while casting an ominous shadow, serves as a metaphor for the complexities of our world and the pervasive influence of conflict, echoing the myth of Eris, Greek goddess of discord.

ARTIST BIO

Sylvia Hughes-Gonzales works in sculpture and social actions to address themes of celebration, destruction, and the ways they intersect. She makes objects, installations, and utilizes procession in urban spaces to explore invisibility, hospitality, loss, and the power of collective grief. She received her MFA from Mills College and has exhibited work at the San Francisco Arts Commission; Right Window; ICA San Francisco; and Southern Exposure. She was a recent resident at Winslow House. She is half of the collaborative duo Palm Assembly.

50 COLTER JACOBSEN

untitled (now)

2019, Acrylic on wood

24” x 24” x 0.75”

Courtesy of the Artist and Roundweather Gallery, Anglim/Trimble Gallery, Corvi-Mora, and Tibor de Nagy Gallery

Retail Value: $7,000

Starting Bid: $4,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“untitled (now)” is part of a series of word paintings partly inspired by Concrete Poetry. The “o” from the word now acts as the center of the composition while the “n” becomes the “w” as it makes its way upside down around the circle. Colter Jacobsen has produced more than thirty works as a part of this series. This one was the first where the intended pattern shifted in its making, so he played with it, creating a unique and painterly variation.

ARTIST BIO

Colter Jacobsen lives in Ukiah and Surprise Valley, California. He is represented by Anglim/Trimble (SF), Tibor de Nagy (NY), and Corvi-mora (London). He has received the Eureka Fellowship Award from the Fleishhacker Foundation, the SECA Art Award from SFMOMA, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. His work has been exhibited at White Columns, New York; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art; SFMOMA; the Istanbul Biennial; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; and the Baltic Triennial of International Art. While not making art, Colter tends to a myriad of animals, makes music, helps to organize the annual ukiaHaiku Festival and is a DJ for Nomadic Nightcap, a monthly show on Mendocino community radio, KZYX FM. He is currently working on a novel about a leaf blower.

51 PACKARD JENNINGS

37,000 Square Feet Available (Public Water Filling Station)

2023, Photograph (pigment print), Edition 2 of 6

16.5” x 22.5” x 1.25”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

In this photographic series, Packard Jennings breathes life into vacant commercial spaces, reimagining them as vibrant hubs of social services and institutions. Jennings physically positions his hand, holding up imagined signage to craft a clever illusion of what could, or should, be. The transient nature of this illusion invites viewers to ponder the profound implications of repurposing a fraction of vacant commercial real estate with services that are otherwise non-existent in this nation of abundance.

ARTIST BIO

Packard Jennings is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring issues of late stage capitalism, power, social justice, climate adaptation, and how they manifest in public spaces. His aim is to interrogate political and corporate transgressions against the interests of society and the natural world, and he experiments with ways in which power can be subverted or voluntarily relinquish itself. His collaborative work with the Studio for Urban Projects focuses on community engagement, sustainability, urban resiliency, and climate adaptation. Although Jennings primarily works in public spaces, his work has been shown in galleries and museums throughout the US and internationally, including in Geneva, Turin, Paris, Stuttgart, Madrid, Ljubljana, Vancouver, and Barcelona. His work has been published in several books, including: From the Ground Up, Art and Agenda, Urban Interventions, the BLDG BLOG book, and We Own the Night. His work has garnered critical media attention in the Boston Globe, Artforum, Flash Art, the Believer, Adbusters, New American Painting, the Washington Post, and the front page of the New York Times.

52 MARTA ELISE JOHANSEN

Lay Down

2023, Ink on paper

30” x 22” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Sarah Shepard Gallery

Retail Value: $3,800

Starting Bid: $1,800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Working only in natural light from her Bay Area studio, Marta Elise Johansen meticulously draws with one pen at a time, one line at a time, one drawing at a time—never overlapping— until a drawing is complete. Johansen attempts to establish order out of impression, pacify chaotic urges, and sublimate emotion through process. She believes in the importance of craft and abstraction.

ARTIST BIO

Born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Marta Elise Johansen studied at the University of Southern California’s School of Architecture and has taught art and design at the California Polytechnic Institute and the University of Southern California. Rooted in a strong work ethic, formal discipline, and technical skill, Johansen’s practice is driven by her diverse upbringing. Her mother, an American textile designer and consultant for the United Nations, met her father, a Norwegian engineer who designed railway systems in Asia, while working in Pakistan. This international background shaped Johansen’s childhood, which began in Pakistan and continued in Vermont after her family moved there when she was five. Surrounded by her parents’ international circle of friends, including those from the Black Mountain College scene, Johansen developed an early appreciation for cultural arts.

53 CHRIS JOHANSON

Outside World

2024, Acrylic on paper, packing tape, tinfoil, thrift store frame from Santa Monica 12.75” x 14.75” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Altman Siegel Gallery

Retail Value: $4,000

Starting Bid: $2,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Outside World” is the potential view from an imaginary interior space outside to a world of complicated creatures, including this parrot on their way to meet all the other parrots.

ARTIST BIO

California-native Chris Johanson is a key member of San Francisco’s Mission School. 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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CHRIS JOHANSON

Perceptions (Perception #4)

2007, Color sugarlift aquatint

11.75” x 11.5” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Paulson Fontaine Press and Altman Siegel Gallery

Retail Value: $2,000

Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Chris Johanson made this print at Paulson Fontaine Press. He said, “Some days I might spend a lot of time painting people walking out on the street, with an emphasis on their sandals. I just came here (returning to the Bay Area) and I remembered that I loved walking down the beach with sandals on.”

*The value here includes framing by Orion Custom Framing Services.

ARTIST BIO

California-native Chris Johanson is a key member of San Francisco’s Mission School. 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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PANTEA KARIMI

Buttercup Plants in the Garden

2019, Digital illustration and print on aluminum medallion

12” x 12” x 0.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $850

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Pantea Karimi’s “Buttercup Plants in the Garden” is an illustration of the healing plant buttercup after those depicted in a prominent 12th-century medicinal botanical manuscript by Arab-Andalusian pharmacologist Abū Ja’far al-Ghāfiqī. The digital illustration is printed on an aluminum medallion, visually evoking Persian decorative tiles. This sort of decorative work adorns traditional fountains and structures inside the historic botanical gardens of Shiraz, Iran, where Karimi’s family originates.

ARTIST BIO

Pantea Karimi is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Jose, CA. She incorporates multimedia sources, including virtual reality, animation, sound, drawing, and performancecentered video and installation work. Across her body of work, multiple thematic series focus on the intersections of art, science, and history. Karimi’s works have been showcased internationally in solo, group, and traveling exhibitions. She has been featured in KQED’s Arts & Culture in 2022 and by KQED’s Forum in 2023. She was a 2023 Kala Art Institute Artist Honoree and 2024 City of San Jose Creative Ambassador. She has upcoming artist residencies at MASS MoCA, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Montalvo Art Center’s Lucas Artist Program. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant in 2022, a City of San Jose Arts and Cultural Exchange Grant in 2019, and the Silicon Valley Artist Laureates Award in 2019.

DAVID KASPRZAK

Untitled (Visitors)

2020, Graphite on archival Bristol board

12” x 9” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2,500

Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTIST BIO

David Kasprzak is an artist, designer, and publisher based in San Francisco, CA. He attended the Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. Through exhibitions, objects, performances, and events, Kasprzak creates scenarios that explore the borders of fiction, reality, and memory. He has curated exhibitions and exhibited artwork in both national and international venues, including: the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp, Belgium, the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, and most recently the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. 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, and a partner in Colpa Press, an artist book publisher and design collaborative.

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ASMA KAZMI

Playing Gender: Priya

2008, Digital photograph

14.5” x 30” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $900

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

”Playing Gender” is a performative project where the artist learned the conventions of South Asian gender parody from hijras in New Delhi over the course of two months. The culmination of this training resulted in a performative event choreographed by the hijras and documented by the artist. This photograph, which was included in the exhibition “Green Book” at Southern Exposure, is part of a series of images and videos from the performance.

ARTIST BIO

Asma Kazmi was born in Quetta, a city in Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan. She works between the US, India, Pakistan, China, Europe, and the Middle East to create installations that are legible in various cultural contexts. Kazmi’s selected exhibitions include: Galerie Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France; Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/ Architecture, Shenzhen, China; San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco; the Espacio Lara√±a, University of Seville, Spain; the Commons Gallery, University of Hawaii in Honolulu; Faraar Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan; Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit; Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City; Queens Museum of Art, NY; H&R Block Space, Kansas City; The Guild Gallery, New York; and Galerie Sans Titre, Brussels, Belgium; LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions); 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Gallery 210, University of Missouri St Louis; MassArt Film Society, Boston; Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St Louis; and Gallery 400, University of Illinois in Chicago.

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BUSSIE PARKER KEHOE Intimation of Spring

2024, Discarded latex paint on wood panel

20” x 20” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $3,000

Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

In this piece, Bussie Parker Kehoe pours discarded house paint onto glass. As the paint dries, she connects each paint peel to another, creating a support for the other pieces surrounding it. “Intimations of Spring” is a quiet celebration of the first signs of spring that Kehoe experienced while living in the mid-Atlantic region. Chartreuse sprouts from grayed-out frozen earth, cherry blossoms burgeon from leafless gray trees, and snowdrops appear overnight.

ARTIST BIO

Bussie Parker Kehoe is a San Francisco-based mixed-media artist. Kehoe’s found-object assemblages combine her need for creative exploration and her lifelong love of hunting for treasures among discarded everyday items. Kehoe’s work is all about transformation and reinvention, challenging the viewer to take a second look at something that was previously unwanted or overlooked. Kehoe studied printmaking and drawing at the University of Virginia, then put her art practice on pause while she practiced law, started a family, and taught art to preschool-aged children in Washington DC. After a couple of family moves, the yearning to create could not be contained any longer and Kehoe opened her first studio in 2017 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She now resides in San Francisco, CA with her family and works out of her Mission District studio. Kehoe’s work has been shown in the Bay Area, Seattle, throughout North Carolina, and in Charlottesville, VA. She has work in the permanent collection of Hotel Indigo Winston-Salem.

59 KOAK

The Albatross

2023, Graphite and casein on pearl grey rag paper

13.75” x 17.625” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Altman Siegel Gallery

Retail Value: $6,000

Starting Bid: $4,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

In this drawing, Koak begins her exploration of the landscape in turmoil. “The Albatross” is a dramatic depiction of an energized forest fire, touching upon themes of stress and fragility. This work was featured in the artist’s 2023 solo exhibition with Bibeau Krueger, New York.

ARTIST BIO

Koak (b. 1981) lives and works in San Francisco. She creates emotionally charged portraits, often of female figures, imbuing her subjects with a sense of agency and inner life to challenge patriarchal views of the feminine. Engaging hierarchies of gender as well as form, Koak interrogates commonly held cultural assumptions defining women as passive objects of desire. Drawing on the visual vocabulary of comics and often translating this into sculptural form, the exquisite techniques Koak is known for allows her line-making to appear beautifully effortless – it is in fact the result of a rare type of generous and hand-made master craftsmanship. Koak’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA; Perrotin, Hong Kong, China; Union Pacific, London, UK; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA; and Walden, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Group exhibitions include Musees d’Angers, Angers, France; XIAO Museum, Rizhao, China; Rudolph Tegners Museum and Statue Park, Dronningmølle, Denmark; Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin, Germany; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA and The Drawing Center, New York, NY. Her painting “June” was acquired by the de Young Museum in 2022.

60 MICHAEL KOEHLE

Overcast Jingletown

2024, Inkjet print on laser cut paper on panel

30” x 20” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Jack Fischer Gallery

Retail Value: $6,600

Starting Bid: $3,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Michael Koehle’s “Overcast Jingletown” is made up of hundreds of laser-cut strips of paper. Each strip is printed with a gradient and cut to match the grayscale at the corresponding point in the source image. They are then folded and glued to a panel; the accumulated visual material echoes the masses of water vapor needed to form clouds.

ARTIST 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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HEESOO KWON

Premolt 1

2022, Framed lenticular print

34” x 41” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Micki Meng

Retail Value: $4,000

Starting Bid: $2,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Positioning herself as an artist, activist, archivist, anthropologist, and religious figure, Kwon builds feminist utopias in the digital realm, serving as liberation tools against personal, familial, and historical trauma rooted in patriarchy. Central to her practice and substantial bodies of work are Leymusoom, an autobiographical feminist religion she initiated in 2017 as both a form of personal resistance against misogyny and as an ever-evolving framework for investigating her family histories. Kwon utilizes technologies such as digital archiving, 3D scanning, and animation as her ritualistic and shamanistic tools, in order to regenerate her woman ancestors’ lives without the constraints of time and space, queering her past, present, and utopian dreams.

ARTIST BIO

Heesoo Kwon (b. 1990, Seoul, South Korea) is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco. Kwon received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley (2019). Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Korea, and Europe including BAMPFA, Berkeley; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley; Ryan Lee Gallery, New York; 47 Canal, New York; Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco; Southern Exposure, San Francisco; Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK; Blinkers, Winnipeg, Canada and WMA, Hong Kong. Kwon was the Queer|Art|Prize finalist for their recent works in 2021 and the SFMOMA SECA award in 2022 and a recipient of Hewlett 50 for media arts in 2022 and Eureka Fellowship in 2025 by the Fleishhacker Foundation.

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DANYM KWON

Driving Through the Summer

2023, Acrylic and gouache on canvas

28.625” x 28.625” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Hashimoto Contemporary

Retail Value: $3,100

Starting Bid: $1,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

In Danym Kwon’s “Driving Through the Summer,” the vase emerges as a poignant symbol, drawing from its traditional role as a repository for cherished treasures. Both conventional and modern, the vase in this work symbolizes the longing to preserve the joy and vibrancy of a summer excursion. Adorned with lush landscapes, the vase becomes a vessel of memory, gently cradling the essence of sunlit days. Its existence as a storage device allows beauty to transcend the confines of time, blooming eternally.

ARTIST BIO

Danym Kwon (b. 1982) is a Korean-American artist whose work draws inspiration from the day-to-day, infusing quotidian scenes with warmth, comfort, and an optimistic outlook. Through her art, Kwon navigates through life’s unexpected challenges, discovering gratitude and joy amidst adversity. Seeking to elevate these ordinary moments, she presents them in surreal still-life compositions, often featuring flower vases and piles of laundry. In doing so, Kwon encourages viewers to find solace and beauty in the simplicity of everyday life, expressed through her use of soft colors on canvas. Kwon holds both a BFA and MFA from Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, Korea, and her work has been exhibited at venues such as the Ilmin Museum in Seoul, Hashimoto Contemporary in New York and San Francisco, and the Palo Alto Art Center.

ARTISTS L THROUGH Q

2003

BOOKMOBILE art book installation at Southern Exposure. Photographer unknown.

63 CHRISTINA LA SALA

Untitled

2024, Rust treated muslin, copper, and Ram Board

43” x 43” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $3,500

Starting Bid: $1,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Christina La Sala’s work measures the passage of time as a sensual process, enacted upon and through the body, and materially marked in skeletons and fossils. La Sala is captivated by the accretive process inherent in these creations, where physical form is a testament to the life cycle’s unfolding narrative. Enamored by the spiraling visual language that emerges from repetition and adaptation, La Sala finds profound beauty in the organic evolution of these structures, each coil telling a story of resilience and adaptation.

ARTIST BIO

Christina La Sala is a scavenger, a collector, a researcher and a maker—of things, tools, and spaces. She was born in Philadelphia and currently lives in San Francisco. La Sala received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University Philadelphia, PA and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She spent her childhood in thrift shops, nature museums, and libraries where she developed a life-long love of dusty spaces, old things, the natural sciences, and visual display.

64 KRIS LANG

ABSTRACT DIORAMA 19: WIELDING CURVE AND GRADIENT

2024, Inkjet print

15” x 22” x 0.75”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $750

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Kris Lang’s abstract dioramas are made from sculptural elements and original printed patterns – no digital manipulation or 3D rendering is used. Fragile and ephemeral, these compositions are then lit and photographed. All effects are practical and in-camera, yielding a fluid interplay between digital and analog realms. The imperfections of human handwork are integral to the overall feel of the work. Lang crafts her pieces in order to celebrate the beauty of light illuminating objects, constructing worlds which feel improbable yet undeniably tangible.

ARTIST BIO

Kris Lang is a photographer and printmaker born in Colorado Springs, CO, and currently living in San Francisco, CA. She received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998. Her works on fabric and her photographic work has been exhibited nationally. Locally, her work has been shown at Kala Art Institute, the Alameda Art Center, and the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute. She is also an artist collaborator, teacher, and digital printmaker at Electric Works, San Francisco.

65 CARRIE LEDERER

Abstracted Garden (Study in Green, Blue and Orange)

2015, Acrylic ink on paper

14” x 11” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Pastine Projects, Fourth Wall Gallery, and FARM Projects

Retail Value: $2,500

Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Carrie Lederer’s work consists of ornate compositions that use a pattern-based topography to portray ideas about land and our natural world, which is evident in “Abstracted Garden (Study in Green, Blue and Orange).” The imagery, both realistic and abstract, are akin to nature’s ecosystems, where one hub of activity finds connection with the next. The inspiration for her work stems from a personal curiosity about nature, our connection to it, and a fascination with its immense power and beauty.

ARTIST BIO

Carrie Lederer is a painter, sculptor, and installation artist who exhibits her nature-inspired work across the United States. Lederer is a recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Award, and she has completed public art commissions for Facebook; the cities of Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, and Menlo Park; UCSF Medical Center; Hudson Valley Seed Co.; Imagery Winery; and private collections. She has built site-specific installations for Turtle Bay Museum, de Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Art Source, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and many others. Lederer has work in private collections including Oakland Museum of California, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Stanford Medical Center, First Western Trust Bank, and Prudential Insurance Co, NY. Her work was profiled in a cover story for MUSES, published by MSU Department of Arts and Letters, and included in New American Paintings. Lederer’s work has been widely reviewed in publications including ARTnews, the San Francisco Chronicle, Diablo Magazine, and SquareCylinder. com. Lederer currently lives and works in Oakland.

66 CATHY LU

Joss Paper

2016, Ceramic, gold luster

6.5” x 7.75” x 0.25”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,000

Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Cathy Lu creates ceramic sculptures and installations which manipulate traditional Chinese imagery and presentation, using them as a way to deconstruct assumptions about Chinese diasporic identity and cultural authenticity. Central to her work is the unpacking of experiences around immigration, cultural hybridity, and cultural assimilation into American identity. Taking its title from the East Asian cultural practice of burning paper money and effigies as offerings to their ancestors, Cathy Lu’s “Joss Paper” blends the traditional and the contemporary. Joss paper extends beyond symbols of currency, and can take the form of everyday objects like bowls and cups – even luxury items like iPhones or sports cars. The rise of gentrification and xenophobia here and throughout the USA has led Lu to reflect on intertwined losses: of home, community, identity, and culture. This ancient funeral rite thus becomes a means of healing, forging connections between the past and present.

ARTIST BIO

Cathy Lu (b. 1984, Miami, FL) received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and BA & BFA from Tufts University. She has participated in artist in residence programs at the John Michael Kholer Arts Center, Root Division, Bemis Center for the Arts, Recology San Francisco, and the Archie Bray Foundation among others. Her work has been exhibited at Berkeley Art Center; SFMOMA; Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco; A-B Projects, Los Angeles; CCA Wattis, San Francisco; and Marin MoCA. She was a 2019 Asian Cultural Council/ Beijing Contem- porary Art Foundation Fellow, and a 2022 SFMOMA SECA Award winner. Her work is in the collections of SF MoMA, KADIST, ICA Miami, and The Bunker Art Space. She is on the Curatorial Council at Southern Exposure.

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KIJA LUCAS

In Search of Home Bay Area 14

2013, Archival pigment print

10” x 8.5” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $540

Starting Bid: $500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Kija Lucas’s project “In Search of Home” ties the emigration patterns of their family to the racial taxonomy of Carl Linnaeus through scans of plant clippings, rocks, and other objects. So far, Kija has traveled through thirteen states in pursuit of this work. She treats cultivated plants and weeds as well as native and non-native species in the same fashion, asking the viewer to consider how we choose what is natural, beautiful, and useful. This was the first image created in the series, made from a clipping found at 18th and Bryant.

ARTIST BIO

Kija Lucas is an artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She uses photography to explore ideas of home, heritage, and inheritance. She is interested in how ideas are passed down, focusing on how seemingly inconsequential moments create changes which can last generations. Her work has been exhibited at the Oakland Museum of California, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francico 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 in Los Angeles, CA, La Sala d’Ercole/Hercules Hall in Bologna Italy, and Casa Escorsa in Guadalajara, Mexico. Lucas has been an Artist in Residence at Montalvo Center for the Arts, Grin City Collective, and the Wassaic Artist Residency. Lucas received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from Mills College.

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PABLO MANGA

Joyride

2021, Semi-transparent colored packing tape on panel 20” x 14” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,400

Starting Bid: $700

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Pablo Manga makes geometric abstractions using semi-transparent colored packing tape from Mexico as a painting medium, and branching into acrylic painting, printmaking, installations and murals. He aims for compositions that activate the eye and reward sustained viewing with shifting patterns and unfolding dynamic relationships of shape and color. Manga is inspired by the shimmering radiance of nature, resting in present-moment awareness meditation, and the pleasures of a body in motion.

ARTIST BIO

Pablo Manga is a self-taught artist, former New York City public school teacher, arts lawyer in San Francisco, and asylum staff attorney for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He was a parent-artist residency awardee at Kala Art Institute. His work has been shown at the de Young Museum, Galería de la Raza, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Marin MOCA, Root Division, Southern Exposure, Your Mood Gallery, Hang Art, Soho20 Gallery, SCOPE Miami Beach, Art Miami, and in four solo shows with Farm Projects. His work is in the collections of Google and the Cambridge Innovation Center.

MICHELLE MANSOUR

In Search of Blue: Heavenly Light

2023, Cyanotype on fabric

11” x 9” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $450

Starting Bid: $250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

A collaboration with the sun and salt water of the Aegean Sea, Mansour created this series of cyanotypes as a meditation on symmetry and the calm of blue. Her process for these works included building up a system of dots and marks on acetate—intersecting ellipses that represent strands of cells or particles. Playing with the magic of light, the motion of the tides, and the chemistry of the ocean, the patterns appear in the fabric. The subtle shifts and experiments ponder our smallness in a vast world.

ARTIST BIO

Michelle Mansour is an artist, educator, and curator as well as the Executive Director of Root Division. Her work has been shown in a variety of nonprofit and commercial venues such as the deYoung Museum and Bedford Gallery, including solo exhibitions at The Fourth Wall, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, and Berkeley Art Center. Mansour has work in a variety of collections including Nordstroms, Hilton Hotels, Kaiser Permanente, and the El Camino Hospital. She received her MFA in Painting from SFAI and an Honorary Fellowship and multiple residencies from Djerassi Resident Artists Program.

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KARA MARIA

One Small Step

2008, Acrylic on canvas

12” x 12” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Anglim/Trimble Gallery

Retail Value: $3,000

Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Kara Maria’s work is a visual dialogue between abstraction and representation within paintings, drawings, and prints. She borrows from the broad vocabulary of contemporary painting, blending geometric shapes, vivid hues, brushstrokes, and stains with a host of social and environmental concerns seen through flashes of representational elements. This painting “One Small Step” is from a series of small works Maria made in 2008.

ARTIST BIO

Kara Maria is a visual artist specializing in painting and mixed media. Her recent creations delve into the earth’s biodiversity crisis, exploring the evolving role of animals within our increasingly unstable environment. Kara 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 and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA); the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation); the San Jose Museum of Art; and the Cantor Center at Stanford University; among others. A native of Binghamton, New York, Kara Maria now lives and works in San Francisco, California.

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VANESSA MARSH

Western Landscape 4

2024, Archival pigment print

20” x 25” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Retail Value: $1,800

Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Vanessa Marsh’s “Western Landscape 4” was made using the cyanotype process. The photograms in this series depict the infrastructure and amusements of modern culture, set against otherwise remote locations. The dark sky and prevalence of stars allude to ancient skies, before light pollution wiped away our visual experience of the universe. To achieve the illusion of a layered landscape, Marsh uses opaque stencils and cut paper, making multiple exposures on light sensitive paper.

ARTIST BIO

Vanessa Marsh creates imaginary landscapes and atmospheres through a mixed media process based in photography. Marsh’s work has been exhibited at venues including Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and the Penumbra Foundation in New York. Marsh has received a Penland Winter Residency (2023), a Jentle Foundation Fellowship (2018), a Rayko Photo Center residency (2014), a MacDowell Colony Fellowship (2007), and a Headlands Center for the Arts MFA Fellowship (2004). Marsh’s images are held in the collections of Google, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.

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LEE MATERAZZI

Bluish 2020, C-print

15” x 10.5” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist and Eleanor Harwood Gallery

Retail Value: $2,000

Starting Bid: $800

ARTIST BIO

Lee 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. Lee Materazzi’s compositions are off-kilter and investigate autonomy, rejecting acceptable social norms that regulate the human body. Materazzi’s photographed works are considered sculpturally, but exist only temporarily. She documents what she creates with medium format photography to preserve it. Her work has been exhibited at Bass & Reiner; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; Saint Joseph’s Art Society; Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires; and Eleanor Harwood Gallery.

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ALICIA M c CARTHY

Untitled

2023, Latex and wax stick on canvas

18” x 26” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Pt. 2 Gallery (Oakland), Jack Hanley (NY), and Michael Benevento (LA)

Retail Value: $10,000

Starting Bid: $6,000

ARTIST 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 the 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. She is represented by Pt. 2 Gallery (Oakland), Michael Benevento (LA), and Jack Hanley (NY).

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ANNE M c GUIRE

Fringe

2023, Colored pen and pencil on paper

17” x 17” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Pastine Projects

Retail Value: $1,800

Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Fringe” is part of Anne McGuire’s series of drawings called “Symbolic Depictions”, which includes an enormous variety of subjects; encompassing people, places, things, ideas, feelings, and the unseen.

ARTIST BIO

Anne McGuire makes art, music, and poetry. She studied video art and photography at the Kansas City Art Institute and moved west to continue her art education in the Performance/Video department at SFAI, earning an MFA. Her artwork, videos and performances have been included in solo and group exhibitions locally at SFMOMA, David Ireland House, Asian Art Museum, Gregory Lind Gallery, and BAMPFA, where her work is included in their collection.

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DANIEL ARTHUR MENDOZA

Reclining Ricardo

2022, Watercolor and colored pencil on paper

9” x 12” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,600

Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Reclining Ricardo” is a portrait of Daniel Arthur Mendoza’s partner Ricardo reclining in a bed of flowers.

ARTIST BIO

Daniel Arthur Mendoza is an artist whose work, crafted from cut and sewn secondhand fabrics and drawings, celebrates queer history, joy, and the obscured nuances of friendship within the fabric of daily life. Exploring themes of intimacy, repression, and refusal, Mendoza’s creations reveal a profound yearning to rediscover the past, challenge the burden of patriarchal visual propaganda, and embrace the potential for gentle, hopeful futures. Mendoza received his MFA from UC Riverside in 2022. He received a BA in Studio Art at UC Davis (2013), and attended the Chautauqua Institution Schools of the Fine and Performing Arts in Chautauqua, New York. His work has been exhibited at The Mistake Room, Los Angeles; Human Resources, Los Angeles; Southern Exposure; Rivalry Projects, Buffalo; Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco; and Incline Gallery, San Francisco; among others.

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ALAN MIKNIS

Blue Spectrum Composition

2022, Gouache on paper

18” x 24” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2,000

Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Alan Miknis’s “Blue Spectrum Composition” is from his “Trash Series,” where he explores chance occurrences, relationships, and connections to found objects. Documenting these objects via gouache on paper, Alan attempts to highlight things that some consider filth or mundane. Alan is interested to see how these compositions will reflect popular and local culture ten years from now, as these products are subject to undergo rebranding, bringing in an element of playful time travel to this series.

ARTIST BIO

Alan Miknis lives and works in San Francisco’s Noe Valley District. He is currently working on the “Trash Series,” “Crushed,” “Velma,” and compositions for the “PetZine” series. He has exhibited in solo and group shows, including at SFMOMA; Incline Gallery; Ampersand International; the DeYoung Museum; and Detroit Curatorial Projects. Miknis grew up in rural Georgia and has a BFA in painting from Georgia Southwestern State University.

77 ROBERT MINERVINI

Slow Time

2022, Acrylic on canvas

26” x 22” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery

Retail Value: $4,500

Starting Bid: $2,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

From grand landscapes to intricate still-lives, Robert Minervini’s work addresses the impact of humanity on the landscape and questions our relationship to it. Saccharine sunsets and dense, unnatural foliage show a hyper-naturalism which mirrors the effects of the climate crisis.

ARTIST BIO

Robert Minervini received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and his BFA from Tyler School of Art. His work has been exhibited internationally, including solo shows with Hirschl & Adler Modern, NYC; Edward Cella Gallery, LA; Rena Bransten Gallery, SF; as well as group and two-person 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 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

GOLBANOU MOGHADDAS

She, Her, and I

2018, Etching printed on Japanese Gampi, mounted on Somerset, Chine Collé 14” x 10.5” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Golbanou Moghaddas has been developing an ongoing body of miniature etchings, narrating personal stories inspired by Persian poetry. Specifically, Moghaddas’ interest lies in manuscripts from the 17th century Safavid Dynasty in Iran. The off-centered framing emphasizes the unconventional layout of the authentic miniatures. Moghaddas’ effort in the transplantation of the patterns, poetry, and imagery aims to create an interweaving conversation between elements which traditionally stand alone in a manuscript.

ARTIST BIO

Golbanou Moghaddas (b.1980, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-American narrative artist based in San Francisco, California. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art in London, UK. Her drawings, prints, and illustrations include unorthodox narratives deeply rooted in her Persian heritage, enriched by metaphors and symbolism. Her work has been published by Granta Publication in London, Les Belles Lettres in Paris, and is held in private and public collections. Moghaddas has been an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts, and a fellow at the Kala Art Institute in CA, as well as a scholarship awardee of Manhattan Graphics Center, and International Print Center New York (IPCNY)’s New Print Program awardee. Her work is currently on display at YBCA as part of Bay Area Now 9.

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MILA MOLDENHAWER

The Sun in Me is in You Too

2023, Acrylic on linen

21.25” x 17.25” x 2.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $3,000

Starting Bid: $1,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Mila Moldenhawer’s “The Sun in Me, is in You Too” navigates realms of self-reflection and the ethereal through the symbolic vessel of the bust. The piece contemplates the personification of an ethereal being, suggesting the emergence of a latent realm. The use of vibrant primary colors serves as an homage to our primordial senses, infusing the piece with a vitality and evoking the essence of transcendence.

ARTIST BIO

Mila Moldenhawer (b. 1996, Berkeley, CA) embraces a unique identity as a trans man and first-generation American born to Polish and Indian immigrants. Growing up in the culturally rich Bay Area, Moldenhawer draws inspiration for his work from his diverse cultural background, as well as urban culture, contemporary queer aesthetics, graffiti, and street art. Using acrylic and aerosol paint on canvas or wood, Moldenhawer’s artwork bursts with flamboyant colors, smooth blends, and distinctive shapes, often exploring abstract landscapes and uncanny figures. He earned his BA in Art and Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2021. Currently based in Oakland, Moldenhawer exhibits his paintings in galleries across the Bay Area and extends his artistic reach to walls, creating vibrant murals in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, and Emeryville. His commitment to making art accessible to diverse audiences is evident in both his gallery exhibitions and outdoor murals.

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YEDDA MORRISON

Re-Genesis #14

2010, Digital C-print

11” x 13” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Republic Gallery

Retail Value: $1,100

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“ReGenesis #14” is an ‘action shot,’ capturing the process by which the reproduction of works occurs at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia. For a fee, anyone can commission a replica of a piece held within the vast collection. Morrison’s “ReGenesis #14” shifts our attention to the literal medium, re-contextualizing the values we attribute to ‘artistic masterpieces.’ Replacing the originator’s hand with the hand of the anonymous artist-worker, Yedda Morrison challenges the dominance that men claim around creative genesis. Here, a woman’s hand reproduces the Western canon, naming the invisibilized, insistently material labor of mimesis.

ARTIST BIO

Yedda Morrison is a writer and visual artist working as a photo stylist. Her books include: Crop (Kelsey Street Press), Girl Scout Nation (Displaced Press), Darkness (MakeNow Press), and The Arrangement (Krupskaya Press). She is an original member of the Collective Task, an international group of artist and writers, and a founding editor of Tripwire, a Journal of Art & Poetics. She is represented by Republic Gallery in Vancouver, BC. Her work has appeared in T Magazine , Vogue Living , Wallpaper , Elle Décor , Architectural Digest , House and Garden UK, and Galerie Magazine , among others. Morrison lives in San Francisco with her daughter.

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PARUL NARESH

Nurturing Blanket

2021, Silkscreen print with natural dye (madder, earth pigment, and soy milk) on handwoven linen fabric 24” x 38” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $4,000

Starting Bid: $1,750

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Parul Naresh’s “Nurturing Blanket” portrays a vibrant garden scene from the Mughal Era, crafted using traditional techniques and materials such as soy milk, earth pigments, and natural dyes. These handcrafted methods, once commonplace, have dwindled due to the rise of fast fashion, and survive today only in a few artisan clusters. A welcoming door adorned with flourishing trees on either side serves as a poignant symbol of sustainability in textiles. Amidst the backdrop of mass-produced synthetics, the delicate vines hint at the fragility of the issue, while burgeoning growth represents hope for its revival.

ARTIST BIO

Parul Naresh is a fiber artist, textile designer, and the founder of ‘Weaves & Wildflowers,’ a sustainable textile business operating in collaboration with artisans from Uttarakhand, India. Naresh merges art, craft, and fashion through her masterful work. Born in the Himalayan foothills of India, her creative journey is deeply rooted in the culture of Ayurveda, yoga, and handicraft. With a master’s degree in textile design, she aims to blur the line between art, craft, and fashion. Her practice reflects a meditative approach, prioritizing mindful material use. Dedicated to the preservation and revival of traditional methods lost to fast fashion’s dominance, Naresh’s textiles embody her commitment to her country’s heritage. Naresh has exhibited her work internationally and has been an artist-in-residence and received fellowships from Kala Art Institute; Penland School of Craft, North Carolina; and Chalk Hill Artist Residency.

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RHYS NGUYÊN

smells like salt

2024, Graphite on vellum and paper

12” x 18” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,000

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

In Rhys Nguyên’s “smells like salt,” a cascade of speckles gracefully traverses the frame, evoking a sense of fluid movement and ethereal beauty. Made with graphite on vellum and paper, this work is inspired by fleeting moments—“fog on the road, a colony of ants, seagrass, the hair on my partner’s thighs, the hair on my thighs, gender dysphoria, phosphene, uncooked rice, dust on my dashboard.” The spiral motions of graphite play out these flickering scenes like a gust of wind.

ARTIST BIO

Rhys Vuong Nguyên is a multimedia artist. His work spans a variety of topics and mediums, but the core of his practice centers the emotional and tactile realities of being queer, being trans, being Vietnamese, and being human.

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KELLEY O’LEARY

Data Schema IV

2023, Letterpress on Somerset

17” x 14” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,100

Starting Bid: $500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

This limited-edition letterpress is an extension of Kelley O’Leary’s body of work ‘Clouds of the American West’, inspired by field visits to and material research of The Cloud and the internet as it exists in the landscape. This speculative schematic drawing describes the unseen digital infrastructure of seemingly immaterial networks of communication through geologic and cosmic scales. The letterpress medium lends physicality to the twodimensional artwork and references the process of its creation and its origins in the first information age of the 15th century.

ARTIST BIO

Kelley O’Leary is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Bay Area. She received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of California, Davis and a BA in Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz. O’Leary’s speculative practice examines the internet as an alien and elemental planetary network. Her work imagines beyond linear and computational time to inhabit unfamiliar geological landscapes. Her work has been exhibited by the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Root Division, Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Well Well Projects, Pallas Gallery, Incline Gallery, and Studio 106 LA among others. She has been an artist in residence at Kala Art Institute, Bullseye Glass and Irving Street Projects. She was the recipient of the LeShelle and Gary May Art Purchase Prize, the Mary Lou Osborn Award and the Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship at University of California, Davis. Kelley is a member of Imaginaries of the Future Collective, a selforganizing nomadic collective of artists and thinkers founded by Beatriz Cortez. She is co-curator of the Bay Area-based new media art series, Living Room Light Exchange.

84 MITSU OKUBO

Jeffrey 2020, Mixed media

24” x 18” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $300

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

”Jeffrey” is a painting from Okubo’s ”Smoosh” series. Paintings are made backwards and smooshed into canvas, then fastened with an artist-made frame, and collaged from behind.

ARTIST BIO

Mitsu Okubo is a Californian artist who believes that the most one can learn about a culture is by sifting through its garbage. His work has been presented by Bass & Reiner and Et al. galleries in San Francisco.

85

JENNIE OTTINGER

Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette 1778

Vigée Le Brun

2022, Oil on panel

20” x 16” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Rebecca Camacho Presents

Retail Value: $5,000

Starting Bid: $3,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Ottinger is collecting stories of women who were maligned by history, including princesses who have been pawns and/or scapegoats. In Marie Antoinette’s case, she became a symbol for inequality in France and the downfall of the French monarchy. Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna never actually said “Let them eat cake”, never commissioned a $15 Million (in our current valuation) necklace then refused to pay, and never abused her children, as she was accused of doing. She did what she was bred to do: have babies and look fabulous. This piece is a copy of a portrait by the painter Vigée LeBrun. Marie Antoinette used royal portraits to attempt to redeem her image as a mother or a simple girl with simple tastes.

ARTIST BIO

Jennie Ottinger has a BA in art history, a BFA in illustration from the California College of the Arts, and an MFA in painting from Mills College. Ottinger takes everyday scenes and situations and depicts them with her wonderfully peculiar style. Her figures are at once grotesquely distorted and undeniably charming. With these figures, Ottinger has created her own brand of nostalgia, one that recognizes the tragically comic nature of human existence. She has exhibited in the Bay Area, New York, Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles, and London. She was awarded an Investing in Artists grant from Center for Cultural Innovation, a fellowship at the Kala Art Institute, and was a 2010 finalist for the SECA award. Reviews of her work have appeared in Art in America, ArtSlant, Its Nice That, Hyperallergic, Artsy, and Huffington Post. Ottinger’s work was featured in New American Paintings and her recent solo show at Rebecca Camacho Presents gallery in San Francisco examined the public face of Princess Diana. She served on Southern Exposure’s curatorial committee and was an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts.

ERIK PARRA

Arrangement with The Orb

2015, Acrylic, marker and spray paint on panel

14” x 11” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist and Maybaum Gallery

Retail Value: $1,700

Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Arrangement with The Orb” by Erik Parra is one of a series of still life paintings that take, as their subject, the kind of modern tchotchkes that ubiquitously occupy our world, from the staging of apartments and catalog showrooms, to our homes. The zoomed-in composition of the painting blurs the lines between the genres of still life and landscape painting as the specificities of scale are not clearly articulated.

ARTIST BIO

San Francisco-based artist Erik Richard Parra holds a BFA in painting from the University of Texas, Austin and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in private and corporate collections. Within the Bay Area, Erik’s work has been exhibited at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, Kala Art Institute, and most recently at Maybaum Gallery. Erik’s work has been included in publications such as New American Paintings, the SF Bay Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times. Erik also teaches at the California College of the Arts.

87

NATHANIEL PARSONS

Beary

2023, Oil and spray paint on carved wood

8” x 8” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $850

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Nathaniel Parsons’ “Beary” is made from scavenged wood from mesa amps in Santa Rosa, carved with chisels and dremel tools, then spray painted, and then sanded. This work is part of a series, some of which are printed as a wood cut. The reference photo for this piece depicts a picnic site in Canada, the coordinates for which are located on the back of the work.

ARTIST BIO

Nathaniel Parsons was raised in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, among a family of artists. He graduated with a BFA from California College of the Arts (Oakland) in 1993 and with an MFA from the University of Iowa with a concentration in painting, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, and performance. His art practice explores themes on alter egos, visiting parks, shared authorship, and storytelling. As an observational artist, he chooses to work on projects, new, worn, and carved from what appears needed to get the job done. Paintings are made on surfaces where some element comes from a found source, stretcher bars, milled wood, cut-offs, etc. There is a continual effort to reach Point Sublime. He’s sung songs in a band called Little My, playing shows and making souvenirs for the audience. He has shown projects nationally in Memphis; Chicago; Cincinnati; Oakland; and Cleveland; and internationally in the Republic of Macedonia. He lives and works in Oakland, California.

88

NAMITA PAUL

Torso 2024, Canvas, gold leaf, and thread

28” x 20” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $4,500

Starting Bid: $1,800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Torso” is Namita Paul’s attempt to push materials beyond their intended use. Cut, sewn, gessoed, and gold leafed, this canvas form conjures femininity, fashion, architecture, repair, and transformation through a combination of both painting and quilting processes.

ARTIST BIO

Namita Paul draws from personal and political histories, engaging with themes of rupture and repair, migration, architectural space, memory, and time. Her current work is an exploration of the ways in which physical spaces we have inhabited stay with us long after we have left them. Through material and form, Namita makes visible markers of personal and collective memories. Her idea-based work guides her studio practice which includes large scale installation, drawing, painting, printmaking, textiles, and photography. Namita holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts and an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Washington, and an MFA from the California College of the Arts. She is a 2023 Lucas Artist Fellow. Her work has been presented during Art Basel Miami at Untitled, Miami, with Jonathan Carver Moore Gallery. Currently her work is on view in a special exhibit at Apple headquarters in Cupertino. In addition, Namita has two upcoming shows: P L A C E: Reckonings by Asian American Artists at ICA San Jose and Spirit House at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University.

89

KEITH PETERSEN

#785 (Ink, Sodium Carbonate and Mineral Oil on Glass)

2024, Archival pigment print

50” x 22” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $4,500

Starting Bid: $2,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Keith Petersen’s “#785” explores the connections between science, nature, and art. Working with photography and mixed media in a studio practice, these works capture the alchemical interactions between pigments and other reactive substances. Petersen’s process reveals the complexity and beauty inherent in the smallest elements of the natural world. *The value here includes framing by Sterling Art Services.

ARTIST BIO

Keith Petersen is an artist and photographer based in Northern California, and has a studio at Norton Factory Studios in Oakland. As a young teen he took workshops with Ansel Adams in Yosemite that instilled in him a deep love of both nature and photography. He graduated from CCAC with a BFA with High Distinction in Photography and has shown work in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. Working with photography and mixed media in a studio practice, he explores the connections between science, nature, and art.

90 NICOLE PHUNGRASAMEE

FEIN

21.06.17.01 Sleeping Beauty Turquoise

Genuine Cadmium Orange Hue Cadmium

Red Deep

2021, Watercolor on paper

8” x 8” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Hosfelt Gallery

Retail Value: $4,000

Starting Bid: $2,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

With a meticulous hand and singular focus, Nicole Phungrasamee Fein challenges the conventional use of watercolor. Defying the limitations one associates with the medium, Fein builds fields of color and pattern, all centered within the square. Droplets intermingle on paper, creating dense composites of color.

ARTIST BIO

Nicole Phungrasamee Fein was born in Evanston, Illinois (1974) and grew up in Santa Barbara, California. She attended Tufts University (BA), the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (BFA), and Mills College, Oakland, CA (MFA). Her work is in the public collections of the Achenbach Foundation at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Berkeley Art Museum; Blanton Museum; Fogg Museum; Hammer Museum; Menil Drawing Institute; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. Fein lives and works in San Francisco.

MÁRIO PIRES CORDEIRO

SF NO. 64, Wise Interventions, Part 6

2024, House paint on wood panels and painted wallpaper

50” x 34” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $4,000

Starting Bid: $1,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Mário Pires Cordeiro explores the interplay between space, light, and human perception. The vibrant palette and composition, coupled with the spatial relationship to the wallpaper, challenge conventional notions of 2D and 3D perception. The work establishes an environment where perception dynamically responds to the aesthetic nuances of light interference, suggesting that the piece evolves with changing lighting conditions, adding an additional layer of complexity.

ARTIST BIO

Mário Pires Cordeiro is a San Francisco-based artist born in Lisbon, Portugal. He received his MFA at the University of London and completed three years of a PhD researching color trends in fine arts. He has been commissioned by the Olympic and Paralympic Games Committee and the Cape Farewell Foundation and has put on several solo and group exhibitions. He is an artist at the Minnesota Street Project Studios. Cordeiro’s work plays with the relationship between fine art and design, commenting on the interaction between visual art and functional objects through experimentation in media and color. Color is his main artistic focus, unpacking the symbolic meanings imposed upon it, while sourcing colors from multiple cultural locations, including design forecasts, environments, and publications. He often uses color as an entry point into understanding and establishing identity; whether it be of a given space, time, object, or attitude. He finds inspiration in modern architecture, engineering, and geometry, distilling extremely intricate concepts into distinct shapes. He works with a variety of media, from painting and sculpture to film and clothing.

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FERRIS PLOCK

Kitsune

2023, Gouache and gold leaf

30” x 24” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Harman Projects

Retail Value: $4,000

Starting Bid: $2,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Ferris Plock works from extensive pen and pencil sketches that he adapts into gouache paintings on wood panels. Plock’s usage of gold leaf and spray paint blends his deep love of Japanese woodblock prints with modern day methods and mediums.

ARTIST BIO

Ferris Plock is an artist living and creating in San Francisco. His work has been shown at Hashimoto Contemporary; HarmanProjects NY; WAG Gallery, Tokyo; the de Young Museum; 111 Minna; and the Luggage Store Gallery. Ferris and his wife (Kelly Tunstall) collaborate often under the name KeFe. They have two wonderful kids and two wonderful cats.

93

CARISSA POTTER

A Softness We Could Feel

2023, Painting on Belgian linen

18” x 34” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $600

ARTIST BIO

Carissa Potter is an artist who lives and works in Oakland, California. She received her MFA in Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2010, is a founding member of Colpa Press, and is the founder of People I’ve Loved. Potter has worked with the ICA in Boston, BAM/PFA, SFMOMA, and the de Young Museum, to name a few, and has also served as a mentor in Southern Exposure’s One-on-One Mentorship Program. Currently, Potter is working on her fourth book and spends her time writing and talking to people on her substack titled Bad At Keeping Secrets.

94 HELIA POUYANFAR

Objects of Endearment

2023, Mirror, photo, resin, and cement

8” x 4” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Helia Pouyanfar sees architecture as the poetry of the nomad. By manipulating architectural objects, she imbues structures with meaning, drawing upon piles of bricks, doorways, and easily movable walls. Her interest in architecture is expansive, merging the material languages of construction materials like cement and bricks with mediums like drywall and studs. Adding wheels, suitcase handles, or straps, these forms become objects one can hold and carry, living as walls, traveling alongside the nomadic body.

ARTIST BIO

Born in 1995 in Tehran, Iran, Helia Pouyanfar immigrated to California in 2014. Inspired by her cultural background, her architectural sculptures and research endeavors investigate the permanently transient state of the refugee body, and its ongoing negotiations with the concept of place. Pouyanfar received her BA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley and her MFA in Studio Art from the University of California, Davis. Pouyanfar has been the recipient of multiple awards, including the Certificate of Excellence in Sculpture from UC Berkeley, the 2021 Margrit Mondavi Graduate Fellowship from UC Davis, the 2024 Berkeley Civic Arts Individual Artist Grant, and a 2024 Kala Art Institute Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Root Division, Southern Exposure, Berkeley Art Center, SF Camerawork, de Young Museum, Miami University, and Skirball Cultural Center. She currently maintains an art studio practice in the Bay Area.

95 MEL PREST

Black Unicorn

2020, Acrylic and mica on wood panel

12” x 12” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and K. Imperial Fine Art (SF) and Galleri Urbane (Dallas)

Retail Value: $2,000

Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Mel Prest’s “Black Unicorn” was made during the pandemic, when her interest in responsive materials drew her toward metallics and mica. This work shimmers and moves, responding to the viewer’s positionality and angle in relation to it. Prest’s paintings are inspired by nature, a subject matter which is always changing. She highlights ephemeral moments in her paintings by using fluorescent, metallic, or phosphorescent paint producing flickers, glowing spots, and shadows in different light conditions. Producing the feeling of slipping between time, as well as optical confusion, reminds the viewer that they are witnessing something unknown reveal itself.

ARTIST BIO

Mel Prest is an American abstract artist whose work is focused on color and perceptual visual relationships. Prest’s work has been exhibited internationally including: The Drawing Center, New York; the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Durham; IS Projects, Leiden; Saturation Point, London; and Nakaochiai Gallery, Tokyo. She has been awarded residencies at the MH de Young Museum; the Ragdale Foundation; the Sam and Adele Golden Artist Foundation; Willapa Bay AIR; the Wassaic Project; and Vermont Studio Center. Her work is held in collections at Apple; the Berkeley Art Museum; the Crocker Museum of Art; Google; Kaiser Permanente; Marin General Hospital; the Mills College Art Museum; Schneider Museum of Art; among others. She is a founding member of Transmitter, a collaborative curatorial gallery initiative in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Mel Prest lives and works in San Francisco.

ARTISTS R THROUGH U

2007 Monster Drawing Rally. Photographer unknown

96

AMY RATHBONE

Oka -1b

2024, Gouache on paper

12” x 8” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Oka 1b” is part of a series Amy Rathbone has been developing, engaging with drawing and sound. The work exists in response to Rathbone’s relationship with a specific pile of dirt and stones.

ARTIST BIO

Amy Rathbone’s sculptural installations and intricate works on paper are rooted in the essence of process. Rathbone has been represented by Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco, and Priska Juschka Gallery in New York, in addition to exhibitions in Wiesbaden, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; and the Czech Republic. Beyond exhibiting her own work, she has curated Bay Area exhibitions and co-curated performances at BAMPFA. Currently, Rathbone is engaged in exploring boundless creative frontiers, notably working with an enormous pile of dirt.

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RACHELLE REICHERT

SALT PRINT

2024, Silk screen (edition of 25)

24” x 18” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $300

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

This limited-edition silkscreen is an extension of Rachelle Reichert’s ‘Saltworks’ series, a body of artworks inspired by material research of the local bay and wetlands in the form of salt harvested along the bay’s shores. This image of salt in a halftone pattern creates a unique optical experience when viewed from various distances, referencing the qualities of salt itself–a naturally unstable element–and a metaphor for our Bay Area shorelines.

ARTIST BIO

Rachelle Reichert is a visual artist and art educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. She creates artworks which consider landscape and environment through a usage of natural materials and technology. Select exhibitions include the Autry Museum, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, the Center for Contemporary Art at Pacific Northwest College of Art, and Anglim Gilbert Gallery. Reichert’s artwork and research is also held at the Center for Art+Environment at the Nevada Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archive, the SAIC Library, and Meta HQ. Her artwork has been presented at the California Climate Change Symposium and the San Francisco State of the Estuary Conference. She earned a BFA from Boston University and an MFA from Mills College in Oakland.

98

YUNFEI REN

Reverberation

2019, Archival inkjet print

32” x 26” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $700

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

In his photo series, Yunfei Ren delves into the world of dance, capturing mesmerizing movements as his canvas. Each image freezes moments of fleeting grace, showcasing the raw beauty of musculature and emotion in rhythmic harmony. The dancer emerges as a symbol of strength, beauty, and the indomitable human spirit. This series pays homage to the limitless power of dance—an eloquent language that bridges division, offering profound connection and solace.

ARTIST BIO

Yunfei Ren is a visual artist living in San Francisco, whose work spans installation, photography, sound, and sculpture. His art practice explores the complexity of identity and belonging in the context of history, citizenship, and queerness. His work has been exhibited at the de Young Museum (2023, 2020), Stanford University (2022), Chinese Historical Society Museum (2021), and has been featured in the Washington Post. He will receive his MFA from Stanford University in May 2024.

99 YUNFEI REN

Thrust

2019, Archival inkjet print

30” x 26” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $700

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

In his photo series, Yunfei Ren delves into the world of dance, capturing mesmerizing movements as his canvas. Each image freezes moments of fleeting grace, showcasing the raw beauty of musculature and emotion in rhythmic harmony. The dancer emerges as a symbol of strength, beauty, and the indomitable human spirit. This series pays homage to the limitless power of dance—an eloquent language that bridges division, offering profound connection and solace.

ARTIST BIO

Yunfei Ren is a visual artist living in San Francisco, whose work spans installation, photography, sound, and sculpture. His art practice explores the complexity of identity and belonging in the context of history, citizenship, and queerness. His work has been exhibited at the de Young Museum (2023, 2020), Stanford University (2022), Chinese Historical Society Museum (2021), and has been featured in the Washington Post. He will receive his MFA from Stanford University in May 2024.

100 JEROME REYES

the horizon toward which we move always recedes before us (Turntable)

2023, Drafting ink, corrective fluid, sprayed housepaint, painter’s tape on vellum 19” x 25” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $6,000

Starting Bid: $2,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

This body of work by Jerome Reyes draws on transnational student organizing movements, many from the Bay Area during the 1960s. The long-term project honors the locations of activist activities and cited objects. The artist leans on long-term working relationships across the world with organizers, scholars, and locals to identify key personal objects from those times. Each vellum sheet is pre-treated with house paint, then worked with layers of painter’s tape, corrective fluid, and fluorescent and drafting inks. This turntable owned by SF State College student activist turned professor, Dan Gonzales, implicates the object used for the exchange of ideas during this contested time of endless possibilities.

ARTIST BIO

Jerome Reyes (b. 1983 San Francisco) splits his time between Seoul and San Francisco. Reyes is an internationally recognized artist, researcher, and educator working with the collaborative potentials of institutions, alterity, and architecture. He has produced projects for the Yokohama Triennale; Prospect Biennial; Asia Culture Center Gwangju; KADIST; Frankfurter Kunstverein; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Cantor Center for Visual Arts. Reyes has been awarded residencies in South Korea at the National Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art; Gwangju Biennale Foundation; Asia Culture Center; and the Seoul Museum of Art. He received the 2016 Artist-in-Residence Award at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He holds an MFA from Stanford University and a BFA at the California College of the Arts.

101 KATE RHOADES

Self-Portrait

2024, Oil on muslin on panel

12” x 9” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2,000

Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

A painting of the artist hiding in the debris of the forest floor.

ARTIST BIO

Kate Rhoades lives and works in Oakland, California. Her art consists of videos, paintings, and publications, employing absurdist humor to tackle subjects like death, power, and alienation. She has presented work in the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Santa Fe International New Media Festival, the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, SFMOMA, Southern Exposure, and various apartments, parking lots, and alleyways across the globe. Rhoades was also a Jay Defeo award winner in 2014 and a Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka fellow in 2018. Since 2014, she has co-hosted the Bay Area’s number one arts and culture podcast, Congratulations Pine Tree, with Maysoun Wazwaz.

102 NATHALIE ROLAND

Seedstars

2023, Woodcut print on Kozo paper

12” x 12” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $600

Starting Bid: $300

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Nathalie Roland’s “Seedstars” calls upon the legacies of Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower,” as well as the Stevie Wonder song, “A Seed’s a Star/Tree Medley” from his album “The Secret Life of Plants.” Drawing upon these sources of inspiration, Roland then distills their themes into a wood cut printed in color spectrum.

ARTIST BIO

Nathalie Roland explores liminal spaces and collaboration through printmaking and painting. Reflections on folklore, dreams, music, transformation, and life in the Bay Area are source material for her woodcut prints and gouache paintings. She is currently pursuing an experiment in collaboration through printmaking at Sunset Paperworks as a means of strengthening community bonds. She has been living and working in San Francisco since 1999.

103

LEONARD ROSENFELD

Hecho Por Mano Series, Cuarenta Y Cinco

1991, Acrylic and graphite on paper 18” x 16” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Pastine Projects

Retail Value: $1,800

Starting Bid: $700

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Leonard Rosenfeld was a storyteller who referred to himself as “walking history.” His work cataloged the world around him — New York and beyond. His style and process ranged from gritty drawings to paintings created with industrial technologies. Rosenfeld fearlessly combined diverse materials such as wire and rags, adding narrative imagery in order to create a total sensory immersion.

ARTIST BIO

Leonard Rosenfeld (1926 — 2009) was born in Brooklyn, New York. After serving in WWII, he studied at the Art Students League. He was one of many artists who frequented the famous Cedar Tavern in the 1950s, including Willem DeKooning, Franz Kline, and Jackson Pollock. Rosenfeld chronicled the space program, the sex workers who populated his downtown neighborhood, graffiti artists, subject matter from Mexico during his time spent in that country, 9/11 (having experienced it while living and working just one block away), and soldiers at war. His legacy can only be described as one of unique, dynamic, yet consistently disciplined, versatility, in subject matter and artistic innovation. Rosenfeld’s work has been exhibited in many solo, two-person and group shows, including with the Martha Jackson Gallery, the OK Harris Gallery of Ivan Karp, and the Brooklyn Museum. He is represented in numerous private collections in the US and internationally, as well as the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT and the National September 11th Memorial and Museum in New York City. His estate is represented by Pastine Projects.

ANTHONY A. RUSSELL

Mike Kuchar in the Faerie Garden

2021, Acrylic on canvas

12” x 12” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,000

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

This portrait is of Anthony A. Russells’s dear friend and mentor, the legendary underground filmmaker Mike Kuchar. Russell exaggerates a scene of Kuchar sitting in the Tenderloin National Forest with flourishes inspired by the mythical motifs common in Kuchar’s own work. The tender combination of introspective and metaphysical themes expressed through prosaic tableau is a quality of Mike Kuchar’s work that has inspired Russell’s practice across mediums.

ARTIST BIO

Anthony A. Russell is an interdisciplinary artist of Scottish and Mexican ancestry based in San Francisco. He is an alumnus of the San Francisco Art Institute and a creative contributor to independent film and stage projects by the Brothers Kuchar, Dreams for Dead Cats Productions, and Peaches Christ Productions. While his films and performances have dealt primarily with emotional health and personal narratives, his recent work in painting addresses ecological issues by subverting western romantic tropes to vivify an ecstatic and romantic future of inclusive fecundity. His work has been presented at Bass & Reiner; The Lab; ATA; and the Berkeley Art Center. He was a recent resident at Winslow House Project.

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BYRON RYONO

Cluster 2023, Bronze

7” x 7” x 6”

Courtesy of the Artist and Jack Fischer Gallery

Retail Value: $1,000

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Byron Ryono keeps his artwork bare-bones, focusing on the foundations of form, shadow, color, and shapes, drawn to uncovering positive and negative spaces within his work.

ARTIST BIO

Byron Ryono is a sculptor who has exhibited work at the Jack Fischer Gallery, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and Chandra Cerrito Contemporary. He is represented by Jack Fischer Gallery. Ryono aims to keep things simple and focused on the making.

106

SANAZ SAFANASAB

Landscape

2024, Fiber on canvas

17” x 14” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,000

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Sanaz Safanasab’s artistic practice focuses on the relationship between identity and space, and how this relationship is shaped by experiences of migration and displacement. Through her work, Safanasab aims to navigate the complexities of identity and belonging, employing diverse mediums and techniques to express these concepts. “Landscape,” part of Safanasab’s series which contemplatively explores California’s geography, is viewed through the lens of diaspora, offering a fresh perspective on familiar scenes.

ARTIST BIO

Maryam “Sanaz” Safanasab (b. Tehran, Iran) is a visual artist whose work is rooted in exploration of hybridity and the concept of opacity within cross-cultural contexts. Through drawing, sculpture, and fiber art, she investigates the quality of lines and forms, exploring that which is relational and fluid. Safanasab holds an MFA from San Francisco State University and received the Cadogan Contemporary Art Award and the Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement, among others. Her work has been exhibited at SOMArts, 500 Capp Street, SFAC, ICA SF, and Southern Exposure, amongst other venues.

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OLEG SAVUNOV

Autumn Forest #1

2022, Inkjet print, edition of 7 22” x 36” x 0.4”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2,500

Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

The series by Oleg Savunov is a documentation of physical interventions into the Bay Area landscape by positioning panel installations with mounted photo wallpapers. These wallpapers were mass-produced in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, directly referencing the decade in which the artist was born. The titles of the work are pulled from the clichéd branding of the wallpaper packs. Names like “Lakeside view,” “Golden Autumn,” or “In the Caucasus mountains‚“ juxtapose the reality of a landscape with its existence as an idealized product for consumption.

ARTIST BIO

Oleg Savunov (b. 1983) is a photographer and visual artist from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. His work integrates photography, video, and mixed media to explore intimacy in visual contemplation through portraiture, architecture, and landscape. Savunov graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical University in 2006 with a law degree, then studied press photography at the Faculty of Press Photographers of Saint-Petersburg, Russia in 2012, and continued his education at the Fotodepartament Institute in Saint-Petersburg, where most of his current interests were developed in 2015. Oleg graduated from Stanford University with an MFA degree in the Summer of 2023 and he is currently a Graduate Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts. His work is owned by private collectors and has been exhibited in Russia, Spain, Italy, and the US, and published in magazines, like Amuse, InRussia, The Guardian, F-Stop, Calvert Journal, GEO, and The Village.

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OLEG SAVUNOV

Autumn Forest #3

2022, Inkjet print, edition of 7 22” x 36” x 0.4”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2,500

Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

The series by Oleg Savunov is a documentation of physical interventions into the Bay Area landscape by positioning panel installations with mounted photo wallpapers. These wallpapers were mass-produced in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, directly referencing the decade in which the artist was born. The titles of the work are pulled from the clichéd branding of the wallpaper packs. Names like “Lakeside view,” “Golden Autumn,” or “In the Caucasus mountains‚“ juxtapose the reality of a landscape with its existence as an idealized product for consumption.

ARTIST BIO

Oleg Savunov (b. 1983) is a photographer and visual artist from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. His work integrates photography, video, and mixed media to explore intimacy in visual contemplation through portraiture, architecture, and landscape. Savunov graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical University in 2006 with a law degree, then studied press photography at the Faculty of Press Photographers of Saint-Petersburg, Russia in 2012, and continued his education at the Fotodepartament Institute in Saint-Petersburg, where most of his current interests were developed in 2015. Oleg graduated from Stanford University with an MFA degree in the Summer of 2023 and he is currently a Graduate Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts. His work is owned by private collectors and has been exhibited in Russia, Spain, Italy, and the US, and published in magazines, like Amuse, InRussia, The Guardian, F-Stop, Calvert Journal, GEO, and The Village.

109 ANDREW SCHOULTZ

Eye of Life

2017, Lithograph on paper printed by Idem Press, Paris, France

30” x 25” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Hosfelt Gallery

Retail Value: $1,600

Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

”Eye of Life” is a reference to the ‘mind’s eye,’ often referred to as the ”third eye.” The artwork playfully invites viewers to perceive their surroundings with intention, insight, and discernment. Rather than accepting appearances at face value, Schoultz prompts us to explore the depths of every encounter, recognizing that reality often transcends initial impressions. “Eye of Life” serves as a visual reminder to engage with the world in a multi-dimensional manner — appreciating its aesthetic beauty while also employing critical thought and introspection. The piece advocates for a heightened state of mindfulness in all aspects of life.

*The value here includes framing by Painters Place.

ARTIST BIO

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Andrew Schoultz became a professional skateboarder before moving to San Francisco in 1998, where the vocabulary of his outdoor murals—wooden war horses, limb-less trees, erupting volcanoes, tornadoes, clouds of flying arrows—has become an important part of the urban fabric in the Mission District and beyond. This vocabulary extends to paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations that have been featured in exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States. Schoultz utilizes a signature style of densely-packed, meticulously-rendered motifs like archaic war machines, the iconography of the American Dollar bill, and cataclysmic events in order to represent the turmoil of the contemporary world. His historic references span time and culture, covering antique etchings, Persian miniature paintings, M. C. Escher, and Mission School street art. His work has been presented by SFMOMA; GALERIE Droste, Paris; the Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; the Havana Biennial; and Hosfelt Gallery, amongst many others.

110 ERIK SCOLLON

Atlas 2021, Paracord, glazed stoneware and porcelain beads with digital decals, charred and stained wood, metal mounts

28.5” x 18” x 3”

Courtesy of the Artist and Romer Young Gallery

Retail Value: $5,000

Starting Bid: $3,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Erik Scollon plays around with the histories and traditions of object making and education by reworking ceramic practice and by experimenting with performative and participatory projects. By moving between ‘sculpture’ to ‘ceramics,’ functional objects to aesthetically autonomous objects, social engagement and recorded performances, he investigates issues of education, access, taste, class, gender, and queerness.

ARTIST BIO

Erik Scollon is an Associate Professor and Chair of the First Year CORE Studio Program at California College of the Arts. He has taught art to various age groups through workshops and demonstrations, spending multiple years teaching in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley as well as the the Berkeley Art Studio in Berkeley, California. Collaboration is of keen interest to Scollon’s work. He has cooperated with Amanda Curreri on their artist run publication Color&Color, created the ceramics performance collective The Brick Factory with Nicole Burisch, Tom Myers, and Summer Zickefoose, and has worked with audiences and his students on a variety of ceramicsbased participatory projects. Born in Rochester, Michigan, he received his BFA from Albion College, and an MFA in Ceramics along with an MA in Visual and Critical Studies, both from California College of the Arts. His work has been shown at museums, galleries, craft fairs, design blogs, and gay biker bars. He is represented by Romer Young Gallery and he currently lives and works in San Francisco, California.

111

JENNY SHARAF

That Good Feeling

2023, Paint on fabric

40” x 30” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Berggruen Gallery

Retail Value: $10,000

Starting Bid: $4,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Jenny Sharaf is known for her graphic yet quasi-psychedelic poured paint technique. The sea plays a significant role in her current work, inspiring organic formlessness and a California-centric palette. This piece was painted late summer in Bolinas, CA.

ARTIST BIO

Jenny Sharaf is a San Francisco-based multidisciplinary artist who paints out of her studio in Bolinas. Her paintings, installations, videos, and happenings celebrate the process of creating while reflecting on art history, counterculture, feminism, and abstraction. Her murals are found in diverse settings, including Tokyo and Beirut. Born in Los Angeles in 1985, Sharaf received her BFA from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and her MFA from Mills College, Oakland. Her work is in the permanent collections of Ace Hotel, Google, Rachel Zoe Inc., Yoko Ono, and Capital One, among others. Last year, Sharaf presented an installation at the 2023 FOG Art + Design Fair entrance in San Francisco, with large-scale paintings and hand-painted upholstered objects, in sponsorship with SFMOMA.

112 ALICE SHAW

Flowering Quince #1

2024, Archival pigment print with 22k gold leaf 12” x 16” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery 16

Retail Value: $3,600

Starting Bid: $1,800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Shaw has enhanced this image with 22 karat gold leaf to express her reverence for the subject matter and to highlight the need for the preservation and care of the natural environment. Though the image is photographic, this work is heavily influenced by historical icon paintings.

ARTIST BIO

Alice Shaw is an artist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was trained as a photographer but often incorporates other media into her practice. Shaw is an Artadia Grant awardee and her work is included in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her work has been shown at the Oakland Museum of California; Kala Art Institute; Gallery Paule Anglim; Gallery 16; and Southern Exposure; amongst others. Her book, People Who Look Like Me, was published by Gallery 16 in San Francisco, where her work is represented. A permanent large-scale public artwork, No Other Lands Their Glory Know, can be seen at The San Francisco International Airport in terminal G95.

113 STEPHANIE H. SHIH Golden Mountain Seasoning Sauce

2020, Ceramic

10.25” x 3” x 3”

Courtesy of the Artist and Berggruen Gallery

Retail Value: $4,000

Starting Bid: $2,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Rendered in a medium malleable enough to yield to the artist’s touch, “Golden Mountain Seasoning Sauce” embodies Shih’s sculptural practice, which functions as an objectbased accounting of historical events and cultural touchpoints. Carefully painted by hand, Shih’s recreation of disparate, everyday objects —a toy train, a dry-cleaning hanger, and a bottle of soy sauce with less sodium—shapes narratives which are at once playful and reflective.

ARTIST BIO

Stephanie H. Shih is a ceramic artist whose painted sculptures explore diasporic identity and cultural migration. Her newest body of work chronicles the past and present through imperfect replicas of everyday items, rendered in a medium malleable enough to yield to the artist’s touch and painted by hand. Her work has been presented by the Berkeley Art Museum; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Syracuse University Art Museum; Jeffrey Deitch; Perrotin, NY; and Berggruen Gallery.

114 BRIAN SINGER

Kindling #4

2024, Bible pages, acrylic on canvas wrapped wood panel 30” x 18” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2,400

Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

For Brian Singer, the dramatic rise in attempts to ban books has provided fuel to the already strained clash of ideologies in America. In “Kindling #4,” Bible pages have been cut and formed into shapes, obscuring most text. The title references the burning of books, and importance of preserving our literature and intellectual freedom.

ARTIST BIO

Brian Singer is a San Francisco-based fine artist whose projects have received international attention. His art ranges from intimate works with paper and books to large scale installations and participatory projects. The 1000 Journals Project, launched in 2000, was turned into a book, a feature length documentary, and has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. More recently, Singer had a solo show at the Torrance Art Museum. He’s been recognized with numerous awards and publications, and serves on the SECA Council for SFMoMA, as well as the board of directors of Southern Exposure.

115 SUNNY A. SMITH

thanks given what lies behind

2016, Archival inkjet on primed canvas, acrylic paint, mounted on linen 44” x 44” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $5,000

Starting Bid: $2,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

This work was created after researching in the archives of Skansen, the world’s first openair living history museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Smith hand-painted an atmosphere of shadow and fog into the background of the image in order to emphasize the stage-like quality of harvested goods performing abundance under a spotlight.

ARTIST BIO

Sunny A. Smith is queer trans* artist whose work explores themes of historical trauma, time travel, ancestral crafts, and pre-Christian European spiritual traditions. Smith has presented their work in more than 175 exhibitions internationally, at museums including P.S.1/MoMA, Palais de Tokyo, SFMOMA, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Arts Club of Chicago, MASS MoCA, Tang Museum, and CCA Wattis Institute. Smith’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, NPR, Art:21, and PBS

The Art Assignment. Smith received the United States Artists, Artadia, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka awards, as well as project grants from the NEA, Public Art Fund, Arts Council England, Creative Work Fund, and New York Foundation for the Arts. Their work is held in the collections of nearly 40 different museums including the Whitney Museum, LACMA, and Saatchi Gallery London, and was most recently acquired by the de Young Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

116 SARAH A. SMITH

Wing 3 (Hawk)

2023, Wood, glue, and plaster

13” x 5” x 4”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $850

Starting Bid: $350

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

This sculpture is made from precious wood scraps Sarah A. Smith collected over the years from past sculptures. Having journeyed with her several times from studio to studio, they now live on in “Wing 3 (Hawk).” She has repurposed the scraps with hot glue, which was then coated in hydrocal, a fast-drying plaster. Throughout the years, Smith returns again to the image of the wing in her work. She is drawn to it via her passion for bird watching, as well as the profound symbolism of impermanence, transience, and inner peace which flight embodies.

ARTIST BIO

Sarah Smith’s drawings, sculptures, and installations mix symbolic animal imagery with mythical tropes in surreal settings. Her work has been shown at Round Weather, Incline Gallery, Ampersand International Arts, SFAC Grove Street Windows, and Southern Exposure. She was an Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2006.

117

JESSICA SNOW

Dark Flow

2023, Acrylic on Arches hot press paper

18” x 15” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Pastine Projects

Retail Value: $2,400

Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Jessica Snow’s “Dark Flow” is part of her recent body of work where she explores the concept of dark energy in the universe, the tidal changes based on the moon cycles, and the phenomenon of the inner tide which is impacted by these outward events.

ARTIST BIO

Jessica Snow is represented by Pastine Projects in San Francisco and IdeelArt in London. Currently, she teaches in the art history department at the University of San Francisco. She is the recipient of several grants, including the Artadia grant, and she’s received grants to attend international residency programs such as Fundación Valparaiso, Chateau Orquevaux, and the Ionian Center for the Arts.

118

LUCY STARK

Pancake Face

2023, Screenprint

12” x 18” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Pancake Face” by Lucy Stark is an homage to the Denny’s pancake special she’d order with her dad as a child. This is a fourteen layer screenprint, and much like her painting practice, Lucy has built up the image with flat fields of color, hand-drawing the mylar transparencies based on the previous printed layer.

*The value here includes framing by Orion Custom Framing Services.

ARTIST BIO

Lucy Stark is a painter and printmaker based in Oakland, CA. Lucy is interested in the intersection of decorative, functional, and fine arts, often illustrating personal items and fabricating imagined ones. In her art practice, she documents food as the center point of family, home, and community. Her art practice often consists of exaggerated color palettes and patterns while simultaneously utilizing simple lines. Her arrays of color flatten objects, people, and the places she illustrates. Most recently, her work has included functional objects such as screen printed tablecloths, ceramic sconces, and beeswax candles. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Art Practice. Her work has been shown throughout the Bay Area, including recent exhibitions at Chandran Gallery, Palo Alto Art Center, and Blunk Space, among others. She has been a Root Division Studio Artist and is currently the Gallery Manager at Paulson Fontaine Press.

119 TAMARA SUAREZ PORRAS

parallax error 91

2024, Pigment print

24” x 20” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,600

Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“parallax errors” by tamara suarez porras is a series of photographs that begins from the concept in its title: the perceived displacement of an object when viewed along two different lines of sight. It is most known to photographers who work with cameras like rangefinders, where the viewfinder receives a different image than the lens and film. The series draws from chronic, undiagnosed changes in porras’ own vision, wherein they experience visual ghosting and auras. These photographs are made on film as single exposures and all “visual effects” are achieved in-camera using physical interventions in front of the lens. porras disrupts the camera’s vision to provoke layers, apparitions, and multiplicities from the singular objects in front of the camera. Viewers are asked to walk a thin line between the tangible and intangible, finding malleability in a world and medium that are often perceived as fixed.

ARTIST BIO

tamara suarez porras is an artist, writer, and educator from South Brooklyn, NY and is based in the Bay Area, CA. porras’ work examines experiences of knowing, remembering, and forgetting, and how photography attempts to know the unknowable. porras has exhibited nationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum, School at the ICP, En Foco Touring Gallery, and Deitch Projects in New York City, as well as fusedspace, Root Division, The Growlery, and Embark Gallery in San Francisco, CA. porras is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and California College of the Arts. porras is currently a lecturer in photography at Stanford University, and a member of the Southern Exposure Curatorial Council.

120 CHARLENE TAN

Kumang

2024, Rhinestones, beads, digital print, wood 13” x 10” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Sarah Shepard Gallery

Retail Value: $2,500

Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

In her current work, Tan draws inspiration from her grandmother, one in a long line of weavers. Tan discovered that her grandmother—a tailor and embroiderer by trade—had also produced traditional Filipino tribal weavings. Intrigued, Tan looked further. With her grandmother no longer alive, Tan turned to her computer, discovering a world of intricately patterned tribal weavings through a digital interface of pixelated images, each pattern reflecting a symbolic meaning. This work draws on references such as a tabi (blanket) from the Collection of Nikki Coseteng; images of large reptiles with hook-like forms called kumang; and traditional Mindanao textile imagery of capturing a crocodile spirit.

ARTIST BIO

A San Francisco-based multidisciplinary artist, Tan was born in Houston, Texas, but spent most of her childhood in the Philippines. She moved to San Francisco to attend the San Francisco Art Institute and stayed on to continue her practice. Working in a wide range of mediums—from sculpture to performance—Tan is especially interested in examining cultural subjects including assimilation, consumer culture, digital loss of imagery via facsimile, and post-colonial immigrant diaspora. Tan’s work has been shown at the Asia Society Texas; Fragment.in for the Binomial Project in Switzerland; Intersection for the Arts; Marin Headlands Center for the Arts; Ampersand International Arts; and Southern Exposure, among other venues. Recent exhibitions include “Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area Life” at the Museum of Craft & Design in San Francisco, and “Season II: A Group Exhibition with Chopsticks Alley” at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA.

121

TNT TRAYSIKEL

TNT SideCaraoke (Sing-and-Ride experience)

2018, Activity- Ride and sing

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $600

Starting Bid: $300

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Take a ride in TNT Traysikel in Golden Gate Park where you and a friend can sing karaoke for an hour. One of five traysikels in North America and the only one with a karaoke system, this is a unique experience of a lifetime!

ARTIST BIO

A collaboration between Michael Arcega, Paolo Asuncion, and Rachel Lastimosa, TNT Traysikel is a mobile public sculpture based on the Philippine tricycle. This work signals the presence of Filipino Americans in the US. A publicly engaged artwork that roams the streets of SF becomes a site for karaoke activations called “TNT SideCaraoke” and offers listening sessions called “TNT SideNotes.” We invite you to take a ride, tell your stories and sing with us. TNT SideCaraoke has been presented at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; YBCA; Exploratorium; Saint Joseph’s Arts Society; Kapwa Gardens; and other venues in San Francisco. It was 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. Rachel Lastimosa is a composer who has contributed to the Bay Area art scene since 2000. She is the Founding Director of AGASAN Project which utilizes sound, movement, and visual art to offer artistic pathways to destigmatize mental health through a culturally responsive and collectivized experience.

122 MADELEINE TONZI

Senses

2022, Acrylic on canvas

24” x 30” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Hashimoto Contemporary

Retail Value: $3,200

Starting Bid: $1,500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Madeleine Tonzi’s “Senses” was created by observing soft, transcendent moments, the sort of moments which occur when we tune into our journey through space and time. Tonzi created this painting as part of a series in which she conjurs images, emotions, and memories from roadtrips driving through the Mojave Desert, as well as her time spent exploring the high desert of New Mexico. This piece is a meditation on momentary freedom, softness, and the kind of sensory overwhelm which prevents someone from being fully present. Like much of Tonzi’s work, this piece asks the viewer to pause, reflect and allow themself to enmesh within the environment around them.

ARTIST BIO

Madeleine Tonzi is an artist whose work examines the relationships between memory, place, and environment. Her practice focuses on her experience in an ever-changing landscape impacted by the passage of time. Her imagery is sourced from memory and personal experiences. Mediated by the distortion of those memories over time, her use of hard edges, soft color pallets, and bold organic and architectural forms reveal subtle tensions and contradictions between the manufactured and natural world, while honoring the ephemeral state of time and memory. Tonzi was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She lived in Oakland for fifteen years where she obtained her BFA from California College of the Arts, and now currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

123 SIMON TRAN

Skeleton Leaves

2024, Acrylic on gessoed cradled wood panel 24” x 18” x 1.75”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2,500

Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

This piece is a meditative synthesis on the reflection of growing older and returning to familiar spaces. In the backyard of Simon Tran’s childhood home was a playset that once was the battlefield for his flea market toys. Now, his parents have rooted a garden of fruit trees and a forest of plants. Fresh memories intertwine with the old, as life’s journey persists.

ARTIST BIO

Simon Tran, aka Ghost Ghost Teeth, is a Vietnamese-American father, artist, and educator born in Long Beach, California who currently resides in Menlo Park, California. Simon received a BA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley. Tran’s work has been shown at Berkeley Art Museum; Oakland Museum of California; Berkeley Art Center; NIAD Art Center; agnès b.’s Galerie du Jour, Paris; and Steinsland Berliner Gallery, Stockholm; amongst other venues. He has created large-scale painted murals and installations for multiple clients including Facebook/Meta Open Arts Program in Sunnyvale, Chapter 510 in Oakland, and Montage Children’s Hospital in Monterey. Simon is currently the Artists in Education Program Manager at Southern Exposure. His aim with working with teen artists is to give them the art opportunities he never had growing up. In his spare time he enjoys video games and spinning vinyl records.

124 HELEN SHEWOLFE TSENG Growth Spells

for the Chariot: Eye

2023, Watercolor on paper

6” x 9” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,000

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Growth Spells for the Chariot: Eye” was cast in response to aspects of the tarot’s Major Arcana VII: The Chariot, an archetype often associated with willpower, forward momentum, and the energetic conduit between a driver and their vehicle. In popular numerology, 2023 was a “Chariot year,” with the sum of the year’s digits equalling seven.

ARTIST BIO

Helen Shewolfe Tseng is an interdisciplinary artist and designer currently based in San Francisco. Tseng’s work is influenced by relationships to land, folk spiritual practices, interspecies collaborations, trickster archetypes, and neurodivergence, and has taken the forms of works on paper, books and zines, rituals, talks, installations, participatory works, computational poetry, and combinations of the above. Tseng is a 2023-24 San Francisco Arts Commission grantee and 2023 Rhizome microgrant awardee, and has previously been a 2023 Artist in Residence at Winslow House in Vallejo, a 2022 Thick Solidarity Resident at Montalvo Arts Center, the 2019 Design Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts, and a 2018-2019 Fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

125 HELEN SHEWOLFE TSENG Growth Spells

for the Chariot: Moon

2023, Watercolor on paper

6” x 9” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,000

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Growth Spells for the Chariot: Moon” was cast in response to aspects of the tarot’s Major Arcana VII: The Chariot, an archetype often associated with willpower, forward momentum, and the energetic conduit between a driver and their vehicle. In popular numerology, 2023 was a “Chariot year,” with the sum of the year’s digits equalling seven.

ARTIST BIO

Helen Shewolfe Tseng is an interdisciplinary artist and designer currently based in San Francisco. Tseng’s work is influenced by relationships to land, folk spiritual practices, interspecies collaborations, trickster archetypes, and neurodivergence, and has taken the forms of works on paper, books and zines, rituals, talks, installations, participatory works, computational poetry, and combinations of the above. Tseng is a 2023-24 San Francisco Arts Commission grantee and 2023 Rhizome microgrant awardee, and has previously been a 2023 Artist in Residence at Winslow House in Vallejo, a 2022 Thick Solidarity Resident at Montalvo Arts Center, the 2019 Design Fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts, and a 2018-2019 Fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

126

PABLO TUT

Martyrs in a room

2023, Acrylic on canvas

20” x 12” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2,000

Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Drawing inspiration from prints and paintings depicting Christ, vivid memories of blood haunted Pablo Tut’s childhood. Pablo reinterprets these impressions in “Martyrs in a room” by emphasizing the corporeal aspects, conveying the visceral impact the original imagery had on them. Both martyrdom and the body become deliberately abstracted objects and actions.

ARTIST BIO

Pablo Tut grew up in Campeche, part of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, raised by a hardworking single mother. As a person of Mayan descent, Pablo has dedicated their artistic journey to crafting counternarratives and imaginative expressions that challenge the deeply colonized landscape of their hometown. A multidisciplinary artist, they engage in drawing, sculpture, video, installation art, and cultural management, with a central intent of engaging spectators with narratives that question colonial ideologies. Their work has been exhibited at Bienal de Arte Visuales de Yucatan; Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City; Monterrey National Bienal; and Museo Internacional del Barroco, Puebla. They were awarded a scholarship by Fundacion Jumex Arte Contemporaneo and will receive their MFA from Stanford University in May 2024.

127

ESTER TUVA

xoxooxoxo

2022, Oil on handwoven canvas

18.75” x 12” x 1.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $3,000

Starting Bid: $1,400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Ester Tuva’s “xoxooxoxo” is a painting on canvas hand-woven by the artist on a floor loom. The image reference is dancer Angela Trimbur’s Instagram post of a farewell dance in an apartment she was moving out of. Like Ester’s other work, this piece spotlights the subjects she felt uncool for being into as a teenage girl, like pop music, celebrity crushes, and family superstitions. Her woven canvases are made to celebrate that which is deemed ‘surface-level,’ lovingly devoting meticulous effort where none is needed.

ARTIST BIO

Ester Tuva, a painter and weaver, channels her creative vision into a profound exploration of prolonged observation. Her inspiration stems from a desire to linger over subjects often dismissed, particularly those she once felt hesitant to openly embrace. Drawing from her teenage years, Tuva’s work incorporates references gleaned from media and imagery that once held a weighty, almost taboo, allure. Yet, with the passage of time, she now approaches these references with a sense of levity and humor, transforming them into poignant reflections of desire and anxiety. She is a recipient of the Cadogan Contemporary Art Award and received her MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2022.

ARTISTS V THROUGH Z

Opening Reception forthe 2007 exhibition Grounded. Photographer unknown.

128 HENNA VAINIO

Lamp #9

2018, Plaster, fiber glass, electrical cord, and light bulb

32” x 10” x 10”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2,500

Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Henna Vainio’s “Lamp #9” is from a series of cast plaster sculptures she made in 20182019, using corrugated cardboard as a mold.

ARTIST BIO

Henna Vainio (Finland, b.1981) earned her MFA from the Slade School of Art, London, and her BFA from Chelsea College of Arts, London. Recent exhibitions include Quantum Foam, Casemore Gallery (2023); Ben Peterson - Henna Vainio, 1599fdT, Mill Valley (2023); Hardstep, Josh Lilley Gallery, London (2019) and More Life, Ratio 3, San Francisco (2018). She has also participated in a number of group shows in the UK, Finland, and Germany.

129

ISAAC VAZQUEZ AVILA peace arch

2023, Mixed media

10” x 8” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist and Pt. 2 Gallery

Retail Value: $2,500

Starting Bid: $1,200

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Isaac Vazquez Avila’s work reflects a state of flux, resembling fever dreams or apparitions hovering on the brink of revelation. Painting for Vazquez Avila is not a mathematical equation; it is an echo of geometry driven by emotion, impulse, and his hands’ intuition. Gouache’s capacity to reactivate after drying achieves an effect that evokes the grit of Mexico’s monumental frescoes.

ARTIST BIO

Isaac Vazquez Avila (b. 1983, Mexico City) works and lives in San Francisco. He has taught studio courses at California College of the Arts and the University of California Berkeley, where he earned his MFA in 2016. In addition to solo and group exhibitions throughout the region, Vazquez has created murals for venues, including the Oakland Coliseum, Facebook, and Art Market at Fort Mason. Vazquez is also a creative researcher for UC Berkeley’s Global Urban Humaiites Initiative. Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Global Urban Humanities, Vazquez has conducted studies in Mexico City regarding art and urban life. He will also be contributing visual materials to the project’s publications. Vazquez Avila has exhibited his work at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center(LA), Franchise Gallery(LA); Guerrero Gallery(SF); Right Window(SF); Tlaloc Studios(LA); Blunk Space(Point Reyes); and Pt. 2 Gallery in Oakland where his 3rd solo show with the gallery is on view through April 6, 2024.

130 ANDY VOGT

Exosection

2024, Toned cyanotype on watercolor paper

12” x 9” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,100

Starting Bid: $500

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“EXOSECTION” is from Andy Vogt’s Light Oxidized series using sculptural forms to create shadow images on top of sunlight-sensitized materials. This piece was made using cyanotype solution on sanded paper. The sculpture was placed on the prepared paper and exposed to the sun, then developed in water and later toned using tannic acid from coffee.

*The value here includes framing by City Picture Frame.

ARTIST BIO

Andy Vogt grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC, and earned a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Vogt’s current work is focused on ideas of landscape, architecture, impermanence, perception, and time across a wide range of materials and methods. He is known for his use of salvaged wood lath boards which he collects from the trash during the demolition of old buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area. These strips of wood have become his drawing medium with inherent color and standardization that he uses to creates compositions that often appear three dimensional, and depict various ideas of spaces and shapes in the midst of formation or dissolution. 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 was also an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts.

131 DEIRDRE WHITE

Unidentified Soldier

2022, Watercolor on paper

10.25” x 7.25” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $800

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

This piece is from a series of watercolors called “Gun People,” about gun culture in America.

*The value here includes framing by Painters Place.

ARTIST BIO

Deirdre White is a San Francisco-based painter whose work focuses on the confluence of observations, events, memories, and personal narrative about living in the American West. She received a BFA from Tyler School of Art and an MFA from University of California at Davis, where she studied with Wayne Thiebaud and Squeak Carnwath. She’s shown her work nationally and throughout California, including recently at John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis; Mad.Kat Gallery in Rancho Mirage; Ampersand International Arts; and Analog Gallery in San Francisco. Her work has been featured on the album covers of musicians John Dwyer, The Sandwitches, Sarah Beth Nelson, and Tom Heyman. In 2018 Deirdre was awarded the Jon Imber Painting Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. She is an adjunct instructor at City College of San Francisco and a Lecturer in Painting and Drawing at the University of California at Davis.

JENIFER K WOFFORD

Study for CR VII (Self-Portrait as Rock)

2024, Ink and acrylic on paper 14” x 10” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $2,074

Starting Bid: $1,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Jenifer K Wofford’s “Study for CR VII (Self-Portrait as Rock)” is a study for a larger painting that will be part of the new “Comfort Room” series, started in 2023. “CR/Comfort Room” in the Philippines means the toilet: the term has been repurposed here to invoke a darkly humorous space for release, relief, grief, imagination, and reinvention. CR VII comes out of Wofford’s most recent stay at the legendary Madonna Inn, a place that looms large in her personal mythology; a place of deep comfort where she has returned more than once over the years.

ARTIST BIO

Jenifer K Wofford is a San Francisco artist and educator whose work investigates hybridity, history, calamity, and global culture, often with a humorous bent. She is 1/3 of the Filipina-American artist trio M.O.B. Local exhibition venues have included the Asian Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, YBCA, Oakland Museum of California, Southern Exposure, and SJMA. She has also shown at Frieze (Los Angeles), Wing Luke Museum (Seattle), DePaul Museum (Chicago), Silverlens (Philippines), and Osage (Hong Kong). Wofford has received awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Fleishhacker Foundation, SFAC, Art Matters, and CCI. A committed and active member of the Bay Area art community, Wofford served on the SoEx Board of Directors for 6.5 years and teaches art at the University of San Francisco.

133 LENA WOLFF

Drawing for Morning, #16

2022, Acrylic pen and watercolor

19” x 19” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist and Sarah Shepard Gallery

Retail Value: $3,500

Starting Bid: $1,600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Lena Wolff links the iconography of American quilts with symbols for democracy, motifs from nature, and the universe at large. In keeping with her practice over the last two decades, Lena re-contextualizes lyrical and geometric quilt patterns in a wide range of unexpected mediums. Accessing the attention-demanding practices of craftsmanship, akin to those of a traditional quiltmaker, Wolff employs these slow, labor-intensive processes in order to produce pen and watercolor drawings.

ARTIST BIO

Lena Wolff is an interdisciplinary visual artist, craftswoman, and activist who has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area since the early 1990s. Wolff’s work extends out of American folk-art traditions while being rooted in minimalism, geometric abstraction, Op art, social practice, and feminist and political art. Her broad, interconnected artistic output includes drawing, collage, sculpture, text-based works, music, and public projects. In recent years, she has generated several projects that contribute to civic engagement, including a widespread anti-hate poster campaign and a public art initiative to boost voter participation that gained national reach in the past three election cycles in the US. Her work has been exhibited nationally and collected by ONE National Lesbian and Gay Archives, the Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Museum of California, the San Francisco History Collection at San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco Arts Commission, Alameda County Arts Commission, Cleveland Clinic, University of Iowa Museum and the Zuckerman Museum of Art, among others. She lives with her wife, artist, teacher and illustrator, Miriam Klein Stahl, and their daughter in Berkeley, California.

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ALICE WU

The Red Herring

2024, Rayon, silk, cotton, plastic cord, nylon cord, plastic raffia, leather, plastic drycleaning bag, PVC shoe bag, MDF, acrylic

20” x 16” x 3”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $800

Starting Bid: $250

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

This plumpkin began with a dry-cleaning garment bag from Taipei saved because it’s made from thick and crispy plastic that makes a satisfying crunching sound. Inside is a pink plastic shoe bag that smells like bubblegum. The exterior is wrapped and woven with material including madder-dyed cotton cording, strips of rayon crepe, gold leather, tiedyed wrapping paper from a wedding gift. The form sits on a vermilion pedestal. Wu offers, “I’m thinking of a clue, a code, a cipher, or maybe a cenotaph.”

ARTIST BIO

Alice Wu is an artist and designer who has shown at Southern Exposure, Kala Art Institute, Soft Times, and Berkeley Art Center. Wu has also exhibited at Exit Art (NYC), the Bronx Museum (The Bronx), Hanna Gallery (Tokyo). Wu has costumed performances at Southern Exposure, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Dance Theater Workshop, and ODC. Wu cofounded Feral Childe, an art and clothing line presented at MAK Center/Schindler House, Fritz Haeg’s Sundown Salon, High Desert Test Sites, and the Santa Fe Art Institute.

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ROCHELLE YOUK

MEJU/ 메주 WALL, GYEONGBOK PALACE/ 경복궁

2024, Graphite print of meju blocks on hanji 14.25” x 18.25” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,000

Starting Bid: $400

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Rochelle Youk’s “meju/ 메주 wall, gyeongbok palace/ 경복궁 ” takes its form from the process of making doenjang/ 된장 , a thick, funky, fermented soybean paste central to Korean cuisine. The year-long process starts with the formation of meju/ 메주 , blocks made out of cooked and mashed soybeans. The meju then go through a process of drying and fermentation in which they harden into craggy, veiny brick-shaped blocks. Here, the meju are pressure printed with graphite on hanji/ 한지 and mimic an ancient brick wall pattern from gyeongbok palace/ 경복궁 .

ARTIST BIO

Rochelle Youk graduated from San Francisco Art Institute in 2010 with an MFA in Painting and started as a bindery apprentice shortly thereafter, training under Leif Erlandsson and Sarah Songer. During that time, she has served the press in a variety of bookbinding roles, including consulting on Deluxe editions, and management of the bindery since 2016. As a visual artist working across media, she also maintains a studio with the Dogpatch Collective, is in the current cohort of artists with the Korean American Artist Collective and is a member of the Berkeley Art Center’s Program Committee.

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JES YOUNG abundant openings

2023, Recycled cotton bed sheets, silk organza dyed with locally foraged loquat leaves, and California clay, photo printed on silk charmeuse

12” x 12” x 2”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,400

Starting Bid: $700

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Lines of connection are drawn through the materials used in each of jes young’s patchwork, linking the present moment with their ancestors and origins. Photos on silk taken through time in the Bay Area and in China, recycled fabrics dyed with California clay, and loquat leaves foraged from Oakland’s Chinatown all conjure these intangible threads through material form. The patchworks are lined with pockets, in order to hold objects associated with loss, love, and connection.

ARTIST BIO

jes young (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, maker, storyteller, educator, and curator from the Bay Area, based in Oakland. Their practices in material storytelling come from Chinese and “Western” craft-based healing / processing rituals that include patchwork quilting, natural dying, photography, ceramics and familial / communal / herbal research. By continuing a practice of material storytelling from many generations before them, they (re)write and (re)contextualize stories that center / honor complex truths. They received a BFA from California College of the Arts and have presented work in solo shows at Dream Farm Commons (Oakland, CA), Cone Shape Top (Oakland, CA), and in group exhibitions at Kearny Street Workshop (San Francisco, CA), CTRL+SHFT Collective (Oakland, CA), Root Division (San Francisco, CA), and Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA). Young has also curated exhibitions and organized events at Dream Farm Commons (Oakland, CA) and CTRL+SHFT Collective, and has worked on the curatorial and AiR committee at Dream Farm Commons.

MARYAM YOUSIF

Singing “You & I My Love” in Arabic

2022, Glazed stoneware

14.5” x 11” x 5”

Courtesy of the Artist and The Pit

Retail Value: $4,000

Starting Bid: $2,000

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

The Habibti figurine which appears in “Singing ‘You & I My Love’ in Arabic” is a recurring motif found throughout Maryam Yousif’s practice. The work is inspired by Sumerian Votive figures, as well as fashion and music.

ARTIST BIO

Maryam Yousif was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1985 and lives in San Francisco, California. She received a MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2017, and a BA from the University of Windsor, Ontario in 2008. Solo and two-person exhibitions include The Pit, Los Angeles; David B. Smith, Denver; Andrew Rafacz, Chicago; Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco and / slash art, San Francisco. Yousif’s work has been featured in exhibitions at venues such as Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles; Museum of Art & Design, New York; The Center for Craft, Asheville, North Carolina and Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, California. She is the recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation’s Eureka Fellowship and a finalist for SFMOMA’s SECA award and the Museum of Art and Design’s Burke Prize.

HAOYUN ERIN ZHAO

Love After Love #49

2021, Oil-based monotype, translucent film, hand-stitching on paper 11” x 9” x 0.5”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,000

Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

Inspired by Derek Walcott’s evocative poem, “Love After Love,” this series serves as a subtle yet poignant reminder to cultivate self-love and kindness, particularly amidst adversity. Through the intricate fusion of diverse processes and the crafting of a distinctive visual language, Haoyun Erin Zhao navigates the intricate dance between visual perception and sensorial experience. The essence of this collection lies in themes of courage, resilience, hope, and the beauty inherent in new beginnings.

ARTIST BIO

Haoyun Erin Zhao is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, CA, primarily working in printmaking, painting, and installation. Rooted in her study of Eastern and Western Philosophy, her work explores the intangibility of perception through the physicality of her materials. Zhao is the recipient of Meta Open Arts, the Golden Foundation for the Arts, Edition/Basel Residency, Kala Art Institute Residency, Hearts in SF Project, etc. The artist’s work has been exhibited at the de Young Museum, Art Santa Fe Contemporary Art Fair, International Print Center New York, Galerie Kuchling Berlin, Root Division SF, Heron Arts, 111 Minna Gallery, and others. Her work is in the collections of IBM, Meta (Facebook), Kaiser Permanente, Boston Children’s Hospital, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and numerous private collections worldwide.

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MINOOSH ZOMORODINIA Satellite

Maps

2020, Acrylic and gold leaf on MDF

12” x 9” x 1”

Courtesy of the Artist

Retail Value: $1,000

Starting Bid: $600

ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

“Satellite Maps” is part of a series where Minoosh Zomorodinia references archiving memory in space and time based on data saved through satellite maps. She started this practice during the pandemic, where she’d transfer the digital record of her location to paint on a canvas. The gold leaf covers physical movements.

ARTIST BIO

Minoosh Zomorodinia is an Iranian-born Bay Area interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator whose work explores the relationship between humans, nature, and technology. She documents time using walking as a daily ritual to address colonizing land boundaries and highlight the interconnectedness between humans and nature. Zomorodinia serves on various committees in support of organizations including the Berkeley Art Center and SFCamerawork and is the Co-Chair and Board Member of Women Eco Artists Dialog. She has received numerous awards and residencies including YBCA 100, the Kala Media Fellowship Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi Residency, and a Recology Artist Residency. She has exhibited locally and internationally at the Asian Art Museum San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Berkeley Art Center. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an MA/BA from Azad University in Tehran.