On behalf of the Margaretville Hospital Board, greetings. We are grateful for your presence and participation in our Fifth Annual Community Art to Community Health (CATCH) Art Auction. This evening will celebrate the artwork of many donors across various mediums while helping to ensure that your family, friends and neighbors have access to high-quality healthcare close to home.
CATCH proceeds will support primary care at Margaretville Hospital, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) and the Margaretville Hospital Foundation.
This assembly of art and this event are products of many individuals, including our generous sponsors detailed in this program. Thank you to Margaretville Telephone Company for the generous donation of the MTC Community Room, Dave Rama, Margaretville Hospital Board Member and auctioneer, Kate Eggins, floor manager and Patrick Burlingham, James Howie and Richard Siegel, CATCH committee members.
We are also grateful for the hospitality of The Andes Hotel and Galli-Curci Theatre for hosting our preview events. And, indeed, for the ongoing support of all the Board members, we thank you for your attendance and generosity.
Emilie Adams Beth Eckels
Margaretville Hospital Margaretville Hospital Board Chair Foundation Board
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Art Auction
Lot 1
Sitting by the Studio Window
Artist: Lisbeth Firmin
17” x 24” | Painted Monoprint, 2005
Value: $1,600 • Starting Bid: $800
Artist bio: Firmin is a contemporary American realist whose imagery explores the relationship between people and their environment — depicting modern life while exploring timeless themes of solitude and isolation. Her solo exhibition, “Still Life,” at C24 Gallery in New York City opened on February 15, 2025.
Lot 2
Color 100022516
Artist: Jennifer Lord Rhodes
20” x 20” | Acrylic on Canvas, 2025
Value: $350 • Starting Bid: $200
Artist bio: Rhodes works with acrylic, gouache, watercolor, pencil, charcoal, thread and other media. She is inspired by architecture, digitization, color, geometry, psychological noise, stillness and the meditational states found in repetition and labor. She lives in the Catskills, New York, and has exhibited paintings and photography work in Berlin, Bamberg, Garmisch and Chapel Hill.
Lot 3
Edgedgedge
Artist: Beth Caspar
15” x 26” | Linocut Print, 2000
Value: $500 • Starting Bid: $350
Artist bio: Caspar’s work explores pattern — informed by music, dance, and mathematical concepts and shape, derived from simple planar geometry, chance and most recently, the alphabet.
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Lot 4
Manhattan Bridge – Pike St.
Artist: John Curtis
9” x 12” | Watercolor and Gouache on Paper, 2023
Value: $700 • Starting Bid: $350
Artist bio: Living and working in New York City, Curtis works with traditional watercolor and drawing materials. His work focuses on the ephemeral and enigmatic presentations of timeless landscapes, people and places.
Artist bio: McFerran is an interdisciplinary artist who lives in the Catskills and Croton. She is fascinated by the variety of life cycles constantly on display in nature.
Lot 6
Pears
Artist: Michael Linehan
24” x 24” | Photograph, c. 2000
Value: $1,600 • Starting Bid: $700
Artist bio: Linehan is a licensed architect, practicing in Baltimore, Maryland, for over 50 years. Fine art photography is his current focus, working primarily with a large-format camera to explore how the change of scale impacts one’s perception.
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Lot 7
Denver-Vega Morning
Artist: Chris Criswell
16” x 20” | Oil on Canvas, 2024
Value: $700 • Starting Bid: $400
Artist bio: “My first memory of my mother was as a two-year-old who climbed up on a chair to watch her paint a deer jumping out of a clump of brush. That experience sparked a lifelong fascination with the interplay of colors, shapes and textures that we see in human and natural forms everywhere. My formal art education began years later with plein air painting in Central Park and night classes at the Art Students League. Now that I’ve retired from the distractions of corporate finance, I’m enjoying the opportunity to focus more time on art in the Catskills.”
Lot 8
Staircase to Heaven
Artist: Gerda van Leeuwen
Donated by: Rob & Jan Andersen
10” x 8” | Mixed Media
Value: $500 • Starting Bid: $350
Artist bio: Van Leeuwen received her arts education in printmaking and painting at Academy Artibus in Utrecht. A grant from the Dutch Cultural Counsel made it possible to buy an etching press and set up a fully equipped printing facility, where she collaborated with other artists on print portfolios and art books, while teaching drawing and printmaking. Upon moving to New York City in 1985, van Leeuwen set up a printing studio called Hudson Street Press with Peter Yamaoka in Tribeca. Since 2006, she has been working and teaching in Roxbury, New York.
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Lot 11
Siblings 2-1
Artist: Stuart Bigley
Donated by: BJ Milner
36” x 24” | Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
Value: $3,500 • Starting Bid: $900
Artist bio: Bigley is an artist based in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. He has been making and showing his artwork for over 45 years. He also co-founded and ran the Unison Arts Center in New Paltz, New York. He is a multi-disciplinary artist focusing on painting, drawing and photography.
Lot 12
Untitled
Artist: Neil Driscoll
Donated by: Rob & Jan Andersen
20” x 24” | Acrylic on Canvas
Value: $700 • Starting Bid: $400
Artist bio: Driscoll received his artistic training at the Memphis Academy of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1960s. After a brief stint teaching high-school art, he realized his wide-ranging interests needed further expression, which he found in painting, music and landscape design. Driscoll paints the soul of his subjects in an eclectic style that is both folk-inspired and impressionistic.Lot 10
Lot 13
Summer Landscape
Artist: Nina Kasanoff
Donated by: Rob & Jan Andersen
10” x 14” | Acrylic on Board, 2006
Value: $400 • Starting Bid: $200
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Lot 14
Crevasse
Artist: Michael Reichman
18” x 24” | Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
Value: $600 • Starting Bid: $300
Artist bio: Reichman is a self-taught painter who grew up in New York City in a home clouded by addiction and mental illness. After a long recovery for himself, his love of art was steadfast. Reichman now has an extensive collection. Most of his struggles and successes are quite evident in his body of work.
Lot 15
Freedom to Question Authority
Artist: Nat Thomas
Donated by: Rob & Jan Andersen
18” x 18” | Mixed Media
Value: $600 • Starting Bid: $450
Artist bio: Thomas has a printmaking degree from Louisiana State University. He moved to New York City in 1978 and concentrated on collage and paintings on paper and canvas. He then turned his focus to textile art, first silk-screening and hand painting fabrics, and then moving to hand dying all the fabric for his creations. Since moving to the Catskills in 1986, Thomas combines all these artistic endeavors in a wide-ranging body of work, including oil, mixed-media collage, quilts and wearable textile art. He currently lives in Margaretville, New York.
Lot 16
Sawkill at Woodstock
Artist: Robert Selkowitz
Donated by: BJ Milner
18” x 25” | Pastel
Value: $1,900 • Starting Bid: $750
Artist bio: “I am a landscape painter. I paint scenes from life that fill me with wonder and convey those scenes with a sense of love and enjoyment.”
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Lot 20
Ashokan
Artist: Holly Cohen
24” x 16” | Photograph, 2022
Value: $450 • Starting Bid: $250
Artist bio: Cohen’s greatest inspiration is her love of animals and the natural world. Through photography, she shares her innate artistry and vision of the world. She created Golightly Ink in 2021.
Lot 21
Brushland
Artist: Patrice Lorenz
24” x 24” | Oil on Board, 2023
Value: $1,200 • Starting Bid: $900
Artist bio: Lorenz is a draughtsman at heart who studied printmaking at the New York State University College at Brockport and received her master of arts in Painting from Albany State University. She incorporates drawing, painting, printmaking and other processes into her daily studio practice in Brooklyn, New York, and upstate in Delaware County. In 2005, she co-founded the LONGYEAR Gallery, a cooperative gallery in Margaretville, and in 2017, she co-founded ADHOC Projects, an Artist’s collective that curates thematic pop-up exhibits online and in underutilized spaces.
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Lot 22
Untitled
Artist: Peter Yamaoka
Donated by: Rob & Jan Andersen
13.5” x 11” | Ceramic
Value: $500 • Starting Bid: $250
Artist bio: Yamaoka graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the Royal College of Art in London. While his early work centered on printmaking, drawing and painting, his most recent work was ceramics, informed by sources ranging from Greek mythology to Mexican dioramas to Han dynasty burial objects. Yamaoka founded Hudson Street Press, which published portfolios of artist editions in New York City, where he lived for many years. Yamaoka later moved to Roxbury, New York, in the Catskills, where he maintained his studio and was also an avid gardener.
Lot 23
Crown of Thorn Gourd in Bowl
Artist: Judith Lamb
20” x 16” | Oil on Board, 2019
Value: $2,200 • Starting Bid: $850
Artist bio: Lamb, a New Yorker who moved to Delaware County in the early 1980s, has been painting her entire life. After experimenting with different styles of painting, she discovered that still life was the perfect vehicle for her temperament. Her paintings have been accurately described as “... masterfully capturing the very real but usually overlooked vitality that her subjects hold. Ms. Lamb’s paintings are much more than thoughtful renderings of inanimate objects; they are careful studies of what lies beneath what the eye perceives.”
Lot 24
Abstraction
Artist: Susan Yelavich
Donated by: S. Norton
20” x 12” | Acrylic on Paper, 1989
Value: $1,900 • Starting Bid: $700
Artist bio: A Bovina resident, Yelavich, is a design scholar, critic, curator and former Professor Emerita of Design Studies at Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York City.
Lot 25
Louisiana Church
Artist: Michael Linehan
24” x 24” | Photograph, c. 2000
Value: $1,600 • Starting Bid: $700
Artist bio: Linehan is a licensed architect, practicing in Baltimore, Maryland, for over 50 years. Fine art photography is his current focus, working primarily with a large-format camera to explore how the change of scale impacts one’s perception.
Lot 26
Silver Floral #1
Artist: Melanie Greene
Donated by: Suzanne Greene
30” x 22” | Print, 1978
Value: $950 • Starting Bid: $500
Artist bio: Greene’s parents owned a flower shop in Fleischmanns, New York, where they grew sweet peas, the primary subject matter in Greene’s watercolors and still life settings. She showed at the Catherine Martell Gallery in New York City.
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Lot 27
Silver Floral #2
Artist: Melanie Greene
Donated by: Suzanne Greene
30” x 22” | Print, 1978
Value: $950 • Starting Bid: $500
Artist bio: Greene’s parents owned a flower shop in Fleischmanns, New York, where they grew sweet peas, the primary subject matter in Greene’s watercolors and still life settings. She showed at the Catherine Martell Gallery in New York City.
Lot 28
Silo at Scutt Mountain
Artist: Gary Mayer
24” x 36” | Acrylic on Canvas, 2023
Value: $1,500 • Starting Bid: $800
Artist bio: Mayer comes from a family of artists originally from Detroit, Michigan. He exhibited widely in Detroit and New York City, where he lived for 22 years. After moving to the Catskills in 2004, he has had numerous shows at LONGYEAR Gallery in Margaretville and at Greenkill in Kingston. Recently, Mayer started a gallery with Patrice Lorenz and Ted Hannan called ArtUp in Margaretville.
Lot 29
Santa Fe
Artist: Barry Milner
Donated by: BJ Milner
30” x 30” | Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
Value: $1,600 • Starting Bid: $600
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Lot 30
Evening Stroll
Artist: Steve Burnett
17” x 24” | Charcoal on Paper, 2022
Value: $1,200 • Starting Bid: $800
Artist bio: In addition to being a very talented artist, Burnett and his wife, Kristie, run a beautiful farm in Bovina, New York. He is currently drawing from his farm experiences and from the stories his grandparents shared with him about being immigrant farmers in Iowa.
Lot 31
Don’t Hold It All Inside
Artist: Ron Macklin
12” x 18” | Watercolor on Paper, 2024
Value: $700 • Starting Bid: $350
Artist bio: Macklin’s paintings strive to provide joy, mystery and a sensitivity to places, people and objects. He paints all subject matters and currently works primarily in watercolor.
Lot 32
Tournesol
Artist: Laura Sue King
30” x 30” | Acrylic on Canvas, 2024
Value: $1,800 • Starting Bid: $600
Artist bio: King has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including one-person exhibitions at the Walt Meade Gallery in Roxbury, the Painters Gallery in Fleischmanns, El Museo de Arte de Caguas in Puerto Rico and Standpipe Gallery, Modernica and Eich Space in New York City. Her exhibitions and curatorial projects have been reviewed in Artforum and The New York Times. King teaches printmaking and color theory at Hunter College in New York City.
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Lot 36
Pink Mountain
Artist: Laura Taylor
Donated by: Laura Taylor (courtesy of Hawk + Hive)
54” x 50” | Oil on Linen, 2024
Value: $9,000 • Starting Bid: $4,000
Lot 37
Búðir Iceland Church
Artist: David Graham
16” x 20” | Photograph, 2013
Value: $900 • Starting Bid: $650
Artist bio: Graham is a Catskills and Brooklynbased photographer, locations agent and location scout. Directors and photographers he has worked with include Steven Klein, Ang Lee, Peter Lindbergh, Michael Mann, Gus Van Sant, Todd Haynes and Steven Spielberg. He is a proud Teamsters 817 member. Margaretville Hospital
Artist bio: Taylor was born in Maryland to a Brazilian mother and an American father, and raised in London, Ontario. Her childhood was marked by frequent visits to Brazil to visit family, with many summers spent deep in the Atlantic rain forest. Taylor studied at The Ontario College of Art and at The New York Studio School. She has been awarded residencies in Germany, Austria, Governor’s Island in New York City and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been shown at AIR Gallery, The Painting Center, Brenda Taylor Gallery, RKL Gallery and elsewhere. Since 2010, she has divided her time between New York City and the Catskills.
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Lot 50
Icon 5
Artist: Ann Lee Fuller
Donated by: Rob & Jan Andersen
4” x 6” | Oil on Panel, 2010
Value: $350 • Starting Bid: $350
Artist bio: “My work might be viewed as a combination of literal and abstract, a meeting of contrasts. The paintings are inspired by the intrinsic abstraction of the sky with its unique moments of light, layer and color. For me, the sky is a metaphor for time, as each moment has never happened before and will never happen again.”
Lot 51
Peonie Study #4
Artist: Christopher Durham
Donated by: Rob & Jan Andersen
5.5” x 6” | Oil on Panel
Value: $250 • Starting Bid: $150
Artist bio: Born in southern Virginia, Durham developed three loves early in life: animals, acting and art, all of which he successfully pursued upon moving to New York. In addition to his television acting and painting careers, he became a New York State licensed wildlife rehabilitator in 1998.
Lot 52
Untitled
Artist: Jessica Aronson
Donated by: Rob & Jan Andersen
7” x 5” | Ceramic
Value: $200 • Starting Bid: $75
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Lot 53
Feathers
Artist: Victoria van der Laan
Donated by: Rob & Jan Andersen
20” x 16.5” | Tapestry, 2019
Value: $600 • Starting Bid: $400
Artist bio: “My work is an abstract interpretation of the traditional quilt-making techniques I learned from my grandmothers. The painstaking handwork of my forebears never far from my mind as I work, I am committed to revealing the inextricable connection between the traditions of women’s work and fine art. Gravely concerned about the climate crisis and the harmful role the textile industry plays in it, I use only secondhand, repurposed or vintage textiles in my work.”
Lot 54
Nigerian Bracelet
Artist: Unknown
Donated by: Jim Howie Street Art, Handmade, c. 1975
Value: $100 • Starting Bid: $50
Lot 55
Platt Cove
Artist: Nat Thomas
Donated by: Rob & Jan Andersen
24” x 12” | Acrylic on Canvas, 2008
Value: $500 • Starting Bid: $300
Artist bio: Thomas has a printmaking degree from Louisiana State University. He moved to New York City in 1978 and concentrated on collage and paintings on paper and canvas. He then turned his focus to textile art, first silk-screening and hand painting fabrics, and then moving to hand dying all the fabric for his creations. Since moving to the Catskills in 1986, Thomas combines all these artistic endeavors in a wide-ranging body of work, including oil, mixed-media collage, quilts and wearable textile art. He currently lives in Margaretville, New York.
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Lot 56
Rejoice
Artist: Noah David Smith
12” x 12” | Dry Sub on Aluminum, 2022
Value: $1,600 • Starting Bid: $750
Artist bio: Smith is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer. He creates beautiful and evocative images with his natural aesthetic, distinct composition and elegant style. His technique is deeply rooted in portraiture, natural light and storytelling.
Lot 57
Nigerian
Necklace
Artist: Unknown
Donated by: Jim Howie Street Art, Handmade, c. 1975
Value: $100 • Starting Bid: $75
Lot 58
Ever Lasting A-P
Artist: Sheila Petousis
Donated by: Connie Birdsall
15” x 12” | Linocut
Value: $250 • Starting Bid: $100
Artist bio: “I grew up in Cape Town in a vibrant creative community. What inspires me is artists who are at home with who they are — flexible, diverse and generous with their creativity. A vibrant clatter, chatter, beep and peep of humanity envelops us here in joyful wonder as we engage in an Africa that is alive.”
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Lot 59
Fuego Tierra
Artist: GG Stankiewicz
14” x 11” | Monotype on Paper, 2005
Value: $350 • Starting Bid: $150
Artist bio: Stankiewicz is a multi-disciplinary artist. Her art is nature inspired. “Experiencing the local nature day-to-day with the changing seasons has been a primary influence in my artwork. The colors, lines, shapes, textures and patterns manifest themselves as stratified gestural marks, pigment pools and interwoven layers of old with new and forgotten with found.”
Lot 60
Zobo in the Spotlight
Artist: Christopher Durham
12” x 9” | Original Watercolor Plate for the Book “ZOBO”, 2014
Value: $350 • Starting Bid: $150
Artist bio: Born in southern Virginia, Durham developed three loves early in life: animals, acting and art, all of which he successfully pursued upon moving to New York. In addition to his television acting and painting careers, he became a New York State licensed wildlife rehabilitator in 1998. In 2014, he wrote and illustrated his first children’s book, “ZOBO”, the story of a sad clown who ventures out into the world to discover the meaning of happiness.
Lot 61
Pond Dering
Artist: Lesley A. Powell
14” x 18” | Oil on Canvas, 2021
Value: $750 • Starting Bid: $300
Artist bio: Powell has been an artist all of her life. She was first a dancer, choreographer and now a painter. The love of movement, space, texture, the body, color and nature are major influences on her art. Powell’s art deals with the ability to expressively change the space, whether it be the stage or the painting.
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Lot 65
Dream Surfing II
Artist: Jerry Gallo
14” x 11” | Mixed Media on Paper, 2023
Value: $300 • Starting Bid: $175
Artist bio: Gallo was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and currently resides in Shandaken and Yonkers, New York. His work explores form, shapes and patterns, at times derived from nature, to convey ideas and sensations, while often suggesting a story line for the viewer to complete. His work has appeared in exhibits at Gallery 18 in Riverdale, New York; The Drawing Rooms in Jersey City; ArtUp Gallery in Margaretville; Andes Academy of Art; Urban Studio + Unbound in Yonkers, New York; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; and on Yellow Fine Arts. He has had a solo exhibit at Polk State College in Florida.
Lot 66
Dream Surfing VII
Artist: Jerry Gallo
14” x 11” | Mixed Media on Paper, 2023
Value: $300 • Starting Bid: $175
Artist bio: Gallo was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and currently resides in Shandaken and Yonkers, New York. His work explores form, shapes and patterns, at times derived from nature, to convey ideas and sensations, while often suggesting a story line for the viewer to complete. His work has appeared in exhibits at Gallery 18 in Riverdale, New York; The Drawing Rooms in Jersey City; ArtUp Gallery in Margaretville; Andes Academy of Art; Urban Studio + Unbound in Yonkers, New York; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; and on Yellow Fine Arts. He has had a solo exhibit at Polk State College in Florida.
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Lot 70
Chickadee
Artist: Luke Dougherty
Donated by: Luke Dougherty (courtesy of Hawk + Hive)
7” x 8” | Oil on Canvas on Panel, 2025
Value: $600 • Starting Bid: $300
Lot 71 Spring
Artist: Sara Stone
10” x 10” | Watercolor, 2025
Value: $300 • Starting Bid: $150
Artist bio: Stone has a professional background in painting, ceramics, industrial design, illustration and calligraphy, and is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. She loves to draw and paint whenever possible. She is particularly inspired by nature and landscapes, especially those in the Catskills. After joining the East Branch of the Delaware Plein Air Painters, Sara remembered how much she loves painting with watercolors. Sara lives in the scenic hamlet of Halcottsville, New York, where she is inspired daily to pick up a pen or a brush. Margaretville Hospital
Artist bio: “When a particular image lingers with me, it feels like it’s coming from a deep place, urging me to paint it.” Dougherty left his life in the city in 2004 to move to the Catskills. He now lives and works in Bovina, making figurative paintings drawn from childhood memories and abstract works that explore mark-making, atmosphere and tonal harmony.
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Also, a heartfelt thank you to the community. Your support will continue our shared mission to deliver high quality compassionate care and life-saving treatments close to home.
Together we can make a difference — not only through the art we celebrate — but through the healing we support.
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