ArtAttack! 2022 Catalogue

ARTATTACK!

An auction in support of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

WELCOME TO ARTATTACK! 2022!

Tonight is a celebration of our queer communities and a rallying behind the largest queer theatre in the world. For 44 years, Buddies has provided a space for queer artists to take risks, for queer communities to gather, and for pushing the boundaries of theatre and performance in Canada and beyond. But none of this would be possible without the coalescence of our communities – the artists on our stages, our hard-working staff, our patrons, and you, our ardent supporters.

And it is because of our resilient community that we are able to celebrate these achievements and look forward to another milestone year. And it is because of your steadfast support, especially over the past two and a half years, that we are able to continue doing this necessary work.

Your presence here tonight and your generosity will have a profound impact on Buddies, queer artists, and queer community. Thank you so much for joining us.

xo

Daniel Carter, Interim Director of Operations and Programming

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is situated on the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe, and the Wendat, and the treaty territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. We acknowledge them and any other Nations who care for the land (acknowledged and unacknowledged, recorded and unrecorded) as the past, present, and future caretakers of this land, referred to as Tkaronto (“Where the Trees Meet the Water”; “The Gathering Place”). Buddies is honoured to be a home for queer, trans, and 2-Spirit artists on these storied and sacred lands that have been stewarded by Indigenous Peoples for thousands of years before the arrival of colonial settlers.

Established in 1979, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is Toronto’s leading destination for artistically rigorous alternative theatre and a world leader in developing queer voices and stories for the stage. Buddies offers a year-round program that includes a full season of queer theatre, new works festivals, artist residencies, and intergenerational training and education initiatives. In its 44-year history, Buddies has welcomed more than a million people into its home in the heart of Toronto’s queer village and has premiered more than 1,000 new works for the stage, making it the largest and longest-running queer theatre company in the world.

SEASON

Buddies presents a New Harlem Productions and Great Canadian Theatre Company production

The First Stone by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard — October 2022 Buddies presents ZOM-FAM by Kama La Mackerel — November 2022

A Buddies production

The Man That Got Away (A Special Appearance) by Martin Julien — December 2022

Buddies presents The Rhubarb Festival Festival Director Clayton Lee — February 2023

a Bad New Days production Untitled Landscape Project March 2023

a Tarragon Theatre production, in association with Buddies

The Hooves Belonged to the Deer by Makram Ayache — April 2023

a madonnanera, Buddies, and b current production Body So Fluorescent by Amanda Cordner & David di Giovanni — April 2023

NOTES FROM OUR CURATORS

Malik McKoy

The aim of my selection for ArtAttack! was to include artists who were local to Toronto. As an artist who works with vibrant colours myself, I was drawn to the works of Tessar Lo, Kaya Joan, and Jega Delisca. What ties these works together, beyond their vibrancy, is the painterly approach to multimedia work and the evident hand of the artist.

Tak Pham

For this year’s ArtAttack! Auction, I am putting forward a selection of exciting and innovative voices in Canada’s contemporary art. These artists are advocates, community leaders, trendsetters, researchers, storytellers, and wanderers. Their works reflect complex and beautiful insights into our everyday experiences, questions, internal soul-searching, and spiritual

meditation. While addressing topical subject matters, the ways the artists portray them suggest an optimistic outlook and possibilities for a better future.

The audience will also notice that a few artists here are either from or connected to Saskatchewan. The intention here is to introduce ArtAttack!’s audience to the diverse artistic practices and sensibility available in the land of living skies. You are encouraged to look up, follow, and support the artists following this year’s event.

Andrew Zealley

Tonight, art lives here at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Tonight, art helps us to support Buddies in its continuing work as a cultural mainstay for queer Toronto in risky, complex, and contradictory

times. Art helps us understand lived experiences, our own and the lives of others. Take a risk: take art home. This is the important action, tonight. The curator is merely an organizer, a selector. Cutting letters from picture magazines to compose a ransom note: Let’s Help Buddies Now! It is the artist and their work that is critical to movement, messaging, and growth. In this way, I leave the real message of my statement to an artist: What art can offer (if it can at all—to me it seems) is an absence of complexity, a vacuum through which you are led to a state of complete relaxation of mind. After that you may return to the complexity of life again, it may not be the same, or it may be, or you may never return, but that is your problem. (Yoko Ono)

LIMITED EDITION ARTIST’S PRINT

THALMANN

Reflections (Highway 407)

of 30 $185

Artwork courtesy of the artist

generously donated by Smokestack Studios

Jessica Thalmann is an artist and educator currently based in Toronto and New York City. She received an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from ICP-Bard College and a BFA in Visual Arts from York University. Thalmann has taught at the International Centre for Photography, Akin Collective, MacLaren Art Centre, Toronto School of Art, Gallery 44 and City College of New York. She has been an artist in residence at the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, Alberta, Canada, and at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at Aperture Foundation, International Centre for Photography, Camera Club of New York Baxter St, and Humble Arts Foundation (New York), VIVO Media Arts Centre (Vancouver), Museum of Contemporary Art, Harbourfront Centre, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Angell Gallery, Gallery TPW, Art Spin, and Gales Gallery at York University (Toronto).

THE LIVE AUCTION

Lot 1 – Buddies Pick LAUREN HORTIE

Dollylujah 2014 Ink on paper 12.25”x14”

Original Estimate $375

Artwork courtesy of the artist

Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

Lauren Hortie is an artist, DJ and educator working in Toronto, Ontario. She works in illustration, printmaking and paper cuttings. She is also the person behind Toronto cult nightlife events Steers & Queers, Bent Beauty and Cute Top. Lauren is part of the Midknife Films collective responsible for the award-winning Toronto LGBTQ history shadow puppet short films Whatever Happened to Jackie Shane, Midnight at the Continental and Meet me Under the Clock. You can find her work in various galleries, on t-shirts and the telephone pole across the street from your house.

@steersandqueersparty

Lot 2 – curated by Malik McKoy

TESSAR LO

Glowing Palm 2017

Mixed media on wood solid support 8”x10”

Original Estimate $1,050

Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

Tessar Lo is a Toronto-based artist and instructor. Lo began his formal arts education at Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts, Toronto, he continued into and graduated the Illustration Program at Sheridan College, Oakville. Lo has participated in exhibitions in Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Tokyo; and in the United States in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, New York, Seattle, and Philadelphia. He has participated in museum exhibitions and programs at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles as well as the Gardiner Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, and The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. He has had prolonged stints working in New York, Los Angeles, and various parts of Asia. Lo shows with Jaski Art Gallery, Amsterdam and River Art Gallery, Taichung.

tessarlo.com

Born in Hong Kong, HO TAM is a media/visual artist who has worked in advertising and community psychiatry. Tam has exhibited in public galleries and alternative spaces across Canada, including the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and two survey exhibitions, A Portrait of the Photographer, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, and Cover To Cover at the Richmond Art Gallery, BC. Tam is a recipient of various grants and awards, including the Grand Marnier Video Fellowship from the Film Society of Lincoln Center (New York) and the Best Documentary Feature at Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival. He recently edited and published Frontline: Interviews with International Photo-based Artists. He is also the publisher of Hotam Press, an independent press of artist books, and currently runs a bookshop and gallery of the same name. ho-tam.com // @hotam88

Lot 3 – curated by Andrew Zealley

HO TAM

Ghost ImageThe Photographer 2020 Inkjet print 13”x18”

Artist’s Proof Estimate $1,500

Artwork courtesy of the artist

Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

Lot 4 – curated by Tak Pham

ETHAN HANZEL

Goo 2018 Pencil, oil on panel 12”x15”

Original Estimate $750

Artwork courtesy of the artist

Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

Ethan Hanzel is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, textiles, and product and digital designs. Hanzel is the founder and owner of Fart Mart (@thefartmart) and studio manager at the specialty store No Fun® Studio & Softgoods (@nofunpress) located in Toronto.

@ethanhanzelart

ASHLEE MARCUS

Celine Dion at the Folies Bergère 2022 Textile, hand embroidery, cotton threads 16”x20”

Unique Estimate $850 Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

RAISE YOUR PADDLE

Ashlee Marcus is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist most well known for her hand-embroidered textile portraits. She holds a BFA Special Honours Degree from York University and has recently achieved a Certificate in Technical Hand Embroidery with Merit from the Royal School of Needlework at Hampton Court Palace in England. Her work has shown at Stitch Fetish in Los Angeles and San Francisco, The Dirty Show in Detroit, Hard Twist at the Gladstone and Gay Gardens at the John B. Aird Gallery in Toronto. ashleemarcus.com // @ashleemarcus

We take a break from the bidding to give everyone in the room a chance to show their support. Get your paddle in the air to donate $50 to Buddies and help us continue to deliver vital artistic and community programming as we gear up for our 45th anniversary season.

Lot 6 – curated by Tak Pham

ZACHARI LOGAN

Limb Sprouting Veins, from Enigma Series

2022 Red pencil on mylar 6.5”x7.25”

Original Estimate $3,850 Artwork courtesy of the artist and Paul Petro Contemporary Art Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

b. Saskatoon, 1980. Canadian artist Zachari Logan works mainly with large-scale drawing, ceramics and installation practices. Exploring the intersections between identity, memory and place, Logan re-wilds his body as an expression of queerness. Logan has exhibited widely around the world and is found in private and public collections worldwide, including; National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Remai Modern, Mackenzie Art Gallery, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (NMOCA). Logan has attended many residencies and was artist in residence at the Tom Thomson Shack at the McMichael Gallery. Logan has worked collaboratively with several celebrated artists, including Ross Bleckner and Sophie Calle and his work has been featured in many publications worldwide, including BBC Culture, The Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, Border Crossings, Canadian Art and Hyperallergic. Logan’s recent projects include Wildflower, a solo exhibition at the Canadian High Commission in London UK, and Ghost Meadows at Remai Modern in Saskatoon. zachariloganart.com

// @zachari_logan

Dianne Bos has been exhibiting her photo-based work for over 40 years. She has evolved various thematic bodies of work, and merged technical innovations to create new visual hybrids: her innovative uses of pinhole, film, camera obscura, photogram, installation, and cyanotype all explore the world around us.

“The excitement, for me, lies not in photographing and reproducing something I can see, but in revealing the imperceptible (and maybe only the imagined) using the physics of light and time and traditional darkroom techniques.”

Bos has been the recipient of many awards and grants and has also been nominated twice for the Scotiabank Photography Award. Her work has been presented internationally and she is a sought -after presenter on alternative photography techniques. Her work is represented in many private and public collections including The National Gallery of Canada, Glenbow Museum, Art Gallery of Hamilton, and The McMaster Museum of Art.

diannebos.ca // @dbosphoto

Lot 7 – curated by Andrew Zealley

DIANNE BOS

Chateau Potager Magic Gates

2021 Chromogenic print (pinhole negative) with darkroom manipulations

11”x14” Unique Print Estimate $1,700

Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

Lot 8 – Curated by Andrew Zealley

Peter Hobbs

Anal Staircase

2022 Pencil, watercolour, gel marker 18”x24”

Original Estimate $800

Artwork courtesy of the artist

Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

Manny Trinh (born 1974 in Saigon City, Vietnam) immigrated to Canada when he was 11 years old. He is a painter and visual artist. Trinh’s practice explores the nuances of contradiction. His vivid impressions of the human landscape of his homeland are major influences on his work.

Manny focuses on the entanglement of fantasy and reality; encapsulating a recognizable human core within surreal technology and splintered mechanical landscapes. The various techniques Trinh employs in wet and dry brushwork found in his acrylic, watercolour and gouache paintings are studies probing the surface and texture of our dichotomous environments, acknowledging generations of cultural evolution. His work can be found at Wall Space Gallery and the Art Manny Trinh lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Peter Hobbs is a Toronto-based artist who has exhibited in solo and group shows, both nationally and internationally. His work has taken a variety of forms, including naked group performances and ecological comic books. As a long-time advocate of the feminist tenet that the personal is political, he consistently makes art in which his queer sexuality is staged to underscore that pleasure, vulnerability, and risk are not only intrinsic to being human, but they also can be used to pursue a creative mode of self and communal care. His obsession with anal staircases is very much in the spirit of Paul Preciado’s queer declaration that we are all anal workers engaged in an anal communism.

For more fleshy details see: peterhobbs.ca

Lot 9 – Buddies Pick MANNY TRINH

Another Way

Acrylic on Canadian Vintage passport 3.5”x5”

Original from an ongoing series Estimate $425 Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

Zachery Longboy is a video maker and performance/installation artist. Born in Churchill, Manitoba of Sayisi Dene lineage Longboy places his multiple identities as a white-adopted/native/Two Spirit/ gay/sixties scoop survivor at the centre of his multi-disciplinary practice. His intensely felt, hybrid layered videos often use his complex performanceinstallations, paintings and drawings as a departure point.

Longboy is nationally honoured, widely shown in queer and First Nations venues, as well as in public collections. The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Winnipeg Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum (Calgary), and The Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa). Numerous screenings include The Edmonton Art Gallery, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y)

@zacherycameronlongboy

Lot 10 – curated by Andrew Zealley

ZACHERY C. LONGBOY

Eating Lunch 2018 Acrylic, lead ink on canvas 18”x32.5”

Original Estimate $750

Artwork courtesy of the artist

Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

Formed in 1979, FASTWÜRMS is the cultural project, trademark, and shared authorship of Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse. FASTWÜRMS creates poly-disciplinary artworks that mix performance and performative events into the context of immersive installations, collective making and social exchange projects. FASTWÜRMS artwork is characterized by a determined DIY sensibility, Witch Nation identity politics, and a keen allegiance towards working class, queer alliance, and artist collaborations.

FASTWÜRMS is a Witch polity and epistemology, creating and circulating aesthetic knowledge as a shared emancipation and liberation narrative.

@kimkozzi // @daiskuse

FASTWÜRMS

Skull 2022 RAKU ceramic with Pine needle & Witch hair reduction resting on felt sandbag with barley husk filling 6”x8”

Part of a limited edition of 3 created during their performance at FYRE WOAD, @F.A.R. commissioned by the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston Estimate $1,200

Artwork courtesy of the artist and Paul Petro Contemporary Art

Lot 11 – curated by Andrew Zealley

ANDREW ZEALLEY

Lone Son 2013 Treated photography 23.6”x35.8”

Edition of 5 (unnumbered)

Estimate $1250

Artwork courtesy of the artist

Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

In Lone Son, Zealley reflects on his identity as a queer individual and only-son in non-reproductive mode. Lone Son nips family lineage in the bud, so to speak. Upon deeper reflection, what does it mean to contain the sun/son’s energy through wrapping?

Based in Toronto, artist and activist Andrew Zealley has been responding, through cultural production, to issues of HIV and AIDS, the queer body, and pleasure for over thirty years. Zealley’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. His sound installation, Nature: This Is A Recording, is housed in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). He holds an MFA from OCAD University, and a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Environment and Urban Change (York University). His forthcoming vinyl phonograph records, METHODOLOGY LP and METHODOLOGY EP, explore chemsex practices in Toronto’s gay-, queer-, and trans-identified male sexual community. visualaids.org/artists/andrewzealley

ALEXIS BOYLE

You are a Sky Garden 2022 Ink and gouache on watercolour paper 9.1”x9.1”

Original Estimate $350

Artwork courtesy of the artist

Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

ALEXIS BOYLE (she/they) nurtures a vibrant practice including painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, and new media. Their work playfully explores sexualities and bodies in emotional anatomical landscapes. She earned a BFA from Concordia University and an interdisciplinary MFA from OCAD University, 2013. During her graduate studies, she held the Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship as well as the Fonds de recherche société et culture Scholarship. She has exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Her community curation, teaching and partnership building career as Curator, Community Access at the Ottawa Art Gallery channels a charged desire for a world where art is accessible to all. alexisboyle.com

Lot 12 – Buddies Pick

Lot 13 – curated by Andrew Zealley

Farihah Aliyah Shah is a contemporary lens-based artist originally from Edmonton, Alberta (Treaty 6) now based in Bradford, Ontario (Treaty 18). She holds a BHRM from York University and a BFA in Photography with a minor in Integrated Media from OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario. Using photography, video and sound installation, her practice engages photographic history and explores identity formation through the colonial gaze, race, connectivity to land, and collective memory. Shah was the 2019 recipient of the John Hartman Award. She currently is a member at Gallery 44 - Centre for Contemporary Photography and Women Photograph, an organization that advocates for Female Identified and NonBinary photojournalists. Shah has exhibited internationally in Asia, Europe, and North America. farihahshah.com // @rihah

Lot 14 – curated by Tak Pham

FARIHAH ALIYAH SHAH

Along the Demerara, Young Coconut 2017 Archival Inkjet print 12”x8” Edition 2/10 Estimate $500

Artwork courtesy of the artist

Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

Alan Belcher is a Toronto-based visual artist whose conceptual work is decidedly multi-layered and object oriented. Belcher is known for a directness and a sharp simplicity when approaching difficult subject matter. A self-taught artist, he was co-founder and co-director of Gallery Nature Morte in New York’s East Village from 1982–88. Works by Alan Belcher are held in various public collections which include National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Le Consortium (Dijon), Musée des Beaux-Arts (Montréal), Chase Manhattan Bank, Credit Suisse Collection —as well as numerous prominent private collections.

Alan Belcher is represented by Downs & Ross (New York), Galerie Lange + Pult (Zürich), Parc Offsite (Montréal), greengrassi (London), and in Toronto by MKG127 at 1445 Dundas St. W.

balanelcher.com // @balanelcher

Lot 15 – curated by Andrew Zealley

ALAN BELCHER

study for Venezia 2022 Watercolour with Venetian canal water and carbon 9”x12” Original Estimate $3,200 Artwork courtesy of the artist

Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

Lot 16 – Buddies Pick

JORDAN WEITZMAN

New Year’s Day

2013 Archival pigment/colour print 24”X32” Edition 2/5

Estimate $900

Artwork courtesy of Anton Russ

Jordan Weitzman (b. 1984 in Montreal) is a photographer, publisher and interviewer. He is the founder of Magic Hour, a podcast series of over 50 interviews with photographers and people involved in the medium. In 2021, he formed the imprint Magic Hour Press to publish books by and about photographers. His first monograph, Participation, was published in 2022.

@jordanweitzman

Lot 17 – Buddies Pick

GENERAL IDEA

Jockey Short Shopping Bag

1991/98

Altered Jockey brand undershorts, printed + signed labels and title sleeve 15.75”x27.5” from an edition of 100 Estimate $2,500 Artwork courtesy Caviar20 Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

General Idea formed in 1967 in Toronto and over the next nearly 30 years, the trio made a remarkable contribution to postmodern art. With their subversive approach and interest in parody and appropriation, General Idea addressed a broad range of social and art-world issues including consumerism, media consumption and the cult of the artist.

At the onset of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980’s, the illness and the apathy/ignorance toward it became a dominant theme in their work culminating in their famous “AIDS” which lampooned Robert Indiana’s iconic “LOVE”.

Another key facet of the group was the discourse around LGBT identity during an era of critical change and awareness in America. “Jockey Short Shopping Bag” is a paradigm of this characteristic from their oeuvre.

caviar20.com // @lovecaviar20

INTERMISSION

A short break from bidding to stretch out your paddle arm, have a snack, take a second look at the tuck shop, and get your last bids in at the silent auction.

Lot 18 – curated by Tak Pham

MAIA STARK

Look Out 2022 Gouache on panel, cold wax varnish 10”x10” Original Estimate $400 Artwork courtesy of the artist

Maia Stark is an artist of settler ancestry based out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Treaty 6. Stark graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan in 2015. An invested interest in body politics throughout her BFA and MFA led to various research outlets; eventually focusing on concepts of the Grotesque and the Uncanny, specifically as those concepts are described in folktales and fairytales. Stark’s works sometimes portray a duplicated figure, a sort of slanted self portrait, pulling from her experience as an identical twin to contextualize narrative and myth.

Stark is represented by Slate Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan. www.maiastark.com @maiastarkk

19 – Buddies Pick

MICHAEL SNOW

Projection 1970 Silkscreen

24”X20”

Artist’s Proof from an edition of 50 Estimate $2,500

Artwork courtesy of Caviar20

Michael Snow (b. 1929) is one of the most influential and admired experimental and multi-disciplinary Canadian artists. His output spans more than fifty years of production, including paintings, sculptures, photographs, films, books, holograms, projections, installations, musical recordings, performances, and essays. In addition to this diverse body of work, the artist is best know for his”Walking Woman” series and large scale public art.

Perhaps one of the most interesting characteristics of Snow’s output is his ability to alternate between creating work that is populist and work that is avant-garde and esoteric. In 1970 Snow was given a mid-career retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario and was the first artist to have a solo presentation at the Canadian pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

This print depicts a man with an erection groping the iconic Walking Woman. Below the figures there are several lines of text and a thumbnail-sized image of Snow’s walking women at left. caviar20.com // @lovecaviar20

Lot 20 – curated by Tak Pham ZOË SCHNEIDER

Bread Relief 2022 Sculpture, wall-mounted 12”x12”x13”

Original Estimate $250

Artwork courtesy of the artist

Working in sculpture and installation to critically examine the complexity of fat identity, Schneider considers topics including the expanding body, the body under restriction and surveillance, obsession in diet culture, the medical industry and the fat body, inherited food values, and societal confusion around food. Expansion, accumulation, restriction, and shrinkage are referenced through material explorations with bread dough, mortar, and silicone.

zoeschneider.net

Lan Florence Yee is a visual artist and serial collaborator based in Tkaronto/Toronto and Tiohtià:ke/ Mooniyang/Montreal. They collect text in underappreciated places and ferment it until it is too suspicious to ignore. Lan’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (2021), the Art Gallery of Ontario (2020), the Textile Museum of Canada (2020), the Gardiner Museum (2019), and many others. Along with Arezu Salamzadeh, they co-founded the Chinatown Biennial in 2020. They obtained a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from OCAD U. florenceyee.com @lan.florence.yee

Diptych: Vitamin P3 (Masaya Chiba) and Vitamin P3 (Sandra Gamarra)

2020 Oil on canvas both 12”x16” Unique Estimate $1,350

Artwork courtesy of the artist Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

Ifetayo Z. Alabi is a multimedia artist, who has worked in drawing, painting, collage, photography, filmmaking and more. Their work focuses on themes of social justice, the ongoing climate crisis, as well as exploration of identity and its intersections.

Ifetayo identifies as a mixed-Black individual who also identifies as non-binary. Their own identity is often reflected upon in their work. In the last year, they have exhibited their undergraduate thesis work titled WHAT WAS LOST AT SEA, at Gallery 1313 and at OCAD University’s GradEx 107. WHAT WAS LOST AS SEA, is an installation/collage work that focuses on the inherent connection between Black life and the lives of whales and seals particularly during the height of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. In addition to this Ifetayo has done work for BLM Toronto and BLM Global. Ifetayo will be graduating from OCAD University at the end of 2022. alabi-ifetayo.format.com

Lot 22 – curated by Andrew Zealley

IFETAYO Z. ALABI

Time is an Illusion 2022 Collage 9”x12” Original Estimate $275 Artwork courtesy of the artist

Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

// @goldzzzie.artchive

Lot 21 – curated by Tak Pham LAN FLORENCE YEE

23 – Buddies Pick

JENNY HOLZER

For Paula Modersohn Becker

2005 Digital print 27.6”x19.7” 65/100 Estimate $2,100

Artwork courtesy of Caviar20

Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

Jenny Holzer (b. 1950) is a multi-disciplinary American artist best known for her text-based public art projects. She was the first woman to represent the United States at the 1990 Venice Biennale. Since the late 1970’s Jenny Holzer has created an impressive body of work including objects, sculpture, public art, and photographs, often with the slogans and sayings from the debut of her career. Throughout her oeuvre Holzer decisively challenges political and social structures. Whether questioning consumerism, describing torture, or lamenting death and disease, her use of language is designed to disrupt and disturb.

One of the most important German artists of the 20th century, Modersohn-Becker is an inspiration to Holzer, and often addressed the motif/theme of “Mother and Child” in her work. In the staircase of the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Holzer erected a 12 meter length digital neon billboard with glowing blue text as an homage to the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker in 2005. This limited edition print was released to coincide. caviar20.com // @lovecaviar20

Lot 24 – curated by Malik McKoy

JEGA DELISCA

Caprice in the Distance 2022

Acrylic gouache on cold-pressed paper 10.2”x15” Original Estimate $725

Artwork courtesy of the artist

Framing courtesy of Akasha Art Projects

Born in West Palm Beach Florida, Jega Delisca is an emerging Montreal–based painter. His work is informed by the intimate relationships he has with his family, friends and his upbringing in Scarborough.

jegadelisca.com

@jegasdeli

Kenny Alvin Baird is a Métis Cree visual artist from the Michelle Callihou Band, Alberta working in Toronto. Kenny has an established reputation in a variety of commercial design media: Film Production Design, Commercial and Music Video Art Direction, Prop Fabrication, Wardrobe/ Costume Design, Graphic Design and Illustration.

Together, Kenny Baird and his sister Rebecca share a concern for reclaiming Aboriginal North American history, and an understated critique of colonialism, evinced in largescale installations which exploit Baird’s skill in set design. Baird has received several Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council awards, a residency scholarship to the Banff Centre for the Arts curated by Sarah Diamond, in addition to a Juno award and nominations for several MuchMusic and MTV art direction awards. kennyalvinbaird.com

Lot 25 – Buddies Pick

Kenny Baird Vitrines 2006 Colour photograph diptych

Both 8” 1/2 x 11”, framed 33”x18”

Original Estimate $700 Artwork courtesy of Anton Russ

HOUSE OF INTERGENERATIONAL visualaids.org/artists/andrewzealley

JAKETOBIN ILLUSTRATION jaketobin.ca @jaketobindraws

JAI CRYSTAL JEWELS @jaicrystaljewels KAYA JOAN kayajoan.com @kayajoan MITSUO KIMURA papercranemedia.com/mitsuo/ @mitsuo.kimura

DARRYL MABEY darrylmabey.com @mabeyitsart

FLORENT MANELLI florentmanelli.com @flomanelli

ALYSIA MYETTE DESIGNS alysiamyette.com @alysia.myette

MAXWELL PRINCE www.etsy.ca/shop/mxwllprnc @mxwll.prnc

JOCELYN REYNOLDS www.jocelynreynolds.com @jocelynarr

SLICK SATAN slicksatan.com @slicksatan

SHAIN LAMBERT @illustra_shains

AMANDA LEDERLE amandalederle.com createbeing.com @amandalederle

BRAD PYNE bradpyne.ca @kwijabo

ANDRÉS QUIJANO be.net/andresquijano @andylikestodraw

ERICK RAMOS erickmramos.com @erickmramos

FARIHAH ALIYAH SHAH www.farihahshah.com @rihah DREW SHANNON drewshannon.ca @bonyfingers SID SHARP www.sidsharp.com @sad_sharp

NATALIE VERY B natalieveryb.com @natalieveryb

DARYL VOCAT @daryl_vokitten

ROB WILSON robwilsonwork.com @robwilsonwork LINA WU linawu.com @linaw_u CHASON YEBOAH @craftyychas @knotnaked

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THE SILENT AUCTION

BID THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT ON THIS SELECTION OF PRODUCTS AND EXPERIENCES IN AND AROUND THE CITY. THE SILENT AUCTION CLOSES AT INTERMISSION!

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Lot C - Bon Vivant, Bacan

Nourish your heart and stomach with everlasting memories and the deep, subtle flavours of traditional Latin cuisine with this dinner for two at Bacan.

Lot D - Cookies ‘n’ Porn

Curl up with this package from some of our Church St. faves— $50 worth of delicious Craig’s Cookies and $50 worth of books from Glad Day (plus a collection of vintage porn to keep you warm this winter!).

Lot E - Ukulelele

You’ll be the life of the party with this Leho Soprano Ukulele in a Blue Sea finish from Long & McQuade.

Lot H - Learn! Art! Knit!

Take a course with Visual Arts Missisauga and stock up on product from Yarns Untangled.

Lot I - Stamp It

A sheet of AIDS stamps by General Idea featuring their iconic AIDS logo, courtesy of Top Drawer Vintage Art.

Lot J - Screen Queens

A Supporter Membership with the Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festiva—includes a 10-ticket package, exclusive access to member events, and much more!

Lot K - Plant Parenthood

Lot F - Bring on the Cheese

This custom one-of-a-kind charcuterie board is made from a beautiful live edge slab of black walnut and will make a great conversation starter at any party! All Blacwalnut products are handcrafted and one of a kind.

Lot G - Under Where?

Gender-affirming underwear and gear from urBasics, Canada’s source for queer intimate apparel.

A Houseplant Consultation with JOMO Studio’s in-house plant expert. Go over current plants in your space, troubleshoot, and get recommendations on plants that’ll thrive in your home!

Lot L - A Night at the Museum(s)

A visit for two to the ROM and a Friend Membership at the Textile Museum of Canada, plus some textile swag and reciprocal admission to Galeries Ontario Galleries members!

Lot M - Beneath the Surface

A book of photography donated by the estate of the late underwater photographer Lucas Murnaghan.

Lot N - Drama Queen

Fill the coming year with theatre from our friends at Nightwood, Obsidian, Crows, Factory, and Tarragon!

Lot O - Avon Calling Two tickets to an eligible performance in the Stratford Festival’s 2023 season.

Lot P - Drake Dining Dinner for two at the alwaysbumpin’ Drake Hotel.

Lot Q - Poetry Partay

Two hours of spontaneous custom poetry by Kaile Glick at your event!

You’ll receive a hand-bound book of your event’s poems, as well as handbill style booklets or commemorative single-poem postcards. Perfect for birthdays, weddings, and any event you can think of!

Lot R - Pink Flamingos

You’ll be set with pins, stickers, a poem about Buddies, and a #gayforscully tote bag with this package from Flamingo Market.

Lot S - Sass Me

Dinner for 4 in the heart of Yorkville at Sassafraz.

Lot T - Sass Me Again, Buddy Treat yourself and a friend to dinner at Sassafraz, plus two tickets to any show in our 2022/23 season.

Lot U - Make Some Noise

Top-of-the-line Marshall Black Acton II Speaker. It may be compact, but the sound is huge!

DONORS

Australian Boot Company australianboot.com Bacan bacan.ca BlacWalnut @blacwalnut

Craig’s Cookies craigscookies.com

Crow’s Theatre crowstheatre.com

Drake Hotel thedrake.ca Factory Theatre factorytheatre.ca Flamingo Market flamingomarket.ca

Glad Day Bookshop gladdaybookshop.com Good for Her goodforher.com Inside Out insideout.ca

JOMO studios jomostudio.com Long and McQuade long-mcquade.com Lucas Murnaghan lucasmurnaghan.com

Nightwood Theatre nightwoodtheatre.net

Obsidian Theatre obsidiantheatre.com

Royal Ontario Museum rom.on.ca

Sassafraz sassafraz.ca

Sean Kelly Stratford Festival stratfordfestival.ca

Tarragon Theatre tarragontheatre.com

Textile Museum of Canada textilemuseum.ca

The Spontaneous Prose Store thespontaneousprosestore.com

Top Drawer Vintage Art @topdrawercanada urBasics urbasics.ca

Visual Arts Mississauga visualartsmississauga.com

Yarns Untangled yarnsuntangled.com

HOW IT WORKS

Register

Be sure to register and pick up your Bidding Paddle in the Cabaret as soon as you arrive. With your paddle, you can bid on any lot in our live and silent auctions. Spend less time in the checkout line by authorizing the purchase of your items to either your Visa or MasterCard when you register and items successfully bid on can be immediately purchased. All you have to do is pick them up at the end of the evening!

Silent Auction

You can bid on items in the silent auction as often as you like using the same bidder number you use for the live auction. The highest bid received by our staff at the time of closing wins - winning bids will be posted on the boards within 10 minutes of the silent auction closing.

The Tuck Shop

All items are available for purchase at set prices, which are listed in the catalogue and on display. Items can be purchased ‘cash-and-carry’ or put on account using the same bidder number you use for the live and silent auctions. You will also find Jessica Thalmann’s Limited Edition Artist Print, Reflections (Highway 407) here.

Payment

You can pick up and pay for your items any time throughout the evening. Buddies accepts Visa, MasterCard, debit, and cash.

Paying by Instalment

Any purchase total of $1,000 or more can be paid for by instalment if you so choose. Speak to a staff member at the registration desk for more information or to set up an instalment plan before you start bidding.

Tax Receipts

If the final purchase price of an item in the live auction is equal to or greater than 120% of the posted estimated value, the purchaser will be issued a charitable tax receipt for the difference between the estimate and the selling price.

Conditions of Sale

Each lot contains an estimated value obtained from sources the ArtAttack steering committee believes to be reliable, but no representation or warranty as to the actual resale value is made or implied. Estimate values include value of framing, where applicable. All sales are final. No purchase can be returned, refunded, or exchanged. All items are sold as is, as exhibited. Buddies reserves the right to share the contact information of successful bidders with the artists whose work they have purchased.

EVENT PARTNERS

Framing sponsor Catering sponsor

Beer sponsor Snack sponsor

SPECIAL THANKS

Jessica Thalmann, Kelly, Sonja, and the team at Akasha Art Projects, Jonathan Groeneweg at Smokestack Studios, Bromlyn Bethune, Vasko Kocovski, David Taylor at Awake Studios, Craig Pike, Bombae, Kaile Glick, Martin Julien, Connie Tsang, Emily Nixon, Alexi Pedneault, Greg Wong, Kit Norman, Amber Pattison, Luke Dobson, Alison Thomas-Hall, Diamond Srey, Rachel Shaen, Andrew Di Rosa, Paul Dotey, Noah Gano, our curatorial committee, staff, volunteers, and all of the people who generously donated the items up for bid tonight,