Wildflower Gala Art Catalog

Wildflower Gala Art Catalog
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Stella Alesi, Austin
Pomegranate
8x8
Oil on wood
Austin resident Stella Alesi's current body of work focuses on botanicals. Most of the fruits and berries depicted in her paintings come from photographs she takes while walking in her South Austin neighborhood. Her work is a celebration of both nature and the process of creating.
Fair Market Value $500
Min Bid $175
Bid Increment $25
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Diana Atchetee, El Campo
Love Songs VI
12x12
Oil on canvas
Atchetee graduated in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in painting from Texas State University. Since then, she has vigorously pursued her art career. Her work reflects themes of nature, focusing on the behaviors of animals, with an emphasis on birds. Her artwork represents raw emotions, such as playfulness, protection and desire. Atchetee primarily works with acrylic on canvas and often incorporates different media; she also uses a strong sense of color combination: earthy and bright colors.
Fair Market Value $350
Min Bid $125
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Mary Baxter, Marathon
Hillside and Cloud
18x18
Oil
At The University of Texas at San Antonio, Mary Baxter studied painting and printmaking and financed her education by training horses. After graduating, she continued to work with horses and cattle, and eventually relocated to the Big Bend region to manage a ranch there. As the demand for her paintings increased, she was able to paint full-time. For the last several years Baxter has used the Rabbit Building in Marathon as her studio, where she paints the light and colors of the desert.
Fair Market Value $1,350
Min Bid $450
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Roy Bellows, Fredericksburg
sculpture
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Roy Bellows studied with Warren Hunter at his San Antonio art school and earned a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of Chicago in 1966. He learned basic blacksmithing from Frank Turley in Santa Fe and did advanced study at the Accademia Internazionale del Ferro Battuto in Italy in 1981. Bellows began ironsmithing in Taos (because it was a good thing for somebody named Bellows to do), and he has worked in Fredericksburg since 1978. Some examples of his work are the Maibaum, a centerpiece of the Fredericksburg Market Square, the St. Stephen's Episcopal School entry gates and the chapel doors at St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Austin.
Fair Market Value 7500
Min Bid 1500
Bid Increment 200
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Rebecca Bennett, Austin
Blue Ethereal
36x36
Oil on canvas
Born in Salinas, CA, Rebecca Bennett lived in New Jersey, Colorado, Missouri and Kentucky before moving to Austin 10 years ago. She credits her experience at the Barn Studio of Art in Millville, NJ, for her lifelong interest in art. A psychology major, she also studied art in college, in Florence, Italy, and again at the Austin Museum of Art. She is a graduate of Union College, Schenectady, NY. She exhibits extensively in Austin, and her work is included in the exhibits of DeLoitte, Boyar Miller Law Firm, Ernst & Young, etc.
Fair Market Value $1,300
Min Bid $450
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Ave Bonar, Austin
Mammatus Clouds
14x16
Pencil /gelatin silver print
Ave Bonar grew up in Galveston and Lubbock. Before receiving her bachelor’s degree in photojournalism from UT Austin, she was mentored photographically by Jimmy Jalapeno and Russell Lee. She has always considered photography to be her vocation as well as her avocation. Her work can be found in numerous private and public collections, including the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at UT, The Wittliff Collection at Texas State University,the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Amon Carter Museum and the Dell Children's Medical Center.
Fair Market Value $700
Min Bid $250
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Kate Breakey, Tucson
Persian Rununculus
27 x 27.5 framed
Monochrome
The photographer's Small Death series - elegiac portraits of tiny corpses, including insects, lizards and especially birds - has won her international recognition. Born in Adelaide, Australia, Breakey attended art school then began teaching while pursuing photography. By enlarging each final print to a 32-inch square, she also increases its poignancy, and as a final tribute she paints the subject, applying several layers of transparent oils and then tracing over feathers, scales and other features with colored pencils.
Fair Market Value 1000
Min Bid 350
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Eric Carle, Amherst
Hello, Red Fox
8x12 + frame
crayon and watercolor
Many people have grown up with books by Eric Carle, one of America’s most beloved children’s authors and artists. One of the most recent is "Hello Red Fox!" Others in the long list of classics include "The Hungry Caterpillar," "The Very Lonely Firefly," "The Grouchy Ladybug," "The Mixed Up Chameleon" and others. Carle’s collage illustrations are characterized by a masterful simplicity that reflects a deep understanding of young children. Nearly all of his work over the years is in the collection at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA, so we are very fortunate and grateful to have one of his originals in this auction.
Fair Market Value $1,500
Min Bid $500
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Jill Carver, Austin
Texas Autumn
10x12
oil
Originally from England, where she was a research assistant at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Jill Carver moved to Texas in 2002. Specializing in painting plein air, she has claimed the Texas Hill Country, the Davis Mountains and Big Bend as integral icons in her work. She has exhibited at the New Zealand Embassy in London, the Austin Fine Arts Festival, the 2005 Showcase at the State Capitol and the Estes Park Plein Air Show. She reveres John Ruskin, 19th century English social reformer and artist.
Fair Market Value $850
Min Bid $300
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Laurel Daniel, Austin
Field of Maize
20x20 + frame
Oil on panel
Born and raised near Lake Michigan in Racine, WI, Laurel Daniel has had a lifelong love for nature and all of its forms. She is an avid plein air painter and says, "Plein air painting is a huge part of my process--it feeds, motivates and is the source for my studio work. It is an excuse to be outside, experiencing nature firsthand." With a degree in studio art and 19 years in the graphic design business, she now paints full-time and teaches at the Austin Museum of Art. She is represented by Davis Gallery in Austin and galleries in Georgia and Montana, and her work is in many private collections. Laurel was April 2009 2nd place winner of the International Artists Magazine competition.
Fair Market Value $1,000
Min Bid $350
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Sydney Davis, Santa Fe
Daisy Chain Necklace
Sterling Silver
Sydney Davis has been designing and making jewelry for 15 years. A graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, she shifted her focus from Wall Street to art in 1993, after apprenticing with Ross Lewallen in Santa Fe. She is inspired by the nature around her in New Mexico, as well as by her travels around the world with her husband and two children. Her work has been sold in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, California and Maine.
Fair Market Value $550
Min Bid $200
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Julie Davis, Austin
Just Home from the Market
14x18 + frame
Oil on canvas
A native Texan raised in Galveston, Lubbock, El Paso and Abilene, Julie Davis in 2006 decided to fulfill a lifelong urge to paint, beginning coursework at the Austin Museum of Art, where she continues to study actively. Julie creates a new painting most days, inspired by color, light and shadow in surrounding objects and the outdoors. She has exhibited her still lifes and landscapes in Austin Museum of Art’s Gatehouse Gallery and in juried shows at Austin Art Space and Artspoken Gallery.
Fair Market Value $500
Min Bid $175
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Chris De Dier, Austin
Sunrise/Canyon Lake
30x40 + frame
Oil on canvas
Chris De Dier was born in Belgium and studied art history and design at the St. Lucas Institute in Brussels. He moved to Canada in 1986 and has lived in the U.S. since 1996. In his landscape paintings where the sky plays the major role, the colors and shapes of the clouds joined with the value of the light are directed by the moods and emotions of the moment. His paintings are available at Davis Gallery, Austin, and at Gremillion & Co. Fine Art in Houston. Besides painting, he also designs furniture for his Austin-based company, ARRIS STUDIO. www.chrisdedier.com www.arrisstudio.com
Fair Market Value $3,500
Min Bid $1,200
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Philip Durst, Austin
Wildflower
27x33 + framed
Collage
The artist says that,as a collagist, he is "drawn to pattern and repetition, which are also the hallmarks of quilting. As quilts were traditionally made with scraps and left-over fabrics, I like to work with materials that have also been cast off or designed for other purposes. I enjoy working with paint chips, old books, candy boxes and other packaging that all have such beauty, even though they were never designed to last. Such a tremendous amount of artistic talent, choice and color goes into such ephemeral packaging, that I like to preserve its beauty and vibrancy. I enjoy the effect of taking such colorful materials and making small pieces that, hopefully, when added to many others, can create a landscape or effect greater than its components."
Fair Market Value $750
Min Bid $250
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El Interior-Casal Family, Austin
Decorative Mexican Platter
15 inches diameter
Handpainted Talavera Platter
El Interior is one of Austin's oldest and most established folk art, clothing, textiles and home accessories galleries. El Interior maintains an extensive inventory of oil cloth in bolts and a variety of custom designed shopping and tote bags. Their inventory of hand woven textiles is unrivaled outside Guatemala. Since 1979, the highest quality of craftsmanship and folk art are offered in their convenient West Austin location, all personally collected directly from artisans and producers from throughout Mexico and Guatemala by owner Marcia Lucas.
Fair Market Value $400
Min Bid $175
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David Everett, Austin
Bullfrog
4x2x2
Cast Bronze
Born in Beaumont and raised in East Texas, David Everett learned to love wildlife while observing snakes, birds, alligators and turtles in the saltwater marshes and swamps. His work is rooted in his regional understanding of the land and nature. He is best known for his work in wood, including carved statues, wood relief and wood cuts. While his animal statues and totems are perhaps his signature pieces, he has also produced several series that integrate human figures.
Fair Market Value $200
Min Bid $75
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Melanie Fain, Boerne
Preening Hummer
3.5" x 5" + frame
Etching,watercolor
An award-winning artist, Melanie Fain lives on seven wooded Hill Country acres that inspire images of the natural world. She translates her perceptions into elegant, hand-colored etchings done by the intricate solarplate process and watercolors which find broad appeal. Her 'less is more' philosophy gives her work an Asian feel -- 'visual haiku'. Her work has been shown at the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition, Easton Waterfowl Festival, NatureWorks and Plantation Wildlife Art Festival. It is part of private collections at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Medical School and the Thomasville Cultural Center.
Fair Market Value $300
Min Bid $100
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Kelly Fearing, Austin
Three Birds in Passage Hiding
18.5x24.5
Intaglio
William Kelly Fearing, before coming to Austin, taught and painted in the famous Fort Worth Circle, which had an immense influence on mid-century Texas art. He was born in Arkansas, studied art at Louisiana Tech and received his master of fine arts from Columbia University. He was Ashbel Smith Professor of Art at The University of Texas at Austin for 40 years, and in 2002, the Department of Art and Art History presented a 60-year retrospective of his work. That exhibit brought together paintings, drawings, prints and collages from public and private collections throughout the United States and traveled to The University of Texas at Arlington and the Old Jail Art Museum in Albany, TX.
Fair Market Value $1000
Min Bid $400
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Michael Frary, Austin
Red, Yellow, Blue Flowers
22x30 + frame
Watercolor
A Texas legend, Michael Frary was a seminal figure in the art movement known as modernism. Born in California, he obtained his MFA from the University of Southern California and early in his 70 year career worked as an art director for MGM, Paramount and Universal Studios, and then joined the faculty at UCLA. In the early 1950s, he moved to Texas where he was artist in residence and faculty chair at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio before he began his career at The University of Texas at Austin, where he retired in 1986 as Professor Emeritus of Art. During his career, he received more than 175 awards and had more than 200 one-man shows. His works are included in collections of many major U.S. institutions, including the Smithsonian, the National Museum of American Art and the National Gallery. Donated by Peggy Frary.
Fair Market Value $4,500
Min Bid $1,200
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David H. Gibson, Dallas
Morning Along Cypress Creek, Apr. 15, '07, 6:50am, Wimberley
27x34 framed
Archival Pigment Print
David Gibson has been exhibiting photography since 1990 when he put on a one-person exhibition at the Eastman Kodak Marketing Education Center in Rochester, NY. He has received prizes at the Linhof Photo Competition in Germany, the Texas Photographic Society's Governor's Exhibition and the Yosemite Museum Gallery's Yosemite Renaissance XIII. His work includes landscapes of Deep East Texas, the Canyonlands, Brazos Cliffs, Fort Davis, Cypress Creek and many other beautiful places.
Fair Market Value $1,500
Min Bid $500
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Dianne Grammer, Austin
Flower Field
14x12 + frame
Pastel
A native Texan, Dianne Grammer uses oil and pastel paintings to depict expanses of wildflowers and grasses, conveying a sense of freedom and order set against distant horizons. She teaches painting at the Austin Museum of Art and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, California and New Mexico and at the Austin, Dallas and San Angelo Museums of Art and Grace Museum. Her work is included in the private collections of Gov. Dolph Briscoe, Luci Baines Johnson, Shell Oil and The University of Texas at Austin.
Fair Market Value $800
Min Bid $250
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Kenneth J. Hale, Austin
Landscape Revision after Rubens #3
6x10.5 image on13x17 paper,framed
Digital Print with Collage
Hale received his MFA from the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana. One-person exhibitions have been held in numerous cities including Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Bangkok and Madrid. His prints are represented in collections such as the McNay Art Museum, the Chicago Art Institute, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Professor Hale is a member of the Studio Art faculty at The University of Texas at Austin, served as Chair of the Department of Art & Art History at UT Austin from 1996 to 2005 and is currently serving as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the College of Fine Arts.
Fair Market Value $1,000
Min Bid $300
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Joseph Hammer, Austin
Axis Mundi
24x18
Collage
Joseph Hammer truly practices the "art of recycling," using the detritus of everyday life in mixed media constructions. He especially likes working with pieces of aged, deteriorated hardback books, "showing handprints from long ago." Hammer has shown his work publicly for three years and has received recognition in shows juried by curators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the UCLA Wright Art Gallery and the McNay Art Museum. His work is represented by Davis Gallery, Austin; Bering & James, Houston; Cerulean Gallery, Dallas; and 1550 Gallery in Kerrville.
Fair Market Value $2,200
Min Bid $750
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Linda Hammond, San Antonio
The First Lily
36x24 canvas
Mixed Media on canvas
Linda Hammond's mixed-media works are created intuitively; her work is informed by art history, spirituality, nature and literature. Her work is in the Permanent Collections of The University of Texas at San Antonio, the San Antonio Art League Museum and Hill Country Arts Foundation. Her art has been shown at the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Albuquerque Museum of Art, Instituto de Allende, San Miguel de Allende, The Walton Center at the University of Arkansas, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Museum of the Southwest and many more. She accepted a Silver Medal Award at the Texas Watercolor Society’s 60th Annual Juried Exhibition in March 2009. Her works are on display at Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, and 1550 Gallery, Kerrville.
Fair Market Value $850
Min Bid $450
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Ray Holbrook, Seattle
New York - 91
16x20 + frame
Photography
Ray Holbrook has traveled throughout the United States and Canada, capturing the natural beauty of wilderness landscapes. His current series features ice and tundra from a stint on a rogue Norwegian trawler in the Bering Strait, fall color from a camping expedition to the Canadian outback, and shadowy snowscapes from a winter expedition to Vermont and the New York Adirondacks. These pictures were shown in the Laguna Gloria art festival in Austin. He has a master's degree from The University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Seattle. When not pursuing photography, he is a database administrator at Boeing.
Fair Market Value $600
Min Bid $200
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Ray Holbrook, Seattle
New York 92
16x20 + frame
Photography
Ray Holbrook has traveled throughout the United States and Canada, capturing the natural beauty of wilderness landscapes.His current series features ice and tundra from a stint on a rogue Norwegian trawler in the Bering Strait, fall color from a camping expedition to the Canadian outback, and shadowy snowscapes from a winter expedition to Vermont and the New York Adirondacks. These pictures were shown in the Laguna Gloria art festival in Austin.Ray has a master's degree from The University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Seattle. When not pursuing photography, he is a database administrator at Boeing.
Fair Market Value $600
Min Bid $200
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Daryl Howard, Austin
Keeping this Morning
16.5x18 framed
Woodblock Print
Daryl Howard’s works are much exhibited in Texas, and she has won awards at the Three Rivers Art Festival, the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival at Pensacola and the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art. She has a BFA degree from Sam Houston State University and an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. She has also studied traditional woodblock printmaking in Japan. A 25-year retrospective of her work, "Daryl Howard: A Warm Stone to Dream Upon," was published in 2004.
Fair Market Value $750
Min Bid $250
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Judy Jensen, Austin
Nest Egg
8x6 + frame
Reverse Painting/Drawing on Glass
An American Craft art critic wrote that “Jensen’s creations lie somewhere between a collage and a collection, a Wunderkammer of artifacts from her travels and dreams.” Jensen has exhibited widely, with solo venues including the Galveston Arts Center, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and eight exhibits at New York's Heller Gallery. Her work is at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Corning Museum of Glass. For the past five years, Jensen has been working almost exclusively on commissions.
Fair Market Value $1,800
Min Bid $600
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Glenn Jordan, Dripping Springs
Sundowner Sprites
48x60
Acrylic
The artist says: "My themes are about emerging plants and flowers struggling against the Texas sun and rocky landscapes to grow bits of color and beauty." His work has been chosen for shows by curators or critics with the Museum of Modern Art, Art in America magazine and the Dallas Museum of Art. He has exhibited at Giacobbe Fritz Gallery in Santa Fe, and his artwork was featured in a “One Minute Egg” video on PBS. Jordan works primarily with acrylic on canvas. His work can be seen at www.Glenn_Jordan.com.
Fair Market Value $4,100
Min Bid $900
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Lynda Young Kaffie, Austin
Shallow Crossing
12x24
Handcolored Photogravure
Lynda Young Kaffie is an artist, workshop leader and spiritual director who focuses on contemplative practice and the intersection of art and spirituality. She completed a degree in art history from Southern Methodist University in Dallas and has worked in the private sector and state government before returning to the art field full-time in 1992. In her artwork, she focuses on the landscape from a contemplative/meditative perspective. Her work is currently represented by the Olana Group, San Antonio and by the Wilhelmi Holland Gallery in Corpus Christi.
Fair Market Value $550
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Germaine Keller, Austin
River Score .28a
19x25
Mixed Media over Digital Print
Germaine Keller received her BFA from the University of Michigan and MFA from Wayne State University. Besides teaching at NYU and Parson School of Design, she was an art director at The Wall Street Journal. Ms. Keller has exhibited at P.S. 1, New York City; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Natalie Knight Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work is also in corporate and public collections and the Archives of the Museum of Modern Art. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Arts. "The Book of Scores" is a collection of her drawings.
Fair Market Value $500
Min Bid $150
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Dwain Kelley, Austin
Creek West of Drippin'
12x16
Gouache & Prismacolor Pencil
Dwain Kelley earned a BFA from The University of Texas and from the early 1950s to the early 1970s was accepted in 36 juried exhibitions and was awarded purchase prizes or awards in 18 of those. In addition, he had three solo shows, a two-person show and has had drawings accepted in two national American Drawing Annuals. After many years as owner of a successful graphic design business, he recently resurrected his artistic career, producing commissions. His work is represented in many private collections. In November 2008, he had a solo show at Wally Workman Gallery, Austin.
Fair Market Value $1,800
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Will Klemm, Austin
The Garden
28x28 framed
Pastel
Will Klemm was born in New Jersey and received a BFA from The University of Texas at Austin. His work is included in the Austin Museum of Art Collection, and he has exhibited in solo and group shows in Austin, New York, Provincetown, Santa Fe, Boulder, Dallas, Boston, Martha's Vineyard, Northampton and Egg Harbor. Corporate collectors of his work include Motorola, Samsung, St. David's Hospital, Winstead Sechrest & Minick, PC, and United Artists.
Fair Market Value $2,400
Min Bid $800
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Sharon Kyle Kuhn, Austin
Spring Fever
30x40 framed
Oil on canvas
The artist says that "colors and the relationship of shapes to one another as seen in nature inspire my work. The colors and shapes of architecture and the lines which define a city's skyline capture my attention and fascinate me as well. Intuitively working with the paint and allowing it to flow freely, I energetically use my hands, a palette knife or rapid brush strokes to apply the paint. Intuition guides me while I transport the paint onto the canvas step by step. This stage of the process is hypnotic. It becomes an act of letting go and trusting my intuition. In recent work, layering the paint has become a strong component of my creative expression."
Fair Market Value $1,450
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Sandra Langston, Bernalda, Italy
Colline, Tursi
28x20
Pastel
Sandra Langston received a BFA from The University of Texas at Austin where she also was recognized with several Ford Foundation grants. She attended graduate school at the San Francisco Art Institute and at The University of Texas at Austin. Afterward, Langston moved to Italy and worked at university excavations in Metaponto for many years, excavating sites from the Paleolithic through the Greek eras. She currently lives in Bernalda in southern Italy and draws inspiration from the landscape in her area.
Fair Market Value 1800
Min Bid 600
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Bruce Leander, Austin
Claret Cup
13x19 museum mounted
Digital Photographic Print
Bruce Leander photographs nature, primarily close-ups and intimate landscapes. His objective is to capture small elements of nature and create fine art images that are interesting and pleasing to view. There are thousands of events taking place in nature every minute, and the challenge is to capture some of these and make them available to relive in the comfort of your home. Bruce Leander attended Springfield College, Texas Tech and the University of Wisconsin and worked in the biotechnology industry for 27 years. His business card reads: Biotechnology, Art, Photography, Golf.
Fair Market Value $450
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Lance Letscher, Austin
Double Duckie
16 x 25.25 framed
Collage
A New York Sun art critic described Lance Letscher’s work as a “roller coaster ride of mood shifts, from playfulness to solemnity…An exquisite color sense and empathy with his materials.." Letscher is a home-grown collage artist whose work is created from “found” papers-album covers, books, handwritten recipes, notes and magazine clippings- which are meticulously cut and arranged into intriguing patterns and textures. A University of Texas at Austin graduate, he apprenticed with Southwestern artist Amado Pena. "Lance Letscher: Collage" was recently published by the University of Texas Press.
Fair Market Value $4,500
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Suzanne Lewis, Austin
Sedum
17x22 mounted
Photography
Suzanne is a photographer and painter. Each medium informs and rekindles the other and, depending on her mood, offers sustenance. She may spend a week frenetically chasing the light in a gorgeous, rugged locale. Afterwards, she finds refuge in her studio and gets to just paint. She loves the spontaneity of both mediums. Whether it’s grabbing the perfect shot or painting in layers and discovering what’s underneath — that serendipitous moment is what fuels her creativity.
Fair Market Value $350
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Katie Maratta, Austin
House with Basketball Hoop
1 inch x 48 inches mounted
Graphite Ink
Katie Maratta grew up in West Virginia and attended Princeton University where she majored in fine art. After moving to Texas 14 years ago, she became interested in the state's unusual landscape, which was so different from the vertical, mountainous terrain of her childhood. She was especially interested in plains and prairies and began to think about how to communicate in her art what she saw driving down Texas highways. Her "horizonscapes" now appear in galleries in Austin and Dallas and have been included in several juried competitions around the state. Her art was recently added to the Ronald McDonald House permanent collection.
Fair Market Value $650
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Mona T. Marshall, Austin
Object of Desire
12x24
Encaustic & Oil on panel
Mona Marshall studied at Tyler School of Art in Rome and received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2003 she won the first place award in "Celebrating Texas Art", in Houston. Marshall has received four residencies at the MacDowell Colony and in 2006 was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. She is a Professor of Visual Art at College of the Mainland. She has exhibited work at the Austin Museum of Art, Blue Star Art Space, Threshold Gallery in Santa Monica, Francine Ellman Gallery in Los Angeles and Viridian Gallery in New York City. Her work has been reviewed in Artlies, Manhattan Arts, and Artforum.
Fair Market Value $1200
Min Bid $400
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Wyman Meinzer, Benjamin
Storm Over Tres Hermanas
16x20
Photography
Named the official photographer of the State of Texas in 1997, Wyman Meinzer’s work has appeared in more than 55 magazines worldwide and has graced 170 magazine and book covers. Sports Afield named him one of the five top outdoor photographers in America. Meinzer, who grew up on a ranch in North Texas, has won the John Ben Shepherd, Jr. Award from the Texas State Historical Foundation for his contributions to the preservation of Texas history through writing and photography. He has published more than 14 books, including "Desert Santuaries: The Chinatis of the Big Bend" and "Canyons of the Texas High Plains."
Fair Market Value $700
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SuSu Meyer, Houston
Cimarron River
12x10
Watercolor with Pastel
Susu Meyer grew up in Houston and received her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin. She studied several years under Kevin MacPherson and later with Forrest Moses. The vastness of the landscape lends itself to large works. She finds painting large pieces liberating and feels that the larger the scale, the easier it becomes for emotions and feelings to show in her work. The rivers of Texas, with their unpredictable, changing nature, have been a recurring theme in her work.
Fair Market Value 900.00
Min Bid 300
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Marjorie Moore, Austin
Fecund Tondo #2
10 inches diameter
Collage, Ink, & Oil on Corian
Marjorie Moore has a BFA from Syracuse University and has been awarded a number of grants and fellowships. She has received the Creative Arts Program Award from the Cultural Council of Houston, an NEA Regional Fellowship in Drawings and Artists Books and a New Forms Fellowship from the New England Foundation for the Arts. She is widely exhibited in galleries and museums in Texas, Maine and Boston, and her work is at the Art Museum of South Texas, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art and the Rose Art Museum, among other places.
Fair Market Value $850
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Lesley Nowlin and Victoria Corbett, Austin
Untitled
24x24
Mixed Media
Lesley Nowlin and Victoria Corbett are successful independent artists living in Austin. Establishing their own art forms in illustration, design and photography, they came together to create a collaborative style of mixed media. Collage is an essential part of their technique, which incorporates photographs, paint, ink, papers, and other mediums to enhance the many layers involved. The colors, shapes and subjects evoke a sense of exploration and discovery to the viewer.
Fair Market Value $850
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Laurence Parent, Wimberley
Santa Elena, Canyon Texas
11x14 framed
Silver gelatin print
Laurence Parent was born and raised in New Mexico. After receiving a petroleum engineering degree at The University of Texas at Austin, he practiced engineering for six years before becoming a full-time freelance photographer and writer specializing in landscape, travel and nature subjects. His photos appear in calendars by Sierra Club, Audubon, Kodak, BrownTrout, Avalanche and Graphic Arts Center. His article and photo credits include National Geographic Traveler, Men’s Journal, Outside, Backpacker, Sierra, Natural History, National Parks, Newsweek, Arizona Highways, Travel & Leisure and the New York Times. He contributes regularly to regional publications such as Texas Highways, Texas Monthly, New Mexico Magazine and Texas Parks & Wildlife.
Fair Market Value $650
Min Bid $200
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Judy Paul, Austin
Walk
48x24
Mixed Media
Judy Paul's works combine the exuberant charm of primitive art and the complexity of modern mixed media. Her paintings incorporate thin layers of transparent paint, delicious color combinations, vintage papers, photography, typography and nature-inspired imagery. She describes her process of painting as an adventure—it isn’t unusual for her paintings to start out going one direction and evolve into something excitingly unexpected. Find out more at www.JudyPaul.com
Fair Market Value $1,000
Min Bid $300
Bid Increment $100
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Shou Ping, San Antonio
Wild Blooms
16x20
Watercolor Paper Sculpture
Shou Ping creates her amazing art with watercolors, but her real specialty is what she calls "paper sculpture." With a pair of scissors, she expresses herself and transforms an ordinary painting into a 3-dimensional work of art that speaks to the heart and the senses. Shou Ping has been invited to give demonstrations to dozens of art groups, schools and organizations in Texas. She has participated in more than 50 art shows over the past decade and received numerous awards. In addition to being written about in numerous magazines, she has appeared on "San Antonio Living" and has been showcased on the popular "Texas Country Reporter."
Fair Market Value $850
Min Bid $250
Bid Increment $50
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Erika Pochybova-Johnson, Lubbock
Chaotic Nature III
7.5 x 18
Acrylic on board
Erika Pochybova-Johnson was born in Czechoslovakia and grew up in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountain Range in Slovakia. She has lived in Texas since 1996 and made a career in the healthcare industry. In 2006 she became a U.S. citizen. That same year, after having experimented in the arts for most of her life, and being inspired by her artist-husband James W. Johnson, Erika decided to leave the world of business and pursue her art full-time. Her current work utilizes an elaborate technique & metaphoric imagery to comment on everyday life.
Fair Market Value $400
Min Bid $150
Bid Increment $50
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Deborah Poisot, Austin
The Prairie Returns
16x16
Black & White Silver Gelatin Photographic Monoprint
Deborah Poisot, educated at Syracuse University, the Accademia di Belle Arte in Florence, the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and the Glassell School in Houston, says: “I share a view of the world -— the natural as well as political worlds — seen and felt by many: a cosmos of true wonder full of oddities and quirky expressions of attitude that pique my interest. The attitude is my own, of course, reflected back to me in compelling ways in the faces and postures of inanimate objects, animals, even landscapes.” Poisot enhances her photographs with a paintbrush and special bleach solutions, and then creates warm tones in a selenium toning bath.
Fair Market Value $350
Min Bid $125
Bid Increment $25
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Somers Randolph, Santa Fe
Merilee (pendant)
10 inches
Sterling silver, silk cord
Each piece of SOMERS jewelry begins as a soapstone sculpture, hand carved by the artist. Lost wax casting and meticulous finishing are used with stunning results, for jewelry that goes beyond the decorative to the elemental. Form is timeless, and to wear these organic distillations is to connect with nature on a profound level. A Santa Fe sculptor known for his larger pieces, he has also spent 30 years carving in miniature. When his wife, Hillary, discovered a trove of these tiny sculptures, she was inspired. They cast selected pieces in precious metals, turning stone into silver and gold, together creating the SOMERS collection.
Fair Market Value $450
Min Bid $150
Bid Increment $50
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Patricia Rapoport, Williamsburg, VA
Late Summer Roses
20x28
Watercolor
The artist says that her work starts out based on reality, "but then I begin to play with the shapes and colors. My interest in line and strong color seem to dominate my work. The wandering line and vibrant, unrealistic color result in a rather fanciful, fairy tale style. Usually, by the end of the painting, reality has been left far behind." She is married to Ronald Rapoport (originally from Waco) and lives in Williamsburg, VA. She has a bachelor of arts degree from Colby College and a master's of arts from the University of Michigan.
Fair Market Value $500
Min Bid $200
Bid Increment $100
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L. Ray, The Woodlands, TX
Lady Bird Grape Arbor
18x24 framed
Watercolor
Light, contrast and the perception of movement are the hallmarks of L. Ray’s watercolors. The Los Angeles native’s work has been shown at Law’s Deveron Gallery and commissioned as murals for major hotels, corporations and the Los Angeles City Hall. A 44-foot L. Ray mural is installed at the Long Beach, CA, airport. L Ray’s work was chosen as the Wildflower Center’s Wildflower Days™ art in 2008.
Fair Market Value $700
Min Bid $250
Bid Increment $50
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Christopher St. Leger, Lockhart
Coldfront
20x28
Watercolor
St. Leger says: "As an artist, I am chiefly interested in pure watercolor and the craft behind it. I seek out compositions of moving and fixed bodies that might best accommodate the restraint and spontaneity intrinsic to the mastering of watercolor. All in all, I paint imagery that demands foresight as well as daringness."
Fair Market Value $1,800
Min Bid $600
Bid Increment $100
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Logan H. Stollenwerck, III, Fredericksburg
Walking in a Flower Wonderland
18.5 x 12 x 14
Plaster and Acrylic
Logan Stollenwerck has worked in marble and metal for more than 15 years, an art perfected with years of study under Italian masters. After studying art at Baylor University, he became interested in Baroque and Renaissance figurative sculptures and studied marble sculpture and mold-making under Matte Avignon in Florence, Italy. He also apprenticed under Maestro Marco Paoli at the Laboratorio di Scultura in Piestrasanta, Italy. His work has been recognized with awards at local art shows.
Fair Market Value $450
Min Bid $150
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Eliza K. Thomas, Austin
White Leaves Red
46.5x36.5
Ink, acrylic & gouache
Eliza K. Thomas is an Austin-based artist who was born in Boston and grew up both in Austin and New Orleans. She attended Barnard College, earning a BA in Italian. Thomas spent the winter of 2005 in Provence on a painting residency, which marked the beginning of her art career. More recently, Thomas was invited to participate as a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center during the Center’s December 2007 and January 2008 sessions. Galleries that have featured her work include Wally Workman Gallery in Austin, Grand Contemporary in Lafayette, LA, and Guthrie Contemporary in New Orleans and Houston.
Fair Market Value $1,300
Min Bid $450
Bid Increment $100
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John Tolly, Austin
Bowl
12x24 inches
Wood
Johnny Tolly is an active wood turner with 20 years experience. His works include vases, bowls and lamps as well as a football and a globe. A Vietnam Air Force vet with the rank of senior master sergeant, he now works as a senior equipment maintenance technician at Freescale Inc. He is an instructor, teaching classes in San Antonio, Wichita Falls, Fort Worth, as well as at his home near Dripping Springs. He is a member of the American Association of Wood Turners and the Central Texas Wood Turners.
Fair Market Value $750
Min Bid $250
Bid Increment $50
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Maria Tucker, Austin
Wild Rose Necklace
16 inches
Pâte de verre, sterling silver, freshwater pearls
A Texas native, Maria Tucker lives and works in Austin, and has been designing and making jewelry for seven years. A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, she has practiced landscape architecture in Boston, Virginia, New York and Texas. She began her study of jewelry making in Manhattan as a way to work creatively with her hands. While she still loves designing gardens, she is energized by the direct manipulation of materials that goldsmithing and carving wax models provide. Her timeless designs draw inspiration from both nature and ancient iconography. Her work has been featured in the Austin American-Statesman, Tribeza and Domino magazines and can be seen at Eliza Page in Austin.
Fair Market Value 650
Min Bid 200
Bid Increment 50
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Turquoise Door, Austin
Images of the Harvest
14x24
Tapestry
The Turquoise Door is one of the unique shops in the South Congress district, featuring jewelry and folk art with an Hispanic theme. Amber, turquoise and silver jewelry is their forte, as well as hand-carved wood figures and fine regional pottery made by renowned folk artists. Turquoise Door also has on hand exquisite examples of other kinds of art from Mexico and other Latin-American countries.
Fair Market Value $750
Min Bid $200
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Peggy Weiss, Austin
Night Blooming Cereus
20x16
Mixed Media & Digital Collage
Peggy Weiss was born in New Iberia, LA, and grew up in Midland. She received a bachelor of arts degree from The University of Texas at Austin. She and her husband live in Austin and have two children. After decades of creating and operating multiple restaurant concepts with her husband, Peggy has begun to use her creative talents in new ways. Her art collages and photographs combine technology, photography and acrylic paint. The completed pieces are giclee prints on Hahnemuhle Rag, archival paper.
Fair Market Value $400
Min Bid $150
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Ana Zanic, Austin
Spring Impromptu
12x14
Acrylic on canvas
Ana Zanic was born and educated in Croatia, where she received her MFA degree. She has been living in Austin since 2003. About her work she says: "My painting evolves from a notion, develops through intuition and is evocative rather then descriptive. It is greatly involved with subjectivity and the emotions, and even in the end remains transformable. For me the journey of art is a journey of self-exploration; not only does it reveal the artist to the viewer, but the artist is revealed to herself/himself."
Fair Market Value $750
Min Bid $250
Bid Increment $50
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