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Wildflower Gala Art Catalog
Wildflower Gala Art Catalog
Stella Alesi, Austin"Blackberries"
21" x 11"
Oil on wood
In her art, Stella Alesi, a yoga practitioner, uses the formal, multilateral symmetry of mandala forms integrated with naturalistic bird images. The bird images within a circle are depicted in colors that correspond to the traditional coloration and concepts of specific chakras, according to the Austin Chronicle. In earlier work, reviews noted her use of "warm and inviting colors" to explore how natural light bounces off magnified fruits, berries and insects and compared it to "a stroll through a healthy garden." In 2004, Alesi was named one of the Top 10 Individual Artists in the Chronicle's listings.
Fair Market Value $800
Min Bid $300
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Mary Baxter, Marathon"Scruffy Bush"
14" x 18"
Oil on canvas
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 and sculpts the animals that live there.
Fair Market Value $1250
Min Bid $500
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Roy Bellows, Fredericksburg"Constellation of Fifty-One Stars
17" x 26"
Stainless Steel 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 $3500
Min Bid $1500
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Rebecca Bennett, Austin"In a Rainfall III"
24" x 30"
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 and Key Energy Corp. headquarters.
Fair Market Value $1000
Min Bid $400
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Ellen Berman, Austin"Pear"
7" x 5"
Oil on Board
Ellen Berman's work eloquently speaks for itself in lustrous exquisitely executed still life. "Painting pictures of objects from the most ordinary of worlds -- the table, the kitchen, the grocery store -- allows me to look at these objects long and differently." Berman received her bachelor of arts degree from The University of Texas at Austin and master of arts from the University of Houston and studied at the Glassell School of Art in Houston. In 1988 she received the Mid-America Arts Alliance/NEA Fellowship Award in Painting, Printmaking, Drawing and Artist Books. She has exhibited in more than two dozen one-person shows since 1985.
Fair Market Value $750
Min Bid $300
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Carol Bolsey, Kingston, MA"White Row Boat 2/50"
30" x 22"
Iris Giclee
The Boston Globe noted that "Carole Bolsey paints barns and boats in the same way that Monet painted haystacks to drink in the light." Educated at Bennington College, Ecole des Beaux Arts in Geneva and the Accademia di Bella Art in Florence, Bolsey has taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the Carpenter Center for Visual and Environmental Studies. She has exhibited frequently in Washington, D.C., Boston and Japan. Her work is included in the Washington Convention Center's Art Collection as well as in collections held by IBM, DuPont, the Bank of Boston and Rhode Island College. She serves on the American University Arts Advisory Council.
Fair Market Value $2050
Min Bid $750
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Kate Breakey, TusconGlobe Mallow
19" x19"
Hand Colored Silver Gelatin Print
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. The results put her "in a class by herself," says Bill Wittliff, who has purchased 94 Breakey images for the Wittliff Gallery at Texas State University.
Fair Market Value $2000
Min Bid $1000
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Jo Bridges, Austinuntitled set
5" x 5" set of 3
Acrylic paint on canvas
Born in Orange, CA, Jo Bridges studied art at The University of Texas at Austin. Experimenting with many different mediums, she found the true ability to express herself through the boldness of acrylic paints. Her paintings are a celebration of the simple yet complex forms of nature. With her use of vibrant colors and rich textures she strives to add to what is already perfect in the natural surroundings of the Texas landscape. Jo works out of her studio, located just outside Austin. Her paintings are in numerous private collections in California, Texas, Oklahoma and North Carolina.
Fair Market Value $1200 set
Min Bid $300
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Deborah Carter, Austin"Tanzania"
60" x 60"
Oil on Canvas
Deborah Carter is the highly eclectic proprietor (with her daughters) of Pink Hair Salon, Gallery, Boutique and Performance Space on South Congress Avenue. Carter describes herself as a hairdresser, artist, writer and illustrious astrologer. On her blog, she says that "I'm a painter and I'm obsessed with painters. I'm also obsessed with The Modern in Fort Worth and high-thread count white Egyptian cotton sheets." She also blogged: "I wish I still owned every painting I ever painted and every book I ever read."
Fair Market Value $4320
Min Bid $2000
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Jill Carver, Austin"Bull Creek-First Light Study"
12" x 12"
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 en 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 $375
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Lynn Cohagan, Austin"Hollyhocks"
14" x 11"
Oil
Lynn Cohagan has been painting the landscapes that surround Austin for the past 14 years. The Texas stream is especially fascinating to her, with its contrast of cool, flowing color slicing through the hot, dry Texas rock. In the past few years, Cohagan has traveled widely throughout the United States and Europe to expand her view, perception and technique of landscape painting. She graduated from Stanford University in California and received her master's degree in fine arts from the The University of Texas at Austin.
Fair Market Value $575
Min Bid $300
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Laurel Daniel, Austin"Morning Sky Over Boysen Lane Inlet"
24" x 20"
Oil on canvas
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. The whole process of searching for the perfect spot and chasing the fleeting light is irresistible to me." 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 the Davis Gallery in Austin and galleries in Georgia and Montana and her work is in many private collections.
Fair Market Value $1200
Min Bid $500
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Susan Davidoff, El Paso"Palms, Windwardside"
30" x 42"
Charcoal, Rust Earth, Plant Materials
Susan Davidoff's work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Hallmark Collection, SBC Center, San Antonio; and El Paso Museum of Art, among others. She lives and works in El Paso, where she teaches drawing and design at the University of Texas at El Paso. Davidoff has been the recipient of a Mid-America NEA Fellowship and a Ford Foundation/Pollack-Siquieros Binational Art Award.
Fair Market Value $3500
Min Bid $1500
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Carol Dawson, Austin"Morning Glories 2"
24" x 18"
Watercolor
Carol Dawson is a widely-published author who has focused her attention on watercolor for the last 20 years. Born in Texas, she studied art, anthropology and English literature at The University of Texas at Austin, and has since lived in England, Italy and New Zealand, as well as New Mexico, California and Washington state. Dawson’s vision, which centers on natural subjects, is strongly influenced by the traditions of Japanese Kacho-e as well as both classical and contemporary Western art and botanical painting. Her work has been represented in galleries in Austin, Taos, Spokane and the Seattle area, and hangs in a number of private and commercial/corporate collections.
Fair Market Value $1600
Min Bid $400
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Chris De Dier, Austin"Enchanted Rocks I"
36" x 36"
Oil on Linen
Chris De Dier was born in Ninove, Belgium in 1958. He grew up in Aalst and studied design and art history at the St. Lucas Institute in Brussels. In 1986 he moved to Toronto, ON, where he opened a retail clothing business, importing French designer collections for women and designing the collections under his private label. He started exhibiting his paintings publicly in London, ON, in 1990. Since 1996 he has lived in Texas. He owned and managed a hotel in Wimberley until 2005 and now lives in Austin.
Fair Market Value $3750
Min Bid $1000
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El Interior, Austin"Framed Wall Hanging from San Pablito Pueblo"
28"x32".
Textile
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. Our inventory of hand woven textiles is unrivaled outside Guatemala. Since 1979, the highest quality of craftsmanship and folk art are offered in our convenient West Austin location, all personally collected directly from artisans and producers from throughout Mexico and Guatemala by owner Marcia Lucas.
Fair Market Value $500
Min Bid $175
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David Everett, Austin"Jackrabbit"
5"
Bronze Sculpture
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 $125
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Melanie Fain, Boerne"Praying Mantis"
11" x 7"
Etching and Watercolor
An award winning artist, Melanie Fain lives on seven wooded Hill Country acres which 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 $550
Min Bid $395
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Kelly Fearing, Austin"Rhinoceros though a Dark Passageway II"
20" x 17"
Etching
William Kelly Fearing 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. Before coming to Austin, he taught and painted in the Fort Worth Circle.
Fair Market Value $750
Min Bid $300
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Malou Flato, Austin"Pods"
40" x 48"
Acrylic on wood
Malou Flato was born in Corpus Christi, received her bachelor's in fine arts from Middlebury College and has shown extensively throughout Texas and the Southeast. Solo exhibitions include the Art Museum of South Texas, the Texas Gallery in Houston, The Tyler Museum of Art and the Austin Museum of Art. Her work is included in several large collections including ARCO Corporate Art Collection, Paine Webber and the Art Museum of South Texas. She has completed public art commissions for Logan Airport, Central Market, San Antonio Academy, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.
Fair Market Value $5000
Min Bid $2000
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Ginger Geyer, Austin"Servant Tray"
5" x 26" x 11"
China Mosaic on Silverplate
Ginger Geyer grew up in Arkansas, earned a MFA degree from Southern Methodist University and worked for many years at the Kimbell Art Museum and Dallas Museum of Art. In Austin, she began making porcelain sculpture and received a Masters in Pastoral Ministry from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest. She occasionally teaches there and also curates exhibitions and books artists for the Laity Lodge retreat center. Her sculpture involves considerable research in art history and theology, mixed up with playful probing stories. She has recently taken up mosaic just for fun. A frequent speaker and workshop leader, her work has also been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions on art and faith.
Fair Market Value $850
Min Bid $300
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David H. Gibson, Dallas"Morning Along Cypress Creek, April 15, 2007, 7:07 A.M., Wimberley"
21" x 50"
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 $3000
Min Bid $1000
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Shirine Gill, San Antonio"Botanique IV N. 3"
20" x 16"
Photograph
Born in Tehran, Shirine Gill earned a bachelor's degree in Islamic studies and studied Islamic art at Columbia University. She has traveled extensively in China, the Middle East, North Africa, Latin America and Europe as a photo journalist. She also worked at a translator, researcher, writer and illustrator at the Pahlavi Foundation. Her photography has been exhibited in Paris, New York City and Boulder, CO. Gill has a second- degree black belt and once ran a school for martial arts.
Fair Market Value $2500
Min Bid $1000
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Dianne Grammer, Austin"Spring Meadow"
11" x 14" plus 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 $750
Min Bid $375
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Ken Hale, Austinuntitled
13" x 19"
Digital Print with Collage
Hale received his MFA from the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana. His paintings, prints and drawings have been widely exhibited and collected. One-person exhibitions have been held in numerous cities including Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Bangkok, Madrid, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. Hale's prints are represented in collections such as the Achenbach Foundation, the Atlantic Richfield Collection, the McNay Art Museum, the Chicago Art Institute, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Hale is a member of the Studio Art faculty at The University of Texas at Austin.
Fair Market Value $1200
Min Bid $600
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Joseph Hammer, Austin"The Good Earth"
30" x 30"
Collage on board
Joseph Hammer truly practices the "art of recycling," utilizing the detritus of everyday life in his mixed media constructions--such as used sandpaper, matchbook covers, jigsaw puzzles, and old hardback books. As a book lover, he especially likes to "paint" with pieces of ragged, deteriorated hardback books-experimenting with color saturation, line, and tension. "I'm paying tribute to the bookbinder's craft, while also showcasing the tears and stains of usage--the human hand prints from long ago. I like giving new life to things that are otherwise headed for the trash heap." Hammer has shown his work publicly just two years, has been in numerous juried shows across Texas, and has received recognition and awards in the process. He is represented by Davis Gallery in Austin and 1550 Gallery in Kerrville.
Fair Market Value $2000
Min Bid $750
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"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop"
11" x 11"
Watercolor on paper
Jan Heaton's watercolors offer a personal viewpoint that celebrates nature and reaches beyond the obvious. Her works are in the corporate collections of the Ritz Carlton-Chicago, The Four Seasons-Boston and Bellagio and Wynn Hotels-Las Vegas. Born in Michigan, she studied at Wayne State University, the Detroit Institute of Arts and The University of Texas at Austin. She is on the faculty of the Austin Museum of Art School. She was featured as a top emerging artist in the February 2005 issue of Art & Antiques and in the March 2006 issue of Watercolor Magic.
Fair Market Value $575
Min Bid $250
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Ray Holbrook, Seattle"Alaska 91"
13" x 15"
Photography
Ray Holbrooks has traveled throughout the United States and Canada, capturing the natural beauty of our wilderness landscapes. This current series features ice and tundra from a stint on a rogue Norwegian trawler in the Bering Straits, fall color from a campaign 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 Masters degree from the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Seattle. When not pursuing photography, he is database administrator at Honeywell.
Fair Market Value $600
Min Bid $250
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Ray Holbrook, Seattle"Massachusetts '92"
17" x 26"
Photography
Ray Holbrook has traveled throughout the United States and Canada, capturing the natural beauty of our wilderness landscapes. This current series features ice and tundra from a stint on a rogue Norwegian trawler in the Bering Straits, fall color from a campaign 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 Masters degree from the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Seattle. When not pursuing photography, he is database administrator at Honeywell.
Fair Market Value $600
Min Bid $250
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Daryl Howard, Austin"Out of the Heart of Spring…Comes My Life"
14" x 11"
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 and Brownsville Museum of Fine Art. She has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Sam Houston State University and a master of fine arts from The University of Texas at Austin. She has also studied traditional woodblock printmaking in Japan. A 25-year retrospective of her work, titled Daryl Howard, A Warm Stone to Dream Upon, was published in 2004.
Fair Market Value $900
Min Bid $500
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Cassandra James, Globe, AZ"La Jour du Vent"
24" x 24"
Oil on canvas
Cassandra James is a painter who has always drawn from nature. Her fascination with extremes of weather lends a powerful imagery to representational oils that begin to flirt with soft-edge lyrical abstraction. James is represented in a number of public and corporate collections including IBM, Motorola, USAA Federal Savings Bank, and McDonald’s Corporation. She is currently represented by galleries in Texas, New Mexico and Florida. Her work is included in private collections in the United Sates, Canada, France, Sweden and Australia.
Fair Market Value $2000
Min Bid $500
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Judy Jensen, Austin"Animal, Vegetable, Mineral"
17" x 12"
Reverse Painted Glass, Wood, Bone, 24K Gold leaf
An American Craft art critic wrote, "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 Crafts, and eight exhibits at New York's Heller Gallery. Group exhibitions include Atlanta’s High Museum, the New Delhi Biennale, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Japan. An NEA Fellowship Grant recipient, her works are in numerous public and private collections, including the Royal Ontario Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Corning Museum of Glass.
Fair Market Value $2800
Min Bid $1400
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Lynda Young Kaffie, Austin"After the Storm: Dolan Falls Preserve"
13" x 23"
Watercolor on paper
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. She has a master of arts in pastoral ministry with a focus on spiritual formation from the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Austin. 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 $400
Min Bid $200
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Will Klemm, Austin"Late Summer"
11* x 14*
Oil on canvas
Will Klemm was born in New Jersey and received a bachelor of fine arts 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 $1800
Min Bid $500
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Sandra Langston, Bernalda"View from the Parco Sigurta"
22" x 30"
Pastel on paper
Sandra Langston received a bachelor of fine arts 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 for The University of Texas 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 $1200
Min Bid $600
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Bonnie Lynch, Austin"Maasai Vessel"
23" x 13" x 4"
Pit Fired Clay with Steel Stand
Bonnie Lynch was born in El Paso and attended the University of Texas, California College of Arts and Crafts and the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities. Her work is in various collections including Haags Gementemuseum, The Hague, the Chinati Foundation, the San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, and Edward Albee. Her exhibitions include the Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, the Moody Gallery, Houston, and Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin.
Fair Market Value $2500
Min Bid $1500
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Katie Maratta, Austin"Horizon with Fireworks Stand and Shed"
1" x 48"
Graphite, Ink, Image Transfer
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. The resulting "horizonscapes" now appear in galleries in Austin and Dallas and have been included in several juried competitions around the state.
Fair Market Value $750
Min Bid $400
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Mona Marshall, Austin"Bird in Hand"
24" x 24"
Encaustic 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," 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. Marshall's solo shows include Marshall Davis Gallery in San Francisco, Texas Woman's University, Harris Gallery in Houston, Women and Their Work in Austin and the Galveston Art Center. She has also 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 $2200
Min Bid $700
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Mariquita Masterson, Houston"Necklace"
12" necklace
Ramlosa Blue Art Glass with Dalstrand Glass Pearls and Sterling Silver
Mariquita Masterson grew up in Mexico City, was fascinated with glass as a child and loved to watch the glass blowers working at a local glass company. In the 1980’s she was chairing a museum ball in Houston and visited a local glass blower whom she’d hired to design unique vases for the event. There Mariquita spotted chunks of gorgeous glass that the artist didn’t plan to use and let her have—and quite by accident her new career was born. It wasn’t long before Mariquita was showing her first collection of unique jewelry. She has created a style of jewelry which is unmistakably her own. With the help of master glass blowers and skilled silversmiths, her jewelry designs capture all the light of multifaceted stones but do not imitate precious jewels. Each piece of crystal and its mounting are made entirely by hand, without the aid of molds or casting. As a result, no two pieces are exactly the same, they are unique. She now has a studio, Masterson, Inc, and travel all over the United States with her special pieces to the delight of her many friends.
Fair Market Value $560
Min Bid $200
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SuSu Meyer, Houston"Whispering Pines"
9"x12" (18"x18" frame)
Monoprint
Susu Meyer grew up in Houston and received her bachelor's degree in fine art 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, and this is something that Meyer relishes. 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. She also feels that the larger pieces encourage participation from the viewer. The rivers of Texas, with their unpredictable, changing nature, have been a recurring theme in her work.
Fair Market Value $500
Min Bid $250
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Jesus Monsivais, Austin"Allison Chloe"
20"x16"
Oil on canvas
Jesus Monsivais was raised in Sao Paulo Brazil and recently relocated to Austin. He has exhibited his work locally, including a "live painting" at Mototek-Ducati Austin "Fashion Night ." He has also exhibited internationally.
Fair Market Value $2200
Min Bid $750
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Marjorie Moore, Austin"Pomegranate Blooms"
9" x 13"
Graphite, Color Pencil, Ink on paper
Marjorie Moore has a bachelor of fine arts degree 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 $500
Min Bid $250
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Cirenaica Moreira, "Havana*
15" x 19"
Silver Gelatin Print
Cirenaica Moreira was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1969 and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana with a focus in the performing arts, which is strongly reflected in her tableau-like photographs, with the artist herself playing the lead role. She is considered by many to be one of the most influential Cuban photographers of her generation. Her photographs have been exhibited worldwide, including exhibitions in Cuba, France, Spain, Israel, Canada and Mexico. In the United States her work has been exhibited in many cities including New York, Houston, and others. Her work is represented by the Fraser Gallery of Washington, DC and Bethesda, Maryland.
Fair Market Value $1600
Min Bid $500
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Cirenaica Moreira, "Cartas desole el texilio"
19" x 15"
Silver Gelatin Print
Cirenaica Moreira was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1969 and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana with a focus in the performing arts, which is strongly reflected in her tableau-like photographs, with the artist herself playing the lead role. She is considered by many to be one of the most influential Cuban photographers of her generation. Her photographs have been exhibited worldwide, including exhibitions in Cuba, France, Spain, Israel, Canada and Mexico. In the United States her work has been exhibited in many cities including New York, Houston, and others. Her work is represented by the Fraser Gallery of Washington, DC and Bethesda, Maryland.
Fair Market Value $1600
Min Bid $500
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Katy Nail, Austin"Sacred Well Beyond Marfa"
30" x 18"
Oil/linen
Painting since age seven, Katy Nail doesn't know life without art. She's been painting here in Austin over 25 years and established her reputation as an independent if not eccentric creator. Galleries and the Austin Museum of Art have kept her work visible but the people of Austin have been the real supporters of Nail's passion. Painting portraits with a narrative has earned her the title, 'Mythmaker and Storyteller," taken from the name of an exhibit at the Helm's Fine Art Center. She is the daughter of the writer, Frances Nail, and mother of the singer, Carrie Rodriguez.
Fair Market Value $2000
Min Bid $500
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Bill Nowlin, Austin"Cottonwoods, Grand Teton National Park"
16" x 20"
Photograph
Although photography has been a lifelong passion for Nowlin, his professional career as an electrical engineer didn't allow much time to explore it and he spent most of his adult life inside an office or a laboratory. In 1996, he was able to retire and renew his love for photography and the great outdoors. He said he soon found that photography's unique pairing of precision technology and creative freedom inspired both his interests in science and art. Devoting his time to travel photography seemed like a natural progression following his professional career. He says his favorite photographs are dramatic scenes that inspire the imagination-full of rich tones of vivid color. "I enjoy looking at photographs where you can quickly tell what the subject is and appreciate it, but when you look deeper you find another layer of meaning--something that causes you to experience a unique, personal connection to the scene or the subject."
Fair Market Value $750
Min Bid $300
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L. Renee Nunez, Austin"Study for Juglan's Cinerea III"
17" x 15"
Watercolor on paper
Solitude as a child was L. Renee Nunez' constant companion, which allowed her to make strong bonds with nature. Nature and quiet still pervade her work and bring peace to a hectic life. Born in Dallas, Nunez attended Arts Magnet High School, the Dallas Ballet Academy and received her bachelor of arts in fine arts from The University of Texas at Austin in 2000. Nunez is a founding member of the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Co. and has danced professionally with the company for five years. Nunez began gardening at an early age and to this day maintains an eclectic and beautiful collection of plants. The time spent in her garden and on a seed exchange directly informs her painting.
Fair Market Value $500
Min Bid $250
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Michael O'Brien, Austin"Tennessee Dream"
9" x 12"
Digital Pigment Print
Michael O'Brien was born in Memphis, TN, in 1950. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1972 with a BA and a major in philosophy. He began working as a staff photographer for the The Miami News in 1973. In 1979, he moved to New York where he worked as a freelance photographer for Life Magazine, the New York Times Sunday Magazine and others. Currently he lives with his wife and three children in Austin. His clients include Texas Monthly, National Geographic Magazine and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. O'Brien has won two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards; his work is in the permanent collections of the Harry Ransom Center, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography in New York, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Tennessee State Museum and the Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography at Texas State University.
Fair Market Value $700
Min Bid $300
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Laurence Parent, Wimberley"Blanco County, Texas"
11" x 14"
Black & White Silver Print on Matted Paper
Laurence Parent was born in New Mexico and raised in several southwestern states. After receiving a petroleum engineering degree at The University of Texas at Austin in 1981, he practiced engineering for six years before becoming a full-time freelance photographer and writer specializing in landscape, travel and nature subjects. Because his father was a National Park Service ranger, he grew up in some of America's most beautiful places. Through patience and planning, Parent tries to capture his photographic subjects at the perfect moment of light and weather.
Fair Market Value $750
Min Bid $300
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Judy Paul, Austin"Path Home"
14" x 14"
Mixed Media
Judy Paul's mixed media 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 a journey -- it isn't unusual for her paintings to start out going one direction and evolve into something excitingly unexpected. "Painting is like living -- I start out with a plan and stay open to the opportunities as I move along." In addition to Judy's studio gallery inside Flatbed Press, her work is exhibited at IF&D Gallery,Austin, and collected across the United States.
Fair Market Value $750
Min Bid $400
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Deborah Poisot, Austin"Country Roads"
14" x 17"
Black and White Silver Gelatin photograph, Selenium Toned
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, then creates warm tones in a selenium toning bath.
Fair Market Value $325
Min Bid $180
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Gladys Poorte, Austin"Brisa"
8" x 11"
Oil on Wood
Gladys Poorte was born in Cordoba, Argentina. During her teenage years her family lived in Venezuela and traveled through Europe. After getting her bachelor's degree in Argentina, she came to the United States in 1985 to attend graduate school at Pennsylvania State University. Poorte studied Studio Art at The University of Texas at Austin and is represented by dBerman Gallery in Austin and Hooks Epstein Gallery in Houston.
Fair Market Value $800
Min Bid $350
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Damian Priour, Austin"Chair"
6" x 3" x 3"
Limestone/Glass
Damian Priour, chosen as Texas State Artist for 2008, sculpts large-scale works using glass as a metaphor for water and native stone. His sculptures are included in collections at the Corning Museum of Glass, Equitable Companies of New York and the Texas Sculpture Garden in Frisco. His large-scale works can be seen at the Austin Convention Center, Palm Springs Public Art and the Public Art Programs of Frisco, Grand Prairie and Corpus Christi. He has served on the boards of The Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum, the Austin Museum of Art and is currently president of the Hill Country Alliance.
Fair Market Value $1000
Min Bid $400
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James Reeder, McLean, VA"Wide Open Spaces"
24" x 36"
Oil
There are no greater gifts in life than a good sense of humor and a passionate hobby, and Jim Reeder is blessed with both of those. From his childhood days in the bayous of Louisiana to the plains of Texas and hallowed halls of the U.S. Congress, Reeder has had many careers in law, lobbying, broadcasting and story-telling. Encouraged by long-time spouse Leone, he is now working in oils with brilliant composition, color and resonance. In this painting, one can see a widening field of yellow coreopsis in full bloom, a favorite wildflower of Lady Bird Johnson. A devoted fan of hers, Reeder is also a lover of the landscape which she held so dear and cherished in her wishes to beautify the nation and the state of Texas in her lifetime and beyond. He says that life is often too short but the beauty of art lives on beyond us to add grace and beauty to our complex world.
Fair Market Value $5000
Min Bid $1500
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Claudia Reese, Austin"12-inch Dinner Plates: Leaves"
Set of two
Clay
Austin native Claudia Reese is renowned for unique pottery, "CeraMix," found in exclusive shops in New York and as far away as Saudi Arabia. Her first order came from Henri Bendel in 1982, and Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman eat from Claudia Reese dinnerware. She began her artistic career as a Latin American Studies major after spending a year in Argentina. It was clay that inspired her; she just couldn’t put it down. Even today, she says, "there’s a moment of euphoria" with each new piece she makes. Reproducing designs to fill orders for her pottery gives her the financial freedom and flexibility to create more unique sculptural objects.
Fair Market Value $200 set
Min Bid $100 set
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Ben Sargent, Austin"Bluebonnets in Heaven?" Signed
8" x 10"
Photographic Print of Editorial Cartoon
Ben Sargent is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Austin American-Statesman, where he has worked since 1974. His cartoons also are distributed nationally by the Universal Press Syndicate. A graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, he is the author of "Texas Statehouse Blues" and "Big Brother Blues." Sargent started newspaper work in Amarillo when he was 14, running proof for the daily newspaper.
Fair Market Value $1000
Min Bid $500
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Nancy Scanlan, Austin"Covered Bridge"
27" x 21"
Archival Pigment Print
Nancy Scanlan is a professional award-winning photographer and long-time community leader. She earned a bachelor's degree in art history from Smith College in North Hampton, MA.She presently serves on the Board of KMFA, Austin’s classical radio station and the Save Our Springs Alliance as well as the Advisory Councils of the University of Texas Libraries, the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, Conspirare and the Austin Chamber Music Center.
Fair Market Value $1000
Min Bid $500
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W. Gary Smith, Toronto"Karst Elbow"
7" x 24"
Watercolor
W. Gary Smith is a landscape architect who, for more than 15 years, has specialized in master planning and design for botanical gardens and arboreta. Smith works collaboratively with professional horticulturists, artists, craftspeople, educators and community members with the goal of creating immersive garden experiences that weave together local ecological and cultural themes. He created the Gardens Master Plan that is the future garden design for the Wildflower Center.
Fair Market Value $400
Min Bid $200
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Julie Speed, Austin"Singing Yolanda"
Hand Colored Etching
Julie Speed is a Chicago native who moved here in 1978. As the Austin Chronicle described it, “her well-known vibrant portraits of dark-haired women and Catholic clerics combine meticulous painting with evocative, eerie details: a crown of matchsticks, a house on fire in the distance, a sober-faced monkey looking on. Her popularity makes sense in a town like Austin, where avid art appreciation is tinged with a penchant for the weird.” The University of Texas Press in 2004 published Julie Speed: Paintings, Constructions, and Works on Paper.
Fair Market Value $1500
Min Bid $800
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Frederick Steiner, Austin"Yuan Ming Yuan Garden (Old Summer Palace) Beijing, China
17" x 21" framed
Photography
Frederick Steiner is the dean of the School of Architecture and holds the Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin. He previously taught at Arizona State University, Washington State University, the University of Colorado-Denver and the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked on environmental plans and designs in such places as the San Pedro Basin, the Verde Valley greenway, Missouri Flat Creek and the Blackstone Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He has a Ph.D. and master of arts degree in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania.
Fair Market Value $400
Min Bid $150
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Christopher St. Leger, Lockhart"The Georgians"
20" x 28"
Watercolor on paper
A watercolorist, Christopher St. Leger notes that “Watercolor is commonly seen as seaside souvenir art or in magazines as the product of a magical society of recreational hobbyists. For me,” he said, “watercolor functions as a daily devotion to the art of seeing. After weeks of silent painting, I read my work like diary entries by which time I vaguely recall a visual beauty that has since escaped me.” Educated in Budapest and Miami University, he has exhibited in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Chicago, Hungary and Indiana.
Fair Market Value $1700
Min Bid $750
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Logan Stollenwerck, Fredericksburg"Bouquet di Rose"
26" x 11" x 11"
Steel Sculpture
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 Matti Auvinen 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 $1600
Min Bid $800
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Maggie Taylor, Gainesville, FL"The Gardener"
15" x 15"
Archival Pigment Ink Print
Maggie Taylor was born in Cleveland,OH,in 1961 and graduated from Yale University in 1983 with a BA degree in philosophy. In 1987 she received an MFA in photography from the University of Florida. After 10 years of creating vibrant color still-life images with a view camera, Taylor began to work with the computer in 1996. By placing objects directly on the glass top of the scanner, she is able to create a unique type of digital image that has some photographic qualities. Many of the images feature portions of her drawings, as well as found objects and bits of old tintype photographs. Taylor's still-life photographs and digital images have been exhibited in more that 80 one-person exhibitions throughout the U.S. and in Europe. In 1996 and 2001 she received one-year State of Florida Individual Artist's Fellowships. Taylor's work is in the collections of The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; The Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium; Museet For Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
Fair Market Value $2400
Min Bid $1200
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Eliza K. Thomas, Austin"Wild Orchid"
54" x 49"
Gouache, Pencil, Ink on Paper
Eliza Thomas says her goal as an artist is “to communicate the beauty of what I see.” Born in Boston, she was educated at Barnard College where she graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Her guiding statement comes from Robert Henri: “Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others, and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art or must respond in any way to any standard.”
Fair Market Value $1100
Min Bid $750
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John Tolly, Austin"Winds of Time"
6" x 6"
Burl Texas Mesquite
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 Woodturners.
Fair Market Value $200
Min Bid $125
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Maria Tucker, Austin"Sterling Silver Poppies Necklace"
16" necklace
Sterling Silver
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 $600
Min Bid $250
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Turquoise Door, Austin"Noah's Ark"
35" x 38"
Textile
The Turquoise Door is one of the unique shops in the South Congress district, featuring jewelry and folk art with a Hispanic theme. Amber, turquoise and silver jewelry are 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 $500
Min Bid $200
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Bob Wade, Austin"Cowboy Band"
10" x 30"
Limited Edition Laser Print
Bob Wade was born in Austin in 1943 and resides here. He received a BFA from The University of Texas at Austin, and a MA from the University of California, Berkeley. As a university art professor, Wade was also a recipient of three NEA grants and included in biennials in Paris, France; New Orleans, LA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Collections include Chase Manhattan Bank, AT & T, the Menil Collection and the Austin Museum of Art.
Fair Market Value $1000
Min Bid $400
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William Wahlgren, Austin"Hill Country Plateau"
20" x 24"
Oil on canvas
Based in Austin, Bill Wahlgren graduated with distinction from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University. He has participated in numerous exhibits nationwide and is included in many private and corporate collections. Locally he is represented by Davis Gallery in Austin and by Harris Gallery in Houston. The recipient of several awards and grants, this year he has been named a finalist for the prestigious Hunting Art Prize, a distinction shared with a number of internationally acclaimed artists. Wahlgren has spent most of his 25 years as an artist interpreting the landscape and the natural environment. Having explored naturalistic representation, Wahlgren has lately pursued an increasingly abstract and minimalist direction, while maintaining his interest in form, finish and a palpable sense of atmosphere, time and space.
Fair Market Value $1200
Min Bid $750
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Barbara Whitehead, Austin"Lady Bird Tribute"
12"x9"
Woodcut Print
Barbara Whitehead is one of the few Texas artists who regularly works in woodcuts and linoleum prints. The Texas Christian University Press recently showcased her work in "From Wood to Linoleum." Whitehead began her career as an illustrator for Bill Wittliff's Encino Press. Later, with her late husband, Fred, she established Whitehead & Whitehead Publishing services, providing illustrations as well as book production and design. She has bachelor's and master of fine arts degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and spent a year at the Academia della Bella Arte in Rome.
Fair Market Value $750
Min Bid $300
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Ana Zanic, Austin"Swallowtail's Dream"
12"x12"
Watercolor and Ink on paper
Ana Zanic was born and educated in Croatia, where she received her master of fine arts 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 it leads back, and the artist is revealed to herself/himself."
Fair Market Value $600
Min Bid $300
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