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	1. Ed Baynard Tangerine Orchid, oil on canvas, 24" x 30", 2000 Value $3,500 Start bid $400 Incremental bid $100 Ed Baynard’s last show contained blue-on-blue Blakean watercolors and large flower paintings that are connected to a long line of flower painters from the 12th century on. He was born 1940 in Washington, DC, lives in NYC and will have his next solo exhibition in NYC in April 2007. Baynard Exhibits in New York City, San Francisco, Palm Desert and Palm Springs CA.
	2. Dietmar Busse Tree Reaching Up, photographic c-print, 20" x 20", 2005. Value $1,800 Start bid $300 Incremental bid $100 Dietmar Busse, a photographer in temporary exile from NY last year, made these austere winter landscapes in and around the German village where he was born. Several of his strongest images center on a single leafless tree. Dietmar’s pictures from home his remembrance of things past suffuses the present with real tenderness. (The New Yorker, vince aletti, 2006)
	3. Luisa Caldwell Flora On A Minty Sky, 2006 Medium: fruit stickers, and acrylic paint on Reeves paper Size 15" x 11" Value $900 Start bid $200 Incremental bid $50 Luisa Caldwell has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in New York City. Her work has been reviewed and published in The New York Times, Artnews, The New Yorker, Art in America, House & Garden, New York Magazine, and NYArts, among others. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
	4. Carlo Ferraris Untitled, Color Photograph_edition 1/7, 11" x 11" framed; 19" x 21", 2005 Value $1,300 Start bid $300 Incremental bid $100 Carlo Ferraris was born in Romagnano Sesia, Italy. He lives and works in New York City. Ferraris makes conceptual art objects and videos imbued with wry humor and genuinely touching sentimentality. Two examples (more of wry varietal than the other) from his exhibition are a flashlight that somehow shines darkness on lit areas and a microwave oven that conversely acts as a flash freezer. He shows in New York, Italy, France, Denmark and Australia.
	5. Maria Elena Gonzales San Lorenzo GoGo Stand, 2004 Medium: digital print on Fabriano Ingres Size 9" x 11" Value $1,000 Start bid $200 Incremental bid $100 Born 1957, Havana, Cuba, the artist lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Basel, Switzerland. Maria Elena Gonzales shows in NYC and many international galleries. She embraces the traditions of contemporary art and then swings the doors open for the air of the outside to renew the language of sculpture and to expand our ideas of community. "Gonzales wants to domesticate the arid legacy of much minimalist sculpture, but usually the austerity of her tendencies wins out."
	6. Noritoshi Hirakawa A Silent Park, 2006 Medium: Silver Geratin Print Size 8" x 10" Value $1,800 Start bid $300 Incremental bid $100 Born in Fukuoka, Japan, he has lived and worked in New York since 1993. He contributed photographs for lacanian ink 23, three of which appear with articles by Mehdi Belhaj Kacem "The Supreme Luxury", by Gérard Wajcman "The Birth of the Intimate", and by Slavoj Zizek "Jews, Christians and Other Monsters". In lacanian ink 26 he illustrates Alain Badiou's "Jacques Lacan's L'angoisse" and Massimo Recalcati's "The Empty Subject: Un-Triggered Psychoses"
	7. Dana Hoey Sweet 13, 2005 Medium: archival inkjet Size 13" x 19.5" Value $3,000 Start bid $400 Incremental bid $100 Color photographs that negotiate the line between natural and artificial, veering toward advertising, fashion or cinema but studiously avoiding slickness…they are searching for a new way to reveal the unreality with which women are often portrayed by society. Dana Hoey studied Philosophy at Wesleyan and received her M.A. at Yale. She is represented by a gallery in New York, with her works held in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington.
	8. Joan Jonas Recline, 2004 Medium: graphite on paper Size 7 ¼" x 10" Value $3,000 Start bid $400 Incremental bid $100 Born 1936, New York, NY. Resides, New York, NY. Education B.A., Mt. Holyoke College, MA; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; M.F.A., Columbia University, New York. On the occasion of Jonas’s 2003 survey exhibition at the Queens Museum and a 2004 performance at The Kitchen, Jonas, now in her late 60s, is a much-respected installation, performance and video artist. She was a member of the groundbreaking ground of downtown New York experimental artists, dancers, performers, filmmakers and composers in the late 1960s and ‘70s….[she] is arguably one of the best of her generation…. Her work is mysterious and transparent, strange yet familiar in an almost universal sense. She is like a magician who dazzles us while revealing the secret to every trick.”
	9. Pia Lindman From the series Aaron and Domo Real, 2005 Medium: Pencil on Denril Vellum Size 36" x 24" (approximately) Value $1,400 Start bid $300 Incremental bid $100 Pia Lindman has been exhibiting and presenting performances internationally since 1993. Her numerous awards include Artist in the Marketplace (2000); AVEK, The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture in Finland (2001 & 2002); Cité Internationale des Arts Residency (2001); Artist-in-Akiya Residency (2000); Fulbright Full Grant (1997); and FRAME, Finnish Fund for Art Exchange (2001, 2000, 1996, 1995 & 1994). Artist's statement: “Humanity seems to always have had a fascination with the idea of making a complete mirror of itself. A humanoid robot is intended to be such a mirror. My aim is to reenact both the researcher and the robot in order to disrupt this one-way relationship of the human to the robot." Born 1965, Lives and works in New York, 1998 M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; 1995 Ph.D. Studies, Oslo School of Architecture, Oslo, Norway; 1994 M.F.A., Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland; 1991 B.F.A., Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
	10. Joel Longenecker Untitled drawing 30” x 22”, charcoal on paper, 2005 Value $1,200 Start bid $300 Incremental bid $100 Like a landscape being formed over time, his drawings are the culmination of the events that have occurred on their surfaces, each with its own unique history and topography. His aim is to create a space that is both enveloping and navigable. Education: 1988 M.F.A., Painting, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 1988 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME. 1985 B.F.A., Painting, (cum laude) Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA.
	11. John Newman Untitled (Dublin 3), 2000 Size 9" x 12" Colored pencil on paper with gouache (drawing for sculpture) Value $1,500 Start bid $300 Incremental bid $100 John Newman's small sculptures make you think of cartoons and computer animation, yet they're emphatically three-dimensional and tactile. The surface details and the intense sense of touch may remind you of tribal objects, while the compositions, which usually involve one element framing or holding another, may evoke scientific equipment. Newman is a world traveler with an interest in the art and artifacts of many cultures and a fascination with the essential qualities of materials; the works reflect that and also convey intelligence, energy and sensuality.
	12. George Quasha Axial drawing (September 2, 2004) graphite on paper, 11.5" x 14" Value $800 Start bid $200 Incremental bid $100 Artist and poet George Quasha was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in video art in 2006. His works cross mediums to explore principles in common within language, sculpture, drawing, video, sound, installation, and performance. His axial stone sculptures and axial drawings have been exhibited in New York City and elsewhere, and are featured in the newly published book, Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance (Foreword by Carter Ratcliff) (North Atlantic Books: Berkeley).
	13. Susan Rabinowitz Untitled, ink on paper, 11" x 8", 2004 Value $650 Start bid $150 Incremental bid $50 1992 M.F.A. School of Visual Arts; 1987 B.F.A., Painting, The University of Michigan School of Art 1983; B.A., History of Art, The University of Michigan. Rabinowitz stopped using a brush in 1996 after experimenting with watercolor pours on paper. After pouring paint onto a stretched canvas (or paper) placed on the floor, she tilts the canvas to move the paint horizontally across the surface. Gravity, chance and as she refers to them, controlled "accidents," combine to effect horizon lines. She shows in NYC.
	14. Michael Rackowitz Flexible Architecture: study for a new urban tent, 2006 Medium: inkjet print, tracing paper, glue, graphite Size 8.5" x 11" Value $1,500 Start bid $300 Incremental bid $100 Michael Rakowitz (now lives in Chicago and teaches at Northwestern University) has made a strong impression with his first New York solo. Recognized over the last few years for his inflatable homeless shelters and other actions in public space that address deep-rooted social issues. Rackowitz has gained a major reputation in the last few years showing in International Fairs, Museums and Bieniali all over the world.
	15. Franco Mondini-Ruiz The Conversation, 2006 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size 9" x 12" Value $500 Start bid $50 Incremental bid $50 Tex-Mex Christmas party meets Chelsea art opening in Mondini-Ruiz's latest creation titled Nacho de Paz. Working with kitsch, found objects and antiquities Mondini-Ruiz subtly and humorously addresses issues of cultural bias, beauty and pleasure in a new series of sculptural vignettes and installations.
	16. Sam Samore Belladona (#2), 2006 Medium: inks on paper (unique) Size 8.5" x 11" Value $1,000 Start bid $300 Incremental bid $100 The most striking aspect of Sam Samore's photographs is their emotional coolness and disengagement. The photos are tightly cropped, isolating the heads. Part of a series titled "Allegories of Beauty (Incomplete)," they are drawn from some 4,000 shots taken in Paris, Milan, Stockholm, Cairo, London and Berlin by the artist and photographers who usually work for private detectives or on government surveillance projects. Samore's work is an expression of late 20th-century urban existence: blurred motion, interchangeable settings, discouragement of random contact and resistance to distractions, anonymity, undisclosed narrative.
	17. Arlene Slavin Dawn, 2006 Medium: acrylic on canvas Size 12" x 9" Value $2,200 Start bid $300 Incremental bid $50 Ms. Slavin is a multi talented artist who is presently working on public and private commissions and landscape paintings. Ms. Slavin, started out designing screens that combined Japanese elements, like rice paper, with an American point of view. Then she moved into cut-out wooden screens and, more recently, metal ones. Aluminum, copper and brass. She was an artist who was a part of the 1970’s decorative art movement. She graduated from the distinguished art school, Cooper Union in New York City.
	18. Nedko Solakov Untitled 2006, ink on paper, 8" x 11 1/2" Value $3,000 Start bid $300 Incremental bid $100 Since the beginning of the 1990s, Nedko Solakov (born 1957, Tcherven Briag, Bulgaria; lives in Sofia) has exhibited extensively in Europe and the United States, the 48th, 49th and 50th Venice Biennial; the 3rd, 4th and 9th Istanbul Biennial; São Paulo ‘94; Manifesta 1, Rotterdam; the 2nd and 4th Gwangju Biennial; the 5th Lyon Biennial, Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem, the 4th and 5th Cetinje Biennial, the 1st Lodz Biennial; the 7th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates; and the 3rd Tirana Biennial. Recently he had solo shows at Museu do Chiado, Lisbon; Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam; CCA Kitakyushu, Japan; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona and Kunsthaus Zurich. In 2003-2005 an extensive mid-career "A 12 1/3 (and even more) Year Survey" was presented at Casino Luxembourg, Rooseum Malmoe and O.K Centrum Linz.
	19. Joyce Tenneson Roses 1, 2002 Iris print from the Flower Portfolio, 11" x 14" Edition 1/25 Value $500 Start bid $50 Incremental bid $50 Tenneson has achieved distinction in both the fine art and commercial photography fields. Her personal work has been exhibited Internationally and is included in many museum collections. Formerly a photography instructor at the Corcoran School of Art, Tenneson is a much sought after lecturer and workshop instructor. Tenneson's beauty, fashion and portrait work for commercial clients in Europe, Japan and the United States appears regularly in such magazines as French and Italian Vogue, The New York Times, Esquire and L.A. Style. In 1989, she won the International Center of Photography's "Infinity" award for the year's best applied photography. In 1990, she was named "Photographer of the Year" by Women in Photography. Tenneson lives in New York City.
	20. Carolee Thea Entropic Ooze, 2006 acrylic and mixed media on rag paper 9" x 12", framed 15" x 18" Value $2,000 Start bid $300 Incremental bid $100 Carolee Thea’s blue paintings on paper are derived from blending figuration and abstraction that enscribe an arial view of a disillusioned landscape. Carolee Thea lives and works in NYC. Educated at Columbia University with an MA from Hunter College. She has been a New York art critic and consultant for 25 years and is a contributing editor at Sculpture Magazine and ArtsAsiaPacific. She is the author of a book on curatorial ideas foci interviews with ten International curators. Awards: 2004 Resident Scholar- American Academy in Rome, 1990 N.E.A. 1988 Athena Foundation, Socrates Sculpture Park, LI City, NY. 1977 - 79 C.A.P.S. Finalist.
	21. Rachel Urkowitz Untitled, 2002 Coloraid on paper, 13" x 19" Value $1,200 Start bid $300 Incremental bid $100 This collage is based on a 19th century landscape painting of the American southwest. Most of her cut paper pieces begin with a specific art historical source, usually an image that engages idealized or utopian ideas about landscape. These images are reconfigured, turned upside down, fragmented and abstracted. Rachel Urkowitz (born 1970) is an artist who lives and works in New York. Her work is represented by galleries in New York City and Frankfurt. She has a BA from Brown University and an MFA in painting from Hunter College and teaches at Parsons The New School for Design.
	22. Roger Welch Rio Grande and Rhine, 2005 Medium: water color Size 9" x 12" Value $1,200 Start bid $300 Incremental bid $100 Welch has created maps of wood and ink drawn from interviews with elderly individuals as they recalled their childhood hometowns. These Memory Maps portray towns that have been reshaped by the shadows of forgetfulness and the light of memory. Roger Welch is a conceptual artist working in a variety of media. He has done several widely acclaimed installation art works which combine sculpture, video and film. Welch has exhibited internationally since the 1970's. He has had numerous one-person exhibitions, among them, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas; Museo Nacional, Havana, Cuba and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York. He is a pioneer in exploring personal memory and identity as an art form. His works are included in many museum collections including the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Georgia Museum of Art, Musée de Saint Etienne in France, and the Tamayo Museum in Mexico City.
	23. Nina Yankowitz Tile talk Medium: bisque ceramic tile, paint relief with polymer resin. Size 17 1/4" x 8 5/8" wide Value $1,100 Start bid $300 Incremental bid $100 "What I love about working with tile," says Miss Yankowitz, "is that it's a material that's been used for centuries. For me it's very interesting to expand on an old material by working with contemporary images." Ms. Yankowitz's floor in the Freehold building is among numerous projects that have added welcome touches of individuality to architecturally undistinguished low-budget structures. A resident of New York City, Ms. Yankowitz was among several artists invited by Tom Moran, visual arts coordinator at the State Council on the Arts, to submit floor designs. Currently, she is working on a tile mural for a passage in the subway station at Lexington Avenue and 51st Street in New York. Her first public commission, executed in 1980, was an abstract narrative mural of tactile tiles designed to read like Braille. It is in a school for handicapped children in northern New Jersey.
	24. Holly Zausner G_woman, 2003 Medium: digital c-print Size 40" x 60" Value $4,000 Start bid $400 Incremental bid $100 Zausner works and lives in NYC and Berlin. She is a sculptor who works in the medium of film and photography. Her works explore ideas about the history of culture, film and personal space. The sculptures are abstracted male and female figures with elongated limbs that are made to move and perform within photography and film. They are soft and flexible with a colored silicon rubber surface, created for their expressive potential. Zausner is presently working on her second 16mm film, photography and sculpture project that will be shown at the Bode Museum, an important historical museum of sculpture in Berlin.