Brooklyn Art:Work Auction

Jaishri Abichandani

New York Tokyo, 2007
Digital print on watercolor paper,edition 1/5, 20 x 26 inches
Courtesy of the artist
$1,200

Jaishri Abichandani was born in India, raised in Queens, and now maintains a studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard neighborhood. She received her MFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London. In her Reconciliations series of photographs, she uses images taken from the internet to create collages that seamlessly merge disparate realms. Abichandani has exhibited her work internationally, including at P.S.1/MoMA, Gallery Chemould in India, and the Guangzhou Triennial in China. She is a founder of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to the advancement of South Asian women artists. Photographs from the Reconciliations series were included in the BRIC Rotunda Gallery 2008 exhibition A Wrinkle in Time: Artists From the Registry.

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Leslie Alfin

Study for Of Intelligence and Irony, 2009
Mixed media on canvas, 24 x 24 inches
$2,400

No Sheep, No Wolf is a study for an investigation and analysis of the paradoxical dynamics, bio-diversity, and conservation potential within the cultural ecologies that drove the conditions for the collapse of the global economic infrastructure. Behavioral attribute and outcome such as swarm intelligence, herding, and pandemic can be identified as characteristics evident in the pathology of recent events. In the role of artist/agent, Of Intelligence & Irony is a long term ecovention and series of documentary works and installations that aim to mitigate parasitic, predatory and viral influences and catalyze the restoration of Wall Street/Washington to the natural state of primary agent in a balanced and viable adaptive eco-system.
– Leslie Alfin

Leslie Alfin uses varied visual forms, ranging from print outs based on Google searches to texts to charting systems, to explore the impact of digital information platforms on society and on the individual psyche. Her work considers how we digest this flood of information, and its effects on technology, the environment, and culture. Alfin received a BFA from Hartford Art School and an MFA from Montclair State University. She teaches at Parsons School of Design, New York. Alfin created a major site-specific installation at BRIC Rotunda Gallery in 2008 as a part of In/Formation, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer. She is based in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn.

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Deborah Brown

Overhead, 2009
Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
Courtesy Lesley Heller Gallery, NY
$6,000

Deborah Brown’s recent series of paintings poetically examine the relationship of the natural and urban worlds, while conjuring the possibility of finding beauty in unexpected realms. She calls paintings like Overhead, a “love song to Bushwick,” the neighborhood where she maintains a studio and has become active in community affairs. Seeing herself in the tradition of American landscape painting, Brown's past bodies of work have explored the pastoral landscape, animals, and undersea environments.

Brown received her BA from Yale University and an MFA from the University of Indiana at Bloomington. Brown has exhibited extensively in the United States, at venues including ArtHaus in San Francisco, CA, the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. and the Lesley Heller Gallery, New York. Her works are in numerous collections throughout the United States including the Indianapolis Museum of Art; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts; and the Bass Museum of Art, Miami; among many others. In December 2008 Brown was selected as BRIC Contemporary Art’s Artist of the Month.

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Ernest Concepcion

Life In A Hidden Valley (Go Anus!), 2007
Oil and ink on canvas, 18 x 60 inches
$3,400

Ernest Concepcion was born in the Philippines and now lives and works in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn. He uses drawing, painting, and sculpture to depict opposing forces and their ensuing conflict. Concepcion explores the imagery of modern warfare and destruction, using his physical surface not only as a ground for his medium but as a battle ground as well. In Life In A Hidden Valley (Go Anus!), 2007 Concepcion layers ink drawing over a realistic landscape, done in oil paint, as a bridge for the viewer to enter the conflicts of his imagination. Concepcion received his BFA in Studio Arts from the University of the Philippines. He has shown widely in group exhibitions in his native Philippines and in New York at the Bronx Museum of Art, DUMBO Arts Center, and the Asian American Arts Center, among other spaces. He has exhibited numerous times at BRIC Rotunda Gallery, most recently in A Wrinkle in Time: Artists from the Registry, 2008. Concepcion is an education facilitator and curator at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

Amy Cutler

Fire, Gathering, Gaze, Kino
A suite of four color inkjet prints, 2009
Edition 1/20, each 11 x 14 inches
Courtesy of Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
$6,000

An internationally renowned artist, Amy Cutler creates whimsical, imaginary narratives in her paintings and drawings. For BRIC’s Contemporary Art gala, she has produced a special photographic edition based on her installation Alterciones/Alterations presented at the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, in 2007. Cutler photographed the small sculptures of female sculptures in the installation, capturing enigmatic, if not ominous moments. As in much of her work, she has been inspired by folktales, art history, Surrealism, and personal experiences. As Indianapolis Museum of Art curator Lisa Freiman noted, "Cutler's delightful world of ambiguity is tied to our everyday lives and fantasies. She revels in leaving the responsibility of interpretation with the viewer."

Amy Cutler studied at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Stadelschule, Frankfurt; received her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art, NY; and continued her studies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been included in such major exhibitions as the 2004 Whitney Biennial and Greater New York at P.S.1/MoMA, Cutler has had solo exhibitions at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; and the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid. Her works are including in the collections of the Hammer Museum at UCLA; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; among other public and private collections.

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Angela Dufresne

Painter Beggar Does the Virgin and Child from Bunuel's “Viridiana”, 2009
Oil on canvas, 10 x 12 inches
Courtesy Monya Rowe Gallery, NY and CRG Gallery, NY
$3,000

A painter of great sophistication, Angela Dufresne creates narrative paintings based in fictitious or hypothetical situations that feature real people, classic modern films, and places. Painter Beggar Does the Virgin and Child from Bunuel's “Viridiana” presents characters from Bunuel’s 1961 film Viridiana, about an idealistic young nun who visits her uncle and life-long patron before she full dedicates herself to the church. Dufresne has exhibited internationally, including at P.S.1/MoMA, the ARCO Art Fair in Madrid, Spain, and the Saatchi Gallery, London. She received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Angela Dufresne was born in Hartford and works in East Williamsburg.

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Joe Fyfe

Key, 2008
Muslin and dyed cotton, 24.5 x 23.75 inches
Courtesy James Graham & Sons, Inc., NY
$5,000

Working with textiles, Joe Fyfe creates minimalist abstract compositions that are reminiscent of color field painting, but have the added physicality of the fabric and an ephemeral air produced by loose threads. Fyfe has received numerous awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship, 2008, the Fulbright Award to research in Vietnam and Cambodia 2006-07, and the Pollock-Krasner Award, 2005. He earned his BFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia College of Art in 1976. Fyfe is also a prolific art critic who writes for Art in America and Artnet. He has been teaching for over a decade, most recently at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Fyfe has also curated exhibitions at venues including Apexart, New York and Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City.

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Chitra Ganesh

Untitled, 2009
Mixed media on denril and handmade khadi paper, 12 x 12 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Thomas Erben Gallery
$2,200

A life-long Brooklynite, Chitra Ganesh is an internationally known artist. Her works on paper and monumental installations are inspired by her Indian heritage, pop culture, graphic novels and comics, and issues related to race and sex. She creates hybrid worlds populated by mythic figures and altered beings engaged in strangely surreal dramas.

Ganesh graduated from Brown University with a BA in Comparative Literature and Art Semiotics. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and received her MFA from Columbia University. Her work has been exhibited extensively in New York including at the Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum of Art, Asia Society, Bronx Museum of Art, and Momenta Art. Prestigious public and private collections holding Ganesh’s work include the Saatchi Collection, London; Deutsche Bank; Brooklyn Museum; and the Gwangju Contemporary art Museum. Ganesh recently participated in the 2008 BRIC Rotunda Gallery exhibition, A Wrinkle in Time: Artists From the Registry.

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Julie Heffernan

Study for Self Portrait of What Holds Up, 2009
Oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches
Courtesy P.P.O.W., NY
$7,500

A renowned painter of exceptional skill and creativity, Julie Heffernan is known for surreal, lush paintings that reveal a preoccupation with the Baroque. In Study for Self Portrait of What Holds Up, her fascination with history, still life, portraiture, and imagination combine in a way that is controlled in spite of the plethora of details she depicts. Heffernan has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, and her work is featured in museum collections. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Thomas Bennett Clarke Prize, National Academy Museum, New York, and was awarded a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Heffernan earned her BFA from University of California, Santa Cruz, CA and her MFA from the Yale School of Art. Based in Park SLope, Heffernan participated in the 1997 Rotunda Gallery exhibition, The Press of my Foot to the Earth Springs a Hundred Affections.

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Katarina Jerinic

Proposal for a walk through a patch of grass, 2005
Archival inkjet print, 19 x 13 inches
$850

Among the city’s most watched young artists, Katarina Jerinic works in varied media including photography and participant-based installations. This photograph is one of a series of proposals focusing on inventive explorations of urban space. The photograph included in the 2009 Gala depicts temporary tattoos of grass placed on her feet. Jerinic was a participant in the Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace program and has completed residencies at MacDowell Colony and the Experimental Television Center. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, the DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, NY, and Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, MA. She holds an MFA from School of Visual Arts in Photography and Related Media, NY, and a BA from American University, Washington DC. She currently lives and works in Clinton Hill. Jerinic was included in A Wrinkle in Time: Artists From the Registry at BRIC Rotunda Gallery in 2008.

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Laura Karetzky

Savage Beast, 2008
Oil on linen, 8 x 10 inches
Courtesy Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
$2,400

A realist painter who studied at the prestigious New York Academy of Art, Laura Karetzky’s subject matter includes the human figure, architecture, and their interplay. Her compositions are psychologically charged – she explores subtle emotional states through color, light, symbolism, and perspective. Karetzky was awarded the BRIC Media Arts Fellowship in 2006, as well as the Christine Dobrowski and Thomas Ayoub Award from the Silvermine Guild. Her work has been exhibited from coast to coast, including at the Smithsonian Natinoal Portrait Gallery, Brandeis University, the DUMBO Arts Center, and most recently, at a solo exhibition at the Lora Schesinger Gallery in Santa Monica, CA.

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Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz

Traveler CLXX (170), 2006
C-print, edition 2/5, 24 x 20 inches
Courtesy P.P.O.W., NY
$3,000

Internationally known artists, Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz have been collaborating since 1993. They are known for the miniature sculptural dioramas that they create and set inside snow globes. The scenes inside the globes are simultaneously magical, foreboding, and beautiful. Photographs of these works, along with texts by renowned author Jonathan Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn) were published by Aperture Foundation in 2008. Their work is exhibited internationally and is in many museum collections, including Bloomberg, L.P.; Museum of Art and Design, NY; the Miami Museum of Art; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; and the KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki. Martin and Muñoz were featured in the 2001 exhibition at Rotunda Gallery, Animas!. The couple maintain a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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Andrew Mockler

Untitled, 2007
Oil on linen, 16 x 16 inches
$1,200

Dedicated to abstract painting in both large and small scale, Andrew Mockler underscores the power of light and color to evoke the natural world and emotional states. His Untitled painting of gold horizontal bands was inspired by the shimmering ocean sunsets in Chatham, in Cape Cod. Mockler alternates passages of impasto with transparent glazes, creating a kind of perspective akin to landscape paintings. A native of Boston, he earned a BFA from Cornell University, NY and an MFA from the Yale School of Art, CT. From 1991 to 1993, he taught painting and printmaking at the Yale School of Art. In addition to painting, he teaches printmaking at Hunter College, and has also taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Columbia University. In 1994, he founded Jungle Press, a fine arts press based in Greenpoint where he serves as the director and master printer.

Chloe Piene

Kneed, 2009
Charcoal on vellum, 17 x 14 inches
$5,000

Chloe Piene gained major acclaim when her drawings were featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2004 Biennial. Her isolated figures are both erotic and macabre, whose energetic lines weave freely between bodily exteriors and interiors. This fluidity is highlighted in Kneed, 2009. Piene’s work is held by a number of major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She received a B.A. in art history from Columbia University and earned an MFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Piene works and lives in Prospect Heights.

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Cordy Ryman

Yellow Stripe, 2009
Acrylic on wood, 12 x 9 inches
Courtesy DCKT Contemporary, NY
$4,000

A burgeoning star in the New York art scene, Cordy Ryman creates abstract 3-D works that he describes as “organic and expressive.” He uses materials such as plywood, metal brackets and florescent paint that not only add dynamic textures to each piece, but also refer to their own status as constructed objects. In Yellow Stripe (2009), Ryman creates a visually stimulating dialogue between the two mediums that is and further complimented by his chosen color palette. He received his BFA with honors from the School of Visual Arts, where he studied with the legendary Hannah Wilke. He has participated in group and solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally in Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. In 2006, he was awarded the Helen Foster Barnett Prize from the National Academy Museum in New York.

John Zinsser

Paint Block Series IV, 2009
Oil on Arches Hot Press, 12 x 16 inches
Courtesy James Graham & Sons, Inc., NY
$1,500

Greenpoint-based artist John Zinsser creates abstract paintings that have been described as “gorgeous” by The New York Times and “elegant” by the Brooklyn Rail. He received his BA from Yale University, CT. Since then, he has shown his work both in the United States and abroad, including solo exhibitions at Galerie S65 in Cologne, Germany, 2005 and the Roger Ramsay Gallery in Chicago, 2006. His work is held in collections such as the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford and the Yale University Art Gallery. In addition to his artwork, Zinsser is the co-founder of the Journal of Contemporary Art. He has written extensively for such publications as Art in America, ARTS, New Art International, and ACME Journal. He has been a Contributing Editor at Publishers Weekly, The Paris Review and The Brooklyn Rail.

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