MICHELLE JADER
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Falling for You
Oil on Two Acrylic Panels
18″ x 9″
Value: $800.00
Minimum Bid: $275.00
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I worked for nearly 10 years as a marketing consultant before following my heart and earning an MFA from the Academy of Art University. Originally from Minnesota, I’ve lived in San Francisco for over 6 years and work out of my studio in the Mission. I explore moments when we willingly and unwillingly dive into the next phase of our life. These transitions include the sense of falling, lack of control, and the feeling that anything is possible. To capture these feelings, I paint a series of images on semi-transparent, acrylic panels. Having different layers of images provide an exciting way for me to paint motion, change and our slightly-shielded vulnerability.
PATTER HELLSTROM
Floating Sari
Acrylic Ink on Polypropylene
40″ x 26″
Value: $4,200.00
Minimum Bid: $1,400.00
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Internationally exhibited, Hellstrom lives and works in San Francisco. Equilibrium is reached in her work as structural lines hold despite insistent disruptions. Centerlines hold despite the interference of splashed color, suggesting a curious interdependence between two forces. Sutra literally means a thread that holds things together in Sanskrit. Floating Sari resonates with that precarious concept through expressive brushwork in fluid color balanced along a center line creating a dynamic balance between acrylic ink and the polypropylene sheeting. Graphite elements evoke a sense of detachment among a host of competing forces. The work encompasses themes of impermanence, compassion, stability, and interdependence.
MATTHEW FREDRICK
Forestville Hills
Oil on Canvas
20″ x 20″
Value: $1,400.00
Minimum Bid: $475.00
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Matthew Frederick presents an unconventional and amusing spin on the genre of landscape painting. Inspired by his life amid Northern California’s scenic countryside, Frederick looks within the landscape to capture and exaggerate the whimsical shadows and shapes cast from surging hills, majestic oak trees and gaping valleys.
Frederick’s style is characterized by the careful balance of structure, color, lighting and mood. His compositions are rendered with a resplendent color palette of generous applications of paint and undulating brushwork, lending to a compelling emulation of the patterns and sensations inherent in nature.
Matthew Frederick studied painting at the schools of the great Northern California region and graduated in 1986. Chico State University and Sacramento State University provided instructors from the Bay Areas Expressionist movement to guide and inspire him. His work is shown in commercial galleries, universities, and public exhibitions on the East Coast, California, and Hawaii. He is included in many prominent collections around the world. Frederick currently works in his studio in the Mission District of San Francisco.
FONG FAI
Impression, 2010
Acrylic on Canvas
20″ x 20″
Value: $900.00
Minimum Bid: $300.00
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Fong Fai studied art in the New Asia College and the Hong Kong Academy of Art in Hong Kong. During one of his solo exhibition in 1974, he was voted as one of the six leading artists in Hong Kong. He owned an art gallery (Fong’s Art Gallery) and also taught at the Oriental Arts Institute in Hong Kong. His artworks were exhibited at many art galleries in Asia, Australia and North America. Later, Fong Fai was invited to exhibit his paintings in Hawaii and San Francisco, where he fell in love with this beautiful country and decided to stay. Today his work continues to appear in exhibitions in US and Asia. His work is included in many public and private collections. Throughout the years, Fong Fai’s artwork has transformed from realistic to semi-abstract, to totally abstract and finally evolved to his own style. He thinks that art is a visual link between the artist and the viewer. “I like to paint abstract art, it is a reality that does not exist, a product of thought, momentary feelings, a poem, a melody…. all that could be my inspiration to create. Artists’ works are often inseparable from their cultural background. I’m no different. Eastern influence constantly guides my path. With the touch of my brushes and the color palette, I attempt to capture on canvas that non-existent image.”
PAULE DUBOIS DUPUIS
SONATA
Oil on Canvas
36″ x 36″
Value: $2,350
Minimum Bid: $775.00
for $1,200
My work reflects my fascination with the fleeting concept of the moment and cycles of life. Following the thinking of Da Vinci, I pull my inspiration from a direct observation of people and events of my personal life. More than traditional abstract formal concerns, I am interested in producing a poignant experience for the viewer and ultimately take hold of a better understanding of my human perception. I create a visual diary highlighting emotional and physical effects of my life’s occurrences starting by covering my black canvas with either words of positive wisdom or numbers attached to a personal event as the under painting. I allow myself to transcend the rules, to go beyond who I think I am by “losing” the painting before it comes back to me with a clearer vision of the feeling I want to convey. To put my unconscious in control and let the process rule the outcome I have to “ground” myself in whom I am, a Quebecoise living in San Francisco. Therefore, to obtain this quiet state of mind, for the past twelve years, I always paint to the sounds of Dan Bigras poetry’s French songs. Once I am one with myself, it becomes all about the act of moment by moment listening to the flashes of thought at the periphery of perception, and responding in color and form, coat after coat. Since my process is one of repetition, I have multiple canvases working at a time and each morning when in my studio, I respond to the one that talks to me. I strongly believe that each of my paintings has a destination that is not just of my own making, so for me to follow this journey through to the end is both an ending and a beginning.
ANDREINA DAVILA
Bark
Mixed Media on Wood
24″ x 24″
Value: $1,500.00
Minimum Bid: $500.00
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Andreina was born in Venezuela in 1977. She obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from La Universidad de los Andes, in Merida and Master of Science in Design from Arizona State University. She juggles her time between her studio in the East Bay, and her work as a creative director for a nonprofit. “My paintings explore the relationship between life and movement. With Textures, my early work was a conscious naive experimentation with techniques, primarily concerned with color and texture, the harmony I find in new uses of materials and the sensations that they express. Feeling the need to evolve, my work started incorporating abstract representations of Nature. This time I experimented with typography and text. Along came Reclaimed, an ode to the organic flow and constant transformation of life, with the re-use of discarded objects as the central subject. BotanInk studies are an ode to the constant growth and transformations botanic organisms go through daily, as I wonder how that relates to our (human) way of living, a non-judgmental window that is quiet and steady, sure of itself, full of life.”
AARON CZERNY
Aggressive Surrender
Mixed Media on Recycled Fencing
44″ x 24″
Value: $2,800.00
Minimum Bid: $925.00
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Aaron Czerny spent much of his life living and traveling in many parts of the United States and Europe. He is essentially self-taught, having attended one year of university at SFAI. He has exhibited nationally and internationally. He currently resides north of San Francisco. The paintings are visual jazz memory compositions. Each painting is a particular container of something larger than the words or images themselves. They are the act of asking questions and sometimes receiving answers: felt futures mapping a journal of an idea. A personal language with which I communicate the immediacy, spontaneity and raw power of creation and destruction.
ELAINE COOMBS
Leaning Red 6-Washington Park
Acrylic on Paper
22″ x 30″
Value: $1,400.00
Minimum Bid: $475.00
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The work of artist Elaine Coombs is derived from a fascination with the rhythms, colors and patterns of the natural world. Local and national forest environments inform and inspire her luscious acrylic paintings on canvas and paper. Born in Canada in 1973, Elaine began painting and drawing at a young age, studying privately in a local painter’s studio for several years. By 1996, she had received joint degrees in the Art & Art History program at both the University of Toronto in Mississauga and Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. After several years of travel and work abroad, Coombs moved to San Francisco in 2001 and began pursuing her art career in earnest. Elaine’s paintings have been exhibited both nationally and internationally in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Toronto, and London. Her work has been seen in a number of publications: California Home + Design Magazine (2007); Studio Visit Magazine (Volumes 1 & 4, 2008); both Sierra Heritage and Art Calendar Magazine (2009). In 2011, she received an honorarium in conjunction with a solo exhibition at Hang Art Projects, San Francisco. The annual ArtSpan Benefit Art Show jurors have recognized her work two years in a row. Last year she won a first place award in the representational category, and in 2010, a juror’s choice award.
RICARDO CARBAJAL-MOSS
Donated by ArtHaus
OPEN
Acrylic on Canvas
20″ x 16″
Value: $2,800.00
Minimum Bid: $925.00
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Bob was my younger brother. He was the smart one of us three boys. He wrote and directed plays he taught English at a University in Mexico City. He was good to all people and animals. He loved our parents more than you could imagine. He once told me that 2×2 was no longer four. This was before he disclosed to the family that he was gay. His tenderness towards me culminated one day in Mexico City when we both improvised a 10 minute long jazz blues combination. He played the recorder and I played the harmonica. This two person musical delight blew our minds. It was and is still my fondest memory of this giant in the arts. He was my younger brother but I will always consider him my big friend. AIDS took him away and if my contribution to this auction can take away the suffering from just one person, then I will know that Roberto is still here with me in my heart. —Ricardo Carbajal
JHINA ALVARADO
Beach Chair
Oil and Encaustic Wax
16″ x 16″
Value: $1,000.00
Minimum Bid: $325.00
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In my series, titled “Forgotten Memories”, I use oil paints to depict the untold stories from long forgotten photographs. I paint these images on wood panels using a considerable amount of white space with the images cropped out of their environment, creating a sense of unbalance and emphasizing the need to focus on the individual’s memory, rather than the whole picture. I blend the white areas from the images with the negative spaces of the panel to create tension and abstraction of each delineated line. Since many memories are shared, the identity of the person within each memory is inconsequential. The eyes are blocked out so that the viewer can take part of each memory as if it were their own. The painting is then covered in encaustic wax to add an antique photo look and dream-like feel to each piece. Because many memories are unclear and somewhat “fuzzy”, the wax also obscures the images as if the viewer, themselves, were trying to recall a past event, yet could not remember all of the details.