auction items artjohanna bresnick carroll dunham jenny holzer gary panter victoria sambunaris william steiger felice varini leo villareal experiencestony smith museum of arts and design jason hackenwerth green hill house in the berkshires |
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expired system- coliseum #2
Fiberglass tape on glass, and steel Courtesy of the artist. Bresnick's work investigates the imposition of geometry on nature; the engineering of environments and conditions by means of architecture, economics, time, geopolitics, social behavior, familial structure, or personal code. The materials vary widely. A native of New Haven, Bresnick received an M.F.A. in 2001 from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.A. from Macalester College. She is currently the Chair of the Visual Arts Department at the Educational Center of the Arts. Before her tenure at ECA, she founded and ran the alternative space Grand Projects, which presented a series of experimental solo exhibitions. She is also on the Visual Arts Committee at Artspace and coordinated its City Wide Open Studios from 2002-2005. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2002), Galerie für Landschaftkunst in Germany (2003), Wadsworth Athaneum in Hartford (2007), The Rose Museum at Brandeis College, Waltham, MA (2008), and is currently on view in Reinventing Ritual, at the The Jewish Museum in New York (2009). The work in the auction comes from the series Expired System (2007), made for and included in the exhibition at the Wadsworth. The New Haven Coliseum is finally reduced to rubble. The images, made from fiberglass packing tape, are a ghostly homage to a fleeting experiment in urban planning. www.johannabresnick.com |
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untitled, 1991
Graphite on paper drawing from 1991, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, framed Courtesy of the artist. Carroll Dunham makes graphic, semi-figurative paintings that combine an unsettling mixture of cartoon-like drawing with chromatic, vivid color. His paintings and sculptures explode with psycho-sexual content and are driven by an aggressive and libidinous energy. |
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the conversation always turns to living long enough to have fun.
Danby Imperial white marble footstool, numbered 3 from an edition of 10, with the text “The conversation always turns to living long enough to have fun.” (1983-1985) Courtesy of the artist. For thirty years, Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including 7 World Trade Center, the Reichstag, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her medium, whether formulated as a T-shirt, as a plaque, or as an LED sign, is writing, and the public dimension is integral to the delivery of her work. Starting in the 1970s with the New York City posters, and up to her recent light projections on landscape and architecture, her practice has rivaled ignorance and violence with humor, kindness, and moral courage. Holzer received the Leone d'Oro at the Venice Biennale in 1990 and the Public Art Network Award in 2004. She holds honorary degrees from Ohio University, Williams College, the Rhode Island School of Design, The New School, and Smith College. Holzer lives and works in New York. BID ON THIS! |
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daydream trap Four-color silkscreen print on 290 Coventry Rag Courtesy of the artist and Helen Kauder Gary Panter has been one of the most influential figures in visual culture since the mid-1970s. From his era-defining punk graphics to his cartoon icon Jimbo to his visionary design for Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, he has left his mark on every medium he’s touched. In 2008, working in close collaboration with the artist, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art commissioned Panter to make a limited edition silkscreen print to accompany his one person exhibition there, "Daydream Trap ". The print is numbered 1 out of a sold-out edition of only 50. A three-time Emmy Award-winner for his production design on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse and the recipient of the 2000 Chrysler Award for Design Excellence, graphic artist Gary Panter has drawn inspiration from diverse vernacular and traditional art arenas over the course of the past four decades. Closely associated with the underground comics and music scenes on both coasts, he is responsible for designing the Screamers iconic 1970s poster, many record covers for Frank Zappa, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Residents and the ongoing comic character Jimbo. Most recently Panter has performed psychedelic light shows at the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. and at New York’s Anthology Film Archives. He was a featured artist in the major 2006-2007 touring exhibition, Masters of American Comic. Included with the print is the definitive volume on Panter’s work from the early 1970s to the present. Assembled by PictureBox, this monumental, slipcased set is split into two 350-page volumes: the first is a comprehensive monograph featuring over 700 images of paintings, drawings, sculptures, posters and comics, alongside essays by Robert Storr, Mike Kelley, Richard Klein, Richard Gehr, Karrie Jacobs and Byron Coley, as well a substantial commentary by the artist himself. The second volume features a selection from Panter’s sketchbooks–the site of some of his most audacious work–most of which has never been published in any form. |
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crater ring, mountain home, mt, 2008
VS-08-51 Courtesy of the artist and the Yancey Richardson Gallery. Born in 1964, Sambunaris graduated from the Yale University MFA program in 1999. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of Women in the Arts as well as in the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, which awardeded her a Foundation Fellowship in Marfa, Texas. |
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semaphore I
Seven-color four-plate etching/aquatint paper size 21.5 x 18.5, framed. Courtesy of the artist Selective viewing is essential to sanity. The human brain can only process so much information at once, and those whose brains don't shuffle, edit and erase most of what they see and hear, go mad. Order makes understanding possible. On the opposite end of this spectrum of perception is painter William Steiger, the owner of an orderly eye if ever there were one, who selects only the most pleasing and succinct details from a tacky and complicated American landscape and paints those in flat color and high relief against otherwise blazingly blank backgrounds of whiteness. Cable cars hang in mid-air, held up by the thinnest of wires. Watertowers—those lighthouses of the prairies, skyscrapers of the great plains—stand stark against blank white skies. Rollercoasters, Ferris wheels, railroad bridges, tunnels: These are Steiger's humble icons of perfection. A train caboose is reduced to an abstract pileup of geometric shapes in red, black and gray. The apparently sun-bleached walls of a grain elevator disappear in the whiteness of the background. The effect of this minimalizing technique is almost musical, the isolated objects look the way a few notes sound when they are surrounded by silence. The white acts as a pause that allows us to “hear” the thing because Steiger has eliminated so much environmental detail. Fashioned with the same attention to precision that designers gave to the machines and buildings that inspired Steiger in the first place, each painting is a perfect invention. Together, the body of work seems like an homage to the mathematics of engineering, with each object illuminated by a cleansing, almost blinding light and without a trace of human presence or sentiment. Steiger's work approaches abstraction in places and there is a sense here that if a few more edges were removed, the literal meanings of these paintings would dissolve into planes of flat color. It is Steiger's genius, though, that they don't have to lose their literalness to keep our attention. Steiger has set the ideas in his paintings in motion and then he steps back to admire his craft and to watch them work. Refreshingly, there is no sense of heated artistic ego or creative chaos here. Just the opposite—Steiger makes paintings that instill a cool sense of order. (Margaret Hawkins) |
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cinq ellipses ouvertes Centre Pompidou-Metz Courtesy of the artist Musée des Beaux-Arts Courtesy of the artist
Abbaye Saint-Jean d'Orbestier Courtesy of the artist Felice Varini rejects the traditional canvas for his paintings, working instead with the factual reality of existing architectural space, both interior and exterior. His site- specific paintings intervene on the spaces in the exact condition they were found, highlighting the architecture as opposed to concealing it. |
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bulbox mini prototype
Set of three 3"x3" LED Courtesy of the artist. Leo Villareal is a pioneering visual artist who works in a number of different media, most of which are outgrowths of his ongoing research in advanced computer programming. A Yale alumnus and graduate of New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, Villareal uses light, new technology and sophisticated computer programming to create indoor and outdoor pieces that mesmerize and absorb the viewer. Born in Albuquerque, NM, he currently lives and works in New York City. http://www.villareal.net In 2005, Villareal was included in the Visual Music that was created as a collaboration between the Hirschorn Museum and the LA County Museum of Contemporary Art. His work Multiverse was recently installed as a permanent work in the Concourse walkway between the East and West Buildings of the National Gallery of Art. His work will be exhibited in the San Jose Museum in a survey show this Spring. Villareal was Site Projects’ first commissioned artist in 2004. His Chasing Rainbows/New Haven consisted of sixty tubes, each eight feet in length, containing thousands of full-color light emitting diodes (LEDs), which were capable of producing over sixteen million color combinations. Each light was programmed by the artist to respond to a simple set of rules. For example, a light moved right across the grid until it encountered another illuminated LED, at which time it would blink. |
experiencesearly summer dinner for eight in the olsen house [1951-53] designed by tony smith Begin your evening with a tour of the house and grounds of a Modernist masterpiece, the Fred Olsen House, designed by the artist/architect, Tony Smith. This was the last house designed by Smith before he devoted himself to sculpture. Built in the historic Old Quarry in the Stony Creek section of Guilford, CT, the house overlooks Long Island Sound. A separate pavilion projects over a private beach. On a low cliff overlooking this Olsen House sits the only other house in Connecticut designed by the artist. A catered sit-down dinner will follow the walking tour of the grounds [designed with Reed-Hilderbrand Associates Landscape Architects of Watertown, MA] and a visit to an earlier Tony Smith House. A rare glimpse into 20th c architectural history, the dinner offers an opportunity to experience the sculptural house designs of Tony Smith. Considered one of the purest examples of New England modernism, the Olsen House will be included in Alex Gorlin's forthcoming Mid Century Modern in New England (Rizzoli, 2011).
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tour and lunch at the new museum of arts and design Lunch for 2 at the Museum's new restaurant Robert, serving contemporary American fare with Mediterranean influences prepared by chef Brady Duhame. The restaurant, located atop the Museum of Arts and Design, offers an expansive view of Columbus Circle, Central Park, Broadway and Central Park West. Plus MAD membership for a year. |
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internship at top landscape design company in central connecticut H. David Christensen began the Christensen landscape company over a quarter century ago. David is a member of the Dean's Advisory Board for the School of Agriculture at UConn, Storrs. Donna Christensen, the company's head designer and graduate of the New York Botanical Garden School of Design, joined in 1989. The firm's work ranges from organic gardens to green roofs, from building docks and stone piers and seawalls along the Connecticut shoreline, to restoring historic landscapes including the New Haven Green and Edgewood Park. Along with their teams of managers, designers, carpenters, masons, concrete finishers, landscape installation and maintenance professionals, the Christensens have established a tradition of building and maintaining beautiful, functional, and sustainable gardens.
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apprenticeship with jason hackenwerth, sculptor
Jason Hackenwerth's work defies easy categorization. He is trained as a sculptor, but works with ephemeral materials, small inflatable balloons, to bring to life temporal and occasionally even wearable imaginary life forms. Jason Hackenwerth's sculptures were featured in the Great Hall of Dinosaurs at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in 2006. This was Site Project's first collaboration with the Peabody Museum and the first time the Great Hall played host to contemporary art. Hackenwerth also brought the Megamite to the streets of New Haven as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. A grizzly bear sized monster made of balloons, the Megamite claims to be an anemone, a creature from the deepest reaches of your id. Hackenwerth is from St. Loius, MO and currently lives and works in New York City. He has an MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design and a BFA from Webster University. Recent solo exhibitions include Micro Macro at the Firehouse Gallery in Burlington, VT (2009); Cochleapods at the Herron Gallery IUPUI in Indianapolis, IN (2009); and Phantoms at the Navta Schultz Gallery in Chicago, IL (2008). Performances include The Madonna Project at Art Basel Miami in Beach, Miami, FL (2007); Megamite Army at Coachella Music Festival in Coachella Valley, CA (2007) and at Flow Art Fair during AMBD in Miami, FL (2006); and Megamites at MAD, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (2008). Hackenwerth has built and performed the Megamite in the Deitch Art Star Parade in Manhattan, and during special events in Las Vegas, Miami, Basel, Venice and Paris. He was a finalist in the Michigan Art Prize, an innovative new award in which 32,000 people voted for their favorite work from over 1000 entries. The lucky apprentice will help Hackenwerth assemble masterful new sculptures for an installation in New York, at a time to be to be mutually decided. |
green hill house in the berkshiresbarn and cottage stay for up to 20 people for a week
Enjoy a week long stay at Green Hill House, Family Compound in West Stockbridge, Berkshires, Massachusetts. Green Hill is nestled at the lower crest of Harvey Mountain in the heart of the Berkshire Mountains. Located minutes from Tanglewood, Shakespeare & Company, Jacob’s Pillow, Berkshire Theatre Festival, shopping, festivals, Butternut Ski Resort, Bosquet Ski Resort and Catamount, this is a perfect, all-season, fully furnished family retreat!
Great for large families and groups of friends. Courtesy of Maria Kayne. |
Fully equipped home with WiFi, phone, Dishwasher, Washer/Dryer. The grounds have a large play area with swings and hammock, Tree house, Baldwin Brook running through the property, Walking trails, Two restored camp cabins for use as playhouses or art studios, In-ground swimming pool. 
