11-3-04 Obama Takes Senate Seat in a Landslide
metal drawing
7" x 10"
2004 Edra Soto
starting bid $40

current bid $50
- Odie Rynell Cash

Edra Soto

Edra Soto was born in Puerto Rico in 1971. In 1995 she received the Alfonso Arana Fellowship to work in Paris, France for a year. In 1997 she moved to Chicago to attend the Art Institute of Chicago where she obtained her Masters degree in 2000. Her most recent presentations include a live performance at El Museo del Barrio in New York, as part of the travelling show Don't Call it Performance, curated by Paco Barragan. She having 2005 solo shows at UIC Gallery 400 and at Polvo.

This image is part of her 2004 project "Ornamentos"

web site: www.edrasoto.com

3 craters
mixed media
8" x 10"
Dianna Frid
starting bid $100

Dianna Frid

Dianna Frid was born in Mexico City and since 1983 has lived in Canada and the U.S. As an undergraduate, she studied Anthropology at Hampshire College (Amherst, MA) before completing her BFA at the Art Institute of Chicago. Dianna Frid has exhibited her work in Mexico, Canada, the U.S., Europe and Brazil. She was a Trustees Merit Scholar in the Fiber and Material Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she completed her MFA (2003). Dianna Frid is Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago’s Midway Studios where she is a Harper-Schmidt Fellow.

web site: Dianna Frid
 

the kiss

photograph, 8" x 10"
framed
Herb Nolan
starting bid $
75

Herb Nolan

Herb Nolan is a photographer and writer living in Chicago whose photographic work includes not only jazz and blues subjects but images jumping from city life in Chicago to rural America and Mexico. His photos have been seen on record album covers, displayed at the Illinois State Museum, and published in newspapers and magazines including Down Beat, Playboy, Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, and Chicago Reader.

web site:
Herb Nolan  

untitled

oil on paper-unframed

12" x 15"
2004 Jesus Macarena-Avila
starting bid $25

Jesus Macarena-Avila

Jesus Macarena-Avila has been active as a community based art educator and has leaded mural projects for the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Shanti Foundation for Peace. Awards: Special Assistance Grant/Illinois Arts Council; Community Volunteer/Chicago Boy and Girls Clubs. He has lectured at the Department of Economics of DePaul University; Art and Fiber Department of Northern Illinois University; and the 19th Century Women's Club. His studies include a MFA degree from Vermont College of Norwich University and a BFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been invited for art residencies with Greatmore Studios (Cape Town, South Africa); Footscray Art Centre (Melbourne, Australia); UCross Foundation (UCross, Wyoming) and the Printmaking Workshop (New York City).

web site:
Jesus Macarena-Avila   

pilsenopoly

digital print
35" x 35"
2004 Tom Sibley
starting bid $100

Tom Sibley

Tom Sibley is a multi-media artist. He studied at the School of the Art Institute and over the past 10 years has worked on experimenting with sound, Installation and digital video. He is a frequent contributor to Hasta Cuando?, a local magazine dealing with art and politics.

untitled

2 photographs
6.5" x 9", 5" x 7"

2004 Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
starting bid $50

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud is a Miami based artist with a Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has curated and participated in group exhibitions at El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera, Buffalo, New York, Community Artists Collective, Houston, Texas, and Body Builder and Sportsman, Chicago, Illinois. She utilizes various methods of mark-making and ritual to record the actions of the body . She is currently recording breath, heart rhythms, and other internal economies of the body.

web site:
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

untitled

mixed media on paper

16" x 20"
John Lenting
starting bid $100

John Lenting

John Lenting, was born in South Brabant in a bustling town called s’Hertogenbosch located in the Netherlands, Europe. Since the early1970’s John has worked as a professional painter and printmaker. John has shown professionally at numerous Galleries in the United States and Europe. His work is included in numerous collections in Europe and in the United States, including the McDonalds Corporation permanent Art collection in Oak Brook Illinois.

web site:
John Lenting 

untitled

oil and acrylic on canvas
16" x 20"

2003 Miguel Cortez
starting bid $75

Miguel Cortez

Miguel Cortez, an artist living in Chicago and has studied filmmaking at Columbia College and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Miguel has exhibited for more than a decade in Chicago, Mexico, and Spain. Recent exhibitions include a group show "City selections" at Chicago's Tourism Center and "Change of Policy: International Artist Respond to the George W. Bush Administration" in Detroit, Michigan. Upcoming shows include "Lies that Bill Gates told me: Exploring the Digital Divide", an exhibit of digital /installation /sound art in Melbourne, Australia, and a show at the Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, and independent space in Houston, Texas.

web site:
Miguel Cortez 

Pearl

mixed media on wood
6" x 8"

Kristen Neveu
starting bid $75

Kristen Neveu

Kristen Neveu projects a sense of possibility in the abandoned. She combines paint, wood, and found objects into layered sculptures and installations, creating pieces of recycled art that are reminiscent of jeweled fossils and shadowed memorials. Like an artistic anthropologist, she combs Chicago demolition sites to collect strips of splintered wood, metal, and glass. For reference, she also takes pictures of the demolition sites she visits. While growing up in Iowa, Kristen worked in a lumberyard to earn extra money, and she competed in piano competitions. She graduated from The University of Iowa with a degree in Communication Studies.

web site:
Kristen Neveu 

untitled
monotype on paper

2005 Harold Mendez

starting bid $30


untitled
mixed media on paper

2005 Harold Mendez

starting bid $60

Harold Mendez

Harold Mendez is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work challenges the male role and its identity in contemporary society. His recent projects explore street vernacular, the geography of violence, and the use of language and illusions within the concept of the body as a contested and divided field. His work informed by his personal history, identity politics, and people's behavioral patterns in society. As a former graffiti artist, he combined traditional and alternative approaches to his work while critiquing the landscape as a stage of dissonance. He is currently seeking avenues for experimental collaboration with established and emerging artists in their development as cultural leaders.

web site:
Harold Mendez

mixed media on canvas

Antonio Martinez
starting bid $75

Antonio Martinez

Antonio Martinez at an early age he was admitted to the School of the Art Institute where his painting vocation was evident. He holds degrees in Fine Art and Electronic Design from the American Academy of Art, Chicago. He has exhibited actively in galleries and The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum. His work is influenced by urban life experiences connecting his Mexican-American Heritage. He has exhibited a range of both commercial and commissioned works.

web site:
Antonio Martinez 

untitled

mixed media on old print

20" x 22"
Christina Marsh
starting bid $75

Christina Marsh

Christina Marsh received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Memphis College of Art and graduated with a major in photography and a minor in papermaking. Using southern landscape with the influence of available tourist sites, such as Graceland, Beale Street and the National Civil Rights Museum, I attempted to create a set that forced the audience to connect with me. Photographs revealed a direct narrative and the 3-D objects were used as montage. The viewer was pushed through the space because of the seeming connection of objects and clustered visual information. Her iinstallations were visually ‘busy’ which was a direct influence from the tourist sites and local folk art

web site:
Christina Marsh 

Waiting for El Coyote

Acrylic on MDF Board with cast plastic figure, 24" x 12"

Jaime Mendoza
starting bid $75

Jaime Mendoza

Jaime Mendoza was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1974. In 1998 he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Arts from Northeastern Illinois University and a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Mendoza is among the few Latino artists in the Midwest who continues to redefine and reestablish the dialogue between community and artist. His installations confront society with an in your face approach to socioeconomic cultural politics in the US. Mendoza embodies the idealisms of Chicano Art theory and Contemporary art practice by forging and fostering a visual language that explores the perspective of multiculturalism in the U.S. through the eyes of the undocumented and bicultural/bilingual community.

web site:
Jaime Mendoza 


drawing on paper

2005 Deb Sokolow
starting bid $50

Deb Sokolow

Deb Sokolow uses pen, paper, correction fluid, and the voice of a paranoid, indecisive narrator, Deb Sokolow maps out the lives and circumstances of various semi-fictitious inhabitants of Chicago neighborhoods and work places through floor plans, text, and illustration. Sokolow's upcoming 12x12 solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art imagines a scenario where pirates invade Chicago, searching for Richard J. Daley's buried treasure. Sokolow is a recipient of a Fellowship Grant from the Illinois Arts Council in 2005. She received her MFA in 2004 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996.

web site:
Deb Sokolow 

mixed media

Lindsay Obermeyer
starting bid $75

Lindsay Obermeyer

Lindsay Obermeyer employs the history and metaphors surrounding textile practices to study issues as diverse as medical ethics, mental illness, and gender. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States at venues such as the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston and the Museum of Arts and Design (formerly known as the American Craft Museum). Her work has been included in three traveling exhibitions and several international exhibitions. It has been featured in numerous books and publications including the Chicago Reader, American Craft, Fiberarts, and Reinventing Textiles: Gender and Identity. She holds an M.F.A. and B.F.A. in the fiber arts and an M.A.T. in elementary education.

web site:
Lindsay Obermeyer 

mixed media

Mirtes Zwierzinski
starting bid $75

Mirtes Zwierzynski

Mirtes Zwierzynski originally from Brazil, is a professional artist and educator with over twenty years of experience creating and implementing public art programs focused on urban and educational development. Extensive exposure developing community based participatory research art projects and in organizing workshops and training activities for teachers and cultural activists.

web site:
Mirtes Zwierzynski 

No child left behind
6 x 8 x 4" Cardboard clock
sculpture #3/13

Mark Nelson
starting bid $40

Mark Nelson

Mark Nelson, an interdisciplinary worker studied painting and sculpture at the (Panama)Canal Zone college, Universidad Nacional de Panama, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, including scenic design for
Panama's live theaters. In the continental U.S. he completed a Bachelors of Fine Arts at School of the Art Institute of Chicago in performance and painting and a Masters in Fine Arts at the University of Illinois at
Chicago in painting and video. In 2003 Mark Nelson was once again awarded a Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council. Nelson’s “Vecinos,” a video documentary on artists in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, aired
recently on CAN TV and Comcast was just awarded in the national " 2005 Hometown Video Festival," in Olympia, Washington.


web site:
Mark Nelson

Iconic Mouth
marker, graphite, ink on chipboard
9" x 11" framed
2003 Phaedra Robinson
starting bid $75

Phaedra Robinson

Phaedra Robinson is a Detroit-based visual artist, arts educator and writer, curator and arts activist who works in a variety of mediums – including video, installation, sculpture and paint. Her work has been shown in numerous galleries in Detroit as well as on both coasts and in Canada. Until recently, she served as the director of detroit contemporary, an innovative gallery located in one of Detroit’s struggling inner city neighborhoods and she currently curates for Juris Galleries at the historic Hecker-Smiley Mansion. She maintains a strong commitment to the role of the arts in urban redevelopment and has thusly founded The Center for Creative Xchange, a Detroit based arts organization dedicated to creative collaboration. She has been teaching at the College for Creative Studies for the past five years and serves as a board member for the Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corporation and Art on the Move, co-chairs the Artworks for Life committee of the Midwest Aids Prevention Project and is a committee member for the Forum for Contemporary Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

web site:
Phaedra Robinson

aura
watercolor

2004 Terence Hannum
starting bid $75

Terence Hannum



web site:
Terence Hannum

untitled

photograph
16" x 20"
Marivi Ortiz
starting bid $75

Marivi Ortiz

Marivi Ortiz is an emerging Chicago artist, born in Puerto Rico, holding a BFA from the University of Illinois in Chicago. Her photography mostly deals with young girls and women as they struggle through issues of identity. She has participated in several group shows, most recently at Acme Art Works and 33 Arts gallery, including a solo exhibit at the Montgomery Gallery at UIC. In late 2003 she initiated The New Works Gallery Group at UIC where she curated several student shows.

web site:

untitled

watercolor -unframed
19.5" x 24"
Janina Ciedzadlo
starting bid $
75

Janina Ciedzadlo



web site:

untitled

framed digital print
12" x 15"

Chris Silva
starting bid $75

Chris Silva

Christopher Tavares Silva is a mixed media artist who is saddened by the cruelty, ignorance and greed of humans. He doesn’t care whether you think of him as a good artist or not, only that you will help to create a just and meaningful world and encourage others to do so as well.

web site:
Chris Silva

wormhole
acrylic on c
anvas
16" x 20"
Melissa Garcia
starting bid $25

Melissa Garcia

Melissa Garcia Montiel necessity to paint came at a very early age.
When her wall art was discovered, her parents made her clean
the "graffiti" up. Wormhole was born out of the same necessity. The
necessity of pushing electrons on a flat surface.

web site:Melissa Garcia
 
CarianaCarianne

CarianaCarianne create installations that deal with notions of self. Her approach specifically incorporates both of her selves, Cariana and Carianne, in such a way that both selves have a voice within each installation. Together their efforts contest notions of sanity-insanity, while challenging socially constructed notions concerning mind-body relationships and definitions. CarianaCarianne lives and works in Chicago.

web site:
CarianaCarianne 
 
Huong Ngo

Huong Ngo likes to transform the experience of art viewing into an event of social interaction. She incorporates performance, cultural criticism, and acts of generosity in media-specific installations. Huong holds a BFA from the University of Carolina and a MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

web site: Huong Ngo

washed up

book page, guache, oil pastel and thread

4" x 6"
Marcella Chaidez
starting bid $30

Marcela Chaidez de Nunez

web site: Marcela Chaidez de Nunez
 
Silvia A. Malagrino

Silvia A. Malagrino is a Chicago-based artist, native of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has exhibited throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe. Her works are included in the collections of the the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, La Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France, and the Fundaçao Athos Bulçao, Brasilia, Brazil, among others. She is Associate Professor at The School of Art and Design of the University of Illinois, Chicago.

web site: Silvia Malagrino 
 
Monica Herrera

Monica Herrera was born in Birmingham, England, in 1974, but has lived in Mexico City all of her life. She moved to Chicago in September of 2003. She studied a B.A. in Arts at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda". She presented her first individual exhibition in Mexico City in 2000. Her work "Masas" was selected for the "Arte Joven 2002" itinerary exhibition throughout Mexico.

web site: Monica Herrera 
 
Kimberly Aubuchon

Kimberly Aubuchon was born in rural Illinois in 1967, grew up in Missouri, and currently resides in San Antonio, TX. She earned a degree to paint pretty pictures from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2001. She likes to make digital images that are whimsical, childlike offerings of momentary thoughts that are generally created under the influence of classic rock, television, domestic beer, and everyday life. Kimberly has recently shown in group exhibitions at Little Known Gallery, Charcoll, and had a solo show at 3Arts Gallery in November 2004. Kimberly is also the director of Unit B (Gallery) and has curated shows in Chicago, San Antonio, and Detroit.

web site:  Kimberly Aubuchon 

magic cabinet

silkscreen and copper leaf on paper
20"x18" framed

Elke Claus
starting bid $75

Elke Claus

Elke Claus is an artist living in Chicago with an Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been shown at various spaces including Anchor Graphics, Artemisia Gallery, the Contemporary Arts Workshop and The Krasl Art Museum. The prints contain images appropriated from science textbooks; mostly illustrations of things that are usually invisible, for example: satellite orbits, sound waves, atomic reactions, etc. These images have been collected and layered to reveal unusual similarities in their patterns and shapes. Elke chooses special papers and translucent, flourescent, or metallic inks in each print and manipulates and "collages" these in order to create a style that mixes mechanical reproduction with a handmade touch and for the hope of blending a space-age style with old- fashioned craftmanship.

web site:
Elke Claus 
 
Gisela Insuaste

Gisela Insuaste is an artist currently living in Chicago, born in New York City, 1975. She creates art inspired by her travels in North and South America. Her work is based on episodic memories that are triggered by real and imagined ethnographic experiences in rural and urban landscapes. These landscapes are precarious: shifty, unstable, unpredictable, unsettled and ambiguous. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a B.A in Anthropology & Studio Art from Dartmouth College. She is a recipient of several art and research grants that have funded her artistic and academic pursuits, including the recent 2004 Richard H. Driehaus "Emerging" Individual Artist Award. She has exhibited in several group shows in Chicago, Kansas City, MO, Washington, DC, and Ecuador.

web site:
Gisela Insuaste 

www (women walker workers)

ink on wood
4" x 8.5" x 3/4"

2004 Allison Rentz
starting bid $40

Allison Rentz

Allison Rentz is an Atlanta, Georgia artist, who creates installations, drawings, multimedia works, and performances. Used drier sheets, wood scraps, and clear plastic containers/bags are some media that she recycles into art. Her work has been displayed in Atlanta, GA, Chicago, Lexington, KY, and New York City.

web site: Allison Rentz

Approaching, 2000
DVD (DVD #3 in edition of 5)
w/ letter of authentication signed and dated by the artist
time: 14:57 NTSC

**will be RAFFLED**

Odie Rynell Cash

Odie Rynell Cash works in the mediums of video, digital imagery, installation/interventions, collecting/drawing and actions in public. His work is concerned with a variety of issues from the political to the mundane, simplicity, repetition and anticipation. His 2005 schedule includes a three-week performance residency with Skaftfell Arts Center, Sey›isfjör›ur, Iceland (Aug.) and a four-week residency with Factor44, Antwerp, Belgium, (Sept). Previously he has been included in international exhibitions such as Co-ordinates of the Supersensible at High Street Projects (New Zealand), Text Associations (solo) Factor44 (Antwerp, Belgium), eKsperim[E]nto Film and Video Festival, (Manila, Philippines), kaBOOM, The Museum of New Art (Detroit), and The Drawing Show, UnitB Gallery (Chicago). Cash is also an independent curator of work dealing with social issues and/or the examination of experimental practices.

Description: Approaching is a single channel ambient video which focuses on a nondescript yet specific period of time (the approach and of a sudden storm) drawing the viewer's attention to the everyday. The video gives both a stationary and spatial perspective of the event.

Presentation history: Dialogue, The Manage, St. Petersburg, Russia (2001); VideoFest Detroit, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI (2002); The 1st Lithuanian Independent Video and Short Films Festival, Vilnius, Lit (2004); Co-ordinates for the Supersensible (four person show), High Street Projects, Christchurch, NZ (2004), The 5 Elements, POCC, Brooklyn, NY (upcoming Aug. 2005).

web site:
Odie Rynell Cash


La Casa en el Aire
Watercolor and Pastel on paper

10" x 14"
Paola Cabal
starting bid $50
current bid $80 - CarolAnn Brown


Paola Cabal

Paola Cabal, a native of Bogotá, Colombia, Paola Cabal moved to the U.S. with her family as a young child, an artist practice is divided between gallery and public projects. Cabal earned a BFA in visual art from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, where she was awarded a Carnegie Centennial Award by the city's Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History for a public mural project she completed there. Cabal was artist in residence at the Gimnasio del Norte School in Bogotá, Colombia before completing her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, Omaha, Ft.Lauderdale, and- most recently- Charleston as well as in Bogotá, Colombia.

web site:
Paola Cabal 
 
Michael Piazza

Michael Piazza holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His collaborations with disabled artists at the Art Center at Little City Foundation, with resident youth at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center and a local community in St. Louis have shaped his site-specific installations and assemblages. Piazza exhibited at Beret International, De Paul University Art Gallery, Temporary Services in Chicago, Gallery 210 in St. Louis, Sculpture in Chicago-The Next Generation, University of Illinois at Chicago, BiblioVertigo and Northern Illinois Univeristy Art Museum at Northern Illinois University.

web site:
Michael Piazza 
 
Sumakshi Singh



web site:
Sumakshi Singh

Crumpled Up Op Painting (Falling for Everything Takes Such a Long Time)
19" x 21"
paint on paper
Anna Mayer

Anna Mayer



web site:
Anna Mayer
 
Eufemio Pulido



web site:
Eufemio Pulido
 
Steve Bell



web site:

Pool (2003)
8" x 10" (matte is 16x20)
ink jet print

T.W. Li
starting bid $50



Unattended Bags (2005)
18" x 18" (unframed)
ink jet print
T.W. Li
starting bid $50

T.W. Li

T.W. Li is a media and culture artist. His art work has shown at festivals in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Berlin. He has photographed 13 feature films, and taught media production at Columbia College, Loyola University, Rockport College and Ohio University.

web site:
T.W. Li

Reetoling Dissent
VHS tape

StreetRec
**will be RAFFLED**

Daniel Tucker

Daniel Tucker is an artist and activist living in Chicago who is generally interested in art that happens in streets. He has organized projects for the Mass MoCA "The Interventionists" exhibition and for the Version Festival in Chicago. Tucker is also initiating an independent research project about "self organized" group process and organizational structures. In addition to working on JA+P (http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/) and contributing to Clamor magazine regularly, he is currently involved in editing the new bi-annual publication project - "AREA: Chicago Arts.Education.Activisms."

web site:
Daniel Tucker

StreetRec, the group that produced Retooling Dissent Street, was a radical arts collective that existed for about 9months. Our life was short but our flame burned bright. We were born out of the protests against the World Economic Forum in New York City, and were more generally an evolution out of the organizing and different projects that DSLR spawned. This was our first attempt at a closed collective made up of a fixed group of people. Street.Rec first created a series of projects for the WEF Protests, including the now infamous Dick Cheney "Got Oil?" head. We also held a number of events in Chicago, sharing our experiences at the WEF and the tools we used there as well as holding a forum for the Reverend Billy to speak. Retooling Dissent is a video we created to document the creative protest strategies used by a number of groups during the WEF. http://www.counterproductiveindustries.com/retoolingdissent/
 
Anna Boles



web site:
Anna Boles

untitled
2 photographs

12" x 15" framed
Julia Marsh

Julia Marsh

Julia Marsh's most recent exhibition re:location was "housed" at the Butcher Shop in partnership with Dogmatic this past February. This work was a life size paper print of the three exhibition room of the former Dogmatic space which she scanned using a modified flatbed scanner. Her work is a combination of methodical even laboreous strategies with often ethereal results. Marsh received her MFA from UIC and is about to commence an MA in Visual Critical Studies at The School of the Art Institute where she will continue to teach.

web site:
Julia Marsh
 
Lauren Feece



web site:
Lauren Feece
 
Jill Carlson



web site: Jill Carlson
 
Abdi Maya



web site:

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