NEW CITY ARTS & THE HAVEN
ART AUCTION BENEFITING HOUSING 2 HOME
JANUARY 19 • 2019 LIVE AUCTION HORNE BORDEN EVANS HEMRICH
Ken Horne, Light Grid 1, 2018 Flashe on panel, 20” x 16”, $1,200 (retail) John Borden Evans, Abiding Calves, 2018 Acrylic on 100% rag paper, 9.5” x 10”, $850 (retail) Kirsten Hemrich, August, 2018 Oil, spray paint, pencil, iridescent oil stick on canvas, 40” x 40”, $825 (retail)
PAGE 7 LIVE AUCTION BLAIR THE FRALIN
Karen Blair, Peach, 2017 (courtesy of Les Yeux du Monde) Oil and acrylic on panel, 20” x 16”, $1,400 (retail) Private Spring 2019 Exhibitions Tour at The Fralin & Lunch with the Director, Matthew McLendon, Starting bid: $100 Explore the University of Virginia’s Art Museum with director and chief curator, Matthew McLendon, PhD. Spring 2019 exhibitions feature Pompeii Archive, a selection of recent work by American photographer William Wylie exploring the archeological site of Pompeii in highly evocative images, and sometimes. we. cannot. be. with. our. bodies., an immersive installation of sculpture and sound by Vanessa German that originated at the Mattress Factory and is being reimagined in The Fralin. Enjoy lunch with the director following the tour.
PAGE 8 LIVE AUCTION WYLIE FISK WOSTREL
William Wylie, Ponte Sant’Angelo, Rome, 2018 Pigmented ink print, 17” x 14”, $800 (retail) VM Fisk, On The Fence, 2016 Patinated brass, 24” x 24”, $1,200 (retail) Rebekah Wostrel, Plumb, 2007 Porcelain, 9” x 4” x 4”, $350 (retail)
PAGE 9 LIVE AUCTION ROBIN WARREN GASTINGER
Valencia Robin, Untitled (Seeing & Saying), 2018 Acrylic on canvas, 48” x 24”, $2,500 (retail) Russ Warren, Bull LX, 2018 (courtesy of Les Yeux du Monde) Ink, acrylic, livestock marker, oil stick and scraper on paper, 30” x 22”, $2,500 (retail) Lara Call Gastinger, Dried hibiscus, 2014 Watercolor on vellum, 10” x 8.5”, $1,000 (retail)
PAGE 10 LIVE AUCTION WELCOME APIMENTO CHAN
Welcome Gallery, APimento Catering, Brittany Fan, & Ashley Walton Art Gallery Party in 2019, Starting bid: $500 Host a party for 40 friends in a creative space with delicious food, flowers, and photography for your event provided. The winner will receive the opportunity to host a 2-hour party at Welcome Gallery in 2019. Enjoy APimento’s signature cheese boards and additional appetizers (to value $500), cocktail tables, and floral design by Ashley Walton. Brittany Fan will photograph your event for 1-hour to capture your time with your guests. Gallery use is subject to gallery availability and may exclude some exhibitions with large installations. Amy Chan, Deco, 2017 (courtesy of Page Bond Gallery) Acrylic on panel, 36” x 48”, $3,600 (retail)
PAGE 11 LIVE AUCTION BIOGRAPHIES
Ken Horne is a painter and clinical social worker based in Charlottesville, Virginia. He completed his BA at the University of Colorado and his MFA in Visual Art at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Ken has shown throughout the United States including recent and upcoming shows at the William King Museum of Art in Abingdon, Virginia; Second Street Gallery and Welcome Gallery in Charlottesville; and Swim Gallery in San Francisco. His abstract, color-based works deal with intuition, impulse, and the merging of physical and psychological landscapes.
John Borden Evans graduated from Davidson College as a studio art major and has been painting ever since. Thirty six years ago, he and his wife moved to an old farm house in North Garden, Virginia. There they raised two children and now John spends a lot of time looking after his five grandchildren who all live nearby. John enjoys working in his garden, building things and being a good neighbor. Over the years, John’s paintings have become more and more about place. That place is his immediate environment, the cattle fields, the trees, the fences and the skies. His textured acrylic paintings have been shown in numerous galleries across the South, including Charlotte, Atlanta, Washington DC, Nashville, Columbia, SC, and Raleigh, NC. They have been the subject of many reviews and catalogues and are in major private and public collections, including the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center and the Battle Childrens Hospital at the University of Virginia.
Kirsten Hemrich graduated last year with degrees in painting and poetry from the University of Virginia. She is currently based in Charlottesville, VA. She makes artists’ books, drawings, and paintings that explore the nature of memory. Using textual fragments, icons, and the emotional language of color, she creates abstract landscapes that speak to her personal experiences. Her work has been exhibited regionally including exhibitions in Charlottesville at Ruffin Gallery, the McIntire Commerce Gallery, and
PAGE 12 New City Arts. While studying painting at UVA, she received prestigious awards for her work as an emerging artist including the University Award for Project in the Arts, the Miller Fourth Year Arts Award, and the Aunspaugh 5th Year Fellowship. Her work has been featured in V Magazine, Iris Magazine, and Quince APPW Anthology.
Karen Blair is represented by Les Yeux du Monde Gallery (Charlottesville), Page Bond Gallery (Richmond), Bee Street Gallery (Dallas and Ft. Worth), Capital Artist’s Collective, and Serena and Lily. Her work is found in many corporate collections including UVA Medical Center, Levine Cancer Institute, Charlotte, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Dominion Resources, Markel Corporation, and Phillip Morris, USA. She lives and works in Crozet, VA, along with her husband, Jimmy Jackson, two dogs, two horses, and a flock of guinea fowl.
Established in 1935, the University of Virginia Art Museum became The Fralin Museum of Art in 2012, in honor of a bequest of American art and service to the University by Cynthia and W. Heywood Fralin. The Museum maintains a collection of nearly 14,000 works of art, including American and European painting, works on paper and sculpture from the 15th through the 20th centuries; art from the ancient Mediterranean; Asian art; and Native American art. Housed in the historic Bayly Building near the Rotunda on the landmark UVA Grounds, The Fralin is dedicated to serving the widest possible audiences and engaging comprehensive visual education to enhance its visitors’ understanding of world cultures. Throughout the year the Museum presents a diverse selection of exhibitions, programs, research and events that bring the University and broader community together. Matthew McLendon, PhD, an art historian and curator of modern and contemporary art, became the director and chief curator of The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia on January 9, 2017. An energetic and influential leader, McLendon is widely recognized for his cross- disciplinary curatorial practice, an emphasis on community engagement and education, and activating marginalized voices in the museum setting.
For over thirty years William Wylie’s work has focused on the visible and invisible residue of cultural landscapes. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others. He has published five books of his work:Riverwalk , Stillwater, Carrara and Route 36 and most recently Pompeii Archive. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art Professional Fellowship. He lives in Charlottesville where he is the Director of the Studio Art Department at the University of Virginia.
PAGE 13 VM FISK (Virginia Madison) was born and raised in Virginia. She studied painting and video art at California Institute of the Arts and sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University. After several years in the film industry designing and building sets, Fisk quit to pursue her own work. In 2014, she won the Herradura Barrel Art regional competition and in 2016 was featured as one of Tribeza Magazine’s 10 to watch. VM Fisk is an animal lover, realistic optimist, and dad joke fan. She is nice, you’d probably be friends with her.
Rebekah Wostrel creates functional ceramics and intimate sculptural forms of porcelain, angora, and metals. She holds an MFA in Ceramics from Penn State University and a BA in Anthropology from Smith College. She has exhibited her work at museums and galleries internationally as well as in Virginia including 1708 Gallery (Richmond) and Hunt Gallery, Mary Baldwin College (Staunton). She has received numerous grants including a Fulbright Fellowship to Indonesia. She has taught at Princeton University, The University of Pennsylvania and PVCC. Rebekah is currently a resident at the McGuffey Art Center where she teaches clay and design classes for kids and adults.
A poet and painter, Valencia Robin had a two-person show at Welcome Gallery this past September. She came to Charlottesville to study poetry at the University of Virginia in 2015 (MFA, 2018), and in 2018, she won Persea Books’ Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. This piece is part of a series of paintings in which she meditates on why poetry and painting are often referred to as the ‘sister arts’ and she’s currently working on a sequence of poems in which she continues that meditation by looking specifically at the image in relation to representation and abstraction. Once completed, the poems and paintings will be published together as a chapbook. Meanwhile, her first collection of poems,Ridiculous Light, will be released this April and she’ll be reading from it at New Dominion Bookstore on April 19th.
Russ Warren has shown his art nationally and internationally since the late 1970’s in such exhibitions as the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale and has been reviewed by critics such as Roberta Smith, Donald Kuspit, and Barry Schwabsky in many art magazines and catalogues. Some of his artistic influences include Goya, Picasso, Roy de Forest, Dubuffet, and folk art. He taught printmaking and painting at Davidson College from 1978-2008 and then moved to Charlottesville where he continues to prolifically make art.
Lara Call Gastinger is a botanical artist and illustrator in Charlottesville, Virginia. She was the chief illustrator for the Flora of Virginia Project after she received her master’s degree from Virginia Tech in Plant Ecology. She has been awarded two gold medals (2007, 2018) at the Royal Horticultural Society botanical art shows in London for achieving the highest standard in
PAGE 14 botanical art. Her work has been in several American Society of Botanical Artists traveling exhibits and catalogs and one of her paintings was accepted into the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.
Located in downtown Charlottesville, Welcome Gallery is storefront art space run by New City Arts Initiative, a non-profit arts organization committed to supporting local artists and facilitating cultural participation in our community. In addition to community dinners, exchanges, workshops, artist talks, and residencies, New City Arts hosts monthly exhibits by interdisciplinary Charlottesville artists at Welcome Gallery. This approximately 700 square foot space has featured 36 exhibitions and 62 artists since it opened three and half years ago and welcomes approximately 5,000 annual visitors. Upcoming 2019 exhibitions feature installation, painting, sculpture, photography, and prints by Charlottesville artists.
APimento is a full-service custom caterer dedicated to providing exceptional food, service, and design, and takes pride in supporting the good work of The Haven.
A native of Blacksburg, VA that now calls Charlottesville home, Brittany Fan is a recent graduate of the University of Virginia, where she studied Studio Art, Art History, and Arts Administration, in addition to completing a Masters in Education. Having a love of all things creative, her practices include painting, photography, illustration, hand lettering, ceramics, and last but certainly not least, her pursuit of graphic design as a full-time member of the Journey Group team in downtown Charlottesville. As a photographer, she spends much of her time capturing moments and life stories through portrait, wedding, and lifestyle photography, but loves delving into many other specialties such as food, commercial/catalog, music, and landscape photography when the opportunity or inspiration arises.
Ashley Walton is an Art Director nestled in the cozy and vibrant Charlottesville, Virginia. In 2008, she graduated with a BS in Architecture from the University of Virginia. After several years of working in the field, Ashley now finds her niche in the world of all-things design – bringing her love of structure, lines and space to delight on paper, screens, and to life through floral design.
Amy Chan is an Assistant Professor of Drawing at the University of Virginia. She is represented by Page Bond Gallery and has received grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Her work can be found in the collections of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, The Spencer Museum of Art, and Capital One. Amy Chan currently resides in Richmond, VA with her husband and son.
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