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PARTICIPATING ARTISTS Manal Abu-Shaheen Andrea Galvani Yoko Ono Golnar Adili Ethan Greenbaum Kenneth Pietrobono Elia Alba Camille Henrot Claudia Peña Salinas Hope Atherton Brigitte Lacombe Leah Raintree Firelei Báez Anthony Iacono Gabriel Rico Leah Beeferman Basim Magdy Paul Mpagi Sepuya Agathe de Bailliencourt Shantell Martin Arlene Shechet Ali Banisadr Takesada Matsutani Rudy Shepherd Mona Chalabi Josephine Meckseper Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir/Shoplifter Kevin Cooley Julie Mehretu Elisabeth Smolarz William Cordova Sarah Michelson Sarah Cameron Sunde N. Dash Richard Mosse Michael Wang Sandra Erbacher Vik Muniz Meg Webster Liana Finck Rashaad Newsome Tim Wilson AUCTION COMMITTEE Waris Ahluwalia, Designer and Actor Anthony Allen, Director, Paula Cooper Gabriel Calatrava, Founder, CAL Andrea Cashman, Director, David Zwirner Brendan Fernandes, Artist Michelle Grey, Executive Creative and Brand Director, Absolut Art Prabal Gurung, Designer, Founder and Activist Peggy Leboeuf, Director, Galerie Perrotin Michael Macaulay, SVP, Sotheby's Yoko Ono, Artist Bettina Prentice, Founder and Creative Director, Prentice Cultural Communications Olivier Renaud-Clément Olympia Scarry, Artist and Curator Andrea Schwan, Andrea Schwan Inc. Brent Sikkema, Founder and Owner, Sikkema Jenkins & Co Powered by Julie Mehretu Lot 1 Mind-Wind Fusion Drawings #5 2019 Ink and acrylic on paper 26 x 40 in (66 x 101.6 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Estimated value: $80,000 Mehretu’s work is informed by a multitude of sources including politics, literature and music. Most recently her paintings have incorporated photographic images from broadcast media which depict conflict, injustice, and social unrest. These graphic images act as intellectual and compositional points of departure; ultimately occluded on the canvas, they remain as a phantom presence in the highly abstracted gestural completed works. Mehretu’s practice in painting, drawing and printmaking equally assert the role of art to provoke thought and reflection, and express the contemporary condition of the individual and society. Mehretu has also engaged in creative collaborations; most recently as Set Designer for Only the Sound Remains , Peter Sellars’ staging of Kaija Saariaho’s opera in 2016 commissioned by the Dutch National Opera; and MASS (HOWL, eon) , a recording and installation with artist and musician Jason Moran for Performa 2017. Julie Mehretu, (b. 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) lives and works in New York City. She received a BA from Kalamazoo College, Michigan and a Master’s of Fine Art with honors from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1997. She has received prestigious awards including the MacArthur Fellowship and the US Department of State Medal of Arts Award. Her work has been exhibited extensively in museums and biennials including the Carnegie International (2004–05), Sydney Biennial (2006), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010), DOCUMENTA (13) (2012), Sharjah Biennial (2015), Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2017), and the 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, (2019). In November 2019 a career survey opened of Mehretu’s work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and will travel to The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The High Museum, Atlanta, and The Walker Museum of Art, Minneapolis. Mona Chalabi Lot 2 Undulation 2020 Ink and felt tip pens on Bristol Paper 7 x 10 in (18 x 26 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Absolut Art Estimated value: $1,500 Tides caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun are one of the most reliable phenomena in the word. When wind speeds are low, the rise and fall of sea waves become faster. So a gentle sea wave will happen more frequently than a stormy one. Source: Coastal Engineering, 2009 & Brysbaert, M. (2019, April 12) Mona Chalabi is a writer and artist. Her wonderfully simple, direct and affective visualizations bring to life what is often lost in text and numbers. Covering everything from body hair removal to the popularity of nose jobs in the US to voting statistics, Mona’s clear tongue-in-cheek approach to information communication strives to make sure as many people as possible can find and question the data they need to make informed decisions about their lives. This poetic work immediately slows the viewer down, and creates a portal of shifting awareness away from the mundane towards the profound, in an instant repositioning the individual within the greater context of the natural world. Mona Chalabi (b. London, England) is a data journalist, illustrator and producer who lives in New York. Chalabi studied international relations in Paris and Arabic in Jordan. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, New York Magazine, The Guardian and many more. Her artwork has been featured at several galleries, including Tate Gallery and the Design Museum, London. As a producer and presenter, Chalabi is one half of the team that created the Emmy-nominated video series, Vagina Dispatches. Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter Lot 3 Blue Bliss 2020 Synthetic fiber on wood. 20” diameter 20 x 20 x 4 in (51 x 51 x 10 cm) Courtesy of Hrafnhildur Arnardottir / Shoplifter Estimated value: $10,000 Working with both synthetic and natural hair, Shoplifter’s sculptures, wall murals and site- specific installations explore themes of vanity, self-image, fashion, identity, beauty, consumer culture and popular myth. Her fascination with hair began as a child when she saw her grandmother store one of her cut-off braids in a drawer, leading to the artist’s exploration of the medium as a material that is beautiful and comforting, yet can also spark disgust. Manipulating hair in ways both familiar – like braiding and knotting – and unfamiliar, like separating it into multi-coloured tufts and grafting it to the wall to resemble overgrowths of fungus or moss, her work appear as manifestations of excited exuberance as well as more oblique references to growth, decay and death. Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter (b. 1969, Reykjavik, Iceland) lives and works in New York. Her most recent works include solo exhibitions at Kiasma - the Finnish National Gallery (2019); the National Gallery of Iceland (2017); the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles (2017); and the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Australia (2016). Notable projects and awards include her large window installation created in collaboration with art collective assume vivid astro focus (avaf) for The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); The Nordic Award in Textiles; and The Prince Eugen Medal for artistic achievement from the King and Royal Crown of Sweden (2011). Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir was part of LMCC’s Workspace 2006 - 2007 and Swing Space 2008 artist residency programs. Vik Muniz Lot 4 Seaward Skerries, after Anders Zorn (Pictures of Wire) 2013 Archival ink jet print 16 x 20 in (40.6 x 50.8cm), work created specially to benefit LMCC Courtesy of Vik Muniz and Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Estimated Value: $5,000 Vik Muniz painstakingly constructs small and large-scale objects and images out of a wide variety of commonplace materials such as string, wire, paper, dust, and garbage, in order to photograph the work and render it in two-dimensions. Interested in visual illusion as it relates to the world all around us, the artist plays on the moment when one thing turns into another, and back again, drawing out this point of realization for the viewer. This work is part of Muniz' Wire series, a collection in which the artist creates three dimensional forms out of delicately threaded and molded wire to then photograph. Often the image is an appropriation of a work by a well known artist, in this instance it is Swedish artist Anders Zorn’s etching, Seaward Skerries. The work invites one to look deeply, to double check assumptions, and to see the possibility in everything. Vik Muniz (b. 1961 São Paulo, Brazil) is best known for repurposing everyday materials for intricate and heavily layered recreations of canonical artworks. Muniz’s recent solo exhibitions were held at Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia (2018); Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands (2016); Taubman Museum of Art, VA (2015); and Museo de La Universidad Tres de Febrero- Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015), and his photographs are featured in many collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art; the Tate Gallery; and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Firelei Báez Lot 5 Wayward 2020 Acrylic and oil on yupo paper 14 x 11 in (35.5 x 28 cm) Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York Estimated value: $6,500 New York-based artist Firelei Báez reconfigures visual references drawn from the past to explore new possibilities for the future. The artist’s intricate works explore the ways in which personal and collective identities are shaped by inherited histories. By rendering spectacular bodies that traverse and defy boundaries, Báez carries portraiture into an in-between space where subjectivity is rooted in historical narratives as much as it can likewise become untethered by them. This vibrant new work is an extraordinary example of Báez’s layered and complex portraits. Here, fluid forms are grounded by piercing eyes that hold the gaze of the viewer in a surreal relay of connection. With remarkable skill, Báez energizes her works with powerful and emotional narratives that exist beyond linguistics, and instead reveal themselves with time across the surface of her work. Firelei Báez (b. 1981, Dominican Republic) lives and works in New York. Her recent solo exhibitions were presented by the Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, OH; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL; Taller Puertorriqueno, Philadelphia, PA; and Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT. Báez is the recipient of many awards, including the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2019), Soros Arts Fellowship (2019), the United States Artists Fellowship (2019), among others.