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16th Annual Silent Auction & Benefit Party Auction Artworks Preview Catalog - as of 10.1.19 1404 P Street NW Washington, DC 20005 | 202.483.1102 | transformerdc.org | @transformerdc Featured German Artists Preview Catalog - as of 10.11.19 1404 P Street NW Washington, DC 20005 | 202.483.1102 | transformerdc.org | @transformerdc For Internal Use Only - as of 10.11.19 Featured Artists Preview Catalog - as of 10.11.19 1404 P Street NW Washington, DC 20005 | 202.483.1102 | transformerdc.org | @transformerdc Monica Jahan Bose Anahita Bradberry Tacy Bradbury Hawa (Wind) Leisure Grace 2013, woodblock print, graphite 2019, argon, glass, transformer, 2019, embroidery, mixed media and watercolor on handmade cot- wire, silicone caps. 24” x 24”’ ton paper 14” x 11” x 8” Retail Value: $2,000 36” x 22” Retail Value: $500 Starting Bid: $700 Retail Value: $1,200 Starting Bid: $375 Bidding Increment:$50 Starting Bid: $600 Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$50 Nakeya Brown Antonius Bui Thomas Bunnell Self Portrait in Shower Cap the leavers No Man’s Land 2015, archival inkjet print 2018, digital print 2018, oil on canvas 16” x 20” 20”x16” 16” x 22” edition 3 of 3 edition 1 of 5 Retail Value: $800 Retail Value: $2,000 Retail Value: $375 Starting Bid: $100 Starting Bid: $950 Starting Bid: $75 Bidding Increment:$25 Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$25 Wilson Butterworth Gerardo Camargo Jessica Cebra douthat Survivors Bit rot No.1 2018, photograph 2017, hand cut cotton paper on 2019, collage on paper 24” x 16” found used sand paper, and glitter 9” x 5.5” edition 2 of 2 16” x 20” Retail Value: $200 Retail Value: $300 Retail Value: $490 Starting Bid: $140 Starting Bid: $150 Starting Bid: $350 Bidding Increment:$25 Bidding Increment:$25 Bidding Increment:$25 For Internal Use Only - as of 10.11.19 Miss Chelove Natalie Cheung Travis Childers ግግግ | Gidaji | Royalty Bending Light 010 Eyes 2018, mixed media 2019, chromogenic photogram 2017, images of eyes lifted off 12” x 12” 38” x 30” newspaper on canvas, gel medium Retail Value: $300 edition 1 of 1 40” x 40” Starting Bid: $150 Retail Value: $3,000 Retail Value: $700 Bidding Increment:$25 Starting Bid: $1,800 Starting Bid: $500 Bidding Increment:$100 Bidding Increment:$50 Courtesy of Morton Fine Art Alice Cisternino Irene Clouthier Chanel Compton The Past Has Become a New World Blue Star 7 Untitled 2018, acrylic and alcohol-based 2018, color resin/color plexiglass 2017, mixed media, collage on paint on canvas 13” x 16” x 15.5” canvas 51” x 39” Retail Value: $1,200 18” x 24” Retail Value: $3,000 Starting Bid: $900 Retail Value: $500 Starting Bid: $1,000 Bidding Increment:$50 Starting Bid: $200 Bidding Increment:$100 Courtesy of Glimarteria Bidding Increment:$25 Cynthia Connolly Lely Constantinople Rick Coulby Minor Threat at Dischord House (and prac- Untitled Untitled tice space), 10-82, Ian MacKaye (vocalist), 2018, gelatin silver prints 2017, archival inkjet print Lyle Preslar (guitarist), Jeff Nelson (drum- mer), Brian Baker (bassist) 26” x 20” 16” x 12” printed in 2014, silver gelatin prints edition 1 of 5 edition 1 of 5 13” x 10” (each) Retail Value: $1,500 Retail Value: $1,000 Retail Value: $8,000 Starting Bid: $600 Starting Bid: $300 Starting Bid: $2,500 Bidding Increment:$100 Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$25 For Internal Use Only - as of 10.11.19 Michael Crossett Divorce Culture Joel D’Orazio Fair Card Value #2 Probable Cause Pt.2 Wanderlust (284) 2018, acrylic screen prints on 2019, screenprint and mixed media 1993, polyurethane on panel wood panel with resin 20” x 24” 30” x 32” 24” x 18” x 1.5 Retail Value: $1,200 Retail Value: $4,000 Retail Value: $1,400 Starting Bid: $600 Starting Bid: $1,700 Starting Bid: $1,050 Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$100 Bidding Increment:$100 Anu Das Frank Hallam Day Stephen Day Living in “Their” Shadow Sunsport Red Windows Entanglement 2004, linocut with fabric and beads 2013, archival pigment print 2014, oil on paper 44” x 66” 48” x 48” 24” x 18” AP edition of 3 Retail Value: $3,825 Retail Value: $1,000 Retail Value: $5,800 Starting Bid: $900 Starting Bid: $700 Starting Bid: $2,800 Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$100 Courtesy of Saatchi Art Courtesy of Addison/Ripley Fine Art Flore de Préneuf JD Deardourff Rex Delafkaran HUD uncle Gazpacho Hey Baby, Hey Baby 2010, digital archival print 2019, collage 2018, ceramic, hardware 20” x 16” 18” x 24” 7” x 7” edition 1 of 5 Retail Value: $1,000 Retail Value: $750 Retail Value: $2,000 Starting Bid: $750 Starting Bid: $500 Starting Bid: $500 Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$50 Courtesy of Musée d’Bruce For Internal Use Only - as of 10.11.19 Frank DiPerna Muse Dodd William Dunlap Sand Dune, Great Sand Dune National I Stand Alone Dog in the Fog Monument, Colorado 1984 2016, archival pigment print 2007, etching with hand coloring 1984, archival inkjet print 16” x 21” 16” x 20” 30” x 22” edition 2 of 10 edition 4 of 20 edition 9 of 40 Retail Value: $1,500 Retail Value: $225 Retail Value: $3,200 Starting Bid: $500 Starting Bid: $125 Starting Bid: $1,800 Bidding Increment:$50 Courtesy of Civilian Art Projects Bidding Increment:$25 Bidding Increment:$100 Aubrey Dunn Maribeth Egan Dana Ellyn Canalside Old Blouse Plant Based Nude 2019, screenprint 2018, gouache on cotton rag 2019, oil on canvas 15” x 12” 14” x 11” 30” x 24” edition 1 of 1 Retail Value: $800 Retail Value: $900 Retail Value: $200 Starting Bid: $350 Starting Bid: $400 Starting Bid: $130 Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$25 Edgar Endress Joey Enriquez David Evans The Dawn Astragalus jaegerianus, condensed Ivy City 2019, archival digital medium 2019, borosilicate glass, silver, 2018, encaustic wax, mixed media 32” x 50” wood 22” x 22” edition 1 of 3 17” x 19.5” Retail Value: $4,000 Retail Value: $5,000 Retail Value: $1,000 Starting Bid: $750 Starting Bid: $1,500 Starting Bid: $500 Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$100 Bidding Increment:$50 Courtesy of RoFa Projects For Internal Use Only - as of 10.11.19 Ryan Florig Thom Flynn Martina Fornace I am God Untitled Ragged point 2018, archival pigment print 2019, street posters, staples, resin 2016, photographic negative, 19” x 25” on wood panel archival pigment print Retail Value: $750 37” x 45” 12” x 18” Starting Bid: $400 edition 1 of 1 edition 1 of 3 Bidding Increment:$50 Retail Value: $5,500 Retail Value: $350 Starting Bid: $1,800 Starting Bid: $200 Bidding Increment:$100 Bidding Increment:$25 Nicole Ida Fossi Lloyd Foster Emily Francisco Meiosis Queen Energy Simultaneous Projects 2018, oil on canvas 2018, archival pigment print 2012, digital print mounted on hard 24” x 24” 24” x 36” board Retail Value: $800 edition 4 of 7 18” x 12” Starting Bid: $150 Retail Value: $1,350 Retail Value: $400 Bidding Increment:$25 Starting Bid: $750 Starting Bid: $200 Courtesy of Studio Gallery Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$25 Courtesy of Neptune Fine Art Roxana Alger Geffen Stephen Gibson Maps Glover Lace + Hook Approach unposted selfie 2018, cotton, ceramic beads, nylon 2019, mixed media collage 2019, acylic on paper seam binding, glove leather, wool 7” x 8” 22” x 15” thread, shoe lace, button hook Retail Value: $300 Retail Value: $500 15.25” x 12.25” Starting Bid: $100 Starting Bid: $300 Retail Value: $675 Bidding Increment:$25 Bidding Increment:$25 Starting Bid: $500 Bidding Increment:$50 For Internal Use Only - as of 10.11.19 Carol Brown Goldberg Alexis Gomez Felipe Goncalves PM 11 Being “but i don’t wanna be a Juggalo” 2019, giclee print 2019, acrylic 2016, mixed media 14” x 11” 17” x 6” 18” x 19” edition 1 of 3 edition 1 of 5 Retail Value: $1,000 Retail Value: $1,000 Retail Value: $400 Starting Bid: $600 Starting Bid: $200 Starting Bid: $300 Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$25 Bidding Increment:$25 Courtesy of Addison/Ripley Fine Art Janis Goodman Elizabeth Graeber Adam Griffiths The Natural World Bird with Leaves Banker’s Island 2018, graphite, colored pencil 2017, watercolor on paper 2017, pencil with digital coloring 22” x 31” 11” x 8” 9.5” x 7.5” Retail Value: $2,800 Retail Value: $500 edition 1 of 2 Starting Bid: $1,500 Starting Bid: $250 Retail Value: $200 Bidding Increment:$100 Bidding Increment:$25 Starting Bid: $175 Courtesy of Gallery Neptune & Bidding Increment:$25 Brown Rachel Guardiola Jason Gubbiotti Avi Gupta Archaeologies from VEGA’s Garden Inaccurate Feelings Untitled from series “lonesum” (cloud) 2018, chromogenic color print 2019, acrylic on wood 2018, archival pigment print (darkroom print) 5.75” x 5” x 3.25” 16” x 24” 20” x 24” Retail Value: $1,300 edition 1 of 5 edition 3 of 9 Starting Bid: $1,000 Retail Value: $1,100 Retail Value: $800 Bidding Increment:$100 Starting Bid: $500 Starting Bid: $500 Courtesy of Civilian Art Projects Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$25 For Internal Use Only - as of 10.11.19 Marta Gutierrez Ryan Hackett Kyle Hackett Midnight Baobab junglefilter Half-Forgotten 2017, mixed media sculpture 2019, alkyd oil on canvas 2013, oil on panel 18” x 11” 20” x 16” 20” x 16” Retail Value: $1,200 Retail Value: $3,100 Retail Value: $3,800 Starting Bid: $500 Starting Bid: $900 Starting Bid: $1,800 Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$50 Bidding Increment:$100 Adam Hager Jeremy Haik Jason Hamacher Skull No.
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