PLEASE JOIN US for the
31st Annual Horsin’ Around: Benefit Auction for Atlantic Center for the Arts
Click here to see the 2014 Auction Catalogue
Sunday, April 6, 11 AM – 3 PM
Silent Auction 11 AM Live Auction 1 PM
New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport, U.S. 1
Tickets: $100 ACA members $125 non-members (70% tax deductible)
Enjoy gourmet food and drink while bidding on unique experiences, original artwork, amazing trips, spectacular sporting events and more! For 31 years, Horsin’ Around has been THE event to enjoy an afternoon with friends in support of the arts! This year, break out your best hat as our theme is DERBY DAY! Riverside Catering, in conjunction with Special Event Services, is presenting “A Day at the Races” and you won’t want to miss the fun! The live and silent auctions at Horsin’ Around provide a great venue to make an investment in a piece of art that you’ll be proud to have in your collection. Phone 386.427.6975 x10 for reservations. Visit our website for full details & Auction Program. Reserved seating for eight for Sponsors at the $2,500 level/Hosts for $1,000
Paddle8 - Online bidding open until April 4
This year, we are pleased to introduce Paddle8, an online system for bidding on certain works of art featured in the auction. Whether you live a thousand miles away or just down the road in New Smyrna Beach, you can now participate in the Auction via online access. This new feature has proven very exciting to Atlantic Center for the Arts former Master and Associate Artists who have donated valuable work to this year’s auction.
Bidding on Paddle8 will end on April 4 at noon, with bids carried over to the auction on April 6. Login towww.paddle8.com to view these original art works and register to bid!
Lynda Benglis
Untitled, Cast Aluminum Sculpture, 4/24, 1984
Lynda Benglis was a Master Artist-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts in 1989. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, NY, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She is represented by the Cheim & Read Gallery in New York, and currently works in New York, NY, and Santa Fe, NM. Value: $12,500
Diana Cooper
Untitled, photograph, 28″ x 20″
Diana Cooper was a Master Artist-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2011. Cooper has exhibited her work widely in the U.S., Europe, and China, and was the subject of a ten-year retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland in 2007. She is a former Rome Prize Fellow and has received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Anonymous Was A Woman, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Marie Sharpe Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Institute for Electronic Arts and other organizations. Her Percent for Art public art commission for the Jerome Parker Campus in Staten Island, New York was named one of the top public art works in the country by Americans for the Arts in 2009. It was also featured on the TV special on Public Art in Public Schools. This photograph was taken during Cooper’s residency, at Daytona International Speedway. Framed by Bruneau Gallery. Value: $2,500
Mark Dion
Blood Coral, silkscreen on paper 23/30, 4″ x 11″ 2013
Mark Dion was a Master Artist-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2008. He has had exhibitions at institutions including the Miami Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and the Tate Gallery, among many others. His permanent outdoor installation and learning lab for the Olympic Sculpture Park, Neukom Vivarium, was commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum. Value: $1,000
Rachel Harrison
Untitled, Pigmented inkjet print, Edition of 50, 19″ x 13″, 2008
Rachel Harrison was a Master Artist-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2008. Harrison’s work has been exhibited widely since the 1990s in shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, and the Walker Art Center, among others, and she was included in the 2002 and 2008 Whitney Biennials. Framed by Bruneau Gallery. Value: $1,800
James Hyde
Ends Meet, acrylic on archival inkjet print, stretched linen, 39.75″ x 31″, 2013
James Hyde was a Master Artist-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2007. Hyde is the recipient of numerous awards, grants and residencies including a Pollock-Krasner Grant, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Greenwich House Pottery Artist Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, a Glass Workshop Fellowship, and a New York State CAPS Grant. The artist is represented by Horton Gallery in New York, where he has been featured in a two-person show, and a group show, and Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, FR. The artist was featured in a two-person presentation with Wallace Whitney at the NADA Art Fair, Miami in 2013; his first solo show with Horton Gallery is scheduled for Fall 2014. Value: $5,000
Guillermo Kuitca
Alice Tully Hall, serigraph 111/117, 22-1/4 x 20″ 2009
Guillermo Kuitca was a Master Artist-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2006. His major group exhibitions include New Image Painting: Argentina in the Eighties (Americas Society, New York, 1989); U-ABC (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1989); Metropolis (Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 1991); and Mito y magia en America: los ochenta (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, 1991). His major solo exhibitions include Guillermo Kuitca (Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 1990), and Projects 30: Guillermo Kuitca (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1991). Guillermo Kuitca currently lives and works in Buenos Aires. Framed by Bruneau Gallery. Value: $2,500
Laura Owens
Untitled, three color letterpress on gray handmade paper, Edition of 8, 7.125″ x 11.125″
Laura Owens was a Master Artist-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2006. Owens is a painter and installation artist very firmly practicing in the tradition of the post-conceptual art generation. Laura’s work is featured in the following galleries: Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY and Sadie Coles HQ, London, England. Framed by Bruneau Gallery. Value: $1,200
Jack Mitchell
Female Nude Series 5040-4-12, gelatin silver print selenium toned, 24.75″ x 30.75″, 2/20, 1991
Male Nude series 5203-4-41, gelatin silver print selenium toned, 24.75″ x 30.75″, 3/20, 1995
Jack Mitchell (1925-2013) was a Master Artist-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts in 1983, and served on its National Council, the artistic guiding board. He was an American photographer and author best known for his photographs of American artists, dancers, film and theatre performers, musicians and writers. Mitchell, who took hundreds of pictures for The New York Times, was both a portraitist and a capturer of complex motion. An expert in lighting, he worked mostly, though not entirely, in black and white, and he was known – by his subjects, by the magazine and newspaper editors he worked for, and by critics – as someone who could make a photograph reveal character. Mitchell was the official photographer for the American Ballet Theater, and he chronicled the work of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Mitchell, whose photographs have also appeared in Time, Life, Newsweek, People, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Vogue, among other publications, was born in Key West, and grew up there and in New Smyrna Beach, where he returned after decades in the New York art scene. Value: $3,000
Audrey Phillips
A Ray of Hope, acrylic on canvas with mixed-media, 48″ x 82″ x 2″
Through imagery, Audrey Phillips searches to find beauty in the darkness we create as humans. It’s her way of trying to make sense of our complex culture while also celebrating the mysterious order and intelligence that nature provides. She finds comfort in knowing that, with proper care and our best efforts, nature keeps on healing itself, evolving and morphing, with an internal intelligence that we so often take for granted. Audrey’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US. She is represented by Arts on Douglas, an affiliate of Atlantic Center for the Arts. For more information and to view more works please go to:http://artsondouglas.net/collections/audrey-phillips Value: $6,900
James Siena
Backs II (Henrietta) 2007, Four-color Lithograph, 23.5″ x 24.5″ A/P 5/10, edition of 32
James Siena was a Master Artist-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2009. His work is held in numerous
prestigious public and private collections across the U.S., including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Value: $1,800
Don Sondag
Afternoon Delight, oil on canvas, 22 x 28
Don Sondag grew up in Winter Park, which explains his intimate knowledge of the city’s lakes and canals that figure so prominently in many of his paintings. He received his B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. During 1995 and 1996, he studied painting and portraiture at the National Academy of Design and Art Student League in New York City. In addition to painting commissioned portraits and landscapes at McRae Art Studios, Sondag teaches portraiture and painting at Crealde School of Art. He also has taught at Seminole Community College, Walt Disney Imagineering and Walt Disney Feature Animation. His portfolio includes landscapes for the Winter Park Hospital, the canal scene for the 2000 Art Festival, the poster for the Gambel Rogers Casa Feliz and portrait illustrations for Harcourt School Publishers. Value: $2,500
Donald Sultan
Wallflowers sixteen color silkscreen, 18/20, 13″ x 19.5″, 2013
Donald Sultan was a Master Artist-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts in 1996, and serves on ACA’s National Council, it’s artistic guiding board. Sultan has had solo shows at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Jewish Museum (with playwright David Mamet) in New York. Framed by Bruneau Gallery. Value: $2,000
Thomas Struth
West 74th Street, New York, Upper West 1978, 7/10, Silver Gelatin Print
Eastman Avenue, Los Angeles 2002, 4/10, Chromogenic Print
Thomas Struth was a Master Artist-in-Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2007. Comprehensive retrospective exhibitions of Struth’s work have been organized by the Kunsthalle Bern (1987), Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (1994), Carré d’Art, Musée d’Art Contemporain in Nîmes (1998), and Dallas Museum of Art (2002). In 1997, he was awarded the Spectrum International Photography Prize of Lower Saxony. Struth lives and works in Düsseldorf. Value: $27,800 for the pair
Trish Thompson
Palms and Portals, acrylic on canvas, 36″ x 24″
Trish Thompson is a Florida artist who is a four-time Atlantic Center for the Arts Associate with Master Artists Lynda Benglis &Julio Juristo, Frank Faulkner, Ellen Stuart and John Torreano. Thompson’s work represents a discourse between representation and abstraction. She explores ways the image replicates nature while retaining evidence of the process and gesture, in mark, impasto, and texture. Thompson experiments with layers of representation, and is constantly attentive to the dialogue of the process as it unfolds. There is a tension between the allusion of three-dimensional space, and the marks and shapes which reinforce the painting as a two-dimensional object. She is represented by Arts on Douglas, an affiliate of Atlantic Center for the Arts. Information and to view more works go to:http://artsondouglas.net/collections/trish-thompson Value: $2,000
Anna Tomczak
Catching Fresh Horses, Polaroid Image Transfer on archival watercolor paper, 22″ x 30″
Anna Tomczak is a Florida artist who is a five-time Atlantic Center for the Arts Associate with Master Artists Miriam Shapiro, Barbara Rose, Mary Lucier, William Wegman, and Donald Sultan. Technique is central to her photography. She is one of very few masters of the Polaroid 20 x 24 inch view camera. Every print is unique, as each is transferred immediately after being photographed. Tomczak’s photographs are created in the studio where she assembles her “scenes.” Each image is described in vibrant colors and assembled with found objects such as botanicals, memorabilia, and artifacts, as well as the human figure. She is represented by Arts on Douglas, an affiliate of Atlantic Center for the Arts. For more information and to view more works please go to:http://artsondouglas.net/collections/anna-tomczak. Value: $3,200
Mary Schimpff Webb
Faceted Lemon Quartz Hand-Forged Sterling Silver Cuff
Mary Schimpff Webb is a four time winner of the DeBeers International Award. Her distinctive use of materials and techniques has set her apart from other jewelry designers. Her wearable works of art are fluid, highly sculptural and textured forms utilizing unusual combinations of precious and semi-precious stones with gold, platinum, silver and bronze. All of her work is handcrafted, including the gems she often shapes herself. During her 60+ year career, Webb has continued to challenge herself with new styles and techniques. Schimpff Webb is represented by Arts on Douglas Gallery, an affiliate of ACA, located New Smyrna Beach, she has firmly established herself as a fine craftsman of modernist jeweler. For more information on her galleries, awards and honors please go to: http://artsondouglas.net/collections/mary-schimpff-webb. Value: $950
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