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AUCTION 2011 To benefit the Global Fairness Initiative
ART OF THE AMERICAS
All proceeds will be donated to GFI's work in Africa,
Asia, and Latin America.
ART
AUCTION
2011
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WELCOME
Dear Friend:
We are very pleased to have you join us at the 2011 Art of the
Americas Auction in support of the work of the Global Fairness
Initiative (GFI). We would like to thank the Organization of
American States (OAS) for hosting this special event and all of our
sponsors for their generous support. Tonight's auction is possible
thanks to the strong commitment of many friends of GFI, and we
would especially like to thank the exceptional artists and collectors
who have generously shared their art to benefit GFI's programs
around the world. Thanks to them, we have gathered an exceptional
range of work that we are delighted to present to you.
Through this auction we want not only to raise awareness of the
positive impact GFI has achieved throughout the Americas but also
to celebrate with you what is possible when we work together for a
common goal.
Many hands play a part in creating a more inclusive environment
for the world‟s working poor, and we are grateful to have you as
part of our GFI family and for your support.
Most sincerely,
Karen A. Tramontano Caleb R. Shreve
President and Founder Executive Director
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PARTICIPATING
ARTISTS
TALEEN BATALIAN
VIDAL BEDOYA
RAGNA BRUNO
LAURENCIA EVANS
ALEJANDRO FLORES
JAN GILBERT
JUDITH LEIGHTON
SABINO SPRINGETT
LYNN WESSEL
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ART OF AMERICAS AUCTION 2011 SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2011 5:30–7:30 P.M.
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES 17TH ST & CONSTITUTION AVENUE 5:30p.m. Reception Champagne and hors d'oeuvres
Exclusive opportunity to preview the art
and consult with selected artists
6:30 p.m. Live auction
Opening Remarks Ambassador Hugo De Zela, Permanent
Representative of Peru to the
Organization of American. States
Auctioneer Sherry Truhlar | Red Apple Auctions
Auction Preview Contact Nora Mara at [email protected]
or call GFI at 202 898 9022.
Thanks to the generous supporters of the Art of Americas Auction 2011
Individuals: Taleen Batalian
Ragna Bruno
Jan Gilbert
Robert Higdon
Sarah Larson
Maritza Orlic
Carla Rosenzweig
Lynn Wessel
Ambassador Hugo de Zela
Anonymous Donors
Organizations:
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FEATURED
ARTISTS
TALEEN BATALIAN
VIDAL BEDOYA
KRISTINA BILONICK
RAGNA BRUNO
LOUISE BOURNE
LAURENCIA EVANS
ALEJANDRO FLORES
JAN GILBERT
CARLA ROSENZWEIG
SABINO SPRINGETT
LYNN WESSEL
OTHER SELECTED ARTISTS
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PARTICIPATING
ARTISTS
TALEEN BATALIAN
VIDAL BEDOYA
RAGNA BRUNO
ESCUELA CUSQUENA
LAURENCIA EVANS
ALEJANDRO FLORES
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TALEEN
BATALIAN Internal Landscape 2,
2010 Encaustic oil on panel
16" x 16" x 1"
Courtesy of the Artist
Value: $975
Buy it now price: $1,950
“I love the translucency of
wax. It enables me to create
not only a depth to the piece,
but a history of where I‟ve
been – in my head, and with
my hand. With encaustic, the
demand created by that short
window of time between when
the beeswax is molten and
when it hardens, is intense
and exciting. I must be clear
on the mark I will make
before I make it. If I‟m off, the
result is not what I
envisioned. The wax hardens,
and I miss my chance.”
With over twenty exhibitions
throughout the United States,
Taleen Batalian has been
involved in the fine arts for
over fifteen years.
www.taleenbatalian.com
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VIDAL
BEDOYA Dioses de Estio II, 2009
Colors: Yellow & Black
60 x 65 cm
Courtesy of Maritza Orlic
Value: $3,000 Buy it now price: $6,000
"I only paint. I work, I believe
in what I do. Even as a child, I
have always had a quiet
predisposition for drawing
and painting (…) I am
inspired by ancestral
Peruvian culture, I express it
in my paintings without
intellectualizing it. (…) Each
painting has its own birth and
even a different process -
paintings are enriched by our
fears and doubts and our pain
enlightens them.”
In the realm of Peruvian
artistry, Vidal Bedoya is a
„rebel defeated by art‟ and in
so being, his themes are
charged with a mysterious
magnetism that is both
attractive and confusing.
Vidal has participated in
numerous individual and
collective exhibitions in Peru,
Chile, Cuba and the United
States.
www.vidal-bedoya.artelista.com
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KRISTINA
BILONICK Liz Taylor Series
27x20"
Silkscreen print & mixed
media
Courtesy of Robert Higdon
Value: $250 Buy it now price: $500
“My work is about family,
personal experiences, and
growing up in the DC suburb of
Chevy Chase”
“A lot of ideas come from
journal entries I‟d written when
I was in grade school.”
Kristina Bilonick is a native
Washingtonian who uses screen
printing, found objects and
other media to create art
installations that are often
interactive. In addition to these
installations, Bilonick designs a
line of screen-printed apparel
and accessories. She is also
involved in other areas of the
arts community in DC.
Bilonick has shown her work at
local art spaces and has also
been recognized in several
newspapers as a creative young
artist. She currently works as
Program Director for the
Washington Project for the
Arts.
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RAGNA
BRUNO
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RAGNA
BRUNO At the Seaside
Casein on board
21x19"
Courtesy of the Artist
Value: $800 Buy it now price: $1,600
“Growing up with two different
languages and two sets of
cultures and values was
enriching. Two opposites that
were easily assimilated but had
to sometimes be reconciled -
the rich, powerful culture of
Spain and what was, for me, the
mysterious culture of the
North. This duality has been at
the root of my art.”
Listed as one of the most
collectible artists in New
England, Ragna Bruno was
born in Spain to a home filled
with music, art, and artists.
Ragna studied art and art
history in Switzerland and
London and traveled to India,
Mexico, South America, and
throughout Europe - finding
inspiration and fine-tuning her
talent as a painter and sculptor.
Her work can be found
internationally in public and
private collections and Maine
art galleries.
www.ragnabruno.com
LOUISE
BOURNE Tea Time III Oil on Panel
12 x 12"
Courtesy of the Artist
Value: $600 Buy it now price: $1,200
"When I work, I respond to color
patterns, placement, complexion
and light. A narrative enters
once the figure or certain objects appear. I enjoy the tension
between this narrative, working
from direct observation, memory, and the formal needs of the
painting. I feel I am in service to, and seeking, an overall structure
that holds the chaos. "
The Tea Time III painting is one
of four paintings based on the tea
tray from which Bourne serves
students in her studio. It is part of
an ongoing series of the delicious
haphazard arrangements of daily
life, and it celebrates the grays in
between yellow and blue.
Louise Bourne has been painting
and exhibiting her work since the
1980‟s. Her paintings are in
public and private collections throughout the U.S. and the U.K.
She holds a BFA from the
Portland School of Art (now
Maine College of Art) and an
MFA from the University of
Michigan.
www.louisebourne.com
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LAURENCIA
EVANS Secret of the Lizard, 2007
60 x 65 cm
Anonymous Donor
Value: $550 Buy it now price: $1,100
“I grew up in a house in
which ghosts were part of the
family. For us it was not
strange to see, from time to
time, a shadow disappear on
the wall, or hear footsteps on
the staircase even if no one
was there. The magicians
that appear in my paintings
are characters that „travel in
time. . . without belonging to
it.‟ They are travelers,
psychonauts that can be here
and there at the same time,
like the Tibetan Lamas that
cross time thresholds to
bring the maps of these
mysterious and faraway
lands, in the blink of an eye.”
The energetic work by
Laurencia Evans is
exquisite in its use of color
and symmetry. With her
skillful use of depth, subjects
appear to jump from the
canvas.
www. jmcart.com
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JAN
GILBERT
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ALEJANDRO
FLORES “Los Gigantes” Series
60 x 65 cm
Anonymous Donor
Value: $250 Buy it now price: $500
“While [my artwork] is
roughly figurative, its goal
is to sum the delicate
energy of our human and
urban shapes without
making it about something
but instead about its own
existence together with my
artistic vernacular (…) It
strives to make its viewer
think outside the box
beyond our preconceived
constraints and conceptual
conventions.”
Enamellist Alejandro
Flores was born in Mexico
City, completing his art
studies at the city‟s oldest
art academy, the San
Carlos Academy.
Alejandro has participated
in several individual and
collective exhibitions. He
exhibits his works
continuously throughout
Mexico, frequently accepts
commissions, and has
works in collections
worldwide.
www.alejandroflores.net
JAN
GILBERT French
Landscape/Dump
Photo transfer on acrylic
9x99"
Courtesy of the Artist
Value : $8,000 Buy it now price: 16,000
“Witnessing my home
community and landscape
being decimated only
deepens my resolve and
commitment to aid in our
recovery utilizing art as a
ritual and methodology
(…) My hope is that I am
blurring boundaries of all
sorts: ritual, activism,
community, archive,
preservation, etc., as well
as those of the disciplines
of photography, sculpture,
painting, performance,
and theater.”
The nationally-recognized
interdisciplinary artwork
of Jan Gilbert mines
memory, loss, and
transition through the
combination of painting,
printmaking, photography,
and installation. Gilbert‟s
works have been shown
widely in galleries,
museums, and cultural
centers across the United
States and abroad. www.jangilbertart.com
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CARLA
ROSENZWEIG Adobe Red
12 x 12”
Adobe clay dyes
Acrylic on industrial felt
mounted on board
Courtesy of the Artist
Value: $500 Buy it now price: $1,000
“In designing this piece I am
reminded of Barbara
Kingsolver's words „Everything
I am comes from Dirt.‟ My
works are developed from the
earth and its products. This
particular piece completed in
2009 is made from clay from a
farm in Prince George's
County, Maryland, and the
felt was leftover product found
in an abandoned paper mill.”
Carla Rosenzweig‟s childhood
experience growing up on a
farm in Prince George's
County continues to influence
her work. She received a BS
from University of Maryland in
1952 and in 1973 a BFA from
the Maryland Institute of Arts.
In the early 1970's she founded
the Washington Women's Art
Center.
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
ATLAS OF THE WORLD-
PLATINUM EDITION Material: Leather bound book.
SABINO
SPRINGETT Material: Oil on canvas
Original Dimensions:
Courtesy of Maritza
Orlic
Value: $5,000 Buy it now price: $10,000
“One has to be a painter
above all. But a painter at
the service of mankind. I do
not believe in aesthetics
removed from humanity.”
Sabino Springett is one of
the most prominent
Peruvian painters of the
21st Century. His artistic
path is an integral part of
the history of the country‟s
art. Sabino has won
multiple prizes throughout
the region, and his
paintings have been
exhibited at the Petit Palais
in Paris, Dallas Museum of
Fine Arts, Saleta D‟il Orso,
Biella Italia, and elsewhere
throughout the world.
www.arslatino.com
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LYNN
WESSEL
For the Love of Red
Mixed media (acrylic and
found papers)
30x40 inches
Value: $2,500 Buy it now price: $5,000
“Currently, my artistic focus is
mixed media non-objective
work. When I started as an
artist, I painted realistic and
landscape work, as well as
portraits. With that work, I was
limited to the realistic display of
things and people. Particularly
with portrait painting, I was
focused on "getting it right. I
then discovered the freedom of
expressing what I want to
express. This piece is an
example of that freedom of
expression.”
This particular painting is a bit
of a happy medium--a mix of
both my realism work and my
non-objective work. It evolved
from a series of bold hued non-
objective work.
Lynn Wessel lives in New
Orleans and Castine. In her
mixed media abstractions on
canvas Lynn works with color,
texture and hidden imagery to
“elicit an emotional and
substantive response from the
viewer.”
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ARTIST
UNKNOWN La Sagrad Familia
Hand-carved wood frame and
oil-on-canvas painting
Anonymous Donor
Value: $500 Buy it now price: $1,000
The celebrated Cuzco School
(Escuela Cuzqueña) is
characterized by its originality,
resulting from indigenous artists
and mestizos, wanting to express
their reality and cosmovision
while using the artistic western
tradition of the Colony. The
tradition originated after the
1534 Spanish conquest of the
Incas and is considered the first
artistic center that systematically
taught European artistic
techniques in the Americas. The
Cusqueña paintings were a form
of religious art whose main
purpose was didactic.
The painting features the Lord
conveying his blessings to Mary,
Joseph, and Jesus. An ornate
hand carved wood frame carries
the painting.
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WIN A LIMITED EDITION-NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
ATLAS OF THE WORLD
Thanks to a generous donation by Sarah Larson of Distinctive
Bookbinding you can take home this unique leather-bound Atlas to
be raffled off that evening.
Tickets will be available at the door
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The National Geographic Atlas of the World, Platinum Edition, is
bound with an elegant Italian leather cover with complimentary
moiré patterned cloth end-sheets and embroidered headbands. The
spine is hand-stamped with decorative silver foil. Inside is an
elegant parchment page printed with an official Statement of
Authenticity. Each edge of the Atlas is meticulously gilded in
silver, and a luxurious ribbon marker is sewn in. Distinctive
Bookbinding will personalize the cover with silver foil stamping.
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WHAT WE DO
Since 2002, GFI has improved hundreds of thousands of lives in Latin
America, Africa, and Asia. We have developed innovative programs to
preserve and create jobs, empowered women by removing barriers to
economic success, implemented fair wages and increased revenues, and
attracted domestic and foreign direct investment. GFI programs achieve
success in 5 core areas:
Engage Governments – build capacity of local institutions to assume
their responsibilities and provide services for their constituent
communities.
Invest in Women Producers – empower women by building local
capacity, connecting them to supply chains, and providing technical
assistance to increase productivity.
Build Workforce Capacity – promote labor rights, fair wages, and “best
practices” of workforce standards and government commitment to social
services and economic development in order to attract international
investment.
Improve Access to Markets – connect economic actors as well as
decision-making bodies and mechanisms that control the trade and market
environment where small-producers work.
Bring Fairness to Free Trade – attract meaningful and secure foreign
investment by helping establish high standards of social services,
protections, and environmentally sustainable practices.
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PARTICIPATING
ARTISTS
TALEEN BATALIAN
VIDAL BEDOYA
RAGNA BRUNO
LAURENCIA EVANS
ALEJANDRO FLORES
JAN GILBERT
JUDITH LEIGHTON
SABINO SPRINGETT
LYNN WESSEL
TALEEN BATALIAN
VIDAL BEDOYA
RAGNA BRUNO
LAURENCIA EVANS
ALEJANDRO FLORES
JAN GILBERT
JUDITH LEIGHTON
SABINO SPRINGETT
LYNN WESSEL
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