Space 47 art auction:

GoodBuy: Cruel World
8:30pm Friday, October 3, 2008

3-day preview: Wednesday and Thursday, October 1 and 2, noon to 7pm; and Friday, October 3, noon to 4pm

live auction: 8:30pm Friday, October 3; doors open 7pm, admission free! Bidder registration is only $5.

GoodBuy: a free workshop on collecting up-and-coming artists: 7pm Thursday, October 2

Julie Blakenship
Courtesy of the Artist
Untitled
Mixed medium on found Cabinet Card
2008 6.5 x 4.25 inch
Retail $250

Julie Blankenship is a visual artist and Executive Director of Visual Aid, San Francisco. Visual Aid encourages artists with life-threatening illnesses to continue their creative work. The organization provides free art supplies and exhibition opportunities to professional, visual artists living with HIV/AIDS, Breast Cancer and other illnesses. Blanknship creates photo-based mixed media works, exploring issues related to time and the changable nature of identity. She recievced her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1987 and had taught there from 1995 to 2002.

Binh Danh
Courtesy of the Artist and Haines Gallery, San Francisco
The Botany of S-21: person 17
Chlorophyll print & resin 2008 10 x 8 inch
Retail $2600

Binh Danh
Courtesy of the Artist and Haines Gallery, San Francisco
The Botany of S-21: person 374
Chlorophyll print & resin 2008 10 x 8 inch
Retail $2600

Binh Danh received his MFA from Stanford University and his BFA in Photography from San Jose State University. He invented a unique process for printing photographs onto the surface of leaves by exploiting the natural process of photosynthesis. By combining art, history, and science, Danh extensively researches the subject matter he is drawn to. He is a recipient of the 2010 Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA. His work is in the collections of the de Young Museum, Corcoran Art Gallery, San Jose Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Amir H. Fallah
Courtesy of the Artist
Untitled
watercolor, ink, acrylic, on paper 2007 14 x 11 inch
Retail: $300

Amir H. Fallah’s signature aesthetic and creative intuition manifests itself in a broad cross-section of projects. He is the publisher of Beautiful/Decay, an internationally distributed contemporary arts magazine. In less than ten years, Fallah has transformed Beautiful/Decay into a first-exposure source book that reveals innovative talents from the creative world. He employs a unique blend of distinctive covers, attention to detail and design, and provocative content.

Fallah’s insider’s perspective into trends from the creative community comes directly from his experience within the art world as a practicing artist. His works range from painting, drawing and sculpture, evoking a similarly fresh, brightly colored aesthetic that addresses a nexus of idiosyncratic topics. He received his B.F.A. from The Maryland Institute College of Art and his M.F.A from UCLA in 2005. Exhibits include shows at Cherry And Martin, 31 Grand, Overtones, The Third Line, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The Sharjah Biennial, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Mary Goldman Gallery, Rhys gallery, and at LA Louver Gallery.

Shelby Graham
Courtesy of the Artist
Untitled
Resin, Polaroid transfer, and wood
2008 6 x 8 x 1 inch
Retail: $200

Shelby Graham holds a MFA in Photography. She has exhibited her work in the U.S. and Japan. Shelby has been a freelance photographer, teacher and artist for the past 20 years. Her teaching experience ranges from university courses to private classes in California, Colorado and Japan. Currently she is the Director of the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Award-wining photographer Fan Ho has won 280 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide since 1956. Ho has been elected Fellow of the Photographic Society of America, Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, England; Honorary Member of the Photographic Societies of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Argentina, Singapore and etc, and was honored with One-Man-Shows in the above countries. Fan Ho has written five books, one of them containing all his award-winning prints that is currently a permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.

Further, Fan Ho is an accomplished and acclaimed Hong Kong film director. He won the “Best Film Award” in Banbury International Film Festival in England. Three of his films have received the “Official Selection” of the International Film Festivals of Cannes, Berlin and San Francisco; and five of his films have been selected in the “Permanent Collection” of the National Film Archives of Taiwan and Hong Kong. He has also been elected as “judge” of the Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival and Hong Kong Oscar Film Award. It is this diverse cultural background that makes Fan Ho’s creative style so unique, full of lyrical beauty, dramatic power, and poetic grandeur.

Juan Luna-Avin
Courtesy of the Artist
Untitled (Ta tan tan)
Mixed Media on archival paper 2008
Retail: $255

Juan Luna-Avin was born in Mexico City and currently resides in Mountain View, CA. He holds a BFA in Painting (2003) from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he was an Osher Scholar. He is currently pursuing his MFA in Art Practice at Stanford University in fall 2008. His work has been shown at such venues as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Queen's Nails Annex (San Francisco), Galeria de la Raza (San Francisco), El Museo del Barrio (New York), MOCA Los Angeles, and MACLA (San Jose, Ca). He is also a member of the DJ-artist collective, Club Unicornio.

Kent Manske
Courtesy of the Artist
Learn
Monoprint with chine colle on handmade paper 2008 Retail: $280

Kent Manske is an imagemaker who uses traditional and digital media to create prints and books as art. He is a Professor at Foothill College where he has taught art and visual communication since 1990. Some solo exhibitions include: Gallery Vino Locale in Palo Alto, CA, Humanities Center Gallery at CSU Chico, CA, the Palo Alto Art Center, Student Union Gallery at San Francisco State University, CA, the Center for Innovation at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA, and Gallery 1633 in Chicago, IL.

 

Gustavo Martinez was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and currently lives in San Martin, CA. He is currently completing a BA in education with a minor in Mexican American studies, and a BFA in General Studio Practices with an emphasis in Spatial Arts at San Jose State University. He currently works for the San Jose Museum of Art, and has worked for MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, and has taught ceramics at Escuela Popular. He is a founder of 12 & Taylor Gallery (San Jose, CA), and has exhibited at MACLA (San Jose), The Sobrato Center (Milpitas, CA), California College of the Arts (Oakland, CA), and San Jose State University. Recent showings include Cube Farm at the San Jose Museum of Art, and Intervensiones, organized by Erin Goodwin-Guerrero. He has completed public artworks for the city of San Jose, and in 2007, Martinez took a sabbatical to study traditional indigenous pottery and techniques at Escuela Valentine Lopez (San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua).

Victoria May
Courtesy of the Artist and Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco
Vein and Strata
Concrete, rust, glass, organza
2007 9 x 6 x 1 inch
Retail: $850

Victoria May still produces several of her works with the Singer Featherweight she learned to sew on at the age of ten, drawing upon the skills she later mastered while working at a bridal boutique. In 2001, she received her MFA from San Jose State University where she studied Installation Art and Photography. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she exhibits frequently, and teaches at local colleges. She has been nominated for several Bay Area fellowships. Her work has been featured in FiberArts and in the Princeton Architectural Press publication By Hand.

James Melinat
Courtesy of the Artist
We could have made history and already we're forgetting you
Lightjet print 9 x 11 inch 2006
Retail: $250

James Melinat received his BA from the University of California, Irvine in 2004, where he was awarded the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. He received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA) in 2007. That same year he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, ME). Melinat has exhibited internationally, with exhibits at Acuna-Hansen (Los Angeles, CA), Estacion Tijuana (Tijuana, Mexico), Appetite Gallery (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Space 47 (San Jose, CA). He is currently working on an artist book project for the 2008 Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco, CA.

Joe Miller
Courtesy of the Artist
Fallout 2
Vintage Fallout Shelter sign, sandblasted
10x14 inches, 2008
Retail: $300

This work is from Space 47's previoius exhibit of new typographic art by Joe Miller. Joe works extensively in the world of typography, and this work is derived from Joe’s poetry, which is mostly from observation and life experiences. Joe is a graphic designer and educator whose work in design is widely published and exhibited. As an artist and spoken word performance artist, he has been featured at galleries and other venues throughout the Bay Area. Joe has been a member of the graphic design faculty at San José State University since 1988. web: joemillersco.com

Sylvia Min
Courtesy of the Artist
Memory
Acrylic and oil on canvas 5 x 5 inch 2008
Retail: $300

Sylvia Min works with a variety of materials from oil paints to human hair. Her artwork documents the people, places and events in her life that move her, disturb her, scare her, and make her smile. She received her B.S. from New York University and her M.F.A. from Mills College. She currently teaches at California State University East Bay and West Valley College.

During the summer, I fell in love. I didn't fall in love with a person or the potential of something—I fell in love with a city. I fell head over heels, madly, deeply in love with Paris. This painting (Memory) is based off my first encounter with Paris (in the garden of Luxembourg) and my desire to freeze time before I lose something beautiful.

Julio Cesar Morales
Courtesy of the Artist and Deborah Page Gallery, San Monica, CA
12.5 x 22.5

A graduate from the San Francisco Art Institute, Julio C. Morales is an artist and educator who works both independently and collaboratively. His work has ranged from public art, photography, video installation and performance. Born in Tijuana Mexico, Morales has been exploring issues of labor, memory, surveillance technologies and identity strategies. The artwork has been shown extensively in the Bay Area and Internationally. Morales has received awards from The Rockefeller Foundation, The Arts Council, The San Francisco Arts Commission's Public Art Program, The Fleishhacker Foundation, The Ed Fund, New Langton Arts and The Creative Work Fund.

Rika Noda
Courtesy of the Artist

Alex Oliva
Courtesy of the Artist

Adrienne Pao and Robin Lasser
Courtesy of the Artists
Ms. Homeland Security: Illegal Entry Dress Tent  (Installed beneath the United States/Mexico border fence;
2005, 8'W x 8'D x 10'H.  Gortex camouflage material, and PVC pipes.)
Lightjet Print 2006 15 x 12.5 inch
Retail: $500

Robin Lasser is a Professor of Art at San Jose State University. Lasser produces photographs, video, site-specific installations and public art dealing with socially and culturally significant imagery and themes. Lasser often works in a collaborative mode with other artists, writers, students, public agencies, community organizations, and international coalitions (such as her work in Egypt as a Fulbright Scholar) to produce art and promote public dialogue. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at museums such as: The Recoleta Cultural Center in Buenos Aires; The Aronson Galleries - Parsons School of Design in New York City; L.A. County Museum of Art; the De Young Museum in San Francisco; the Osaka World Trade Center Museum in Japan; and the Academy of Film in Prague. Lasser’s work has also been included in books such as Made in California, Art Image and Identity, 1900-2000, Facing Eden 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, Pregnant Images, Fasting Girls, Women Artists of the American West, and Overlay Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory.

Adrienne Pao is Visiting Faculty in the Photography Department at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Academy of Art in San Francisco, California. Her current projects, Hawaiian Cover-Ups and Dress Tents investigate notions of tourism in real and simulated fantasy landscapes, and involve a combination of performative and staged scenarios. Her work has been featured in the Portfolio issue 77 of Shots (2004), Exposure (2006), Flaunt (2006), Top (Brazil, 2006), Playboy (South America, 2006), Marie Claire (Italy, Greece 2007). It is also featured in writer and art critic Rebecca Solnit’s book Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics (2007). She has shown her work nationally at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, California and also at Wave Hill Glyndor gallery in the Bronx, New York. Adrienne was a 2005 Society for Photographic Education award winner, and received a 2005 Visual Artist Fellowship through the College Art Association. She received her MFA in Photography from San Jose State University in 2005. Her work can be viewed at www.adriennepao.com

Laura Paulini
Courtesy of the Artist
Monday, August 1st, 2005 (Whittled Wooden Chopstick #3)
Modified oil paint on panel 2005
Retail: $1800

Since earning her MFA from Mills College in 2005, Laura Paulini has had a solo show at Takada Gallery in San Francisco and has been in several group exhibitions: Josee Bienvenu Gallery in New York; Women & Their Work Gallery in Austin, Texas; Repetti Gallery in Long Island City, NY; the Headlands Center for the Arts, the KALA Institute, the Richmond Art Center, and the Oakland Art Gallery in the Bay Area. She was also artist-in-residence this June at the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, CA and has twice attended the Painting's Edge workshop at Idylwild Arts. Her studio is in North Oakland.

Praba Pilar
Courtesy of the Artist
Cyber.labia no 3
Lightjet print

A Bay Area/Colombian multi-disciplinary artist, Praba Pilar has worked on multiple projects in the public sphere through performances, installations, and interactive projects.

Most recently Ms. Pilar has been producing performances on Cyborg interactions, presenting her Cyborg Soap Opera, at galleries in the Bay Area, and the Church of Nano Bio Info Cogno, a divine intervention into the messianic fervor of agents of the technology revolution. Other recent work has focused on the effects of information and communication technologies on women around the world. She is currently exhibiting work from a new series titled Cyber.Labia, which is an extended "cyber-talk" on gender, race and technologies. This series has culminated in prints and an art book of interviews with cyberworkers and theorists, scripts, images and a companion DVD. Over 2004-06 Ms. Pilar toured her solo performance, Computers Are A Girl's Best Friend to Sweden, Montreal, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle and Albany. This performance counters the sexiness of the computer industry by disrobing the truth of the exportation of toxic electronic waste to Asia; net based gyno-slavery; net based trafficking, telesexuality; Real Dolls and other extraordinary aspects of the computer revolution.

Mimi Plumb
Courtesy of the Artist and Julie Nester Gallery in Park City, Utah, and the SFMOMA Artists Gallery in San Francisco
Untitled, from the Their Backs series
Fuji Crystal Archive Type C Prints
2008 22 x 27 inch
Retail: $1600

Mimi Plumb was born in Berkeley, California. In 1986 she received my MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. Since then she have been on the photography faculty at San Jose State University, and have been a visiting artist and lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Stanford University, the San Francisco Art Institute and Santa Clara University. Her work is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, and the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. She have received grants and fellowships from the California Arts Council, the Marin Arts Council, and the Phelan Art Award in Photography.

Fanny Retsek
Courtesy of the Artist
Shell Shock
Photopolymer etching 16x12 inch 2008
Retail: $400

Fanny Retsek is an artist/printmaker working in San Jose. She is currently the Print Center Director and Master Printer at the ICA Print Center. She is the former co-owner of Magpie Studios, a full-service printmaking studio previously located in the Citadel and now thriving in Adelaide, Australia. Working in all forms of print as well as drawing, Fanny's work responds to the wars and politics spawned by our nation's global consumer economy.

Lordy Rodriguez
Courtesy of the Artist and Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Alexandria ink on paper 4.25 x 2.25 inch 2001
Retail: $700

Lordy Rodriguez's works start with a geological source and the human urge to locate/define oneself by charting our environment in precise detail. Using the language of cartography, he makes drawings that go beyond map-making into abstracted, imaginary terrain. Rodriguez recievced his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY in 1997 and his MFA from Stanford University in 2008. Selected Solo Exhibitions include: Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Finesilver Gallery, Houston, TX; and Clementine Gallery, New York, NY.

Jaime Sanchez
Courtesy of the Artist
Concentrating
Mixed media on bristol board 11 x 14 inch 2008 Retail: $400

Jaime Sanchez
Courtesy of the Artist
Sacrifice
Mixed media on bristol board 11 x 14 inch 2008 Retail: $400

Jaime Sanchez was born in Watsonville California on September 5th of 1980. At the age of five, Jaime's affinity towards visual art was identified by teachers and family as a result of him winning an Easter egg drawing contest. Since early 2007, Jaime has been authoring Norace: The Art Movement. The focus of Norace is in the area of people activity known as Entertainment, of which visual art falls into. The purpose of Norace is to help end Racism and replace it with Justice. Jaime's work may be seen at www.startwithi.com.

Chris Sicat
Courtesy of the Artist
Untitled
Graphite on wood 13 x 6.5 x 6 inch 2008

Christopher Sícat was a long time Los Angeles artist before relocating to San Jose. His recent sculptures investigate the natural and urban environment as a platform and springboard. Sicat has exhibited his works at Black Dragon Society in Los Angeles, the Office in Huntington Beach, California, Intramuros Museum in Manila, Philippines, and Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. He received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art, New York, NY. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu6-xUUJgXo

Jim Tantum
Courtesy of the Artist
5% Coupon
Pigmented inkjet print
4 x 8.5 inch 2008
Retail: $30