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Beethoven Auction – DAVID J. EICHENBERG

Beethoven no.1, 2011
15″ x 18″ (framed)
oil on panel
$5200

ARTIST STATEMENT

It is very important to me to always be moving ahead and breaking new ground, not only within my art but also in my perception and understanding of art as a whole. Whether it is the materials I use, formal issues, or conceptual issues, I find myself exploring different directions within my work and themes such as politics, social norms, sexuality, and religion.  I explore these issues using traditional oil painting techniques. Through the use of  symbolism and referencing historically significant works I further refine my message to the viewer. It is through these references  that I develop a dialog with the viewer that transcends human history and potential cultural differences to make connections between my subjects and the viewer.

My latest works have been focusing on incorporating these concepts into the art of the formal portrait. In working in this genre I am helping to revive an art form that has seen a significant decline in patronage over the last 100 years. Due to the small size of most of my works the casual viewer might miss out on the true message that my works consist of. For the viewer who will take the time to look at the works, he or she will gain a better understanding of the content of the work and might even be rewarded with a little tongue-in-cheek humor that I hide within many of the compositions.

BIO

Born in 1970 in Toledo, Ohio, Eichenberg studied art and art history at the University of Toledo where he worked with renowned artists including Albert Paley, Tehrman Statom and Jim Dine, and upon graduation was awarded the distinction of Outstanding Senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.  Eichenberg’s career moved from a focus on sculpture to painting and even included a two year position from 2005-2007 with the Toledo Museum of Art to spearhead the transition of their historic glass-working program into the Award winning Glass Pavilion.  During this time, he also organized the visiting artist program which presented opportunities for him to work with glass artists such as Lino Taiglipietra, Fritz Dreisbach and Richard Ritter.  In 2007, he returned to painting full time and was immediately invited to participate in several curated exhibitions around the country.  Eichenberg’s highest honor to date is his inclusion in the prestigious Outwin-Boochever Portrait Competition 2009 at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C which chose 49 artists out of 3,300 applicants.

Beethoven Auction – GAIL STOICHEFF

The Gentleman (Luddie the Elder), 2011
56″ × 50″
oil and acrylic on canvas
$9000

ARTIST STATEMENT

The Grosse Fuge grabbed me immediately, contemplative and complex— the qualities of the greatest music, the best art and the most intriguing characters. The piece brought to mind thoughts of liberation versus restraint or, more specifically, liberation within restraint and the reverse. It was with these impressions and much listening that the portraits evolved over several months. It was a pleasure to spend this time with such an intense piece of music and to be rewarded, now, with a visual record of the conversation.

BIO

Gail Stoicheff (born Lewistown, Pennsylvania, 1976) holds an MFA in painting from Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY (2005), and a BFA in painting from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (2000).  She has exhibited in the New York City area since 2002, recent shows include: Insider Brooklyn, NY (2010); Just Art NYC (2010); Brooklyn Painters, Rebecca Randall Bryan Gallery, Coastal Carolina University (2009); Gimme a Little Sign, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles (2008); Beyond Pastoral, Gallery w52, NYC (2006); Works on Paper, Gallery MC, NYC (2005); Despite the Sun, Foxy Productions, NYC (2004); Six, Supreme Trading Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2004) and The Warm Weather is Holding, UBS Exhibition Center, Red Hook, NY (2004).  She was the 2004 recipient of the prestigious Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and The Elaine DeKooning Painting Award, and was recently the featured cover artist for the New England Review.

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Beethoven Auction – BRIAN LEO

Beethoven, 2011
24” x 16”
acrylic on canvas
$1500

ARTIST STATEMENT

I worked from a portrait of young Beethoven found on-line.  This image was perfect as I wanted to portray Beethoven as a young punk/rock/pop star-Jimi Hendrix-like-genius, and therefore decided to use vivid, psychedelic colors to enhance that idea.  To further this subversive element, I included iconic images from Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in which main character Alex, is a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose only pleasures are Beethoven and violence.

BIO

Born in 1976, Brian Leo lives and works in New York City. His paintings address global culture, contemporary politics and American identity.  His work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions at galleries throughout New York and around the world.  Leo’s work has received critical attention in The New York Times, The Miami New Times, The Korea Times, The Korea Daily, The Brooklyn Rail and other publications and most recently was up for auction in New York City at Phillips & Pury.

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Beethoven Auction – MAYA KALABIC

bTones, 2011
12” x 12”
acrylic on album cover
$200

ARTIST STATEMENT

My artwork is painted with acrylics on a record album found and bought at the Joshua Tree Swap Meet. The idea came as a functional and repurposed art project with emphasis on bringing past to present just as Beethoven’s music transcends time. The characters depict young Beethoven and his audience.

BIO

Born in 1978 in former Yugoslavia, Maya graduated from The Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago with Fine Arts BA with a major in multimedia.  Maya’s work embodies a vast array of colorful characters, scenery and symbolism depicting the beauty of her childhood memories of joy, diversity and unity in an undivided Yugoslavia. The influences of Bosnia’s civil war, and immigration to the United States are conveyed in her art with a sense of optimism and strength.  Maya’s art fan base spans across the continents and she has exhibited her work in several galleries in Chicago as well as Southern California.

Sophia Petrides – Poetics of Intimacy 1 (mounted)

Sophia Petrides (2006)
Poetics of Intimacy 1
Ink Jet Print (framed)

42 x 89 inches (Edition of 3)

25 x 53 inches (Artist’s proof)

Sophia Petrides is a Greek artist, focused on installation art, who lives and works in NYC and Berlin. Petrides studied in Greece before obtaining her BFA in sculpture from Parsons School of Design in NYC in 1992. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in the US and abroad, most recently in “Poetics of Intimacy” at the Larissa Goldston Gallery in NYC in 2006 and “Meeting Point” at the Spektre Gallery in NYC earlier this year. Her work belongs to collections in the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

“Petrides’ large, technically sophisticated, layered photographs are at once spare and intense, abstract and representational, real and surreal.” –oneartworld.com, 2006

Artist Statement:

My entity in the world is set by the space I inhabit. I am individualized by it, by its emotional proximity, easiness, comfort, security and fear, as well as its uncanny condition. My space, imaginary or real, is my body and soul.  I am a part of the pleasing and comforting architectural elements of it and the unpleasant and intricate particulars of it.

Is the experience of taking trips everyday back to my room emotional or rational? Do I take trips back to the architectural space of the room or to the imaginary architectural space that I emotionally construct?

My room bears a likeness of me: embellished and bare, it has appearance and it is disguised too, it produces anxiety and bliss. It’s lonely and crowded.  In my room everything is familiar but when I start focusing on fragments of its architectural entity and adornment then the familiarity collapses. Disorder is the order now, I see the noticeable absent and I grasp the indefinable. Subtlety lays on the mysterious and eerie and it is under camouflage in architectural details.  Are the walls, doors, closets, light bulbs, plugs, cables, ventilation, bed, and a shadow on the brick wall, mirrors of themselves or mirrors of me? Do they connect the space I inhabit and seal the world out of it?

The outer and inner space are two conditions that I move between, a slow movement around the elliptic of the two points: the internal architectural structure of my room and me and the external world. I am always in a stage of departing and arriving.

I sink into the world from inside my room. I transgress my soul and mind from inside the world and the possibilities are infinite. The rational or irrational polarity of the world is a norm that cannot be sealed from inside, and the polarity of my room, conscious or subconscious, cannot be sealed from outside. I feel strangely at ease with the fragility of the schism although I know that I will never fully comprehend it.

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