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WVN Auction Item – Gail Stoicheff

Gail Stoicheff (2009)
The Joker
Acrylic and oil on canvas
36 x 30 inches
$1800

Gail Stoicheff holds an MFA in painting from Bard College (2005), and a BFA from The Pennsylvania State University (2000).  Recent shows include: “Brooklyn Painters,” Bryan Gallery, NC (2009); “Gimme a Little Sign,” Sister Gallery, Los Angeles (2008); “Beyond Pastoral,” Gallery w52, NYC (2006) and “Despite the Sun,” Foxy Productions, NYC (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 cover artist for the New England Review.

“Gail Stoicheff uses masking and stencils to create a sea of lines, which result in a fractured explosion of color.” -Amra Brooks, LA Weekly, June 21, 2007

Artist Statement

The work shown here—The Joker and The Three Georges are part of a larger body of work bound together loosely by themes of speech—more specifically, who is encouraged to be vocal and who/what is encouraged to be silent.

Lizzy Sullivan – Elderly Woman (framed)

Lizzy Sullivan (2010)
Elderly Woman
Gelatin Silver Print
10×8 inches  (framed 14×12)
$400

Sullivan is a Chilean-American photographer based in Brooklyn.  She is a former staff photographer for the New York Post and a contributor to BlackBook Magazine and TimeOut NY. Sullivan specializes in portrait and fashion photography and is a seasoned NYC Fashion Week photographer.  She graduated from SUNY Purchase with a major in photography and received a BFA in 2002.  Her work has been featured in several group shows and has recently been included in an exhibition at the Masterworks Museum of Art in Bermuda, as well as “Best of Women in Photojournalism 2009.”  Sullivan remains dedicated to fine art photography and is currently working on a series called “Brooklyn’s Backstage.”

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Carly Ivan Garcia – We Demand A Voice

Carly Ivan Garcia (2010)
We Demand a Voice
Oil on canvas
30×40 inches
$2,000

Carly Ivan Garcia has developed and evolved the unique neo-abstract art style.  Garcia’s language of imagery is translated through strong form and bold palettes.  In the past few years, his work has been shown in numerous gallery solo shows around California and countless group shows all over the West coast.  In December 2009, Garcia’s work was exhibited in Miami, Florida during Art Basel.  He was featured in a group show for international emerging artists and also collaborated with Graffiti Gone Global to create a large-scale installation that received extensive media coverage.  Ten of his paintings are the focus pieces in the new feature film Touching Home, starring Ed Harris.

“[Garcia's] work is alive, there is a free-style to his painting that inspires good vibrations and happiness.  He constructs landscapes of modernity with a gallant use of thick paint.” – TincaArt.com, February 1, 2010

Artist Statement:

I like to challenge the boundaries of art and my own boundaries of comfort.  Freedom of expression was encouraged in my house and this allowed me to have enough confidence to take risks.  Even today my best work results from me pushing myself further and constantly developing and evolving my neo-abstract style.  My work is personal and I wish for the viewer to develop their own individual experience with each of my pieces.

On Censorship: Censorship is never the answer.  I create art because I want to encourage discussion and dialogue.  Everyone has a different interpretation of my work.  Some can find it incredibly personal and connect it to events going on in their lives.  Provocative art should especially foster debate.  The very nature of art is intertwined and inseparable from freedom of expression.

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Jane LaFarge Hamill – Bath (framed)

Jane LaFarge Hamill (2009)
Bath (Framed)
Oil on Canvas
24×30 inches
$5,500

Jane LaFarge Hamill is an accomplished NYC artist who obtained her BFA from Franklin College in Switzerland in 2003 and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2005.  She has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group shows in the US and abroad.  Solo exhibitions include 2009′s “Figures in Absentia-ville” at Stricoff Fine Art in NYC and the upcoming “Racing Jerseys and Object People” at the Triphe Gallery in Cortona, Italy.  Hamill is currently represented by Cacciola Gallery in Chelsea NYC.

Artist Statement:

In this painting I was playing with the idea of how much you can take away from a person, without compromising their identity. The most direct way of representing a person visually is perhaps by showing their face, eyes trained out, ready for conversation- ready and able to give their voice. In this painting however, the woman’s face is veiled by her hair- hand barely suggested, body submerged. But she’s there, in her colors- as a partial existence, engendering a curiosity of the identity that has been obscured, taken away, censored. – Jane LaFarge Hamill

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Greg Gossel – Middle America (Brown)

Greg Gossel (2010)
Middle America (Brown)
Mixed media
36×42 inches
$2,500

Greg Gossel was born in 1982 in western Wisconsin.  With a background in design, his work is an expressive interplay of many diverse words, images, and gestures.  Gossel’s multi-layered work illustrates a visual history of change and process throughout each piece.  His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad, including San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Milan, and London.  Upcoming solo shows include the White Walls Gallery in San Francisco and First Amendment in Minneapolis, as well as the MOHS Exhibit in Copenhagen in 2011. In the past few years, Gossel’s work has been included in group shows along side the likes of heavy-hitters Shepard Fairey, Ron English and HUSH. 

“Gossel’s art may not be of his time, but it is certainly striking a chord with art lovers across the age spectrum.  Even in the middle of the Great Recession, Gossel’s work is being snatched up by collectors all over the world, including romance novelist Danielle Steele.” –Elizabeth Larsen, Artful Living Magazine, Summer 2009

Artist Statement:

Greg Gossel’s work draws upon the rich legacy of Pop art and the multi-layered, appropriation of Rauschenberg. His art offers a commentary on American culture and through collage and silk-screen imagery combines unexpected elements. This work offers the ironic juxtaposition of a liberated, biker from the pages of Easyriders magazine with a comic book thought bubble invoking a damsel in distress at her pillow waiting near a phone. The missing pieces not present within the four corners of the canvas are relevant to the reading the work. Two corporate logos loom large in the composition– ROLEX beneath the biker’s neck and Wrangler at the upper right-hand edge of the work. The contrast between the masculine, macho imagery of Wrangler and the invocations of the waiting damsel was a subject of interest for the artist. The contrast between the absent damsel and the central figure of the biker provides the punch. The artist affirms the right to expressive freedom through a complex series of appropriations inclusive of a foundational collage drawing upon junk mail and coupons; the invocation of corporate Trademarks with the partially obscured names of brands maintaining their typographic distinctiveness; the silk-screen printing of a large portrait from a magazine from rider subculture; and the reproduction of the thought bubble from a comic. Gossel does not have a prescribed interpretation for his audience to embrace. Rather, he invites viewers who confront his work to contemplate the range of meanings related to a highly commercialized society in which each of us is bombarded with a vast number of corporate messages, brand identities, and invitations to consume.

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Andréa Stanislav – Instant Promises of Immortality

Andréa Stanislav (2010)
Instant Promises of Immortality
24 x 24 inches
Glitter, Resin, Vinyl on Wood Board
$1,500

Andréa Stanislav was born in Chicago in 1968. She has exhibited her multimedia installations and sculptures internationally since 1990. Stanislav received an MFA from Alfred University in 1997, a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990, and is a PhD candidate in Media and Communication at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland. She has had many solo shows and has been reviewed in dozens of art publications and newspapers. Upcoming solo exhibitions include Art Ecology, Louisville, KY; Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis; Jonathan Shorr Gallery, NYC; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND; and Yuanfen New Media Art Space, Beijing, China.

“[Stanislav's] River to Infinity — The Vanishing Points,” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts…is spectacular, ranking among the most elegant and mesmerizing exhibits the museum has offered in many years.” –Mary Abbe, Star Tribune, March 6, 2008

Artist Statement:

Theodor Adorno once said that ‘without the notion of an unfettered life, freed from death, the idea of utopia, of the utopia, cannot even be thought at all.’ If this is correct it lends a terrible irony to the fact that Man’s attempts to create ideal conditions for himself are so often mapped out through trails of carnage and destruction. Stanislav’s art work displays an awareness of this tension and offers a series of elegant yet challenging reflections on the limits and failures of the utopic imagination.

Reflection is a key word in Stanislav’s lexicon, as it serves to indicate both the means and the ends of her artistic endeavor.  The viewer is not simply invited but compelled, by use of reflective surfaces, to interrogate their own position vis-a-vis the artwork, and, by extension, vis-a-vis history and culture. By considering the breakdown of the utopian imaginary, Stanislav’s work locates and interrogates the limits of human rationality.

And yet death hovers. The real men are gone. Desire is future oriented but what we want is always irretrievable. And all the while we remain locked with ourselves. With this in mind, the work of Andrea Stanislav revels, almost in a mood of resistance, in that most traditional of artistic dimensions: beauty. Limited as we are, fragile as bodies may be, her careful practice adorns the mundane with decoration, positioned in works from the human scale to the monumental, letting them spin and glitter, millions of pristine points, fragments of faces and hopeful eyes.

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Andréa Stanislav – Live Forever

Andréa Stanislav (2008)
Live Forever
24 x 24 inches
Glitter, Resin, Vinyl on Wood Board
$1,500

Andréa Stanislav was born in Chicago in 1968. She has exhibited her multimedia installations and sculptures internationally since 1990. Stanislav received an MFA from Alfred University in 1997, a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990, and is a PhD candidate in Media and Communication at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland. She has had many solo shows and has been reviewed in dozens of art publications and newspapers. Upcoming solo exhibitions include Art Ecology, Louisville, KY; Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis; Jonathan Shorr Gallery, NYC; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND; and Yuanfen New Media Art Space, Beijing, China.

“[Stanislav's] River to Infinity — The Vanishing Points,” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts…is spectacular, ranking among the most elegant and mesmerizing exhibits the museum has offered in many years.” –Mary Abbe, Star Tribune, March 6, 2008

Artist Statement:

Theodor Adorno once said that ‘without the notion of an unfettered life, freed from death, the idea of utopia, of the utopia, cannot even be thought at all.’ If this is correct it lends a terrible irony to the fact that Man’s attempts to create ideal conditions for himself are so often mapped out through trails of carnage and destruction. Stanislav’s art work displays an awareness of this tension and offers a series of elegant yet challenging reflections on the limits and failures of the utopic imagination.

Reflection is a key word in Stanislav’s lexicon, as it serves to indicate both the means and the ends of her artistic endeavor.  The viewer is not simply invited but compelled, by use of reflective surfaces, to interrogate their own position vis-a-vis the artwork, and, by extension, vis-a-vis history and culture. By considering the breakdown of the utopian imaginary, Stanislav’s work locates and interrogates the limits of human rationality.

And yet death hovers. The real men are gone. Desire is future oriented but what we want is always irretrievable. And all the while we remain locked with ourselves. With this in mind, the work of Andrea Stanislav revels, almost in a mood of resistance, in that most traditional of artistic dimensions: beauty. Limited as we are, fragile as bodies may be, her careful practice adorns the mundane with decoration, positioned in works from the human scale to the monumental, letting them spin and glitter, millions of pristine points, fragments of faces and hopeful eyes.

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Justine Reyes – Untitled 1 (mounted)

Justine Reyes
Untitled 1 (Edition of 5)
C-Print (mounted)
30 x 40 inches
$2,000

Justine Reyes lives and works in New York.  In 2004 she received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her BFA from Syracuse University in 2000.  Reyes’ photography and installation work revolves around issues of identity, history and time; and our relationship to these themes in a post 9/11 world.  Reyes has shown in countless group shows both nationally and internationally.  She participated in Proyecto Circo at the 8th Havana Biennial in Cuba and recently took part in Contemporary Istanbul in Turkey.  Reyes’s work has been shown in the Queens Museum of Art and the Jersey City Museum.  In 2008 Reyes was an artist in residence at both St. Mary’s College of Maryland and at The Center for Photography at Woodstock.  Reyes was recently awarded the Individual Artist Initiative from the Queens Council of Arts and a workspace residency from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Artist Statement:

The large-scale color photographs from Mask Series are all images of myself wearing masks, which I create out of pantyhose.  The masks are hand-sewn and incorporate various materials, such as wire, lace, beads, hair, plastic mesh, plastic bags, and thread.  By photographing myself wearing them, I am making public a private performance.  The masks themselves are made out of material that is normally hidden under the clothes, close to the body and private.  Here they are exposed.

I work with pantyhose because they are a highly fetishized material but also make reference to the pantyhose masks of criminals.  This suggestion of illicit behavior is juxtaposed with the overt sexual connotation of placing undergarments over the head.  The act of placing the crotch of the pantyhose over the mouth and face is both an erotic and obscene gesture.

The mystery that the mask creates highly sexualizes it.  There is a tension created by veiling.  Some people are afraid of not knowing what lies beneath, while others are enticed by the boundary (not only the physical but the psychological boundary) that the veil creates.  Mask Series explores both the empowerment and the vulnerability of masking one’s identity, through the use of the seduction and fear that the veil creates.

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