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YoungArts Alumni Auction

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Hunt Slonem's Studio Loft

509-525 West 34th Street, 3rd Fl.

New York, NY 10001

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Now On Sale

Presenting the works of YoungArts Alumni and featuring artists including:

James Rosenquist | Kiki Smith | Paul Jenkins | Mira Lehr | Hunt Slonem

Jennifer Chin | Tacita Dean | John Wesley | Anish Kapoor

with Géza von Habsburg, Auctioneer

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$100 per ticket. 100% is tax deductible to fullest extent of the law.

All proceeds benefit the programs and students of YoungArts New York.

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Auction

YoungArts Alumni Auction

Join us for the inaugural YoungArts Alumni Auction, celebrating 30 years of mentorship and programming through the visual,

literary and performing arts.

What is happening?

The live auction will be held at the studio loft of renowned artist/collector Hunt Slonem. Guests will have an opportunity to view the auction lots then bid in a traditional auction format. The auction will be led by Géza von Habsburg,

Who will be there?

In addition to many of the participating artists, a variety of art lovers, collectors, and YoungArts supporters will be present.

How long is the event?

There will be a Cocktail hour from 6:30 to 7:30pm and the Auction will begin at 7:30pm. The event is expected to close by 8:30pm.

Proceeds benefit the programs and participants of YoungArts

New York, which provides resources and enrichment for talented high

school students who aspire to a career of excellence in the arts.

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Credit: Max Morales (Not included in auction)

Artwork

Featured Works

Stars and Stripes St III
Floh: Ink Rink
My Secret Business
Munich Summer: 1919
Pehnomena Broken Prism
Phenomena Watch Tower
"Still Moving"
Shadow Magenta
"Jerusalem"
Sea Food
Bunny
Sunrise VI

Stars and Stripes St III
Floh: Ink Rink
My Secret Business
Munich Summer: 1919
Pehnomena Broken Prism
Phenomena Watch Tower
"Still Moving"
Shadow Magenta
"Jerusalem"
Sea Food
Bunny
Sunrise VI

Artists

Participating Alumni Artists

Glen Baldridge
Alta Berri
Charles Black
Andrew Blackwell
Maren Coniglione
Marianna Ellenberg
Michael Ferris, Jr.
Gregory Foley
Nicole Mourino
Margaret Noel
Rachel Pincus
Susan Reiss
Jean Shin
Yana Toyber
Natalia Yovane

Glen Baldridge

1995 Winner in Visual Arts

In his work Baldridge utilizes a diverse set of visual and material cues drawn from sources as diverse as found coffin catalogs, losing lottery tickets, trompe l'oeil bullet holes, and knife infomercials to convey a gravely amibalent approach toward consumerism and mortality. Through his use of various media, Baldridge offers us several scenarios through which to view a future somehow at rest right on the edge of physical violence or destruction, or alternating between success and failure, all the while maintaining a humor that belies the severity and darkness of his themes.

Website: www.glenbaldridge.com

Alta Berri

1997 Winner in Visual Arts

Alta Berri is an interdisciplinary artist focusing on painting, illustration and motion design. Alta was born and raised in New York City where she currently lives and works. She is an early career artist who has traveled to Europe, throughout the Caribbean, Latin America and to numerous cities across the United States. Alta is a member of the Alliance of Dominican American Visual Artists and has worked with organizations such as the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts, the Caribbean Cultural Center, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance and the Hispanic Society of America. Presently, Alta is working on new works that will be exhibited at this year's Art Basel Miami. Alta's work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in the Dominican Republic and the United States.

Website: altaberri.prosite.com/

Charles Black

1994 Winner in Visual Arts

Charles F. Black has exhibited in numerous areas across the United States including New York City and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He graduated from the School of Art Institute of Chicago (1996) and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (1994).

Andrew Blackwell

1990 Winner in Photography

Andrew Blackwell is a Canadian-American writer and filmmaker living in New York City. His work has been seen and heard on PBS, BBC, NPR, at the New York Times online, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at prominent film festivals. In 2010, he received an Emmy award for his work as a producer and editor at the weekly news magazine Dan Rather Reports. His first book, Visit Sunny Chernobyl (and Other Adventures in the World's Most

Polluted Places) , will be published by Rodale in 2012. Blackwell is a graduate of Haverford College.

Website: www.blackwellautomatic.com

Maren Coniglione

2000 Winner in Photography

Maren Coniglione graduated from Bennington College in 2004 with a degree in Photography and Anthropology. She has a M.A. from Boston University in International Relations and African Studies. She is currently the Assistant Director at the Brookline Arts Center in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Website: www.pixiaphotography.com

Marianna Ellenberg

1995 Winner in Photography

Marianna Ellenberg is an artist working with the still and moving image, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Ellenberg’s film/video and photographic work centers around a re-imaging of female subjectivity and desire within visual abstraction and language play. Her latest work, “Rehearsals” is a series of video loops—deconstructed narratives which include girls re-performing snippets from horror and camp films within minimal backdrops. In her single channel videos and sound loops, psychological terminology and the body split apart into momentary glimpses of abstract melancholia and imaginary pleasure. Ellenberg’s color photography and film work spans from visceral, investigations of female sexuality, (Suu A Fuu, 16mm) to haunting parodies of pharmaceutical advertisements. In her video “The Psychotropic Alphabet” (2004) and audio piece “Wettings” (2006) medical terminology and health questionnaires are twisted into a space between diagnosis, psychosis and the unconscious. Her practice has often included collaborations with electro-acoustic composers (James Fei, Dymaxion) in order to create live video performances drawing from the strategies of visual hypnotherapy and psychoacoustic techniques. Ellenberg’s practice, whether its video performance or digital animation, peruses the gap between utterance and meaning, abstraction and the word, the visible and erased.Marianna Ellenberg’s films and videos have been shown widely, in such venues as The N.Y. Underground Film Festival (2007), The Collectif Jeune Cinéma (2003), LA Freewaves (2006), The Chicago Underground Film Festival and The Dallas Video Festival (2007). Her installation work in sound and video has been presented at The Brooklyn Lyceum, PDX Film Festival (Portland, OR) and Issue Project Room (NYC). Recent exhibitions include a solo show “Blossom” at Momenta Art (Brooklyn, NY) and “Light” curated by Keith Sonnier at Pratt Institute in Fall 2008. Screenings include EMAF, Osnabrueck, Germany, 2009 and Double-Bill, Art in General. Her work has appeared in Art Fag City, Time Out New York and Drunken Boat online journal.

Website: w ww.mariannaellenberg.com

Michael Ferris, Jr.

1984 Winner in Visual Arts - U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts

Michael Ferris Jr. currently lives and works in Bronx, New York. He received his B.F.A from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1991 and his M.F.A from Indiana University-Bloomigton in 1996. In the last four years Ferris has had one person shows at ATM Gallery in New York City, Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago, IL and most recently George Adams Gallery in New York City. Ferris has shown his work at numerous venues including the de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA; The Roswell Museum, NM: The Queens Museum, Flushing, NY; Stux Gallery, New York City; Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL and The Islip Museum of Art, Islip, NY. Ferris has received many grants and awards including New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Fellowship in Sculpture; Bronx Council for the Arts (BRIO) Grant in Sculpture, Bronx, NY; Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, New York City; George Sugarman Foundation Grant, Navato, CA; Presidential Scholar, Washington D.C.; CAAP Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL; Illinois Arts Council Fellowship; Roswell Artist-in-Residence, Roswell, NM; and an Emerging Artist Grant through the ACC, New York City.

Website: www.michaelferrisjr.com

Gregory Foley

Greg Foley

1987 Winner in Visual Arts

Greg E. Foley is Creative Director/Design Director of Visionaire, V Magazine, and VMan. Foleys past clients include among others Adidas, Calvin Klein, EMI / Parlophone, Dior Homme, Fendi, Givenchy, Grand Hotels, Karl Lagerfeld, KidRobot, Mario Testino and Playboy. Foley is originally from Austin, Texas. He has also authored and illustrated several childrens books including Thank You Bear , Good Luck Bear , and Purple Little Bird.

Nicole Mourino

Nicole Mouriño

2006 Winner in Visual Arts

Mouriño's paintings offer a glittering window into the subtly grotesque moments of American adolescence. In attempts to reconstruct her own memories, Nicole utilizes a playground of embedded imagery that have become symbiotic with childhood. Humorous textures and symbols are often embedded to transform reality into a world of visual naiveté. She continues to focus on several artistic contradictions: Subconscious vs. Conscious, Figuration vs. Abstraction, Graphic vs. Painterly, Aesthetic vs. Conceptual, while maintaining a unique cultural language. Nicole Mouriño is a contemporary Cuban-American artist based in Brooklyn, NY.

Website: www.nicolemourino.com

Margaret Noel

1989 Winner in Visual Arts

Margaret Noel studied Studio Art and Anthropology at Oberlin College (1993), and received her MFA in painting from the New York Studio School (2005). She currently divides her time between her studio in Brooklyn and her job as an Assistant Professor of Fine Art at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. Her work is included in the Drawing Center's curated Viewing Program and recent shows include "Grey Matter" at the Painting Center in New York, "Open City" juried by Sean Scully at the NYSS Gallery in New York, and the "22nd National Drawing and Print Exhibition" at the Gormley Gallery in Baltimore. Upcoming shows include "Mix and Match," a collage exhibition travelling between Atelier 030202 in Bucharest and the Hampden Gallery of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a juried solo show at the First Street Gallery in New York.

Website: www.margaretnoel.com

Rachel Pincus

2009 Winner in Photography

Rachel Pincus is a junior at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. An English and Science Studies major ( with a Psychology/Anthropology concentration, her interests and areas of experience include journalism, the social sciences, and the visual arts, including photography, for which she won a NFAA YoungArts Silver Award in 2009. She is a New York City native and attributes her inspiration to the fervent energy of the mean streets.

Website: www.flickr.com/photos/rukii

Susan Reiss

Susie Reiss

1991 Winner in Visual Arts

Susie Reiss was born in New York City and raised in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. She studied painting at Harvard (A.B. 1995) and Yale (M.F.A. 2000.) Her work is represented in both the White Columns Artists Registry (New York, NY) and the flatfile at Artspace (New Haven, CT). Trained as a painter, her work is primarily constructed with collaged fabric, both paintings and sculptures. She lives and works in Harlem.

Website: www.susiereiss.com

Jean Shin

1990 Winner in Visual Arts - U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts

Jean Shin is nationally recognized for her monumental installations that transform everyday objects into elegant expressions of identity and community. For each project, she amasses vast collections of a particular object - prescription pill bottles, sports trophies, sweaters, which are often sourced through donations from individuals in a participating community. These intimate objects then become the materials for her conceptually rich sculptures, videos and site-specific installations. Distinguished by her meticulous, labor-intensive process, and her engagement of community, Shin's arresting installations reflect individuals personal lives as well as collective issues that we face as a society. Her work has been widely exhibited in major national and international museums, including in solo exhibitions at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona (2010), Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC (2009), the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia (2006), and Projects at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (2004).Other venues have been the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Art and Design, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Asia Society and Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, Sculpture Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York City. Site-specific permanent installations have been commissioned by the US General Services Administration Art in Architecture Award, New York Citys Percent for the Arts and MTA Art for Transit. She has received numerous awards, including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Architecture/Environmental Structures (2008) and Sculpture (2003), Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Art Award. Her works have been featured in many publications, including Frieze Art, Flash Art, Tema Celeste, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, Artnews, and The New York Times. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in the United States, Shin attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999 and received a BFA and MS from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She lives and works in New York City.

Website: www.jeanshin.com

Yana Toyber

1996 Winner in Photography

Yana Toyber was born in the Ukraine and moved to New York City at the age of two. Her career as an artist started as a dancer with the NYC ballet. At the age of 11 she performed while attending the School of American Ballet on scholarship. Entering her teen years, Yana found ballet to be too ridged an art form and found a new love of artistic expression in photography. During her high school years she won numerous contests including Scholastics Arts and an NFAA award. She attended the School of Vsual Arts where she earned her BFA and was then ready to take on the art world as well as pop culture. Yana has contributed for various publications such as the Fader, Vanity fair and Nylon magazine to name a few. Her work has also been featured in W, Zoo magazine and Modern Painters.

Website: www.yanatoyber.com

Natalia Yovane

2002 Winner in Photography

Natalia Yovane was born in Santiago, Chile in the fall of 1983. She currently resides in New York City, has a studio space at the New York Art Residency & Studios Foundation and works for Marilyn Minter. She was National Foundation Advancement for the Arts photography recipient in 2002. She earned MFA and BFA degrees in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts. Yovane has exhibited extensively through out New York City and Miami including the Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Ivy Brown Gallery, Daniel Cooney Fine Art Gallery, The Parlour, Visual Arts Gallery, East Village Gallery and the Miami Art Museum as well as internationally in Sweden and Italy. Her work has been published in The New York Times and The Miami Herald. In 2010, Natalia was nominated for a visual arts grant from The Rema Hort Mann Foundation and won the KEDS/ Whitney Museum “Works on Canvas” competition.

Website: www.nataliayovane.com

YoungArts

About YoungArts

YoungArts is the core program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA). The organization's mission is to identify emerging artists, provide educational enrichment and assistance in their pursuit of the arts, and to raise the appreciation for and support of the arts in American society.Dedicated to inspiring and nurturing young artists, NFAA was founded in 1981 by businessman and visionary, the late Ted Arison, and his wife Lin. The YoungArts program identifies the next generation of emerging artists and contributes to the cultural vitality of the nation by investing in the artistic development of thousands of gifted artists in nine disciplines in the visual, literary and performing arts. At the request of The Commission on Presidential Scholars, which is appointed by the President of the United States, NFAA serves as the exclusive nominating agency for the U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, the highest honor given to a high school senior.The YoungArts program has honored over 16,000 young artists with more than $6 million in monetary awards and nearly $84 million in college scholarship opportunities. Alumni go on to become leading professionals in their fields. Alumni include actresses Viola Davis, Kerry Washington and Vanessa Williams, four-time Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza, star of HBO's Entourage Adrian Grenier, recording artists Josh Groban, Chris Young and Nicki Minaj, Executive Director of the American Ballet Theatre Rachel Moore, and internationally-acclaimed multimedia artist Doug Aitken.Some of YoungArts' work is featured in its Emmy-nominated HBO series entitled MASTERCLASS, which is based on renowned masters working with YoungArts alumni to teach them guiding principles. The first HBO season of MASTERCLASS featured renowned artists including Plácido Domingo, Frank Gehry, Michael Tilson Thomas, Liv Ullmann, Bill T. Jones, Julian Schnabel and Edward Albee. Season two filming is currently underway and includes (to date) James Rosenquist, John Guare, Bobby McFerrin and Patti LuPone. YoungArts also is in the final stages of its project working with Columbia Teachers College to develop a Study Guide based on YoungArts MASTERCLASS series to help increase arts education and awareness for use in schools across the country.In 2011, the YoungArts program celebrates its 30th anniversary year of discovering excellence in the arts. For more information, and to support YoungArts, please visit www.youngarts.org.
No Frame

Credit: Robert Leslie (Not included in auction)

Special Thanks

YoungArts Board of Trustees

Chairman

James M. Dubin

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP,

New York, NY

Vice Chairman

John R. Henry

Artist/Sculptor, Chattanooga, TN

Ex-officio

Paul T. Lehr

NFAA Executive Director, Miami, FL

Secretary

John J. Kauffman

Northern Trust Bank, New York, NY

Treasurer

Richard S. Wagman

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,

Boston, MA

YoungArts New York Council

W. Marcus Sheridan, Chair

Sarah S. Arison

Agnes Gund

Emmett Watson

Lin Arison, Co-Founder, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) and Author

Sarah S. Arison

Patty Carroll, Art Institute of Chicago

Armando M. Codina, Codina Partners LLC

Linda Coll, Carnival Foundation, Carnival Cruise Lines

Meryl Comer, M4C Communications

Justin DiCioccio, Jazz Department, Manhattan School of Music

James Eroncig, Peninsula Corporation

Karen Goodman, Simon and Goodman Picture Company

Agnes Gund

Dr. Ronald C. McCurdy, Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California

Sandra Muss

Dr. Eduardo J. Padrón, Miami Dade College

Christy Powell

James W. Rasmussen, SunTrust Bank

Desmond Richardson , 1986 YoungArts Winner in Modern Dance and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Marcus Sheridan, J.P. Morgan Private Bank

Kirk Simon, Simon and Goodman Picture Company

Richard Skor, AFO LLC

Kenneth Washington, The Guthrie Theater

Grace Weber, 2006 YoungArts Winner in Voice and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts

Maurice M. Zarmati, Costa Cruises

THANK YOU

YoungArts would like to thank Hunt Slonem, Aon, Ted Vassilev, and Geza von Habsburg for their generous support of our organization and alumni.

Thank You to all of the generous individuals who have helped in making this event possible.

Special thanks to our Media Partner:

CREDITS

Aon

Axa

Crozier Fine Arts

DZCooking

Glow Design

Koszyn & Company, YoungArts New York Advisors

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Credit: Robert Leslie (Not included in auction)

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