This must be the Winter of Art Auctions, because I was asked to participate in 2 in one week. Tonight’s art auction is to benefit Haiti. I really want to go but it’s all the way up in Evanston, that’s a little too far for biking, even though the weather is a balmy 34 degrees Fahrenheit.
Cash bar, great food and silent auction featuring artworks by over 50 artists from all over the world. Entry by donation.
Here to preview work.
Friday, February 19th
Early viewing 4pm
Auction bidding 6-10 pm
518 Davis (Chicago and Davis)
Three blocks east of Davis St. Purple line
Evanston, Illinois
All proceeds of artworks will go to UNICEF. All cash bar proceeds will go to the Andrew Grene Haiti Foundation.
Including works by: Angel Otero, Justin B. Williams, Alex Lukas, Alyssa Doren. Sean Keenan, Thomas Stavnes, Max Roseglass, Maureen Gubia, Ben Bauman, Jordan Nickel, Moira Connelly, Osvaldo Budet, Thomas Roach, Mario Martinez, Jason Lazarus, Garrett Munski, Elisa Harkins, Aislinn Jefferies, Zebadiah Arrington, Joshua Abelow, Nina Hartmann, Candida Alvarez, Nick Jaskey, Michael Gerkovich, Bobby Burg, Jeremy Bolen, Derek Erdman, Cody Hudson, Evan Robarts, Aliza Nisenbaum, Tisch Abelow, Aleksander Hardashnakov, Scott Keightley, Ames Gerould, Coleen Self, Thomas Cowan, Matias Arganaraz, Ryan Ingebritson, Marion Ramos, Orion Martin, Diego Leclery, Judith Geichman, Dana DeGiulio, Nina Rizzo, Matt Ostroff, Doug Huston
Curated by Tessa Perutz
The Foundation is named in memory of Andrew Grene who perished in Port au Prince with so many thousand others in the earthquake of January 12th 2010. His belief in the joy, spirit, and potential of all people was an inspiration to those who knew him. www.andrewgrenefoundation.org
It was very exciting to be a part of the Johalla Projects Art Auction! Also it was listed as one of Chicago’s hottest Winter events. (We need as many as we can get!) http://johallaprojects.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/10-hottest-winter-events-in-chicago-chicagotribune-com/
I’m playing at the Ottoman Empire on Feb. 10 with Juiceboxxx, Pizza Dog and TomTomTomBoy.
I’m playing a show Wednesday with Lizz King and Breezee One. It’s a benefit for Every Drop Counts, an organization sending water to Haiti. It’s with the nice folks at Black Market Caviar (1945 W. Chicago). There is an $8 dollar suggested donation. http://everydropchi.com
Here is a picture of Lacey’s Yeti that she bought for her office. Hooray!
We got to be part of a really cool thing at Design Miami.
Workshop Workshop, a factory and salon created by artist Jim Drain, poet P. Scott Cunningham, and sculptor Graham Hudson, produces zines that respond to Design/Miami itself–its participants, objects, conversations, histories, narratives, suggestions and shapes. Even the detritus of the tent’s construction has been put to use by Hudson, who is in the act of constructing the space using leftover lumber, rubber, plastic, furniture–anything the fair and the city (the larger fair) has cast off. In Workshop Workshop, physical and metaphysical byproducts are recycled and put to use, creating an environment, a process, and a series of work that represents the heightened interplay that occurs in Miami each December, and creates a locus for collaboration.
Drain, Cunningham and Hudson will draw from a rotating–and ever-expanding–crew of local and international artists, designers and writers, in order to produce as many zines as it can during the length of fair, with as diverse a range of content as possible.
zine [zeen]
1. An abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine
2. A handmade journal, with small circulations and hyperlocal aesthetics, that maximizes the two-dimensional intersection of image and text, using both original and appropriated content.
3. Any self-published work of minority interest reproduced via photocopier.
Completed zines cost $5.00 each or can be bartered for intellectual property.
Proceeds will be donated to two local non-profits, Bas Fisher Invitational, an artist-run exhibition space, and the University of Wynwood, a literature advocacy organization.
Black Market Caviar Showcase
Featuring works by D Young V, John Felix Arnold III, Elisa Harkins aka Pooper, Brandon Breaux, Chris Huban and Marco Hafid
Opening Reception
Friday, December 4, 2009 – 7-10PM
Rotofugi Gallery – 1955 W Chicago Ave.
Music by DJ Sean Doe
Coinciding with the Grand Opening of the Black Market Caviar boutique at 1945 W. Chicago Ave. Exhibit continues through January 4, 2010
Juiceboxxx, Pooper and Pizza Dog at Berlin on November 11, Make a Wish!
Free Cover, Complimentary Colt 45|
11pm
Berlin 954 W. Belmont
Sponsored by Tales of the Colt 45
Miami Beach Brenmar Remix
Brenmar (These Are Powers) aka Bill Salas remixed this BFF track “Miami Beach”.
Enjoy!
This was my birthday party.
I forgot to post it to my site because I was moving to our new place.
