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Projectile Remix, Feral Politics (excerpt), John Sparagana, 2022, multiple archival prints, sliced and mixed on paper, mounted on dibond, 19.75 x 23.75 in., courtesy of the artist and Corbett vs. Dempsey John Sparagana is Grace Christian Vietti Chair in the Visual Arts at Rice University. His work has been shown internationally, most recently with exhibitions in Los Angeles, Berlin, Chicago, Houston, New York, and Zurich. He is the author with Mieke Bal of Sleeping Beauty: A One-Artist Dictionary (2008) and with Reto Geiser of Reading Revolutionaries (2014). On the occasion of his solo exhibition Shatter, Corbett vs. Dempsey published the monograph John Sparagana, covering five series completed between 2016–2019.
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Max Guy, Untitled (Hand Mask), 2021, enamel paint on Cintra, 12 x 8.75 in., courtesy of the artist Note: The artist will color match the work to coordinate with the winning bidder's walls.  Max Guy lives in Chicago. Guy works with paper, video, performance, assemblage and installation. He uses fast, ergonomic ways to make poetry of the world, filtering it through personal effects. Guy received his BFA in 2011 from Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA in 2016 from Northwestern University. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Krannert Museum of Art (Urbana-Champaign); MCA Chicago, Prairie Gallery, Produce Model, and Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago); Malmö Museum of Art (Malmo, Sweden); CAVE (Detroit); and Galeria Federico Vavassori (Milan, Italy). Guy's first museum solo exhibition opens at the Renaissance Society in December 2022.
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Haerim Lee, Site Specific Memory (Chicago All of Mankind), 2022, canvas weaving, oil paint, sand, rocks from All of Mankind on 617 W. Evergreen Ave, Chicago, 20 x 20 in., courtesy of the artist Born in 1982 in Seoul, S. Korea, Haerim Lee graduated from the MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in the Painting and Drawing Department as well as MA Program at the Visual and Critical Studies, and was an instructor in Arts and Street Culture at SAIC. Committed to multi-racial, participatory education, she became a staff member at Arts of Life as an Art Specialist. She will be the visiting artist at Illinois State University (ISU) and implement a mural class in fall 2022. 
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Miranda Javid, Evolver 9, 2022, biodegradable pigments and ink, 9 x 12 in. (framed), courtesy of the artist Miranda Javid is an animator, art educator living in the Hudson Valley, New York. She is passionate about making art that connects humans to gentle yet robust living. When not drawing or teaching, she is practicing tai chi, hiking in the Catskill mountains, or supporting radical justice in her community.
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[jef]Frey Michael Austin, 2022, 2022, resin on mirror, 36 x 36 in., courtesy of the artist [jef]Frey Michael Austin is a multidisciplinary artist, musician and maker based in Chicago. Their gallery installations are reflective spaces inviting hope, wonder and humility in conversation around the social and environmental crises of our time. Their practice reaches beyond the gallery and institution to include direct action in the form of ecological conservation and environmental activism. They design and fabricate altarpieces for personal use and for spaces of worship. They compose and produce music for film and for multidisciplinary performance projects Growing Concerns Poetry Collective and Daisy Days.
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Terry Evans, Spring Bur Oak, 2019, archival inkjet print, 16 x 20 in. (framed), courtesy of the artist.  Terry Evans photographs the prairies and plains of North America. Combining both aerial and ground photography, she delves into the intricate and complex relationships between land and people, especially where local people’s landscape is threatened by corporate industrialization. She has recently been photographing a particular Bur Oak tree on the Wooded Island in Jackson Park, protected prairies in the Midwest, and a pasture in Kansas. Her work is in many museum collections and her books include Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans. She is a Guggenheim Fellow.
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Abbey Muza, Les vagues se heurtent et gémissent, 2022, wool, mohair, cotton, dye, organza, gesso on panel, 13 x 18.75 in., courtesy of the artist Abbey Muza uses weaving as a methodology for image-making centered in queer identity, haptics, and sexuality. Muza received their MFA as a University Fellow at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and their BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They have shown their work throughout the United States and internationally, at spaces including Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia, Threewalls, and LVL3. Their residencies include an Ox-Bow Fellowship, ACRE, and Alternative Worksite (supported by the Robert Overby Foundation). They are a 2022 Fulbright-Harriet Hale Wooley awardee.
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Ron Ewert, Shelf Life (Flood), 2021, tinted gesso on linen, 30 x 24 in., courtesy of Good Weather and the artist Ron Ewert (b. 1982 Glendale Heights, Illinois) lives and works in New York. He received his MFA from the Painting and Drawing Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2012. He has had solo exhibitions at Good Weather (North Little Rock), Atlanta Contemporary, S1 (Portland), and mild climate (Nashville), and his work has been presented in group exhibitions at La Kaje (Brooklyn), Johannes Vogt (New York), Roots and Culture (Chicago), The Green Gallery (Milwaukee), Andrew Rafacz (Chicago), American Fantasy Classics (Milwaukee), and at Printed Matter, Inc.’s NY Art Book Fair and LA Art Book Fair, among others. He presented a solo booth with Good Weather at Liste Art Fair in June 2019. Ewert was a founder and co-director of The Hills Esthetic Center (Chicago) from 2010–2015.
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Jordan Martins, Ghillie Cloak 7, 2022, collage, 22.5 x 14.5 in., courtesy of the artist Jordan Martins is a Chicago based visual artist, curator, and educator. He received his MFA in visual arts from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil in 2007, and is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and North Park University. He is the executive director of Comfort Station, a multi-disciplinary art space in Chicago. Martins’s visual work is based in collage processes, including painting, photography, video and installation, and he has exhibited nationally and internationally. His work has been featured in exhibitions at Goldfinch, The Mission, Evanston Art Center, LVL3, The Franklin, The Museu de Arte da Bahia, Zeitgeist, and Experimental Sound Studio.
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Jenny Kendler, The Limits to Growth: 1st and 2nd Editions, 1972 & 1974, 2017, archival inkjet print, 20 x 20 in. (framed), courtesy of the artist Jenny Kendler (b. 1980, New York City) is an interdisciplinary artist, environmental activist, naturalist & wild forager who lives in Chicago and various forests. Since 2014 she has been the first Artist-in-Residence with Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Kendler sits on the Board of artist residency ACRE and the Board Fundraising Committee of international climate change organization 350.org. She is an art coordinator for direct action to defend the natural world in Chicago and a member of art collective Deep Time Chicago. She is also a founding member of Artists Commit, an artist-led initiative to cultivate climate-consciousness in the art world.
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Anonymous Highest Bidder
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Private tour for up to 6 people of Art Institute of Chicago exhibition David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020 led by associate curator Robyn Farrell. Includes a copy of the full-color exhibition catalogue and general admission to the Art Institute of Chicago. Tour will take place on a mutually agreed upon day/time (M, Th-Sun 11am - 6pm) between October and the close of the exhibition: January 9, 2023. Image credit: David Hockney No. 209, 17th April 2020 iPad painting printed on paper Exhibition Proof 1 97.79 × 140 cm (38.5 × 55 Inches) © David Hockney
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Molly Colleen O’Connell, Bite magazine, 2022, acrylic and dye on canvas, glued newsprint interior, 12 x 15 in., courtesy of the artist Molly Colleen O'Connell (American, b. 1986) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, amateur clown and haunter based in Chicago, IL. She received her BFA in printmaking from Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. MCO’s work has been performed, screened and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), AALA Gallery (Los Angeles), Evening Hours (New York), Andrew Rafacz (Chicago), Waiting Room Gallery (Tokyo), Julius Caesar (Chicago), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), Roots + Culture (Chicago), Silvermine Arts Center (Connecticut), MOHS Exhibit (Copenhagen), MoCCA (Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art), LA Chicago + New York Art Book Fair(s), and Evening Hours (New York). She was a recipient of the James Nelson Raymond fellowship in 2017. She has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio center, Acre Residency (Wisconsin), and Colorama Clubhouse (Berlin).
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Linda Bowen Highest Bidder
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Andi Crist, Extension Cord, 2022, ceramic, spray paint, copper paint, and custom steel hanging hardware, 24 x 6 x 3 in., courtesy of the artist Andi Crist was raised in Birmingham, Alabama and earned her BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2011. She is the founder of Autotelic, a nonprofit arts organization that served artists on the northwest side of Chicago by creating affordable, alternative workspaces and exhibitions from 2010 until 2017. Crist’s creative practice is primarily sculptural, complemented by a career as a gallery preparator and fabricator. Her work touches on subjects of appropriation, practicality, and the assessment of value, frequently commenting on the industry of exhibition-making and unseen labor.  
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E. Saffronia Downing, Jug 2022, 2022, stoneware, glass, earthenware, and stones found in Chicago, 14 x 10 x 10 in., courtesy of the artist E. Saffronia Downing works with wild clay to map material residues across time and place. She received her BA in Studio Art from Hampshire College and her MFA in Ceramics from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Downing forages local material to create site-specific installation and sculpture. Downing is the recipient of awards and residencies such as the Lunder Institute of American Art, Oxbow School of Art Fellowship, ACRE Residency, and Salem Art Works Studio Artist Residency. She is currently a teaching fellow at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.
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Nat Decker, Moonflowers on Metal, 2022, digital rendering on dye sublimation aluminum, 24 x 36 in. (framed), courtesy of the artist Nat Decker (they/them) is a Chicago born, Los Angeles based artist. They recently graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in Design/Media Arts and Disability Studies. Weaving these two fields, they work within the realm of Disability Arts as an inherently political practice, driven by the personal and desires for care and collective liberation. Shifting between digital and sculptural mediums, they explore disability aesthetics, technology, the vibrancy of fantasy, mobility devices as a site of crip narrative, and their lived experience as a queer disabled person.
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Danny Floyd Highest Bidder
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Honey Pot Performance, Ma(s)king Her: Black Feminist Futures, 2019, paperback with foil stamped cover, 212 pages, 8 x 6.5 in., courtesy of the artist Honey Pot Performance is a creative Afro-diasporic feminist collaborative committed to documenting and interrogating fringe subjectivities amidst the pressures of contemporary global life. Enlisting modes of creative expressivity, HPP examines the nuances of human relationships, including the ways we negotiate identity, belonging, and difference in our lives and cultural memberships. Dismantling the vestiges of oppressive social relationships is part of the work. Through critical performance, public humanities programming, and deep community engagement, HPP emphasizes everyday ways of valuing the human.
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Jory Drew, Untitled (Shadow Puppet), 2020, glazed ceramic, 12 x 6 x 9 in., courtesy of the artist Jory Drew (he/they) is an artist, educator, and cultural organizer. Drew holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and will pursue an MFA at UCLA in the School of the Arts and Architecture this fall. They have participated in the Black Arts Consortium and Hyde Park Art Center Artist Residency (Chicago, IL), the Open Kitchen Residency (Milwaukee, WI), ACRE (Steuben, WI), and Hot Box Residency (Austin, TX). They are the proud recipient of a DCASE Individual Artists Program Grant (2020), 3Arts Make a Wave Grant (2021), and Chicago Artists Coalition SPARK Grant (2021). Drew has exhibited locally and nationally, including solo exhibitions in Chicago at Goldfinch Gallery, Roots and Culture, Mana Contemporary, and Bar 4000. They also co-curated An Epithet, a multimedia exhibition featuring artists who use playful strategies of resistance to create sacred monuments and excavate structures of domination, in 2021 at Co-Prosperity (Chicago, IL). Additionally, Drew is a member of 3rd-Language, a Chicago-based queer art collective and publisher, and a co-founder of F4F, a domestic venue in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood where they co-organized Beauty Breaks, an intergenerational beauty and wellness workshop series for Black people along the spectrum of femininity.
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Erin Hayden, Past Floating, 2019 typewritten drawing on etched oak frame, 15 x 18 in., courtesy of the artist Erin Hayden is an interdisciplinary artist predominantly working in painting, performance, poetry, video, and installation. Her work has been exhibited in various cities across the US and abroad including at Stony Island Arts Bank, and Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Torino. Solo exhibitions of her paintings and video work has been shown at Mana Contemporary Chicago, and Randy Alexander Gallery. She has been an artist resident at the Ragdale Foundation, the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, Chicago Artists Coalition, and is a Luminarts Fellow. She has been featured in reviews and publications such as, Frieze, Chicago Tribune, Lori Waxman's 60wrd/min art critic, and NewCity Art as a 2018 Breakout Artist. She received her MFA in Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University and is currently living and working in Chicago.
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Anne Elizabeth Moore, Gentifier, 2021, hardcover book from Catapult, 272 pages, 8.25 x 5.5 in., courtesy of the artist Anne Elizabeth Moore was born in Winner, SD. She is the author of Unmarketable (2007), Gentrifier: A Memoir (2021), an NPR best book, the Eisner Award-winning Sweet Little Cunt (2018), and several other notable and award-winning titles. Currently on assignment for The Guardian, she lives in New York with her cat, Captain America, and teaches at the School of Visual Arts.
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Paul Erschen, KARST II, 2022, serigraph, ink, and fabric collage on canvas-over-panel, 21 x 15 in., courtesy of the artist Paul Erschen is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of St. Francis. Over the years, Erschen’s studio practice has shifted between sculpture, printmaking, collecting, and most recently, painting. Since 2003, Erschen has played drums in the Chicago band “Mayor Daley” and has been a staff member at ACRE since 2010. Notable exhibitions include: Warm Front at Hagiwara Projects in Tokyo (2018); Cloven at Devening Projects (2016), Children of the Playhouse (2016), Store Brand at Learning Machine (2015), Cardinal Cross (2014), Newport Room at The Hills Esthetic Center (2012) and West Plaza at Document (2012).  
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Joanna Cohen Highest Bidder
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Noa Ginzburg, Inside (Libra Season), 2020, mixed media painting on clay board, 10 x 8 in., courtesy of the artist Noa Ginzburg is an installation artist and community organizer working and living in Brooklyn, New York and in Tel Aviv, Israel. She received her BSc from Tel Aviv University and BFA from Shenkar College. In 2019 she received an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College. Ginzburg is a laureate of the UNESCO-Aschberg residency program and her work has been supported by Artis, Asylum Arts, and ArtBridge, among others. Ginzburg is part of the mutual aid organization Culture of Solidarity, and the founder of the Shapira Community Fridge initiative in south Tel Aviv. She is an ACRE alumni and staff member.
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Em Kettner, Little Ride, 2022, glazed porcelain tile embedded in black walnut artist's frame, 3.5 x 5 x 1 in., courtesy of the artist Em Kettner (b. 1988, Philadelphia, PA) makes figurative sculptures that present theatrical and sensual scenes of interdependence. Recent solo exhibitions include Slow Poke at François Ghebaly Gallery, Stepping Stones at Specialist, Play the Fool at Goldfinch, and The Eternal Worm at Harpy. Em’s work has been reviewed and published in ArtForum, Art in America, Contemporary Art Review LA (CARLA), HyperAllergic, and Sixty Inches From Center. She is based in Richmond, CA, and represented by Goldfinch in Chicago and François Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles & New York.
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Edible custom cake made by Hyun Jung Jun (Dream Cake Test Kitchen) for any occasion, up to 15 servings. The winning bidder will discuss the flavor with the artist and the cake will be delivered (in Chicago and Evanston area) on an agreed upon date between November 2022 and June 2023. Originally from South Korea and currently based in Chicago, Hyun Jung Jun is an artist whose installations are measures and meditations which take up more time than they do space. Working with commonplace commodities such as candles, bread, wooden structures, sewn and painted wearables, Jun’s work borrows from familiar, domestic language to describe and search the ornate identities of our individuality and culture. Jun received her BFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University. Her recent exhibitions include Goldfinch, LVL3, the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelly Foundation with Chicago Artists Coalition, No Place Gallery, Hans Gallery, The Drawing Room at Arts Club of Chicago, Good Naked, EXPO CHICAGO and Everybody. Her work has recently been featured in Chicago Reader, the New York Times, and Newcity Magazine. Jun is one of Newcity’s breakout artists of 2021.
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Andres L. Hernandez, Untitled from Uncertainty (Next Breath, Next Day, Next Line, Next Move, Next Thought) series, 2022, ink on paper, 17 x 14 in. (framed), courtesy of the artist Andres L. Hernandez considers the potential of imagination and inventiveness to elicit liberatory ways of being. He explores these concepts through collaborative and socially-engaged works, as well as independent, studio-based practices. Hernandez participated as an ACRE Visiting Artist in Summer 2019, and is an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Laura Letinsky, To Say It Isn't So, 2010, platinum palladium print 2013, 1/6, 4 x 5 in. (framed), courtesy of the artist Laura Letinsky, BFA from the University of Manitoba, 1986, and MFA from Yale University’s School of Art, 1991, is now a Professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include the To Want For Nothing, Document, Chicago, The Canadian Representative at the Israeli International Photography Festival, Neither Natural nor Necessary, Mumbai Photography Festival, Mumbai, India, Producing Subjects, MIT, Cambridge, MA, The Telephone Game, Basel Design, IIl Form and Void Full, The Photographers Gallery, London, and Laura Letinsky: Still Life, Denver Art Museum, CO.
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Alex Chitty, Tabled (VII), 2020, polished stainless steel and patinated cast aluminum, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist Alex Chitty is represented by PATRON Gallery and has worked with students, educators, and institutions locally, nationally, and internationally, including Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Horticultural Society of New York, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Smith College, University of Chicago, Spudnik Press, ACRE, Moraine Valley Community College, Columbia College, The Library of Aby Warburg, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Palau Coral Reef Research Foundation, Belize Hol Chan Marine Reserve, Ox-Bow School of Art, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, PATRON Gallery, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Elmhurst Art Museum, Virginia Commonwealth University, Luce Gallery, KMAC Museum, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
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Melissa Weber Highest Bidder
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Ever Baldwin, Beacons, 2022, oil on canvas in charred wood frame, 15 x 15 x 2 in., courtesy of the artist and Marinaro gallery   Everbaldwin.com is based in Catskill NY. They are represented by Marinaro Gallery in New York. Their recent exhibitions include solo presentations with Marinaro, Five Car Garage in Los Angeles, and JAG Projects at Hudson House, as well as group shows at NADA New York with Marinaro, Soloway in Brooklyn NY, NADA Miami with JAG Projects, and Underdonk in Brooklyn, NY. A two person exhibition with LeFebvre et Fils in Paris is forthcoming. Ever is a 2021 recipient of the NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Painting. Their work has been recently reviewed in the New York Times and ArtForum. Ever has attended residency programs at The Ragdale Foundation, ACRE, The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and The Atlantic Center for the Arts. They hold a BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.  
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