March 2010
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Western Front 37th Annual Auction
February 2010
26 posts
Will Kwan
Title: Canaries (the bank and the treasury) Effigy Tower
Medium :Lightjet print, transmounted
Dimensions: 30 x 48”
Date of Production: 2007
Edition: AP 1
Estimated Market Value: $800
Bio:
Will Kwan makes art that takes a critical view on the visual and material culture of globalization and examines the sociopolitical and cultural consequences of how the ‘global’ is represented. Kwan is...
Jin-Me Yoon
Title: The dreaming collective knows no history (U.S. Embassy to Japanese Embassy, Seoul)
Medium: video still, C-print on archival paper
Dimensions: 12” x 41”
Date of Production: 2007
Gallery Representation: Catriona Jeffries
Estimated Market Value: $3500
Bio:
Jin-Me Yoon is a vital member of the Vancouver art community as well as an active participant in international art discourse. For...
Scott Moore
Bio:
Scott Moore (b.1982) is a Vancouver-based artist who grew up in Langley. The central theme of his work is the landscape of British Columbia and Washington State. He focuses on instances in the landscape and re-presents them from memory with no source material. Moore’s work has been exhibited at Helen Pitt Gallery, Plank Gallery and Shudder Gallery.
Julie Morstad
Untitled etching 1
Medium: Intaglio and chine colle on paper
Date of Production: 2007
Estimated Market Value: $400
Untited etching 2
Medium: Intaglio and chine colle on paper
Date of Production: 2007
Estimated Market Value: $400
Reece Terris
Title: The Western Front Front – Another False Front
Medium: C-print
Dimensions: 24 x 41”
Date of Production: 2010
Gallery Representation: Jennifer Kostuik Gallery
Estimated Market value: 3000
Reserve: $1200
edition # 1 of 3 (plus 2 ap)
Bio:
Reece Terris is interested in architecture, design and constructed experience. His work spans a variety of media including sculpture, performance,...
Al Neil
Title: Portrait: René Daumal, No. 8, 1992
Medium: Mixed Media Collage with ink
Dimensions: 26” x 35”
Date of Production: 1992
Gallery Representation:
Estimated Market Value:
Bio:
Al Neil was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1924. An accomplished jazz pianist, during the l950s he was one of the founders of the Cellar Jazz Club and performed with artists such as Art Pepper, Conte Candoli and...
Martin Thacker
Estimated market value: $500
Bio:
Martin Thacker was born in Bow Island, Alberta in 1978, and currently works and lives in Berlin, Germany. He obtained an undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Calgary before pursuing his BFA at the Emily Carr Institute, where he graduated in 2006. He works in a variety of mediums including internet commerce, poetry, German painting, and...
Kika Thorne
Title: An Invitation to Singers to negotiate the distance of the planets
Medium: glow in the dark silkscreen on paper, portable black light
Dimensions: 21 x 29”
Date of Production: 2008
Estimated Market Value: $1200
Artist’s Comments:
Johann Kepler’s cosmological charts were a guiding force when Thorne was producing this body of work in 2008. Born in 1571 in Württemberg, Germany, Kepler...
Heidi Nagtegaal
Title: Pylon
Medium: flagging tape, crochet
Dimensions: 8” x 9” x 17”
Date of Production: 2009
Gallery Representation:
Estimated Market Value: $800
Artist’s Comments:
The piece comes with the pylon it was modeled from. Pylon was part of an exhibition that took place at Centre A in 2008. This piece is an artist’s proof.
Bio:
Heidi Nagtegaal has been exploring craft as a way of...
Damian Moppett
Title: studio
Medium: oil on paper
Dimensions: 28 ¾ “ x 37”
Date of Production: 2006
Gallery Representation: Catriona Jeffries Gallery
Estimated Market Value: $12,000
Bio:
Damian Moppett’s work has been recognized nationally and internationally. Recent selected solo exhibitions include Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; Temple Gallery; Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia...
Jeremy Hof
Title: Single White Paint Brick
Medium: acrylic/latex paint
Dimensions: 2” x 4” x 8”
Date of Production: 2010
Gallery Representation: Blanket Contemporary Art Inc.
Estimated Market Value: $500
Bio:
Jeremy Hof is a multidisciplinary, Vancouver-based artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. Hof studied fine arts at Emily Carr Institute of Art and...
Allyson Clay
Title: Stereo Library 1 (Artist’s Proof)
Medium: mirrored and galvanized steel/c-print
Dimensions: 5” x 33”
Date of Production: 2010
Gallery Representation: Leo Kamen
Estimated Market Value: $4000
Artist’s Comments:
“Stereo Library” is a new series of abstract works on aluminum or mirrored steel. C-prints are mounted to sections of the work, and some of the works may include painted...
Hank Bull
Title: After Ni Tsan
Dimensions: 16” x 20”
Date of Production: 2009
Bio:
Hank Bull is a well-known artist and administrator. Bull played a central role in shaping the Western Front Society and went on to found Centre A in 1999, where he currently serves as Executive Director.
As an artist, Bull has produced, performed and presented multimedia works internationally. His work has been...
Sonny Assu
Title: Hidden # 2
Medium: acrylic on panel
Dimensions: 18” x 26”
Date of Production: 2010
Gallery Representation: Equinox Gallery
Estimated Market Value: $2400
About the Work:
Bio:
Sonny Assu (b.1975) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses painting, sculpture, installation and mixed media. Regarded as among the vanguard of young Vancouver-artists working today, Assu was...
Khan Lee
Title of the work: One Liner
Medium: Silk Screen Print
Dimensions: 38” x 50”
Date of Production: 2010
Edition # (if applicable): Edition #7 of 21
Signed and Dated (Y/N): Y
Gallery Representation: n/a
Estimated Market Value: 230.00
Born in Seoul, Korea where he studied architecture at...
Sonja Ahlers
Title: Dances with Wolves in a Field of Dreams
Medium: mixed media on paper
Dimensions: 24” x 31”
Date of Production: 2007
Gallery Representation: Magic Pony (Toronto), James Harris Gallery (Seattle)
Estimated Market Value: $800
About the Work:
This work is part of a series produced between 2005 and 2007 which will appear in the forthcoming book, The Selves (Drawn and Quarterly,...
Peter Gazendam
Title of the work: AS-RA
Medium: c-print
Date of Production: 2007-2010
Edition # : 1 of 1
Signed and Dated (Y/N): N
Estimated Market Value: $800
Artist’s comments on the work: In the summer of 1945 Dr. Robert J. Oppenheimer, known as the “father of the atomic bomb”, chalked the text that appears in...
Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber
Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber
Autogestion #1, Sava Center, New Belgrade
Autogestion #2, Palace of Federation, New Belgrade
Autogestion #3, Apartment Block, New Belgrade
Autogestion #4, Gazela, New Belgrade
Autogestion #5, Pati Park, Belgrade
Medium: offset print
Dimensions: 20” x 26”
Date of Production: 2009
Gallery Representation: Gallery Grits Insam, Vienna
About the...
Eric Metcalfe
Title: Gerry’s Slug
Medium: gouache print
Dimensions: 11” x 15”
Date of Production: 2009
Gallery Representation: Winchester Gallery, Victoria, BC
Estimated Market Value: $900.00
Artist’s Comments:
This work is dedicated to the late and controversial poet Gerry Gilbert whose trademark was a slug. Gilbert died in June 2009 in Vancouver.
Bio:
Eric Metcalfe is a well-known, Vancouver-based artist....
Donato Mancini
Donato Mancini
Title: The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goth Phase)
Medium: Screenprint on Stonehenge
Dimensions: 22” x 30”
Market Value: $600
Date of Production: 2009
Artist’s Comments:
This ongoing series is of screenprints originate in my book Æthel (New Star, 2007). In Æthel I first explored in depth my interest in the psychology of advertising, design vernaculars and the gaps between...
Michael Drebert
Title of the work: Cinnamon
Medium: Ink on paper
Dimensions: 36 x 36 inches
Date of Production: 2010
Estimated Market Value: $500
Michael Drebert
Graduating with a BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2006, and currently pursing an MFA at the University of Victoria; Michael Drebert’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery of...
Alison Hrabluik
Title: I have seen an American general and his officers, without pay, and almost without clothes, living on roots and drinking water. All for LIBERTY! What chance have we against such men!
Medium: watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 7” x 10”
Date of Production: 2010
Gallery Representation: Tatjana Pieters, Gent
Estimated Market Value: $1200
Bio:
Allison Hrabluik’s videos, drawings, and sculpture...
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Ian Skedd
Title of the work: Ian Skedd New Works, March 6, 2010 (A Study in Self-Promotion and the Potential for Surplus Production)
Medium: C-Print
Dimensions: 30 x 25 inches (framed)
Date of Production: 2010
Edition #: One of a larger series
Estimated Market Value: $1500
Artists Comments:
We know that newspapers edit photographs to tell a particular story… Bio:
Ian Skedd is...
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Laiwan
Title of the work: “she, the Mayan jaguar, returns” page 3
Medium: Drawing on a napkin from the snack bar at a Spanish-run resort, Yucatan Peninsula; correction fluid and pencil.
Dimensions: 11.7 x 8.4 inches
Date of Production: February 15, 2010
Edition #: Page 3 in a series of 9
Estimated Market Value: $500
Suggested starting bid price $108
Artist’s...
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Elizabeth Zvonar
Title of the work: Ass Portrait
Medium: Digital lightjet print
Dimensions: 12”x12”
Date of production: 2010
Estimated Market value: $500
Elizabeth Zvonar (b. 1972) graduated from Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver in 2001. She has since exhibited widely both nationally and internationally at venues such as the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery and Artspeak Vancouver; Cohan and...
Erin Shirreff
Title of the work: Untitled
Medium: Silver gelatin photograph
Dimensions: 16 x 20 inches
Date of Production: 2009
Edition #: 1/3
Gallery Representation: Lisa Cooley, New York, NY
Estimated Market Value: $1800 USD
Erin Shirreff lives and works in New York City. She holds an MFA from Yale University (2005) and a BFA from the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Recent...