Art Auction Preview
The Bright Lights art auction will be a silent auction, conducted from 7:00 p.m. to 7:45 p.m., just before the performance. This web site offers a detailed look at the pieces to be auctioned, so that you can consider them carefully at home. You are also welcome to place an advance bid via e-mail, even if you are not able to attend the event. The highest advance bid will become the opening bid at the silent auction.
The works are each pictured below, along with a brief description. Click the thumbnail photo for a larger image (600 x 800 pixels), or click the link labeled "high-resolution image" for a very detailed look (1000 x 1300 pixels). Each will open in a new window; simply close that window to return to this page.
Rob Nadeau: Watercolor
Untitled
Gouache on paper.
Image Size: 8" x 8"
Frame Size: 12" x 15""
Value: $550
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Sachiko Akiyama: Woodcut Prints
Two woodcut prints
Image Size: 10" x 13"
Matted Size: 14" x 18"
Value: $200
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These two prints will be sold as a pair
to the highest bidder.
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Nancy Gong: Art Glass
Title: "The Way: Knowledge & Enlightenment"
Color: Sapphire blue
Size: 5 inches in diameter, 3/4 inch thick
Value: $60
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This Art Glass Blessing has been designed and fabricated by glass artist Nancy Gong. This Oriental design celebrates the Chinese culture. The calligraphy is symbolic of traditional blessings -- a Chinese way of thinking. To present a sense of timelessness, the design is carved into the surface of hand-cast glass.
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Aaron Epstein: Photograph
Untitled
Image Size: 7" x 10"
Frame Size: 12" x 18"
Value: $175
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Aaron likes his photos to suggest stories in the mind of the viewer. This photo is from the play "R & J" which played at the Bath Shakespeare Festival and then in London's West End. It is the tale of a repressive private school where literature is considered sissy and then the resident boys discover Shakespeare on their own.
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Jennifer Lapham: Ceramic
Title: Mimetic Series: Rabbit in Blue
Medium: Slipcast Glazed Ceramics
Size: 12" x 8" x8"
Value: $300
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The blue rabbit is from a series of cast ceramic animals painted with
various adaptations of military camouflage. Originally made for display in a botanical garden, these animals present a layering of "artificial" and "natural" imagery, meant to draw our attention to
decorative and pop culture images of "nature". The intent of these pieces is not without humor.
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David Shaw: Print on Plexiglass
Title: "(detail)" artist's proof, edition of three
Medium: duraflex on plexiglass
Size: 20" x 23"
Value: $2,500
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The luminous colors of this piece appear startlingly liquid, a quality
enhanced by the fact that the print is on the back surface of the plexiglass. This
picture of droplets falling and bouncing captures an instant in time forever.
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Eric Epstein: Computer Graphic
Title: Fish Head
Image Size: 8" x 10"
Frame Size: 12" x 18"
Value: $125
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People who remember Eric's work from his time in Brighton will recall he has often created fish images. Despite the apparent realism of this picture it is an imaginary creature created on the computer and printed digitally.
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John Lambrix: Chainsaw Carving
Size: 5'-4" tall overall
Eagle measures 40", head to tail
Value: $500
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Chainsaw carving gives trees a second life. This calm watchful eagle
has inset stone eyes and an aura of power resting under its folded
wings. Indoors or out, it is a beautiful guardian for home or garden.
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Cynthia Beth Rubin: Digital Print
Title: Kyoto Mist
Image Size: 11" x 14"
Frame Size: 14" x 17"
Value: $450
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Cynthia Beth Rubin's contribution, Kyoto Mist, is a digital print of suggested images floating in a mist of soft but vivid colors. Of her art she writes, "My work is an investigation of the threads of cultural memory which I feel both from my own visual experiences, and through that mysterious transmission of sensibility which comes from some place beyond the individual. I am interested in how cultural traditions collide and merge, and how this is embedded in all of us."
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Julie Tomkinson: Stained Glass
Untitled
Size: 14" x 16"
Value: $500
Minimum Bid: $300
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Vividly colored, this abstract stained glass piece suggests the fiery
colors of nature. The precisely cut complex shapes display a mastery
of the glass cutter's art.
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