Live-Auction Preview: Burtysnky, Penny, Koop & More
For the 2009 Gallery Hop Gala Auction, Ontario-born, New York–based artist Carter Kustera is offering a custom family portrait.
Going once… going twice… and gone! The drama, surprises and thrills of Canadian Art’s annual fundraising auction provide a stellar opportunity to acquire artworks by—and track the careers of—some of our nation’s top creative talents.
This year’s auction takes place at the Gallery Hop Gala on September 24, with works up for grabs by Edward Burtynsky, Geoffrey Farmer, Wanda Koop, Evan Penny and many other nationally and internationally prominent artists. Read on for two revealing interviews with auction artists and a preview of the select works to be auctioned live by Maarten Ten Holder, managing director of Sotheby’s North and South America.
BURTYNSKY’S OWN PICTURE OF CANADIAN ART
25th Anniversary Interviews: Ed Burtynsky from Canadian Art on Vimeo.
In an exclusive video chat for Canadian Art’s 25th anniversary, auction donor—and iconic photo-artist—Edward Burtynsky, who is just about to open a major exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, describes the ways Canada’s largest-circulating art magazine has helped him develop a more accurate picture of the national cultural landscape.
AUCTION ARTIST MACLEOD TALKS OLYMPICS
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The photograph in Myfanwy MacLeod's auction artwork, which has connections to her upcoming public art installation at Olympic Village Plaza in Vancouver. |
Vancouver artist Myfanwy MacLeod, also participating in the auction, produces diverse and compelling bodies of work—from large architectural installations to small drawings. In an exclusive audio interview with canadianart.ca, MacLeod talks about the origins of 1981, the work she donated to this year’s auction. Along the way, MacLeod also touches on her upcoming public art installation at Olympic Village Plaza in Vancouver, as well as her soon-to-open solo show at Catriona Jeffries Gallery.
Audio Stream: Auction Artist Macleod talks OlympicsLIVE-AUCTION ARTWORKS REVEALED
Though the majority of the works at the Canadian Art fundraising gala are sold through silent auction—and a full list of auction artworks be viewed here—a special selection of 10 works will be auctioned live by Maarten Ten Holder, managing director of Sotheby’s North and South America. Absentee bids are already arriving for many of these exciting live-auction works.
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Evan Penny Stretch #1 2003 |
Evan Penny Stretch #1 2003
Evan Penny’s incredible sculptures and prints of hyper-real figures have won him a strong national and international profile over the past three decades. In recent years, his figures have evolved to reflect the prevalence of digital image-altering programs, provoking questions about the malleability of actual (as opposed to virtual) bodies. Penny’s uncanny, masterful trompe d’oeil oeuvre is unique in both its aesthetic approach and its technical accomplishments, and has won over exhibition spaces, collectors and audiences worldwide.
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Adam David Brown Ontology 2009 |
Adam David Brown Ontology 2009
In his first commercial solo show this year at MKG127, Toronto artist Adam David Brown scored a double coup: a review in Artforum and a $10,000 artist grant from Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts. The accolades were well deserved: Brown has immense skill with cut and coloured paper, as well as its various accoutrements—the MKG127 show displayed a remarkable wall drawing created using pale-pink erasers, while other works offer geologically styled “core samples” of art history textbooks.
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Ed Burtynsky Shipyard #13, Qili Port, Zhejiang Province, China 2005 |
Edward Burtynsky Shipyard #13, Qili Port, Zhejiang Province, China 2005
This fall is a busy one for famed photographer Edward Burtynsky. In addition to opening an exhibition of his oil-industry photographs at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, concurrent exhibitions from that body of work will be running at Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto, Hasted Hunt Kraeutler in New York, and Adamson Gallery in Washington before the museum exhibit travels to Amsterdam in December. The artist is also nominated (in his second year running) for the Prix Pictet, a 100,000-franc prize on photography and sustainability whose winner is to be announced by Kofi Annan in Paris on October 22.
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