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Greetings!, It's auction season at the ICA! In just a few weeks we'll be presenting our Annual Art Exhibition that'll include more than 185 works of art - our largest auction show ever! The works on view and for sale range from sculpture and painting to works on paper and photography. There's also a full schedule of openings, events, talks, and tours.
To get you in tip top shape for auction season, we're sending you a weekly Auction Picks and Tipsheet. In it you'll find our Curators' Auction Picks of selected artists and their work, an easy answer to an Auction FAQ, and a Collecting Tip. The Curators' Picks will be also be archived in the online auction gallery in the comment section under the artwork image.
And if you have any collecting or auction-related questions you'd like answered, please email us. If you'd like to share your own collecting/auction tips and tricks, don't be shy! Send them along and we'll pay them forward in an upcoming issue. Or, if you want to skip the queue and share your hard-earned collecting wisdom firsthand, please post away on our Facebook page.
We look forward to seeing you during auction season!
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Curators' Picks and Tips
"Your motivation...must always be to please yourself. Follow your intuition and buy what sings to you. The objects you acquire should give you pleasure and fellowship."
- Richard Faletti (American collector and appraiser)
Auction FAQ
What are the most important dates to remember during the ICA's 2013 auction season? Sat Sept 28: Silent Auction Exhibition opens Fri Oct 4: Live Auction Exhibition opens. Opening Reception for the Artists Sat Oct 12: Silent Auction Party Sat Oct 26: Live Auction Gala Get complete exhibition and event details here
Auction Tip
Get the lay of the land. Plan your auction strategy.
You can view the auction artworks from home, at the office (during your "break") or while waiting in line at the DMV, 24/7! Visit the online auction gallery and bookmark it. Each artwork image includes the artist's name, date & title of piece, medium used, dimensions, retail price, and a link to the artist's website. We're adding works to the online gallery daily. About a week before the Silent Auction exhibition opens, we create an online gallery for each auction event so that you know which pieces are being presented in the Silent and Live auction galleries. |
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Curators' Picks
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Hilary Baker, Lac-du-Bonnet, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 16 inches, Artist's website Los Angeles-based artist Hilary Baker claims she didn't consciously become a landscape painter, but her paintings have always reflected an intrinsic elegance in her series of trees, rubble, or ocean waves. I always love her geometric compositions and the quality of dimensionality she achieves by the use of colors and line - it's like the big cluster of stones is just about to tumble out from the painting onto the floor! This piece Lac du Bonnet is based on the quarry in Manitoba, Canada with its lush natural surroundings including lakes, forests, and granite hills. Baker's work has been included in recent group shows featuring the latest talent of southern California painters, such as MAS Attack at LA Mart, and Painting on Edge II curated by Grant Vetter presented at den contemporary. - Donna Napper |
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Rhonda Holberton, Displaced Hole: CA-1170090087 (Treasure Island Naval Station-Hunters Point Annex), SF, CA, 2013, Polyurethane foam, plaster, and graphite, 33 x 31 x 12 inches, Artist's websiteRhonda is an Oakland-based artist who's work is currently on view in the NextNewCA exhibition in the Main Gallery. She is a 2012 MFA graduate from Stanford University and 2007 BFA graduate from California College of the Arts. Holberton's art brings to light various health maladies that can result from contaminated soil, groundwater and radiological contamination. The sculptures from her Displaced Holes series consist of castings the artist made from holes she dug at the entrance to Lawrence Livermore's National Laboratory as well as at decommissioned U.S. military bases in the San Francisco Bay Area. - Donna Napper
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Ann Weber, Personage 68, 2013, Found cardboard, staples, PVC pipe, and polyurethane, 68 x 27 x 24 inches, Courtesy of the Artist and Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, Artist's websiteAfter years of enduring the physically demanding process of sculpting large forms from heavy clay, Ann Weber discovered that simple, lightweight cardboard and staples offered unlimited possibilities as materials for creating the large-scale organic forms she envisioned. Employing cardboard as a medium was a breakthrough for Weber. Not only is she able to make very large work that is light and portable, but her medium is a commonplace, economically viable and environmentally friendly material that still allows Weber to retain a monumental quality in her sculptures. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the ICA, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Triton Museum and the Boise Art Museum. Weber is also active in the public art arena and has won commissions for installations at the State Capitol building in Sacramento, a Public Library in Phoenix, Arizona and Skyline Park in Denver, Colorado. Read a review of her most recent show at 425 Market in San Francisco. - Cathy Kimball
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