Robert Berlind
"Adirondack Stream #2", 12” x 20”, oil on board. Minimum bid: $5,500.
Bio: Robert Berlind lives and works in New York City and in Cochecton, NY. He has received the American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Painting and the B. Altman Award in Painting at the National Academy as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Berlind also writes on art for Art in America, BorderCrossings, The Brooklyn Rail, and other publications as well as museum catalogues. He is a member of the National Academy and Professor Emeritus of the School of Art+Design, Purchase College, SUNY. Public collections include: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV; Moenchehaus Museum, Geslar, Germany; Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY; National Academy, New York, NY; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; and The Speed Art Museum in Lousiville, KY.
 

Elena Borstein
“Red Sail”, pigment print, 24" x 30". Minimum Bid: $900.
Bio: For the last ten years Elena Borstein has been living in the Adirondack Mountains where sailing has brought about a new direction in her work. The simple elegance of the sails, the feeling of the wind, brilliant colors of the spinnaker and the subtle shades of tone and form created by light reflected from sky and water have all inspired her recent work. Borstein received her B.S. Degree in Fine Arts from Skidmore College and her B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.  Her work has been in many solo and group exhibitions both in this country and abroad including "American Realism" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1985, the Bronx Museum in 1978, 1986, and 1993, "New Acquisitions" in the Everson Museum, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. Her work was part of a traveling exhibit organized by the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. called "The Liberation - 14 American Artists" which traveled to 11 countries. Borstein's work is included in many major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Hayden Museum, MIT, Cambridge, MA; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; and the Newark Museum, Newark, NJ.  She currently lives and works in New York City and the Adirondack Mountains.
 

Chicken Coop Forge
"Wall Sconces", hand forged steel with pine decoration and cast bronze, pine cones.  Rawhide shades with dark leather stitching.  Minimum bid $640.
Bio: The Chicken Coop Forge is artist-owned and operated by Jeannette Brandt and Mike Parwana in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. Brandt and Parwana’s interest in blacksmithing quickly turned from a hobby shop in the backyard chicken coop of their home in Lake Luzerne into a career as full time smiths. Their studio is now located near West Mountain in Glens Falls, NY on the southeast corner of the Adirondack Park and only about a mile from the Adirondack Northway (I-87). They create commissioned heirloom-quality ornamental ironwork using traditional forging methods and modern techniques. This includes a wide variety of traditional and contemporary products forged in iron, steel, bronze and copper.
 

Anne Diggory
Photo at left is “Untitled (Rodger’s Rock)”, oil on canvas, 50" x 70". For auction: A Commissioned Painting by Anne Diggory to the highest bidder:  You pick the landscape, Anne will turn it into a new work of art! The higher the bid, the larger the piece can be. Bidding starts at $200 for a 4” x 6" acrylic on panel or watercolor. The size can be as big as $6000 for a 50” x 70" acrylic on canvas, such as the one pictured of Roger's Rock. The range of sizes and prices will be listed at the event.
Bio: Anne Diggory has painted out of her studio in Saratoga Springs for over 30 years and has been featured in Adirondack Life, American Artist Magazine, and the NY Times. She is known for her combination of accurate detail with expressive painting and strong abstract structure – an outgrowth of education at Yale, Indiana University, and 30 years of exploring the natural world. She shows regularly at the Blue Mountain Gallery in New York City and is currently preparing for a January 2012 exhibition:  Ripple Effect. Her work is part of the Hyde Collection (a purchase prize from the Adirondack Regional 25 years ago) and she lectured at the Hyde on “Artistic Choices” during the 2005 exhibition “Painting Lake George, 1774-1900.  Her recent commissions include large murals for the Adirondack Trust Company in Saratoga Springs, including a 22 foot high waterfall at the main branch; a collaborative commission of art work for the Saratoga Springs train Station; and a large interactive public artwork for the Albany Institute of History and Art.
 

Josh Dorman
"Broken Game, Lake George", Ink, acrylic, antique paper on panel, 39” x17".
 Minimum bid: $2,800.
Bio: Josh Dorman: “I collect outdated (pre-photography) textbooks, topographic maps, manuals, and documents. Paper that has lived a life and shows its age compels me to paint. I am intrigued by systems I do not understand and by information that is no longer relevant… To create a place on the canvas where these images can live together seems natural. The combination of excavating imagery from topographic maps and imposing found images allows me to jump in space, scale, and meaning hundreds of times within a few square inches. Scale is spiritual for me–fractal forms echo infinitely, from the microscopic to the cosmic…I add and subtract until the work makes sense and offers me a genuine surprise. But, as much as I want visual harmony and a narrative for myself, I also want the paintings to be a project and a puzzle for the person looking.”  Dorman received his BA from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, and MFA from Queens College, Flushing, NY.  He has exhibited widely throughout the country and is currently represented by Mary Ryan Gallery in New York City.  His awards include grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Joyce Dutka Foundation, and residencies at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, Saltonstall, Ithaca, NY, I-Park, Plantsville, CT, and the Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY.
 

Ginger Ertz
“Lake George”, Chenille stems and plastic beads, 21"h x 7.5"w x 2"d. 2011. Value $750, Minimum Bid $300.
Bio: Ginger Ertz had an irrepressible creative urge since she was old enough to hold a crayon, and in the 1980s, with a BA and MLS under her belt, she started taking drawing, painting, and sculpture classes one or two nights a week, first at the University of the Arts, and then at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, for four years at each school. She moved to Vermont and studied with private art teachers, eventually becoming a painting teacher herself.  At this point she was exhibiting work and winning awards, such as the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship Award at the Stratton (VT) Arts Festival, in 1997. She returned to school full-time and obtained an MFA from Johnson (VT) State College and the Vermont Studio Center in 2001.  She continues to show work regionally and beyond.  Her site-specific “Soft Chandelier” was selected and installed at the Albany International Airport from 2007-2010, and her work was recently included in the Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, a juried exhibition at the Hyde Museum this past fall.  Her awards include residencies at the American Academy in Rome, and several residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, and in 2009, she received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
 

Nathan Farb
“Reindeer Moss on Ledge”, Ultrachrome print, 20” x 16”, and a signed copy of the book "Adirondack Wilderness", 100 photographs of the Adirondacks. Minimum bid: $1050.
Bio: Nathan Farb grew up in Lake Placid and has been examining the Adirondack Landscape for over 50 years. Combining romanticism with a probing scientific eye, he is considered the preeminent photographer of The Adirondacks. His 1985 Rizzoli book, “The Adirondacks”, became the standard by which Adirondack photography is measured. He has also published two books and many essays on the Galapagos Islands. His award winning coverage of the Yellowstone fires and Exxon oil spill for the New York Times Magazine established Farb as a leading interpreter of nature. Farb lived and worked in New York City for many years where he was well known for his avant garde multimedia work. Farb’s 1980 photographic essay on Soviet society, “The Russians,” was published as a book in five countries and in magazines throughout the world. His works are included in many public and private collections including The Museum of Modern Art.  Farb is a former professor of photography and mixed media at Rutgers University. He has been given honorary Doctor of Arts degrees by St Lawrence University and SUNY. His newest book, “Adirondack Wilderness”, a collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, will be published by Rizzoli this Fall. He has worked and lived at his studio in Jay, NY for the past twenty years.
 

Mike Glier
"November 9, 2008: Hoosick River in the  Evening, Hoosick, NY, 45ºF ", 24" x 30", oil on panel. Value: $5,500. Minimum bid: $5000.
Bio: Born in Kentucky, Mike Glier studied at Williams College before attending the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. An advisee of Robert Morris, Glier received an MA from Hunter College in 1975. From 1978 to 1984 he was an active member of Collaborative Projects. Solo exhibitions of Glier’s drawing and painting have been presented at a variety venues including The Kitchen, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, San Jose Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.  A ten year survey of his work was mounted at Hallwalls, Buffalo NY in 1988. He participated in many Group Material exhibitions including “Resistance”, “The Constitution”, “Politics”, and “AIDS Timeline”.  Both the Drawing Center, NY and The Tyler Gallery, Temple University, have sponsored national touring shows of his painting. In the late 80’s Glier moved to New England to begin a teaching career at Williams College, which he considers part of his creative output. In 1989 he was the New England recipient of Awards in the Visual Arts 9, and 1996 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting. In 2004, “Town Green” a wall drawing installation for the Cambridge, Massachusetts, City Hall Annex was selected by Americans for the Arts as one of the best public art works of the year.  “Along a Long Line”, an account of a painting journey from the Arctic to the equator was published in 2009 by Hard Press Editions.
 

John Hampshire
"Waterspout", 16” x 12", oil on canvas. Minimum bid: $400.
Bio: John Hampshire (Born 1971, Chicago, IL).  BS from Skidmore College ‘94, MFA SUNY Albany ’97.  Selected solo exhibitions include “Layers and Labyrinths” at The Show Walls, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, NYC (2008), “Expressive Eccentricities”, State College of Florida (2009), and “Labyrinthine” in The Project Room at the Phoenix Gallery, NYC (2005).  Selected group exhibitions include “Black and White”.  Lana Santorelli Gallery.  NYC (2010), International Small Works Exhibition.  80 Washington Square East Galleries. New York University. NYC. (2001-2009), and “International Works on Paper”. Soho20 Gallery, NYC (2001).  John is Associate Professor of Art at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury, NY and lives and maintains his studio in a former church in Troy, NY with his wife and 4 dachshunds. 

Charles E. Hawley
"View from Friend's Point", oil on canvas, 26" x 26". Value: $5000, Minimum bid: $3000.
Bio:Charles E. Hawley (b: 1923 d: 2010) lived his life in celebration and conservation of Lake George. A graduate of the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, PA, his artwork captures the distinct character and history of the area in more than a hundred oil paintings of the places and people of the Adirondacks. His paintings illuminate Lake George from various vantage points, such as the shelter of the Narrows, Shelving Rock, Red Rock Point, and Dollar Island in autumn. Portraiture includes key figures in the French and Indian War (Major Robert Rogers, King Hendricks, and the Marquis de Montcalm) as well as Father Isaac Jogues and Adirondack guide Ira Gray. Complementing his artwork was his service to preserve the lake. He held numerous positions on committees and boards, most notably his 28 years on the Lake George Park Commission, nine as Commissioner.
 

Betsy Krebs
“Trout Lake”, oil on canvas, 24” x 18.  Value: $1250. Minimum bid: $600.
Bio: Artist Betsy (Elizabeth) Krebs received her formal education in Art from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY where she received an M.S. in Art Education and minored in painting. As with many artists, however, long before the diploma -- art was always a part of Betsy's life.  Her work has been featured in many solo exhibitions, and in group exhibitions throughout the North Country. Betsy's first solo exhibition was in 1990 at the Lake George Arts Project in Lake George, NY. Solo exhibitions followed at the Albany Boys Academy in Albany, NY; the College of Saint Rose (master show) in Albany, NY; the Gibson Gallery in Potsdam College, Potsdam, NY; the Cool Beans Cafe Gallery in Queensbury NY; Valley Artisans Gallery in Cambridge, NY; The Hyde Museum in Glens Falls, NY; the Saratoga Arts Center, Saratoga, NY; Adirondack Community College, Queensbury, NY; and most recently, at the L.A.R.A.C. Arts Gallery in Glens Falls, NY. Recently, Betsy's work was displayed in a group exhibition held at The Hyde Collection Museum in Glens Falls, NY and The Open Space Gallery in Saratoga Springs, NY. Before that, group exhibitions included the L.A.R.A.C. Grant Recipients Show in Glens Falls, NY; the Adirondack Community College's Guild of Adirondack Artists show in Queensbury, NY; the Lake George Arts Project Juried Drawing Exhibition in Lake George, NY; the Urban Cultural Park's Open Space Invitational in Saratoga Springs, NY; The Hyde Museum's "Putt Modernism" invitational fundraiser in Glens Falls, NY; and many other galleries and colleges throughout the Adirondack and upstate New York area.
 

Marianne Kuhn
"Camping on Duran Island", oil on Linen, 22" x 28". Minimum bid: $950.
Bio: Marianne Valenti Kuhn graduated from Montclair State Collage, NJ with a B.A. in Education.  After working several years as a commercial artist, she studied water color and pen and ink with Fran Shapiro in Allendale, NJ.  In 1992 she enrolled at the Ridgewood Art Institute and studied with John P. Osborne. Marianne was introduced to Lake George in 1971 by her husband Bruce.  They summer in Diamond Point where she can enjoy the beauty and convenience of Plein-Air painting a few steps from their cottage.  Lake George and the New England area have been inspirational for her landscapes as she incorporates the teachings of Mr. Osborne and the ever-changing lighting effects of the North East.  Her goal is to translate visual concepts with composition, value and color while maintaining the original purpose of the painting.  The pallet used by Marianne was developed by Frank Vincent Dumond of the Art Students League and passed on through Mr. Osborne at the Ridgewood Art Institute. Marianne is a member of The American Artists Professional League, NYC; Oil Painters of America (OPA); The Ridgewood Art Institute, Inc. (NJ)., Palisades Artist's in the Parks Plein Air Painters, ( NY);  The Artists Network of Upstate NY (ANUNY)and The Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council, Glens Falls, NJ. 
 

Esmond Lyons
“Mysic’s Rapture”, oil on canvas, 28" x 48". Minimum Bid: $7000.
Bio: Esmond Lyons started painting at the age of 37. He has personally sold over a million dollars worth of his own paintings. Occasionally he exhibits in galleries. In 1997 Esmond founded the Glens Falls Mural School, a gallery and studio dedicated to communicating an aesthetic vision for residential and public spaces. While much of his commissioned work has been decorative and historical, the themes of mythology, religion, and feminism occupy much of his studio art. Esmond can be reached at elyons3@nycap.rr.com or 518-307-6665.
 

Clayton Merrell
“Lake with Loop Stream”, gouache on paper, 11" x 14" (framed), 2011. Value: $600 Minimum bid: $200.
Bio: Clayton F. Merrell grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, and Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela. He studied painting and printmaking at Brigham Young University and the Yale School of Art, where he earned an MFA in 1995.  He received a Fulbright Grant to Oaxaca, Mexico in 1996-97.  His work is exhibited and collected widely, with recent exhibitions at: The American Embassy in Belmopan, Belize; Slow Gallery, Chicago; The Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM; Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh PA; the A+D Gallery, Chicago; and the Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.  He was the 2005 Artist of the Year at The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. He has received awards and grants from the Pro-Arts Foundation, Skowhegan, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Blue Mountain Center, the Vermont Studio Center, Artists Image Resource, and the Center for the Arts in Society.  During 2004-05 he was a fellow at the Roswell Artist-In-Residence Foundation.  He is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University.
 

Catherine Minnery
“Lake George”, oil on panel, 12 x 21 inches. Value: $650 / Minimum bid $350.
Bio: Although any subject is of interest, Catherine Wagner Minnery views the landscape as an important source of inspiration, particularly the Hudson Valley and the Adirondack region of upstate NY.  "Working from nature is important to me but the final work is done in the studio. In the environment, I make quick sketches in small journals, covering the drawings with written notes. Perhaps a small watercolor study and a few quick photos will be done for reference, but I rely more on memory and the unseen, not the strictly visual, when creating a piece.” In June 2010, she was part of the “Tomorrow’s Masters Today” exhibit at the Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY, where she was one of ten artists whose work was chosen to be designated as part of the “Master Class”.  In 2001, she, along with painter Anne Diggory, was part of the New York Times, “In Art’s Footsteps”; a 10 part series that revisited locations illuminated by the Hudson River School Artists.  Her work is in museum, corporate and private, national and international collections.  She is a graduate of the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio and a resident of Saratoga Springs, NY.  She has been a member of the Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY, since February 2004 and has had 5 solo exhibits at that location.
 

Vicky Palermo
“LG Current Data”,  silicone, 14.5" by 18.5"  (framed). Minimum bid: $350.
Bio: Using a diverse range of materials, such as rubber, grass, and moss, Victoria Palermo often addresses the complex, at times humorous, relationship between the natural environment and human-made world. Her most recent work incorporates the light effects of colored translucency in architectonic formats.  Her work has been featured in exhibitions at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Art in General, New York, White Columns, New York, and Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, among others. Palermo is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Skidmore College.
 

Sky Pape
Untitled, water & Sumi ink on Japanese paper, 23"x 18" (framed), 2010. Value: $3,500. Minimum bid: $2,500.
Bio: Sky Pape was born in Canada and attended Queen's University there before moving to New York City, where she studied at Parsons School of Design and The Art Students League of New York.  Pape's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and other public and private collections. She has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad, and has received numerous awards and honors, including significant grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, the E.D. Foundation, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, and a residency fellowship at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy.  Pape lives and works in Inwood, the northernmost part of Manhattan.  Artist’s Statement on the work: “This piece was created during a residency fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center on Lake Como, Italy, where my focus was an investigation of water as both drawing material and inspiration—medium and muse.  My primary means of creating these drawings is an unconventional process — eschewing brushes, pens, and typical tools, my store of unusual approaches uses mist, ice, rain, and steam. The water and ink drawings, abstract by nature, manage to strongly elicit elements and forces in the natural world.”
 

Nadia Rymanowski
"View from the Sagamore", oil on linen, 20" x 30".  Minimum bid: $4800.
Bio: A native of the Albany Area, and still a resident, Nadia Spiak Rymanowski has always been fascinated with Lake George, with its majestic mountains and endless waters, and with its surprising changes in color and light. Her rich atmospheric views evoke all the seasons, from the ice flows of late winter, to the hard contrasts of Summer and Autumn. Though starkly representational, the paintings exude the atmospheric and coloristic mood, both spiritual and emotional, of the lake. “I am still painting Lake George,” she says.  “The best landscapes make you want to return and Lake George inspires this sentiment in me.  The sky, the light, the horizon and the great passage of clouds, somehow take hold of you.”  Ms. Rymanowski has a BFA Degree from the University of New York at Albany and has studied at Skidmore and Russell Sage Colleges.  Her landscapes have been widely exhibited in Art Galleries throughout the United States and are found in numerous private and corporate collections. She is listed in the publication “American Artists of Renown”.
 

Russell Serrianne
"PRECIPITATION", vine tendrils with clear coat shellac on hand painted ginwashi paper, 36" x 13". Value $1,900. Minimum bid $1,000.
Bio / Statement:  “I am captivated by the energized line naturally found in the strength and determination of the vine tendril as seen melding in a forested cluster or clinging to urban brick. “
Russell attended The New School of Art, Toronto, Ontario; Lake Placid School of Art and SUNY Plattsburgh with a concentration in drawing and printmaking.  He received a NYS Decentralization Grant for the installation of The Zoetrope Project at SUNY Adirondack in 2006. Currently exhibiting primarily within the Adirondack Park and Capital Region his works of vine tendril assemblage appear to be fabricated, mechanically twisted. “In my work I use the vine tendril as my drawing tool, as my mark. The twisting, gripping pieces transform into 3-dimensional line and interplay with surface shadow.”

Rebecca Shepard
“Great Escape”, graphite & ink on paper, 11 inches in diameter. Minimum Bid: $400.
Bio: Rebecca Shepard lives and works in Ballston Spa, NY. She got her MFA in painting from SUNY Albany in 1996, BA from University of California at Berkeley in 1983. Recent exhibits include a two-person show at the Lake George Arts Project in November 2010, and " Vignette', a group show curated by Nadine Wasserman at The Arts Center of the Capital Region in January 2011. Over the past five years she has focused on making narrative drawings inspired by events and experiences in her life. She works at the Schick Art Gallery at Skidmore College when she's not drawing.
 

Rebecca Smith
"Lake Water”, watercolor & tape on paper, 8" x 10". Value: $1000. Minimum bid: $500.
Bio: Rebecca Smith was born in Glens Falls, New York in 1954. She has exhibited widely since 1977 in the US and internationally. Beginning as a painter, creating performance works in the late 70’s, Smith currently makes two bodies of work -- sculpture and color tape drawings. Since the mid 1980’s Smith has been making sculpture in a range of materials. She began the Cage sculptures in 2002, which are welded steel grid forms, built out from the wall and constructed of interwoven bars of steel. Beginning in 1999 Smith has made tape drawing installations using color tape applied directly to the wall in an exploration of various forms of mapping and schematic imagery. The two bodies of work, sculpture and wall drawings, are contemporaneous and find their origins in drawing. Her work can be found in many private and public collections, including the Albright-Knox Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Microsoft Collection and the TarraWarra Museum, Australia. Currently her work can be see in Driven to Abstraction at Von Lintel Gallery, NYC. A solo how is planned for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond in 2012.
 

Lara Sorensen
"Trickle down", acrylic on panel, 24" x 30". Value: $600. Minimum bid: $400.
Bio / Statement: My first memory is of painting- at three years old. Having traveled and lived in the U.S. , Europe, India and Nepal, I returned to my childhood home of upstate New York ten years ago and have been developing a method of painting the “Spiritual Landscape” ever since.  My studio is in the upper Hudson river valley, in the Adirondack mountains of New York, an area which has inspired generations of artists.  My work, while based on a solid foundation of craftsmanship in drawing, has a growing emphasis on layering images to create alternative spaces.  Figures, natural forms, and abstract symbols interplay to create narrative, vibrant paintings, enriched with the architecture of nature and man.  I hope to convey a sense of the temporal, physical and emotional experience of being in a place.
 

Charles Steckler
“Good Ol’ Summertime”, portmanteau diorama, mixed media,11.5” x 14” x 2.5”. Minimum bid: $2000.
Bio: Charles Steckler is a bricoleur, an assemblage artist who works as a painter, printmaker, photographer, draughtsman, stage designer, and collage and diorama artist. He has shown his work in numerous exhibitions and has designed stage sets for over a hundred plays. He has been a Yaddo Fellow, an Associate at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, a Resident Artist at the Vermont Studio Center, a Prix de Rome Finalist and Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. He received his B.A. from Queens College and his MFA from Yale University. He is Professor of Theater and Designer-in-Residence at Union College in Schenectady, New York.  
“I call these works dioramas because they remind me of those shoebox scenes I made in the 2nd grade, scenes like “The Pygmy Rainforest” and “When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth,” or “An Eskimo Village.”  Those were larger worlds fitted into small spaces. It was then that I first learned about condensed space and the mystical transubstantiation of common materials. At that miniature scale the world offered me a dimension of intimacy and strangeness. My inspirations include Cornell’s boxes, puppet and toy theaters, peep shows, reliquaries, shop window displays, nativity creches, planetarium models, dollhouses and museum habitat and history dioramas. In my current work I mean to invoke the traveling salesman’s valise. My goal is to create intimate works suffused with memory, atmosphere, nostalgia, longing and childhood’s erstwhile delights.”
 

Rich Stout
“August”, acrylic on canvas, 30" x 40". Minimum bid: $2000.
Bio: Richard Stout, a resident of Hague, N.Y., was a life long summer resident before moving there permanently. He received a B.A. in Fine Art and Education from West Virginia Wesleyan College and a Masters in Fine Art from Montclair College, Montclair, N.J. Richard Stout taught Fine Art for 20 years at both Ocean County College and Brookdale Community College in N.J. He has exhibited in many juried art shows, college exhibitions and private galleries("Art Forms", Red Bank, N.J.). Richard Stout paints in a style that reflects an appreciation of "Modernism". Primarily a landscape painter, nature (Lake George and the Adirondacks) in all four seasons are recurrent themes.
 

John Van Alstine
“PYXIS AWRY VII” 2010, bronze/slate/pigment, 4"h x14"w x7"d. Retail/value $3000, Minimum bid: $1200. Notes about the piece/title:  Pyxis is a small and faint constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for a mariner's compass . Pyxis is completely visible in latitudes south of 53 degrees north from January through March.  Awry  1 : in a turned or twisted position or direction: aske;.  2 : off the correct or expected course: amiss.
Bio: Van Alstine’s work has been exhibited widely (including over 50 solo exhibitions) in this country as well as in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He has completed many major large scale outdoor, site-specific commissions recently installing a large outdoor work for the 2008 Olympic Park, Beijing and a 35' tall piece for the new Indianapolis Airport. A new 28” work “FUNAMBULIST” was installed on the Michigan State campus in East Lansing in June 2010.  Current projects include a major outdoor piece for TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY - Beijing, China. He is working on a 30’h outdoor 911 –SCULPTURE/MEMORIAL sculpture using World Trade Tower steel remnants – to be dedicated Sept. 11, 2011 in Saratoga Springs, NY.  Van Alstine is a recipient of many individual arts grants and fellowships including from the Gottlieb Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and a number of state artist’s grants. A hard cover book, Bones of the Earth, Spirit of the Land, recapping the first 25 years of his work was released in 2001. Van Alstine’s work is held in many private, public, and corporate collections in this country, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
 

Laura Von Rosk
“Lake with Dead Trees (after Cole)”, oil on wood, 12" x 12". Minimum Bid: $2000.
Bio:  Laura Von Rosk's paintings depict an experience of a landscape. Memories or impressions are refined: a sand ditch along the highway, a gravel pit, a cultivated field, or just a peculiar bend in the road.  "There is a tension between form and what's going on in the real world.  And the form (dips, ditches, open fields, etc.) isn't just a product of what I see, but combines what I know about constructing paintings with some deep and as yet unconscious memory system with what I see in the landscape." Laura Von Rosk received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, and her BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase, NY.  Her awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, a grant from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, and residencies at Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, The Millay Colony, Centrum, and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony.
 

Don Wynn

Don Wynn
“Rabbit Hunters”, acrylic on paper, 18" x 24". Minimum Bid: $4500.
Bio: Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1942, Don Wynn has a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Indiana University. He has received awards from the Elizabeth T. Greenshields Memorial Foundation, Montreal; the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown; and the New York State CAPS Program. Wynn’s active and diverse exhibition career began with the first of numerous New York City solo shows in 1964. In 1970, his work first received international recognition in the Whitney Museum’s landmark Twenty-Two Realists exhibition. In 1978, he was the first living artist to be given a solo exhibition at the Adirondack Museum. In 1995, the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired one of his oils for its Twentieth Century Collection (the first Adirondack resident artist so honored since Rockwell Kent).  Although Wynn’s work was classified as New Realism at the start of his career, many reviewers have since noted that his paintings are distinct from this movement. Rather than being literal depictions of subjects, they are interpretive, at times presenting myths in secular guise, often in a subliminal or allusive way. Wynn’s formal means include the use of highly developed, complicated surfaces, which are critical to achieving the final visual and psychological result.