2022 Annual Art Auction
Auction Night
Saturday, November 19 / 6:30–9:00 pm
Silent auction begins at 6:30-8:00 pm
Live auction begins at 8:00 pm sharp!
Location: VAPA | 700 N Tryon St, Charlotte NC 28202
Tickets
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- $25.00 – Member
- $35.00 – Non Member
FEATURED IMAGES
TROY HULL – DEEP THOUGHT
Print information: Archival Pigment Print / 16” x 20” / Artist Proof / 2016
About the Artist:
Troy Hull began his career as a videographer and ENG truck operator in television news and sports. Over the years, he has had the opportunity to work on many major stories. From presidential visits from President Bill Clinton to President Barack Obama to being on the coast during several hurricanes that have hit the Carolinas. He understands the pressure of the news business. His hard work has paid off with several industry awards such as an Emmy and AP Press awards.
After more than twenty-five years as a news and sports videographer, Troy decided to turn his eye toward still photography. Every year, his children would bring home boring sports pictures that may have worked in the 1970s but not today. He wanted action pictures of his children that looked like the trading cards of old. He now brings that passion to all his photography work.
Website: tcooperhullphotography.com
DAN BURKHOLDER – PARADE WATCHERS, ROMANIA
Print information: Platinum/Palladium Print / 8.5” x 8.5” / Signed / Artist Proof / 2019
About the Artist:
A master platinum printer, Dan was one of the first fine art photographers to champion digital technology by creating the digital negative in 1992. His methods allowed him to embrace the unlimited control of the new Adobe Photoshop and produce a negative from a computer file. His “digital negative” was used to print in the classic darkroom making beautiful handcrafted platinum prints in the early days of digital imaging when printers fell far short of producing fine art quality results.
By sharing his pivotal methods, Burkholder has become a unique teacher and mentor for thousands of photographers by bridging the worlds of classic photography with the evolving digital era. He continues to forge ahead into new areas of photography, preaching the fine art potential of the Apple iPhone and the smaller micro 4/3 cameras.
His innovations introduced two original darkroom techniques, creating the pigment over platinum print in 2001 and the platinum over gold leaf print in 2007.
Website: https://www.danburkholder.com/#/
ROBERT RINGHAM – MICHAEL JORDAN & PATRICK EWING
Print information: Archival Pigment Photograph (1990) / 12” x 17.5” / Signed
About the Artist: Robert Ringham was a photojournalist for the Chicago Sun for many years. While in Chicago, he covered sports events, including the Chicago Bears and their Super Bowl victory, the Chicago Bulls NBA championship seasons, and the White Sox and the Cubs crosstown rivalry. He also photographed the arts including the Lyric Opera, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and concerts with performers from Frank Sinatra to Bruce Springsteen.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/bob.ringham
MAX HIRSHFELD – UPSIDE DOWN
Print information: Archival Pigment Print / 9” x 12” / Signed
About the Artist: Max Hirshfeld is recognized as a master at spotting decisive moments while revealing the warmth and humanity of his subjects. He has undertaken several focused projects over the past two decades. From 2002-2005, in a series titled One Shot, Hirshfeld captured individual pedestrians in a single frame of film amid the chaos and color of urban settings in major cities across the United States. For his 2008 series, Looking at Looking, he spent over a year wandering through the National Gallery of Art, documenting the jazz-like dance movements of visitors as they viewed master works in the collection. In the spring of 2013, Hirshfeld commenced his Illuminaries series, which highlights key players in the Washington, DC arts and cultural scene. The project serves as an important record of the extraordinary figures contributing to the advancement of Washington arts.
Website: https://maxhirshfeldpictures.com/
PATRICIA A. BENDER – GEOMETRY 312
Print information: Unique Oxidized Gelatin Silver Cliche Verre (2019) with Colored Pencil (2021) / 8” x 10” / Signed
About the Artist: Patricia A. Bender (b. 1954, Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is a photo-based visual artist living and working in New Jersey and Michigan. She works exclusively in the darkroom with black and white media, and personally creates each image from the moment it is conceived through the finished gelatin silver print. She has recently added drawing to her artistic practice. Bender has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Michigan State University, and Olivet College, as well as many other public, corporate, and private collections.
Website: https://patriciaabender.com
WILLIAM GUION – OAKS IN FOG, MANRESA RETREAT
Print information: Gelatin Silver Photograph / 8” x 10” / Signed
About the Artist: “My goal with Louisiana’s oaks is to photograph and document as many as I can in the time I’m allowed and to help create an appreciation of these centuries-old icons of the Southern landscape. As a result of this journey, I’ve also become interested in the preservation and conservation of historic and significant trees. historic and sacred landscapes across the country as well as preservation of historic and significant sacred places…”
Website: https://www.williamguion.com
BRYCE LANKARD – ELVIS IMPERSONATOR
Print information: Gelatin Silver Photograph / 8” x 10” / Signed
About the Artist: Bryce Lankard is a North Carolina native and graduate of UNC–Chapel Hill. His work has been published in numerous magazines, including the Village Voice and the New York Times Magazine. In 1995 he cofounded Tribe Magazine in New Orleans, serving as creative director. After Hurricane Katrina, he cofounded the nonprofit New Orleans Photo Alliance. Since returning to North Carolina, he has helped develop and coordinate what is now the Click! Triangle Photography Festival. His most recent project, Drawn to Water, debuted as a solo exhibition at Flanders Gallery in Raleigh in October 2016.
“The core of my photography is anchored in the documentary tradition. I have always been attracted by the emotional reactions to the world around me that I have had as a human, and as an American, albeit one with an admittedly Southern persuasion. Growing up in the heart of the bible belt and living in the rapidly evolving world at the end of a millennium, I have been filled with a sense of wonder and curiosity.”
Website: https://brycelankard.com
DOLORES LUSITANA – BLUE MOON
Print information: Archival Pigment Print / 7” x 10”
About the Artist: Dolores Lusitana is a self-taught artist, designer and producer. Her photographs often have an abstract painterly quality that invites the viewer to experience their everyday surroundings a bit differently.
Website: https://www.doloreslusitana.com/
MICHAL GREENBOIM – OPEN BOOK – BUTTERFLY
Print information: Archival Pigment Print, Diptych / 5” x 15” / Signed
About the Artist: “Michal’s photographs are like whispers. They speak quietly about important things: childhood, memory, secrets. Her photographs are harmonious, poetic and lyrical lines that use color to seduce and haunt. They trigger my senses, especially touch and smell. Michal uses the camera to observe the world around her, often using a macro scale to pull us in. Her pictures explore a way of seeing that only the camera sees. I love that. She pushes at depth of field and focus to point at the way we might observe as children and the way we often remember as adults. She brings together disparate subject matter to create a deeper conversation about seeing. Really Seeing. The images become a mediation on form as a way to access memory.” Cig Harvey
Website: https://www.michalgreenboim.com/portfolioorchard-trail
KRISTINA ROGERS – UNTITLED
Print information: Archival Pigment Print / 9” x 12” /Artist Proof / Signed (1992)
About the Artist: Rogers was born in Heidelberg, Germany on February 11, 1945, just months before the end of World War II. After the war, the family emigrated first to London, England in 1947, and then to the United States in 1950. When Kristina was nine years old, her family moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. Rogers’ contentious relationship with the religious education she received in childhood would provide fertile ground upon which she would later question, challenge, and engage these early teachings through her photographic work, in search of deeper spiritual and philosophical resonance. Rogers recalled these childhood and adolescent experiences, stating: “…this was when my lifelong quest for knowledge and understanding began.”
