Lauren Anderson

Title: Untitled
Year: 2007
Dimensions: 16" x 20" framed
frame archival with 8 ply matt
Paper: Digital archival print
Edition size: A.P.
Price: Retail $350, Minimum bid: $150Medium: 35mm Black and White photograph, digital archival A.P. print

Untitled

Fish Bowl

"Photography, in its purest form, is the ultimate representational art. You see something, you capture its photo, and you portray what you see. What I strive for with my work is more, if you will, photo impressionism; I want to leave you with impressions more than perfect representations. I want to recreate the feeling of walking through the busy streets of Manhattan, stimuli jumping at your senses from every direction. I want you to notice the beautiful details of life in San Francisco that we tend to overlook in our hasty lives. And I challenge you to remember that there is often more to what you see than what is visible upon first glance- there is beauty to be found even in a federal prison. By compositing my images and arranging them in an unconventional pattern, I invite you to explore the photos in a new way. To look beyond the surface. The three dimensionality of the work is intended to startle your senses and force you beyond the image itself. The empty spaces represent the gaps in a person's perception; we so rarely are able to absorb the totality of what we see. And they also leave room for the viewer to fill with his or her own impressions; each piece is intended to be as interactive as it is expressive. My hope with my sculptural photography is to create an artistic experience that challenges your senses while Engaging in your mind"

Kelly Donahey
kellydonahey.com

Title: 3c01280u Date Unknown Name Unknown
Dimensions: 11x14

3c01280u

"While the images and objects that I create present varied manifestations; their objectives are inextricably bound. My art is a constant annotation of existence in a complex society. Currently focusing on the implications of historical fact; my portraits are a critique on the lack of empirical analysis and the emphasis on the narrative in popular culture."

Geras Tousignant Gallery www.gtfineart.com

Title:Room
C print
dimensions: 11" x 15"on 16" x 20" paper
Framed: archival Frame 8 ply matt frame size 20" x 24"

Room

"I make photographs because they are instantly digested as real. Despite the prevalence of digital manipulation, one accepts a photograph as concrete, that whatever captured on the film exists. The ostensible authenticity of photography, like the words "based on a true story" in a film, heightens the effect on the viewer. The staged, cinematic work of Jeff Wall and Anthony Goicolea has furthered my sensitivity to the value of creating scenarios. I am drawn to possibilities of dioramas, anatomical models and roadside dramas. My images celebrate photography's ability to create realities for the study of otherwise indescribable emotions"

Geras Tousignant Gallery www.gtfineart.com

happy

Matthew Gordon
Collage

Sound Absorbing

Setting the anticipator for multilevel living. There has to be a world that is meant to provide storage. Fitting the pattern to the room creates ever widening contexts of significance. An easy to mount and maintain, clarified sense of membership. Let's take a break from the constant re-ordering process

Norm Halm
Photography

Geras Tousignant Gallery www.gtfineart.com

Title:Ram Horn & Skull Detail
Silver Gelatin Prints
dimensions: 8" x 10"each
editin size 20, signed by the artist

Ram Horn Skull Detail

"I was born in 1976 in Fremont, Ohio. My romance with photography began at age eight when I received a Fischer Price camera as a gift.
I graduated from the Ohio Institute of Photography and Technology in Dayton, Ohio with an associate's degree in commercial photography. I was awarded with the Outstanding Portfolio Award for the class of 1997. In October of 1997, I moved to San Francisco on a Greyhound Bus with very few belongings. I began working as a freelance assistant and black & white printer for commercial photography studios. From 1998 to 2005 I was apprentice to Daniel Nicoletta. From 2002 to 2005 I also assisted Said Nuseibeh. I've exhibited my work in several group and solo exhibits including Geras Tousignant Gallery, Focus Gallery, Catherine Clark Gallery, Arlequin Garden Room Gallery, Toledo Ohio Art Museum, G&P Oz Caf?, Borders Books & Music, and Tea & Co., World Tea House.
I am fascinated by humanity's desire to understand and explain the reality of our physical world. Religion, Philosophy, Science and Art relentlessly offer evolving theories and paradigms of thought. I make a photograph without acknowledging the ephemeral states of space, gravity or time. conceive my images as though the objects spring from pure blackness, spontaneously and beautifully. I deify the subject and empathize with its timeless nature."

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Jason Hanasik
Photography
California College of the Arts www.jasonhanasik.com

Title: Steven in a bed of flowers
photograph, 2007

Steven in a bed of flowers

Jason Hanasik is an artist, writer, and art educator. His work has appeared in various publications including the anthology Photography Now and JPG magazine. In 2003, Hanasik was the recipient of the Patricia K. Ross Award administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts and named a Thayer Fellowship Finalist. Hanasik is originally from Virginia Beach, VA but is currently living in San Francisco while he pursues his Master of Fine Arts in the Visual Arts at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

"Steven in a bed of flowers is a photograph from my upcoming thesis project "He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore.' This project looks at male Marines who have returned from war and asks questions about their relationship to normative culture. This photograph interests me for its ability to situate the Marine body in a landscape that is surprising for not only it's gender associations but also for it's exposure of the very small index of ways in which the Marine has been historically photographed and allowed to be presented in popular culture."

Christina Koci Hernandez
Photography

Geras Tousignant Gallery www.gtfineart.com

Title: Oink
Silver Gelatin Print, Selenium toned
dimensions: 10" x 10" on 11" x 14" paper
Framed: archival Frame 8 ply matt frame size 21" x 21"
Signed, numbered by the artist in pencil
year made: 2008 year printed: 2008

Edition size 15, Print # 1/15

Oink

Amy Keefer

California College of the Arts

Title: Spare

Spare

Christine Kesler
Painting


Title: Somewhere Else in the World
Mixed Media on Bristol
12x16

California College of the Arts

Somewhere Else in the World

Title: Tree Pose
collage, 2006 (Spectrum donation)

Tree Pose

David King's work has been showcased in Europe and across the U.S., including venues such as Artist's Space in New York, The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and The Lab, both located in San Francisco. His collages are constructed in the traditional cut and paste method and explore his response to sexuality, spirituality, and being HIV+. He will be an artist-in-residence at the San Francisco Dump this fall.

"Tree Pose and Nearly There are part of my 'Benevolent Beings' series. The intention was to create pieces, which, despite all the troubles in the world, mirror the peacefulness and benevolent energy that is also part of my experience."

Gene Lee
Photography

geneleephoto.com

Title: Untitled
Dimensions: 8"x11"
Giclee Print on Metallic Paper
Retail: $350
Min Bid: $150

Untitled

"The narrative power of the photograph captured my imagination at an early age and continues to compel me to create allegorical images. I start with the emotions I want to evoke from my audience and construct the scene to meet my goal. While photographs can be powerful as a mass produced item, I find they can also be precious as unique objects, each piece imbued with the artifacts from the artist's hand."

Gene Lee graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and moved out to San Francisco in 1996. He's filled with gratitude for his art exhibits and commercial assignments shown internationally.

Elyse Mallouk
California College of the Arts

Elysemallouk.com

Title: "Untitled"
(Painting 1 of a series of 7 made for Rapture installation)
oil on linen
12"x9"

Untitled

"In Rapture (2008), an immersive animated light installation, gems fly upward in a vertiginous environment that surrounds the viewer. Gemstones are rocks that are culled from the ground and polished, imbued with human time, energy, and symbolic meaning. The piece explores the desire to make something natural and rough into something polished and precious, in the attraction to things we perceive as eternal, and in the reasons these things are valuable to us. The paintings generated out of the installation are physical attempts to grasp the precious objects as they ascend."

Rebekah May
Drawing

California College of the Arts
Rebekahmay.com

Title: 19,599 Lines or Hours

Sharpies on Reeves BFK
22 x 22 inches
2007

19,599 Lines or Hours

Alex Palomo
Photography

Geras Tousignant Gallery www.gtfineart.com

Title: Bohemian Sunset:Print
Dimensions: 11" x 14" print size
6" x 20" framed

Framed archival with 8 ply matt

Bohemian Sunset

Lauren Parent
Painting

www.laurenparent.com

Title: Remnants of Sculpture
Ink and Watercolor on Vellum
Dimensions: 24"x19"

Remnants of a Sculpture

"Remnants of Sculpture (bridge the gap) A" is part of a series of labor-intensive drawings of industrial castoffs. These mass produced (often overlooked) materials have a generic sense of history; they do not reference a specific time, place or function. For me, the process of drawing is a method of organization - lines and forms are spatially below, above, under or over.

Motivation for this method of working is a reaction to the chaos of life. Yet, despite my attempt to control piles of disorderly remnants, my drawings become unconsciously complicated by beauty. In this way, a small gesture exists in a continuum between process and aesthetics."

Lauren Parent lives and works in Oakland CA. She recently completed her Masters of Fine Arts Degree at California College of the Arts.

Piero Passacantando

California College of the Arts

Title: OFU
Watercolor and gouache on paper
7"x6 3/4"

OFU

Piotr Perski
Painting

Title: Cielo II ( Sky )
oil on canvas
dimensions: 21" x 29"

Cielo

Lightning Train

"I make silent photographs. I attempt to photograph scenes that express stillness, yet maintain power and confidence. Black and white photography underscores my desire for simplicity. I choose images that represent the essence of serenity, strength and light. I also aim for uniqueness. I aspire that the ordinary scene becomes extraordinary through my choice of composition and use of technique (light exposure, development and printing). In a sense nature is transformed into art. "

Irene Pena
Photography

Geras Tousignant Gallery www.gtfineart.com

Title: Serie Codigovestmenta - 5504-06
Silver Gelatin Print
dimensions: 8" x 10"

Serie Codigovestmenta - 5504-06

"I studied photography at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California. In 1993, after completing my studies, I returned to Costa Rica and worked in advertising photography for four years. I felt that I had to continue developing my fashion portfolio so I moved back to Los Angeles in 1998.

At the time, Los Angeles was starting to become an important area for fashion design. It was a great experience since I met and worked with various talented designers, such as Nikolaki and Louis Verdad, whose work is highly recognized and respected within the US fashion industry. I also had the opportunity to collaborate in photographic projects with the Coalition of Los Angeles Designers (C.L.A.D.) and Gen Art L.A.

I returned to Costa Rica in 2002, where I have been creating interesting photography projects, working in collaboration with Costa Rican fashion designers and artists."

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Michael Knud Ross
Painting

Geras Tousignant Gallery www.gtfineart.com

Title: Approaching San Francisco, 08
oil on wood
dimensions: 16" x 13"
Retail Value: 1,200.

Approaching San Franisco, 08

Born in Norway in 1977, and grew up in Finland and in the Washington, DC area. He studied painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art for two years, transferred to the University of Maryland, and graduated in 2000 with a degree in anthropology. He has since been working as a painter and a sculptor, showing mainly in the DC-Baltimore area. In 2004 he finished his first public art project, nine bronze 'call box' sculptures for the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, DC.

"I love paintings with movement, tension, and delicately strained balance. I have always been drawn to Gericault's Raft of the Medusa because of its grand drama, theatrical effects, heroic struggle, and its sheer size and audacity. My own painting, Lost at Sea, nods to Gericault and to others who painted beautiful dramas at sea and on land. In Lost at Sea, a man unwisely stands in the unstable boat and begins to fall. Those around him reach out to help him -- or brace themselves against his fall. Others retreat into their own trances: an older man in the stern looks backward, as if to the past; a young mother in the bow looks forward, blindly hoping for a better future. A lone rower fights the bigger problem of the sea. Lost at Sea does not depict an actual, historic event; in a metaphorical sense, however, we have all been lost at sea, helplessly adrift in an endless present."

Title: Cave, 2007

Cave, C-print. 2007

Laura Sackett lives and works in the San Francisco area. She received a BA in graphic design from the Academy of Art University in 1987, and worked as a designer and art director for over a decade. Since closing her design business in 2000, she has pursued fine art photography and is currently an MFA candidate at the California College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at spaces including Center for Photography in Carmel, Pacific Center Northwest in Seattle, Kodak Offices + Gallery in Emeryville, and the Houston Center for Photography. In 2002, she helped create and is currently a board member of PhotoAlliance, a Bay Area non-profit organization dedicated to contemporary photography.

"My current photographic work, a continuation and expansion of my family work, explores the liminal state of adolescence and the complexity of that transitional time. My subject is not youth culture or the teenager as much as it is the psychological and emotional experience that is inherent during this period of life. Themes of identity and intimacy, separation and sexuality, vulnerability and confidence emerge as traces of the intensity of this time. This image, "Cave," illustrates that possibility and the seeming blackness of the unknown."

Anna Simson
Screenprinting

California College of the Arts

Title: Serrano Storm
Silkscreen
22" x 30"

Serrano Storm

Peices Offered (not shown)

Title: "Gallina y los burladores", 1980
Description: Lithograph, signed and dated lower left, Artist's proof
Size: 11 7/8 inches x 7 7/8 inches

Title: " Cabezudos en descanso"
Description: Etching, signed lower left, Artist proof
Size: 11 7/8 inches x 7 7/8 inches

Generously donated by John Larson and Leslye Russell Larson

An example of Luis Solari work- Not actual Piece offered.

Luis Solari (1908-84) was born in Uruguay. The eminent art historian, Edward J. Sullivan, called him "Another of Uruguay's greatest artists." He emerged as an important national and international figure with his own brand of Magic Realism as early as the 1940's.

His work included reference to myths, folklore, oral traditions and popular culture. It is at once metaphorical and evocative. In the 1960's he began to experiment with metal engraving using innovative techniques, especially the superimposition of plates and spontaneous elements.

His muted palate evokes an unearthly atmosphere and invites the viewer into a reverie about the mystery of things. His work often poses the questions about the nature of perceived reality as opposed to a dream state. He is also a sharp critic of the social order.

Monika Steiner
Painting

Geras Tousignant Gallery www.gtfineart.com

Title: Connect
oil on wood
dimensions: 19" x 26".

Connect

"Abstraction is my way to describe what I cannot see physically, what is beyond the tangible. I take an idea and remove all that is familiar to me, seeking the true essence, what's left is something that has a much deeper grasp of reality.

My paintings and bronze sculptures journal my emotional response to passages and experiences in my life. When I resonate with an abstract idea, I use the most basic elements of art to capture it- lines and boundaries of color.

I am drawn to the power and economy of lines as signifiers. Lines unite, separate, represent ideas, describe paths, provoke emotion, and create language. Colors directly colonize the subconscious.

My creative process consists of adding and eliminating. The gradual building up of layers of color and texture, creates depth and translucency."

Born in Switzerland, Monika Steiner received her BFA degree from Sonoma State University. She has had several solo shows since, and is in private collections here and abroad.

She is currently represented by Geras-Tousignant Gallery in San Francisco, Erickson Fine Art in Healdsburg and Marji Gallery in Santa Fe.

Monika paints and sculpts full time. She also teaches abstract art classes in Marin County.

Tree of Life

"I love recalling collective memories of peaceful horizons, creating environments with open, expansive, clear horizons‚ an old tree, a vista of pastureland, and the distant billowing clouds of my lazy youth.

Trees order the life on Earth, Daniel Tousignant compellingly declares that leaf-heavy branches in summer reflect the beauty and vulnerability of all living things. From an orderly thicket of green symmetry, one sees balance and proportion not yielding to nature's randomness. Next and contrarily, one observes boughs refusing to hide a sunset, while persuading the viewer to reach back for a concealed memory from a simple and effortless time. His paintings are layered; a kind of soft flowing across every inch of the surface..
Mr. Tousignant has attended the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Chicago Art Institute, Central School of Art in London, and the highly respected Royal Academy in London, England.

Looking at the work of San Francisco artist and gallery owner Daniel Tousignant is like staring at a freeze frame of the best dream you've ever had, and the effect is a sudden wash of chest-clutching happiness. The beauty evoked by his landscape is so intense that it elevates them into the realm of abstraction, even though on the surface they're utterly representative. There is some living depth, all the more fascination for its hiddenness, breathing behind every leafy branch. The artist says that trees reflect the beauty and vulnerability of all living things. Maybe this vulnerability is what we see just under the surface of his canvasses, and what elicits such a visceral reaction to his work."

- Tim Clark Metropolitan Magazine, Barcelona Spain.

Matthew Trygve Tung
Printing

Represented by: Geras Tousignant Gallery www.gtfineart.com

Title: NY Sequence II
Etching 3" x 6" plate size on 11" x 15" paper
This piece is beautifully framed archival.
dimensions: 16" x 20" framed

NY Sequence II

"Through elaborate suites of etchings, intricate ink drawings, and handcrafted artists books, I seek to examine overarching themes of impermanence as embodied by both built and natural landscapes. Change comes in all forms and at all times, gently and with force, from within and from without. Man and nature alike take their effect upon each other, as well as on themselves. Impermanence is inescapable and evidenced in both drawn out history and everyday occurrence, yet is often best exposed through its dramatically destructive forces. My work is born out of engagement with my native environment, San Francisco, as well as all other landscapes I encounter and inhabit, and is built upon intensive research and amassing of histories. At its core is the methodical nature of its creation; meticulous mark making, focused labor, and perfected process bring the work into being. Craft and tradition are imperative. When the single image is not powerful enough, the Succession of images come into play, and when images alone are not enough, written word is introduced, creating a communion between text and image; allowing each to pick up where the other leaves off. Ultimately each element of my work is an essential source of one single unified entity with no disconnect between process and product, nor inspiration and actualization."

Jay Tyrrel
Photography

Geras Tousignant Gallery www.gtfineart.com

Title: Spring, Sunday, 11:06 AM
C print, mounted on aluminum with a recessed back and coated with a protective luster laminate
dimensions: 18" x 38"
edition size 5
signed by the artist

Spring, Sunday, 11: 06 Am

Marsha Vdovin
Photography

http://marshavdovin.com/

Title: Blue Depth
Dimensions: 16" x 20"

Bue Depth

Annalisa Vobis
www.annalisavobis.com

Title: Model
Seaweed / wire thread
Dimensions: 13" x 3"

Detail of biomimicry series (not actual donated piece)