SILENT AUCTION

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Southern Graphics Council and to support our New Orleans conference a silent auction will take place during the conference.  Items will include original prints, books, historically related print artifacts and print supplies.  All items will have a starting (minimum) bid and will be boxed and ready to carry. The auction is organized by Susan Goldman.  For information contact:

Susan Goldman
11121 Luxmanor Road
Rockville, MD 20852
phone: 301-231-9054
fax: 301-231-9123
email: goldmanprint@hotmail.com

TIME LINE:

March 10, 2002  items arrive to Bill Kitchens in New Orleans

April 3, 2002, noon-4pm  hang auction show in Radisson Exhibition Hall

April 5, 2002, 3:30pm.  last bids accepted, take show down at 4pm

April 5, 2002,  7:30pm Banquet Dinner, announce auction winners, items to be picked up that evening or the next morning

April 9, 2002   send letter of thanks to donors
 

A PREVIEW OF SOME AUCTION ITEMS:

WARRINGTON COLESCOTT
"Down Tchoupitoulis Street"
1997 
color etching
17.75" x 24"
published by Mantegna Press
retail value: $1100
minimum bid: $800

IGOR MAKAREVICH
"Desert," 
2001 
screenprint produced at Hand Print Workshop by Dennis O'Neil
22 x 29 inches
retail value: $500
minimum bid: $200

RANDY BOLTON
"Kitty Girl," 
1999
4-Color Screenprint
26" x 19" paper size
retail value: $500
minimum bid: $200

RANDY BOLTON
"Puppy Boy," 
1999 
4-Color Screenprint 
26" x 19" paper size 
retail value: $500 
minimum bid: $200

BILL FICK
"Wrapped Head #4"
2000
Linocut
30" x 22"
retail value: $300
minimum bid: $50

KAREN KUNC
"Offering Time"
2001
Artist Book: Woodcut, Letterpress on Shaped Japanese Nishinouchi Paper
Accordian Fold 6, _" x 78" unfolded: 6, _" x 8 folded: 
Folio Box: Intaglio Cover with Watercolor
retail value: $600
minimum bid: $200

KRISHNA REDDY
"Whirl Pool"
1962
color engraving printed by simultaneous inking.
retail value: $1,800
minimum bid: $1,100

JOE SEGURA AND MARK KLETT
"can from painted desert"
1992 
photolithograph
47" x 34"
ed. 20
published by Segura Publishing Co.
retail value: $1600
minimum bid: $800
 

ANDREI CODRESCU
"Three Nearly New Poems"
Limited-edition artists book. 
(2 copies available for purchase) 
Produced in collaboration with Dan Mayer.
"Three Nearly New Poems" is a collaborative book project between poet Andrei Codrescu and Dan Mayer. The limited-edition artists book was designed and organized in Arizona by Dan Mayer and produced in residence with Andrei Codrescu and Leslie Koptcho at the Louisiana State University printmaking studios. The 2-quarto bookform was printed by hand on a Vandercook cylinder press in nine runs (six runs from hand-processed photopolymer plates). Two relief runs were hand-inked a la poupée. The bookform includes a die-cut cover passed through the Vandercook, movable text-title page (reader propelled) fastened by a metal eyelet, map-style fold-out book format with three new poems by Andrei Codrescu, and a relief collage image by Dan Mayer. The papers used are Rives heavyweight and Kitatkata. The book is hand-sewn pamphlet style in an edition of 155 copies (125 Arabic and 30 Roman numbers). The bookform measures 5 x 7" closed and 10 x 14" opened. Signed by Andrei Codrescu and Dan Mayer. Andrei Codrescu is a poet, essayist, and commentator for National Public Radio. He teaches in the English Department at Louisiana State University and is the editor of the on-line journal "Exquisite Corpse".Dan Mayer has been making books and prints for 20 years and is the Studio Manager and Book Arts Printer for Arizona State University's Pyracantha Press since 1986.
retail value: $310
minimum bid: $225

ADELE HENDERSON
"Abiogenesis No. 8"
1993 
5 color lithograph
30" x 22"
ed. 8
retail value: $550
minimum bid: $300

PYRAMID ATLANTIC COLLECTION OF SEVEN BOOKS
Start or add to to your book arts collection with this wonderful group of titles from Pyramid Atlantic.  The batch includes Johanna Drucker's "Simulant Portrait, David Franks "Musical Worlds", The Guerrilla Girls "Guerrilla Girls Greatest Hits", Davi Det Hompson's "Dung Vag", Mel Watkin's "Black and Blue: Hearts and Minds", Alan Michelson's "The Conspiracy of Pontiac (Autobiography)", and Joan Wolbier's "23 Eggs."  For more information on these projects, visit the Pyramid Atlantis web site at: http://www.pyramidatlantic.org/
retail value: $215.50
minimum bid: $200

CONTEMPORARY IMPRESSIONS
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINT ALLIANCE
BACK ISSUES, 2 SETS AVAILABLE
Each Contemporary Impressions back issues set contains 18 journals (Spring 1993 through Fall 2000), complete with an original print for each year, therefore it includes prints by 
J. Nebraska Gifford, Barry Smylie, Barbara Yoshida, Douglas Dowd, Kenneth Kerslake, Dot Krause, Kathryn Maxwell, Walter Askin and April Katz.  The acclaimed journal offers articles, interviews and commentary on prints, paperworks and artist books, primarily in the Americas, with duotone illustrations throughout.
retail value: $275 per set if not currently a subscriber to the journal
minimum bid: $75 (each)

100 SHEETS OF RIVES BFK - 22 X 30 INCHES
COURTESY OF STEPHEN KINSELLA PAPER COMPANY
1-800-445-8865
retail value: $200
minimum bid: $120

Note: additional items to be posted on this web site as they are confirmed.