The 2011 Hambidge Art Auction and Performance Gala was held on Saturday, May 14, at the Bradford Gallery, Miami Circle, Atlanta. The silent auction featured 150 emerging and established artists from across the country, dance performance by gloATL, theatrical performance by Dad’s Garage, poetic performance by Free Poetry on Demand, plus installation art, musical performances, acts of intrigue, and much, much more! Creative cuisine, signature cocktails and libations provided by local purveyors, including: Blue Moon Brewing Co., Cypress Street Pint & Plate, Dennis Dean: A Catering Company, Hearth Pizza Tavern, YEAH! Burger, and Natalie Brigmond’s Cosmic Candy.

Auction Curators/Coordinators
Ben Goldman
Jenny Jensen Minkewicz

Auction Artists

Corinne Adams + Lisa Alembik + Linda Armstrong + Meg Aubrey + Whitney Wood Bailey + Bonnie Beauchamp-Cooke + Rick Berman + Robin Bernat + Daniel Biddy + Jessica Blinkhorn + Mark Boomershine + Eileen Braun + Lucinda Bunnen + Jon Ciliberto + Karen Cleveland + Kelly Cloninger + Katy Coleman + Bethany Collins + Monica Compana + Chris Condon + Brandon Crawford + Jaynie Crimmins + Jerry Cullum + David D’Agostino + Sarah Daly + Tim Degroot + Jeff Demetriou + Terri Dilling + Yana Dimitrova + Stephanie Dowda + Amandine Drouet + Craig Drennen + Helen Durant + Brian Evans + Melissa Faduski + Mary Farmer + Shannon Felsot + Tim Flowers + John Paul Floyd + John Folsom + Doug Foltz + Barbara Foster + Jeff Gaines + Angus Galloway + Courtney Garrett + Meta Gary + Duane Georges + Rich Gere + Ben Goldman + Elissa Gore + Barry Gregg + Matt Haffner + Kate Henderson + Jenny Henley + Hense + Tony Hernandez + Shoun Hill + Julie Hilliard + Judy Holdroyd + Sara Hornbacher + Judy Horton + John Humphries + Tim Hunter + James Jernigan + Susan Ker-Seymer + Julia Kubica + Alex Kvares + Tom Lamar + Judy Lampert + Tracey Lane + Jack Lawing + Mark Leibert + Chris Lewis + George Long + Lori-Gene + Laura Martin + Pilar Martinez + Kelly McKernan + Heather McPherson + Michi Meko + Donna Mintz + Katherine Mitchell + Lynne Moody + David Morgan + Pam Moxley + Todd Murphy + Michael Murrell + Myott + Billy Newman + Kelly O’Brien + Jim O’Donnell + W. Chester Old + Clara O’Shea + Sam Parker + Margaret Patterson + Claire Paul + Fahamu Pecou + Joe Peragine + Mario Petrirena + Junco Pollack + Barbara Pyle + Teresa Reeves + Seana Reilly + Joe Remillard + Donald Robson + Rana Rochat + Paul Rodecker + Lucha Rodriguez + Dawn Roe + Pam Rogers + Cooper Sanchez + Joan Sauer + Barbara Schreiber + Suzi Selman + Sharon Shapiro + Tracy Sharp + Robert Sherer + Deanna Sirlin + DeWitt Smith + Sid Smith + Stephanie Smith + Edward Smucygz + Preston Snyder + Anne Stagg + Whitney Stansell + Marcy Starz + Mike Stedman + Rosemary Clark Stiefel + Douglas Stratton + Matthew Sugarman + John Sumner + Sunday Southern Art Revival + Jeff Surace + Marilyn Suriani + Tom Swanston + Karen Tauches + Katherine Taylor + Dayna Thacker + John Tindel + Hilary Tolan + Penny Treese + Meryl Truett + Joe Tsambiras + Lisa Tuttle + Christina Price Washington + Christian Bradley West + Michael West + Cosmo Whyte + Judy Winograd + Jennifer Yorke

PERFORMANCE & INSTALLATION ARTISTS

Jon Ciliberto + Karen Cleveland + Dad’s Garage Theatre Co. + David D’Agostino + Stephanie Dowda + & John Paul Floyd + Free Poetry on Demand + Jeff Gaines + gloATL + Klimchak + Jimmy Lo + Muleskinner MacQueen + Amber Nash + Kelly O’Brien + Sam Parker + RaRe FoRm Dj Tim Degroot + Tom Rittenhouse + Shana Robbins + Milford Thomas + R. Wals

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS

Wisp by Karen E. Cleveland
This sculpture is part of a larger installation, Wisp, a forest that requests a reconsideration of the human relationship to nature and to the woods. It requests the recognition of the energy that inhibits in and flows between all matter and all living beings. It embodies cycles the materialization/de-materialization and life/death cycles found in nature.

Karen Cleveland was raised in Atlanta Georgia and spent summers living with her aunt on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation in Montana. Her work addresses, collapses and re-imagines the relationship of humans and the natural, the magical and the everyday and the sublime and mundane. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings and in Conceptions Southwest Magazine. She has shown both locally and nationwide and has attended residencies in New Mexico, North Carolina and Vermont. She is a Winnie G. Chandler Fellow and was recently nominated for the Dedalus Grant.

www.karenecleveland.com

Performance by Amber Nash and Tom Rittenhouse of Dad’s Garage
Dad’s Garage engages, cultivates and inspires artists and audiences alike by producing innovative, scripted and improvised works that are recognized locally, nationally and internationally for being undeniably awesome.

Amber Nash currently serves as the Associate Artistic Director of Dad’s Garage Theatre where she performs, teaches and directs. She also lends her voice to the FX animated series “Archer.”

Tom Rittenhouse has been performing at Dad’s Garage since 2007 and is one of the theater company’s newest ensemble members. He’s also a professional filmmaker, both commercially and for entertainment.

www.dadsgarage.com

Axis Mundi, Monstrous Feminine in Mexico, and Tree Ghost in Iceland (three video performances) by Shana Robbins
Constructing elaborately costumed personas, Robbins “haunts” remote spaces, performing ritualized gestures for the camera and the nonhuman natural realm in Coba and the Xpu Ha Jungle, Mexico; Skeidararsandur black desert, Iceland; and the Blue Lagoon and Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon, Iceland.

Robbins lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. She has exhibited at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Marcia Wood Gallery, and Whitespace Gallery, in Atlanta; Beta Pictoris, Birmingham; Monkey Town, Brooklyn; MOBIUS, Boston; Rowan University Gallery, New Jersey; and Las Vegas Contemporary Art Center.

www.shanarobbins.com

Music by Klimchak
Klimchak will be performing his solo percussion music using his rare Marimba Lumina and his theremin.

Klimchak is a composer and performer who specializes in solo music for theater, dance and performance.

www.klimchakmusic.com

Music by The Muleskinner MacQueen Trio
Featuring The Muleskinner hisself, “The Legend” Miss Naomi Lavender, and “Stockade” Sam McPherson, playing old time music from the days prior to radio and recording.

Muleskinner MacQueen: Born in the Foothills of North Carolina with a song on my lip and a six gun on my hip.

Family Ties by Stephanie Dowda & John Paul Floyd
Family Ties recreates an accessible yet fleeting place where our past exists; created from Floyd family negatives, the cyanotypes are tied to helium balloons in a space where the audience can walk freely around and through these descriptive and nostalgic images.

Stephanie Dowda and John Paul Floyd work collaboratively in the photographic medium which often deals with nostalgia, preservation of memories and finding ones place in the natural world.

CLAIRE by Milford Thomas
Atlanta filmmaker Milford Thomas’s CLAIRE is a 53-minute black and white silent film shot on an antique hand-crank 35mm Mitchell Standard movie camera. The film toured internationally, opening festivals in Milan, Brussels, Montreal and the U.S., always accompanied by the “Orchestra de Lune,” a live 11-piece chamber orchestra performing an original score under the baton of composer Anne Richardson.

CLAIRE is loosely based on the ancient Japanese fable “Kaguyahime.” Thomas’ version tells the story of a charming elderly male couple in the rural 1920s South (Radical Faeries Jim Ferguson and Mish P. DeLight) that find an enchanting girl from the moon on their farm (Toniet Gallego ) and adopt her as their own.

CLAIRE was shot in Atlanta and other locations throughout Georgia, Tennessee, and North and South Carolina. Production monies were obtained through private fundraising, grants (including Dekalb Council for the Arts, Frameline, City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs), and generous in-kind donations.

A special 10th Anniversary screening with the live “Orchestra de Lune” is slated for November 3, 2011 at the non-profit historic Plaza Theatre, Atlanta. Composer Richardson is transposing the film’s score for string quartet for presentations beginning in 2012.

www.clairesilentmovie.com

Performance by gloATL
gloATL is a collaborative platform of exceptional contemporary experience. gloATL creates in a mode whose process is as important as the end result. The forum incubates fresh, original work through live performance, public intervention, and a choreographic lab. Part choreography and part interactive art installation, gloATL performances bridge the gap between artist and audience to explore the phenomena of reception, intention and interpretation.

www.gloatl.org

AUCTION COMMITTEE

Jamie Badoud + Bonnie Beauchamp-Cooke + Lucinda Bunnen + Carolyn Carr + Doug Foltz + Judy Higgins + Yolanda Head + Malissa Ladd + Liz Lapidus + W. Chester Old + Suzanne Shaw + Barb Williams

HOSTS

Trillium Hosts Susan & Ron Antinori + Artifacts Picture Framing + Lyn & Rick Asbill + Lucinda & Bob Bunnen + Imagers + Donna & Jeff Mintz + Claire Sterk & Kirk Elifson + Barb & Thom Williams

Buck-eye Hosts Ann Abrams + Alecia Adair-Foltz & Doug Foltz + Angelyn & Neal Chandler + Catherine & Byron Cocke + Sherry & Jeff Cohen + Annette Cone-Skelton & Robert Hipps + Lavona Currie + Martha Eskew & Chet Tisdale + Nena Griffith + Yolanda & Greg Head + Judy & Dave Higgins + Melissa Bunnen Jernigan & James Jernigan + Ann & Tim Johnson + Alfred Kennedy & Bill Kenny + Dorothy Yates Kirksley + Marianne & Dick Lambert + Judy & Scott Lampert + Liz Lapidus + Marchant & Ron Martin + Katherine Mitchell & Jack Lawing + Elizabeth & David Martin + Kayla & Rob Osborne + Jerry Pair + Private Bank of Buckhead + Susan Reed + Belinda & Ken Reusch + John J. Ryan & Wesley Chenault + Jack Sawyer & Bill Torres + Jennifer & Jeff Seavey + Preston Snyder + Deborah Sudbury + Ruth West & Bob Wells

May Apple Hosts Judy & Dick Allison + Anne & Martin Emanuel + Louise Gun + Wanda Hopkins + James Warren Jackson + Saundra Maass-Robinson + Rosemary Magee + Joan Whitcomb + Charlotte Wilen + Dina Woodruff

Hambidge 2011 Art Auction + Performance Gala