10 Artists

1) Max Hirshfield - #19, 30x40, $2600:
-I liked his work, but David sums up my words exactly.
Plus "looking at looking" is not such a novel theme.

2) Jae Ko- JK526, (graphite piece), $5,500: 

3) Julio Bittencourt , Prestes Maia, $12,000:
I liked his work online-- but Michele has a good point. We didn't see the work in person, and there were several instances where we found "great works" to be underwhelming in person.

4) Viviane Sassen, Elvis, $9,000

5) Sarah Anne Johnson, artic wonderland :

I just want to say something about this work since everyone is crossing it off their list!
Yes, we do have a good conceptually sound work dealing with environmentalism, but Johnson deals with it in such a whimsical and fascinating way. She really shows the sublime beauty of the Arctic, adding in some of her own imagination and talent to the landscape. We may have a ton of great works in the collection, but we are lacking anything that is truly concerned with "sublimity" in landscapes and art. I find her work almost romantic, kind of like the German romanticist landscapes by Caspar David Friedrich where he infuses icebergs, trees, mountains with a sublime spirituality.

6) Matthew Buckingham *($12,000& &18,000): I just never could get into his work. I understand what he is trying to do--but the idea behind the work does not have a lasting impression on me.  And I actually don't think this work will be all that accessible to people, even though it attempts to branch out to other disciplines.

Luke Jerram, HIV & SARS, $5,000

7) Fred Cray* (Travel Diaries, $6,000& $5,000)The images are gorgeous to look at, yet I think these montages truly are "diaries"-- very personal to the artist himself, and perhaps only 100% accessible to the artist himself. 

8) Doug Keyes, The Holy Bible, 15x22.5, $2100, Cat in the Hat, 14x17, $1900, Invisible Universe, 22x33 $2600, Sugimoto, 14x23, $3200 
 

9) Jenny Morgan $5000-$12,000

10) Patrick Jacobs -$8,000-$10,000

11) Sebastiaan Bremer $9,000:

12) Lalla Essayadi * $9,000

13) Jeff Brouws – Semiotics (10,000), Farms, (12,000), Frieght Cars ($8,500), Signs without Significance ($8,500) unframed

$94,000