Dennis Cooper's He Cried (Black Star Series, 1984)
Steve Abbott's Lives of the Poets (Black Star Series, 1987)
Starting bid: $75
Estimated value $200
Current bid: $75
Item #69: Prose for Poets #2: Signed Book Bundle Curated by Lucy Corin
Signed Books by Bay Area Authors in Support of SPT!
Bundle #2
Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?
Lauren Markham, A Map of Future Ruins
Colin Winnette, Users
Lisa Brown, The Phantom Twin
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds
R. O. Kwon, The Incendiaries
& Lucy Corin, The Swank Hotel
Starting bid: $125
Estimated value:
Current bid:
Item #68: Julian Talamantez Brolaski - Poem Draft Artwork + Signed Broadside
Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Signed Broadside "when will springtime come on in" 9.5 x 12.5 in
Handwritten poem draft "the milk of speech" 17.25 x 13 in
Courtesy of the Artist
Starting bid: $75
Estimated value: $150
Current bid: $75
Item #67: Beatrice Thornton - Departing Spheres Hike Vision
Beatrice Thornton
Departing Spheres Hike Vision, 2024
Multi-negative foraged plant-chemistry Gelatin Silver print
8 x 10 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Starting bid: $150
Estimated value: $300
Current bid: $200
Item #66: Alison Knowles, Robert Watts and George Brecht: BLINK
Alison Knowles, Robert Watts and George Brecht
BLINK, 1963
Screenprint and synthetic polymer paint on canvas
463x463 mm; 18x18 inches.
In 1963, the Fluxus artists Alison Knowles, Robert Watts and George Brecht collaborated in the Sissor Bros. Warehouse, Ralph Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, event commonly referred to as BLINK. This resulting commemorative eighteen inch square print with paint consisted of three images chosen at random, one selected by each artist. The image appeared on everything from canvases to bathing suits and hair brushes, and were sold at flea markets. There are additional versions of this work in The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. One was featured in by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022) at the Berkeley Museum of Art
One was sold at auction in 2023; price upon request.
Starting Bid & Estimate: on request - mrharbour@gmail.com
Current Bid:
Item #65: Prose for Poets #1: Signed Book Bundle Curated by Lucy Corin
Prose for Poets #1: Signed Book Bundle Curated by Lucy Corin
Signed books by Bay Area authors in support of SPT!
Bundle #1
Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
Rebecca Handler, Edie Richter Is Not Alone
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds
Susan Steinberg, Machine
Sam Sax, Yr Dead
R. O. Kwon, Exhibit
& Lucy Corin, The Swank Hotel
Starting bid: $125
Estimated value: $250
Current bid: $135
Item #64: 2 Issues of HOW(ever)
2 Issues of HOW(ever)
Vol. VI, No. 2 (October 1990)
Vol. VI, No. 3 (Summer 1991)
Starting bid: $50
Estimated value: $150
Current bid: $50
Item #63: Hannah Zeavin - Parapraxis Swag
Hannah Zeavin
A complete set of the first issues of Parapraxis, bag, & hat
Starting bid: $85
Estimated value: $200
Current bid: $115
Item #62: Julia Schwartz - #4381 (3 part central dark purple on ochre ) construction remnant
Julia Schwartz
#4381 (3 part central dark purple on ochre ) construction remnant, 2024/2025
Caran D'ache on Hardie panel
9 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
Starting bid: $100
Estimated value: $350
Current bid: $200
Item #61: Bruce Boone / Robert Glück: La Fontaine (signed
La Fontaine
Black Star Series, 1981
Signed by both Bruce Boone and Robert Glück
Starting Bid: $75
Estimated Value: $225
Current Bid: $130
Item #60: Christine Hou - Spoil
Christine Hou
spoil
Original print of a collage on paper
8 x 9 inches
https://christinehou.com/
Starting Bid: $75
Estimated Value: $250
Current Bid:
Item #59: Robert Glück ceramic
Robert Glück
Ceramic vase
Starting Bid: $150
Estimated Value: $300
Current Bid: $300
Item #58: Steuart Pittman - Spirit Gone
Steuart Pittman
Spirit Gone, 2017
Oil and acrylic on panel with painted frame
7.5 x 8.5 inches
steuartpittman.com
Starting Bid: $300
Estimated Value: $1800
Current Bid: $400
Item #57: Reme Ghuloum - Rose
Rema Ghuloum
Rose, 2022-2023
Oil and acryla-gouache on canvas
23 x 17 inches
Starting Bid: $1500
Estimated Value: $5000
Current Bid: $1500
Item #55: Andrew Wilson - And being dead is hard work
Andrew Wilson
And being dead is hard work, 2022
oil on board
5 x 5 inches
Starting Bid: $100
Estimated Value: $500
Current Bid: $100
Item #54: Kimberly Robertson - In Aunties We Trust
Kimberly Robertson
In Aunties We trust
14-color serigraph unframed (20 x 26), edition of 41, published by Self Help Graphics and Art 2018 |
BIO: Kimberly Robertson is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, a Professor of American Indian Studies at California State University, Long Beach, and an artist. Her scholarship and creative practices center Native feminisms, the sexual and gendered
violence of settler colonialism, ceremony, storytelling, decolonization, and Indigenous
futurities. She has published in journals such as Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society and Wicazo Sa Review, as well as peer-reviewed anthologies such as Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness and Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters. She is an active member of the Los Angeles Indian community and facilitates beading circles and art-making workshops both locally and nationally and is a founder and former Co-Creative Director of Meztli Projects.
Starting Bid: $250
Estimated Value: $350
Current Bid: $250
Item #53: Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles
Approximately 4" x 11" torn shard of wrinkled paper with tiny xeroxed copy of portrait of Paul Thek by Peter Hujar with text alluding to the circumstances in which the shard was found. Eileen Myles wrote a catalogue essay in 2020 about the work of Moyra Davy and Peter Hujar and during the time of the writing they placed xeroxes of the entire show all over their apartment and in the halls of their building to approximate an exhibition. All of those xeroxes were taken down and filed except this one which remained hidden for five years behind a kitchen mirror. [signed & dated on the back]
https://www.eileenmyles.com/
Starting Bid: $70
Estimated Value: $500
Current Bid: $100
Item #52: Elisabeth Nicula - Untitled (for a hook, nail, or doorknob)
Elisabeth Nicula
Untitled (for a hook, nail, or doorknob), 2024
Ceramic, embroidery thread, conductive tape, steel mesh, wire
Starting Bid: $200
Estimated Value: $800
Current Bid: $200
Item #51: Ellen Burgin - Flower Spurs
Ellen Burgin
Flower Spurs, 2021
Acrylic and Posca markers on aqua board
8 x 8 inches framed; image size is 4 x 4 inches unframed
Starting Bid: $200
Estimated Value: $400
Current Bid: $200
Item #50: A selection of KRUPSKAYA books
9 books: Noah Ross, The Dogs; Maria Sledmere, Cinders; Jennifer Soong, Comeback Death (2024); Companion, Sofía Córdova, Rebeca Bollinger, Pam Martin, Yedda Morrison (2022); Kim Rosenfield, Tràma (2004); Rene Gladman, The Activist (2003).
Starting bid: $55
Estimated value: $150
Current bid: $75