Have a heart art
holiday online exhibition
Work under $1,000
20% will benefit the Anti-Defamation League
Lauren Cohen, Bacon Heart, 2023, Ceramic and acrylic, 5 x 6 ½ x 2 ½ inches, $500
Cohen gathers the content for her paintings, sculpture, graphic novels and comedic performances by documenting a constructed life that seem to blur truth and fiction. Her various job positions become direct sources of inspiration in her work. She is currently a cue card girl for NBC's Saturday Night Live and a Gallerina at an art gallery in Chelsea. Her fourth graphic novel, “The Invisible Cue Card Girl” is complete and will be released in the winter of 2023. Cohen’s fifth novel, “Gallerina," is currently in progress. She holds a BFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA and a Masters from Royal College of Art, London, UK. Her work has been exhibited at Westbeth Gallery, New York; Wassaic Project, New York; Spring/Break Art Show, New York; The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film, New York; Van Der Plas Gallery, New York; Trestle Gallery, New York; Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York among several others.
Paul Maloney, Seen In Green, 2023, Stoneware, Glaze, Slip, 24K Gold Luster, Multiple Firings, Oxidation, 11 ½ x 7 ½ x 8 inches $400.
Paul Maloney is a ceramic artist born in Houston, Texas. His vessels are like timekeepers that stand alone as ceramic diary entries. With his own lyrics, Maloney references music, pop-culture, and the current political climate among many other topics. He attained his MFA in Ceramics from Indiana University – Bloomington. Paul has made work all throughout the United States, having opportunities at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, the Iowa Ceramics Center and Glass Studio, Penland School of Crafts, The Bascom: A Center for Visual Arts, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. He recently made his New York debut with a show of work at Spring/Break Art Show and has been included in a group ceramic show at BravinLee. He resides in Kansas City, Missouri where he is the Studio Manager at Belger Crane Yards Studio.
Barbara Sullivan, Capresso Coffee Maker, 2020, Shaped Fresco, 13 x 8 x 2 inches $900.
Barbara Sullivan’s bas-relief fresco objects that are effigies of real things; distorting and flattening both the forms and the painted surfaces allows the viewer to question their perception of perspective. Her work is about revering “the everyday”. Barbara Sullivan attended Montserrat School of Art in Beverly, MA and Concept in Portland, She received a B.A. in Visual Art and Creative Writing at the University of Maine at Farmington and an M.F.A. at Vermont College. She has given many fresco workshops at colleges and art centers throughout New England and New York. She learned the technique of making frescoes while she was the chef at Skowhegan. She shows her work at Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, Maine and recently had a retrospective at Emery Community Arts Center, University of Maine at Farmington. She recently exhibited her work in a two person show in the project room at BravinLee.
Barbara Friedman, The Prince, 2022, Watercolor on paper, 16 x 12 inches $950
This watercolor is from Barbara Friedman’s current body of work, The Hysterical Sublime, a series started during the pandemic in which imagery emerges from poured pools of paint as if in an allegory of embryonic development. Barbara Friedman has had over forty solo shows and reviews of her work have appeared in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Sun, The Irish Times, Newsday, Art in America, ARTS, Artweek, Forbes and Whitehot Magazine. She recently had a solo show from the Hysterical Sublime series at Five Myles in Brooklyn. She lives and paints in New York City where she is also a professor of art at Pace University.
Tom Sanford, Negro Modelo, 2020, Acrylic on Canvas,14 x10 inches $800
Tom Sanford is a Harlem-based artist whose work is exhibited extensively in museums and galleries around the world. His paintings, which might be considered a sort of lowbrow conceptual art, reflect a deep ambivalence about the American cultural condition. Tom was born in New York in 1975 and received a BA from Columbia University, then a MFA from Hunter College. Over a career spanning over two decades, he has exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, including numerous solo exhibitions including Galleri Faurschou (Denmark), Leo Koenig Inc (NYC), Gallery Poulsen (Copenhagen), BravinLee Progams (NYC) Western Projects (LA), Mucciaccia Contemporary (Rome), Kravets Wehby (NYC) and many others.
Vivien Collens, Orange Urban Organizer sculpture, 6 zones, Hand welded Powder-coated aluminum., 6 x 11 x 5½ inches $800.00
Vivien Collens, 3 Zone Urban Organizer Sculpture Matte Black, Hand welded Powder-coated aluminum, 4.75 x 9.25 x 3 inches $400
Vivien Abrams Collens sculpture practice includes large-scale site-specific sculpture installations. After graduating with a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, she studied in San Miguel de Allende Mexico for two years, receiving an MFA from Institute Allende. She has received numerous fellowships, including Yaddo and MacDowell. Her early works were widely shown in NYC and elsewhere in the 70s and 80s and are in museum and corporate collections. In 2015 Collens had a NYC solo exhibition, “Urban Studies and City Blocks” at the Rockefeller Center Gallery of Gensler Architects. She has exhibited large-scale public installations at sculpture parks and museums throughout the U.S.
Jac Lahav, Dream Dark Ocean, 2022, Acrylic, flashe, graphite on paper 8 x 6 inches $650
Jac Lahav (he/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, parent, arts writer, children’s book author, and community organizer. Born in Jerusalem, Israel with Iranian, Egyptian, and Polish roots, Lahav was raised in the United States and lives in Connecticut. Lahav’s work investigates community, belonging, and cultural history through expansive series of paintings and installations. With solo shows at Richmond Art Museum Indiana, Longview MFA Texas, Saginaw Art Museum Michigan, Florence Griswold Museum Connecticut, Lahav’s work can be found in multiple public collections including the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, Mount Holyoke Art Museum, Jewish Museum NY among others. Their current exhibition exploring foster care is at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London until December 2023.
Neal Hollinger, Big Brother (night light), 2021, Gypsum cement, metal, enamel paint, lamp hardware, 9 x 5 ½ x 3 inches, Plugs directly into 3-prong outlet $500
Neal Hollinger is an American painter and sculptor based in Upstate New York. He received a BFA From The School Of Art and Design at Alfred University in 1989. His work has been featured at Bravin Lee Programs, International Objects, Cleo the Gallery,DDAY, Artport Kingston, OneMile Gallery and others. His main focus has been on making sculptural lamps since 2018.
Douglas Florian, Eye Spies, 2023, Gouache on paper, 10 ½ x 10 ½ inches $950
Douglas Florian lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited at the Drawing Center of New York; BravinLee programs, Artists House, Tel Aviv, Israel, Yeshiva University Museum, New York; the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; American University Museum, Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC; the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine; and Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. He will have an upcoming solo exhibition in 2024 at Bienvenue Steinberg & J. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, The New Yorker among several other publications.
Sarah Jackson, The Power of The Grandfather, 2022, Gouache on recycled cardboard, 7 x 5 inches $500
Sara Jackson is a Jewish artist living in Brooklyn who works as a Tattoo artist in Williamsburg. She is currently fighting Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and has almost completed chemotherapy
Marilyn Minter, I Heart U, 2023, Archival inkjet print, 9 3/8 x 7 inches, PP 1/3, Edition of 10: 3 APs/ 3 PPs Signed/Numbered bottom right $950
Marilyn Minter (born 1948) is an American artist currently living and working in New York City. Minter's work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and has been included in group exhibitions in museums all over the world. In 2006, Marilyn Minter was included in the Whitney Biennial, and installed several billboards in Chelsea, New York City in collaboration with Creative Time. Her video Green Pink Caviar was exhibited in the lobby of the MoMA from 2010-2011. It was also shown on digital billboards on Sunset Boulevard in L.A. and on the Creative Time MTV billboard in Times Square, New York. In 2013, Minter was featured in “Riotous Baroque,” an exhibition that originated at the Kunsthaus Zürich and traveled to the Guggenheim Bilbao. In 2015, Minter’s retrospective Pretty/Dirty opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, TX. Pretty/Dirty traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, the Orange Country Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum in November 2016. Minter is represented by Salon 94, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Baldwin Gallery, Aspen.
Archie Rand, Social Life, 2020, Collage, acrylic, marker, pencil on illustration board, Brother P-touch type printing tape, 14 x 11 inches $950
Archie Rand (born 1949) is an artist from Brooklyn, New York. Rand's work as a painter and muralist is displayed around the world, including in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His graphic works and books are in over 400 public collections including the Metropolitan Museum Of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute Of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum, The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and The New York Public Library; and are owned by many universities, among which are Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, and Johns Hopkins.