ART AUCTION
All proceeds to benefit
The Marfa Food Pantry
ONLINE BIDDING IS NOW CLOSED
CURRENT HOURS
Opening Reception
Friday, December 13th
5pm-9pm
Open Viewing TBD
Sealed and online bidding
throughout the week and
live auction on
Saturday, December 21st
3pm
FEATURING THE WORK OF
Ann Marie Nafziger
Camp Bosworth
Chelsea Quinlan
Jo Ann Williams
Julie Speed
Leslie Wilkes
Lisa Chestnut
Liz Potter
MAINTENANT and Volutus Records
Maryam Amiryani
Matt Scobey
Mo Eldridge
Nick Terry
Pat Keesey
Rob Mazurek
Rule Gallery & Sarah Bowling
PIECE NO. 1
Ann Marie Nafziger
River Crossing No. 3
2022
Acrylic on canvas
8” x 6”
Retail Value $1,200
Current Bid: $750
ABOUT ANN MARIE NAFZIGER
Ann Marie Nafziger is an abstract painter based in Marfa, Texas since 2022. Her practice includes spending extended periods of time outdoors and in non-human landscapes alongside studio-based activities. She received her M.F.A in painting from The University of Houston, Houston, TX. Her work has been exhibited in galleries nationally and internationally and included in private and public collections such as: City of Houston Civic Art Collection, U.S. Dept of State Art in Embassies Collection, and Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital. She was the Director of Programs at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX from 2008-2015 and served as the Mayor of Marfa from 2017-2019. In addition to her studio practice, she currently works as a fundraising consultant through her grant writing firm, Resource Match.
Website
PIECE NO. 2
Leslie Wilkes
Untitled (20.18)
2018
Gouache and graphite on paper
6” x 6” image size, 15” x 15” framed
Retail Value $1,200
Current Bid: $300
ABOUT LESLIE WILKES
Born in Monroe, Georgia in 1962, Leslie Wilkes received a BA in painting from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She attended Skowhegan School and was the recipient of the Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship Award at the MacDowell Colony. Her work has been shown and reviewed internationally.
Website
PIECE NO. 3
Jo Ann Williams
Untitled
Handwoven silk cord with Obsidian bear, carved crow feather and gold watch part as sun symbol
30” overall length
Retail Value $125
Current Bid: $200
ABOUT JO ANN WILLIAMS
Jo Ann Williams has been making jewelry incorporating found objects and gemstones since 2000. Her work has been in Sundance, Anthropologie, High Gloss Houston, Kuhn-Linscomb Houston, Menil Bookstore, Abejas, and Garza Marfa. She has been a resident and local ceramic artist in Marfa since 2004.
PIECE NO. 4
Maryam Amiryani
Snoopy and Woodstock Take a Trip
2023
Oil on linen over wood
3 7/8” x 6”
Retail Value $700
Current Bid: $300
ABOUT Maryam Amiryani
Maryam Amiryani lives and works in Marfa, TX. Is a regular volunteer at Marfa Food Pantry. Maryam is represented by Ulterior Gallery in New York, New York.
Website
PIECE NO. 5
Rob Mazurek
Snow Tone
2024
Acrylic, pencil, ink pen on wood board
12” x 12”
Retail Value $1,200
Current Bid: $800
ABOUT ROB MAZUREK
Rob Mazurek is a multidisciplinary artist/abstractivist, with a focus on electro-acoustic composition, improvisation, performance, painting, sculpture, video, film, and installation, who spent much of his creative life in Chicago, and then Brazil. He currently lives and works in Marfa, TX with his wife Britt Mazurek.
Website
PIECE NO. 6
Chelsea Quinlan
Untitled III
Automotive body filler, paper mache, acrylic, sand.
36” x 24”
Retail Value $700
Current Bid: $50
ABOUT CHELSEA QUINLAN
Chelsea Quinlan is an artist who lives and works in Marfa, Texas.
PIECE NO. 7
MAINTENANT and Volutus Records
Experiential Bundle
Volutus/Maintenant Hat & Shirt, Volutus Tape Player + 5 Tapes, TJ Tambellini (Volutus Co-Founder)High Desert Photo Print, Private TJ Tambellini Sight Specific Soundtracked Environmental Experience at Maintenant
Retail Value $395
Current Bid: $105
ABOUT MAINTENANT & VOLUTUS RECORDS
Established in 2020, MAINTENANT is an art and fighting (boxing practice twice a week!) space based in Marfa, TX with the intentions of sharing the work and thoughts of artists, musicians, film makers, writers, furniture makers, designers, and all types of creatives.
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Volutus Records was started by friends looking to create a home for side projects and audio experiments. The Chicago/LA-based label is named after the new cloud that was added to the cloud atlas in 2017. Volutus completed recording/presenting residencies at MAINTENANT in 2022 and 2024. The Day Mode / Night Mode album was recorded at MAINTENANT.
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TJ Tambellini is a photographer and musician based in Los Angeles. He is cofounder of Volutus Records. This photo print comes from his SIGHT Specific Sound & Photo Installation in 2023; a 20 minute soundtracked land installation that you are invited to experience here at MAINTENANT.
PIECE NO. 9
Julie Speed
Long Haul
Archival Digital Print on William Turner Hahnemuhle Paper
Edition of 200 for Penrose
20 1/2” x 29 7/8”
Retail Value $800
Current Bid: $500
ABOUT JULIE SPEED
After dropping out of Rhode Island School of DesignDesign at age 19, Speed spent her twenties moving around the U.S. and Canada working pick-up jobs (house painter, horse trainer, ad writer, farm worker etc.) until moving to Texas in 1978 where she settled down and taught herself to paint. She switches back and forth regularly between oil painting, printmaking, collage, gouache and drawing, often combining disciplines. Two large volumes of her work, Julie Speed, Paintings, Constructions and Works on Paper, 2004 and Speed, Art 2003-2009 have been published by the University of Texas. She lives and works in Marfa, Texas. In her words, “I keep hours just like a real job, only longer, and in my spare time I read books, drink tequila, and garden.”
Website
PIECE NO. 10
Matt Scobey
This Guy
2023
Wood, cast acrylic
21”H x 5” x 5”
Retail Value $1,500
Current Bid: $600
ABOUT MATT SCOBEY
Living and working in Marfa, TX.
PIECE NO. 11
Pat Keesey
What We Forgot to Do
2023
Ink on paper
11” x 9” image, 18” x 14” framed
Retail Value $800
Current Bid: $250
ABOUT PaT KEESEY
I did.
I didn’t.
I did didn’t too.
When I said I did didn’t.
I did didn’t do.
PIECE NO. 12
Nick Terry
Untitled
2024
Watercolor on canvas
12” x 11”
Retail Value $700
Current Bid: $150
ABOUT NICK TERRY
Nick Terry lives and works in Marfa, TX. Is a regular volunteer at Marfa Food Pantry. Nick is represented by Bartha Contemporary, London.
Website
PIECE NO. 13
Liz Potter
Desert Altar No. 15
2004
Cyanotype toned in tea and embellished with metallic, gold paint. Image is a Polaroid emulsion lift of a yucca on Guale Mesa, Big Bend Ranch State Park, TX. Naturally weathered barn metal with metallic gold paint, vintage screen tack #15, wasp nest, ranch road rock, dried yucca pods. The cyanotype has been coated with Hahnemuhle protective spray and is mounted on wood with ph neutral glue.
13 1/2” x 10 1/4” x 3 1/4”
Retail Value $450
Current Bid: $250
ABOUT LIZ POTTER
Liz Potter is an analog photographer based in Alpine, TX. She earned a degree in photojournalism in 1990 from the University of Texas, Austin, and lived in the city for 28 more years before starting a new chapter in her life by moving to Far West Texas in early 2018. With a darkroom in her house, she prints black-and-white film but also explores other photographic mediums to create images, such as cyanotype and Polaroid.
Website
PIECE NO. 14
Lisa Chestnut
Untitled
Resin and found objects
3” x 3” x 5 1/2”
Retail Value $300
Current Bid: $100
ABOUT LISA CHESTNUT
Lisa Chestnut is a Marfa-based artist who creates modern-day artifacts from material found around her in the Far West Texas environment. Marfa lends itself to wandering, and while many look up and out to the horizon, Chestnut looks toward earth, gathering objects that remain from human activity and are tempered and redeposited by rain and wind.
A landscape architect by training, Chestnut turns the found remnants of structures, machinery, toys, and myriad odds and ends into 3D objects that tell a visual story of the people who live in and pass through Marfa. Her sculptures are made entirely from objects found on her walks or travels around town and are hand-pressed, sculpted, or cast in her Marfa studio. Her pieces are visually striking while also conveying a tactile property through their form and components that make one want to handle and observe what it is they hold inside. Influenced by the art of Donald Judd, John Chamberlain, and other artists who have left their mark on Marfa, as well as Noah Purifoy, Chestnut creates small-scale structures that literally embody the world around her and give rise to a controlled but beautiful chaos.
Website
PIECE NO. 16
Sarah Bowling (RULE Gallery)
Untitled Medium Pillow (Blue Green)
2022
Concrete, spray paint, and resin
5.5” x 5.5”
Retail Value $135
Current Bid: $75
ABOUT RULE GALLERY & SARAH BOWLING
RULE represents emerging and mid-career contemporary artists and artist estates, with a focus on fostering investigative art practices while developing artists’ long-term careers.
Website
Artist: Sarah Bowling lives and works/ in Denver, CO.
Website
PIECE NO. 17
Sarah Bowling (RULE Gallery)
Untitled Small Pillow (Purple)
2022
Concrete, spray paint, and resin
4” x 4”
Retail Value $80
Current Bid: $80
ABOUT RULE GALLERY & SARAH BOWLING
RULE represents emerging and mid-career contemporary artists and artist estates, with a focus on fostering investigative art practices while developing artists’ long-term careers.
Website
Artist: Sarah Bowling lives and works in Denver, CO.