10% Gay Art Auction Benefit
06.24.2009
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A Silent Art Auction Featuring Over 70 Works Donated by LGBTQ Artists! A fundraiser during gay pride week- open to everyone!

Wednesday, June 24, 6 - 9 pm
28 Wooster St (@ Grand St), Soho
DJ Telfar DJ Nita

Free wine and liquor bar + food
DJs Telfar and Nita Aviance
Silent Art Auction
$20 tickets, at-door only

Why: 100% of the proceeds from the sale of artworks support cancer patients and visual artists and the creation of a new fund to sponsor events, presentations and lectures by artists from the gay community.

Who: The Rema Hort Mann Foundation with The Armory Show, Visual Aids and Leslie Lohman Gallery

Thank you to the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) for their support of this event.

Participating LGBTQ Artists
Adam Adach, Paolo Arao, Augusto Arbizo, assume vivid astro focus, Aziz + Cucher, Judie Bamber, Michael Bilsborough, Ross Bleckner, Gustavo Bonevardi, John Brattin, Miriam Cabessa, Geoffrey Chadsey, Matt Connors, Jay Critchley, TM Davy, Lucky DeBellevue, Thomas Dozol, Zackary Drucker, Angela Dufresne, George Duncan, David Dupuis, Graham Durward, Nicole Eisenman, EVA&ADELE, Steven Evans, Tony Feher, Keltie Ferris, Glen Fogel, Paul Gabrielli, Peter Gallo, Jeffrey Gibson, Anthony Goicolea, Theresa Hackett, Lia Halloran, Erik Hanson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Michael Harris, Jim Hodges, Scott Hug, Peter Hutchinson, Yuki Itoda, Michael Jenkins, Deborah Kass, Matt Keegan, Karen Kimmel, Terence Koh, Jeremy Kost, Paul Lee, Cary Leibowitz (aka Candyass), Troy M. Litten, Steve Locke, Larry Mantello, Linda Matalon, Keith Mayerson, Robert Melee, Fitoshi Miyagi, Slava Mogutin, Rune Olsen, Sarah Oppenheimer, Danica Phelps, Jack Pierson, Maria E. Pi–eres, Job Piston, Paul Henry Ramirez, Barry Ratoff, Kenny Scharf, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Adam Shecter, Billy Sullivan, Ryan Sullivan, Marc Swanson and Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Jon Tower, Richard Tsao, Michael Velliquette, Andy Warhol, John Waters, Alex P. White, Kehinde Wiley, Joe Winter, Rob Wynne

Event Committee
Augusto Arbizo, artist; Orit Ben-Shitrit, artist; Michael Bilsborough, artist; James Keith Brown and Eric G. Diefenbach, collectors; Patrick Callery, curator; Sarit Chalamish, managing director, S.E.C. Strategy; Richard Desroche, CRG Gallery; Christian Dietkus, artist; Ilka Gregory, Vice President, Tempus Pax, LLC; Erik Hanson, artist; Scott Hug, artist; Margie Lempert, NY Foundation for the Arts; Robin Parness Lipson, founder, New Jersey MOCA; Michelle Loh, Art Advisor, Asian Contemporary Art Fair; Kari Morris, The Armory Show; Paul Morris, president/co-founder, The Armory Show; Yvonne Olivas, School of Visual Arts; Claudia Paetzold, art consultant; Manuela Paz, The Armory Show; Lowell Pettit, art advisor; Nancy Delman Portnoy, collector; George Robertson, collector; Michael Sellinger, Cottleson Advisors; Paul Mpagi Sepuya, artist; Steve Shane, collector; Steve Villano, CablePositive, CEO; Daniella Vitale, President, Gucci America; Simon Watson, curator, Scenic; Gabe Zichermann, CEO, rmbr

Participating Galleries
Jeff Bailey, Gavin Brown, John Connelly Presents, Angles, Invisible Exports, Freight + Volume, CRG, Envoy Enterprises, Maureen Paley, London, Leo Koenig, Sunday L.E.S., Florence Lynch, Kumukumu, Paul Kasmin, Marianne Boesky, PPOW, Cheim & Reid, The Armory Show, Rebecca Ibel, Nicole Klagsbrun, D'Amelio Terras, Derek Eller Gallery, Jack Shainman Gallery, DCKT