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Title: Clown Kachina Cup
Artist: Tina Folks (Patchogue, NY)
Ceramic; 8.5”h x 4.5”w
Value: $125
Starting Bid: $85
As an artist, Tina Folks has been working with clay since 1984. During the last 5 years however, Tina has felt that her work has had a unique & spiritually inspired purpose; to explore the ancient animal archetypes and healing modalities of indigenous people. Clown Kachina Cup was part of "Kachina" series inspired by a trip to Arizona in 2012. It was there that Tina discovered the rich tradition of these Hopi Indian dolls and how they were created to represent different spirit entities believed to be present in all living things on Mother Earth. “Since I had been using animal imagery in my totem figures for some time, I was moved in a new way to explore the use of this Hopi imagery using color palettes & invented fabric textures of my own.”
www.tinafolks.com

Earrings
12K gold filled, 14K gold overlay, with geodes and citrines from South America
Created by artist Alice Van de Wetering (Baiting Hollow, NY)
Value: $150
Starting Bid: $100
Alice Van de Wetering's inspiration comes from many sources around the world. Her impossibly delicate and detailed work with a jeweler’s saw reveals a highly practiced and skilled technique while her unending variety of exquisite designs have earned her beautiful pieces the designation of art.

Title: Rainy Day in New Hampshire
Artist: Bryan Gutman (Patchogue, NY)
Oil on Canvas
17”h x 11”w, framed
Value: $300
Starting Bid: $200
Rainy Day in New Hampshire is a wonderful example of painting directly from nature. As a local artist, Bryan’s keen eye for color has inspired him for many years to paint scenes usually around tributaries, ponds and creeks. Since the foliage closest to the water changes the earliest, Bryan starts as soon as mid-September visiting his favorite spots to monitor their autumnal changes. The artist completes most of his compositions in “plein-air”( painting on location) while surrounded by the sounds of nature and natural light. The fleeting beauty of bright reds, oranges and golden yellows are interpreted with exuberance in his work. He has remained committed to painting since completing his MFA degree from Brooklyn College in 1984. Bryan Gutman shares a home studio with his wife, ceramic artist Tina Folks in Patchogue.

Blown Glass Bowl
Created by artist Daniel Read
Value: $350
Starting Bid: $225
This beautiful blown glass bowl is the creation of Daniel Read, Rhode Island artist, and was donated by Gallery M in Greenport. Read studied with famed glass artist Dale Chihuly at RISD and continued on as his first employee and member of Chihuly's glassblowing team in Seattle for 12 years. Read has taught workshops at Pilchuck Glass School, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, RISD, and MIT. He has shown at the Lymann Allyn Art Museum, the New Bedford Glass Museum, and the MIT Museum.

Title: Rowboat & Moorings
Artist: Steve Berger (Mattituck, NY)
Photograph
14”h x 11”w print in a 20”h x 16”w, framed
Value: $400
Opening Bid: $250
Steve Berger began taking pictures when he was fourteen years old in his hometown of Atlantic City, NJ to earn money for college. Steve has won several awards for his photography and has been the subject of two public access programs on Cablevision’s Channel 20. For the last 9 years he has hired and trained one or two high school seniors annually as apprentices to learn the black and white photographic process. He teaches them film and print development, composition, matting and framing. Steve, his wife Ellen, a multimedia artist and animal activist, and their 9 cats, are year round residents of Mattituck where they are involved in philanthropic, environmental protection and animal rights endeavors.
www.stevebergerphotography.com

Title: Monet in the Hamptons
Artist: Katherine Liepe-Levinson (Riverhead, NY)
Photograph, archival pigment print
20”h x 16”w, framed and matted
Value: $450
Starting Bid: $275
Katherine's photographs have appeared in journals, magazines, and books ranging from VICTORIAN HOMES Magazine to THE DRAMA REVIEW and Routledge Press's GENDER SERIES. In addition to photography, Liepe-Levinson has performed as a professional dancer and actor on and off Broadway, as well as in film and television. She has a PhD. in Theatre from New York City's CUNY Graduate Center. Her performing arts experience has given her a unique sense of timing and the ability to discover the drama in the "scene" at hand. Her photograph, Monet in the Hamptons, was featured in East End Arts' 2013 Winners' Show.
www.katherineliepelevinson.zenfolio.com

Title: The Two Commandments
Artist: Robert Berks (1922 – 2011)
High relief plaque never before issued, Golden bronze acrylic, black Lucite base; Signed: Berks 91
6” x 10”
Value: $750
Starting Bid: $500
This work was ‘discovered’ by Berks in the clay he was preparing for a portrait sculpture. It was not unusual to find subjects in this way. He liked to quote Shakespeare’s “….tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stone, and good in everything”. He often joked that some of his finest drawings were created and lost in the gravy of his dinner plate.
Robert Berks is best known for his sculptured portraits, private and public. This public works cover a broad cross section of human achievement: science, government and politics, art and entertainment, labor and industry, and humanitarianism. His monuments range from the 8 foot John F. Kennedy head in Washington’s Kennedy Center to the 24-foot homage to Carolus Linnaeus, father of modern botany. His monument of Albert Einstein is one of Washington’s most visited landmarks.
Berks also devoted a major portion of his creative time to engineering, design, and to the definition of visual and sensory perception in the understanding and creation of works of art. He donated much of his professional and personal time to communicating these skills to physically and emotionally challenged persons.
Berks was one of the small group that conceived and enabled the East End Arts Council. His credo was “Art is the best way of doing everything.”

'The Collaborative Experience' with Master Printmaker Dan Welden
Sag Harbor artist
Value: $500
Starting Bid: $300
A four hour, private, hands-on experience working in a collaborative printmaking process, developing imagery, proofing and printing in his private, serene Sag Harbor studio. Open for one artist, who may paint, draw or photograph, or use a combination of the above to develop an image for editioning. Highest bidder may wish to participate directly or sponsor a worthy artist. Dan Welden is the Co-Author with Pauline Muir of Printmaking in the Sun published by Watson Guptill in 2001, which is the comprehensive manual of solarplate methods.
www.danwelden.com

Title: Potato Truck
Artist: Michael McLaughlin (New York, NY)
Photograph
19" x 25" framed
Value: $500
Starting Bid: $300
Mike McLaughlin is a research analyst by trade who discovered the creative side of his brain after finding the East End of Long Island. A desire to capture and share the beauty of the Long Island Sound and the adjacent farmland through photography eventually led to active participation in the East End arts community and to numerous exhibits and awards. His quantitative training in combination with a passion for modern and classical architecture has informed his approach to both composition and post-processing technique. Potato Truck exemplifies his trademark application of light, color, geometry and rigor to the agrarian beauty of rural Long Island.
www.MikeMcLaughlinPhoto.com

Stained Glass Piece "East End Visitor" and Tour of Artist's Garden
Artist: Maria Daddino (East Quogue, NY)
Stained glass piece: 23”h x 14”w
Value: $500
Starting Bid: $300
Artist, author and columnist for The Western Edition of The Southampton Press, Maria Daddino is passionate about nature, wildlife and her East End garden, and that deep passion is expressed in her stained glass art and her writing. A self-taught artist, Maria is inspired by the astonishing beauty of nature. Her designs reflect her profound love of the beautiful flowers and delightful birds that grace her wildlife garden. In her piece East End Visitor, Maria captures the ethereal beauty of the hummingbird with bevels that glitter in the sun, casting brightly colored rainbows. A poppy sparkles in shades of pink iridescent glass while the swirls of clear Baroque glass give the illusion of flight. Multi-colored collage glass adds softness and texture to the background and a whitewashed oak frame completes the oval.
Maria would like to share her passion for her wildlife garden with the winner of East End Visitor. She has extended an invitation to join her for cocktails, conversation and a personal tour. As a small memento, they will also receive a signed copy of her multiple-award-winning book Maria’s Duck Tales: Wildlife Stories From My Garden, in which she shares the poignant stories of her garden’s many feathered and furry “wild-friends.”
www.mariadaddino.com

Title: The Urgent Dilemma of Miss Florence Adams
Artist: Jane Kirkwood (Riverhead, NY)
Collage of original oil painted elements and printed emails
15”h x 15”w, framed
Value: $1,150
Starting Bid: $650
About the artwork Kirkwood states "At the time this painting was created I had been receiving daily email requests from Africa’s Ivory Coast where tragic souls pleaded that their lives were in danger and they were in dire need for me to (temporarily) transfer a few thousand dollars to their bank account so they could use it to collect the millions they were rightfully entitled to (and from which I would be given a substantial percentage as a reward for my help). Miss Florence Adams sent a particularly poignant request because it seems her late father had been recently poisoned because of this financial intrigue, which made her dilemma all the more urgent.”
Kirkwood’s art has been exhibited in Soho galleries and at the Hampton Road Gallery in Southampton and Peter Marcelle Gallery in Bridgehampton. Her entry into the 2009 Retreat Competition won First Place.

www.janekirkwood.com

Title: Spring Birds
Artist: Jonathan Pearlman (East Quogue, NY)
Mixed media
5.5”h x 9.5”w x 5.5”d
Value: $1,200
Starting Bid: $650
Pearlman has always been interested in what lies beneath the surface and in his sculptures he transforms everyday objects into a new, imaginative form. Whether its wheels, brushes or shoes, his goal is that the viewer of the final piece will discover the intrinsic beauty that exists even in the most mundane objects. Having only begun showing in 2010, Mr. Pearlman has been twice invited to exhibit at the Water Mill Museum. He’s also had a show at the Quogue Library and will be featured at the Remsenburg Academy Gallery later this month. Although he has no formal training in art, he was influenced by his life-long friendship with Swiss illustrator and sculptor Paul Degen. Jonathan sculpts and writes in his studio in East Quogue, New York.
www.jonathanpearlman.com

Title: 7 O'Clock
Artist: Ed Haugevik (Sagaponack, NY)
Steel table sculpture
19”h x 12”w x 6”d
Value: $1,200
Starting Bid: $750
A longtime resident artist of the Hamptons, on the East End of Long Island, NY, Ed Haugevik has established a career as professional sculptor placing his work at numerous private and public sites throughout the country. He launched his career as a steel sculptor in the late 1970's, working from a Tribeca loft, studying in NYC, and eventually showing in Soho galleries. As his work grew in size, he relocated to the Hamptons, building a larger studio in Sagaponack to accommodate the execution of these pieces. At the same time he became affiliated with the well known Elaine Benson gallery, in Bridgehampton, where his work was shown for the next 22 years. During this time his pieces were acquired by serious collectors, learning institutions and corporations. His minimalist expression, through the medium of corten, stainless and rolled steel has established a style that he continually gravitates towards in past and current creations.
www.edhaugeviksculptures.com

Jane Freilicher’s Artist Sketch and Notebook
10”h x 11”w sketchbook contained in a wood and plexiglass case
Value: $1,500
Starting Bid: $850
A one of a kind artist sketch contained in the notebook of artist Jane Freilicher (1924 - ). Freilicher is a painter of Long Island landscapes and cityscapes of New York City in a fluid style, some of which she adapted from Abstract Expressionism and her period as an action painter. In 1952, she had the first of many solo exhibitions at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery; in the following years her works began appearing in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many other museums. In 2003, she was awarded the Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize at the 178th Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design and honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Academy at their annual gala.
www.tibordenagy.com/artists/jane-freilicher/

Thank you North Fork Table & Inn and Suffolk Theater!

Title: Objects in the Mirror are Closer than they Appear
Artist: Win Zibeon (Blauvelt, NY)
Acrylic on shaped canvas
14”h x 12”w, framed
Value: $2,200
Starting Bid: $950
Win Zibeon was the winner of East End Arts' National Show in 2013 and has shown at the Peter Marcelle Gallery in Bridgehampton. Win calls these realist painting series "anti-landscapes", and states that “landscapes are everywhere”. These paintings are his reaction to two things - how we are treating the earth and what he considers artistic blandness. Win attempts to unhinge the viewer’s attachment to safe and predictable visual reality with characteristic humor. Illusion and counter illusion are all skillfully handpainted. Clearly the artist owes a debt to the great Surrealist Magritte, who famously inscribed on a painting of a pipe “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (this is not a pipe). However, Zibeon has made this rich vocabulary of illusion and allusion his own…saying in his own way that “Ceci n’est pas a view of the Hudson.”
www.winzibeon.com

Title: Blue Sparkle, Montauk, NY
Artist: Jake Rajs (Peconic, NY)
Limited edition of 25; Archival print face-mounted on plexiglass
32”h x 32”w
Value: $2,400
Starting Bid: $1,400
Jake Rajs began his artistic career with the belief that we are visual beings and that beauty is capable of transforming our lives. He is an award winning author and photographic artist best known for stunning and timeless architectural and landscape imagery. He has over sixteen art books currently in print, including three bestselling books on the East End, including: Portrait of Long Island: The North Fork and the Hamptons; Beyond the Dunes: A Portrait of the Hamptons, with an essay by Paul Goldberger; and Between Sea and Sky, Landscapes of Long Islands North Fork.
www.jakerajs.com

Power Station, 1980
Artist: Owen Morrel (Peconic, NY)
Photo Collage; 20”h x 36”w, framed
Value: $2,500
Starting Bid: $1,500
Owen Morrel is a Manhattan-based artist and monumental sculptor, whose works are part of many private collections and museums internationally. About the piece, Morrel writes: “Literally, it is a photo of the Con Edison power station on 14th street. This picture was taken at a time when I was walking around Manhattan and trying to dismantle the City in my camera so it could be reconstructed more imaginatively in the mind of the viewer. My sculpture installations at that time were doing the same thing in three dimensions. Through the introduction of an anomaly into the matrix of expectations, I wanted people to look at the City anew. This piece also carries the theme of the sculptures; to be vehicular and puzzle-like to force the viewer to discover something about the act of perception through the inducement of disorientation.
www.owenmorrel.com

Title: Menhir Stacking
Artist: Hans Van de Bovenkamp (Sagaponack, NY)
Framed signed drawing of Van de Bovenkamp sculpture
26”h x 20”w, framed
Value: $1,800
Starting Bid: $1,000
Renowned for his monumental sculpture created primarily for open-air public locales, Hans Van de Bovenkamp has been described as an artist-mystic whose work -- with its signature power, lyricism, and grand proportions - heightens the viewer's sense of imagination and discovery. A Dutchman and a youthful immigrant to Ontario, Canada, and then the United States, he was a part of the avant-guard Tenth Street scene in the New York City of the 1960s, an adherent of Abstract Expressionism, and has maintained residences in New York City and Sagaponack in the Hamptons. Mr. Van de Bovenkamp has earned an international reputation in the past 50 years for designing, fabricating, and installing over 100 unique commissioned sculptures and fountains in collaboration with architects, cities, museums, and private individuals. His works can be seen in public, civic, corporate and private collections. Recent solo exhibitions include Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, and the Danubiana Meulensteen Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia.
www.vandebowenkamp.com

Beauty Inside and Out Package
Value: $220
Starting Bid: $150
Donated by Dellaquila Beauty and Peconic River Yoga, Jamesport, NY
Enjoy a haircut and facial at Jamesport's Dellaquila Beauty, whose motto is "Classic, Cool, Contemporary... Always Consistent …". Then treat yourself to the benefits of three 1 ½ hour yoga classes at the nearby Peconic River Yoga, voted Best of the Best in Dan's Paper 2012.

Tandem Skydive Jump
Value: $230
Starting Bid: $150
Donated by Skydive Long Island, Calverton, NY
Experience the thrill of a lifetime! Skydive Long Island in Calverton offers the highest altitude skydiving jumps on Long Island, from 13,500 ft. They have the largest skydiving aircraft on Long Island which means you can jump with your friends from one of their 14-19 passenger turbine aircrafts. Experience free-fall for up to 60 seconds at speeds topping 120MPH over beautiful Long Island and enjoy a 5 - 7 minute canopy ride before landing back at their facility in one of the largest landing areas in the country.

Broadway Tickets - Beautiful: The Carole King Story
Value: $350
Starting Bid: $225
Donated by Thomas Farrell
Two (2) mezzanine tickets to Beautiful: The Carole King Story on Broadway, along with production poster, Carol King's Tapestry CD, a production playbill, and drinks with one of the producers subject to a mutually agreed time. Recipients need to give three months' minimum notice with three desired dates.

Four 2014 Mets SNY Sterling Level Suite Tickets
Value: $360
Starting Bid: $225
Donated by the New York Mets
The Sterling Level is the most exclusive premium area of Citi Field which includes luxury seating and suite space perfect for corporate or family entertainment. Each seating area in the Sterling level is located directly behind home plate with access to the exclusive Delta Sky360° Club. Sterling seating areas comprise nine individual sections (sections 11-19) behind home plate and the Sterling Suite level.

Riverhead Water Park Tickets (8) with VIP Cabana Passes
Value: $500
Starting Bid: $300
Donated by Splish Splash: Long Island’s Water Park
Eight tickets to Splish Splash: Long Island's Water Park, Riverhead, NY with a VIP cabana in Cabanaville. The cabana is located in a private rental community in the heart of the water park, and includes a table and four chairs, two lounge chairs, a ceiling fan, personal locker and a refrigerator. Waiter service also included. Cabana must be reserved in advance to ensure availability.

East End Theater Package
Donated by Bay Street Theater, Guild Hall, Suffolk Theater, and Westhampton Beach Performing Arts
Value: $700
Starting Bid: $425
The winner of this package receives:
• Two tickets to the preview week of Conviction at Bay Street Theater (May 27 – 30, 2014);
• Four tickets to the Georgia Satellites at Suffolk Theater (Friday, June 13, 2014);
• Two tickets to the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts performance of the Fab Faux, the Beatles Cover Band (Saturday, July 26, 2014 at 10 pm);
• Two prime orchestra seats to four 2014 season productions at Guild Hall, including Ballet Hispanico (Saturday, June 14), Corky Laing (Friday, June 27), Staged Reading: Mona Lisa Speaks (Sunday, June 29), Bob Dylan Tribute (Wednesday, July 2)

Three Assorted Magnums (1.5L) of Pax Syrahs 2004-2005
Value: $750
Starting Bid: $450
Donated by Amagansett Wines and Spirits
2004 Pax Vineyards “Alder Springs Vineyard”, Mendocino County, California
2004 Pax Vineyards “Kobler Family Vineyard”, Russian River Valley, California
2005 Pax Vineyards “Castelli – Knight Ranch”, Russian River Valley, California
Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate: 95 Points

An Evening of Turkish Delights
Value: $800
Starting Bid: $550
Donated by Içim and Mark Miller
Enjoy a unique dinner for six at the bay front Southold home of our spring gala honorees Içim and Mark Miller. The Turkish cuisine themed meal will be cooked by Istanbul born Içim and served to guests in a hidden grotto beneath the Miller's home leading to the nearby beach. Wines from their extensive cellar will be paired with each course. Guests will enjoy limo service to and from the event. Grotto is not wheelchair accessible; 18 and older only, please.

Location Photography Portrait Session with Jim Lennon Photography
Value: $900
Starting Bid: $550
Spend a day with professional photographer Jim Lennon anywhere on Long Island and have your portrait taken. Along with being the President of East End Arts’ Board of Directors, Jim’s extensive location photography experience with people and environments have been featured in thousands of ad campaigns and corporate communications for regional & national advertising clients. His work has been recognized with awards from Kodak, The Association of the Graphic Arts, The Long Island Advertising Club and Graphic Design Magazine.
www.jimlennon.com

Two night stay at Murray Hill, NYC apartment and two passes to MoMA
Value: $1,199
Starting Bid: $700
Donated by Thom D’Angelo
Spend two consecutive nights in a fabulous 500 square foot studio apartment in Murray Hill, Manhattan located only 3 blocks from the 7Bus and Jitney bus stop. Convenient parking under building for extra charge. Easy walk to excellent restaurants and Times Sq/Broadway/MSG area (weather permitting). 30 day notice required and no smoking in apartment.

Celebrate Summer at the Bridgehampton Polo Match
Value: $1,000
Starting Bid: $600
Donated by Town&Country
Winner will be invited to join Jennifer Levene Bruno, Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer at Town&Country for the Opening Day of Bridgehampton Polo on Saturday, July 19, 2014. Event will take place at the Bridgehampton Polo Club. VIP reception 3 to 4 pm, Polo match 4 to 6 pm.

Four Mets Tickets for May 23, 2014 at the Delta Club
Value: $600
Starting Bid: $250
Donated by the W.B. Mason
Enjoy Mets vs. Diamondbacks at Citi Field on Friday, May 23, 2014 at 7:10 PM. Watch the game from the Delta Club in section 17 behind home plate, which boasts luxury seating and suite space perfect for family entertaining.

$100 Gift Certicate to A Lure Chowder House and Oysteria
Value: $100
Starting Bid: $60
Enjoy dinner at A Lure, located in Southold at the landmark Port of Egypt Marina. This is the newest joint venture by celebrated chef Tom Schaudel and restaurateur Adam Lovett. The duo, known for A Mano in Mattituck, Passionfish in Westhampton Beach and Jedediah Hawkins in Jamesport, is joined by chef de cuisine and partner Jeff Uguil who leads in the kitchen. The idea behind A Lure is to create a seafood chowder house, serving impeccably fresh fish and seafood, in a relatively casual and convivial setting for locals, boaters, day-trippers and vacationers on the idyllic north shore of Long Island wine country.

Necklace
Sterling Silver with unique stone
Created by artist Alice Van de Wetering (Baiting Hollow, NY)
Value: $150
Starting Bid: $75
Alice Van De Wetering's inspiration comes from many sources around the world. Her impossibly delicate and detailed work with a jeweler’s saw reveals a highly practiced and skilled technique while her unending variety of exquisite designs have earned her beautiful pieces the designation of art.