AUCTION ITEM #2
Ceramic work by Kate Newby, Let the other thing in, 2013
Set of nine ceramic rocks, glaze.
Kate Newby’s groupings of kiln-fired rocks were made while she was an artist-in-residence with Fogo Island Arts. The 2012 Walters Prize winner in New Zealand, Newby describes the rocks, part of a larger project of the same name, as creating an autobiographical portrait of her time on Fogo Island.
AUCTION ITEM #1
Photographic Prints by Zin Taylor, Lichen Voices, 2013
Fogo Island Arts Edition (Five photographs unframed. An edition of ten plus three artist proofs.) Two lots.
A series of five photos featuring two men throwing poses against a background of the lichen-clad rock formations so ubiquitous on Fogo Island. Zin Taylor sees his cultural avatars controlled by lichen, hence the work’s title: Lichen Voices. With these works, the artist intuits something of the drama of life lived in a remote location like Fogo Island.
AUCTION ITEM #3
Painting by Silke Otto-Knapp, Geography (Lion’s Den), 2013
SILKE OTTO-KNAPP’s black and white watercolour paintings combine motifs of landscape and the decorative with a unique technique of layering and erasing coats of paint to create works described by the LA Times as “visually elusive as quicksilver.”
THIS SPRING GERMAN ARTIST SILKE OTTO-KNAPP PRESENTS DUAL EXHIBITIONS IN VIENNA AND ON FOGO ISLAND.