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October 21st, 2024
Chelsea Factory
547 West 26th Street NYC

6:00 PM VIP Reception
7:00 PM Cocktail Party and Silent Auction Open
7:30 PM Live Auction and Award Ceremony

Artist Honoree
Katherine Bradford

Philanthropic Honoree
Aileen Agopian

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About ARTWALK NY
ARTWALK NY brings together hundreds of artists, art-lovers, and other compassionate New Yorkers to celebrate the role of “artist-as-activist,” to raise awareness about the crisis of mass homelessness, and to support programs that directly help homeless families and individuals. All proceeds raised by ARTWALK NY support the lifesaving work of the Coalition for the Homeless.

About the Coalition for the Homeless
The Coalition for the Homeless provides emergency food and clothing, eviction prevention, crisis services, permanent housing, job training and special programs for kids to over 3,500 people a day. Since 1981, we have given more than one million homeless New Yorkers a way off the streets.

For more information call 212-776-2119 or email artwalkny@cfthomeless.org.

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Artist Honoree – Katherine Bradford
Katherine Bradford (b. 1942, New York, NY) paints vibrant canvases that place characters, including mothers, superheroes, and swimmers, in abstract fields of saturated and sumptuous color. She started painting at the age of thirty while living in Maine and was among the group of artists who moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the 1980s. She has exhibited widely at institutions such as MoMA PS1, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR; Prospect 4, New Orleans US Biennial, LA.

Her work is included in collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; Musee d’Art Moderne Paris, the Dallas Museum of Art; and the Menil Collection, Houston TX. Her work has been shown at galleries including: Canada, Sperone Westwater, Pace Gallery, Anton kern Gallery and David Zwirner in New York; Pilar Corrias in London, Campoli Presti in Paris; Haverkampf Liestenschneider Galerie, Berlin; Kaufman Repetto, Milan; and Tomio Koyama, Tokyo, Japan.

Bradford is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Joan Mitchell Grant. She has taught at institutions such as the Yale School of Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. A recent monograph, Katherine Bradford: Paintings, was published by Canada in 2018. In September a two-person exhibition from Bradford and Diedrick Brackens opened at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard. In 2022, Bradford was the subject of a touring retrospective organized by the Portland Museum of Art in Maine that traveled to the Frye Museum in Seattle Washington. In 2024 Bradford’s survey show “American Odyssey” was exhibited at Halle fur Kunst Steiermark in Graz Austria.

 

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Philanthropic Honoree – Aileen Agopian
Aileen Agopian has spent more than 28 years working at the highest level of the Post-War and Contemporary Art world. She founded AGOPIAN inc./ art advisory in 2016 to work with private collectors as well as corporate, estate and non-profit clients worldwide building their art collections and offering a wide-range of art expertise. Prior to establishing her bespoke firm, Aileen had an acclaimed career in the auction industry. She worked at Sotheby’s as the Senior International Director of Post-War and Contemporary Art, as well as the Co-Head of Contemporary Art Auctions in Doha, Qatar. Before this time, she helped establish the Post-War and Contemporary Art Auctions at Phillips in New York in 2000, as its Director of Contemporary Art North America for 10 years. As an accomplished auctioneer at both Sotheby’s and Phillips, Aileen continues to conduct charity auctions worldwide. She began her career in London as the sales director at White Cube Gallery in the mid-1990s, working with artists such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, who were at the beginning of their burgeoning art careers.

The Coalition for the Homeless is extremely grateful to Aileen for her devotion and energy over the past 14 years in support of ARTWALK NY, both as auctioneer and as a longtime core member of the Art Advisory Board. Her compassion and commitment have been critical to the event’s continuing success and has helped uplift the lives of countless homeless New Yorkers.

 

Live Auction

A painting depicting a parent with two young children on a shoreline. The figures are rendered in soft, hazy brushstrokes with warm tones of red, purple, and pink. The adult, dressed in red, with the children, faces a vast, dark sea, with the horizon glowing faintly in the distance.

Katherine Bradford

This watercolor painting depicts a small, spotted fawn standing amidst tall grasses and vibrant pink and yellow flowers. The background is black, contrasting with the bright, warm colors of the fawn and the surrounding flora.

Ann Craven

Intricate webs of chaotic overlapping white and light-colored lines cover a dark background with hints of red. The background transitions subtly from dark to light, with areas of soft red glow adding depth to the composition.

José Parlá

A minimalist print featuring the bold red words "HERE AND NOW" overlaid on blue shading. The text is framed by a simple black rectangle with the cardinal directions "NORTH," "SOUTH," "EAST," and "WEST" labeled on the corresponding sides of the frame. The blue shading behind the red text adds contrast and depth to the composition. The bottom corners feature the artist's signature and the edition number (72/75).

Ed Ruscha

This vibrant artwork features four elongated, fluid-like characters meeting at the center of the canvas, forming a cross shape. Each figure is painted in a different color—orange, purple, pink, and teal—against a textured black background. The characters appear to be melting or dripping, with their forms stretching outwards from the center.

Kenny Scharf

An expressive and textured painting depicts a colorful landscape under a wide, open sky. The sky, painted in a soft lavender hue, features bold, sweeping strokes of bright blue and white. Below, the foreground is filled with abstract floral shapes in pink and red, with yellow and green stems and branches emerging from the ground.

Joan Snyder

Silent Auction

A painting that depicts a textured, almost mountainous terrain with splashes and streaks of paint, suggesting natural forms. The upper portion of the painting has lighter hues blending into the sky-like atmosphere, while the lower part is more solid, resembling a rugged, organic surface.

Diana Al-Hadid

A dynamic abstract painting featuring layered swirls and brushstrokes in shades of beige, black, white, and hints of blue. The piece has a textured feel with visible movement created by the sweeping lines and splattered paint marks.

Vicky Barranguet

A photograph of an art installation set in a barren desert landscape. The installation features a staircase made entirely of reflective mirrors, descending into a square hole in the ground.

Shirin Abedinirad

A vibrant abstract painting featuring a cascade of lush, swirling brushstrokes in varying shades of green, yellow, purple, and white. The paint drips and blends.

Nicole Basilone

Noah Becker

A colorful painting of a cat that is predominantly orange, with expressive, exaggerated features, including large eyes shaded in blue, red, and white. The background is a bright yellow, and splotches of red, green, and blue paint are splattered across the cat’s face.

Katherine Bernhardt

Ryan Brown

Anthony Manal Castro

A surreal monochromatic blue photograph features the face of a person, their eyes closed, with a continuous black line drawing wrapping around from eyelid to surround the face.

Indira Cesarine

An ethereal artwork that features delicate blue line drawings of a child walking a small dog and a serene figure in traditional robes, standing against a soft background of pastel blues and creamy whites. The figures seem to float amidst the cloudy, abstracted landscape, with intricate branches and leaves framing the top of the piece.

Cecile Chong

C.J. Chueca

Jake Clark

An abstract painting, depicting a dog wearing a bowtie. The dog is painted in various shades of grey, with minimal facial features consisting of large circular eyes and a small nose. The background is a bright, bold yellow. The dog is enclosed within a loose, black outline.

George Clinton

A simple composition, featuring a glowing red candle with a bright flame against a dark, almost black background.

Annika Connor

Patricia Cronin

Damien Davis

Leah den Bok

Marc Dennis

Marc Dennis

Vincent Desiderio

Roberto Dutesco

A tropical beach scene with a central tall palm tree and green fronds against a backdrop of a bright blue sky dotted with soft white clouds. The sandy shoreline is visible, with beach chairs scattered in the distance near the water’s edge. In the background, people can be seen lounging near the ocean and sunlight filters through the palm leaves, casting intricate shadows. The image has a layered effect with overlapping palm frond silhouettes.

Sophie Elgort

Andreas Emenius

An intricate illustration depicting a multi-story, cross-sectional view of a home. Each floor features a different scene, evoking a sense of disarray and melancholy. The top floor shows a bedroom with an unmade bed, a pile of clothes, and an American flag on the wall. The middle floor includes a cluttered kitchen with a person standing near the sink, and a living room area with scattered items. The bottom floor reveals a messy bathroom, a dining room with a cactus centerpiece, and various objects strewn across the tiled floor. The artwork combines detailed line work with a muted color palette, creating a visually engaging yet somber atmosphere.

Simon Evans™

A powerful illustration featuring two robed figures standing on books, holding up a vibrant red lotus flower. Between them is an open book with the text "The Future Is Unwritten" displayed across the pages. Behind the figures, a radiant mandala-like sunburst pattern in red and cream creates a sense of reverence. The words "Liberty - Shelter - Equality" are boldly inscribed at the bottom of the piece. The color scheme is red, black, and cream.

Shepard Fairey

Ela Fidalgo

A stylized landscape at sunset, this piece features a warm color palette of oranges, yellows, and browns, with a textured depiction of clouds and land. The horizon is abstractly rendered, with a prominent arching shape cutting through the sky, adding a dynamic geometric element.

Saskia Fleishman

Foushee

A detailed watercolor painting featuring a tabletop still life scene. A vase of pink and white tulips sits at the center, surrounded by a cup of coffee, a small red toy car, a plate holding two pears, and a notebook with a pen resting on it. The surface beneath is decorated with a pattern of large brown leaves and purple floral shapes, adding depth and texture to the composition.

Trudi Frank

An abstract painting featuring a mix of soft, earthy tones blended with vibrant colors like pink, orange, green, and yellow. The colors overlap and merge.

Colleen Herman

A conceptual artwork that features a textured silver surface with a reflective quality, on which the text 'IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY' is boldly displayed in metallic capital letters.

Jenny Holzer

A deep magenta sculpture featuring a soft, abstract form with a smooth, rounded surface.

Misha Japanwala

A lively abstract painting featuring two white, amorphous human-like figures outlined in bold blue. Their forms are fluid and dynamic. They stand on a green surface with abstract posts beneath them, against a colorful and textured background with soft blues, greens, and yellows.

Adam Jonah

A grid of repeated images in blue and black tones depicting a figure resembling Gertrude Stein. The image is arranged in a repetitive pattern, with each square featuring the same portrait but varying slightly in clarity and contrast. The entire piece features hues of black and blue.

Deborah Kass

A drawing of a red car driving through a dark, heavily shaded background. The car is roughly sketched with thick black lines and bright pink color, with undertones of red. Headlights are shining yellow beams toward the bottom-right corner of the piece. Inside the car, there are four abstract figures with large, expressive eyes. The figures, dressed in bright green, blue, and purple, appear to be sitting closely together.

Hein Koh

Stephanie Ketty

A circular painting featuring a figure, with blue skin and short blue hair. Atop their head, there is a small red sailboat. The background is composed of gray, blue and red swirling clouds, with subtle flying black crows.

Scooter LaForge

Jerome Lagarrigue

A circular painting featuring a realistic human eye peering through a small hole in a dark wood-like surface. The detailed eye is surrounded by a textured pattern resembling wood grain, with the painting bordered by a white crochet doily.

Delvin Lugo

A painting composed of geometric shapes in various shades of red, pink, and white. The composition features four prominent circular forms, two in deep red and two in soft white, positioned near the center. Around these circles are angular shapes in gradients of red, pink, and burgundy.

Marisol Martinez

A black-and-white photograph from January 1986 featuring drag icon Lady Bunny, dressed in a gown with feathered accents and heavy makeup, holding a large inflatable bunny. The inflatable bunny has exaggerated cartoonish features with big ears and a smiling face. Lady Bunny's expression is slightly wide-eyed and dramatic, adding to the theatrical feel of the image.

Patrick McMullan

Robert Melee

A painting featuring a human figure with arms raised. The figure is adorned with horns, and its body is accentuated with bold, reflective highlights in black and brown hues. Swirling yellow ribbons float around the figure. The background transitions from purple to brown, dotted with colorful specks and geometric shapes.

Daniel Morowitz

Mr. Brainwash

An abstract painting with a dominant light blue background. Throughout the canvas, irregular black and white streaks and patches appear, creating a textured, marbled effect that contrasts with the smooth blue.

Jeff Muhs

This black-and-white photograph features a figure with intricate full-body tattoos, draped in a flowing white fabric. The figure's head is replaced by an enormous, highly detailed rose blossom.

Reka Nyari

A vibrant painting featuring a close-up of a figure that looks to be partially submerged in water. The water is depicted with wavy, rhythmic brushstrokes in various shades of blue, pink, and purple. The figure's upper body and face are visible above the water.

Emilia Wild Olsen

The piece features an intricate, swirling pattern of coral pink lines that form an abstract shape. The background is a rich, deep blue with lighter blue splashes.

Emilio Perez

An abstract painting displaying a predominantly pink background with various scattered marks, scribbles, and smudges in different colors. Streaks of purple, blue, yellow, and teal are dispersed across the canvas, along with subtle lines and shapes. Some areas have more defined elements, like crossed-out text and rough and expressive strokes.

David Pher

Dana Robinson

The artwork features an abstract composition in black and white. The central form is created by thick, expressive brushstrokes that appear to be layered white over black and blended.

Jamel Robinson

A mixed-media artwork featuring two distinct images layered over a backdrop of wavy, colorful lines. The top image shows a person drinking a bottle of Coke with the American flag and the word "COKE" prominently displayed, along with abstract human figures. The bottom image is tilted at an angle and depicts a stylized figure in motion, set against a circular yellow background, with additional abstract elements surrounding it.

Leonard Rosenfeld

A vibrant and abstract print, featuring a dynamic swirl of colors, including bright pink, neon green, yellow, and blue, contrasted against silver and gray gradients.

James Rosenquist

An abstract composition dominated by rich shades of red, pink, and purple. The painting showcases layered geometric shapes and organic forms, with a central flower-like subject that seems to radiate outward.

Maja Ruznic

A vertical sculptural piece featuring an intricate and organic arrangement of materials. The artwork consists of long, dangling strands of various textures and colors, primarily in earthy tones of brown, green, and gold. The strands are made of twisted fibers, beads, fabric, and other materials, giving the piece a tactile, woven appearance. At the top, multiple loops of wire or metal rings hold the strands together, with some extending downwards in a cascade.

Theda Sandiford

Beatricia Sagar

An abstract painting featuring bold black brushstrokes sweeping across a pale beige canvas. In the center, a dynamic shape is outlined in turquoise with a bright yellow triangular form on top. To the right of the piece, there is a contrasting area with smoky, cloud-like forms in metallic grays and silvers, layered with fluid, black outlines.

Joe Schaeffer

A painting that features bright greens, blues, and purples, twisting together. Organic forms, cartoon-like faces, and plants all morphing into each other. The background consists of intricate, swirling patterns in soft blues and purples.

Kenny Scharf

Shelby and Sandy

An impressionistic painting of two figures in a small green boat, paddling across a body of water. The background is dominated by cool turquoise and sea green tones. The figures have blurred and soft features and a pink sun or moon hangs low in the sky. The brushwork is loose.

Emilie Stark-Menneg

This stained glass artwork features a vibrant abstract design with large, angular shards of glass in vivid hues of orange, yellow, and red. The stained glass is set within a weathered white frame, enhancing its raw and hand-crafted aesthetic.

Justin Sterling

A vibrant mixed-media tapestry, the artwork features an abstract composition on a canvas using materials like raffia, wool, lurex, thread, and pearls. The piece showcases bold, flowing shapes in shades of purple, pink, red, and blue, interwoven with textured elements and fine details.

Lizel Strydom

A complex and layered collage artwork features a mix of abstract and representational elements. At the center, a pair of wooden-textured hands hold a vintage camera, in front of the image of a person’s face, which is rendered in black and white with a distorted, grainy texture. Surrounding the central figure, the background is a collage of various textures and colors, including earthy browns, purples, and blues.

Alison Elizabeth Taylor

Light casts long, sharp shadows across a room highlighting a figure whose face is illuminated with a warm, golden tone. The figure has their hair pulled back and is looking toward the light. The room is painted in hues of grey, cream and blue while the face is aglow with yellows, oranges and reds.

Boris Torres

Sophie Wahlquist

A small, rectangular painting features a central image of a narrow, vertical slit that gradually transitions from deep blue at the edges to a lighter blue at the center. Inside the slit, a black sky is visible, dotted with small white stars and a single pink sphere, resembling a planet. The painting is mounted in a sculptural frame that appears to be made of a glossy, ceramic material in shades of soft pink and black. The piece is displayed against a plain white wall.

Emily Weiner

A vibrant abstract painting features irregularly shaped, vertical color blocks arranged in a grid-like pattern. The grid is loosely defined by hand-drawn lines in red, green, and purple. The blocks of color include shades of blue, green, pink, and orange, each with varying opacity and texture, creating a watercolor effect. The artist's signature and the date "2021" are visible in the bottom right corner.

Stanley Whitney

Russell Young

A photograph capturing a close-up of a tree trunk in front of a brightly colored background. The tree trunk is painted with a faded red band around its midsection and leans slightly to the right. Behind the tree, a corrugated metal fence is painted in vibrant red, green, and blue sections. Dappled sunlight filters through the tree's branches, casting colorful patches of light and shadow on the fence.

Wayne Young

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