El Mozote Exodus - Starting bid - $1,750

Riverside & Headbones
Silent Auction
curated by Julie Oakes

Both classy and discrete, a silent auction lends the opportunity to acquire objects of great worth. The auction suspends the price of the artwork for a limited time in order to allow those with an eye for art to bid on phenomenal objects. Riverside Quarterly Magazine and Headbones Gallery are pleased to offer this unique chance to enter the magic world of collecting.

Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo
Osvaldo is seasoned with his referential creations echoing the inherent knowledge of a culture that has a complex and bloodied history (El Salvador). His figures and characters mix the modeling of the muralists with the gory psychological imagery of Frieda Kahlo. He is a champion of human rights. The context for the stance is not specific but universally recognizable; the multilayered meanings are secure in portraying a clear plea for wrongs to be righted. El Mozote Exodus - Starting bid - $1,750 - Gallery price - $2,500

Gord Smith
One of fifteen separate bronze crosses in the set which together, are so incredible that God himself might have selected this sculpture.
There are crosses for ‘war’ and crosses for ‘peace’, some recognizing impermanence (the past, present and future), the human and the divine. This piece, by virtue of the evident work and concept vested in it, is rightfully deemed a ‘masterpiece’.

Nuclear Cross II - Starting bid - $3,850 Gallery price - $5,500

 

Buddha and the Wing Span - oil on canvas - 66x44” 2005

Julie Oakes
This painting is from a series titled 100 Syllables that consists of one hundred drawings and a collection of oil paintings in which the Buddha, Boddhisatvas, Dakinis and Demons are disturbed by earthly elements. Maintaining concentration as the long-legged bird struts, the Buddha’s placid demeanor is secure, rendered in a manner similar to Chinese Shoji screens. Buddha and the Wing Span - Starting bid - $2450 Gallery price - $3500

 

Scout Party - Graphite on paper - 30x40”, 2005

Daphne Gerou
With the dark simplicity of graphite where the eraser has cast a glow of unearthly significance on the scene, Daphne Gerou’s implied narratives bridge the genres of fantasy and reality. The dark depictions make a quantum leap from cute to ominous. The uniformed bunnies’ passive expressions, their lack of identifiable differences, their cool personalities (or are they only timid?) set up a dynamic of menace. It is not the seething rage of horror about to pounce, but an insidious suspicion of the irrevocably unjust situation that the less demonstrative species are caught in by virtue of modernity and industrialization. Scout Party - Starting bid - $560 Gallery price - $800

 

Circus - coloured graphite on paper - 24x18”, 2002

Ruth Waldman
With allusions to bondage, Ruth Waldman’s trussed biomorphic forms are both playful and memorable like a good session of bondage carried out by an ardent lover. There is fascination with the grotesque (the forms are often unattractive as beings) that is tempered by the range of colors (melon, mauve, tangerine, turquoise and pink). Ruth lets us into her world with a serendipitous engagement. The delicate treatment of the rendering creates awe rather than revulsion despite the bulbous extrusions or stretched and wrinkled flaps. Mechanical guy wires hold the balance in place within a white pristine space that suggests more beyond the borders of the paper. Who or what is exerting the tension? Circus - Starting bid - $1050 - Gallery price framed - $1500

 

From The Erotic Notebook (Paris) - collagegouache, pencil on paper - 25.5x19.5”, 1995

Shelagh Keeley
Shelagh Keeley brings the elegance of Parisian women, the feminine sex of a nationality renowned as lovers, to bear with the juxtaposition of a purple vessel and gold dots that puddle their pigment in pools of glitter. The purple vessels are heart-like and symbolize woman, the womb, with a semblance to the fertility vessels of antiquity or an upside-down breast trying to balance on the nipple. The superimposed penciled script about love and beauty further evoke the finer emotions and tastes of a cultivated life. From The Erotic Notebook (Paris) - Starting bid - $2,100 Gallery price - $3,000

 

Untitled #14 Detail - ink on paper - 6x22”,

Alan Glicksman
Alan Glicksman has piles of drawings. He is drawing his life away and handing it over with an obsessive need to report the details of quotidian rounds couched in a personal language that is rife with associations from archaeological to pop to diagrammatic. He is practicing a ritual of transformation whereby the ordinary grows to historical proportion through the diligence of visual documentation, much like the iconography of the Australian aboriginals or Aztec inscriptions. Untitled #14 - Starting bid - $315 - Gallery price - $450

 

David Pirrie
The sensitive pencil drawings on vellum of automobile wreckages have the delicacy of Persian miniatures, as if they are speaking in hushed tones of the incidents portrayed. Like the miniatures, they encapsulate a large concept in a small area and make the physical facts important through meticulous attention to detail. That Pirrie has superimposed a faint yellow grid on the overall image further distances the subject matter, as if an omnipotent power had the wreck pinpointed and destined within a cosmic scope. *Courtesy: Douglas Udell Gallery.
Risk analysis 865d3 - Starting bid - $350 - Gallery price - $500

 

Jefferson Little
With the clear precision of a natural draftsman, Jeffrey Little lifts nostalgic popular images into the world of surrealism by positioning the ordinary into more animated contexts, changing the idea of the simple shape into a newly animated object. Side Car - Starting bid - $265 - Gallery price - $350

 

Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson’s 8.26x11.6” Outsider drawings are produced from the inside of the British Penal System where he is sentenced to spend the rest of his life. As a “multiple hostage taker” (the last man he took hostage was his art teacher), Bronson’s controlled lines and dainty coloring depict not only the quotidian round of prison life but also grant him room to expound on flights of fantasy that earned him the nickname “The Madman.” Isolation - Starting bid - $350 - Gallery price - $500

Daniel David
With a renaissance hand, romantic subject matter, surrealist juxtaposition of elements and the clean, critical, aloof, presentation of a detached ironist, Daniel David can be called a true postmodernist. He liberally borrows from the ages and returns a converted contemporary sensual slant with psychological innuendos. The only diversion from this categorization is the focus, for unlike the dissipation of repetitive imagery and blanket compositions of the postmodern format, Daniel David’s work coaxes the viewer to contemplate. He lures us into his world with his personal codification of symbolism, revealing while it obfuscates. Untitled - Starting bid - $350 Gallery price - $500

To Bid:
-Select the piece on which you want to bid, visit the gallery 260 Carlaw Ave., phone in a bid 416-465-7352 or email your bid to info@headbonesgallery.com.-Bidding is reserved by credit card pre-approval. Bids will be posted daily at headbonesgallery.com/rqauction. Bidding closes at 6 PM, December 22, 2006.-All artwork is sold unframed and can be picked up at Headbones Gallery December 23 - just in time for Christmas.

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