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Title Round Maria Lassnig Fraternity , 2008 Offset lithograph on paper 21.5 x 28.125 inches Edition of 100 Estimated Value Range: $2,000 - $4,000 Starting Bid: $1,000 Bidding increments: $100 More: Maria Lassnig Fraternity is a later work by Maria Lassnig in which she depicted her recurring theme of “body awareness.” In the center of the piece, two figures lay intertwined. The arms and legs of the figures wrap around one another, creating a singular form. Lassnig created this print in conjunction with her exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in 2008, her first US exhibition. Maria Lassnig was born in 1919 in Carinthia, Austria, and she died in 2014 in Vienna, Austria. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (1944). She has been the subject of many solo exhibitions, including at Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany (1985); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1994); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (1995); Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland (2003); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (2008); Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (2009); MoMA PS1, New York, NY (2014); Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark (2016); Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (2016); The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria (2019); and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2022). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Der Art-Club in Österreich , Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria (1981); Féminin. Masculin , Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (1995); From Klimt to Rainer , Museum of Modern Art Salzburg Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria (2002); The Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2013); Artist’s Choice: Amy Sillman – The Shape of Shape , The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2019); Wonderland , Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria (2021); and The Drawing Centre , Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2022).

Title Round Sascha Braunig Big Nets, 2013 Screenprint, edition of 75 Framed: 24 x 20 inches Estimated Value Range: $700 - $1,200 Starting Bid: $300 Bidding increments: $100 More: Sascha Braunig Sascha Braunig (b. 1983, Qualicum Beach, BC, Canada) lives and works in Portland, Maine. She holds a BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA in painting from Yale University. Braunig was awarded a residency from the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in 2016, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award in 2016, and a Macdowell Fellowship in 2013. Selected solo exhibitions include François Ghebaly, New York and Los Angeles, USA; Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada; Magenta Plains, New York, USA; Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, USA; and MoMA PS1, New York, USA. Her work has been featured in institutional exhibitions including the Quebec City Biennial; Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, USA; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA; and the New Museum Triennial, New York, USA.

Title Round Chrissie Hynde Extrémal Flower, 2019 Oil on canvas 36 x 24 inches Estimated Value Range: $6,000 - $9,000 Starting Bid: $3,000 Chrissie Hynde is a true icon, both in rock music and the art world. As the founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, and legendary songwriter of The Pretenders, she redefined the genre with her unique blend of punk, new wave, reggae, and metal. Her career, spanning over four decades, is marked by resilience and creativity. From The Pretenders' groundbreaking 1979 debut album to her latest album Relentless , released 44 years later, Hynde has remained an enduring force in music despite incredible challenges. Yet, her artistic journey doesn’t stop at music. Born in Akron, and a former Kent State art student, Hynde has always felt a calling to return to painting. In 2015, Hynde began making art in earnest, bringing her bold and distinctive vision to life. Her work, featured at venues like Broadbent, London, and MASS MoCA, encompasses a diverse range of styles, from portraiture to abstraction. In Extremal Flower , Hynde portrays an imaginary scene, a floral still life floating amid various shapes. Hynde’s spontaneous approach to painting, influenced by what she sees around her, along with her whimsical and intuitive use of color, imbues artworks like this one with a sense of immediacy and energy. More: Chrissie Hynde Chrissie Hynde was born in Akron, Ohio in 1951 and attended Kent State University's art school for three years. While at Kent State she joined a band with Mark Mothersbaugh who would go on to found Devo. Hynde is better known as a founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter for The Pretenders. She has been a lover of art throughout her life. Hynde says, “I always thought I would get into painting, but I got waylaid by rock ‘n’ roll. Finally, I thought, ‘Now’s the time.’ As soon as I could be alone and paint without any interruptions, I just couldn’t stop.” She rekindled a love of painting that predates her passion for music. With bold lines and a distinctive palette, Hynde’s work ricochets between portraiture, still life, landscape, and abstraction. Her work has been featured at Broadbent, MASS MoCA, and the Franklin Bowles Gallery in New York. In 2018, the collection Adding the Blue was published featuring nearly 200 original paintings.

Title Round Derek Hess Don Caballero , 1994 Serigraph, ed. 52/60 Framed: 24 x 15 1/2 inches Estimated Value Range: $400 - $800 Starting Bid: $200 Bidding increments: $50 More: Derek Hess Born in Cleveland in 1964, Hess’ ascendance in the arts should probably come as little surprise. His father, Roy Hess, was a noteworthy designer, and chairman of the lauded industrial design department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. From a young age, Hess was correctly trained in classical art and design. Hess studied at that school, and at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, but he never landed in his father’s department, trying out illustration and graphic design before settling on a major in printmaking. It was that discipline, combined with his love of music, that led Hess to poster art fame. He had begun booking post-hardcore and underground rock concerts at the Euclid Tavern, a divey blues bar across the street from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and he drew his own fliers to promote his shows.

Title Round Angela Dufresne Saratoga Moon , 2013 Oil on canvas 44 x 61 x 2 inches Estimated Value Range: $5,000 - $8,000 Starting Bid: $2,000 Bidding increments: $250 Despite its dark composition, there is much at play in this dramatic painting. A cast of characters in the foreground–hinted at through gestures of bright color–suggest various tales that might occur under the moonlight. Angela Dufresne is a Brooklyn-based painter whose vivid, narrative works fuse expressive abstraction with allegorical storytelling, often delivered through an unapologetically queer and feminist lens. Her flamboyant canvases explore themes of desire, identity, and transformation, populating chaotic, dreamlike spaces with hybrid beings, film stars, and mythological figures. With a fearless mix of humor, theatricality, and sensuality, Dufresne creates expansive painterly worlds that challenge dominant historical and cinematic narratives. Dufresne’s 2021 solo exhibition, Long and Short Shots , was held at Vielmetter Los Angeles. Writing for Artforum , critic Colin Edgington described it as “a vision of a soft but salacious utopia full of unabashed living and endless love… Her phantasmagoric imagery calls to mind dreams, memories, and hallucinations. And like these psychic phenomena, her work feels as if it is forever undefinable, transitional—that is, utterly free.” More: Angela Dufresne Artist Statement "My work exists in frenzied, psychologically charged spaces of conflict and resolution, inspired by a bygone era of Hollywood glamour and heightened drama. More closely aligned with a tradition of cinema than painting, space in my compositions is constantly in motion. My figures exist in a dreamlike realm between the silver screen and the more enigmatic off-screen sites of unbridled imagination and risk-laden adventures. Desire is central—to be wanted, recognized, taken. My uninhibited use of color, gestural brushstrokes, and layers of painted imagery hints at an internal pathos in each painting, laying fertile ground for operatic drama, queer imagining, and a radical undoing of familiar narratives. Many of my works reference canonical history painting and cinema but often upend the heroic narratives that have dominated each genre. Bodies frolic in promiscuous and cross-species fraternity, populating a painterly realm that is part psychedelic dreamscape, part mythical neverland. I revisit iconic vignettes from classic cinema, inserting lesbian imagery, distorted starlet likenesses, and hybridized bodies to offer alternative readings—flipping dominant attitudes toward women and queerness and spinning liberated reimaginings of cultural, sexual, and social exchange." Biography Born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1969, Angela Dufresne received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1998. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and residencies, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2016), the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, the Siena Art Institute Residency, Yaddo, the Headlands Center for the Arts Residency, and the Jerome Foundation Fellowship. Dufresne’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA), the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO), and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (SUNY New Paltz). Her paintings have also been featured in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the RISD Museum, and the Rose Art Museum, among many others. Collections and Recognition Her work is held in numerous public and private collections and has been widely reviewed in national and international publications. Dufresne continues to push the boundaries of narrative painting, creating spaces where queerness, theatricality, and painterly pleasure collapse into one another with joyful, radical freedom.

Title Round Michael Weil The Theory of Flux (Left + Right) , 2024 Archival print on German Etching Paper mounted to Dibond 53 3/8 x 80 inches Estimated Value Range: $5,000 - $8,000 Starting Bid: $4,000 Courtesy of SHAHEEN modern & contemporary art, Foothill Galleries and Michael Weil Michael Weil’s The Theory of Flux (Left + Right) , from his recent Grande Quatrefoils series, captures, inverts, and re-presents the balance, repetition, and patterns of nature often overlooked by man. Through his lens, Weil amplifies the natural world's inherent harmony, inviting the viewer to consider both its simplicity and complexity. As a tenured photographer, Cleveland gallerist, teacher, and PhD in Art History, Weil is a master of technique and concept, with works held in many private and museum collections such as the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Clinic. More: Michael Weil Michael Weil established Foothill Galleries in 2015 with the momentum of 30 years of camera work, photography education and art appreciation urging him on. He has a PhD in art history—with a concentration in photohistory—from Case Western Reserve University, and has taught art history at Northeast Ohio schools including Case, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Cleveland State University. His artwork has been shown in exhibitions around Cleveland and has been acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Clinic, among other private collections.

Title Round Simone Shubuck Portfolio cover , 2006 Lithograph, edition of 40 Framed: 19 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches Estimated Value Range: $500 - $800 Starting Bid: $200 Bidding increments: $50 More: Simone Shubuck Born in 1969, Simone Shubuck received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has had a solo exhibition with Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL) in New York and has exhibited works in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo and San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Tokion, Elle, The Fader, ARTnews and is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Shubuck’s work is informed by a range of experiences, from her days as a graffiti artist in San Francisco in the early 90’s to her years as a flower designer in New York City. She professes an affinity for Viennese Secessionists and Art Nouveau practices as well as the work of such outsider artists as Edmund Monsieul and Lee Godie. Her visual style parallels her obsession with the layered sampling of hip-hop artists like Jay-Z, Dipset, Cam’ron and Young Jeezy. Another notable influence comes from her maternal grandmother and great-grandmother, who were skilled bakers and embroiderers.

Title Round Mark Mothersbaugh Untitled (My Struggle prints) , 2016 Spray paint on laser print 65 x 49 x 4 inches Estimated Value Range: $4,000 - $6,000 Starting Bid: $2,000 Bidding increments: $250 Among visitor favorite exhibitions at moCa, Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia (2016) ranks near the top. No surprise, given Mark’s hometown connection, his legendary rock status, and his exceptionally creative and unusual artistic practice which merges visual, musical, and literary art. This artwork blows up and reimagines a page from the artist’s 1978 book, My Struggle by Booji Boy , a fictitious character he often performed as with his band, Devo. Mark Mothersbaugh (b. 1950, Akron, OH) is an American artist, musician, and composer whose multifaceted creative output spans visual art, music, performance, and more. Best known for his pioneering role in the band DEVO, Mothersbaugh’s work interrogates themes of de-evolution, societal collapse, and the absurdity of contemporary life. His Untitled (My Struggle Prints) from 2016 highlights the artist’s ongoing exploration of collage, absurdism, and the dissection of American identity. The prints serve as an extension of his My Struggle series, which incorporates a vast range of visual elements, from scientific illustrations to commercial ads, reflecting the peculiar, fragmented nature of contemporary culture. More: Mark Mothersbaugh Artistic Practice Mothersbaugh’s practice is deeply rooted in both his early life experiences and his involvement with DEVO. After being diagnosed with severe nearsightedness and becoming legally blind, he began creating art as a way to compensate for his altered vision, leading to an obsession with imagery and illustrations. This early experience of "seeing the world differently" can be seen throughout his body of work, especially in his My Struggle prints. These works combine collage, photography, and his signature blend of pop culture commentary, often humorously disfiguring bodies and texts to create unsettling yet compelling visuals. The My Struggle series offers a disorienting glimpse into a world where the lines between the sacred, the absurd, and the terrifying are blurred. Notable Works and Exhibitions The My Struggle Prints are part of a broader body of work that spans multiple mediums, from mail art and postcards to music videos and stage shows. Mothersbaugh’s prolific output includes daily postcard drawings—over 25,000 of which he’s created since the 1980s. These works began as personal diaries but became a crucial aspect of his artistic identity, shared in exhibitions such as HOMEFRONT INVASION! in 2003. His photographic work, Beautiful Mutants , also demonstrates his obsession with visual symmetry and "corrected" imagery, challenging norms of representation and visual harmony. Mothersbaugh’s art has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and national touring shows. His major exhibition Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia (2014) brought together a comprehensive look at his art and music, accompanied by a catalog and postcard collection titled Mark Mothersbaugh: Collected Facts & Lies (2015). These exhibitions have cemented his legacy as a significant visual artist and have provided a platform for his ongoing exploration of personal and societal mythologies. About the Artist Mothersbaugh’s work has been informed by his formative years in Akron, Ohio, and his time with DEVO. DEVO, formed after the Kent State shootings in 1970, was instrumental in shaping the band’s core philosophy of de-evolution , a theory that critiques the decline of society through the lens of pop culture, politics, and technological progress. Through the band, and in his solo works, Mothersbaugh has explored the absurdities of modern life, creating works that challenge conventional narratives about art, identity, and culture. His music compositions for films like Peewee’s Playhouse and for Wes Anderson’s films are just as integral to his artistic practice as his visual work, reflecting his ability to merge sound and image into one cohesive narrative. Selected Exhibitions and Collections Myopia Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO HOMEFRONT INVASION! (2003), National Tour BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS (2004), National Tour Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia (2014), Princeton Architectural Press Mark Mothersbaugh: Collected Facts & Lies (2015) Postcard Book Mark Mothersbaugh: Untitled (My Struggle Prints) , 2016 Collections: Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Title Round A Loving Portrait, by Sarah Curry Estimated Value Range: $1,500 - $2,000 Starting Bid: $700 Bidding increments: $100 One of the first auction items Char and Chuck Fowler won at a moCa auction in the 1990s was a commissioned portrait—a deeply personal painting of their three daughters that still hangs proudly in their bedroom today. Now, you have the rare opportunity to create a lasting treasure of your own. Beloved Cleveland-based artist and art educator Sarah Curry will collaborate with you to craft an expressive, dynamic portrait of the two subjects of your choosing. Known for capturing both likeness and spirit, Curry’s work reflects the essence of her sitters. This package includes an artist consultation and one, approximately 18x24 inch painting of two subjects, to be completed by May 1, 2026. More: A Loving Portrait, by Sarah Curry Sarah Curry is a painter, illustrator and printmaker who has taught at Charles F. Brush High School in Lyndhurst for 21 years. She received her BFA in Illustration from Kansas City Art Institute, and her love of teaching children and adults at The Cleveland Museum of Art inspired her to attain her master’s degree in Art Education from Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Institute of Art. She uses art to make connections between local schools, businesses, members of various communities and artists of all ages.

Title Round Teun Hocks Untitled (Man Playing with Train) , 1996 Color silkscreen 30 x 40 inches Estimated Value Range: $1,800 - $2,400 Starting Bid: $900 Bidding increments: $100 Teun Hocks (b. 1947, Leiden – d. 2022, Rotterdam) was internationally celebrated for his tragicomic photo-paintings—works that combined photography, performance, and painting into richly staged tableaux. A pioneer of staged photography, Hocks became known for portraying himself as the resigned, endearing anti-hero in meticulously crafted theatrical scenes. His dreamlike, slightly absurd environments often placed an ordinary man—himself—amid surreal tasks or ambiguous predicaments. These worlds, rendered in black-and-white photography and hand-colored with oil paint (or digitally in later works), toe the line between humor and melancholy, clarity and mystery. Hocks’ works emerged from carefully developed drawings that explored visually interesting, surreal, or droll situations. These sketches served as blueprints for the elaborate sets he built in his studio. Once constructed, Hocks photographed himself within the scene using analogue black-and-white photography, then hand-painted the resulting prints in delicate layers of oil. In later years, he began digitally coloring his photos to create editioned works while preserving the painterly aesthetic of his practice. More: Teun Hocks Artist Statement & Approach Hocks never saw himself as a traditional storyteller. “Because the basis of my work is a staged scene, the image suggests that it involves an event that actually happened in reality,” he explained. But rather than offer a clear narrative, Hocks aimed to create open-ended situations, seldom titling his works to encourage individual interpretation. Each image feels like a moment suspended in time—something is about to go wrong, or perhaps has just gone awry. The result is work that is at once deeply human, oddly comic, and subtly unsettling. Critic Ken Johnson, writing in The New York Times , captured the poetic tension in Hocks’ work: “Teun Hocks’ works are truly profound, like the one of an artist who, unaware of the sun burning on the horizon behind him, focuses on the candle light in his hand—a metaphor, perhaps, about the human limits of spiritual perception.” About the Artist Hocks studied at the St. Joost Academy in Breda from 1966 to 1970, and was active early on in performance and collaborative art projects. While many artists in the Netherlands during the 1970s leaned into conceptualism, Hocks pursued a more accessible, visual storytelling approach. His early photo-performances eventually led to the hybrid photo-paintings that defined his mature work. Over his career, Hocks exhibited internationally and became an icon of Dutch staged photography. His work appeared in solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States, and he earned cult status for his unique ability to bridge photography and painting with narrative poignancy. Legacy & Final Years In the spring of 2021, Hocks held his final exhibition, Drawings , at TORCH Gallery. It featured works made during his period of isolation at home in central France—testament to his lifelong commitment to drawing, a practice that often remained in the background of his more well-known photographic works. Hocks also contributed as an educator, teaching drawing at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Design Academy Eindhoven. Teun Hocks leaves behind a legacy of work that defies easy categorization—simultaneously staged and spontaneous, humorous and haunting. His images invite us to pause, reflect, and imagine the stories unfolding within.

Title Round Derek Hess William Busta Gallery exhibition , 1995 Serigraph, ed. 144/250 Framed: 27 x 18 inches Estimated Value Range: $400 - $800 Starting Bid: $200 Bidding increments: $50 More: Derek Hess Born in Cleveland in 1964, Hess’ ascendance in the arts should probably come as little surprise. His father, Roy Hess, was a noteworthy designer, and chairman of the lauded industrial design department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. From a young age, Hess was correctly trained in classical art and design. Hess studied at that school, and at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, but he never landed in his father’s department, trying out illustration and graphic design before settling on a major in printmaking. It was that discipline, combined with his love of music, that led Hess to poster art fame. He had begun booking post-hardcore and underground rock concerts at the Euclid Tavern, a divey blues bar across the street from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and he drew his own fliers to promote his shows.

Title Round Clotilde Jiménez Self-Portrait in a Beret , 2024 Mixed media collage on paper Framed: 31 x 42 inches Estimated Value Range: $27,000 - $32,000 Starting Bid: $20,000 Playfully merging cut paper, photography, and bold mark-making, Clotilde Jiménez’s Self-Portrait in a Beret reconstructs the artist’s likeness through an inventive dialogue of material and form. A graduate of CIA and the Slade School of Fine Art (London), Jiménez has exhibited at global museums such as Museo Jumex and the Phillips Collection and his work is included in the Ford Foundation and Beth Rudin De Woody collections, among others. The Paris Olympics commissioned Jiménez to create posters for 2024 Games. This June, moCa Cleveland will debut his first major U.S. survey exhibition. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim Gallery (Chicago, Paris, Mexico City) More: Clotilde Jiménez Born in 1990 in Honolulu, Hawaii, Clotilde Jiménez now lives and works in Mexico City. He earned his MFA from The Slade School of Fine Art and his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Clotilde blends line and collage driven by a focus on materiality as shown through his reuse of everyday materials such as wallpaper, clothing, magazine clippings and Mexican craftpaper. Clotilde Jiménez: Shapeshift, opening on June 27, will be the most extensive presentation of Jiménez’s work to date, showcasing newly commissioned pieces alongside previously unseen drawings and process materials. Spanning his entire career, the exhibition will include early works from his time as a student at the Cleveland Institute of Art, providing a clear trajectory of his artistic evolution and the continuous transformation of his practice.