Full Spectrum Art Auction

The seeds of this auction were planted in May inside Becoming Artist: The Birthing Room, a Facebook group where artists support each other to reach their fullest potential. Jessica Serran, leader of the Becoming Artist Movement and established career artist, held an intensive 5 Day Money Making Challenge for all group members. During this challenge, participants were encouraged to bring their creative desires into reality while defying the tired, corrosive stereotype of the “starving artist.” As often happens with collective group energy, a couple of our community members were struck by the inspiration to hold an online art auction, bringing the ideas of self-­determination, creativity, and direct action into practice on a large scale.

HOW TO VIEW THE AUCTION

1. Viewing can take place without an account, however, a free account must first be created in order to bid in the auction.
2. Click on View All Items below and review the entire list of artworks, being sure to note the artists you love.
3. You can also view a list of works by an individual artist by clicking on their name link in the Search area of this page. On your desktop computer, it will be to the left of this message.
4. You can also view works by media type, again by clicking on the category link in the Search area.

WE GIVE BACK

Five percent (5%) of all sales will be donated by our artists to the National Compassion Fund. This fund provides a single, trusted way for the public to donate directly to victims of a mass crime in the United States, such as a mass shooting or terrorist attack. It has been developed by the National Center for Victims of Crime in partnership with victims and family members from past mass casualty crimes, including those from Sandy Hook, Aurora, Virginia Tech, 9/11 and now Orlando.

DISCLAIMERS

1. Colors may appear differently between computer screens and the actual art. We unfortunately have no control over this and cannot be held responsible for these differences. Please contact the individual artist if you have any questions or concerns.
2. By participating in this auction you agree to follow through with the payment if you are the winning bidder.

There is only a short amount of time for this auction, so Happy Bidding and Good Luck!

We are a collective of 11 artists from around the world who are exhibiting 99 works of original art. We offer collectors at all levels an opportunity to bid on exciting and internationally exhibited art that comes directly from our talented artists:

CECILE NOLDUS

Cecile Noldus was born in the country of Hieronymus Bosch, in Brabant in the Netherlands. As a child she loved to walk in the forests near her home, and imagine there to live all kind of funny creatures. But also in the kitchen of her mother she kept on finding living things. They all tried to tell her stories. Ever since she has been trying to connect with these creatures by shaping them out of trash and things. To recall the mystic forests of her childhood Cecile has been painting and transforming nature. Nature is transformed into anthropomorphic constructed gardens. Plants have animistic souls as well in Cecile’s world. When she discovered the art of animation, she found another way to give soul to the things around her. Cecile Noldus is a stop motion filmmaker, a painter, a performance artist and creator of textile objects and collages. Since 1995 she lives in Hamburg, Germany.

Learn more about Cecile at http://www.cecilenoldus.de and https://www.instagram.com/cecilenoldus/
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CHANTELLE GOLDTHWAITE

Chantelle Goldthwaite was born in 1970 in the foothills of Northern California. As a professional and award winning artist, she has been exhibiting up and down both the east and west coasts since 2005. Although, not formally trained, she utilizes a wide range of mediums to bring her visions to life: painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, photography, assemblage, sculpture, ceramics and jewelry making. She has honed her skills in classrooms, workshops and community art centers across the country.

Through her travels she has collected her style, color palette and vivid interior landscape as one would collect souvenirs. She imagines a sense of place and sensation and then brings them into being. A world of lush vibrant colors and universal images that invite and entice the viewer to lose themselves in her world.

Visit Chantelle's Facebook page for more of her works: https://www.facebook.com/wondrousobjectstudio/
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CLAIRE K. STRINGER

Claire K. Stringer was born in Charleston, South Carolina. She studied fine art at The Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia and received her BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Claire concentrated in painting, drawing and photography, and has been cultivating her personal layered and intricate style of ink wash painting since those early years. After completing her schooling in Boston, she relocated to New York City, and continued her studio practice and her studies at the Art Students League and the Fashion Institute of Technology. Claire has had solo shows in New York City, South Carolina and California and participated in group and juried shows nationally. Currently, Claire K. Stringer lives and works in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles.

See more from Claire at https://www.facebook.com/clairekstringer
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DEBORAH TAYLOR

Deb Taylor is an Australian artist. Her abstract paintings are inspired by maps and the natural world. Their creation is driven by color. Deb is also a teacher, and is passionate about honing our perception to see the art and beauty in our everyday experiences. She runs regular workshops in making abstract art, as well as one on one mentoring sessions.

Deb studied Art History and Art Education at the University of Melbourne. She also completed post-graduate studies in Visual Arts at Monash University. She has done several residencies and her work has been exhibited regularly in both group and solo shows.

Visit Deb's Facebook page to see more of her work: http://www.facebook.com/morepressingmatters
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HEATHER V. MALO

Heather V. Malo is a self-taught artist living in Massachusetts. She loves the surreal and animal world. She uses color to decorate the ordinary into the extraordinary with paints, canvas, digital and sometimes video. Heather has been creating weird stuff since she was a child. She loves digital work as it makes 'less mess' and truly loves animals- Especially cats. She loves to make the ordinary into the extraordinary, and hopes to catch your eye with something special. You might recognize these everyday objects in the work, but if not, keep trying!

Heather will bring all that is unseen to the forefront, and hopes to pull on the emotional strings of your heart with loves for animals, and other causes.

Find out more about Heather on her blog: http://heathervms.blogspot.com/, https://www.instagram.com/shmooplife/
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JEANNINE CHANIN PENN

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.” — Henry David Thoreau

In 2015, after many years working in the entertainment business in Los Angeles, California as an award winning Creative Director and Graphic Designer, Jeannine Chanin Penn started shifting some of her focus, time and energy to more personal work and pieces. Although still and always a Designer, she is at her truest self an Artist. Her ability to step in and out of the two worlds, bringing the richness and experiences of both, is evident in Jeannine’s work.

The huge internal universal that goes in her mind and dreams result in fascinating, layered paintings within paintings, stories within stories... Combining observations of nature, fragments of dreams, memories of family and more results in rich, textured, abstract pieces that tell can be experienced in a deeper and different way each time you look at them.

Her pieces combine acrylic, ink, mixed media, photography, found objects and collage.

To see more of Jeannine's art and inspiration visit https://www.instagram.com/xoj9creative/ and http://www.xoj9creative.com
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LORELEI ROSE

Lorelei Rose, our artist from New York, has been a lifelong artist, creating her first recognizable portrait at age 2. She's created expressive portraits for most of her life. Although she's had brief periods of artistic training, she's primarily self taught. As a commercial and fine artist, she's worked in the area of advertising, as an illustrator, as a sculptor, as a artist that works in cut and folded paper, a decorative artist, as an artist that performs many types of art at special events and most recently painting directly on the human body.

The works range from quirky and colorful to edgy, surreal and somber.Lorelei's focus is the emotional inner life of people and animals, relationships with self, others and the larger world. The works are often exploring the question of who is the self in the cocoon of family, in the light and shadow of family and the angst of family. Animals represent people and people are reminiscent of animals in these worlds. A major ongoing question is' who is my mother really and how do we relate and dance within one another's psychology.' Often, no matter how somber a mood might be in the art, there's always an expectation of a brighter moment beyond the then and the now.

Visit Lorelei on Facebook to learn more: https://www.facebook.com/LoreleiArts/
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RELAXING REALISM: PHILIP RINGLER & JAMES SAXON

Relaxing Realism is a Conceptual Photography collaboration between Philip Ringler and James Saxon based in Shanghai, China (from San Francisco, California). Philip is Conceptual/Technical, James is Technical/Conceptual. The team has created two series, It’s My Party! (2011) and Element.element (2014-2015). They create elaborate spectacles with set building, multimedia technology, and performance in order to make still images for quiet contemplation. Relaxing Realism uses no photoshop alteration or layering beyond basic post production.

Philip Ringler has an MFA from John F. Kennedy University and is currently working/living at a 1 year artist in residence in Shanghai, China. James Saxon has an MFA in Multimedia from California State University East Bay where he works as a Photography Lab Technician.

For more information on Philip's project, visit http://www.philipringler.com/relaxing-realism-collaboration-with-james-saxon-2011-present.html
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SHARON LANDON

Sharon Landon is a mixed media artist and designer currently residing in her home state of Arkansas (US). Her art, however, has been significantly influenced by the many years she lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. It was here she learned to intuitively embrace nature, signs, and symbols. With these elements as her guide, Sharon orchestrates color, flowing lines, shapes, and patterns, as she uses all of her senses to create both abstract and representational works of art. Incorporating acrylics, watercolors, wax and pastel pencils, inks, gel mediums, custom-carved stamps, paper, metals, and nature trinkets to produce graphic-style paintings and dimensional forms, Sharon's work walks a thin line between fine art and design.

For 20+ years, Sharon has worked as a Surface Pattern Designer, Communication Designer, Illustrator, and Brand Design Specialist. She is also an award-winning photographer. She has exhibited her designs, paintings, and photos in numerous group shows throughout the years, and held her first solo art show in 2015. Sharon has a style collectors often respond to with the comment, “Regardless of the subject, I always know it’s Sharon Landon's work before I even see her name. Her colorful and richly layered graphic style is just so beautiful and distinctive!”

To view Sharon's range of work visit: http://www.instagram.com/sharon.landon and http://www.culinaryeden.com
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SHEILA METCALF TOBIN

Standing among the flowers in her great grandmother’s garden with a Monarch’s legs delicately clinging to her small finger, Sheila Metcalf Tobin knew that she was experiencing beauty. Throughout the wandering journey of her life this encounter and many others like it have accumulated into a profound teaching too powerful for her to ignore. In her most recent body of work she explores the relationships and connections between human, animal and plant forms, drawing them together in complex and fantastical compositions. Her work conveys the complexity and beauty of humanity and its’ wild counterparts.

Sheila formally studied drawing, sculpture and fiber, received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Today her art education continues through maintaining an engaged studio practice and teaching others, as a community college drawing instructor at Merritt College in Oakland, CA. Her work has been exhibited locally in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area and nationally at venues including the Firehouse Arts Center, Sanchez Art Center and John Steinbeck Museum and has been included in many private collections from Los Angeles California to Brooklyn NYC.

To view more of Sheila's recent work visit http://www.sheilametcalftobin.com
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TAMAR SWARTZ

Tamar Swartz is a Canadian mixed media intuitive artist currently living and working in Budapest, Hungary. She combines collage, drawing and painting to create visual narratives by drawing inspiration from the colours, shapes and movement of world around her, and creates works of art for viewers to journey through.

Her project Journey to Creative Surrender, ongoing for the past year and a half, explores the experience pertaining to the moments of surrendering to the creative process and allowing presence, trust and intuition to lead the way for the piece of art to emerge and unfurl. The work presented is a sample from Tamar’s Budapest Collection, and was created during her 6 month studio and teaching residency at Art Quarter Budapest in 2015. Tamar also facilitates Intuitive Art classes for adults and seniors, and inspires creative expression and self-discovery through visual art.

For more information about the Journey to Creative Surrender and Tamar's work, visit: www.tamarswartz.com