DECO PARTY ART AUCTION

Guided by his visits to arboretums, botanical gardens, nature preserves, and historic vistas, Long Island artist Eric Dever paints serene views that present the peaceful and beautiful quality of nature. Inspired by illness and personal loss, Dever conveys the ephemerality of seasonal changes in his plaintive artworks. This painting depicts the Frick Pinetum on the grounds of the Nassau County Museum of Art and the surrounding William Cullen Bryant Preserve, reflecting the artist’s continued interest in landscape and painting techniques. Dever’s work is featured in the collections of such institutions as the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York and the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York. 

Connecticut-based sculptor Joe Gitterman produces undulating curved sculptures that emphasize dynamic movement and sensual form. Inspired by an admiration for ballet and modern dance, he captures single frames of motion through crisp abstract forms. The glistening surface texture and coiled shape of this gestural sculpture express a sense of spirited energy. Gitterman’s work has been collected and commissioned by such prominent companies and individuals as Norwegian Cruise Lines, the Four Seasons Hotel in Houston, Texas, and the French-born interior designer Robert Couturier. 

New York-based artist John Grande comments on modern and contemporary culture with his constructed paintings, sculptures, and murals, carefully employing such techniques and traditions as those of Old Master painters, nineteenth-century academic art, twentieth-century advertising, and Pop art. His works’ radiant colors and unexpected juxtapositions offer complex perspectives on everyday life. With dynamism and energy, he depicts such recognizable glamorous subjects as Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, and John F. Kennedy, seen in this colorful painting inspired by the artwork of Damien Hirst. Grande has created commissioned murals in Jersey City, New Jersey and has exhibited at such galleries and institutions as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the New York gallery Jim Kempner Fine Art. 

Long Island artist Glen Hansen creates hyper-realist paintings with an incredible attention to detail, meticulously capturing the effects of natural light in quiet but powerful scenes that lack human figures. Often working from photographs and drawings, he methodically records patterns of sunlight and shadow, carefully focusing on a few elements at a time. With its remarkable moonlight view, this painting features Hansen’s signature sublime atmospheric style. His work is featured in the collections of such museums as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Nassau County Museum of Art, and the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase. 

This painting was produced by the Connecticut-based artist David Hayes, who enjoyed a robust six-decade career. His work is in the collections of highly regarded institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut. The influence of the American master Alexander Calder, his close friend and contemporary whom he met while studying in Paris, can be seen in Hayes’ numerous paintings and sculptures. Hayes’ body of work encompasses abstracted organic forms and frequently incorporates both positive and negative space. He captured the dynamic colors and visual forms of the 1960s and 1970s and explored newfound cultural and economic liberties resulting from the post-World War II economic boom, working alongside such artists as Tom Wesselmann, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jim Dine. 

Throughout a nearly sixty-year career, New York-based artist Richard Heinrich has created abstract, geometric sculptures with austere contours and shapes. Light and playful, his artwork incorporates blind welding and finished waxed surfaces. His works at times also evoke music, with such sculptures such as Lester’s Leap (1995) paying homage to jazz. Heinrich’s large-scale sculptures Perdido Up (2001) and New York Bridge (1999) are featured on the grounds of the Nassau County Museum of Art. His work is represented by numerous institutions, including the New York Public Library and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. This sculpture recalls the artist’s memories of visiting the Five Spot Café, a now-defunct New York City jazz club frequented by such artists as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. Such cutting-edge Bebop and progressive jazz musicians as Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman performed at the club. 

This colorful and bold print is from British-born artist David Hockney’s Abstractions series, which marked his artistic shift from representational art to more abstract compositions and reflects his interest in composite views. The artwork was created for the California politician Joel Wachs’ second of three unsuccessful campaigns for Mayor of Los Angeles. Wachs served on the Los Angeles City Council and later became the president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Hockney is widely represented worldwide in numerous public and private collections and is a living legend of art history. 

Long Island painter Bruce Lieberman produces cheerful and colorful figurative paintings inspired by his activities as a gardener. Ornamentals and native pollinators abound in his verdant and idyllic garden at his home in Water Mill in the Hamptons. His vibrant artwork reflects a search for a personal creative style that fuses abstraction with concrete painting. Lieberman’s work is featured in the collections of such museums as the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York and the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, & Carriages in Stony Brook, New York. 

Ukrainian-born American artist Shimon Okshteyn was known for his tongue-in-cheek commentary on such themes as commercialism, sex appeal, and cultural memory. His audacious and eclectic body of work was inspired by the new cultural environment he faced upon immigrating from Ukraine to the United States in 1980 and by his bold use of form and strong vibrant colors, which evoke such historical predecessors as the German painters Otto Dix and George Grosz. This satirical print depicts two stylish high-society women and suggests the unsentimental and prevalent reality of high fashion. His works are featured in the collections of such prominent museums as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. 

Throughout a prolific and productive career that has spanned thirty years, New York sculptor Joel Perlman has produced abstract metal works that juxtapose vast densities against airy contours. His work explores the concept of weight, monumentality, and negative space, intertwining linear forms that allude to modern machinery and vivacious energy. He closely relates his process to the materials and construction that are involved in the creation of his sculptures. Perlman’s large-scale sculpture DREADNAUGHT (1989) is featured on the grounds of the Nassau County Museum of Art, and his work is featured in the collections of such museums as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. This studio-scale sculpture packs all the signature elements of his artwork.