AN ART SALE FOR THE LAWRENCE BROSE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
Buffalo-based filmmaker, curator and arts advocate
Lawrence Brose's landmark
film De Profundis is a 65-minute meditation on gay desire based on Oscar
Wilde's
infamous prison letter presented via lush hand-processed imagery. The film
utilizes
vintage erotica, home movies, radical faerie gatherings, pagan rituals and
drag
shows alongside a piano score by Frederic Rzewski which incorporates Wilde's
text
as a means of exploring assimilation and sexuality through hand painted
frames and
manipulation. The result is an exploding utopia of colour and a layered but
equally
privileged soundscape. A simply haunting work of terrifying beauty.
Recently the film has come under scrutiny by the US Department of Homeland
Security and the US Justice Department as Brose now faces serious charges
for
allegedly possessing illicit digital images. One hundred of the listed
images in the
charges are film frames from De Profundis. The fact that he is under
indictment
for using images made by others to examine the taboos that such laws are
meant to
prevent is as overreaching as it is disturbing. This prosecution should be
viewed as
a chchallenge to artistic freedom, brought by a U.S. Attorney’s office that
previously
and unsuccessfully prosecuted Critical Art Ensemble founder Steve Kurtz.
This art sale is a fundraiser for Brose’s legal defense fund. Please help save an innocent artist’s life.
Art Works for Sale
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Sylvie Bélanger, A Man,
wood, vacuum form clear acrylic, stainless steel and LED lights, 17.5 x 11.5 inches. Value $2,200 Buy This Now: $1,760 |  + enlarge + |
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Zana Briski,Sex Workers of Calcutta II,
2001, Photogravure, 10.5 x 15.75 inch plate, 22 x 31 inch sheet Printed by Dusica Kirjakovic and Courtney Healey, Published by Lower East Side Printshop, Inc. Printer's Proof Value $5,000 Buy This Now: $4,000 |  + enlarge + |
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Lawrence Brose, Oil Rub Edition (2/5), 2009, 18 x 26 inches Printed with Epson Archival Pigmented ink on Epson Somerset Velvet paper Value $900 Buy This Now: $720 |
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Lawrence Brose, Soldiers Touching #1,Edition (2/5), 2009, 18 x 26 inches
Printed with Epson Archival Pigmented ink on Epson Somerset Velvet paper Value $900 Buy This Now: $720 |
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Charles Ephraim Burchfield (American, 1893-1967)
Untitled-'Preliminary Sketch',
11 x 17 inches,
Pencil on paper Unsigned (slight marking from paperclip at top center typical of his drawings) Value $850 SOLD  |
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Diane Bush, Sit ups (Shea's), from the series Main Street, 1981, Gelatin Silver Print description: Ralph Racine, at Singer's Gym Value $600 Buy This Now: $480 |
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Sylvia deSwaanThe Baltic Express from the Return series, 1990 - printed circa 1996, vintage silver gelatin print |
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Tseng Kwong Chi
Kamakura, Japan,
1988
Gelatin Silver Photograph
10" x 8"
Signed Verso
Edition 36/50
East Meets West: The Expeditionary Series Value $1000 Buy This Now: $800 |
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Adele Henderson,
A Perfict Description of the Celestial Orbes (according to the most recent doctrine of intelligent design), 2009,
Two color hand-printed lithograph with archival inkjet, 20 x 15 inches
Value $250 Buy This Now: $200 |
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Ken Heyman,
Untitled, 1976 (reprinted),
Silver Gelatin Photograph, 12 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches
Value $2,500 Buy This Now: $2,000 |
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Ken Heyman, Andy Warhol with Self-Portraits, 1964 (Reprinted) Silver gelatin print, 16 x 20" Value $2,500 Buy This Now: $2,000 |
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Robert Hirsch, The 1960s Cubed: A Counter Culture of Images Commemorative Set (15), 2011. 4 x 4 x 4 inches each. Electrostatic prints in acrylic cubes. Value $750 Buy This Now: $600 |
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Jeffrey Hoone,
Tights from the series Hook, Line and Sinker,
Platinum print,
12 x 10 inches Value: $450 Buy This Now: $350 |
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| Bruce Jackson,
Concrete Central, 2010 signed and dated ((2011/2012),
From the American Chartres series,
18.26x22 on a 24x30" sheet,
Inkjet print on Epson Exhibition Fiber,
Unnumbered A.P. (the numbered edition is 20) Value: $1,200 Buy This Now: $960 |
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Simen Johan,
Untitled #83
1999
Gelatin Silver Print
10" x 10"
Signed recto Value: $1,200 Buy This Now: $960 |
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Dinh Q. Le,Untitled from Cambodia Series, 1998
lithograph on somerset satin paper
39 x 30 inches
edition of 30 Value: $3,000 Buy This Now: $2,400 |
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Joan Linder,
Vent,
2006,
ink on paper,
15 x 22 1/2 inches Value: $1,000 Buy This Now: $800 |
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Annabel Livermore,
Indian ink on arches paper,
22 x 30 inches Value: $2,000 Buy This Now: $1,600 |
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Joan Lyons, Mediated landscape series, untitled,
Lake Champlain and the Vatican,
13 x 21.5" (2010),
digital inkjet print Value $600 Buy This Now: $480 |
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Nathan Lyon, Diptych, untitled, Mexico City,
16 x 20" (2002) matted, gelatin silver print Value: $1,500 Buy This Now: $1,200 |
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Juan Perdiguero,
Blue Monkey,
2010,
Mixed Media on photo-emulsion,
30 x 40 inches Value: $2.200 Buy This Now: $1,760 |
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John Pfahl,
Roan Mountain Lightning,
1977,
Ektacolor Print,
9 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches, Signed Verso,
Artists Proof Value: $1,500 Buy This Now: $1,200 |
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Walid Ra'ad,
Already Been in a Lake of Fire, Plate 57,
2000,
Digiprint,
24 x 38 inches Value: $1,500 Buy This Now: $1,200 |
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Milton Rogovin, Untitled (Scotland), 1982, Silver Gelatin Print, 5.5 x 4.75 inches, From the Family of Miners Series Value: $3,500 Buy This Now: $2,800 |
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Martha Rosler,
Untitled (Vigo, Spain),
1990,
Chromogenic Color Print,
26 1/2 x 40 inches, Signed Verso |
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Joseph Scheer,
Actias luna,Printers Proof 2006, Edition of 12 (sold out),
34 X 46 inches,
Iris Print on watercolor paper
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Carolee Schneemann,
Snowflakes - Red,
Giclee Print, 2010,
24 x 49.75 inch image Edition: #5/10 Value $9,000 Buy This Now: $7,200 |
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James Siena,
Double Recursive Combs, Boustrophedonic,
Screenprint, 2005,
14.25 x 22.25 inch image, 21 x 28.25 inch sheet Printed by James Miller and Christian Kinsler, Published by Lower East Side Printshop, Inc., PP 3/3 Value $1,800 Buy This Now: $1,440 |
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Reinhard Reitzenstein,
The Origins of an Architecture, bronze casting
(unique object cast from life), 2010,
2.5 x 6 x 12 inches Value $2,500 Buy This Now: $2,000 |
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Brian Ulrich,
Rialto Theatre,
2009,
From the Dark Stores chapter of the project Copia,
Pigment Ink Print,
11 x 14 inches,
Print 1/15 Value: $900 Buy This Now: $720 |
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Mr. Spacely from "The Jetsons" Hanna-Barbera Productions Actual Hand Painted Production Cell Value: $150 Buy Now: $120 |
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Pink Panther Actual Double Hand Painted Production Cells Including original Pencil Sketches Value: $225 Buy Now $180 |
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Marge and Maggie from “The Simpsons” Fox Productions Actual Hand Painted Production Cell Value: $175 SOLD |
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Nick Taylor
Hang' in Out at Pete's Place Jean-Michel Basquiat Neg. #7, edition 6/15, 1979/2003 Image size: 5.75” X 8.75” on 11” X 14” paper Value $800 Buy Now: $ 640 |
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Nick Taylor Culebra Jean-Michel Basquiat Neg. #8, edition 6/15, 1979/2003 Image size: 5.75” X 8.75” on 11” X 14” paper Value: $800 Buy Now: $640 |
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Nick Taylor Polka Dot Shirt and a New-Wave Jacket Jean-Michel Basquiat Neg. #24, edition 6/15, 1979/2003 Image size: 5.75” X 8.75” on 11” X 14” paper Value: $800 Buy Now: $640 |
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Mark Palmer Asylum II 13” X 19” Collage/ mixed media 2007 Value: $800 Buy Now: $640 |
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Mark Palmer Asylum I 21” X 11” Collage/ mixed media 2007 Value: $800 Buy Now: $640 |
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Robert Flynt Untitled 8x10" Matted to 11x14 1997 Value: $900 Buy Now: $720 |
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Paul Wong Double-Phoenix for LB 13h x 11w, double sided 2000-2011 White pigment, solvent transfers, graphite, on burnt Chinese joss embedded in abaca handmade paper. (A two-sided image on abaca paper) Value: $800 Buy Now: $640 |
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