We are proud to announce the NELSON ARTfriends "Burn the Palace's Mortgage" Silent Online Auction! In order to finalize the last payment on our purchase of Arneson's masterpiece, we need more funds, specifically about $4,000 at this time. Please help us by participating in our online auction at the link below. You can purchase artwork by bidding or paying the buy- it-now price. We hope to sell all of the pieces prior to our Annual Meeting on May 15, 2009, so that we can legitimately burn the mortgage!

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Image: Jack Ogden
Untitled, Seated Woman
Minimum Bid: $100
Buy it Now Price: $300

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May 29 - June 19, 2009
Opening May 29, 6-8pm

The five graduating students – Julia Elsas, Crystal Haueter, Cynthia Horn, Evie Leder, and Josh Short will present video, installation, sculpture and paintings.

Image:
Julia Elsas
uh-huh, yeah.
thread, fabric, steel

Evie Leder
Untitled
video

Josh Short
Boss 302 V8
cardboard, hotglue, 2by4s, rope, zip ties, bolts, found hosing

Cynthia Horn
Found
oil on canvas
60" x 72"

Crystal Haueter
Courtney Submersed
cut photo collage and resin

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March 26 - May 17, 2009
Opening March 26, 6-8 pm

Trimpin, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient, is a sound sculptor, composer, inventor, and one of the most thought-provoking one-man forces in art today.

Images from Sheng High Installation

March 26 - June 26, 2009

Wonner rose to prominence in the 1950s as an abstract expressionist associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement. This small exhibition of works from the Fine Arts Collection is in memory of the artist who passed away April 23, 2008 in San Francisco.

Image: Paul Wonner
Vence, France
1959

January 8 - March 8, 2009
Opening January 8, 6-8 pm

Dave Lane, of Sacramento, uses found and modified agricultural and industrial steel relics of the 20th century to embody his personal cosmology.

Image: Dave Lane
Heart of Gold
(image courtesy of the Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College)

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