BlockParty 2012 Auction Preview

We’re two weeks out from our second annual Omnibus fundraiser, the Urban Omnibus BlockParty 2012, this year taking place at the St. Patrick’s Youth Center on Mulberry Street. Following up on the success of last year’s event, we are thrilled to offer again a silent auction of artwork donated by artists, architects, thinkers and doers we have featured on Urban Omnibus or whose work we think our readers will find compelling.

Here, we offer a preview of the paintings, photographs, illustrations, prints, tickets, experiences and more that you will see offered at the party on February 28th. Check them out below and then buy your tickets to the event here. Don’t wait — tickets will be more expensive at the door.

Interested in an item, but can’t make it to the party? Email Varick Shute at shute@archleague.org to inquire about the option to bid by proxy.

Urban Omnibus BlockParty 2012
Auction Preview
(Click here for more information about the event and to purchase tickets) 

Andreas Burgess (cinematographer, photographer, patchworkaday.tumblr.com, andreasburgess.com)
Slave Theater, Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York, 2009
Edition 1 of 5
Photo collage (unframed)
16.5″ x 25 (sheet)
bidding starts at $200

Candy Chang (artist, designer, planner, author of the features “Making Policy Public: Vendor Power!” and “Post-it Notes for Neighbors,” candychang.com, civiccenter.cc)
Before I Die, 2012
Limited edition painting
Chalkboard paint and spray paint on birchwood ply
12″ x 48”
bidding starts at $75

City Grit (Venue of the BlockParty 2012 benefactors’ dinner, citygritnyc.com)
Dinner for two at the City Grit culinary salon
Food culture-based events anchored by supper club-style dinners from perennial host Sarah Simmons, with Southern influence as well as a guest chef series of well-known and emerging chefs.
bidding starts at $50 

The Civilians (NYC-based investigative theater company; featured in “Brooklyn at Eye Level,” thecivilians.org)
Two tickets to You Better Sit Down, 2012
The Civilians is the center for investigative theater, supporting the development and production of new theater from creative inquiries into the most vital questions of the present. The Civilians expands the scope of American theater and champions innovation by tackling complex and under-explored subjects, enabling artists to enrich their processes through in-depth interaction with their topics, diversifying artistic voices and audiences, and integrating theater with new media.
bidding starts at $30

Glen Cummings, MTWTF (graphic designer, writer, partner at MTWTF; author of “Making Policy Public: Predatory Equity” and co-author of “Safari 7“)
Between Stations (Stratford to Milford), 2002-ongoing
Apple iPod Touch, .mov video file, custom software, headphones
Between Stations is an ongoing project that translates the motion of the electrical wires which run alongside MetroNorth Railroad’s New Haven Line into music. See a preview here.
bidding starts at $125

Photo by Kate Glicksberg

Elastic City (a collection of artists who use walks through the city as their medium; featured in “Elastic City,” elastic-city.com)
A gift certificate for four spots on the walk of your choice during the Elastic City 2012 season.
Elastic City intends to make its audience active participants in an ongoing poetic exchange with the places we live in and visit.
bidding starts at $40

Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) (featured in “Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts,” fabnyc.org)
Two tickets to The New York Neo-Futurists’ Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind* and a $15 gift certificate to local non-profit artist café FAB Café
An ever-changing attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes.
bidding starts at $30
* Tickets are good anytime except during pride shows in June and Best of TMLMTBGB in December

Future Green Studio (Founding principal David Seiter authored the feature “Profiles of Spontaneous Urban Plants,” futuregreenstudio.com)
Profiles of Spontaneous Urban Plants, 2011
A set of three botanical illustrations: New England Hawkweed, Lambsquarters, and White Snakeroot
Photocollage
10.75” x 8.75” (framed, each); 10” x 8” (sheet, each)
bidding starts at $150

Stanley Greenberg (photographer, featured in “City as Organism, Only Some of it Visible,” stanleygreenberg.org, buttonagreement.blogspot.com)
City Tunnel No. 3, Brooklyn, NY, 1998, 1998
Silver gelatin print (matted)
8” x 10” (sheet)
bidding starts at $650

Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo (featured in “Lead Pencil Studio: Looking at Nothing,” leadpencilstudio.com)
SoHo Stairwell, 2011, 2011
Edition 1/3
A laser scan capture from a stairwell on Greene Street in SoHo
Archival B&W digital print on paper (unframed)
20″ x 16″ (image); 23″ x 17″ (sheet)
bidding starts at $600

Kirsten Hively (architect, writer and photographer; author of the features “Project Neon” and “The Candela Structures: Architecture as Storytelling,” projectneon.tumblr.com)
Hinsch’s Confectionery (Bay Ridge, Brooklyn), 2011
Edition of 10
Limited edition photograph (unframed)
13” x 19” (sheet)
bidding starts at $70

Gary Hustwit (filmmaker; featured in “Gary Hustwit’s Urbanized,” urbanizedfilm.com)
Urbanized signed print (edition 22/100) and Design Trilogy DVDs (Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized), 2011
Limited edition, silkscreen print; 23”x 16.5” (sheet)
Set of three DVDs
bidding starts at $125

Nathan Kensinger (photographer, urban explorer, filmmaker, location scout, kensinger.blogspot.com)
PS 186 Auditorium, 2009
Photograph (framed)
Taken inside an abandoned Harlem school that opened in 1903.
17” x 21” (framed); 11” x 14” (print)
bidding starts at $150

Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Architects (NYC-based architecture firm founded by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David J. Lewis, ltlarchitects.com)
Park Tower Section Perspective, 2004
Edition 3/10
Ink-jet print on mylar
30″ x 16” (sheet); 36.75″ x 21″ (mat)
bidding starts at $300

Frank Lupo (architect, artist, educator; more work at saatchionline.com)
The Battery, 2010
Gouache on 140-lb Arches hot press watercolor paper
62″ x 44” (unframed)
bidding starts at $2,000

Stephen Mallon (photographer; featured in “Stephen Mallon: Reframing the Machine,“ stephenmallon.com)
No Seats Left
Edition 9/50; from the series Next Stop Atlantic
Digital chromogenic print (unframed)
16” x 20” (sheet)
bidding starts at $125

Image courtesy of Tracy Collins | flickr.com/photos/tracy_collins

Norman Oder (journalist, editor, tour guide, author of watchdog blog Atlantic Yards Report, contributor to UO)
A two-hour private walking tour of the Atlantic Yards site and environs for up to 8 people
bidding starts at $80

James A. Reeves (writer, designer, photographer, educator, designer of UrbanOmnibus.net, contributor to UO, bigamericannight.com, civiccenter.cc)
Gem Theater + Elks Club, 2011
Photograph (unframed)
11” x 14” (sheet)
bidding starts at $60

Keith Sirchio (donated by Situ Studio, design, fabrication and research firm; featured in “Situ Studio: Patterns of Motion and Places of Pause,” situstudio.com)
Untitled, 2011
Photograph of ReOrder by Situ Studio
Signed digital print
11”x14” (sheet); 13”x16” (framed)
bidding starts at $125

Keith Sirchio (donated by Situ Studio, design, fabrication and research firm; featured in “Situ Studio: Patterns of Motion and Places of Pause,” situstudio.com)
Untitled, 2007
Photograph of Solar Pavilion 2 by Situ Studio
Signed digital print
11”x14” (sheet); 13”x16” (framed)
bidding starts at $125

Christina Sun (illustrator, part-time deckhand and author of Bowsprite, a blog about New York Harbor; co-author of the feature “From Trucks to Tugs: Short Sea Shipping”)
USCG LightShip Frying Pan, 2011
print, watercolor pen and ink (unframed)
8.5”x11” (sheet)
bidding starts at $40

Christina Sun (illustrator, part-time deckhand and author of Bowsprite, a blog about New York Harbor; co-author of the feature “From Trucks to Tugs: Short Sea Shipping”)
JFKennedy – Staten Island Ferry, 2011
print, watercolor pen and ink (unframed)
8.5”x11” (sheet)
bidding starts at $40