Preview | Block Party 2013 Auction

The 2013 Urban Omnibus Block Party is just over a week away — buy your tickets here! This year’s event will take place at the Malt House on West 126th Street, with drinks, Dinosaur BBQ, and our annual silent auction. The artwork and experiences offered at the auction are donated by artists, architects, thinkers, and doers we have featured on Urban Omnibus or whose work we think our readers will find compelling. Check out some of the photographs, paintings, illustrations, and experiences that will be on view and up for bid on June 13th below — and stay tuned for more items, to be added over the next week.

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

Urban Omnibus Block Party 2013
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(Click here for more information about the event and to purchase tickets)

Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani (photographer, curator, educator, featured in “Making Meaning Together: The Triangle Fire Open Archive and Open Museum,” buscada.com)
WE ARE ONE, 2011
A photograph made of a publication belonging to one of the organizers of the historic 1982 Chinatown garment workers strike. Made in the 100th anniversary year of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, it speaks to the way women garment workers, as well as the need to organize for their rights, are connected across the years. The photograph is part of Buscada’s larger project, the Triangle Fire Open Archive.
Archival inkjet Print
8″ × 12″ (image), 11″ × 14″ (sheet)
bidding starts at $100

Cameron Blaylock (photographer, featured in “Portfolio: Electchester“)
Culture, 2012
Inkjet Print
8.5″ × 11″ (sheet); 11.5″ × 14.5″ (framed)
bidding starts at $100

Photo by Robert Clark

Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92 (featured in “Urban Industry Redefined“)
“Ingenious Inventions” tour and curriculum kit
“Ingenious Inventions” explores transitions in shipbuilding technology as seen at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the 19th century from wooden sailships to iron clads and steam propulsion. Designed for school groups but appropriate for all ages. Tour for 30 students, or a group of 6-8 adults.
bidding starts at $150

Steve Duncan (urban historian, explorer, photographer of the urban underground, featured in “Undercity: The Infrastructural Explorations of Steve Duncan“)
Antwerp to Yangon: urban waterways around the world, 2007-2012
A collection of six photographs of six very different urban waterways that were all originally natural streams, flowing today through cities from Antwerp, Belgium, to Yangon, Myanmar. A brief summary sheet from the photographer with title and caption information for each photograph will identify the stream and city.
6 digital c-prints
16″ × 24″ each
bidding starts at $750

image courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

Mitch Epstein (photographer, featured in “A Conversation with Mitch Epstein,” mitchepstein.net)
Weeping Beech, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2011
Selenium-toned gelatin silver print
11″ × 14″ (sheet); 8″ × 10″ (image)
bidding starts at $750

Stanley Greenberg (photographer, featured in “City as Organism, Only Some of it Visible,” stanleygreenberg.org, buttonagreement.blogspot.com)
Astor Place / East 56th Street, 2012
Gelatin silver print
8″ × 10″ (image); 12.5″ × 14.5″ (matted)
bidding starts at $500

Gary Hustwit (filmmaker, photographer, featured in “Gary Hustwit’s Urbanized,” olympiccityproject.com)
Huilongguan, Beijing, 2012
From The Olympic City project (with Jon Pack). Huilongguan is one of the neighborhoods where the Chinese government relocated over 15,000 people forced from their homes, which had been demolished to make way for 2008 Olympic development.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle photo rag paper, mounted on 3mm Sintra board
14″ × 21″ (sheet)
bidding starts at $500

Matt Lambros (photographer, featured in “The Fall of the American Movie Palace,” afterthefinalcurtain.net)
Auditorium, 2011
Proctor’s Palace Roof Theatre, Newark, New Jersey.
Photographic print
12″ × 18″ (sheet)
bidding starts at $50

Matt Lambros (photographer, featured in “The Fall of the American Movie Palace,” afterthefinalcurtain.net)
Box Seats, 2010
The remains of the box seats at the Paramount Theatre in Newark, New Jersey.
Photographic print
12″ × 18″
bidding starts at $50

Frank Lupo (architect, artist, educator; more work at saatchionline.com)
Park Ave IV, 2008
Gouache
22″ × 30″ (sheet); 31.25″ × 41.25″ (framed)
bidding starts at $400

Stephen Mallon (photographer; featured in “Stephen Mallon: Reframing the Machine,“ stephenmallon.com)
No Seats Left, 2010
From the series Next Stop Atlantic, which chronicles the MTA’s artificial reef program from 2008-2010.
Chromogenic print
11.5″ × 17″ (image); 16″ × 20″ (sheet)
bidding starts at $225

Terence Mallon (illustrator, featured in “The City That Never Shouts“)
City on a Small Celestial Body, 2013
Ink on vellum
14.5″ × 11.5″ (framed)
bidding starts at $65

Scott Nyerges (photographer, filmmaker, featured in “Portfolio: Hidden in Plain Sight,” and “Gardener on the Roof: Examining Urban Farming“)
Untitled (Eagle Street Rooftop Farm), 2009
Digital C-print
11″ × 14″ (print); 15.25″ × 19.25″ (framed)
bidding starts at $50

Christopher Payne (photographer, featured in “Disappearing Histories: A Conversation with Christopher Payne“)
Rim Conditioning Room, Steinway & Sons, Astoria, NY, 2011
Digital C-print
11″ × 14″ (print); 14.5″ × 18.5″ (framed)
bidding starts at $750

John Reddick (architect, historian)
Harlem Walking Tour and Exhibition Walk-through
A walking tour and overview of the exhibition Harlem’s Black & Jewish Music Culture 1890-1930 for a group of six people on a date of their choosing between June 14 – September 9, 2013
bidding starts at $100

Rob Stephenson (photographer, featured in “Portfolio: Five Borough Farm“)
Boardwalk Community Garden, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
C-print
20″ × 25″ (image); 22″ × 27″ (sheet)
bidding starts at $250

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”)
SS Carlsbad, 2013
OTC (Overseas Tankship Corporation) tanker. A classy, old-fashioned vessel of the T2 tanker class. Built in 1945 at The Kaiser Company, Swan Island Yard, Portland, OR. Length: 159′ 6″ (48.6m); beam: 20′ 7″ (6.3m).
Archival print of a pen & ink and watercolor drawing
9″ × 12″ (matted)
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”)
VANE tug Patapsco, 2013
Archival print of a pen & ink and watercolor drawing
Patapsco (2004), built by Thoma-Sea, Houma, Louisiana. 4,200 HP; length: 95′; beam: 34′; depth: 15′.
9″ × 12″ (matted)
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”)
USCG Lightship Frying Pan LV 115/WAL 537, 2013
Built in 1929, Lightship vessel #115 was stationed at the Frying Pan Shoals, 30 miles off of Cape Fear, NC, from 1930 to 1965. Built by Charleston Drydock & Machine Co., SC. Length: 133.3′.; beam: 30′.
Archival print of a pen & ink and watercolor painting
9″ × 12″ (matted)
bidding starts at $40

Albert Vecerka (photographer)
Harlem, 125th Street at Lenox Avenue, 2004
Part of Esto Editions, signed and numbered (3 of 20)
Archival Digital Print on 16″ × 20″ Hahnemuhle Paper
9″ × 18″ (image), 16″ × 20″ (sheet), 24″ × 24″ (matted)
bidding starts at $750

Leo Villareal (artist, featured in Sequence of Light,” thebaylights.org)
Illuminode Gift of Light Pendant, 2013
A collaboration between Illuminode and Leo Villareal. Pendant by Illuminode; sequences by Leo Villareal. 69 twinkling white LEDs emulate THE BAY LIGHTS on a sleek round circuit board powered by a AAA battery. The limited edition wearable includes a touch sensor to control brightness of the LED display and features infrared technology for advanced interactivity.
2.75″ diameter
bidding starts at $100

WXY
New York Drinking Fountain Version 1, 2012
3D Printed, ABS plastic on card base
This ¼” : 1’ prototype 1 new drinking fountain design is shaped to be used as a bottle filler. It needs no drain, solving the perennial problem of blockages and overflowing. Prototype 2 is currently in use in Greenpoint at Transmitter Park.
12” W × 4-3/8” D × 9” H
bidding starts at $75