Urban Unconscious: Photography Auction Gala

Saturday, November 1st, 2008, 6 PM to 10 PM
Penthouse Lounge, 1 Wall Street Court, New York, NY 10005

All bidding starts at 200 - 700 USD.

Scott Gordon Bleicher

www.sgbphoto.com

Scott attended the Pennsylvania State University with a focus on Integrative Arts and Photojournalism. He has worked as a professional editorial photographer in Toronto, Seattle, and New York City. Some of his work can be seen in the New York Times and the Daily News, at ontheinside.info, and in Trader Monthly, Dealmaker, Kitu Kizuri, Wienerin (Austria) and Entrepreneur magazines.

Steve Duncan

www.undercity.org

Steve has explored tunnels and other inaccessible underground places in New York since 1996, and has photographed tunnels underneath Paris, London, Rome, Naples, Stockholm, Berlin, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, and many other cities. He began taking pictures because he was fascinated by what he found underground in the city, and wanted a way to capture and convey what he was seeing: labyrinths of utility tunnels, glorious cityscapes from inaccessible rooftops, graffiti murals that only a handful of people would ever see, or century-old underground spaces.

His photos have appeared in publications including the New York Times, the New York Post, The New York Sun, as Men's Journal, and others. In 2004 and 2005 he hosted the Discovery Channel show "Urban Explorers," and more recently has appeared on the History Channel as an expert on New York City's underground.

Jesse Reding Fleming

www.graylightstudio.com

Jesse has worked as a visual artist and filmmaker in New York City over the past six years. He received his undergraduate degree in New Media at San Francisco Art Institute in 2000. He has shown his work around the world including Barcelona (Spain), Mamori (Brazil), Miami, New York, Brooklyn. He recently directed a feature length documentary on the modern architect Paul Rudolph and several films commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Miru Kim

www.mirukim.com

Miru Kim is a New York-based artist who has explored various urban ruins such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, sewers, catacombs, factories, hospitals, and shipyards. She was featured as one of the America's Best and Brightest 2007 in Esquire magazine. Her work has appeared in various other media such as the New York Times, the Financial Times, Time Out New York, NY Arts Magazine, The Korea Daily, La Stampa, JoongAng Daily, Dong-A Daily, HDNet TV, ProSieben, New York Times Upfront, AnimalNewYork.com, Gothamist.com, and in many shows in NYC and Berlin.

Greg Lindquist

www.greglindquist.com

Greg received an MFA in painting and MS in art history from Pratt Institute in 2007. His work has been recently reviewed in Art in America, Art News, The New York Sun, The New York Observer, The Brooklyn Paper and NY Arts Magazine. Lindquist has had solo exhibitions at McCaig-Welles Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2007), Elizabeth Harris Gallery in NY, NY (2008), NCSU College of Design (2008), and Bethel University in St. Paul, MN (2008). He will have a solo exhibition at Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2009. He has been in the group exhibitions at Elizabeth Harris Gallery (2008), Brooklyn Arts Council (2007) and Sikemma Jenkins (2006). He is currently represented by Elizabeth Harris Gallery in Chelsea.

Shane Perez

www.shaneperez.com

Shane was born and raised in Miami. He has traveled all over the world to photograph urban ruins since 1999. His current interests are in organizing underground events in New York City and photographing models in various industrial spaces.

Kenneth Pietrobono

www.domeischelgallery.com

Kenneth Pietrobono is a photographer and installation artist living and working in Long Island City. His most recent endeavor is the launch of a new artist-run space, LessThanThree Gallery. His photography has been shown both in Florida and New York.  He is currently represented by Domeischel Gallery Ltd. in the Upper East Side.

Andrei Severny

www.severny.com

Born in 1977 into a family of astrophysicists in Moscow, Andrei spent the early years of his childhood in Egypt. In 2004, after an extensive career in management and photography in Russia, he moved to New York to realize his film and photo ideas. Andrei's short films screened at major international film festivals and became a part of New Mexico Tech University's curriculum. He is currently working on his first feature film and is finishing a series of abstract video installations. His ongoing photography project, in the spirit of contemporary landscapes, can be seen on his website.