Catherine Butler
Temptation: Forbidden Fruit, 2002

.925 silver alloy with epoxy inlay, glass, and wood beads; 8x10x1."

Market value: $2,800

Native Clevelander Catherine Butler shows her work nationally and internationally. She has a piece included in the Danner Foundation’s Die Neue Sammlung, one of the foremost collections of contemporary and 20th-century jewelry in the world, which is permanently housed in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Germany. Butler is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art and lives in Cleveland Heights.

Andrew Borowiec
Stones Levee, Cleveland, 2002

Number 5 from an edition of 25. Silver gelatin print, toned, 16x20." Courtesy of the artist and Lee Marks Fine Art.

Market value: $1,400

Andrew Borowiec has been teaching photography at the University of Akron since 1984. He served as Director of the School of Art from 1990-1995. Borowiec's work has been widely exhibited and is represented in numerous collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Canadian Center for Architecture, the Chicago Art Institute, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hallmark Collection, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Library of Congress. Among the many awards he has received are grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998.

Laurence Channing has held regular solo exhibitions in Cleveland since 1990. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Akron Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA, the Riffe Gallery in Columbus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, and Reeves Contemporary in New York City. He has received three Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships and the Cleveland Arts Prize. With works in public and private collections, he has received commissions from the University Print Club and the Cleveland Print Club. Channing earned an MFA from Yale University, and since 1985 has been Head of Publications at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Jeffry Chiplis
Cityscape

Neon, 31x 33-1/2x 8"(w/h/d).

Market value: $1,000

Thomas Frontini
Summer of the Yeti (Boy, Monster, Young Capitalist), 2006

Oil on panel, 24x18."

Market value: $2,500

Frontini received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1990, after studying at the Institute of Art and Restoration in Florence, Italy. Soon after, in 1992, the painter completed his MFA in Painting at the Ohio State University. Frontini has participated in a number of group exhibitions nationally and has shown in solo exhibitions in Cleveland, Martha’s Vineyard, New York and Los Angeles. Frontini was born and raised in Canada, moved to Ohio as a young adult and now lives with his wife and children in Cleveland.  

Mark Howard
Detail from installation at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

Stainless steel and plexiglass and electrical wiring, 47x72."

Market Value: $1,500

Artist has offered to work with buyer to coordinate lighting of piece.

Mark Howard graduated with a BFA in Painting from Cleveland Institute of Art in 1986. Howard has exhibited his art regionally, nationally and internationally, and has achieved regional prominence through his numerous public art commissions including Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Cleveland School of the Arts, Cleveland Public Library, and Case Western University. Howard was chosen for a commission involving the street-scaping for the upcoming Euclid Corridor Project. Howard is an accomplished painter from Northeast Ohio whose work often originates from complex paper cutouts that serve as drawings for his work.

Michael Kenna
Rouge Study # 54

Number 10 from an edition of 45. Silver gelatin photograph image size approx. 8x7-1/2," archivally framed.

This photograph formerly hung in the dining room at Century at The Ritz Carlton in Cleveland with five other Kenna photographs.

Market value: $1,500

Julie Langsam
Judd Landscape

Oil on canvas, 42X42". Courtesy of the artist and Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NYC.

Market value: $6,500

Julie Langsam graduated in 1985 with an MFA from Queens College. Since 1996 Langsam has been an Associate Professor of Painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art, having moved to Cleveland from New York City where she taught at Parsons School of Design. Among Langsam’s many activities, she is the director of the Kacalieff Visiting Artists and Scholars Program. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Arte Povera: American Style, and It’s a Wonderful Life: Psychodrama in Contemporary Painting at SPACES. Langsam’s work is represented in many collections throughout the US, and she received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award in 1994. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions and she is represented by Michael Steinberg Fine Art in New York City.

Michael Loderstedt teaches at Kent State University, and has also taught at the College of Wooster and University of Akron. He has exhibited at the Akron Art Museum, SPACES, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art May Show. Loderstedt received a BFA from East Carolina University in Greenville and MFA from Kent State University.