Space 1026 Art Auction

Fri., Dec. 11, 7-10 p.m., free, 1026 Arch St., second floor, space1026.com.

by A.D. Amorosi

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Published: Dec 8, 2009

visual art

As multimedia artist A.J. Wright reminds me, Space 1026's annual auction helps ensure the collective can continue to offer promising artists from all over the world a collaborative, supportive gallery environment. That's cool. But what's going to make me bid (other than ever-charming Todd Kimmell hollering as auctioneer)? Donations have been pouring through the gallery's big mail slot every few hours, says artist/publisher/co-organizer Alex Lukas, and this year's work is of the highest caliber he's ever seen. Most of the donations have come from artists who showed at 1026 in 2009 and went on to big, bright futures: Andrew Schoultz and A.J. Fosik, for example, were here in January — and then exhibited in Paris and participated in the Havana Biennial, respectively. Others, like painter Matthew Palladino, are fresher to the scene. "He's a great young artist from San Francisco who just relocated to Philadelphia, and he's donating," says Lukas. "He's really going to be huge in a few years." All current members of 1026 — including Wright, Thom Lessner and Isaac Lin, who'll exhibit at Fleisher/Ollman in January — are chipping in, too. How much you want to bet I outbid you?

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The Nutcracker
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This Is The Week That Is
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