PA� TY Honoring

DAN COLEN and CHRIS SALGARDO

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9

A MESSAGE FROM DIANE BROWN

FOUNDER AND PRES IDENT, RX ART

RxArt is proud to honor KAWS tonight and celebrate his tremendous generos-

ity, which enables us to continue transforming pediatric hospital facilities into

comforting and engaging spaces.

We have recently completed an exciting project with RxArt supporter and

board member, Rob Pruitt at St. Mary’s Hospital for Children in Bayside, NY.

Rob brilliantly transformed his iconic images of zebras and pandas, integrat-

ing orbs of brilliant color, into a dry erase wall for their pediatric patients. St.

Mary’s is the oldest children’s hospital in New York, providing care for children

with special needs and life-limiting conditions. It is New York City’s only state-

of-the-art post-acute care facility for children.

Assume Vivid Astro Focus recently comleted a dynamic installation, bursting

with color, at The Special Children’s Center in Lakewood, New Jersey. The

installation transformed the environment into one that inspires creativity and

joyful exuberance.

My warmest thanks to our board of directors and our advisory board for their

loyalty and boundless enthusiasm. Their expertise, judgment, and dedication

has been and continues to be essential to our accomplishments.

I wish I could thank every individual who has helped us bring fine art to health-

care facilities. First and foremost I would like to acknowledge the artists who

have so generously collaborated with us on our hospital projects, coloring

books and puzzles, as well as all of those who have supported our auctions.

We are so proud to have worked with each of you.

Very special thanks to Jillian Siegel, Olivia Marciano, Albert Fis and Gabi Perez

for their dedication to the RxArt team. Thank you for your creative opinions,

your determination, and your sense of humor when it is most needed. I would

also like to thank Sam Falls for creating such an exciting and beautiful print

for our VIP patrons, and all the curators and artists who help to make RxArt’s

PARTY a great success.

Sincere thanks and best wishes,

RxArt is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help children heal through the

extraordinary power of visual art. We commission exceptional contemporary artists

to transform sterile healthcare facilities into engaging and inspiring environments

full of beauty, humor and comfort.

Every RxArt Project is produced at no cost to the hospitals and provides every artist

with an honorarium and the chance to transform the lives of children as they heal.

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DAN COLE N

Untitled, 2017-2018

Flowers on bleached Belgian l inen

84 x 67 inches

Courtesy of the artist

Colen is creating a new painting specif ically for the RxArt 2017 PARTY Private

Sale. Please note that this artwork is not yet extant, and the image provided is a

comparable. The tit le of this piece wil l be determined once the artist has completed it.

Detail of an exist ing work

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R ICCI ALBE NDA

POLICE, 2015

Acrylic on paper

43 x 55.75 inches

Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

Throughout his career, Ricci Albenda (b. 1966) has experimented with text as a visual, personal,

communal, and intellectual entity. Most of his text paintings adhere to the artist ’s “alphabetic

colorization system” called COLOR-IME-TRY, which methodically codes each letter according

to the color spectrum. His interest in architectural space and the experience of moving through

it carries over into these optical text pieces comprised of colored lettering, which seem to float

in the pictorial space of the canvas.

Albenda’s work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney

Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; among others.

Albenda has exhibited extensively, in the United States and abroad, in museums, including the

Whitney Museum of American Art (2015), Guggenheim Museum (2010, 2007), Tel Aviv Museum

of Art (2008), and The Museum of Modern Art (2001-2002). Public commissions include works for

the Cowboys Stadium, Dallas (2005) and Penny Pritzker, Hyatt Center, Chicago (2005). The artist

was born in Brooklyn, NY and l ives and works in New York.

This work is not intended to be framed. It has a backing with a wire loop and hangs on a screw.

Detail of an exist ing work

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JE FF KOONS

Monkey Train (Orange), 2007

Screenprint with archival pigmented inkjet on Somerset paper

32.875 x 26.125 inches

35 x 28 inches frame

Edition 29 of 40 + 10AP

Courtesy of the artist

Jef f Koons (b. 1955) is one of the most famous American artists l iving today. Koons is widely

known for his iconic sculptures Rabbit and Balloon Dog as well as his monumental f loral works

Puppy and Split-Rocker. Working with everyday objects, his oeuvre revolves around themes of

sel f-acceptance and transcendence.

Since his f i rst solo exhibition in 1980, Koons’s work has been shown in major galleries and

institutions throughout the world. His work was the subject of a large exhibition organized by

the Whitney Museum of American Art (2014), which traveled to the Centre Pompidou, Paris

(2014-15) and the Guggenheim Bilbao (2015). A solo exhibition of new work was recently on

view at Gagosian, Beverly Hil ls in 2017. Koons studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in

Baltimore and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a BFA from the Maryland

Institute College of Art in 1976. Koons l ives and works in New York City.

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PAUL MCCARTHY

DDDBAI, Donald Daisy Duck Big Adventure Interaction #4, 2017

Pencil on paper

17 x 14 inches

19 x 16 x 1.5 inches frame

Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wir th

Paul McCarthy (b. 1945) is one of the most important and influential contemporary American

artists. He is known for challenging, visceral work in a variety of mediums—from performance,

photography, video and installation, to sculpture, drawing and painting—and scales ranging

from tiny to monumental. Playing on popular i l lusions, delusions and cultural myths, his work

has often incorporated obsessive activit ies and challenged expected physical orientation.

McCarthy has shown at Hauser & Wir th locations worldwide, the Park Avenue Armory, Whitney

Museum of American Art, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm,

Sweden, among many others. He was born in Salt Lake City, UT and l ives and works in Los

Angeles.

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JOSÉ PARL Á

ONE: Union of the Senses Monotransfer C, 2014

Monotransfer

47 x 5.5 inches

51.5 x 63 inches frame

Courtesy of the artist and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery

José Parlá (b. 1973) is known for his large-scale wall murals —color ful, abstract paintings that

represent what the artist has called the texture of memory. Parlá’s works recall a type of pseudo-

script, a call igraphy that cannot be read, but nonetheless communicates meaning through its

gestural, color ful articulation. Parlá created the massive mural in the lobby of One World Trade

Center, measuring 15 feet high by 90 feet long. He has exhibited at the Brooklyn Academy of

Music; The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; National YoungArts Foundation, Miami, FL;

The Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba, among others. His work is included in the collections of

the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana; the Brit ish Museum, London; the Burger Collection,

Hong Kong; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buf falo, NY; and POLA Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan.

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MIM MO PAL ADINO

Untitled (Testimoni), 1988

White l imestone, custom designed cast and painted concrete base

Two works: 58.5 x 21 x 15 inches each

Oval bases: 25.5 inches high each

Courtesy of a private collection

Mimmo Paladino (b. 1948) is an Italian sculptor, painter, and printmaker who has long

been associated with the development of the Transavanguardia (“beyond the avant-

garde”) movement, a form of Neo-Expressionism. Paladino’s style arose from his method of

borrowing from an array of past artist ic t raditions and iconographies, where he references

ancient Egyptian art, African cave painting, Gothic sculpture, fourteenth century

frescoes of Florence, and classical antiquity. In Testimoni, Paladino draws inspiration

from both the ancient and the modern. Cast in l imestone, Paladino’s sculptures take

on the traditional sculptural human figure, but with graceful elongation and curvature.

More recently, Paladino gained recognition for his large-scale public installations, including

The Salt Mountain (2010), and his collaboration with Brian Eno to create many sound

and visual art pieces. He has exhibited worldwide, including the Tate Modern in London.

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ANTHONY PEARSON

Untitled (Etched Plaster), 2014

Hydrocal in walnut frame

32 x 19 x 2.5 inches

Courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Anthony Pearson (b. 1969) takes photography as his point of departure, t ranslating the

vocabulary of that medium into other material, l ike plaster and bronze. Light is a central concern

for Pearson, and he calls attention to it by playing with its ambient ef fects— reflection, shadow,

i l lumination. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at David Kordansky Gallery, Los

Angeles (2017); Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York (2015); Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago,

IL (2014); and the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2012). Group exhibitions include the

Drawing Room, London (2017); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (2016-17, 2014);

and deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (2012). Pearson l ives and works in Los

Angeles.

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R ICHARD PR INCE

Untitled (Girl f r iend), 1993

Extracolor print

9 x 6 inches

Unique

Courtesy of a private collection

Richard Prince (b. 1949) is a painter and photographer l iving and working in New York City. Prince

is best known for his use of appropriation, and re-photography. Most recognizably, his Untitled

(Cowboy), a “re-photograph” that sold for more than $1 mil l ion at auction in 2005, caught Prince

in the middle of scandal as he appropriated the image from another photographer without their

consent. Scandal aside, he remains a pioneer in encouraging the accessibil i ty of art.

Prince has been shown at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Rubell Family

Collection, Miami; The Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria; Picasso Museum, Malaga, Spain;

La Case D’Arte, Milan, Italy; Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich; The FLAG Art

Foundation, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

New York.

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E D RUSCHA

SWIZ, 2017

Dry pigment on acrylic on paper

7.375 x 11.125 inches

8.75 x 12.5 inches frame

Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian

Ed Ruscha’s d rawing, photography, pa int ing and a r t i s t books index sh i f t ing emblems

of Amer ican l i fe. H i s representat ions o f Hol ly wood logos, a rchet ypal landscapes and

p lays-on tex t d i s t i l l the imager y and codes o f popula r cu l tu re in to a language that i s

as access ib le as i t i s p ro found.

Ruscha’s work i s in museum col lect ions wor ldwide. He has been the subject o f

museum ret rospect ives, includ ing those o rganized by the Hay ward Gal le r y, London,

which t raveled to the Haus der Kuns t, Munich and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (20 09-

2010); the Musée Nat ional Jeu de Paume, Par i s (20 06); and the Whi tney Museum of

Amer ican Ar t, New York , wh ich t raveled to the Museum of Contemporar y Ar t, Los

Angeles (20 04 – 05) . Other major museum so lo exh ib i t ions have been organized by

the F ine Ar t s Museums of San F rancisco and held at the de Young Museum (2016);

The Get t y Center, Los Angeles (2013); Kuns tmuseum Basel , Swi t ze r land (2013); Los

Angeles Count y Museum of Ar t, Los Angeles, wh ich t raveled to The Rose Ar t Museum,

Wal tham (2012); the Modern Ar t Museum of Fo r t Wor th (2011); and Hammer Museum,

Los Angeles (2011) . Ruscha was the Un i ted States representat ive at the 51s t Venice

B iennale (20 05), and he has been featu red in La B iennale de Lyon (2015) . Ruscha

s tud ied at the Chouinard Ar t Ins t i tu te (now CalAr t s) . He was born in 1937 in Omaha,

NE and l ives and works in Venice, CA.

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URSUL A VON RYDINGSVARD

Untitled, 2014

Thread, pigment, and handmade l inen paper

40 x 19 inches

43 x 24.75 frame

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Lelong

Ursula von Rydingsvard is best known for creating large-scale sculpture. The public space

is particularly resonant for her, and much of her sculpture is exhibited outdoors in places

accessible to an audience that is not necessari ly seeking art. Melancholy and vulnerabil ity

are deeply embedded in her work, carrying in them the struggle of her childhood: born in

1942 in Germany, her family was forced to l ive between refugee camps unti l their move to

the United States in 1950. Her work, which often includes strong wooden elements, alludes

to the labor that characterized her upbringing both through material and construction.

Ursula von Rydingsvard’s work is represented in the permanent collections of over 30

museums, including: The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker

Art Center, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Storm King Art Center, Detroit Institute of Arts, San

Francisco Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art. She has received two grants from

the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Skowhegan Medal for

Sculpture, three awards from the American section of the International Association of Art

Crit ics, the International Sculpture Center Li fetime Achievement Award, and is a member of

the American Academy of Arts & Letters. von Rydingsvard wil l be the focus of a forthcoming

exhibition of works at the Fabric Workshop and Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of

Art in 2018.

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