Arts Seattle Artists Getting A 20 Percent Raise
posted by on February 7 at 16:20 PM
This week’s paper is online now, and I want to add to my In Art News account of the 20th anniversary Artist Trust auction, because I just got a press release that says Artist Trust grossed more than $260,000 at the sparkly affair on Saturday night.
That means Artist Trust will give 20 percent more money directly to artists in 2007. (In 2006, 52 artists received some $70,000 in GAP grants.) The fundraiser was a record for the organization.
I reported that video artist Gary Hill summoned an easy $20,000 by offering $10,000 of his own, but it turns out his dough continued to generate cash past when I was looking—right up to $61,000. The man was there to raise money, as he said.
The highest bid of the night was Michael Spafford’s Europa and the Bull II-3 (1986) at $4,250. No argument from me that the piece was beautiful: a roughly sketched black-and-white tribute to the mythical scene in which Europa’s curvaceous body was cut out of the center like a brutal Matisse.
i was there at the event and some of those pieces were like any typical art aution: maybe 1 or 2 amazing pieces, the rest including michael spaffords work were about as interesting as a 15 hour documentary on the history and diaspora of kleenex.
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