Malaquías Montoya was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, raised in California, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. He was a Professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA for twelve years; five of which he was also Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department. Since 1989, he has held a professorship at the University of California, Davis, teaching in the Art and Chicano/a Studies departments, and has taught at Stanford and Berkeley. He is best known for his silkscreen prints, which have been exhibited internationally and he is a founder of the social serigraphy movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is championed as an influential figure in the Chicano Art Movement of the 1960′s and 1970′s.

Untitled
Artist’s proof
20″ x 26″

This is a new addition that Malaquias donated at the silent auction last week. It’s an original, signed print that reads “Crime in the Suites,”  2010. It’s on display at the Delta of Venus in Davis through 24 December and can be purchased for $75.00.

Arizona/Knowledge
Digital Print
13″ x 19″

SOLD for $35.

Title: Encubierta
Medium: Silkscreen print on paper
Dimensions: 17″ x 23″
Opening bid: $25

Encubierta is a piece meant to depict the immensity of  what we know as a nation’s culture. A culture is made up of past and present events, people, deaths, ancestry, connections between people, and much more. All this interconnected abstract substance forms the mask that is seen on the outside.

Jason Engelund is an Oakland-based artist, and a founding staff member of the California College of the Arts Center for Art and Public Life, a department using the arts to address issues of social justice, civic engagement, diversity and education. His work at the Center spans 11 years.

Engelund creates compositions that investigate light’s ability to evoke sublime and contemplative experiences. Approaching photography as a method of capturing light, he starts from the Greek translation of photography: phos “light” and graphé “drawing”. Juxtaposing the subjective nature of perception and the “truth” of photography, Engelund’s work raises questions regarding visual perception, event and memory, through exploring photography as a contemporary art form. Engelund is represented by Modern Book Gallery Gallery in San Francisco. His website is at: jasonengelund.com

Water study 1, photograph, 16″ x 20″, (open edition, study), archival inkjet print.       Opening bid: $40

Water study 2, photograph, 16″ x 20″, (open edition, study), archival inkjet print.       Opening bid: $40

Water study 3, photograph, 16″ x 20″, (open edition, study), archival inkjet print.      Opening bid: $40

Water study 4, photograph, 16″ x 20″, (open edition, study), archival inkjet print.      Opening bid: $40

27″x15″ 4-color silk screen

$25 — or $15 for those who were there.

SOLD for $100.

“Complete Clusterfuck”

Archival inkjet print

“stone 14″

Archival inkjet print

“stone 7″

Archival inkjet print

“aurora”

Archival inkjet print

“Arrival”

30″x44″ Screenprint

Opening bid: $500

“Little Rock 9″

30″x44″ Screenprint

Opening bid: $500

Jos Sances is the founder and art director of Alliance Graphics and the co-founder of Mission Grafica at the Mission Cultural Center. He has designed and printed thousands of posters and T-shirts for hundreds of progressive causes as well as produced his own tile and mixed media images addressing issues and ideas that concern him. Jos has exhibited at the Alternative Museum in New York, D. King Gallery in Berkeley, Vallejo Art Center, MOMA in New York, Palo Alto Cultural Center, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The Library of Congress recently acquired 487 of his screen prints, a 30-year overview of his work.

“In God We Trust”

22″x22″

Opening Bid: $300

“Capitalism Is Broken”

22″x30″

Opening Bid: $300

Two original Emory Douglas prints:

“Malcom X”

8 Digital Prints available

“BART”

6 Digital Prints available

$25