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Buy Art to Benefit Art at The Center's 9th Annual Art Auction

With more than 150 works of art on display, both seasoned and budding collectors will find something to love.

An eclectic crowd gathers in an elegant building. People sip cocktails and sparkling white wine punch. They nibble fresh delicacies and hobnob with artists. Golden sunlight from a late-afternoon sun streams through high windows and past grand columns to illuminate wall after wall of art.

The gathering could be from fin de siècle Vienna, Parisian salons in the 1920s or New York’s mid-century galleries. On Sunday, precisely such a sight will be seen at the 9th Annual Art Auction at .

The auction offers more than 150 works of art—many artists donated multiple pieces—and is the Center’s main fundraiser, says its public relations coordinator, Meagan Kadish. The auction items, she adds, are priced to sell. With suggested starting bids from $11 into the hundreds, according to her, there’s truly something for everyone. And you’ll want to be bold with your bids. Generally, notes Kadish, all the art is sold.

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High rollers—and/or impassioned fans—can bid on pieces by iconic street artists Shepard Fairey and Robbie Conal, a poster by Modernism-tributist Shag, books of WPA-reminiscent paintings by R. Kenton Nelson, and a signed Then and Now by seminal L.A. artist Ed Ruscha (valued at $1,000).

Artists of Northeast Los Angeles are also well represented. You can take home intricately detailed ceramics by Eagle Rock’s own Linda Johnstone Allen or a striking urban image on clay by Mary Jean Mallman. Sister artists CJ Metzger and Miss Mindy both produce subversively whimsical paintings. Rick Elden crafts endearingly odd sculptures out of recycled parts. Spenser Elden offers graphic novel-inspired collage, while Michael Decker’s collage is bright, with an edgy undertone.

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You’ll discover seductively simple graphite on board as well as graphite and acrylic on board offerings by Barry Mallman and Mark Stephen Greenfield respectively. Kate Moriarty paints with pastels on suede, Dani Tull creates ink and colored pencil pieces with a twist, and Angela Maria Ortiz S. reinterprets classic Los Angeles vistas through her camera lens. From Bughouse, you can pick up a giclee of an eerie encaustic (a technique involving hot wax) by Rebecca Johnson or cement castings of outdated urban artifacts by Jeff Klarin.

And just in case you’re wondering how anyone can be an iron-nerved bidder on an empty stomach, local gourmets will be serving fresh, seasonal, organic hors d’oeuvres to keep you fortified for the fray. What’s more auction attendees get a complimentary cocktail with their $30-at-the-door ticket, which you can also purchase online for a small processing fee by clicking here. Additional liquid courage can be obtained at no-host bar.  Or sample sparkling white sangria punch—the perfect pick-me-up for your art perusal and purchases.

The only thing possibly missing from this scene?  You.

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