2nd Annual Art Auction at Stissing Center
Saturday, June 13, 2026 | 5-7pm
Tickets are $100, deductible from artwork purchase price
Artworks Preview
Friday, May 29 - Sunday, May 31 | 12-4pm
Thursday, June 4 - Sunday, June 7 | 12-4pm
Artist Reception
Saturday, May 30 | 4pm
Join Stissing Center and Mad Rose Gallery for the 2nd Annual Art Auction Fundraiser featuring a wide variety of artwork, all generously donated by collectors and celebrated artists from around the world and around the corner.
See a special preview at Mad Rose Gallery the two weekends before the event, with a reception on Saturday,
May 30 from 4-6pm.
Art Auction Committee: Neal Rosenthal of Mad Rose Gallery (Chair), Jack Banning, Didi Barrett, Gwen Greene, Yael Meridan Schori, L. Parker Stephenson, Dorit Straus, Natalie Tyler, Douglas Walla.
Thank you to our event sponsors
Browse the collection here, with more to come! All sales are by silent auction at the event on Saturday, June 13.
Please direct inquiries to Amy Jelenko, Director of Advancement, at advancement@thestissingcenter.org.
Shape of Water XII , 2026
Leora Armstrong
Oil and pigment on wood panel.
Painting
20" x 20"
Leora Armstrong is a multidisciplinary artist raised on the Isle of Islay, Scotland. She holds a BA (Hons) from Chelsea College of Arts and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY. Her practice explores weather, place, and loss through tactile dialogue with the environment.
leoraarmstrong.com
Shifting Boundaries , 2024
Talya Baharal
Acrylic and mixed media on wood panel.
Painting
31.75" x 31.75"
Baharal is a painter based in Kingston NY. Widely recognized as a studio art jeweler and sculptor for 3 decades, Baharal began focusing exclusively on painting in 2013. Shown in solo exhibitions in NYC, CA, CT, MA and Maine, Baharal was awarded last year the 2025 Goetemann Distinguished Artist residency, in which she exhibited, taught and lectured at the Rocky Neck Art Colony in Gloucester MA.
Jr. Had A Tapeworm
Sidney J. Bartholomew, Jr.
Pen & Ink
Drawing
22" x 28"
Sidney J. Bartholomew Jr. (1953–2008) was an award-winning visual stylist and painter whose imaginative work shaped film, television, and music video design. Known for his Emmy-winning art direction on Pee-wee’s Playhouse, he brought surreal, playful sensibilities to numerous iconic productions and collaborations.
Underwater #1
Carol Bennett
Mixed Media
Painting
23" x 23"
Carol Bennett is a museum-collected artist whose work spans painting, murals, and public art. Trained at UC Santa Barbara and Art Center College of Design, she developed a distinctive large-scale practice shaped by experience painting theatrical backdrops, billboards, and cinematic scenic environments.
Underwater #2
Carol Bennett
Mixed Media
Painting
12" x 12"
Carol Bennett is a museum-collected artist whose work spans painting, murals, and public art. Trained at UC Santa Barbara and Art Center College of Design, she developed a distinctive large-scale practice shaped by experience painting theatrical backdrops, billboards, and cinematic scenic environments.
Playa Santa , 2025
Virginia Bradley
21" x 17" framed
Virginia Bradley is exhibited nationally and internationally, has received prestigious fellowships, and served as a fellow thoughout the world. Her work is informed by natural phenomena and formations, transformed with diverse materials and processes into a finished state of multiple luminous layers.
Nature Scene
Elsie Brown Grossman
Paint on Board.
Painting
8" x 10"
Elsie Brown (1888 - 1949) studied at the Columbus Art Institute and with G. Thompson Pritchard and Nell Walker Warner. She was active in the Los Angeles art scene, exhibiting coastal scenes and landscapes, and member of artist organizations.
Orvis Aries No. 2 , 2011
Wendy Burton
Archival Pigment Print.
Photograph
18" x 18" on 20" x 24" paper
Wendy Burton is a New York-based photographer capturing the remnants of human life. She explores abandoned spaces, emptied nests, and hollowed skulls, making still lifes in the tradition of memento mori. Each work reflects the artist’s reverence of natural form and its evolution.
Robert , 1998
Chuck Close
Photogravure on Lana Gravure paper.
Photograph
28 ½" x 24"
Chuck Close (1940-2021) was an American artist known for large-scale Photorealist portraits. Becoming partially paralyzed in 1988, he adapted his methods and continued to create ambitious work. He mostly worked in self-portraits or portraits. His works are found in The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, among others.
Contemplation of Yorick , 2020
Barry Cord
Black and white sepia digital print.
Photograph
32" x 36"
Works collected by the Louvre Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Art, etc. Collected by Presidents, business moguls ,international celebrities, artists, designers and art collectors. Notable awards and book references.
12 Trees in the Woods , 2026
Anne Delaney
Watercolor and oil pastel with collage on paper.
12" x 16"
Since joining the Bowery Gallery in 2007, Anne has had four solo exhibitions and participated in various group shows in this gallery and others. Anne lives and works in New York City and the Hudson Valley.
Billy the Busy Bee , 2007
Bob Dob (Robert Dobbie)
Pencil on Paper.
Drawing
8.75"x11.5"x1.5" framed
Bob Dob (Robert Dobbie) is a Redondo Beach artist and illustrator whose work merges surf, skate, and punk culture with dark humor and surreal storytelling. A graduate of Otis College of Art and Design, he is recognized for emotionally charged, character-driven drawings and paintings.
Billy the Busy Bee
Bob Dob (Robert Dobbie)
Pencil on Paper.
Drawing
14.25" x 11.65" x 1.5" framed
Bob Dob (Robert Dobbie) is a Redondo Beach artist and illustrator whose work merges surf, skate, and punk culture with dark humor and surreal storytelling. A graduate of Otis College of Art and Design, he is recognized for emotionally charged, character-driven drawings and paintings.
Untitled , 2007
Bob Dob (Robert Dobbie)
Pencil on Paper.
Drawing
11.75"x14.25"x1.5" framed
Bob Dob (Robert Dobbie) is a Redondo Beach artist and illustrator whose work merges surf, skate, and punk culture with dark humor and surreal storytelling. A graduate of Otis College of Art and Design, he is recognized for emotionally charged, character-driven drawings and paintings.
Untitled, from "Entrance to Our Valley" 2015
Jenia Fridlyand
4x5 gelatin silver contact print on 8x10 fiber-based paper, mounted.
Photographic Print.
10" x 8"
Jenia Fridlyand is a photographer and educator based in New York City and the Hudson Valley. Her photographs and books have been exhibited in the United States and abroad. Fridlyand is a co-founder of Image Threads Collective and is the founding chair of the Long Term Photobook Program at Penumbra Foundation in New York. She is represented by Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam.
Sodo , Haiti 1997-2001
Phyllis Galembo
Black and white silver print.
Photograph
15” x 19"
Phyllis Galembo photographically documents cultural, religious tradition and the transformative power of ritual dress in Africa and the Americas. Galembo received a Guggenheim Foundation grant 2014 and her work from Francy Dress, Ghana was included inthe Venice Biennale 2013.
Peony 'Coral Charm' , 2024
Teri Goetz, DACM
Colored pencil on archival cotton paper.
11” x 14” (framed 12” x 15”)
Teri is a practicing artist with a certificate in botanical painting from the New York Botanical Garden, residing in the Hudson Valley. Her background as a Doctor of Chinese Medicine and her love of gardening and the natural world inform her art. Her paintings are in private collections and in galleries.
Untitled , 2015
John D Greene
Oil and encaustic in panel, with old nails from Deuel’s Hardware in Pine Plains.
Oil and encaustic in panel
18" x 24"
John Greene ( 1932-2019) always painted , both during his 30 years on Wall Street and then for another 30 years in Gallatin. He loved the process, building up surfaces , the accidental drips, the found materials.
Colorfield Series, # 5 , 2012
John D Greene
Oil and encaustic in panel.
48" x 36"
John Greene ( 1932-2019) always painted , both during his 30 years on Wall Street and then for another 30 years in Gallatin. He loved the process, building up surfaces , the accidental drips, the found materials.
Untitled Cow Portrait
Tony Henneberg
Oil on hardboard.
Painting
9 1/2" x 11"
Tony Henneberg paints in various media, primarily watercolor and oils. Born in Germany, raised in Zimbabwe, and educated in South Africa, Tony Henneberg grew up in rural settings where he developed the keen interest in the wildlife surrounding him wherever he goes.
Coke Bottles , 2019
Ginny Howsam Friedman
Hand-pulled silk screen print on Rives BFK paper with hand-cut collage.
Silk screen with hand-cut collage.
19" x 16" framed
Ginny Howsam Friedman received a BFA with Honors from Pratt Institute. In addition, she has studied at the 92nd Street Y/Eric Fischl Master Class, the Woodstock School of Art, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, the New York Studio School, the JVS Project Space and the Art Students League. Her work is represented in private collections and she has exhibited widely.
At the Bullfight
Odon Hullenkramer
Mixed Media.
Painting
5" x 8"
Odon Hullenkremer (1888–1978) was a Hungarian-born painter whose international training included study at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he won its grand prize. Settling in Santa Fe in 1933, he became known for vivid depictions of Southwestern and Indigenous life informed by European draftsmanship and color.
The answer to an old question 1/1 , 2024
Henry Klimowicz
English ink on mulberry paper.
Mono print
16" x 12"
For four decades, my work as a sculptor has been defined by the use of hot glue and corrugated cardboard. Recently, I’ve begun using these same materials to create prints. I hold an MFA from Tyler School of art and am the founding director of The Re Institute.
Knight Hood II , 2016
Conrad Levenson
Recombination of assorted vintage cast iron and steel artifacts.
Sculpture
17.5"h x 13"w x 6"d
Salvaging scrap materials and obsolete objects, I recompose and repurpose them as works of art. I often combine previously unrelated elements, in new and unexpected ways, and incorporate geometric and anthropomorphic forms, often in balance and motion.
Orchard , 2026
Brett McCormack
Pastel and acrylic on canvas.
Painting
16" x 20”
New York artist Brett McCormack (b. 1984) is a multidisciplinary creator exploring the intersection of nature and human experience. His work translates organic details and memories into personal narratives, often drawing inspiration from his life in the Hudson Valley.
MacDougal Street, 2008
Jan Meissner
Archival Print Hahnemuhle Rag Baryta.
Photograph
8" x 10"
Jan Meissner was born in rural Texas but has lived in New York for many years, working as a writer and editor who eventually found the camera a more enticing way of telling stories. Untrained as a photographer, the museums and Duomos of those few years she spent in living in Europe have perhaps been the greatest influence on her work.
janmeissner.net/
NYC from the Philip Guston
kitchen studio , 2019
Yael Meridan Schori
Oil on canvas.
24" x 24"
Studied at Slade School of Fine Art, London.Graduate of the New York Studio School and presently on its board of directors.
Oak Tree and Meadow , 2023
Ron Milewicz
Colored pencil on paper.
Drawing
6" x 12"
Ron Milewicz is a painter who divides his time between Gallatin, New York and New York City. He is represented by Bookstein Projects, New York.
Cedar , 1998-2005
Ray Mortenson
An intimate platinum portrait of the Cedar tree.
Platinum photograph
17.5"h x 13"w x 6"d
For nearly fifty years, Ray Mortenson (American, b. 1944), a New York City based photographer who started out as a sculptor, has had a long-standing interest in overlooked landscapes and the visual structure of neglect across industrial, metropolitan, and rural sites in the northeastern United States. His work was recently featured at AIPAD's Photography Show, is currently on view at the Smithsonian's Museum of American Art and the National Gallery, Washington. His series are part of the permanent collections of over three dozen institutional collections in this country. He has a forthcoming book, South Bronx.
Stretched Onion Bag Vase , 2026
Josh Nathanson JRN Pottery
A torn onion bag is captured in clay.
Ceramic Stoneware
10 1/2” x 6 1/2” x 6”
Josh Nathanson (JRN Pottery) is a ceramic artist based in the Hudson Valley, creating one-of-a-kind, hand-built pottery that incorporates botanicals, textiles, and found textures. His work celebrates captured moments of beauty, imperfection, and the evidence of human touch.
“Raptor” , 2024
Sara Nesbitt
Ink on acid free Canson paper.
Ink on paper
18” x 20”
Sara Nesbitt has shown in New York, and around the country for many years,and her work is in the collections of the Neue Gallerie, in New York, and in numerous private collections.
View Towards Stissing from
Hill Top Road , 2015
Shane Neufeld
landscape painting, oil on canvas.
Oil on Canvas
18" x 36"
Shane Neufeld is a painter based in Brooklyn, New York. His work centers on the North American landscape, where he paints directly from observation to explore the intersection between perception and experience.
Rose Letalis , 2020
Reka Nyari
Archival pigment print on 310g textured fine art paper, a black box frame with museum glass.
Photography
32.5" x 27"
Reka Nyari is a NYC based fine art photographer capturing fully tattooed women worldwide through striking black and white portraits. She empowers subjects by telling their unique transformation stories, exploring identity and self-expression. Her work exhibits internationally in prestigious galleries, museums, and art fairs.
Gort , 2002
Baron Corso de Palanzuela
Paint on Board.
Painting
11" x 14" x 1.5"
Corso de Palenzuela is a Cuban-born self-taught outsider artist whose richly symbolic paintings draw from memory, mysticism, and personal history. Using found surfaces and vibrant imagery, he creates imaginative scenes inspired by Cuban landscapes, family stories, and spiritual traditions within Latin American culture.
La Folie , 2013
Giulia Pesarin
Photograph
22.5" x 26"x 1.25" framed
Giulia Pesarin is an Italian photographer working across analog and digital practices with a focus on contemporary image-making. Educated in photography and cultural heritage studies, she explores the relationship between lived experience, artistic process, performance, and cultural memory through deeply personal visual narratives.
Fall Leaves , 1978
Adina Raviv
Print #1 of 15
Etching with embossing on paper
16" x 12"
Adina Raviv (1943-2010) created layered, tactile works spanning painting, printmaking, and drawing. Using raw pigments, wax mediums applied by hand or with a palette knife, she developed layered and richly textured compositions capturing the elusive reality behind the outward mask.
Untitled (Life Drawing #2) , 2019
Richard Rosenfeld
Color pencils, oil pastels, and watercolor on paper.
Life Drawing
24" x 18" image, 28" x 22" framed
Richard Rosenfeld studied fine art studies and illustration at Rhode Island School of Design and Parsons School of Design. Live-drawing classes informed his method and the gay liberation movement guided his creative direction, establishing him alongside figurative creatives in his generation like Robert Mapplethorpe, David Hockney and Tom of Finland.
Untitled (Life Drawing #3) , 2019
Richard Rosenfeld
Color pencils, oil pastels, and watercolor on paper.
Life Drawing
24" x 18" image, 28" x 22" framed
Richard Rosenfeld studied fine art studies and illustration at Rhode Island School of Design and Parsons School of Design. Live-drawing classes informed his method and the gay liberation movement guided his creative direction, establishing him alongside figurative creatives in his generation like Robert Mapplethorpe, David Hockney and Tom of Finland.
Climberscape 6 , 2009
Gail Rothschild
Climberscapes are at once self-portrait and landscape. Drawing inspiration from Eadweard Muybridge's 19th century photographs of figures in motion, each Climberscape begins with video footage of my own experiences rock climbing. The video is deconstructed frame-by-frame into individual figures, which I re-construct into a painting. The reversing and doubling of the strand of figures suggest the intertwining of a DNA chain. In Western painting, landscapes are traditionally horizontal and describe single-perspective views of a scene. The Climberscapes, with their extreme verticality, refer to Chinese mountain landscape scrolls. These are landscapes that – like a climbing route – are meant to be read from bottom to top. As a rock climber, I negotiate my way up a vertical face of rock. The route is a narrative. In the Climberscape paintings, each movement of the figure tells the story of the climb.
Acrylic on vellum
82 x 18 inches (framed)
Gail Rothschild’s monumental paintings breathe new life into ancient fabric. Career highlights include Think Big! at Berlin’s Bode Museum, Peru – ein Katzensperung at the German Textile Museum, and From the Desert to the City at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum. All with catalogs. Rothschild’s current paintings celebrate the conservation of the Met Museum Cloisters’ Heroes tapestries.
Celestial, 2022
Raimundo Rubio
Acrylic on paper.
Painting
30" x 22" image, 34" x 27" framed
My work represents the hidden spaces residing between the impetuous forces of the subconscious and the controlling mechanisms of reason and the conscious. Depicted objects enact a collision between the rational and the emotional, between nature and culture. They are opposite aspects, at once reciprocal and inseparable.
Untitled
Arnold Skolnick
Print of charcoal on paper.
27” x 36”
Arthur Skolnick (1937-2022) created the iconic poster for the 1969 Woodstock Art and Music Fair. His drawings, paintings, and photography have been exhibited in Massachusetts at the Oxbow, Michelson & William Baczek Fine Art Galleries and in galleries in New York City.
Untitled
Robert E. Smith
Mixed Media.
Drawing
46" x 38.5" x 1" framed
Robert E. Smith (1927–2010) was a self-taught Missouri outsider artist celebrated for densely layered paintings filled with satire, fantasy, and storytelling. His colorful, dreamlike scenes blend cartoon imagery, street life, politics, and Americana into exuberant visual narratives shaped by imagination and resilience.
Untitled
Joe Sorren
Mixed Media on Paper.
Painting
8" x 23" x 1" framed
Joe Sorren is a leading figure in American Pop Surrealism known for atmospheric paintings featuring dreamlike figures and emotionally resonant landscapes. Working intuitively in layered oils, he creates contemplative worlds shaped by light, texture, memory, and human connection. His work has been exhibited internationally.
Stissing, #17, Pine Plains, NY , 2020
Rob Stephenson
Chromogenic print.
Photograph
23" x 28" x 1.25"
Rob Stephenson has published two books and his photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and T Magazine. His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Museum of the City of New York. He is currently working on a project documenting every neighborhood in New York City.
Storm ll , 2023
Pamela Takiff
Archival Pigment Print.
Untitled
Mose Tolliver
Paint on wood board.
Painting
31" x 18"
Mose Tolliver (1919 - 2006) is a renowned and iconic "art brut" folk artist. After being disabled in a work accident, Tolliver began to paint, using house paint and found materials like plywood or old furniture. Recognition came in the 1980s with a solo show at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and a folk art exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery, in Washington, D.C., ultimately leading to international exhibition and acclaim.
“About” , 2006
Kit White
Oil on wood panel.
Painting
21" x 24"
Kit White is a painter, former Pratt Professor and author of 101 Things to Learn In Art School, MIT Press. He has had more than 25 solo exhibitions in NYC and his work is in many museum collections.
Voice of Silence 0021 , 2023
Susan Wides
Dye sublimation aluminum print.
Photograph
12" x 8"
Susan Wides creates immersive, abstract images exploring perception as a sensory, temporal experience. Her work is made on site as a single exposure. Exhibited internationally in over 100 venues, her work is held in more than 35 museum collections, reflecting sustained engagement with environment, memory, and vision.
Ambien Bears , 2023
Natalia Zukerman
Ink on paper.
Drawing
9” x 12”
Natalia Zukerman is a musician, painter, journalist, educator, cartoonist, trauma-informed yoga and meditation teacher, cultural diplomat, and community organizer. Her cartoons, “Millietown News” appear weekly in The Millerton News.