8 Artworks We’re Eyeing From The Watermill Center Auction

On Saturday, July 28th, 2018, The Watermill Center will once again bring together over 1,000 guests from the worlds of art, fashion, and design for TIME BOMB: The 25th Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit & Auction. Watermill International Summer Program participants come from over 25 countries to create installations and performances throughout their grounds during the event. All benefit proceeds will support The Watermill Center’s Year-Round Residency and Education Programs that provide artists with unique opportunities to explore and develop new work.

 

The Watermill Center has once again teamed up with Artsy for their online auction. If our bank accounts were bottomless, here are eight artworks we’d totally bid on. Interested in bidding? Click here.

 

1. Miya Ando

Gekkou (Moonlight) Summer 3, 2018

Starting bid: $4,250

Image // Courtesy of Shelter Serra

 

 

2.  Greg Drasler

Bookie, 2003

Starting bid: $17,000

Image // courtesy of Artsy

 

 

3. Masako Miki

Kuchisake-Onna (Shape Shifter of Mouth Tear Woman), 2018

Starting bid: $15,000

Image // Courtesy of the artist and CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions

 

 

4. Kahdeem Prosper Jefferson

Temptation of Nasir, 2018

Starting bid: $1,800

Image // courtesy of the artist

 

 

5. Suzy Kellems Dominik

L’origine Du Monde, 2017

Starting bid: $3,250

Image // courtesy of the artist and Luca Mercedes

 

 

6. Judith Hudson

Landed, 2009

Starting bid: $1,200

Image // Courtesy of the artist and Tripoli Gallery

 

 

7. Jesse Greenberg

Finger Trace (Armored), 2017

Starting bid: $2,250

Image // courtesy of the artist and Derek Eller Gallery

 

 

8. Brian Dettmer

Western Civilizations, 2016

Starting bid: $3,500

Image //courtesy of the artist and PPOW Gallery

 

top image // MILES GREENBERG | “Hands: Giving and Taking Away” © Lovis Ostenrik, Fly into the Sun 2017 Gala