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Toast the Art Center with a 1500ml Magnum of Dom Pérignon

Value: $795

Raise your glass to the Art Center and get the party started! The winner of this auction item will receive a chilled magnum of Dom Pérignon—one of the world’s finest champagnes—to share with their table, as we start the evening’s programming.

Mollye Bendell
Next to Nothing (39.3055451,-76.7437838)

2024, Digital print, 24 x 18 inches
Value: Priceless

Mollye Bendell is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus in immersive and electronic media. She has received grants and residencies from Wave Farm WGXC, the Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, and the Tides Institute and Museum of Art. Awards include the GBCA Baker Artist Award, the MSAC Independent Artist Award, and the RW Deutsch Foundation Rubys Artist Grant. She is also a founding member of the media arts collective strikeWare, which creates experiences grounded in our collective history, often using new technologies to emphasize the nowness of that history. Mollye’s solo work has been exhibited in venues such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, the New York Electronic Arts Festival, and Maryland Art Place. Public art commissions include Ladew Topiary Gardens and the City of Redmond, Washington. She has recently exhibited at CURRENTS New Media Festival, the BlackRock Center for the Arts, and National Sawdust.

Mollye is an Assistant Professor of Art in the Immersive Media Design program at University of Maryland, College Park. She holds a BA in Sculpture from the Glasgow School of Art and an MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.

This piece will be on display in the Art Center’s Main Gallery through May 18. The piece will be available to the winning bidder following the close of our spring exhibitions.

SUMMIT HOUSE RESTAURANT + BAR
CAMBRIDGE WINES:

Exclusive Dinner for 10, prepared in your home by Summit House’s
Award-Winning Chef, AJ Capella
Wine pairings package provided by Cambridge Wines
Value: $7,500

Prepared in your home, Summit House’s award-winning chef, AJ Capella will work with you to create an unforgettable four-course dinner party for up to 10 guests. Your custom menu will take inspiration from your favorite flavors and the finest ingredients of the season.

Cambridge Wines will provide a customized wine selection to pair with the meal, along with a knowledgeable sommelier to guide your guests through each pour, sharing insights on tasting notes, winemaking techniques, and regional characteristics.

Date to be mutually agreed upon with Summit House and Cambridge Wines.
Valid until: 6/1/2026.

Deborah Brown
Sabrett

2023, oil on Masonite, 24 x 18 inches
Value: $8,500

Deborah Brown is a fifth-generation Californian who has lived and worked in New York since 1982. She received a BA summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Yale University and an MFA from Indiana University. Her work draws inspiration from her walks around New York City, especially East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where her studio is located. Brown has been a tenured professor at Carleton College and a visiting artist and lecturer at Penn State University, Hunter College, Pace University, Columbia University, Maryland Institute College of Art, Yale University and Art Omi. Her work is included in museum and private collections around the world, including the ICA, Miami, and the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, by donation from the Alex Katz Foundation.

Chelsea Football Club Soccer Package

Value: $7,600

The ultimate soccer fan package will be a memorable experience for four people! You will have the opportunity to attend a Premier League match at legendary Stamford Bridge, home of Chelsea Football Club. You will experience top-level hospitality in a Millennium Suite, for a perfect view of the action. Unlimited food and beverages included. Accommodation and Travel are not provided.

Winner to inform Riley.Smith@Eldridge.com of their preferred match meaningfully ahead of their selected date to ensure ticket availability. Valid for a regular season Premier League match at Stamford Bridge (four tickets total).

Michael Dal Cerro
Sentinels

2023, Color woodcut printing, 20 x 15 inches (Framed 26 x 21 inches)
Value: Priceless

Chicago-born artist Michael Dal Cerro attended Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL where he received his B.F.A. in 1975 and attended Yale Summer School of Music and Art in 1974. Dal Cerro has received a multitude of awards and fellowships including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in painting, two New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships for works on paper , and four artist’s printmaking residencies at Centrum in Port Townsend, WA. He was also thrice awarded residencies at Frans Masereel Center in Kasterlee, Belgium.

He has lectured about his artwork at the Newark Museum, Christie’s Auctions in New York City, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, and The New York Public Library. His work is included in many public and private collections including The Achenbach Foundation For Graphic Arts in San Francisco, CA; University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA; University of Dallas, Irving, TX; University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA; New York Public Library; and Hawai’i State Foundation for Culture and the Arts.

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