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Auction of Famed Artists Works at Conde Nast Building Benefits AIDS Orphans
10/16/2009 - By Conde Nast Building

Auction of Famed Artists Works at Conde Nast Building Benefits AIDS Orphans

Auction of Famed Artists Works at Conde Nast Building Benefits AIDS Orphans – Internationally Acclaimed Artist April Gornik Honored.

Thanks to the support of The Durst Organization, the Lobby gallery at the Conde Nast building in Times Square was the setting for an unusual art exhibition to benefit the South Bronx based Health People which works with women and children affected by the AIDS epidemic. Health People has won world wide acclaim for its woman to woman and teen mentoring programs for families dealing with AIDS, cancer and other inner city killers. Indeed, founder Chris Norwood was one of the 100 Women of Peace nominated for an unprecedented Nobel Peace Prize.

“See the Children through the Trees” focused on the theme of trees and presented an intriguing range of work that conjures the many meanings---and absorbing images of nature. The idea of seeing the children some 53,000 orphaned by AIDS in New York that the government has left behind with no federal, state or city aid.

Works ranged from internationally acclaimed artist April Gornik’s “The Woods” to Ross Bleckner’s abstracted leaves in “Early Every Morning”; from Milton Glaser’s blazing “Red Tree” to an original signed panel from Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury (which takes a sterner view toward trees) to Walter Channing’s 8 foot sculpture in which a natural tree trunk seems to “whirl” to the sky.

Other prominent artists participating included: Edwina Sandys, Jean Holabird, Steve Miller, Larry B. Wright, Michael Knigin, Cuca Romley, Joan Kraisky, Steve Maciw, Neke Carson, Christophe von Hohenberg, Suzanne Anker, Nick Patten, David Prentice, Michelle D’Oyley, Elizabeth Meyer, Cheryl Warwick, Susan Shatter, Steve Hudak, Alan Turner, Susan Hall, Bill Ciccariello, Matthew Hamblem, Carolina von Humboldt and Charles Yoder.

Also auctioned were unique celebrity “leaf” autographs from John Updike, Dolly Parton, Michael Bloomberg, Lauren Bacall, Carl Bernstein and many others. The exhibition culminated with an awards ceremony honoring April Gornik with Health People’s first Leadership in Art and Civic Society Award. PBS NOW’s Maria Hinojosa emceed the evening. Television and theater producer Donny Epstein deftly handled the auction duties. Epstein even bid on several pictures – twice bidding against himself to raise the price! Guess the box office at his latest hit “Oleanna” has him flush.

Throughout the evening Benefit Chair Larry Wright kept the event running smoothly while guests feasted on a lovely buffet from Bistro that included luscious oysters, pissaladiere, plump shrimp tempura and a host of other goodies thanks to the generous Durst Family but then they own a whole lotta Big Apple real estate.

Also honored were Julia Gruen, Executive Director of the Keith Haring Foundation which has been a terrific supporter of Norwood’s works in keeping with Keith’s final wishes that his estate support organizations that help children and those affected by AIDS. Ed Martin, the Director of International Insights at the Hershey Company and Director of Pause to Support a Cause was honored as well. The final honoree was Tomas Rivera, a graduate of Health People's Kids-Helping-Kids Mentoring Program received the Youth Leadership Award. Tomas recently returned from being stationed with the US Army in Iraq and is now a pre-med student planning to help his community in the way he was helped by Health People..

Braving the downpours to congratulate and lend their support were Jean Shafiroff, Katherine and Gary Andreassen, Christopher Arnold, Neke Carson, Rachael Howard, Michael Goodhope, Aaron Coe, Thalia Thelen, Jean Holabird, Steve Fox, Shari Novick, Jacqueline McLoughlin, Charles Yoder, Dr. Reid Stribby and Rhonda Liss, Dr. Hal Strelnick, John Norwood, Irish Rose, Edwina Sandys, Walter Channing and scores more.

Photos: Thomas Evans for CharityHappenings.org


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