Preview a selection of our silent auction items below. To purchase a piece at the Buy It Now price, please contact Natalie Svacina at nsvacina@crafthouston.org or 713-529-4848 x 111.
To see all the items and bid in person, join us at the Crafting a Legacy Spring Luncheon on Thursday, May 1st!
Cody Barber
Untitled Works in Crushed Aluminum (One and Two)
Powder-coated aluminum
5 x 2.5 x 2.5 inches; 2.5 x 3.5 x 7.5 inches
Value: $300
Minimum Bid: $180
SOLD
Marfa-based artist Cody Barber explores powder-coating as an art medium. His work spans large-scale architectural projects and small experimental sculptures, transforming everyday materials and found objects through industrial finishes. The cans in his Package Work series preserve disposable consumer packaging in pure color, emphasizing their material impact and form through his powder-coating process.
Jeff Davis
facade 10
Unique digital C-print, acrylic glass and PVC board
36 x 36 inches
Value: $2,500
Minimum Bid: $1,500
Buy It Now: $2,800
Jeff Davis is fascinated by the intersection of mathematics, art, and generative art (art that is made using an autonomous system, usually a machine and algorithm that generates art). He embraces technology as a tool for creative expression that investigates form and color within specified parameters. This project is a series of abstract prints that suggest the window patterns and glass reflections of high-rise buildings. Each image is generated through a custom algorithm that randomly selects the window configuration, color progression, and degree of perspective.
LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus)
Lunisolar Pattern Study 1
Acrylic on canvas, sewing, dye sublimation on textile
14 x 18 inches
Value: $750
Minimum Bid: $450
SOLD
LoVid’s (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus) work is informed by an intermixed world layered with virtual and tangible materials, forming a distinctive aesthetic rooted in video, computer art, and handmade craft. In Lunisolar Pattern Study 1, LoVid incorporates digital and tactile processes. The two outside panels feature digitally created designs, while the center fabric features a pattern painted in acrylic. This mixed-media surface emerges as a parallel to the tradition of pattern makers throughout history and across the globe.
mpkoz (Michael Kozlowski)
Bokeh Wall Sculpture #37
Wood, acrylic, paper
12.25 x 19.25 inches
Value: $2,000
Minimum Bid: $1,200
Buy It Now: $2,200
mpkoz (Michael Kozlowski) brings together the evolving landscape of digital media and physical craftsmanship. Bokeh Wall Sculpture #37 is generated by a base algorithm that informs the physical piece and is a tangible expression of its digital counterpart. The sculpture embodies the connection between the digital and the material, merging code and craft.
Note: Buyer will receive both the digital work and the physical object.
Carlos Pozo
LENTO (Orange) and NUNCA (Green)
Pencil, watercolor
11 x 14 inches each
Value: $300
Minimum Bid: $180
Buy It Now: $350
Houston-based artist Carlos Pozo is an architect, screen printer, and musician. Through his work, he creates possible spaces and worlds using architectural forms, drawings, video, digital tools, and audio. All hand drawn and painted, his watercolors begin as imagined floor plans, which defy the limitations of architectural modeling.
Margot Becker
Sky Flower
Handwoven linen and cotton
27 x 23 inches
Value: $3,800
Minimum Bid: $2,300
Buy It Now: $4,200
Donated by Margot Becker and Seven Sisters
2023 resident artist and weaver Margot Becker’s work explores the sense of place, the natural environment, and the connection between the individual and the communal subconscious. Her weaving practice originated from a desire to understand the origins of cloth and the lives affected by it.
Kelly Dzioba
Laurel
Bead garland
6 x 7 x 3 inches
Value: $650
Minimum Bid: $400
Buy It Now: $750
2022 resident artist Kelly Dzioba makes dimensional weavings from recycled party beads, an iconic and colorful part of Mardi Gras celebrations. The beads in this work reflect flashes of vibrant yellows and greens with pearlescent beads.
Note: The artist recommends showing this work on the wall or on a pedestal in a location protected from extended direct sunlight to preserve the full vibrancy of colors.
Tarina Frank
Squiggles Paper Necklace
Paper and glue
10 x 10 x 1 inches
Value: $750
Minimum Bid: $450
Buy It Now: $850
A 2013 resident artist and current HCCC staff member, Tarina Frank is known for making jewelry using recycled paper and other found objects. Her work challenges the conventional understanding of the material value of jewelry and its function as a status symbol. This wearable statement necklace is inspired by Erick Calderon’s iconic digital artwork, Chromie Squiggle.
Nela Garzón
迷宫 Mígōng / Maze
Reverse appliqué (mola) with “Made in China” fabrics
21.75 x 18.5 inches
Value: $2,800
Minimum Bid: $1,700
Buy It Now: $3,100
Driven by her admiration of cultural diversity, current resident artist Nela Garzón adopts and modifies traditional techniques to explore global issues such as colonialism, racism, and migration. Molas are a traditional craft of the Guna indigenous community from Colombia and Panamá. These intricate reverse-appliqué textiles are created by cutting out shapes through layers of fabric to reveal the under layers. This hand-stitched work contrasts mass-produced items from China, like a toy maze, with the slower detailed methods used to create these crafts.
Miles Gracey
snailshelf
Wood
9.5 x 3.5 x 5 inches
Value: $1,800
Minimum Bid: $1,100
Buy It Now: $2,000
2023 resident artist Miles Gracey describes his work as playful and curious, prompting viewers to suspend their beliefs as it reveals or obscures their perspective or relationship with it. This piece was inspired by the words snail, shelf, and shell, which all come from the same Germanic root, meaning protective covering. Due to his nomadic lifestyle, Gracey says the snail, who carries its home on its back, has become his guardian spirit.
René Lee Henry
Palace Bowling (necklace)
Copper, sterling silver, fine silver, copper, spray enamel
4 x 3.5-inch pendant with 21-inch circumference
Value: $700
Minimum Bid: $450
Buy It Now: $800
2016 resident artist and current HCCC staff member René Lee Henry creates limited-production jewelry and one-of-a-kind sculptural jewelry inspired by abandoned architecture. This collection is inspired by Googie architecture in a state of decline. The Googie style emerged from the 1950s California car culture and embodied jet-age futurism, featuring sweeping rooflines and bold colors designed to catch the eye of motorists speeding along the freeways.
Jessica Jacobi
I See Spots (necklace)
Sterling silver, fine silver, vitreous enamel, hematite
2.75 x 3 x .25-inch pendant with 22-inch chain
Value: $700
Minimum Bid: $450
Buy It Now: $800
2007 resident artist and current HCCC staff member Jessica Jacobi explores social definitions of the body in her work, investigating different perspectives or corporeal elements, both segmented and whole. This necklace showcases a design in vitreous enamel with a silver casing that includes hand-pierced and cold-forged elements.
Gbenga Komolafe
Vertigo Initiation
Found denim, indigo dye, bleach
15 x 13 x 10 inches
Value: $4,000
Minimum Bid: $2,400
Buy It Now: $4,400
2024 resident artist Gbenga Komolafe draws inspiration from the traditional ritual practices of their Yoruba ancestors and the innovative craftsmanship of mid-20th-century queer and Black American communities. For this work, the artist created an abstract interpretation of the traditional Yoruba Adire dyeing technique to bridge ancestral knowledge with contemporary experience and capture a sense of personal upheaval and political instability during this turbulent moment in history.
Gabo Martinez
Blue Flower Goblin
Terracotta, engobe, sgraffito and glaze
11.75 x 9.5 inches
Value: $2,000
Minimum Bid: $1,200
Buy It Now: $2,200
Drawing upon both traditional and contemporary motifs, 2024 resident artist Gabo Martinez utilizes these visual languages to craft a narrative that reclaims and honors her heritage. This terracotta vessel has a scalloped rim and goblin face surrounded by baby-blue blooms. These energetic spaces become vehicles for the re-emergence of barro rojo (red clay) into the present contemporary moment and elevate ancestral ceramic technologies.
Anna Mavromatis
open book
Antique leather-bound book, jute rope, various other papers, stitching
17 x 15 x 6 inches
Value: $5,500
Minimum Bid: $3,300
SOLD
Anna Mavromatis’ work showcases various printmaking techniques, historical and contemporary photographic processes, and traditional surface decoration. Her background in architecture and fashion design is evident in her work and choice of materials, especially those with historic significance. This infant dress, which alludes to the constraints placed on girls during their upbringing, incorporates elements from an antique 19th-century book combined with other papers and recycled materials.
Edward Lane McCartney
After Hours #16 (pendant locket necklace)
Sterling scraps and 14k yellow gold
1.5 x 1.25 x 3-inch pendant with 24-inch chain
Value: $1,800
Minimum Bid: $1,100
Buy It Now: $2,000
A former resident artist and board president of HCCC, Edward Lane McCartney is a prolific mixed-media and jewelry artist. For nearly 20 years, he has honed his craft as an art jeweler, and much of his work involves pushing the boundaries of body adornment and traditional ornament.
Kathryn Rabinow
Anderson Ranch Blues (scarf)
Cashmere
18 x 71 inches
Value: $450
Minimum Bid: $300
Buy It Now: $550
Kathryn Rabinow’s wearable art reflects her delight in the world. Her 100% cashmere scarves bring her photography to life and allow the wearer to be literally wrapped in art. This photo of colorful tubes of paint was taken in 2024 at the Anderson Ranch in Colorado.
Jamie Sterling Pitt
Untitled
Acrylic and alkyd on wood
5.5 x 7.25 x 2 inches
Value: $5,500
Minimum Bid: $3,300
Buy It Now: $6,000
Donated by Jamie Sterling Pitt and Seven Sisters
After a car accident, 2024 resident artist Jamie Sterling Pitt started creating diaristic works that functioned as calendar entries: tools to help document the passage of time that, at times, resemble spirals and sundials. This work features two overlapping half ovals—one white, the other green and thickened by an application of pulped wood—calling to mind the figures of Philip Guston’s paintings.
Demitra Thomloudis
In Between and Over Part II (brooch)
Nickel silver, sterling silver, 18K yellow gold, acrylic paint
4 x 4 x 3 inches
Value: $2,500
Minimum Bid: $1,500
Buy It Now: $2,800
2013 resident artist Demitra Thomloudis’ work investigates how the human body and its relationship to jewelry can challenge our assumptions about jewelry and its meaning, power, and value. Inspired by architecture, she explores the interrelationship of person and place and sees jewelry as a means to connect the wearer to the surrounding world.
Michael Velliquette
Fireworks
Dimensional paper construct (gold, metallic-coated cover stock)
20 x 20 x 2.5 inches
Value: $8,000
Minimum Bid: $4,800
Buy It Now: $8,800
Donated by Michael Velliquette and David Shelton Gallery
2021 resident artist Michael Velliquette is renowned for his intricate paper sculptures. Through cutting, rolling, folding, and layering, he transforms paper into multidimensional works of art. This glimmering, monochromatic sculptural work is built up in shallow relief with gold metallic paper. The work evokes an intentionally playful, even naïve joy, combined with a precise attention to detail.
Adam Whitney
Silver Bowl 001
Britannia silver .958
8.25 x 4 inches
Value: $4,200
Minimum Bid: $2,600
Buy It Now: $4,600
2024 resident artist Adam Whitney specializes in traditional metalsmithing techniques, such as raising, chasing, and repoussé inspired by historical metalwork. For this hand-raised silver bowl, he transformed metal sheets into a thin surface through intensive labor hours of hammering.
Dongyi Wu
Passerby2 No.2 (brooch)
Fabric, T-shirt, basswood, acrylic paint, brass, copper, stainless steel, gesso, button, sewing thread
7.7 x 3.15 x 0.9 inches
Value: $500
Minimum Bid: $300
Buy It Now: $600
Current resident artist Dongyi Wu’s inspiration for this brooch came from a photo of a model in a fashion magazine. She hand carved wood and designed its shape based on the model’s mouth and transformed the wood’s surface with layers of acrylic paints and gesso to mimic the thick foundation of the model’s makeup. The fabric sections were inspired by the model’s clothes and accessories.
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