DARIO CAMPANILE - Missing Peace Found, 2005
archival pigment print on canvas
30 by 30 inches image; framed
Edition 31/375
$2,200

Campanile traveled to Tibet and was granted a visit with the Dalai Lama to seek inspiration for this painting as his contribution to The Dalai Lama Project.

Born in Rome, Italy, in 1948, he is a painter whose intense realism and exploration of surrealism have won the praise of peers and critics. He is mostly known for his lyrical still life oil paintings. He now lives in Hawaii and California. In 1968 he was called to duty by the army, but was only a soldier for two weeks. A general from Rome saw some of his work in a gallery and commissioned several paintings for the offices of the Ministry of Defense. He spent the next year and a half serving the military from his own studio. In 1986, Campanile was chosen from hundreds of artists to create the 75th Anniversary Logo for Paramount Studios. His beautiful design of the famous mountain symbol is seen on every Paramount publication today.

HERB RITTS - His Holiness The Dalai Lama, New York, 1987,
gelatin silver print, Edition 17/25
13 by 10 inches image size on 14 by 11 inches paper; framed by Randolph Laub
Original edition photograph printed during the lifetime of the artist. Estate stamped en recto and authenticated by the signature of Mark McKenna, President Herb Ritts Foundation.
$5,000

Herb Ritts (1952-2002) began his photographic career in the late 70's and gained a reputation as a master of art and commercial photography. In addition to producing portraits and editorial fashion for Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview and Rolling Stone, Ritts also created successful advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, Chanel, Donna Karan, Gianfranco Ferré, Gianni Versace, Giorgio Armani, Pirelli, Polo Ralph Lauren, Valentino among others. Since 1988 he directed numerous influential and award winning music videos and commercials. His fine art photography has been the subject of exhibitions worldwide, with works residing in many significant public and private collections.

In his life and work, Herb Ritts was drawn to clean lines and strong forms. This graphic simplicity allowed his images to be read and felt instantaneously. They often challenged conventional notions of gender or race. Social history and fantasy were both captured and created by his memorable photographs of noted individuals in film, fashion, music, politics and society.

TENZING RIGDOL - A Man Following a Tail, 2003
acrylic on canvas
41 by 62 inches
$4,500

Rigdol's painting is an exploration of ideas of violence and war. The artist presents his view of the stages of war and how one can unknowingly be lured into violent actions. The painting is also a response to the war in Iraq and hybridizes the contemporary issues of nonviolence with the teachings of many ancient and contemporary masters such as the Dalai Lama, J. Krishnamurti, Jesus and Gautama Buddha.

Tenzing Rigdol was born in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1982. He graduated from the University of Colorado in Denver with a degree in painting, drawing, art history and philosophy. He was the recipient of a scholarship to study Tibetan calssical painting in Dharamsala, India. At a young age he was admitted to the School of Tibetan Thangkha Painting. He also studied traditional Tibetan carpet design in an affiliated institute of Tibetan Children's Village, a school founded by H. H. the Dalai Lama.

He has exhibited extensively in the United States, in London, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Madrid and his work is held in museums and collections worldwide.

JESAL KAPADIA - The Laughing Clug, 2003
video
9 minutes, 22 seconds
$1,500

Laughing clubs, also known as laughter yoga, have become a popular phenomenon, both in the West and in India, where they originated. Based on laughter's therapeutic effect on the body, these clubs largely cater to city dwellers. This video visits one such club in Mumbai. By gradually slowing the video in strategic places, the artist enables us to obtain a closer look at people's faces and their expressions.

Jesal Kapadia is a visual artist and co-editor of the arts for the journal Rethinking Marxism. She moved to the United States seven years ago from Mumbai, where she worked as a Graphic Designer. She is a graduate of the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program in New York City and a recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council grant for 2003-04 Film and Video artists. She currently teaches at CUNY College of Staten Island and the International Center for Photography.

CHUCK CLOSE - The Dalai Lama, 2005
digital pigment print on Crane Museo paper
39.5 by 33 inches image; 49 by 41.5 inches paper; framed
Signed Edition 2/15
$9,400

Chuck Close is known for his large iconic portraits such as this photograph of the Dalai Lama.

Born in 1940, the career of Chuck Close extends beyond his completed works of art. Highly renowned as a painter, Close is also a master printmaker who has, over the course of more than 30 years, pushed the boundaries of traditional printmaking. He achieved his international reputation by demonstrating that a very traditional art form, portraiture, could be resurrected as a challenging form of contemporary expression. Today, publications surveying contemporary art history routinely discuss his painting, and most modern art museum in the US and Western Europe feature his work in their collections.

MIKE & DOUG STARN - Sno6_34 from the series "alleverythingthatisyou", 2006
digital pigment print on Crane Museo paper
30 by 30 inches image on 33.75 by 34 inches paper
Edition 12/30
$5,000

Doug and Mike Starn were born in New Jersey in 1961. Identical twins, they work collaboratively with photography and continue defying categorization, effectively combining traditionally separate disciplines such as sculpture, photography, painting, video, and installation.

Big Bambu, their new studio space in Beacon, NY, allows them to explore in depth the dialogue with early works such as Stretched Christ, Siamese Twins, Sphere of Influence, and Amaterasu, while pursuing their most recent investigations from their Absorption of Light concept, through alleverythingthatisyou, their photomicrographs of snow crystals, and their revival of the late 19th century color carbon printing process.

The Starn Twins have received numerous honors: two National Endowment for the Arts Grants in 1987 and 1995; The International Center for Photography's Infinity Award for Fine Art Photography in 1992; and, artists in residency at NASA in the mid-nineties. Major artworks by the Starns are represented in public and private collections including: The Museum of Modern Art (NYC); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, (NYC); The Jewish Museum, (NYC); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC); The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; The Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC); Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan; La Bibliotèque Nationale, Paris; La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among many others.

ENRIQUE MARTINEZ CELAYA - Untitled, 2006
digital pigment print, laminated, with adjacent mirror (right side is a mirror)
14 by 20 inches (original image: 100 by 156 inches)
Edition 6/30
$3,000

"Art clarifies the past and points to the future. It confirms that beauty is resonant with life and revels in the innate order of that beauty. Two flashes coexist in the work - a painted flash of lightning and a flash of consciousness as one moves from the painting to the mirror. The duality between the painting and the mirror is a reminder of the path from oneself to all things - the foundation of compassion." Enrique Martinez Celaya

Martinez Celaya was born in Cuba in 1964. He pursued graduate studies in quantum electronics but abandoned a promising career to focus on painting. In 1994 he received his MFA at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a prolific painter, sculptor, photographer, poet and writer who mines the transient world of time and memory, identity and displacement. His images range from a body emerging rom a murky tar-painted landscape to lightening paintings created of ash, blood and mirror. He lives in Los Angeles.

FILIPPO DI SAMBUY - Possible Painting Impossible Sculpture No Ending Energy, 2005
mixed media on canvas
38 by 98 inches
$15,000

Through painting, Italian artist Filippo di Sambuy creates symbols that arise from visions of his perception. The poetics of his work always imply the appearance of a spiritual element. He considers painting as a tradition immutable, and as such, a unique activity to trespass the limits of time and space imposed by the choices of contemporary awareness. He sees the artist as a channel that tries to reveal the invisible by means of the visible and embodies the divinity in a form or through a symbol through which he speacks and communicates with the observer. He was born in Rome, Italy, in 1956.

ANDRA SAMELSON - Bamiyan Reborn III, 2005
pigment print
25 by 30 inches image; framed
Edition 3/10
$2,200

The world's two tallest standing statues of Buddha were destroyed on March 11, 2001 in Bamiyan, Afghanistan by the fundamentalist Taliban rulers. These statues were of tremendous importance to the cultural heritage of Afghanistan. Their destruction was not just an eradication of ancient beauty and inspiration but also a savage act of censorship and intolerance, targeting art and learning in general. This event was met with worldwide condemnation and was a sad harbinger of the violence to come exactly six months later in America on September 11. In response to both these tragic events, Samelson created a body of work to give remembrance to the splendor and peace of these two towering Buddhas.

Andra Samelson's work can be found in many private and public collections, including the Rubin Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the Dow Jones Corporation, Chase Manhattan Bank, among others.

ANDRA SAMELSON - Bamiyan Reborn I, 2005
pigment print
10 by 12 inches image; framed
Edition 6/10
$850

YOKO INOUE - Untitled, 2006
ceramic; Edition 3/6
(5 bottles)
dimensions vary; 8 inches shortest bottle to 11 inches tallest bottle
$3,000

Statues of the Buddhist deity called Jizo are everywhere in Japan, on country roadsides and city street corners, in temple grounds and cemeteries. Hand-carved or mass-produced, the image is always pretty much the same: a short figure in simple robes with a round shaved head and a soft-featured child's face. Jizo is the protector of travelers and children, which is why his image is often decorated with baby clothes and toys. As Mizuko Jizo he is also guardian of unborn children. And since the legalization of abortion in Japan, memorial parks filled with images of Mizuko Jizo have proliferated, providing revenue for the Buddhist church.

The combination of devotion and commerce is the theme of Inoue's ceramic bottles cast from disposable plastic water containers.

YOKO INOUE - Untitled, 2006
ceramic; (5 bottles)
installation view

Yoko Inoue is a multi-disciplinary artist. In the form of installation, sculpture, public intervention projects and performance art, her work engages issues of globalization, immigrant assimilation, identity and cultural merging. Inoue's large scale installations typically incorporate hand cast ceramic objects derived from mass-produced items found in the multicultural urban market place, reflecting her observations of the commoditization of culture and calling attention to the historical connotations of mundane objects.

Born in 1964 in Kyoto, Japan, she moved to New York in 1990. She earned a MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College, NY and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been shown in New York at the Brooklyn Museum, SculptureCenter, the Rubin Museum, the Bronx Museum and nationally at the Des Moines Art Center, IA, UCLA and Yerba Buena in San Francisco, CA.

She has received awards and grants including the NYFA Fellowship in Sculpture (2003) and subsequently the NYFA Fellowship in Cross-disciplinary & Performative work (2007) from the New York Foundation for the Arts; the Lambent Fellowship (2004-06) from Tides Foundation, Franklin Furnace Award for Performance Art (2005); The Joan Mitchell Foundation's Painters and Sculptors Grant (2005); a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2006); GAPS (Grant for Art in Public Spaces) from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council / 9-11 Fund, Jerome Foundation Travel and Research Grant (2007); and the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship (2008). Residencies include Skowhegan, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Art Omi, LMCC Workspace, the Center for Book Arts and the Civitella Ranieri Center Residency in Italy and .ekwc (European Ceramic Work Center) in The Netherlands.

YOKO INOUE - Untitled, 2006
ceramic; (5 bottles)
installation view with CHUCK CLOSE - The Dalai Lama, 2005
digital pigment print

YOKO INOUE - Untitled, 2006
digital pigment print on Hannemuhle Satin paper
14.5 by 11 inches image on 20 by 16 inches paper; framed
Edition of 30
$2,200

GUY BUFFET - His Holiness and the Bee (How a Little Annoyance Can Bring Great Joy), 2005
archival pigment print on canvas
36 by 36 inches image; framed
Edition 3/500
$1,500

Guy Buffet was born in Paris in 1943. At age 18 he joined the French Navy where his artistic abilities were so distinguished that he was named the official artist of the French Navy and given the prestigious assignment to "paint the world." In 1963, the French Navy helped organize his first exhibition in the Hawaiian Islands introducing Buffet to what he called "Paradise", and where he still lives. He was awarded several commissions from the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts which emblazoned major murals at libraries across the state of Hawaii. He has since toured the world with his exhibitions and has been commissioned by many corporations, such as Inter-Continental Beachcomber and Westin Hotels, Champagne Perrier-Jouet, Williams Sonoma and Grand Manier.

RICHARD AVEDON - His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kamataka, India, January 1998
digital pigment print
signed by Richard Avedon and His Holiness the Dalai Lama
18 by 23 inches
Edition of 12 SOLD OUT
ARTIST PROOF AVAILABLE - price upon request

"A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about. My concerns are not his. We have separate ambitions for the image. His need to plead his case probably go as deep as my need to plead mine, but the control is with me. A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an imotion or fact is transformed into a phtotograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." Richard Avedon

American photographer Richard Avedon (1923-2004)has been referred to as our poet laureate of portraiture. His portrait work constitutes a modern-day pantheon of many of the major artistc, intellectual and political figures of the late twentieth century, and as such, belongs to the time-honored tradition of public portraiture.