Bidding Underway for Five-Inch Artworks
A lively and enthusiastic crowd packed into the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art for the opening reception of “5×5: Westmont College Celebrating 85 Years” on November 30. There is certainly a lot to see with more than 675 small pieces of art hung in the gallery – all of which are being auctioned off to the highest bidder.
“I had so many guests tell me how terrific the exhibition was with many saying it was the best 5×5 yet,” says Judy L. Larson, R. Anthony Askew professor in art and director of the museum. “It certainly is the biggest ever!”
The exhibition is a fundraiser for the museum with an online auction that ends Friday, December 15, at 5 pm. Find auction details, artwork images, artist bios, and bidding instructions at www.westmont.edu/museum/5×5.
Nearly all of the pieces remain at the opening bid of $20. A piece by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a Native American visual artist and curator, has the highest bid at $700 for a charcoal on paper, Coyote Sees the World Clearly.
Tim Hawkinson, a painter, draftsman and sculptor in the Bay Area, has the second highest bid, $200, for Normal, an India ink drawing on paper.
John Budicin, who was born in Italy and moved to Southern California with his family at 11, submitted an untitled oil painting on canvas board that has a bid of $181.
