Auction Preview
NEW SUNS: RESIST AND REJOICE
Southern Exposure proudly presents NEW SUNS: Resist and Rejoice, our 2025 benefit art auction. Join us for an interstellar evening both in-person and online on Friday, April 18, in the SoEx gallery where we will celebrate the resilience and ingenuity of our arts community in the face of adversity.
This is a dire moment for so many in this country, and Southern Exposure is facing significant economic uncertainty in this shifting landscape for nonprofits and art spaces. It would be a terrible loss to our ecosystem if Southern Exposure were no longer a platform for artistic voices at this time when so many are being silenced. As a community, we must hold these spaces for open communication, risk taking, and experimentation. We need your help to continue this important work.
We invite you to our largest fundraiser of the year both to fortify our organization for the future and to reinvigorate for the fight ahead with a joyful night of camaraderie.
Together, we can build new worlds, find new horizons, and create new art. In these difficult times, we look to the wisdom of revolutionary thinkers like Octavia Butler: “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
Find the next sun with us. Support Southern Exposure and get your ticket today.
Our Main Event will feature both a silent and a live auction (led by esteemed Bonhams Auctioneer Aaron Bastian), showcasing over 130 pieces of astronomical art from some of the Bay Area's most stellar artists. The auction exhibition is on view March 29–April 17.
Register to Bid
Artworks will be available to bid on by April 3! If you haven't participated in a Southern Exposure auction before, you'll need to register to bid. Make sure you sign up for text updates when you purchase your tickets so that we can let you know when bidding is live. If you have registered before, no need to register again! We have your information saved and you'll be alerted as soon as the auction is live.
If you are unable to attend the Live Auction in person, you are welcome to place a proxy bid via this link.
TICKET TIERS
$250+ Host Packages
$150* VIP + Main Event Ticket
$90* Main Event Ticket
$0-75** Online Bidding Event Ticket
**If you’re unable to join us in person, we welcome you to support us with a sliding scale ticket to our online bidding!
Purchase your VIP or Main Event tickets via our tickets page. You can also choose to cover the costs of an artist's ticket.
Unable to afford a ticket but still want to attend? Sign up for one of our volunteer positions and attend the event for free!
EVENT SCHEDULE
Friday, April 18, 2024
6:00 PM Doors Open
7:30 PM Live Auction
8:30 PM Silent Auction begins to close
LOCATION
Southern Exposure
3030 20th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
PREVIEW EXHIBITION
March 29 – April 17, 2025
Tuesday – Saturday
12:00 – 6:00 PM
COVID-19 PROTOCOLS
SoEx reserves the right to update our COVID protocols at any time to further protect the health and safety of our guests, artists, staff, and volunteers. We will contact all ticket holders one week before the event with any updates.
AUCTION RULES
All acquisitions must be purchased in full. Each auction item is sold AS IS without warranty. Southern Exposure reserves the right to withdraw any item at any time before the actual sale. ALL SALES ARE FINAL WITH NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES.
ARTWORK PICK-UP
- Pick-up: Buyers may take their artwork home between April 22 - May 3 after the event after confirmation of purchase. A link to schedule pickup will be located within your receipt of purchase.
- Shipping & delivery: If you are not local, we can ship artwork to you via an art shipping company. Shipping will be billed to you at cost.
SUPPORT SOEX
Now, more than ever, we believe in the importance of art and artists. We hope you agree and will join us in securing SoEx’s future to help evolve the organization and invest in the artists and audiences whom we are so grateful to serve. We need to raise $275,000 at this year's auction, even more than in previous years, in order to secure the next steps in our organizational evolution. Please consider donating to our Short-Term Stabilization Fund, which will be used for strategic planning and leadership support and to secure our rent for 6 months.
OUR PARTNERS
Artists
Lucia Aguilar
Miguel Arzabe
Sholeh Asgary
Saif Azzuz
John Bankston
Mark Baugh Sasaki
Drew Bennett
Leo Bersamina
McArthur Binion
Lemia Monet Bodden
Kate Bonner
Greg Borman
Val Britton
Craig Calderwood
Percy Cannon
Enrique Chagoya
Jessica Jane Charleston
Ajit Chauhan
John Chiara
Holly Coley
Morgan Corbitt
Ximaps Dong
Annie Duncan
Ebti
Kota Ezawa
José Figueroa
Sienna Freeman
Futurefarmers
Amos Goldbaum
Jim Goldberg
Julia Goodman
Isadora Gullov-Singh
Diane Andrews Hall
Michael Hall
Naomi Hawksley
Taraneh Hemami
Dana Hemenway
Cliff Hengst
Angela Hennessy
Scott Hewicker
Tanya Hollis
Sarah Hotchkiss
Shao-Feng Hsu
Hughen/Starkweather
Bec Imrich
Jason Jägel
Chris Johanson
Bussie Parker Kehoe
Bessma Khalaf
Mary Anne Kluth
Michael Koehle
Carrie Lederer
Austin Leong
Terri Loewenthal
Cathy Lu
Kija Lucas
Cybele Lyle
Nick Makanna
Pablo Manga
Michelle Mansour
Kara Maria
Vanessa Marsh
Jet Martinez
Lee Materazzi
Alicia McCarthy
Michael McConnell
Barry McGee & Chris Johanson
Jessica Monette
Yedda Morrison
Ranu Mukherjee
David Muller
Amy Nathan
Kelly Ording
Tyler Ormsby
Erik Parra
Qadir Parris
Nathaniel Parsons
Mitzi Pederson
Keith Petersen
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein
Mário Pires Cordeiro
Ferris Plock
Carissa Potter Carlson
Mel Prest
J. John Priola
Amy Rathbone
Rachelle Reichert
Jerome Reyes
Stevie Rose
Leah Rosenberg
Blaise Rosenthal
Byron Ryono
Oleg Savunov
Erik Scollon
Jenny Sharaf
Alice Shaw
Jillian Shea
Anna Sidana
Jeffrey Sincich
Brian Singer
Selby Sohn
Dharma Strasser MacColl
tamara suarez porras
Nobuto Suga
Charlene Tan
Tanda
Yiliu Teng
Masami Teraoka
Zekarias Thompson
Beatrice Thornton
Amy Trachtenberg
Simon Tran
Helen Shewolfe Tseng
Kelly Tunstall
Henna Vainio
Isaac Vazquez Avila
Andy Vogt
Cate White
Deirdre White
Lindsey White
David Wilson
Jenifer K Wofford
Rochelle Youk
Maryam Yousif
Minoosh Zomorodinia
Gallery Partners
George Adams Gallery
Altman Siegel
Anglim/Trimble
Berggruen Gallery
Rena Bransten Gallery
Rebecca Camacho Presents
Casemore Gallery
Catharine Clark Gallery
Climate Control
CULT Aimee Friberg
Et al.
Eleanor Harwood Gallery
Jack Fischer Gallery
Fraenkel Gallery
Gallery 16
Gallery Wendi Norris
Haines Gallery
Harman Projects
Hosfelt Gallery
House of Seiko
K. Imperial Fine Art
Johansson Projects
Municipal Bonds
Pt. 2 Gallery
Paulson Fontaine Press
Re.riddle
Romer Young Gallery
Sarah Shepard Gallery
Traywick Contemporary
*Lists current as of March 25, 2025.
Contributors
Host Committee
Moon
Drusie & Jim Davis
Robin Ducot
Catherine Foo & Aaron Bastian
Rachel & Keith Petersen
Asteroid
Nicole Avril & Daniel Gelfand
Micaela Heekin & Chris Hart
Marc Mayer & Geoff di Girolamo
Brian Singer & Laura Hapka
Dan Toffey & Julia Harter
Comet
Mike Blockstein
Christy Chan
Jeanne Gerrity & Ben Petrosky
Taraneh Hemami & Mohsen Emaminouri
Catherine & David Kevane
Trisha Lagaso Goldberg & Dave Goldberg
Galen Maness
Sharon Tanenbaum & Matty Person
Jenifer K Wofford
Satellite
Jamie Alexander
Jaime Austin & David Deming
Ken Lo
Nilus de Matran & Jennifer Morla
Audrey Nieh & Heather Smith
Gay Outlaw & Bob Schmitz
Byron Ryono
Jessica Shaefer
Rebecca Teague
Valerie Wade
Thet Win
SPONSORS
Gold Sponsors
NICOLEHOLLIS
Silver Sponsors
Eames Institute
KITCHENTOWN
Sapphire Sponsors
Artsource Consulting
SF Art Week
Food & Beverage Sponsors
True Laurel
Flour & Water
Prubechu
Fort Point Brewing
On the Rocks Bartending
Framing Sponsors
Artisans of San Francisco
Capricorn Framing
City Picture Frame
Mark Ryan
Orion Custom Framing
Painters Place
Eric Rose
San Francisco Art Framing Services
Spot Design
Sterling Art Services
Small Works
New Suns DJ Set
Conspirators
Auction Co-Chairs: Becky Koblick & Dan Toffey
Auctioneer: Aaron Bastian
Auction Committee
Andrew Berg
Kara Bratcher
Emily Counihan
Valerie Imus
Becky Koblick
Marc Mayer
Teaque Owen
Mário Pires Cordeiro
Emma Rosenbaum
Dan Toffey
Jenifer K Wofford
Board of Directors
Dan Toffey, President
Marc Mayer, Vice President
Olivia White Lopez, Vice President
Sienna Freeman and Susan Krane, Co-Treasurers
Brian Singer, Secretary
Cristy Chan
Ranu Mukherjee
Sriba Kwadjovie Quintana
Angela Rivera
Staff
Valerie Imus, Artistic Director & Co-Director
Teaque Owen, Development & Events Coordinator
Emma Rosenbaum, Marketing & Communications Coordinator
Simon Tran, Artists in Education Manager
Mário Pires Cordeiro, Exhibitions & Facilities Coordinator
Minoosh Zomorodinia, Documentation Coordinator
Evelyn Kuo, Programs & Exhibitions Intern
Khaled Alqahtani, Community Arts & Development Intern
About Southern Exposure
Southern Exposure (SoEx) is an artist-centered nonprofit organization committed to supporting diverse visual artists. Through our extensive and innovative programming, SoEx strives to experiment, collaborate and further educate while providing an extraordinary resource center and forum for Bay Area and national artists and youth in our Mission District space and off-site, in the public realm. Since 1974, SoEx has been a vital part of the Bay Area arts ecosystem, and your generous support of our auction will allow new, emerging, and experimental art to flourish in the year ahead.