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.
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, 2024, In-person by appointment
You can make a private appointment to visit Southern Exposure’s gallery two weeks prior to the auction to preview the artwork.
ADVANCE ONLINE BIDDING
View the full catalog and place your bids online starting in early April.
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: In-person attendees may take their artwork home the week after the event after confirmation of purchase. Please allow time for wrapping. Attendees are welcome to make an appointment to pick up their artwork. Artwork will be available for pick-up after the event for all remote bidders. Auction winners will be notified to make an appointment.
- 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.
