Stephen Petronio Company is pleased to announce their fall benefit auction, ART ♥ STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY. The event will include more than 60 contemporary works by established and emerging artists. Works in the sale will be featured in an online preview on Paddle8.com. Online bidding will be available through Paddle8 from October 25 through November 7.
The ART ♥ STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY event on November 8 will include live and silent auctions and will take place at the Metropolitan Pavilion. Donald Baechler is the Honorary Event Chair and Jill Brienza, Liz Gerring Radke and Maureen Sullivan are the Event Co-Chairs. The event will include a performance by members of Stephen Petronio Company.
The event is designed as both a fundraiser and a celebration of Stephen Petronio Company’s close connections to the visual arts. Several artists included in the auction, such as Cindy Sherman, Donald Baechler and Stephen Hannock, have collaborated with Stephen Petronio on performance works for the Company.
Proceeds support the Stephen Petronio Company’s creation of new dance works, collaborations with visual artists and musicians, public performances, and education programs.
Artists in the ART ♥ STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY auction include Laurie Anderson, Donald Baechler, Pedro Barbeito, Mark Beard, Jonathan Beer, Ross Bleckner, Matthew Brandt, Cecily Brown, Sander Cedee, Emilie Clark, Jessica CraigMartin, Quentin Curry, Chris Duncan, Will Fowler, Kate Gilmore, Neil Goldberg, Dumitru Gorzo, Robin Graubard, Joe Grillo, Stephen Hannock, Karen Heagle, Valerie Hegarty, Lesley Horowitz, Timothy Hull, Maira Kalman, Scott Kilgour, Aaron Krach, Danny Kukla, Linda Levinson, Jason Clay Lewis, Roy Lichtenstein, Annie Leibovitz, Matt Magee, Dona Ann McAdams, Robert Melee, Yoko Ono, Danica Phelps, Gabrielle Revere, Herb Ritts*, Naomi Safran-Hon, David Salle, Fanny Sanin, Matt Saunders, Andrew Schoultz, Cindy Sherman, Simone Shubuck, Sarah Silver, Fedele Spadafora, Miljan Suknovik, Swoon, Spencer Tunick, Frohawk Two Feathers, Andy Warhol, Megan Whitmarsh, Dustin Yellin, and Balint Zsako.
*Proceeds from the sale of the Herb Ritts lot will benefit Dancers Responding to AIDS.
STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY
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Tickets for the event on November 8th are $40, $50, $150, $300, and $500 and can be purchased at stephenpetornio.com. Event information: 212 473 1660.
Online auction site: paddle8.com/forgood/petronio Absentee bids can be placed with the Stephen Petronio Company office by calling 212 473 1660.
About Stephen Petronio Company Stephen Petronio is widely regarded as one of the leading dance-makers of his generation. He founded Stephen Petronio Company in 1984 and has created an expansive body of work marked by an unmistakable movement language in collaboration with some of the most talented and provocative contemporary innovators in the fields of music, visual arts and fashion. The New York-based Company presents an annual season at The Joyce Theater and tours nationally and internationally.
