ARTPICK

                                  NOVEMBER 2009

 ArtPick, Contemporary Forum’s annual November event, provides attendees with the opportunity to help choose Phoenix Art Museum’s next contemporary art acquisition. The Museum's Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art selects five works of art and has them sent to the Museum. At an exciting party with a sumptuous buffet hosted bar and a unique silent auction, attendees are invited to vote for their favorite work of art. The piece which receives the highest number of votes is then purchased by Contemporary Forum for the Museum with funds raised at the event. 
ARTPICK is open to the public.

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                                ARTPICK WINNERS


Richard Misrach
Untitled #1179-04, 2004
Chromogenic color print
Collection of Phoenix Art Museum
Museum purchase with funds provided by
Contemporary Forum
(Artpick 2007)



Jun Kaneko
05-01-07, 2005
Glazed ceramic
Collection of Phoenix Art Museum
Museum purchase with funds provided by
Contemporary Forum
(Artpick 2006)



Sol LeWitt
Sphere Lit from the Top, 2005
pencil drawing
Collection of Phoenix Art Museum
Museum purchase with funds provided by
Contemporary Forum
(Artpick 2005)



Michal Rovner
Zalach B, 2004
mixed media
Collection of Phoenix Art Museum
Museum purchase with funds provided by
Contemporary Forum
(Artpick 2004)



Gregory Crewdson
Untitled (House in the Road), 2002
c-print, edition 3 of 10
Collection of Phoenix Art Museum
Museum purchase with funds provided by
Contemporary Forum
(Artpick 2003)

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One of the extraordinary results of ArtPick is that many private donors have often purchased their favorite curatorial choices and then donated these pieces to the Museum.  This is possible because all of the curatorial choices are regarded as worthy of admission to the permanent collection.   

While the following works were not the ArtPick winning selections, they subsequently were acquired as a direct result of ArtPick events.  


Waltercio Caldas, Still Life (Black Series), 2005
stainless steel, granite, wool yarn and glass
Collection of Phoenix Art Museum
Museum purchase with funds provided by
Miriam and Yefim Sukhman
(ArtPick 2007 selection)



Frederick Hammersley, Even #3, 1962
oil on linen
On loan to Phoenix Art Museum by anonymous donor
(ArtPick 2007 selection)



Candida Höfer
Palacio Nacional da Ajuda Lisboa VII, 2005
c-print
Collection of Phoenix Art Museum
Museum purchase with funds provided by
Dr. Eric Jungermann, Susan and Eliot Black, and
Ellen and Howard Katz
(ArtPick 2006 selection)

Photograph courtesy of Sonnabend Gallery

 

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1988, woodcut prints,
ed. 25, suite of 10

Partial gift of anonymous donors

(ArtPick 2005 selection)

Tacita Dean, The Russian Ending, 2001,
photogravure, ed. 8/35, suite of 20

Museum purchase with funds provided by
Contemporary Forum
(ArtPick 2003 selection)

 

 

Agnes Martin, Untitled, 1998,
suite of four color lithographs

Partial gift of Eric Jungermann, Ph.D.

(ArtPick 2003 selection)