Michael Loderstedt

From the Arthur Feldman Collection
Untitled, n.d.
mixed media
Michael Loderstedt teaches at Kent State University and has also taught at the College of Wooster and University of Akron. He has exhibited at the Akron Art Museum, SPACES, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art May Show. Loderstedt received a BFA from East Carolina University in Greenville and MFA from Kent State University.
Market value: $2,750
Starting bid: $962.50

Matt Dibble

Snakes in the Corn, 2008
Oil on canvas
75” sq
Market value: $3,800
Starting bid: $1,330

Get Ready for Your Close-up!

Trained at the prestigious International Center of Photography in New York, photographer Billy Delfs has captured some of Cleveland’s most famous faces. Now, his services are at your fingertips. Bid on this package, and Billy will conduct a personalized portrait session. Include your family, a handful of your favorite people, or put it toward a commercial project and have him photograph your employees. Includes five 11 x 14" digital archival portrait prints.
Valued at $2,500
Starting bid: $875

Iron Chef Special

Delight in dinner for six at Iron Chef Michael Symon’s flagship restaurant, Lola, on E. 4th Street. You’ll have exclusive use of the Chef’s table and enjoy a specially selected four-course meal.* This package of culinary excitement also includes a signed copy of your host’s new book, Michael Symon's Live to Cook: Recipes and Techniques to Rock Your Kitchen.
*Subject to table availability, Monday-Thursday only. Tax and gratuity not included.
Valued at $750 Starting bid: $262.50

Photo courtesy of donating artist Billy Delfs.

Detroit Avenue: Fully Loaded

Cleveland’s Detroit Avenue and Gordon Square Arts District are buzzing with excitement: a refurbished streetscape is lined with hip shops and restaurants, and theaters are developing apace. Featuring a $600 certificate toward an appraisal at Tregoning & Co. plus a Matthew Dibble artwork, this package also includes tickets to Cleveland Public Theatre, the Capitol Theatre, and a private tour of 78th Street Studios. Bid to sample everything this vibrant neighborhood has to offer. You won't want to miss dinner at Luxe and Latitude 41 plus shopping at Room Service!

Market value coming soon ...

Arthur Feldman, charismatic patron of the arts

Digitally manipulated photograph of Arthur Feldman by Rita Montlack, 2003, used as cover image for SPACES' 2003 Annual Benefit & Art Acution: This is Art! Honoring Arthur Feldman

A man who embraced life to the fullest, Arthur Feldman turned his passion for art into a second career, becoming an inspiration to many famous and up-and-coming artists and a mentor to countless area art patrons.

A native Clevelander who went to Shaker Heights High School, Feldman began his career in finance. He started his own business, Paramount Finance Co., after graduating from Ohio State University. He also opened Insurance Premium Finance, which provided financing to people who couldn't afford to pay their auto insurance. It was then that he began a lifelong relationship with Peter B. Lewis, then CEO of Progressive Insurance, whom he advised on what would become Cleveland's premier private art collection.

After selling his business in 1970 after 35 years, Feldman devoted himself to the arts, eventually opening his gallery, Arthur Feldman Graphics.

Not merely a dealer, Feldman had well-established personal relationships with many of the artists he represented, including Robert Rauschenberg, the Japanese artist Arakawa, and Andre Villers, famed photographer of Picasso, Miro and Chagall.

His contributions to the arts world did not go unnoticed. In November 2004, Feldman was honored at a gala for SPACES, which brought out Cleveland's A-list to toast the charismatic man who was loved by everyone who knew him. At that event, Peter Lewis donated a $100,000 gift to SPACES in honor of his mentor and longtime friend.

A man with no formal education in the arts, Feldman bought what he liked - and encouraged others to do the same. It was this innate honesty and lack of pretension, coupled with a fierce intellect and a passion for aesthetic beauty, that so endeared him to artists and non-artists alike.

Arthur Feldman died January 2004 at the age of 88. A collection of art objects and ephemera was donated to SPACES by Arthur’s son, Dr. Robert Feldman, in 2007. This represents a selection from that gift.

Adapted in part from the Cleveland Jewish News obituary by Janet Dery

Anna Arnold

Arthur Feldman, 1988
Mixed media on mat board, mounted on wood
5.5 x 7.5"
Market value: $225
Starting bid: $78.75

Anna Arnold

Andy in the Garden, n.d.
Mixed media on canvas board, mounted on wood
8 x 10"
Market value: $225
Starting bid: $78.75

Abe Frajndlich

Minor White from the series Lives I've Never Lived, 1976, photograph, matte, signed by the photographer, inscribed to Arthur Feldman; framed courtesy of The Wood Trader

An image from the same series is found in Cleveland Museum of Art's Contemporary Gallery. Frajndlich was born in Germany (Frankfurt Am Main) but was local to Cleveland for some time. Minor White (in the photograph) was a well known photographer who worked with Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Dorthea Lang.
Market value: $575
Starting bid: $200

The Cleveland Leader

The Cleveland Leader, dated Sunday, June 21, 1896
The Cleveland Leader was a local newspaper that merged with The Plain Dealer in 1917
22 x 15.25"
Market value: $150
Starting bid: $52.50

Steven B. Smith

Untitled, 1994
Collage, in artist's original frame; cover: Artcrimes 1
11.5 x 13.5"

Market value: $350
Starting bid: $122.50

David E. Davis

Space Gallery, n.d.
Lithograph, 1/20
Framing courtesy of The Wood Trader
Market value: $500
Starting bid: $175

David E. Davis

Untitled, n.d.
sculpture
15.5 x 8"
Inscribed: To my friend Arthur in his 70th birthday
David E. Davis
May 1985
Makret value: $750
Starting bid: $262.50

Richard Brautigan

Untitled, n.d.
Ed. 4/85, metal, gesso, paint
Artist-made frame

Amy Casey

Blue House, 2009
Etching
5 7/8 x 6 1/4 (image size)
Market value: $150
Starting bid: $52.50

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Miltoan Sea, Sounion, 1990
Offset Lithographic print from the artist's time exposed portfolio of 50 prints
mounted on 1 ply board with blindstamped title, date and number (354) on the mount. Additional window mat
Image: 9 x 12 "
Mount: 14 x18 "
Market Value: $725
Starting bid: $253.75

"Time Exposed features [Sugimoto's] mesmeric seascapes. Here, time is the primary leitmotif--not so much the effects of the long exposures used in making many of the images--but historical time. Sugimoto was looking to record a scene that has remained more or less unchanged since man first appeared on the planet, a primal scene."--Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol. I

Kate Budd

Hecate, 2003
Wax and salt
6 x 4 x 3"
Market value: $250
Starting bid: $87.50
Kate Budd is represented by William Busta Gallery.

Kate Budd

Belle 2, 2003 Wax, hair, and ribbon
4 x 3 x 7"
Market value: $250
Starting bid: $87.50
Kate Budd is represented by William Busta Gallery.

Julia Christensen

Big Box Re-Use, MIT Press, 2008, 10 x 10, 220 pp., 91 color illus., signed by the author
$100.00
Starting bid: $35.00

Dana Depew

Arid Landscape, 2009
Oil, enamel, and latex on chenille
28 x 24"
Market value: $400
Starting bid: $140

Brandon Juhasz

Prop, 2009
Archival ink jet print
Ed. 1/5, 22 x 33"
Market value: $800
Starting bid: $280

Lori Kella

After the Storm, 2009
Chromogenic print
11 x 15"
Market value: $400
Starting bid: $140

Jessica Maloney

Recollection III, 2009
Digital transfer and mixed media on wood panel
Market value: $165
Starting bid: $57.75

Dana Oldfather

Dirty Breathe, 2009
Oil and marker on canvas
Market value: $1,400
Starting bid: $490

Paul Sydorenko

Aquarius, 2009
Screen print and mixed media
20 x 20"
Market value: $300
Starting bid: $105

Theresa Yondo

Two Mugs, n.d., porcelain cone 10 electric fired glaze overlap, and wax resist, approximately 5.5 x 3"
Market value: $70 (each mug retails for $35)

Michelle Muldrow

Landcover Akron, 2008
acrylic on canvas
36" x 12"
Market value: $1,100
Starting bid: $385

Uncovered. Photographs by Thomas Allen.

Uncovered. Photographs by Thomas Allen. Foreword by Chip Kidd.
Aperture, New York, 2007. 48 pp., 27 color illustrations, 7 x 8½"
Signed by Thomas Allen
Market value: $75
Starting bid: $26.25