A silent auction/raucous party was held at Double Double Land to raise cash for friend and zinester Mark Connery after a fire gutted his house (no-one was harmed fortunately-at the fire or party!).
The affair was organized by the super powers of Marc Bell and Graham Hollings.
The invite read:
AUCTIONED ARTWORKS by Mark Connery (including SMOKE DAMAGED drawings!), Shary Boyle, The White House, Jay Isaac, Barefoot Immortal, Damien Hurst, Olia Mishchenko, Peter Thompson, Wowee Zonk, Marc Bell, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Dayton, Amy Lockhart, Bill Bisset, Michael DeForge, Margaux Williamson, Keith Jones, The Royal Family Album, Jeff Koons, Fiona Smyth, Jason McLean, Elvis Stoikoe'd, Jonny Petersen, and many more famous artists...
Here's some more vintage Rudy:
Host with the most Graham Hollings
Other illustrious host Marc Bell greets two parts of Wowee Zonk
The Complete Wowee Zonk crew-Chris Kuzma, Patrick Kyle, and Ginette Lapalme
Zinester/musician Tara Azzopardi , the guest of honour Mark Connery(with a case of The Blurs), and Jesse
Huisken
All round fabulous babe Amy Lockhart mans the loot table
The crown
King of Kensington Seth Scriver helps out Amy
Artist/writer dynamos Larry and Paula Eisenstein put some bids in, I bid on his work but was out bid in the end, dang
Michael Comeau and Bill Bissett hang out
Zinester Pete Thompson-oft times Connery and Bell co-conspirator
Keith Jones gets a bidding war started
Tara Azzopardi brought Rudy's pals Phil and Kenny into the party, those guys can drink!
It was an exciting week: I received three new titles from the illustrious and super industrious Jo Cook's Perro Verlag Books.
Bucky Fleur's Lost Worlds, printed up by the talents of Jo Cook, Wesley Mulvin and Susan Kooi.
Cretaceous consumerist lust plays out in stamps, drawings and collage forms.
Wilding alumni Billy Mavreas' seeds are swelling with meditative gestating greatness.
If you don't know Billy's store/gallery in Montreal, then get acquainted!
Drawing dynamo Owen Plummer's Mystic Crossing is a collection of sketchbook offerings.
A surprise Pictoglyph original is included with this densely packed image fest.
