On May 4, 2009 guests of NYFA flocked to the Freidrich Petzel Gallery in New York City to see and bid on the work of over 100 NYFA-Affiliated artists. Guests sipped sparkling cocktails provided by Bubble Lounge, mingled with artists, art lovers, patrons, and collectors, and went home at the end of the evening with works to enjoy for many years to come.

Photos by Amber de Vos from PatrickMcMullan.com and Francisco Jaimes

Irina Movmyga and Andres Serrano	NYFA Benefit Committee Member Emma Snowdon-Jones and Benefit Junior Committee Member Anna Gavazzi
NYFA Benefit Committee Dembers Kristin Accola, Committee co-chair Mary Ellen McCooey, co-chair Judy Brodsky, co-chair Marjorie Martay, co-chair Rosita Caulfield, and Ray Keller		NYFA Board Member Howard Rothman, NYFA Staff Member Karen Demavivas, and Joan Rothman
Contributing Artists Steed Taylor and Allessandra Exposito		NYFA Staffers Amber Hawk Swanson (also a Contributing Artist) and Jocelyn Elliott
Guests bidding at ARTSEEN		Contributing Artist Sean Irons with his and Lauren Petty's work
Benefit Junior Committee Co-Chair Bettina Prentice and NYFA Executive Director Michael L. Royce		Guests with Edisa Weeks' Delirious Designs Hairstyles
Brittany Black and Benefit Junior Committee Co-Chair Field Kallop		NYFA Board Chair Kathleen O'Grady
An ARTSEEN guest bidding on Leigh Wen's piece. To the left, work by Brian Finke, to the right, work by Corey Willis.		Benefit Junior Committee Co-Chair Bettina Prentice and Jamie Prentice
Benjamin Hayden and Benefit Junior Committee Member Alexander Gilkes		Guests at ARTSEEN
Edisa Weeks designs a custom hairstyle for Nancy Cohen		Contributing Artist Nikki Berg, Rachel Stern, and Walter Robinson
Benefit Committee Member Astrid Persons, NYFA Board Member and Benefit Committee Co-chair Judy Brodsky, and Contributing Artist Karen Bausman		NYFA Benefit Committee Member Kristin Accola, and Board Members Judy Brodsky, and Paulanne Queen
Amanda Hartmann, NYFA Benefit Junior Committee Member Christina Warner, and Lauriston Roach		Anne Huntington, Philae Knight, Camille Obering, and Franklin Boyd
Hayley Bloomingdale and Benefit Junior Committee Member Carol Han		Jay Liddell with Shigeno Ichimura's Ripple
Marlene Kawalek, NYFA Board Member and Benefit Co-chair Marjorie Martay and Benefit Committee Co-chair Marlene Speilman	NYFA Board Members John Williams, Karl Kellner, and Terry Stanley
Suzannah Kellner eyes Roberto Visani's auction item		Marina Shrady and Walter Robinson
NYFA Benefit Junior Committee Member NazyNazhand, Benefit Committee Member Emma Snowdon-Jones, and Cayte Grieve		NYFA Board Member and Benefit Co-chair Marjorie Martay and Diane Dewey
Stephen Moeller and Jay Liddell	NYFA Staffer Christa Blatchford with a hairstyle by Edisa Weeks
Simon Van Kampen and Alex McCord	Delicious and plentiful hors d'oeuvres
Etta Meyer and Sabine Heller		Contributing Artists Mac Premo and Jim Gaylord
Contributing Artist and Benefit Junior Committee Member Todd DiCicurcio and Megan DiCicurcio		Tia Walker and David Chines
NYFA Board Member and Benefit Co-chair Marjorie Martay and NYFA Executive Director Michael Royce	NYFA's Nina Maluenda and Erica Evans
NYFA Board Member Paulanne Queen	Cayte Grieve and David Chines
NYFA Director of Programs Susan Ball	Contributing Artists Robert Gullie and Sergio Sericolo
Contributing Artist Ellen Wallenstein	NYFA's Shawna Ferrato (also a Contributing Artist) and Vivian Herrera
NYFA's TJ Witham with Board Member Judy Brodsky and Michael Curtis	Contributing Artist Shana Dressler, Suzannah Kellner, Nancy Cohen, and Benefit Committee Member Kristin Accola
NYFA BoardChair Kathleen O'Grady and Kristin Accola	Guests at ARTSEEN
Contributing Artist Leigh Wen and Bob Justisch	Benefit Junior Committee Member Courtney Treut
Milos Alcaly and Mark Dobiszewski	Benefit Junior Committee Members Hayley Bloomingdale and Sarah Basile

The auction included works by NYFA-affiliated artists including:

Elia Alba, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Talya Baharal, Erica Baum, Karen Bausman, Erik Benson, Niki Berg, Susan Berkowitz, Eric Blum, Krysstyna Borkowska, Jeremy Bronson, Gulsen Calik, Mary Carlson, Patty Cateura, Omar Chacon, Henry Chalfant, Alison Cornyn, Lisa Crafts, Patricia Cronin, Shari Diamond, Todd DiCiurcio, Angie Drakopoulos, Shana Dressler, Jenny Dubnau, Peter Dudek, Alice Elliott, Yvonne Estrada, Alessandra Exposito, Heide Fasnacht, Cui Fei, Brian J. Finke, Lisbeth Firmin, Dan Ford, Seth Michael Forman, Sabra Friedman, Jim Gaylord, Allison Gildersleeve, Anita Glesta , Hazelle A. Goodman, Chris Griffin, Stanley Greenberg, Joan Grubin, Angelina Gualdoni, Robert Gullie, Sue Havens, Elana Herzog, Jayne Holsinger, Gilbert Hsiao, Shih Chieh Huang, Mala Iqbal, Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty, Jerome Johnson, Hee Jin Kang, Christopher Kurtz, Carter Kustera, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Jeanne Leone, Joe Lewis, David Licata, Rory Macarthur, Elizabeth Mandel and Beth Davenport, Ed Marion, Douglas Melini, Frederick Mershimer, Ken Montgomery, Keiko Narahashi, Esther Neff, John O'Connor Ana De Orbegoso, Jihyun Park, Marjorie Portnow, Mac Premo, Debra Priestly, Andreas Rentsch, Abby Robinson, Gina Ruggeri, George Rush, Ken Schles, Jennifer Schmidt, Sergio Sericolo, James Sheehan, Carleen Sheehan, Suzan Sherman, Jean Shin, Victor Sira, Shinique Smith, Suzanne Song, Margot Spindelman, David Stern, Jessica Stockholder, Sylvia de Swaan, Amber Hawk Swanson, Jacqueline Tarry and Bradley McCallum, Steed Taylor, Mary Temple, Robin Tewes, Mary Ting, Amanda Trager, Mark Dean Veca, Jennifer Viola, Roberto Visani, Don Voisine, Ellen Wallenstein, Leslie Wayne, Claire Watson, Joan Weber, Leigh Wen, Corey Willis, and Robert Wilson.

BENEFIT COMMITTEE

Co-Chairs: Judith Brodsky, Rosita Caulfield, Anita Durst, Margaret Louis, Marjorie Weiss Martay, Mary Ellen McCooey, Marlene Spielman

Committee: Kristin Accola, Olivier Belot, Marianne Boesky, Emmanuelle Chiche, Mr. and Mrs. James Cohan, Casey Fremont, Hazelle Goodman, Emma Snowdon Jones, Ray Keller, Yvon Lambert, Stuart Alan Levy, Greg R. Miller, Julianne Moore, Suzan-Lori Parks, Astrid Persans, David Picket, Andres Serrano, Barbara Strongin, Natascha Theis, Marcia E. Vetrocq, Jörn Weisbrodt, Robert Wilson

JUNIOR COMMITTEE

Co-chairs: Field Kallop, Bettina Prentice

Committee: Genevieve Bahrenburg, Sarah Basile, Jane Bloomingdale, Jessie Cohan, Caroline Cummings, Meredith Darrow, David Foote, Anna Gavazzi, Alexander Gilkes, Carol Han, Liz Hull, Molly Klais, Allegra LaViola, Ken Maxwell, Etta Meyer, Nazy Nazhand, Scott Nussbaum, Mary Dailey Pattee, Anastasia Rogers, Chrissie Shearman, Megan Spencer, Fred Torres, Courtney Treut, Annabel Vartanian, Christina Warner