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2026 Benefit Auction: "The World Is The Work"

Tue, Sep 29, 2026 12:00PM EDT - Wed, Oct 14, 2026 12:00PM EDT
  2026-09-29 12:00:00 2026-10-14 12:00:00 America/New_York Drawing Center Drawing Center : 2026 Benefit Auction: "The World Is The Work" https://auction.drawingcenter.org/auctions/the-drawing-center/2026-benefit-auction-the-world-is-the-work-24728
This year's benefit auction and exhibition, "The World Is The Work", brings together artists, curators, and art lovers from The Drawing Center's community. Each guest curator will present a selection of five or more works on paper by artists they admire. Works will be on view at The Drawing Center from October 7 through October 11, and will be available for purchase through a silent auction benefiting The Drawing Center and participating artists. Bidding will begin on September 29 at 12:00 pm ET and end on October 14 at 12:00 pm ET. The Drawing Center rbrickman@drawingcenter.org
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Lot 132

Emily Sundblad, "Sobranie", 2026

Estimate: $10,000 - $10,000
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Sobranie, 2026
Watercolor and pencil on paper 
41 3/4 x 30 3/4 inches (106 x 78 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami Gallery


Selected by Ivy Shapiro 


Emily Sundblad (b. 1977, Dalsjöfors, Sweden, based in New York) is a painter, gallerist, and musician. Her trajectory as an artist is emblematic of the downtown decadence that ran from the ART CLUB2000 to Bernadette Corporation’s runway critiques of the neoliberal art market. She moved to New York from Sweden in 1998 to study at Parsons while forging a theatrical and subversive persona in New York nightlife. She founded Reena Spaulings Fine Art with John Kelsey in 2004, which straddled the lines between parody, post-conceptualism, critical theory, cynicism, gaiety, and queer fashion – an early aughts re-vision of both irony, authorship, and theatrics.


Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Bortolami, New York; Emanuela Campoli, Paris; House of Gaga, Guadalajara; Weiss Falk, Zürich; Galerie Hussenot, Paris and House of Gaga, Los Angeles; Bortolami, New York; Weiss Falk, Basel; Campoli Presti, Paris and Galerie Neu, Berlin; House of Gaga, Mexico City and Campoli Presti, London with Reena Spaulings; Matthew Marks, Los Angeles with Reena Spaulings; and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.

 

Artworks purchased at the auction will be available for pickup at The Drawing Center beginning on October 19, 2026. Wrapping of the artwork is provided.

Please call ahead (212.219.2166 x216) to let us know when you plan to come pick up your work.

Shipping is the responsibility of the purchaser. Upon request, our staff will provide a list of shippers who deliver to destinations within the United States and overseas.