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By and About Women is a special, limited edition, collaborative work by women artists from around the world and the creative writing group of the Lotus House Women’s Shelter, situated in the heart of the historic African American district of Overtown, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Miami. The By and About Women project was created to both raise awareness of the Lotus House as a prototype women’s resource center and shelter serving the gender-specific needs of homeless women, youth, and infants, and to build an Endowment Fund to ensure that the shelter will serve as a resource for generations to come.

Touching, soulful and beautiful, the By and About Women portfolio resonates deeply with the concept and cause underlying the Lotus House, and in so many ways gives voice to the dreams and aspirations of all women to be safe, free and truly who they were meant to be. In both, we transform the isolation of poverty and homelessness into a message of hope, social inclusion and heightened awareness of what each of us can do to make a difference.

Contributing artists include: Peggy Nolan, Helen Levitt, Mary Ellen Mark, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Carrie Mae Weems, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Jackie Nickerson, Justine Kurland and Natasha Duwin. By and About Women is a project of the Lotus Endowment Fund, Inc., sponsored by Sotheby’s and Martin Z. Margulies. All sale proceeds go to the Lotus Endowment Fund, Inc.

Thank you!


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The Martin Z. Margulies Collection Painting and Sculpture Book
This beautiful 350-page hard cover volume presents a selection of paintings and sculptures from one of the major collections of contemporary art in the world.
[showhide type=”ProductSculptureBook”]This beautiful 350-page hard cover volume presents a selection of paintings and sculptures from one of the major collections of contemporary art in the world. Readers will find several hundred stunning full page color photographs of works from Modernism to the young artists of today. Commentaries are written by Margulies and his longtime curator Katherine Hinds, about why and how certain works were added to the collection give the readers insight into the heart and mind of a collector. Also included are introductory essays by art world luminaries, Peter Plagens and Klaus Kertess. All proceeds from the sale of the book will go directly to benefit the Lotus House, a homeless shelter for women and children in Miami.[/showhide]
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Overtown by Peggy Nolan
Miami, Florida 2006
Beloved Neighborhood of
Lotus House Women’s Shelter
Paper size: 10 1/8 x 14 inches
Image size: 6 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches
[showhide type=”ProductOvertown”]Peggy Nolan was born in Albany, New York in 1944 and currently lives in Miami, Florida. She received her MFA from Florida International University. Her work is collected and exhibited by major institutions world wide, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. She has twice won the South Florida Consortium Individual Artist Grant and was selected for Light Work’s artist-in-residence program. She is a member of the Art and Art History Department of FIU. In addition, Peggy Nolan serves as the Art Director for the Lotus House Women’s Shelter and has photographed the Overtown neighborhood in which the shelter is located extensively.[/showhide]
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Acrobat with a Dog by Mary Ellen Mark
National Circus of Vietnam Hanoi, North Vietnam 1994
Paper size: 14 x 10 7/8 inches
Image size: 12 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches
[showhide type=”ProductAcrobat”]Mary Ellen Mark was born in Philadelphia in 1940 and is based in New York City. For over four decades, she has traveled the world documenting everyday life with poignancy, humility, and humor. Among her achievements are the Cornell Capa Award of the International Center of Photography; the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Matrix Award for outstanding woman in the field of film/photography; the World Press Award for Outstanding Body of Work Throughout the Years; and Robert F. Kennedy Awards. She is a contributing photographer to The New Yorker and has published photo-essays and portraits in such publications as LIFE, New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. With over sixteen published books and photography exhibitions worldwide, Mary Ellen Mark is truly a legend in the world of documentary photography.[/showhide]
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Untitled by Carrie Mae Weems
Miami, Florida 2008
Lotus House Women’s Shelter
Paper size: 13 7/8 x 11 inches
Image size: 8 3/4 x 9 inches

[showhide type=”ProductUntitled”]Carrie Mae Weems was born in Portland, Oregon in 1953. She has studied both art and folklore during her explorations of society and culture, receiving a BFA from California Institute of the Arts, an MFA from University of California and an MA in folklore from University of California.Receiving international acclaim for her photography and video work, she has been featured in exhibitions at J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, CA, Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Studio Museum of Harlem, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, NY; and National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.

Carrie Mae Weems’ work challenges the conventions of photography and how those conventions shape attitudes toward race, gender, and identity with both reverence and daring.
The photograph in the By and About Women portfolio was taken in the garden of the Lotus House Women’s Shelter in collaboration with the creative writing group.[/showhide]
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Little Mami’s by Brenda Ann Kenneally
Brooklyn, New York 2001
Paper size: 10 7/8 x 14 inches
Image size: 8 1/2 x 12 7/8 inches
[showhide type=”ProductLittleMami”]Brenda Ann Kenneally was born in New York in 1959 and continues to live and work in New York. She received her BS in photojournalism and sociology from the University of Miami, was a Soros Criminal Justice Media Fellow, and has an MA in studio art from New York University. Her work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Ms. Magazine, among other publications. Brenda Ann Kenneally is a two-time winner of the NPPA-Nikon Documentary Sabbatical Grant. She was awarded the International Prize for Photojournalism in Gijon, Spain, 2001 and won the NPPA-University of Missouri POY Community Awareness Award. Raw and uncompromising, Brenda’s work frequently documents the urban drug culture of impoverished inner city neighborhoods in America, and with equal measure of compassion, expands our understanding of the deeply personal struggles, challenges, hopes and dreams that women and children living in poverty face every day.[/showhide]
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Mama Baby, Tidal Pools by Justine Kurland
Trinidad, California 2007
Paper size: 10 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches
Image size: 10 3/8 x 13 3/8 inches
[showhide type=”ProductMamaBaby”]Justine Kurland was born in Warsaw, New York, in 1969. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY and her MFA from Yale University. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, NY; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC and the International Center of Photography, NY. With idyllic scenes of mothers and children in natural settings, Justine Kurland’s work captures eloquently our collective desire to be at peace in a world without fear or violence, one with nature. She gives voice to the aspirations of all women, across cultures and throughout generations, to be safe, to be free and truly who they were meant to be.[/showhide]
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New York by Helen Levitt
New York City, 1977
Paper size: 13 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches
Image size: 12 x 7 7/8 inches
[showhide type=”ProductNewYork”]Helen Levitt is one of the most important and influential figures in contemporary photography. For over 60 years her quiet, poetic photographs made on the streets of New York City have inspired and amazed generations of photographers, students, collectors, curators, and lovers of art in general. Now in her 96th year, Helen Levitt, is considered one of the most influential photographers of this century and her work is widely studied in fine arts programs around the world and highly coveted by collectors and museums alike. Her work has been featured most recently at the Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris; the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany, earning her the Spectrum International Photography Prize; and FOAM Museum Amsterdam, with a major retrospective opening in October 2008.[/showhide]
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Russkie #92 by Anastasia Khoroshilova
Russia, 2007
Paper size: 14 x 11 inches
Image size: 13 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches
[showhide type=”ProductRusskie”]Anastasia Khoroshilova was born in Moscow in 1978 and currently lives in Berlin. She studied photography at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Folkwang School). Anastasia Khoroshilova’s work has been featured in exhibitions in Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow; Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy; 1st International Biennale for Contemporary Art, Moscow; and Palais Lumière, Evian, France. Her recent body of work exploring and documenting the Russian countryside and the fate of the Russian peasant brings an objective lens to the social and psychological interrelationship of the individual to society and our world.[/showhide]
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Belinda, Chick, and Clock by Alessandra Sanguinetti
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, 2000
Paper size: 13 7/8 x 11 inches
Image size: 9 1/8 x 8 7/8 inches
[showhide type=”ProductBelindaChickClock”]Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York in 1968, raised in Argentina, and is currently based in New York. She has received numerous awards and fellowships including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship; Hasselblad Foundation Grant; and Discovery Award, Rencontres D’Arles, France. Her photographs are included in major public and private collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art (NY); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; International Center of Photography, NY; and Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires. Alessandra Sanguinetti has photographed for The New York Times Magazine, LIFE, Newsweek and New York Magazine. In her recent work, The Adventures of Guille and Belinda, she explores the complex, wondrous and sometimes painful transformation from childhood to womanhood, her playfulness with a camera and cast contrasting with the realities of culture and society, exposing the fears, hopes, aspirations, and vulnerability of youth.[/showhide]
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Dream Police by Jackie Nickerson
Zimbabwe, 1998
Paper size: 13 7/8 x 11 inches
Image size: 12 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches
[showhide type=”ProductDreamPolice”]Jackie Nickerson was born in 1960 and lives in Ireland, though she continues to travel extensively for her projects. She first came to prominence as a fashion photographer in the 1990s, working in Milan, Paris and New York where her work was featured in Elle, Marie Claire, Wallpaper, German Vogue, and other publications. In 1997, she began an extensive project covering the lives and culture of plantation and migrant workers on remote farms in war- ravaged Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi and South Africa. Her work in Farm and subsequent projects has been featured in exhibitions in Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France; and National Portrait Gallery, London. She won the Photo-Eye, Best Books Award in 2002. Highlighting moments of individual identity in the lives of women farm workers, Jackie Nickerson’s work reveals their creativity, dignity and proud resilience in the face of even the most extreme hardship.[/showhide]
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First Light, First Dawn by Natasha Duwin
Miami, Florida 2005
Paper size: 14 x 11 inches
Image size: 5 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches
[showhide type=”ProductFirstLightFirstDawn”]Natasha Duwin was born in 1964, raised in Buenos Aires, and has since lived in New York, Tokyo and Miami. In her work, Natasha Duwin explores the ideas of female-ness and womanhood, using non-traditional materials, such as metals and organic matter, in traditionally “feminine” techniques, such as weaving and embroidery. She has shown extensively in recent years, is included in several prominent collections, holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Florida International University, and is an Artist-in-Residence at Art Center South Florida. She has taught and worked closely with the art and creative writing programs at the Lotus House Women’s Shelter.[/showhide]
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By and About Women Portfolio
Purchase the By and About Women Portfolio for $10,000 and help build our Endowment Fund.

[showhide type=”ProductByAboutWomen”]By and About Women is a special, limited edition, collaborative work by women artists from around the world and the creative writing group of the Lotus House Women’s Shelter, situated in the heart of the historic African American district of Overtown, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Miami. The By and About Women project was created to both raise awareness of the Lotus House as a prototype women’s resource center and shelter serving the gender-specific needs of homeless women, youth and infants, and to build an Endowment Fund to ensure that the shelter will serve as a resource for generations to come.

Touching, soulful and beautiful, the By and About Women portfolio resonates deeply with the concept and cause underlying the Lotus House, and in so many ways gives voice to the dreams and aspirations of all women to be safe, free and truly who they were meant to be. In both, we transform the isolation of poverty and homelessness into a message of hope, social inclusion and heightened awareness of what each of us can do to make a difference.
Contributing artists include: Peggy Nolan, Helen Levitt, Mary Ellen Mark, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Carrie Mae Weems, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Jackie Nickerson, Justine Kurland and Natasha Duwin. By and About Women is a project of the Lotus Endowment Fund, Inc., sponsored by Sotheby’s and Martin Z. Margulies. All sale proceeds go to the Lotus Endowment Fund, Inc.[/showhide]
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