ACRE

Hearth Auction Artist: Emilie L. Gossiaux
Face to Face
2026, ballpoint pen and crayon on paper, 7 x 9”
Courtesy the artist
Estimated value: $3,000
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Emilie Louise Gossiaux (b. 1989 New Orleans, LA) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Gossiaux earned a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA from Yale School of Art.

As a visual artist who is also blind, Gossiaux brings their inner worlds into the physical realm through drawings, ceramics, and sculptural installations. Creating works based on dreams, memories, and their sense of touch, Gossiaux explores themes relating to interdependence, Disability, and interspecies kinship that centers on the decade long relationship with their Guide Dog and animal companion, London.

Solo shows include Dogs Who Run in Dreams at David Peter Francis Gallery, Kinship at Kunsthall Trondheim, and Other-Worlding at the Queens Museum. Gossiaux’s work was also featured in the 2026 Whitney Biennial. They have been awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, the Ida Applebroog Grant, a Queens Museum Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists, and the Wynn Newhouse Award.

Hearth Auction Artist: George Folz
Custom Pet Portrait
2026, high-quality print, 9 x 12”
Courtesy the artist
Estimated value: $400
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George Folz is a multi-disciplinary artist, who holds a BFA in Graphic Design, from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. As a writer, educator, illustrator, cartoonist, and commercial artist, George has taken care to develop a varied skillset, in the interest of allowing multiple forms of creative expression. George believes that the persistent truth of illustrated subject matter is found somewhere in between literal representation, and impressionism. He believes that art is at its best when it contains a bit of whimsy, and it presents itself with grace.

The winning bidder will be connected to the artist via email, provide a photograph of their pet, and receive a print of their custom hand-drawn pet portrait.

Hearth Auction Artist: Maven Kennedy
Dancing Leaves and Lovers of Chaos, 2025
Natural dyes screen printed on linen and thread,
31 x 51 x 2”
Courtesy the artist
Estimated value: $1,000
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Maven Kennedy’s (they/them) interdisciplinary art practice responds to found objects, chosen places and the history embedded in material; the textiles, dyes and spaces their practice engages are linked to the artists’ daily life and community. They received a Bachelor’s Degree from Northeastern Illinois University and MFA from Northern Illinois University where they were awarded the Helen Merritt Fellowship.

They’ve received solo exhibitions from Belong Gallery, SXU Art Gallery, Roman Susan and Parlour and Ramp, as well as site specific installations with Charles Allis Art Museum, Terrain Exhibitions Biennial, and Purple Window Gallery. They have received artist residencies with ACRE, Ragdale, Roman Susan, Terrain Exhibitions, Awakenings, Lillstreet Art Center, and the Bridge Program at Hyde Park Art Center. They also serve as the Director at NEIU’s Fine Art Center Gallery and teach at Northern Illinois University, their studio is based out of Chicago.

Hearth Auction Artist: Colin Martinez
Deer
2026, digital chromogenic print, 18 x 18”
Courtesy the artist
Estimated value: $800
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Colin Martinez (b. 1999) is a visual artist and designer based in Chicago, IL. He was born and raised in Ohio, where he earned a B.S. in Landscape Architecture from the Ohio State University. He employs print, installation, moving image, and collaborative projects to interrogate how familial history, ecological change, and capital investment interact in the landscape we share. His work often pictures the precarious unison of the natural and human-made.

Hearth Auction Artist: NF Bootmaker (Nathan Florsheim)
Custom Boots
2027, custom leather footwear, made to measure
Courtesy the artist
Estimated value: $1,900
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Nathan Florsheim makes boots by himself in a basement in Chicago.

Hearth Auction Artist: dominic rabalais
cupid and horse
2026, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24”
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Estimated value: $200
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dominic rabalais is a painter / jack off all trades living in Chicago Illinois.

Hearth Auction Artist: Luftwerk
color wheel study
2026, acrylic airbrush painting, 22 x 22”
Courtesy Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero of Luftwerk
Estimated value: $2,000
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Luftwerk is the artistic duo of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero.
Their interdisciplinary practice centers on exploring color theories, the physics and experiential properties of light, and the historical narratives embedded within architectural structures. Their work often interprets complex environmental data into visual and chromatic experiences and illuminates processes, phenomena, and histories that shape our everyday experience and perception of a place. Their practice is based on light and color as both material and concept.

Hearth Auction Artist: micah dillman
Brick Flower Garden
2024, glazed stoneware, wood, 10 x .5 x 5.5”
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Estimated value: $800
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micah dillman is a trans, q***r object maker living and working in Chicago, IL. They grew up in an Iowan town off the Mississippi River which still influences their aesthetic decision making. They are a Capricorn, lover, sculptor, partner, performer, non-binary person, sewist, and chef. micah received their BFA with emphasis in fiber and sculpture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and presently works as a studio and gallery manager in addition to their studio practice.

Hearth Auction Artist: Pedro Montilla
CC
2026, mono screenprint, 18 x 24”
Courtesy the artist
Estimated value: $1,000
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Pedro Montilla (b. 1997, Bogotá) is a Colombian artist working between Chicago and the Altiplano Cundiboyacense. His practice centers on oil on fique: large-format patchworks stitched together, operating as hybrid objects between painting and tapestry. His work explores dislocation from what was home and uncertainty as a generational condition, treating Painting itself as a living presence. He holds an MFA from SAIC (2025) and a BFA from Universidad de los Andes. He is a Chicago Artists Coalition resident, a 2026 ACRE resident, and a former Ox-Bow Fellow, and works with moniquemeloche (Chicago) and Galería Policroma (Medellín).

Hearth Auction Experience: Art of the CTA Package
Artist-led tour of installation at the Bryn Mawr CTA stop with Alice Hargrave and a copy of Elevated: Art and Architecture of the Chicago Transit Authority
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Estimated value: $300
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Alice Hargrave works with photographic imagery, archival materials, and sound to create works that respond to and transcribe a deeply felt rendering of the living world, in all its fragility, power, and sublimity.

In 2025 Hargrave was in residence at the Glass Atelier Mayer of Munich, Germany to produce three large scale murals for a CTA public art commission where bird vocalizations are etched into the glass. Hargrave is in multiple museum collections, has exhibited her work internationally, and is reviewed in several journals.

Tour with artist Alice Hargrave will take place on a mutually agreed upon day/time between October 2026 and March 2027.

Elevated: Art and Architecture of the Chicago Transit Authority serves as a guide to the more than 70 works of art and 24 significant architectural elements showcased across the CTA system.