Doing Their (P)art: Art For Haiti NYC

With a benefit event that proceeded through the heaviest snowfall of the winter, Art For Haiti NYC raised near $40,000 - through an art auction and donations - for Doctors Without Borders, a medical humanitarian organization providing tireless aid to the millions of people displaced by last month's devastating earthquake outside of Port-au-Prince.

Dozens braved the storm on Feb. 10 to attend the function, hosted at the Starrett-Lehigh Building on West 26th St. in Chelsea.

Auctioned items included a Louise Bourgeois silkscreen, which fetched the highest sum of the auction at $2,650, and an Andy Warhol print. The auction also featured works by Zefrey Throwell, Paul Villinski, Kate Gilmore and Hank Willis Thomas.

Doctors Without Borders has put donations like these to work in Haiti, building "makeshift clinics to triage patients on the grounds of destroyed hospital structures," according to the organization's website.

The UN World Food Programme has partnered with groups like Doctors Without Borders to build 102 such outpatient care centers, along with 18 mobile units, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) states.

But according to a situation report released by OCHA this week, only 30 percent of 1.2 million people in need of shelter have received emergency shelter materials. Shelter is a priority, now more than ever, because of Haiti's upcoming rainy season.

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Gallery

Taylor McKimens' "Broken Lightbulb"
acrylic, opaque pen and acryla-gouache on paper, mounted on wood.

The collection jug.
Photo by Alex Mallis

Event organizer Keith Miller introduces the Warhol print.
Photo by Alex Mallis

Contributing artists Susan Goldenberg, left, and Jesse Bercowetz, right, with a friend.
Photo by Alex Mallis

The snow outside the Chelsea gallery.
Photo by Alex Mallis

Kenneth Willardt's "2001"
Photograph

Andy Warhol's "Lighthouse Footwear" print
Donated by Posters Please, Inc.

Stephanie Dinkins' "Americana" print
Transfer print on book page.

Charlotta Westergren "Untitled" (study)
Mylar

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