Three Landscape Painters: Realism to Abstraction
nov 13 – dec Henry Von Genk III, born and raised in Jacksonville, is a self-taught artist who has mastered a realistic style of landscape painting. Ellen Diamond is an artist whose harmonious interconnection of shape, color and light led her to a style that has been heralded by critics and art collectors alike. John Schuyler works in a process of layering, pouring, scraping off, and scratching into the surface of the canvas which asks...
Snapshot St. Augustine
thru oct 22 The St. Johns Cultural Council presents photographs by Kenneth M. Barrett, Jr. Raised in St. Augustine, and a University of Florida graduate in photojournalism, he is currently photographing what he refers to as ‘old Florida.’ Photographs selected for this exhibit cover the removal of historic and everyday structures. Long lost signage, historic reenactments, views of the shorelines and landscapes are captured...
Susan Michal: Flowers in Transition
oct 29 – jan 9, 2016 Susan Michal has spent over twenty years as a working photographer and is a respected leader and lecturer in the photography industry. She first picked up a camera while touring as a musician and knew she had found a new passion. She opened her photograhy studio twenty years ago, focusing her photography on families and children in the North Florida community. (current Arbus cover artist) Michal’s love for nature...
Smoke and Mirrors: Sculpture and the Imaginary
sept 19 – jan 24, 2016 What happens in the mind when we perceive a work of art? Is it a literal representation or a false, artificial reality of something familiar? What techniques are artists employing to alter our perception? Is it all just smoke and mirrors? Often striking and ambiguous, at times both alluring and strange, the complex sculptures in Smoke and Mirrors: Sculpture and the Imaginary explore the art of illusion. Blurring...
Symphony of Color
thru oct 20 Anthony Whiting was born in Mexico and has lived in Latin America, North Africa, Asia, Italy, Sweden, England and the U.S., which has helped him develop empathy and sensitivity to people, places and the natural world. Whiting is inspired by local art and craft forms, by the textures and colors of the desert, aquatic scenes, and forests, as well as the cultures of the peoples in the Mediterranean and elsewhere. His designs...
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