Art Perspectives
Fritz Henle’s Photographs of Frida Kahlo
opens mar 2 Internationally-recognized photographer Fritz Henle’s iconic photographs of Frida Kahlo (1943) in her home environment, and other works, are on exhibit in St. Augustine. Henle started his career in Germany in 1928. He traveled through the Mediterranean, India, China, and Japan in the pre-war 1930s and immigrated to the US in 1936. As a freelance photojournalist, Henle worked for Life Magazine and was a fashion and portrait photographer throughout the ’40s and ’50s in New York. As a documentarist, he traveled to Asia, Mexico,...
read moreMonumental Art Show
thru mar 2 “It appears to be monumental only because it’s art.” — ChristoThe Art Center Cooperative is starting this new year with a new gallery located at The Landing, Suite 113, called The Annex. The Annex’s opening show, titled Monumental Art Show, features works in photography, mixed media, oils, acrylics, and wood. Rather than being monumental in size, each piece represents a monumental event or occurrence that can be described as unforgettable, or awesome, enduring, enormous, fantastic, gigantic, grand, great, historic, huge, immense,...
read moreFirst Coast Opera 2018 Double Feature
feb 10 – 11 First Coast Opera continues its 2017-2018 season with a double bill — one of opera’s most popular and passionate tragedies paired with a newer work by the company’s artistic director, Curtis Tucker. Ruggero Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci and Curtis Tucker’s The Stranger’s Tale will be performed at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium. I Pagliacci will feature returning artist Jamison Walker singing the famous aria “Vesti la giubba.” Sarah Beckham-Turner will appear as Nedda, with Sean Stork as Tonio, and Daniel Bates as Beppe. Soprano...
read moreAndrews Visits Jacksonville Watercolor Society
march 6 – apr 21 Don Andrews, the instructor for the Jacksonville Watercolor Society’s (JWS) Spring Workshop and juror for the group’s Spring Show, is a nationally known watercolor artist, author and workshop instructor. He is known for his figure and landscape paintings with glowing granular washes and vibrant light. His paintings have received numerous awards in national watercolor competitions, including three awards from the American Watercolor Society, and two Best of Show awards from the New England Watercolor Society. He has conducted...
read moreMapping Our Past with Christopher Lane from PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow”
saturday, jan 27 From planning Jacksonville to learning what’s under your own home, maps can tell a story. Unravel the mystery at Jacksonville Public Library’s Mapping Our Past with expert panelists, presentations, and keynote speaker Christopher Lane of PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow” who will discuss how legendary kingdoms, magical mountains, and other geographic myths influenced explorers and travelers. Special presentations will highlight the Lewis Ansbacher Map Collection, which comprises more than 240 antiquarian maps and engravings from...
read moreAround the World with Lee-Margaret
thru january Jacksonville photographer and gallerist Lee-Margaret Borland has been capturing images through her camera lens throughout her life, using photographs to “tell wonderful stories and special times,” as she puts it. An avid traveler, these “special times” include subjects around the world. From animals on land and underwater, to indigenous peoples; from iconic place markers to expansive vistas, Borland has amassed a photography collection of mind-blowing variety. Her Avondale gallery, Through the Lens of Lee-Margaret Gallery,...
read moreMelinda Bradshaw
ongoing First Street Gallery artist Melinda Bradshaw’s new works of Sailfin Tangs are part of her tropical fish series inspired by her own photography. Working in Photoshop, she combines and layers photographs, creating backgrounds and textures using different filters and processes until she reaches her finished digital painting. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts at Florida State University, Bradshaw has an artistic background spanning the last forty years. She retired after twenty-five years as a graphic designer, the majority of her...
read moreR Middleton Abstract Paintings
thru dec 30 Through the last day of 2017, The Jacksonville International Airport Arts Commission will fill the airport with abstract art, including several paintings by Rob Middleton measuring six feet or larger that have never been exhibited together. Middleton’s works will join those of fellow painter Cynthia Walburn and installation artist Stephanie Cafcules in the Haskell Gallery, located on the upper level before security. Middleton is pleased to be able to show the largest paintings he has completed to date in a location...
read moreWho Are You
thru sept 29 This exhibition presented by the Society of Mixed Media Artists (SoMMA) will showcase pieces by many of the award winning members of the organization. The title and theme of this exhibition might be misleading — it is not a show of self-portraits of the artists. Rather, the artists were challenged to create works of art (both two-dimensional and three-dimensional, and both abstract and representational) that represent their personality, their likes or dislikes, their hobbies, or maybe even give clues to their family ancestry....
read moreRobert Hall and Enzo Torcoletti
oct 1 – 27 Reddi-Arts presents work by renowned sculptor Enzo Torcoletti and noted multi-disciplinary artist Robert Hall, both longtime St. Augustine residents. Torcoletti, whose work is in many public and private institutions in North America and Europe, creates vibrant abstract sculptures in stone, wood and other materials. Locally, his sculptures grace Camp Blanding, Koger Properties’ campus, and San Marco’s Jim Rink Park, and were selected for The Cummer’s inaugural exhibit in the Weaver Sculpture Garden. Robert Hall, former chair of the...
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