Art Perspectives
Marisa Yow: New Works
jan 20 – feb 28 Marisa Yow is a visual artist from Jacksonville, currently working out of CoRK Arts District. Her figurative work infuses expressionistic brushwork and gestural mark-making with confidence. Yow brings her own unique perspectives and style, giving her figurative work a fresh, contemporary feel. “The ability to have a connection with another on a level that is further felt than something that can be verbally expressed within seconds of a meeting, is what I’m striving toward with my work,” Yow says. “I’m more...
read moreBridging the Arts, A Cultural Extravaganza
Thursday, dec 10 Jacksonville Cultural Development Corporation (JCDC) has a lofty vision: “To make Jacksonville a world class city for arts and cultural diversity.” They see the key to this being cultural connectivity thoughout the city, so their mission is to help build bridges between cultural organizations and businesses, as well as foster an even distribution of arts exposure throughout the city. Their upcoming fundraiser, Bridging The Arts, A Cultural Extravaganza, will be an opportunity to do so. Featuring art and performances by ten...
read moreOld Town Art Show ~ Winter
jan 2–3 Artists and fine craftsmen from around the country will once again converge at the Francis Field in historic downtown St. Augustine. The Old Town Art Show ~ Winter will showcase nearly 125 top-notch true artisans exhibiting their expertly created jewelry, pottery, paintings, fiber art, glass art, sculpture, photography, wood and much, much more. The show is a juried art and fine craft event where each exhibitor is carefully selected with only the best work being accepted in each category. Participating local artists include: Lynda...
read moreVirtually Solid: Digital Fabrication as Sculpture
jan 11 – 28 Florida State College at Jacksonville’s South Gallery presents an invitational exhibition featuring works of art by pioneers and newcomers in the field of digital fabrication as it relates to art, architecture and design. The explosion of computer-assisted fabrication processes is having an enormous impact on the creative arts. This exhibit explores how artists use these tools to both supplement other processes and create sculptural form from scratch. Artists include Clint Burbridge, Michael Cottrell, Julia...
read moreImprints of Transformation: Bali Prison Art
thru nov 15 Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church presents artwork from Kerobokon Prison, Bali. The artwork on display was created by prisoners who have taken part in an art education ministry. This program is a product of Myuran Sukumaran, a member of what has become known as the Bali 9. Myuran was executed on April 29 of this year because of his role in a drug crime. His wish for this ministry is to give hope through the arts to those in need during a time a of personal transformation and restoration. “If you don’t accept that people can change,...
read moreJax by Jax 2015
saturday, nov 14 Jax by Jax seeks to show this city how its writers are writing it; to show Jacksonville its own thriving writing scene; and to introduce the city to its own literary voice. In 2014, its inaugural year, Jax by Jax brought out five hundred people to see fourteen featured writers. In 2015, Jax by Jax will feature twenty-two writers in eleven venues around the intersection of Park and King Streets in central Riverside. Participating venues include The Annex Bar, Beer:30, Cool Moose Cafe, Flaire Celebrations, Jacksonville...
read moreRuss Wilson
oct 22 – jan 6, 2016 Quiet, introspective images of side streets and empty windows dominate Russ Wilson’s world. “My earliest experiences of the world were through the side windows of an old Pontiac, as our family made endless trips throughout the South and beyond. Traveling through town after town, I began to envision the life that went on behind those faded facades and beyond the rolling hills. My job becomes part artist, part director, as I script the narrative of an image.” Wilson’s work has a timeless quality, a play of light and shadow...
read moreChristina Hope
nov 13 – jan 21, 2016 J. Johnson Gallery presents a survey of the celebrated underwater photographs of Christina Hope. An original member of Southlight, a collective of young Jacksonville photographers that held its first formal show in 1982, Hope was a formative presence in the Jacksonville creative community. Her exquisite studies in natural light, shadow, and the human form offer glimpses into dream-like realms inhabited by water angels. Free reception Friday, November 13, 6-8 p.m., J. Johnson Gallery, 177 4th Ave. N. in Jacksonville...
read moreThe Living River
thru nov 30 A solo exhibition of paintings of the St. Johns River, this exhibit is a collection of recent pieces by landscape artist, art teacher, and environmentalist Allison Watson and is sponsored by Art Fusion as part of the Year of the River. Watson is well known for her landscapes of the wetlands, upland forests, springs, rivers and dunes of the Southeast. She has work in major collections nationally and maintains a studio in the CoRK art district. Reception November 4 from 6–8 p.m. at The Museum of Science and History, 1025 Museum...
read moreThree 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 that the viewer’s attention continually adjusts in order to consider the various perceptual possibilities...
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