The Man of Many Hands
There is a traditional ornamental shape used in art and architecture known as a quatrefoil, which is essentially a four-leafed outline created from four partially-overlapping, identical circles. This shape could be overlaid upon Ed Hall’s home studio, a perfect representation of this multi-faceted artist. Sitting upstairs in a bungalow addition that he and his wife designed in total, the room is literally divided into four distinct areas, designated for four distinct pursuits.
The Man with the Van
Scott Riley’s art van travels a thousand miles a week, as he meets with clients up and down the Southeastern coastline, but his gallery home has been the same since 1992 … until now. The venerable Stellers Gallery has relocated from San Marco Square to a space almost triple the size on Philips Highway, adjacent to Hugo’s Interiors.
Ink, Silk and Gold
Islamic art has recently been the focus of a number of major exhibitions throughout North America, including Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts at the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore. The Cummer Museum is embracing this trend by presenting an exhibition that will help illuminate Islamic and Middle Eastern history, culture, religious beliefs, and their contribution to global society.
I Still Matter & I Still Color
I Still Matter is a grassroots organization of volunteers who are living with mental illness or have loved ones who are. The organization was founded by Carmen Joyce, executive director, who moved to Jacksonville from Central Florida in 2011. During that time, she was struggling with manic depression and grieving the loss of her father.
Seeing the Light
If there is one tenet that Stellers Gallery at Ponte Vedra (Stellers PV) owner Hillary Whitaker holds fast to, it is this: “Great artwork will always speak for itself.” Whitaker and her gallery director, Courtney Tinnesz Hill, are highlighting two painters in their spring show that they say they personally never tire of seeing – Laura Lacambra Shubert, who has been with the gallery for twenty-two years, and Erin Gregory, who joined Stellers in 2016. These are two painters whose work quickly becomes recognizable, with an approach to painting and subject matter that evokes an aesthetic response effortlessly.
Watercolor Windows
“Art is the window to man’s soul,” former First Lady Claudia ‘Lady Bird’ Johnson said. “Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.” Man’s relationship with nature has always been a balancing act, and with technology making our immediate world so fraught with busyness, it can be difficult to turn our attention outward. But local artist Kathy Starks has created a project that both upholds Johnson’s quote and Stark’s own desire to “… create a window to the natural world through which the viewer has a heightened awareness of its beauty,” as described in her artist statement.
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