Visual Arts: Exhibition Archive
Elaine Defibaugh: Illuminated Collage
April 27 – May 26, 2013
Opening Reception: Fri., April 26, 6 – 9 pm
Elaine Defibaugh’s work combines elements from traditional landscapes with a pattern-based, decorative composition. She formally investigates painting as a site for the juxtaposition of the urban and the natural in an abstracted collage of continuity and rhythm.
Sixth All-Media Juried Biennial
April 27 – May 26, 2013
Opening Reception: Fri., April 26, 6 – 9 pm
The All-Media Juried Biennial includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, photography, video, computer-generated images, site-specific installations, and performance art from Florida-based artists.
Joshua Silver Banks: Making His Mark
April 27 – May 26, 2013
Opening Reception: Fri., April 26, 6 – 9 pm
South Floridian Joshua Silver Banks has been expressing himself via vibrant abstract paintings since 2005.
Jenny Brillhart: Accumulation
March 9 – April 14, 2013
Opening Reception: Fri., March 8, 6 – 10 pm
Brillhart focuses on medium and material using architecture as a jumping off point for her paintings and sculptural collages. Common urban motifs provide Brillhart with initial inspiration and abstract forms.
Brandon Opalka: Janigans
March 9 – April 14, 2013
Opening Reception: Fri., March 8, 6 – 10 pm
Brandon Opalka’s site-specific installation is inspired by the well-known South Florida pub chain Flanigan’s, renamed after his mother, Jan. Born in Virginia and raised in South Florida, Opalka asserts that art can provide a place in which viewers are invited to experience a shared moment.
Don Lambert: Lawn Jobs
March 9 – April 14, 2013
Opening Reception: Fri., March 8, 6 – 10 pm
This exhibit continues Don Lambert’s investigation of visual phoneme, employed as a comment on both cultural and social perceptions. His domestic chores eventually led to an investigation into the origins of the American lawn, its aesthetics, and the effects this formal landscape has on our social and environmental interactions.
Perry Pandrea: If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times...
Jan. 26 – Feb. 24, 2013
Opening Reception: Fri., Jan. 25, 6 – 9 pm
Pandrea investigates the mundane and utilitarian platitudes by mining phrases that are colorful and even insightful in mirroring a feeling or reinforcing a mood.
Matu Croney: Bravelion & the Class of 2000
Jan. 26 – Feb. 24, 2013
Opening Reception: Fri., Jan. 25, 6 – 9 pm
Informed by ancient history, counterculture movements, metaphysics, personal mythologies, cultural appropriation, and internet proliferation; Matu Croney’s work presents interplay between drawing, photography, collage, sculpture, and performance in the form of esoteric assemblages and audio/visual installations.
David Leroi: Amusez La Galerie
Jan. 26 – Feb. 24, 2013
Opening Reception: Fri., Jan. 25, 6 – 9 pm
The work of David Leroi is often described as Lichtensteinesque – a form of distorted Pop Art. Although not denying this Pop influence, Leroi leans more towards an edgier form of Agitprop Art. He does this through his use of political comments, which turn the capitalist system against itself.
Abracadabra: Sixth Annual Exhibition and Fund-raiser
Jan. 26 – Feb. 21, 2013
Opening Reception: Fri., Jan. 25, 6 – 9 pm
Raffle Event: Thurs., Feb. 21, 6 – 9 pm
Now in its sixth year, this exhibition and fund-raiser is comprised of approximately 100 donated works in all media by artists who have been invited to participate.
Rosemarie Chiarlone and Susan Weiner: Obstruction
Nov. 10, 2012 – Jan. 13, 2013
Opening Reception: Fri., Nov. 9, 6 – 9 pm
This collaborative effort of visual artist Rosemarie Chiarlone and poet Susan Weiner, investigates women’s struggle for authenticity through a variety of formats, combining photography, poetry, and book art.
Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares: Love on an Escalator
Nov. 10, 2012 – Jan. 13, 2013
Opening Reception: Fri., Nov. 9, 6 – 9 pm
In Love on an Escalator, artists Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares kiss in public. In the video work, one sees the audience encounter the artists; they comment, laugh, look, don’t look, look away uncomfortably, and look again.
Millree Hughes and Peter Boyd McLean: Lummox
Nov. 10, 2012 – Jan. 13, 2013
Opening Reception: Fri., Nov. 9, 6 – 9 pm
This exhibition presents a selection of drawings by artist Millree Hughes and a related film by Peter Boyd McLean. The drawings are of the Lummoxes glam rock-loving hooligans that came on holiday to the little resort village of Towyn, North Wales, where Hughes grew up. The band eventually became a reality, playing during Art Basel Miami Beach in 2005 and McLean’s film is a mocumentary of the show.
Elisabeth Condon: The Seven Seas
Nov. 10, 2012 – Jan. 13, 2013
Opening Reception: Fri., Nov. 9, 6 – 9 pm
In her new painting and drawing exhibition, Elisabeth Condon introduces the 1980s Los Angeles nightclub scene as a metaphor for personal and social transformation. The Tampa and Brooklyn-based artist approaches this landscape as a repository for individual and shared memories, associations, and cultural experiences.
Lori Nozick: Walkabout
Sept. 8 – Oct. 21, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Sept. 7, 6 – 9 pm
This site-specific installation focuses on the concept of a passage, a journey through the wilderness that takes place as an adolescent or young adult. Nozick presents life as a walkabout in which we continually explore the unknown in order to discover one’s self in relationship to the universe.
Alex Trimino: Luminous
Sept. 8 – Oct. 21, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Sept. 7, 6 – 9 pm
This exhibition by Miami-based artist Alex Trimino consists of illuminated totem poles that are covered in crochet, knitting, and found objects. In employing such items, Trimino reveals similarities between modern, hi-tech materials (micro-controlled neon lights) and colloquial, lo-tech crafts (crochet, knitting, and weavings.) The works create equilibrium between traditions, technologies, and generations. Old methods and new technologies commingle in ways that explore our connection to today’s reality.
Justin H. Long: Bow Movement
Sept. 8 – Oct. 21, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., Sept. 7, 6 – 9 pm
Closing Reception for Justin H. Long: Bow Movement, Alex Trimino: Luminous, and Lori Nozick: Walkabout
Fri., Oct. 19,
6 – 9 pm
Members free, regular admission for non-members
Beer, wine, and soft drinks
With a subversive whimsy that is at the core of his work, Long breaks new ground in his first exhibition in Broward County by claiming sailing as an artistic medium, not only a sport. The centerpiece of the exhibit is an approximately 60-foot-long hull that is broken into five sections and gives viewers a window into competing in a solo race around the world.
Karen Starosta-Gilinski: Cloud 9
June 9 – Aug. 5, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., June 8, 6 - 9 pm
Karen Starosta-Gilinski is a contemporary artist who takes provocative textured objects and alters them – she starts to break them apart and puts them together with other objects until they become visually satisfying and strong enough to express the unique look of a character or situation. The results are whimsical, humorous, and at times unsettling works of art.
Nathan Sawaya: The Art of the Brick
June 9 – Aug. 19, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., June 8, 6 - 9 pm
Nathan Sawaya Live Day Build: Sat., June 9, 11 pm - 5 pm
Internationally recognized artist Nathan Sawaya creates awe-inspiring works out of the most unlikely media – LEGO® bricks. His work is exhibited around the world, and he has appeared on such TV shows as The Today Show, The Colbert Report, and Late Night With David Letterman.
Moira Holohan: Elements
March 24 – May 27, 2012
Opening Reception: Fri., March 23, 6 - 9 pm
Moira Holohan’s work is grounded in experimental processes where she manipulates various media including assemblage, video animation, and collage. She will be presenting works inspired by the four classic elements of nature: earth, air, water, and fire.