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Exhibition:
Minor Passages
Tuesday, November 01, 2022 - Monday, December 12, 2022
Artist:
Jim Stewart
Medium:
Ink
Public Reception:
Thursday, November 03, 2022
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Jim Stewart’s drawings and paintings are influenced by his career as a graphic designer. Fine arts and photographic experiences also inspire him to find a balance of impact and legibility with these abstractions: possibilities for describing nature. Stewart’s drawings are created using waterproof, lightfast India Inks. They offer intense color, dilute and glaze well to make new colors. These Minor Passages are drawn with bamboo pens and “brushes” of cut heavy paper. His work was previously chosen for Sarasota Music Festival posters from 2007 through 2011. The artist draws daily and posts works on Instagram: @jbstew17.
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Exhibition:
Living in Color
Friday, December 16, 2022 - Monday, January 23, 2023
Artist:
Claire Desjardins
Medium:
Acrylic on Canvas
Public Reception:
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Claire grew up in Montreal, spending summers and weekends in Vermont, where her home was located on 60 acres of untamed forest. Creativity was encouraged, great art revered. Her success as an artist was a celebrated rite of passage. She now divides her time between homes in Quebec and Sarasota. Claire’s art transforms commercial and residential interiors, urban exteriors, housewares, furniture, package design and women’s apparel. Claire’s long-standing corporate collaborations shape and define the customer experience – most notably for retail giant, Anthropologie. Her signature collection of women's apparel, Claire Desjardins, is sold in over 500 boutiques across North America, and the UK.
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Exhibition:
Wondrous Things
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 - Monday, February 27, 2023
Artist:
Laurel Maul
Medium:
Digital Painting
Public Reception:
Thursday, February 16, 2023
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Laurel Maul has studied under noted painters of the Hudson River School as well as at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Ringling College. Her unique style can be described as expressionist with otherworldly references. Her background in psychotherapy explains the influence of emotions and dreams on her work. Laurel has painted in oils and watercolor for most of her life. However, she finds that the digital medium can best express that luminous sense of wonder which occurs at peak moments in our experiences with nature. Her original paintings are procured as Limited Edition pieces.
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Exhibition:
Student Exhibition
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 - Monday, April 03, 2023
Artist:
Booker High School VPA
Medium:
Various
Public Reception:
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Booker High School, a comprehensive learning facility, is home to the Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) program, which offers rigorous, pre-professional training in the arts in five disciplines: Dance, Digital Film & Motion Design, Music, Theatre, and Visual Art. In collaboration with Sarasota Orchestra, Booker VPA visual art students will present a collection of two-dimensional artwork from various genres.
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Exhibition:
Tropical Birds in Paradise
Tuesday, April 04, 2023 - Friday, May 12, 2023
Artist:
Bonnie Childs
Medium:
Watercolor
Public Reception:
Thursday, April 20, 2023
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Bonnie Childs is a self-taught watercolor artist living and working in Venice, Florida. Her work is inspired by the natural environment that flourishes on the Gulf Coast. She paints vibrant Florida tropical birds – a representation of the paradise she feels grateful to call home. To complement each bird, she creates refurbished frames with a signature paper technique. This developed from customizing furniture pieces as a creative outlet and to bring a second-life to used objects, as sustainability is important to her.
About Harmony Gallery
Explore the collaboration between the visual and performing arts at the Harmony Gallery. The Harmony Gallery features local artists who are invited to showcase their work in exhibitions throughout the Orchestra's season. These juried exhibitions feature artists with mediums ranging from painting and mixed media to photography. 25% of all proceeds from the sale of the artwork benefit Sarasota Orchestra.
The exhibition space is located in the atrium of the Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center at 709 North Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL. The exhibitions are free and open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, as well as during concerts and other special events that take place in the Symphony Center’s Holley Hall.
2022-2023 Honorable Mention: Laura Baran, "Coastal Breath."
