Exhibition Titled: "Chipped"
Medium: Acrylic and digital print on canvas
Exhibit Dates: September 5 – October 31
Public Reception: Wednesday, October 18 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm

Initially as a way to collect color palettes for her paintings, Laura first began this body of work photographing the chipped and brightly painted walls of Peru. The more photos she took of peeling wall paint (and the more she traveled), she became enraptured by how the different colors in the walls revealed the culture, personalities, and histories of the cities they belonged to. This discovery only grew more apparent the more she traveled and compared her photographs to those of different cities and countries. The walls from Peru, Turkey, and Thailand have inspired the featured work in this exhibit. Laura digitally printed her photographs and painted them; leaving her mark and bringing the walls back to life.

Exhibition Titled: Recent Photographs by Steve Klindt
Medium: Photograph, inkjet print on archival paper
Exhibit Dates: November 1 – January 2
Public Reception: Wednesday, November 15 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm

Steve Klindt received a BA in Studio Art and an MA in Photography, from the School of Art at the University of Iowa. After a career in art museums, arts administration and teaching, he moved to Sarasota in 2011 and has been able to return to making pictures full-time. Steve Klindt has glibly said that “he makes pictures of things he has never seen” as a way of explaining that when he clicked the shutter he didn’t see what may ultimately become the photograph. Klindt uses his camera as a visual resource collection device.

Exhibition Titled: Visual Lyrics
Medium: multi-colored ink drawings and oil paintings
Exhibit Dates: January 3 - January 30
Public Reception: Thursday, January 11 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm

All the work in this show has a subject, often about some part of the shared music experience. By including several story lines in one piece, Stewart hopes to engage the viewer for more than a moment’s glance. Stewart’s subjects include landscape, still life, figure and combinations of the three. Some of his favorite sources for visual inspiration are the chamber concerts in Holley Hall and the summer Music Festival master classes. Stewart’s artwork was chosen to represent the Festival for five seasons.

Exhibition Titled: Do Trees Dream
Medium: Collage-cut paper
Exhibit Dates: January 31 - February 28
Public Reception: Thursday, Feb. 1 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm

Like paper’s transformation from plants and trees to the lightest malleable medium, collage allows Brall to express paper’s wonderful ability to effortlessly represent differing weights and dimensions. The creative process of collage, with its initial deconstruction and then refiguring, is an ongoing experiment into new portals of meaning, becoming a reflection of the extraordinary continuity of paper’s own life cycle.

Exhibition Titled: Public Art
Medium: Original photos of works in public spaces
Exhibit Dates: March 1 - March 30
Public Reception: Wednesday, March 7 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm

Jorge has created a distinctive sculptural language over more than forty years. His art values a positive lifestyle. Jorge creates soaring testaments to the optimism of everyday life. Blanco’s trademark subject is an abstracted figure that is at once recognizable and joyful. His numerous large format public art sculptures may be seen across the globe. In addition to public art, Blanco continues his life trajectory by making collectible sculptures.

Exhibition Titled: Taylor Maid, Fiber art by Rhoda Taylor
Medium: Pieced fabric art, embellished coffee filters
Exhibit Dates: April 2 - May 25
Public Reception: Wednesday, April 4 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm

Rhoda Taylor uses hand dyeing, bleach discharge, and rust printing techniques to pattern her own fabrics and uses them along with complementary commercial fabrics to compose her artwork. Taylor paints with fabrics as she design her work. She also prints digitally manipulated photographs onto fabric and decorate used coffee filters with shells, foil, threads, yarn and other materials. Some of Taylor’s wall hangings are soft; others are framed or stretched over canvas or fiberboard.