At one year, we can’t quite say The Peach Artist Collective (named for its location at 3950 Georgia Ave.) is fully ripe, but the newest art destination in West Palm Beach, which celebrated its one-year anniversary Sept. 24, is well on its way to flourishing. The former auto body shop deteriorating under the overpass at Southern Boulevard east of Interstate 95 was waiting … [Read more...]
Fiber artist Drummond opens Cultural Council’s arts season with ‘Systems’
Jamaican-born mixed-media fiber artist Michelle Drummond has kicked off the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County’s season with a solo show running through Dec. 3. Michelle Drummond: Systems can be seen at the Cultural Council's headquarters on Lake Avenue in Lake Worth Beach. Selected through a competitive application process, Drummond is one of six Palm Beach County … [Read more...]
Exhibit shows local artists’ love of plein-air painting
This month, Palm Beach County plein air artists have come inside to the Palm Beach Art, Antique & Design Showroom in Lake Worth Beach to kick off the fall season with a group exhibition titled Travel en Plein Air, curated by Debby Coles-Dobay, founder of Art Moves You. Collaborating with the showroom directors, Angelica Sua and Paola Sanchez, the exhibit highlights a diverse … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2022-23: The season in Palm Beach art
` By Christina Wood Moving forward from the darkest days of the pandemic, the arts in general --- as well as many of the artists and arts organizations specific to Palm Beach County --- seem to be more conscious of the steps they take. This season, you can count on the arts to provide perspective along with inspiration – from the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s … [Read more...]
Boca Museum documents dignity of historic Pearl City neighborhood
Black Pearls, which opened this month at exhibit at the Boca Raton Museum of Art for a four-month run, features work by Washington, D.C.-based photographer Reginald Cunningham that highlights the historically Black community of Pearl City, founded in 1915 in east Boca Raton. Featuring photographs and first-person accounts by current residents and the descendants of the … [Read more...]
‘Mariano’ at PAMM: One name, many identities
How do you convey the depth of a radically disruptive artistic output produced under as simple of a name as Mariano? You build a sense of enigma around said name, as Pérez Art Museum Miami has done for the first major retrospective of the work of Cuban artist Mariano Rodríguez (1912-1990) in the United States. A darkly lit gallery tucked away on the second floor of the … [Read more...]
A few good (and bad) men: Warhol’s Mao and Gropper’s cartoons
A cartoonist, a pop-art icon, an American president, and the leader of China’s Communist Party walk into a bar. What time is it, one asks. 19:72. Time is up. An ongoing exhibition out of Fort Lauderdale broaches the lethal subject one should avoid at the dinner table and ignites a debate on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate scandal. More than religion. More than … [Read more...]
‘We are here’: Murals at Morikami explore Asian-American identity
The complicated question of Asian-American identity is explored in an exhibit running through next month at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in suburban Delray Beach. Beyond the Wall: Visions of the Asian Experience in America, on view through Sept. 25, explores the Asian-American experience in the United States through a non-traditional mural exhibit. With the … [Read more...]
Paintings by Jefreid Lotti: A dirty job gets the fine art treatment
A different type of oil change went on during lockdown at a mechanic shop in Miami where an artist found a full-time job at the peak of the pandemic outbreak. The resulting 19 oil paintings created among vacuums, tires, and commercial mop buckets now comprise a new exhibition. A frenzy of colors delivered mostly in impasto style sets up the scene of a sedated machine … [Read more...]
In Coral Gables, art shows how it saves Ukrainian culture
More than 60 artworks by nonconformist Kyiv artists freed from Soviet influence speak to the fearless spirit of a nation still fighting for its way of life. Once unleashed, their long-suppressed individuality led to a wave of creativity that took the region by storm. The traveling exhibition Painting in Excess: Kyiv’s Art Revival, 1985-1993, showing at Coral Gables Museum … [Read more...]