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...]
For artist Kasha McKee, everything comes from the heart
As an artist, DJ and fine art photographer, Palm Beach-based Kasha McKee marches to the beat of her own drum – or shall we say to the beat of her own dance music. Born Katherine Marie Tomski in Canada 53 years ago to Polish and Ukrainian-born parents, McKee recently debuted her latest conceptual photographs in a solo show at the Palm Beach Art Antique and Design Showroom in … [Read more...]