It’s a changing of the guard at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, as current executive director Irvin Lippman steps down in January after 11 years, turning the leadership over to Ena Heller, who comes to Boca Raton from Winter Park, where she was the Bruce A. Beal Director of the Rollins Museum of Art. Under Lippman’s direction, the museum transformed itself with popular … [Read more...]
Powerful photo exhibit at Boca Museum spurs difficult conversations
Five distinctive photographic voices are now on view at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in an exhibit called Myths, Secrets, Lies, and Truths: Photography from the Doug McCraw Collection. The show, which opened last month and runs through Oct. 13, features the work of Sheila Pree Bright, Liesa Cole, Karen Graffeo, Spider Martin and Hank Willis Thomas. McCraw is the founder of … [Read more...]
Delray art gallery owners publish major study of Central American modernist art
It was the love of Central American art that brought co-authors Suzanne Brooks Snider and Mark Morgan Ford, of Ford Fine Art, together more than a decade ago. A labor of love and passion project for the two, Snider and Ford spent eight years writing and researching their new book, Central American Modernism/Modernismo en Centroamérica. A large, coffee table-sized 7-lb. … [Read more...]
A buzzy flora and fauna show at the Cultural Council
By Sandra Schulman In a bee-utiful show that would make flower master Georgia O’Keeffe proud, Beyond Blossoms: The Power of Pollinators is open through June 22, and features the work of 43 Palm Beach County-based artists at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach in Lake Worth Beach. Pollinators are, simply put, the birds – but mostly bees — that flock to the sexy … [Read more...]
Flamingo Clay Studio readies for early June eviction in LWB
It’s not good-bye but au revoir for the Flamingo Clay Studio, 15 S. J St., in Lake Worth, which has called that city home for the past two decades. Despite a heroic fight to save their studio and gallery space, the studio has received an eviction notice effective June 7. The nonprofit artists’s cooperative, founded by artist and activist Joyce Brown, 80, also runs the … [Read more...]
Nora Maité Nieves: A sense of play, a sense of home come out in artist’s solo Norton show
It’s been a big year for Nora Maité Nieves. Her first solo museum exhibition, Clouds in the Expanded Field (Nubes en el Paisaje Expandido), is currently showing at the Norton Museum of Art through July 7. The show is the climax of the two-month artist residency Nieves completed at the museum in January. A month later, in February, an animated version of her paintings aired on … [Read more...]
At the Norton: Simpson’s ceramics link to generations of Indigenous female creators
Hailing from a long-line of female ceramicists, Rose B. Simpson grew up in northern Arizona in the Santa Clara Pueblo, (also known as Kha-‘Po Owingeh, or the “Singing Water Village”), a town with a population of fewer than 1,000 residents. The daughter of renowned sculptor Roxanne Swentzell and metal artist Patrick Simpson, Simpson, 41, is an in-demand contemporary mixed … [Read more...]
Kips Bay 2024 house is a knockout of color
Set foot into the foyer of this year’s Kips Bay Decorator Show House at 230 Miramar Way in the “SoSo” neighborhood of West Palm Beach, and be greeted by a kaleidoscope of color. Nadia Watts Interior Design created the “Lively Loggia and Jeweled Gallery,” a jewel-toned foyer accented with hand-painted turquoise Porter Teleo wallpaper, a mix of antique and contemporary styles … [Read more...]
Artist Wynne makes poetry with poured glass
By Sandra Schulman Hand-poured glass spells poetic words, while embroidered photos tell stories. In a genre he has created and perfected, Rob Wynne is having a survey exhibit at Gavlak Palm Beach, The Underside of a Leaf, of new and historical works. A selection of Wynne’s iconic poured glass pieces is shown alongside his archival “photograms,” and text-based works from … [Read more...]
At the Flagler: Alphonse Mucha, mystical and modern master
By Sandra Schulman The Art Nouveau movement in turn-of-the-century Paris flourished with graceful elaborate lines, embellished flora and fauna, and romantic femme fatales advertising --- cocaine? Rolling papers? Alcohol? Hedonism indeed. The head of this heady movement was Alphonse Mucha, whose work is featured in the exhibition Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau … [Read more...]