GALLERY ONE

Gallery One, located in the front of the Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, features changing exhibitions with opening receptions held the first Friday of the month from 5:30 to 8:00 pm. The shows are open to the public, admission is free, and refreshments are served.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

JUDITH COPELAND
Into the Woods

May 1-May 27

Opens Friday May 4th
5:30-8:30

show info

DIMENSIONS
April 6-30

Reconstruction

Member artist Judy Edwards will be displaying an intriguing and colorful body of traditional encaustic work, as well as encaustic monotype prints. The theme of her solo-exhibition revolves around the concept that often times it is how we look at things that determines our view of reality. We only have to look a little further to expand our possibilities. Encaustics is an ancient, archival medium, utilizing beeswax, pigment, heat and sometimes resin.

RARE EARTH 2012
March 1-March 31
An invitational clay show featuring the works of 7 talented potters. Both functional and non-functional aspects of contemporary clay work will be included. The participating artists are:

Maria Andrade, Kevin Cook, Martin Cushman, Vadim Malkin, Katherine Mathisen, Kellie Moore and Aletha Rector

show preview

YEAR OF THE DRAGON
February 1-26
The Dragon is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar, and the only animal that is legendary. This will be a member show with invited guests and lots of surprises, and artists are of course creative with their intrepretations…Dragon-Dragonfly-snapdragon-dragonet-dragonhead.JANUARY – EAU GALLIE SQUARES
January 6-29

A member show celebrating our neighborhood! All work will be presented in a square format.

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Have you been to First Friday yet? The first Friday of every month is a great time to head down to Fifth Avenue Art Gallery and EGAD (Eau Gallie Arts District). We “open” all our exhibits on first Fridays. There is music and art in the park, and the Brevard Art Museum and other EGAD galleries are open too.
light refreshments
We hope to see you here!
5:30-8:30

SECOND SATURDAY  

Would you like to see an art demo, meet some of the area’s very best artists, learn about the newest art techniques? On the Second Saturday of each month we will be hosting an art demo or artist talk.

Free and open to the public! Limited seating so come early.

May 12

• Saturday May 12, 2:00pm
  Judith Copeland
  Woodsculptress Judith Copeland will talk about her work in Into the Woods; her solo-exhibition May 1-May27.

April 14

• Saturday April 14th, 2:00pm
  demo by:  Judy Edwards
  Judy will discuss encaustic painting. What is it? Where did it come from? It’s wax, will it melt? Encaustic painting was practiced by Greek artists as far back as the 5th century B.C. It was used in the painting of portraits and scenes of mythology on panels, for the coloring of marble and terra cotta, and for work on ivory (probably the tinting of incised lines).The Greeks applied coatings of wax and pitch to weatherproof their ships. Pigmenting the wax gave rise to the decorating of warships and later, merchant ships. Perhaps the best known of all encaustic work are the Fayum funeral portraits painted in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. by Greek painters in Egypt. Over the centuries it fell out of favor due to the economic times and because it was a challenging medium to work with.
  In the 20th century, the availability of portable electric heating implements ( electric fry pans) and the variety of tools has made encaustic a far less formidable technique. This factor has created a resurgence of encaustic painting, and it is once again taking its place as a major artists’ medium.
  Judy will explain the process, the differences between encaustic painting and monotypes and clarify the fact that if you own an encaustic painting that is melting, you better run…your house must be burning down. The resin added to the molten pigment and beeswax hardens the wax.

March 10

• Saturday, March 10th at 2:00pm
  Demo by: Martin Cushman
  ARTISTS STATEMENT

  “Making and selling art pottery is my job, and I love it.”

  “My pots are inspired by my loved of Florida and everything about it, Also I have always loved and collected old American pottery, from the art pottery of the Rookwood Studios to the hand thrown pots by southern potters. These inspirations are found in every pot I make. And I listen to what people tell me what they love in a pot and I always try and create pots using their ideas as a springboard for my imagination. I love pots, I love making pots, I work from before dawn till dusk, 7 days a week and it has never felt like work.” Martin Cushman was born and raised in Flint Michigan. After high school he moved to Florida to go to Ringling School of Art, but he dropped out, due to the fun of being a young man on his own in the Sunshine State. Later on he started his own restaurant and ran that for 17 years until deciding to make my living as a potter. He started taking classes at Crealde School of Art in 1996 and by 2002  realized he was selling everything he made and that maybe using the skills learned from the restaurant business he could actually make a living being a potter. “So I sold the restaurant and started my pottery business called “Florida Faience Pottery.”

January 14

• 2:00 MARK MITTLEMAN, AWARD-WINNING PHOTOGRAPHER
• Composition in Photography

December 10th

• 2:00 JOEL JOHNSON, AWARD WINNING WATERCOLORIST ~ DEMONSTRATION

November 12th

• 2:00 BRETT TAM ~ GLASSBLOWING DEMONSTRATION

October 8th

• 2:00 BETH-ANNE FAIRCHILD ~ ARTIST TALk

Gallery Hours

• Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 – 5:00pm
•  Sunday – 1:00 – 5:00pm

The gallery is closed on Sundays during the summer months of June, July and August.

The Fifth Avenue Art Gallery is located at 1470 Highland Avenue, Melbourne, Florida in the Eau Gallie Arts District (EGAD)  across from the Foosaner Art Museum.