Fifth Avenue Art Gallery

Saturday, February 11, 2012
2:00 pm
Free and open to the public

Gallery member, Rene Griffith will give a presentation entitled,
Creative Photography with Polaroid Cameras and Films: A Lost Art?

Rene, a former Polaroid Creative Uses Consultant in San Francisco, worked exclusively with Polaroid films for nearly a decade. She’ll talk about the history of Polaroid, show assorted vintage cameras, and show samples of the creative techniques produced using various Polaroid films and cameras. Rene, best known for her hand-altered Polaroid “fauxtographs” will also talk about her own photography and travels using a vintage 1972 Polaroid SX-70 camera.

Old Eau Gallie Pier by Mark Mittleman

To celebrate…the gallery’s first exhibition of 2012 is a look at the neighborhood.

We invite you to join us for the opening of:

EAU GALLIE SQUARES

January 5-29

Opening Reception

Friday, January 6th 5:30-8:30

light refreshments will be served

We have captured some of the sights of EGAD, (Eau Gallie Arts District) presented in square formats. The district includes the Brevard Art Museum and Museum School, administrative offices of the Brevard Symphony Orchestra, Historic Rossetter House Museum and Gardens, Eau Gallie Public Library, Eau Gallie Civic Center, two public parks, a band shell, the Fifth Avenue Art Gallery along with some wonderful shops and additional art studios and galleries. We are fortunate to be a part of such a vibrant arts community! We hope you will come and enjoy our expressions of Eau Gallie.

The reception is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Afterward continue your stroll down the street to enjoy dinner and other shops and galleries as well as the Foosaner Art Museum in beautiful Eau Gallie.

Thanks to all our wonderful artisans for participating in the 2011 Holiday Craft Show! We had another wonderful year of amazing one-of-a-kind artworks.

A special thanks to our Patrons for making this Holiday Season bright and supporting the arts!

Italian Docking 

The Fifth Avenue Art Gallery invites you to join us for the opening of a solo-exhibition by Beth Anne Fairchild; “How Deep is your Color”. Beth Anne works through many thin layers of paint. The layers work with the colors beneath the top layers giving a glow that can only be achieved with watercolor paintings. Most paintings take from several weeks to months to finish because of this process. Beth Anne spends as much time as needed to achieve a deep, rich 3D feeling to her paintings. She experiments with colors to get a realistic object but with surprise colors and uses strong light for deep shadows and texture for interest.

The exhibit runs through October 30th. Don’t miss it!

September 1 – September 30

100% Pure Florida is our current exhibition, in the front room gallery. Our 6th annual juried exhibition is one of our most exciting shows each year, highlighting the talents from artists across the state.

We put out our “call for art” late spring, and open this show up to any Florida artist, 18 years of age and up.

2012 Award Winners

Best of Show Barbara Burkhardt (solo exhibition in June 2012)

2nd Place Marsha DeBroske $250

3rd Place Esther Wertheimer $150

John & Darcia Francey Award Linda Neal $100

John & Susan Hopkins Award Sorina Susnea $100

Tom & Dotty Powers Award Patricia Zalisko $100

Southern Janitor Supply Award Vicki Damon $100

CONGRATULATIONS!