Fifth Avenue Art Gallery

Looking Back, Solo-Exhibition by Barbara Burkhardt

Renee Decator — Sun, 27 May 2012 19:08:14 +0000

Please Join us as Burkhardt; winner of 2011 100% Pure Florida, shares her passion for art through her extraordinary artworks using a limited palette of fluid acrylics.

“Working intuitively, my work becomes a creative process that evolves on an emotional level through the manipulation of choice of color and design elements that speak to me. It is truly an emotional journey.”

Second Saturday
Saturday, June 9th
2:00 pm

Please Join us as Burkhardt gives us an insider look at her approach to her expressive style of fluid watercolors.
Seating is limited…come early!

Opening Friday May 4th, Into the Woods

Renee Decator — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:21:59 +0000

We are very excited to welcome Judith Copeland to the front room gallery for our May guest exhibition. Judith is a wonderful wood sculptor with amazing work! She lives in Melbourne Beach in a very special “secret garden” kind of space…but you can ask her about that and see a lot of her work…here, in person at her opening.

Into the Woods
Friday May 4th
5:30-8:30

free and open to the public ~ light refreshments will be served

show info

Judith will also be speaking about her work at our SECOND SATURDAY event.

Saturday, May 12th
2:00

free ~ open to the public ~ seating is limited

DIMENSIONS by Judy Edwards

Renee Decator — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:09:01 +0000

“I titled my opening “Dimensions” as it is a concept defined as an aspect or feature of a situation, problem or thing. The questions I asked myself repeatedly in this work were, what if? What if i looked at this a different way? What if I did it again? It became a fascinating journey for me, as I had to think a little deeper looking at teach painting in a new way and then do it again asking, what if I did this? “

Judy’s exhibit is encaustic paintings and encaustic monotypes and a combination of both.

Judy’s artwork

RARE EARTH 2012

Renee Decator — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:09:42 +0000

March 1 – March 31

Opening on Friday, March 2, 2012

The Fifth Avenue Art Gallery is excited to announce our March exhibition; Rare Earth 2012. This is an invitational clay show that will feature the works of 7 talented potters. The work will include both functional and non-functional aspects of contemporary clay work. The artists included in the exhibition are:

Maria Andrade, Asheville, North Carolina

Kevin Cook, Rockledge, Florida

Martin Cushman, Mt. Plymouth, Florida

Vadim Malkin, Orlando, Florida

Katherine Mathisen, Ocoee, Florida

Kellie Moore, Chuluota, Florida

Aletha Rector, Melbourne, Florida

Click to view slideshow.

February Second Saturday

Renee Decator — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:45:21 +0000

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.

January’s Second Saturday Artist Talk

Renee Decator — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:01:32 +0000

Saturday, January 14th at 2:00
Mark Mittleman

Composition in Photography

Mark Mittleman will talk about “Composition in Photography”. Using examples from his portfolio of photographs, Mark will cover over a dozen topics including choice of lens, portrait or landscape, filling the frame, rule of thirds, lines, angles, framing, patterns, colors etc.

The object of the discussion is to help the photographer interpret what is seen in the viewfinder/screen and make adjustments to improve the photograph.

Eau Gallie Squares

Renee Decator — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:08:43 +0000

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.

Annual Holiday Craft Show

Renee Decator — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:05:31 +0000

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!

How Deep is Your Color?

Renee Decator — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:58:29 +0000

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!

And the Winners Are

Renee Decator — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:44:30 +0000

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