Please join us for our First Friday Artwalk as we open 2 new shows! Friday, January 5, 2024, 5:30-8:30 pm. Light refreshments and music on the patio.
Jim Kalupa’s photo art will be presented in our Front Room Gallery, and we welcome Grace Cormier to our Pop–Up Gallery space.
JIM KALUPA
Kalupa, a Wisconsin native, previously lived in Florida, Puerto Rico and Los Angeles, California. Brevard County became home in 2005. Photography and travel are two of the great passions in his life. As a result, he has covered much of the globe in well over forty years, always with camera in hand. While much of his work is travel inspired, most recently he has started capturing the beauty of his Florida home. He studied photography formally in the 1980s, but career obligations at the time required his full attention. Since moving to Florida, he’s become completely dedicated to his photo art which he views as a constant and evolving challenge.
GRACE CORMIER
“Grace Cormier produces works in a variety of artistic mediums. Her repertoire ranges from paintings and sculpture to textile fiber art, jewelry and mixed medium. In most of her work there are combinations of unusual findings that she gathered and collected for many years. They are recycled silks, plant dyed fabrics, repurposed rusted drills or nails for unique patina dyeing, copper, brass and gemstones from around the world. Much of her recent Fiber Art is based on Japanese aesthetics philosophy of Wabi-sabi… “Rustic elegance, impermanence and imperfect simplistic beauty and Boro…” Art in mending and restoring textiles with Sashiko stitching. Very often She does not make preparatory drawings. Instead, she lets the work to spontaneously come into being. Her “Golden Bowl” was featured in this year’s summer edition of Fiber Art Now Magazine. Recently one of her paintings was chosen by Vero Beach Museum of Art for the exhibition of Treasure Coast Creates: A Tribute to Local Artists. Her work has been shown in several local Galleries and with many awards for her paintings and fiber art. She came to reside in Sebastian, Florida via Long Island and Poland. She is a member of the Vero Beach Art Club, Sebastian Art Club, and Vero Beach Museum of Art.
