2016 EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
January
Celebrating the Art of Joan Wallace
A memorial exhibit of art work by former member and founder, Joan Wallace will open on January 5th at Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, Melbourne, Florida.
Joan had a career in commercial art in her early years as an artist and ultimately turned to watercolor and seriagraphy as her mediums of choice. She lived in Brevard County with her husband and children, and was very active in the art scene here. This is your chance to add to your collection of Joan Wallace art, or to begin one. The exhibit will open on January 5th and will run through January 31st. Start your new year off by enriching your spirit with art.
February
Shared Pathways
Steven & Katherine Aimone
Shared Pathways: Steven and Katherine Aimone will open on February 2, 2016 at Fifth Avenue Art Gallery in the Eau Gallie Arts District of Melbourne, FL. Katherine and Steven will be present at the First Friday Opening on February 5th, from 5:30 pm through 8:30 pm, to meet, greet, and discuss their paintings. Both artists’ bodies of work are based upon internal work, communicated through abstract means.
Steve and Katherine are freshly returned from a painting sabbatical, from October through December of 2015, in Cortona, Italy. This exhibition features some of their work created there. The couple maintains studios in Asheville, NC and on Monhegan Island, ME. They work and grow as artists, supporting one another in the pursuit of their dreams, aspirations, and goals.
Katherine says about her work: “My work is about experiencing beauty—that vulnerable state that is accessible each day, but often overlooked in our push to succeed and take care of practical concerns.” Her paintings were hung at the American Embassy in Moldova from 2010-14 through the Art in Embassies Program, and she had a solo exhibition in Asheville during 2015. She is currently organizing a national exhibition that opens in April for the new Greenville Creative Arts Center. Together with Dr. Nancy Hillis, she teaches workshops called Doing the Work of Your Life: Moving Beyond Fear in Abstract Art.
Steven says about his work, “My work is visual poetry, speaking indirectly and metaphorically about the human experience. The paintings serve as gateways, affording access to complex, internal states of emotion, psyche, and spirit.” Steven’s work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions in Florida, New York, London and more. His works are represented in corporate and private collections.
Steve, a nationally recognized painting teacher in both the US and Canada teaches the Master Series Workshop-Residences during January and February every year at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL. He also teaches in Asheville, Maine, and New Orleans. He is the author of the popular book, Expressive Drawing, published in 2010. Katherine’s company, ArtsWrite, provides professional writing for artists.
March
IMPRINTS: THOSE MADE / LEFT BEHIND
a Solo-Exhibition by David Wallace
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April
Just Wingin It, Encaustics by Barbara Desrosiers
The phrase ‘winging it’ usually refers to someone doing whatever feels natural to them in a certain situation where they had no plan in place. It is reflective of my feelings at the outset of this series. It transformed into a visual dialogue.‘Just Wingin’ It’ is the result of my conversation with birds. I’ve spent hours watching and photographing them and marveling at their talent for floating on air currents without forcing their control upon the wind. My work is an exploration of this and became a discipline of giving intuition more honor and attention.The intuitive grace, power, and faith of these unknowing models floating on unseen air currents all worked together to allow me to touch a bit of that spirit and capture it in these images.
May
An Invitational Art Challenge
LOST & FOUND
May 2-29
Lots of us artists are gatherers, treasure hunters… collectors of “stuff”. We find things on walks or buy the “latest, greatest new art material with the best of intentions. Sometimes these special bits and pieces of treasure get LOST in the shuffle. They’re in that bag or box behind some other “stuff”, just waiting for MAGIC to happen. Fortunately… we FOUND that stuff!
Your challenge: Get your Lost and Found Kit and use everything included to create an amazing work of art. Can you make something marvelous from the mundane?
Interested in participating? Entry info
June
CONNECTIONS
The Ceramic Art of Katherine Mathisen
2015 100% Pure Florida Best of Show
Katherine Mathisen Solo Exhibition
Fifth Avenue Art Gallery is proud to announce “CONNECTIONS, the ceramic art of Katherine Mathisen.” Katherine was the 2015 100% Pure Florida exhibit winner. Her work, done by hand, uses earthenware clay and a combination of surface glazes, engobes, colored slips, stains, terra sigillata and Egyptian paste. Creating figurative sculpture posed in simple gestures to convey human emotion and relations, Katherine’s current work blends clay and other media in an artfully articulate way. She has recently been awarded the 2016 Edith Bush Charitable Foundation Art of Philanthropy Award and was the poster artist for the 2016 Artisphere in Greenville, So. Carolina.
This exhibit will open on May 31st and will run through June 26th. Katherine will be present at the First Friday opening on Friday, June 3rd, from 5:30 pm through 8:30 pm. You are invited to join us in this evening of art and socializing.
July
Monotypes in Red: A Collaboration by
Barbara Burkhardt, Peter Crumpacker and Grace Leal
Monotypes in Red, a joint exhibit of work artists Grace Leal, Peter Crumpacker and Barbara Burkhardt, is set to open at Fifth Avenue Art Gallery on June 28 and will run through July 31. Each artist brings their own unique vision to this collaboration.
Grace Leal’s work often addresses the “point of transgression,” the period of time when a choice is being made to displace oneself in order to evolve, change and reach another level. Grace, a multi-media artist, uses a variety of voices in her work. Sometimes narration takes precedence, sometimes it is a social or political commentary, and sometimes it is a sheer expression of passion in an abstract work that includes just shapes, forms and colors.
Peter Crumpacker approaches his work with an engineering mind and the free spirit of the artist. The engineer in him still wants precision; the artist wants mayhem, mess, and beauty. His best work combines it all. Peter is very active across the state of Florida and his work is in collections all across the United States.
Barbara Burkhardt says of her work, “After painting realistic watercolor for years, I find myself moving in a different direction. The most drastic change in my work is moving from realism to abstract.” She is working intuitively and creating work that evolves on an emotional level through the manipulation of color choice and design elements.
August
MENU VENUE
August 1-27, 2016
Gallery Member Show, Sale & Auction
Menu Venue, a menu themed show, continues at the Fifth Avenue Art Gallery. This exhibit features original food related art and also offers discounts on many of our members’ works. There are new, original covered cookbooks to tempt you for your own collection or for gift giving. Come, browse the gallery and see what whets your visual appetite. The show will run through August 27th.
September
100% Pure Florida, a juried exhibition
October
Visions of Italy
Phyllis Shipley Solo Exhibition
October 3-30, 2016
November & December
Holiday Craft Show