For those aficionados on an art historical treasure hunt for the work of Florida Outsider/Neo Folk artist Purvis Young (1943 – 2010), I am more than happy to offer a few clues as to where to look. The Orlando Museum of Art has whipped up a show titled Purvis Young: The Life I See and […]
Read more "Purvis Young on View in Florida"I’m not going to mince words – this exhibition knocked my socks off! Get thee to Lakeland, Florida and quickly too as this exhibition is not to be missed! Rodin: Contemplation & Dreams is a phenomenal survey of the work of a true master who reinvented sculpture much in the same way the Impressionists and […]
Read more "“Rodin: Contemplation & Dreams” at the PMA"As we make our way through the month of August, please be sure to carve out some time in your end-of-summer schedule for an extraordinary art adventure to Leesburg, FL. Trust me… you will not be disappointed! Currently on view at the Leesburg Center for the Arts is The Florida Highwaymen: A Family’s Perspective. This […]
Read more "“The Florida Highwaymen: A Family’s Perspective” at the Leesburg Center for the Arts"Lately I have been doing a ton of research on The Highwaymen, a collection of African American artists who painted fantastic Florida landscapes and then sold them on the roads and highways of the Sunshine State from the 1950’s to the 1980’s. If you have been following the blog the past couple of years, you […]
Read more "An Art Historical Holy Grail"Outsider artists. Neo Folk Artists. Untrained artists. Naïve or self-taught artists. While art historians and scholars continue to debate how to label these creators, The Mennello Museum of American Art in Orlando, FL is currently exhibiting a wonderful collection of work by folks who never considered themselves artists in the first place. One will quickly […]
Read more "“An Irresistible Urge to Create” at the Mennello"CORPUS DELICTI is more than an art exhibition; it is an emotional experience. Currently on view at the Maitland Art Center in Maitland, FL, CORPUS DELICTI is the profound and deeply moving work of artist Jessica Caldas. While the physical medium is a repeated motif of soft sculpture (think early Yayoi Kusama, not Claes Oldenberg’s […]
Read more "CORPUS DELICTI at the Maitland Art Center"It’s time for another embarrassing confession from someone who has lived in the central Florida area since 2003… I had never visited the Art & History Museums of Maitland until this summer. I know. I’m terrible! Currently on view at the Maitland Historical Museum is Florida Byways: Jules Andre Smith and the Bok Fellows. This […]
Read more "“Florida Byways” at the Maitland Historical Museum"You may not know her name, but I would wager that you might recognize her work and, at the very least, know some of the wild, incredible story that is her life. Margaret Keane, the painter of the waif-like children with large, expressive eyes, passed away on June 26th at the age of 94. If […]
Read more "Margaret Keane & “Big Eyes”"Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed is a Netflix documentary released in 2021. I will admit upfront that I have been hesitant to watch this film as I was worried that it would reveal some terrible or heinous crime committed by the beloved TV painter or, possibly worse, that he was a fraud who […]
Read more "“Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed”"As someone who has lived in the Sunshine State for the majority of her life, I can boldly and assuredly say that summers in Florida are no joke. Summers here are hot, they are humid, they are unrelenting and they last until November. Mosquitos are vicious and ever-present and a heavy duty summertime storm can […]
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