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Summer Exhibitions at the Arts Center Open June 9, 2006
Opening Reception, 6 PM, June 9th
(Media invited to attend and cover)
St. Petersburg, Florida, June 2, 2006 - The first set of Summer Exhibitions at the Arts Center opens Friday June 9, 2006, located at 719 Central Avenue in St. Petersburg. Highlighting the concept of beauty and its impressions, 5 different artists use various art concepts as their medium of expression.
The artists exhibiting are as follows:
Gary Chapman: Chiaroscuro
Hough Gallery
Gary Chapman's masterful paintings illustrate the human struggle for truth and understanding. His solitary, stoic figures affix borrowed body parts to their own, passionately searching for the right combination of seemingly incongruous physical features that will create spiritual meaning and wholeness.
Babs Reingold:
Fall Out -- Beauty Lost and Found
Synovus Gallery
Babs Reingold (MFA SUNY-Buffalo & BFA Cleveland Institute of Art) has long been fascinated with the cultural and personal perception of hair. In this new installation, which explores the idea of "losing beauty", Reingold has collected bits of her hair in Ziploc bags, creating daily "doodles" from each one.
Melissa Gwyn: Rotations
Everett Gallery
The still-life paintings of feminist artist Melissa Gwyn (MFA Yale) display the dangerous beauty of temptation. Thickly sculpted on a flat surface, the paint seduces and repels simultaneously in each of her pieces.
Jennifer McNeely: And another thing...!
Stanley Gallery
Seattle artist Jennifer McNeely (BFA Cornish College of the Arts/MBA City University) uses materials, which symbolize this need to construct and to conceal, such as nylons, glove, feathers and curlers, to build sculptures and installations.
Carrie Mackin and Shari Feldman: Family Values
Portrait Project
Progress Energy Gallery
The Family Values Portrait Project is a traveling exhibition of photographs
created in response to the Board of Hillsborough County Commissioners
2005 resolution to prohibit county agencies from recognizing, promoting
or participating in gay pride events. The project, created by Carrie
Mackin and Shari Feldman was funded by Covivant Gallery.
The Family Values Portrait Project was one of three events produced
by "Just Say Know", a coalition of artists and activists formed to combat
anti-gay bias and discrimination in general. For several months, Carrie
Mackin along with Bradley Valentine and Mark Marano, photographed all
types of families from Pinellas and Hillsborough counties. The photographers
allowed the subjects to define what makes a family. The resulting portraits
illustrate, as well as remind us, of the important ties that bind our
community.
Kidventures in Art: Renée Stout
Risser Gallery
Local students share their visual and written responses to our recent Renée Stout exhibition, sponsored by the Cowles Charitable Trust
About The Arts Center
The Arts Center is a 501(c)(3), non-profit, located in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. The Arts Center inspires, educates, and engages a diverse population in the creation of contemporary visual art by providing a dynamic, professional environment to foster the creative process, allowing artists and the community to meet and exchange ideas. We offer extensive studio arts classes at all levels across a wide variety of media, and we exhibit outstanding recent work by local, regional, national and international artists through an extensive program of rotating exhibits created by student, emerging, mid-career and established artists.
