1st floor: NANNETTE CHERRY Solo Exhibition
2nd/3rd Floors: ADD JUNCTURE Group Exhibition,
Curated by Lisa Rockford at 1310 Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL
June 2011
ADD JUNCTURE offers a sampling of the range of talent found in academia by exhibiting art from 17 Adjunct professors in South Florida.
These individuals live a double life: scraping by to make a living, working as Part-time art instructors, yet simultaneously dedicated to their own visual art careers, creating and exhibiting in National museum and Gallery shows.
Exhibition highlights include works by Leslie Elsasser & Georgeta Fondos. Elsasser teaches at the University of South Florida, that were created with a Fulbright to India where she learned from Lemogul miniaturists, working with two classical Indian painters who had lineage back to the mogul royal painting workshops.
Georgeta Fondos, who immigrated to the US in 2003 after receiving an arts education in Fine Arts with specialization in Fiber Arts at schools in Moldova, Romania, and Greece. Using the flame as a tool, Georgeta experiments with singeing and scorching various textiles. The matchstick’s flame is being directed to “draw”, “paint”, and “sculpt” elegant three-dimensional forms that evoke ideas of change, transformation, destruction, and loss. Metaphorically, at the level of human condition, she sees burning as a force that produces emotional excitement and agitation, but also discomfort, pain, and suffering.
2nd/3rd Floors: ADD JUNCTURE Group Exhibition,
Curated by Lisa Rockford at 1310 Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL
June 2011
ADD JUNCTURE offers a sampling of the range of talent found in academia by exhibiting art from 17 Adjunct professors in South Florida.
These individuals live a double life: scraping by to make a living, working as Part-time art instructors, yet simultaneously dedicated to their own visual art careers, creating and exhibiting in National museum and Gallery shows.
Exhibition highlights include works by Leslie Elsasser & Georgeta Fondos. Elsasser teaches at the University of South Florida, that were created with a Fulbright to India where she learned from Lemogul miniaturists, working with two classical Indian painters who had lineage back to the mogul royal painting workshops.
Georgeta Fondos, who immigrated to the US in 2003 after receiving an arts education in Fine Arts with specialization in Fiber Arts at schools in Moldova, Romania, and Greece. Using the flame as a tool, Georgeta experiments with singeing and scorching various textiles. The matchstick’s flame is being directed to “draw”, “paint”, and “sculpt” elegant three-dimensional forms that evoke ideas of change, transformation, destruction, and loss. Metaphorically, at the level of human condition, she sees burning as a force that produces emotional excitement and agitation, but also discomfort, pain, and suffering.
Artists in the ADD JUNCTURE exhibition:
NANNETTE CHERRY, Solo show
The portrait has been a common element in the art of Nannette Cherry over the years. Borrowing from the work of the Old Masters, while adding a Surrealist touch, Cherry employs digital manipulation before committing the imagery to canvas or paper. The distortions, which trademark these portraits, speak to the idea that our perceptions and memories can easily be skewed, just as the presented image is. The series includes both oil paintings and soft pastel drawings, frequently presented in atypical color schemes that suggest psychedelic art influences, as well as nod to the notion that our perceptions are variable and often unpredictable.
Nannette resides in Orlando, Florida. Her work has been shown throughout Florida, New York and Chicago.
- Sibel Kocabasi, winner of the 2010 South Florida Cultural Consortium
- Rod Appleton
- Ariel Baron-Robbins
- Angelica Clyman
- Ashley E. Craig
- Natasha Duwin
- Leslie Elsasser
- Georgeta Fondos
- Connor Goodman
- Patricia Lois Nuss
- Nicole A. Martinez
- Kristin Miller Hopkins
- Paula Kolek
- Raymond Olivero
- Tyler K. Smith
- Carmen Tiffany
- LeeAnna Yater
- Nikolaos Yulis
NANNETTE CHERRY, Solo show
The portrait has been a common element in the art of Nannette Cherry over the years. Borrowing from the work of the Old Masters, while adding a Surrealist touch, Cherry employs digital manipulation before committing the imagery to canvas or paper. The distortions, which trademark these portraits, speak to the idea that our perceptions and memories can easily be skewed, just as the presented image is. The series includes both oil paintings and soft pastel drawings, frequently presented in atypical color schemes that suggest psychedelic art influences, as well as nod to the notion that our perceptions are variable and often unpredictable.
Nannette resides in Orlando, Florida. Her work has been shown throughout Florida, New York and Chicago.
