The excitement and anticipation of Art Palm Beach 2013 is palpable!  When you add Elayne and Marvin Mordes’ Whitespace Collection to this mix, The Rickie Report promises you will be intrigued!  Stop by Booth #408 at Art Palm Beach and plan to go to the Whitespace Collection for both breakfasts!

 Art Palm Beach Sponsors

Meet the Artists

at

Whitespace Collection

Breakfast with Max on the Sat 26th

Performance and breakfast with Beatriz on Sunday the 27th

BOOTH  408

January 24 – 28

www.whitespacecollection.com

PUBLIC VIEWING DAYS

Every Sunday 1-4 pm

           $10 admission       Students- $5       Children under 12- free

Don’t miss the trunk Show and Meet the Artists during Art Palm Beach 24-28 with Dutch body jewelry artist Annemieke Broenink who uses rubber based materials for her work.  There will be new pieces by Italian Designer  Gaetano Pesce, a preview of another Italian desginer,  Jacopo Foggini and found object-functional lamps by U.S. artist Harry Anderson.

 

 

Body Jewelry Art by
Annemieke

The Whitespace Collection is open for public viewing every Sunday from 1 – 4 pm.  You’ll want to make a bee line to get a front row seat to see Beatriz Millar as she prepares and then bakes her bread goddesses.  Max Toth, whose artwork is installed at the Whitespace Collection site will be on hand to greet art patrons.  You can view two fascinating videos about his installation here:

https://vimeo.com/57468098

https://vimeo.com/57468097

Thermographic Kiss by Beatriz Millar

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You can expect the unexpected at Whitespace Collection, but Elayne and Marvin Mordes have outdone themselves!  You are invited to watch artist Beatriz Millar as she creates her world renown sculptures – made of dough!   Light refreshments will be provided by Art Palm Beach and the activities take place at Whitespace Collection. Max Toth will also be greeting art enthusiasts, speaking about his timely art installation. There are no reservations, so The Rickie Report suggests you get there early for a front row seat!

Beatriz Millar:

Whitespace

                                                       THE MORDES COLLECTION

www.whitespacecollection.com

T: 561.541.3701

                                                    JANUARY SCHEDULE

PUBLIC VIEWING DAYS

Every Sunday 1-4pm

           $10 admission       Students- $5       Children under 12- free

ART PALM BEACH

BOOTH  408

January 24 – 28

www.whitespacecollection.com

Meet The Artist

Maximillian Toth :  Saturday, Jan. 26  9:30 – 12:30 at Whitespace

Breakfast sponsored by Art Palm Beach

no reservation required

Beatriz Millar :  Performance – EENA’s Formula

Sunday, Jan 27  9:30 – 12:30 at Whitespace

Performance at 10 am

Breakfast sponsored by Art Palm Beach

no reservation required

F E B R U A R Y     S C H E D U L E

PUBLIC VIEWING DAYS

Every Sunday 1-4pm

$10 admission Students- $5 Children under 12- free

Miami Art Tours

Sunday, February 17

Tour Art Wynwood – sponsored by Art Wynwood

and a private tour of the Sagamore Art Hotel Collection

for information - www.whitespacecollection.com

Valentine’s Day at Whitespace

View the private living space of the Mordes’

6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

for information – www.whitespacecollection.com

partial proceeds benefitting the arts through Community Foundation

Maximillian Toth’s Installation:

Whitespace Collection is offering a wide range of programs in the coming months.  Whitespace is open for public viewing every Sunday 1-4,  and will be at Booth #408 at Art Palm Beach.  Beatriz Millar and Max Toth will be present as well as many of our community based artists.  There are two special “Meet the Artists” which will include a light breakfast.  Saturday, January  26th will be with Max Toth and the performance with breakfast with Beatriz Millar takes place on Sunday the 27th. Both are being sponsored by Art Palm Beach at Whitespace.

AnneMieke’s Accessories

The Trunk Show and Meet the Artist sessions at Art Palm Beach 24-28 will include Dutch body jewelry artist Annemieke Broenink, new pieces by Italian Designer, Gaetano Pesce, a preview of another Italian desginer,  Jacopo Foggini’s  Light discs and found object functional lamps by U.S. artist Harry Anderson.

Annemieke

Gaetano’s  Break – Resistant Vases

L y t e B y t e s:

Creative processes on Video and Film     This Season: A selection of juried community artists

 

Jacek Gancarz      ”The Carcass and the Hair“

Eren Kocabasi                                     “Fruit Fly”

Lucia Hare-Leahy                  ”Wild West Hero”

Sam Perry                                “The Social Set”

Irena G’s Shawl

 A portion of every sale is a donation to Community Foundation – The Mordes Family Fund.  This year The Mordes Family Fund has implemented a scholarship for visual art at Dreyfoos School of the arts and a photographic program taught by Jacek Gancarz at Bright Futures Academy.  Both will have exhibitions at Whitespace in May. For more details contact www.whitespacecollection.com

Light Disc by Jacopo Foggini

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When you see her art, you are transformed.  Deborah Bigeleisen’s florals intensely magnify everything.  You are only looking at portion of a petal on a large canvas.  And yet you understand innately that you are seeing only a smaller part of the larger whole.  While maintaining a studio in West Palm Beach, Bigeleisen’s art career is taking her to all parts of the globe. The Rickie Report knows you will appreciate how her philosophy informs her artistry when you see it!

Conception 4 Units

 

The Englishman Fine Art Gallery will be showing her work at the upcoming Naples Art, Antique and Jewelry Show February 7 – 11 and at the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art, and Antique Show at the Palm Beach County Convention Center February 15 - 19. In addition, Deborah’s work will be on exhibit with CK Contemporary of San Francisco for the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair February 15-17th  and she will have a Solo show at The Englishman Fine Art Gallery in Naples, FL on March 14th.  http://www.theenglishmanusa.com/new/default.asp  and http://ckcontemporary.com/ 

Dynamism

CK Contemporary is the living master artists gallery expansion of the Christopher Clark Fine Art Gallery of 19th and 20th century master works. Using light as her muse, Deborah works with oils and glazing mediums applying more than twenty translucent layers to mold her forms and give them a new life-force!

Energy

 

She tells us, “As an artist who has always used natural forms as my subject and began my career by painting Rembrandt-like portraits of white roses, my interest in Chaos Theory and fascination with one of its components – fractals – has permanently transformed my artistic vision. To paraphrase William Blake, I see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of my hand, and eternity in an hour.”

Her subject is no longer simply a flower.  Bigeleisen has discovered an inexhaustible richness of the structure that goes beyond what is recognizable to the naked eye. “By peeling away the layers and magnifying the image to its core, I’ve gained a deeper insight into the universal properties of all natural phenomena because I’ve uncovered a dynamic system whose pattern repeats in other phenomena.”

“This is where my work takes the literal definition of a fractal – the self-similarity of an object of nature that is repeated thousands of times at different magnifications (picture a head of broccoli) – and broadens the scope beyond a single object. It is not my objective to convey every orifice and streak of my subject’s surface, but rather to capture its character and essence with the ultimate objective to immortalize the transitory nature of life.”  

Deborah goes on to explain, “Magnifying the fractals beyond the core of a flower to the pure abstraction of the form, my work assumes a new choreography, energy and spirit having been totally freed from the constraints inherent in creating any depiction of representational work through the forms may suggest a natural likeness, reflective of their supple, sensuous and erotic origins. My canvases now explode with a new life-force as I focus on the movement and distribution of space across the surface, while continuing to use color and contrast to draw the viewer in and then back out.”  

Untitled

 

Deborah works exclusively from her own images and has taken photographs at botanical gardens all over North America (Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier,CA; Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA; and her favorite – Butchart Gardenson Vancouver Island, Victoria, BC).  She also studied with “The Father of Digital Art” and good friend, Laurence Gartel.  Her work has been included in numerous juried events at museums and exhibitions around the U.S., beginning here, in Palm Beach County.

 

 

Tipping Point

 

Deborah shares her philosphy, “Echoing the personal philosophy of Rembrandt who ‘loved what he painted and only painted what he loved’ I continue to be captivated by natural forms. A portrait painter has a duty to reveal the character of his subject – his mood, inner drama, and mystery – not merely copy a likeness. Applying similar principles to my painting practice, I use light as my muse and work with oils and glazing mediums applying upwards of twenty translucent layers over a comprehensively developed under-painting to mold the forms and to capture the depth of my subject’s anatomy, its dynamism, its turbulence, and its unpredictability”

“Since color has a significant impact on one’s perception, I use a carefully controlled palette to engage the viewer to question his own bond between human activity and the patterns and cycles of nature.”

Untitled No.27 Diptych

Current Gallery Locations:  New York City, NY- Spanierman Gallery  http://www.spanierman.com/Bigeleisen,-Deborah/album   San Francisco- CK Contemporary  http://ckcontemporary.com/   London, England / Naples, FL; The Englishman   http://www.theenglishmanusa.com/new/living_artists.asp   Aspen, CO - Royal Aspen Art Gallery ; Beaver Creek, CO - Horton Fine Art ; Cashiers, NC - John Collette Fine Art; Southampton, NY - Chrysalis Gallery.  In addition, Deborah’s paintings reside in private as well public art collections around the world.  

To reach Deborah Bigeleisen call 561.689.7748     mobile: 561.351.8755 or deborah@deborahbigeleisen.com   www.deborahbigeleisen.com   http://facebook.com/deborahbigeleisen   http://twitter.com/debbigeleisen

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LONDON’S NEW STARS: CHRISTOPHER WALKER ART ANNOUNCES ARTISTS FOR FIRST US SHOW – ART PALM BEACH (Jan 19th-23^rd).Christopher Walker Art’s dedication to “discovering tomorrow’s stars” across all media is demonstrated by this selection, with the choice of three young photographers, and four painters. They will be shown at the Palm Beach Convention Center from January 19th.

Selection of Painters

Leading the painters selected to exhibit is Isao Miura. Miura is a Japanese painter and sculptor based in London. He trained in Japan, then at the Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. He paints with oil colors and inks, on canvas and tatami (Japanese reed mats). His sculptures are mainly in wood and stone and other natural materials. He also makes installations using a variety of found or crafted objects, such as moss, rocks and Japanese tea ceremony utensils. Mick Goggin, Arts Service, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea comments “…MIURA’s work reflects his Japanese background, with its emphasis on balance and harmony, and somehow recovers the Japanese influences that have suffused the work of European artists”

Lady By Ingrid Lucas

Ingrid Lucas’s work is highly intelligent, looking at hidden agendas and gender manipulation. Her paintings use color and size to seduce the viewer into another world of time gone by. Oil paint is applied thinly and evenly over a large canvas, with naively depicted figures mimicking magazines or children’s picture books. A prominent feature of her work is the choice of primary colors selected from her predilection for the 1950s magazines’ printing methods.

She deals with events and images that have had political impact in an attempt to remind us of lessons learnt and forgotten. Ingrid herself comments –“The ambiguity of time and space within my paintings creates confusion…….a juxtaposition of the visible becoming invisible, the seen becoming unseen and forgotten.”

Matt Webber’s abstract paintings are built up, layer by layer, over a period of many months. The artist begins each work by drawing an element from a landscape image. Although this aspect will be largely obscured, it forms the structure for the piece, and creates the opening ‘move’ in the painting’s development. The artist describes the process of making these works as being like a game or a conversation, with each layer subtly influencing the outcome of the next. Sometimes this happens on a purely aesthetic level, but at other times the effect is a chemical one, as almost-dry paint reacts to the application of a new layer of oil paint, creating unplanned textures and forms.” At a certain point in the painting’s development”, Matt notes “when I feel that all the parts are in place, I begin to strip the layers away, carving and scraping the finished painting from a dense slab of accumulated paint. Every layer that has been applied gradually re-emerges; every mark that has been made on the surface during the painting’s construction will have a part to play in the final image.”
Matt sees his paintings as landscapes in their own right. Rather than being overt representations of a specific place, they become a new, often alien environment; one that is created by a process of obscurement and destruction, a process that the artist sees as being analogous with our wider environment. He studied fine art in the North of England but now works out of a studio in London’s East End.

Jazmin Jane is the youngest of Christopher Walker’s painters, but also one of the most talented. She grew up in the East of England and studied fine art at Canterbury University. She concentrates on the physical and emotional aspects of a subject, using color and texture on the canvas’s surface to demonstrate character in portraiture. Jazmin says “I make vivid observations. The hard jaw lines which showcases a person’s strong will; a past story or memory that can be read from the lines in someone’s expression.” This will be the first exhibition of her work.

Photographers Selection

Nudibranch1 by Nicky Taylor

New star, Nicky Taylor, is fast establishing a reputation as one of the UK’s leading landscape photographers. Although he has lived most of his life overseas in South America, Canada, Europe, Australia and the Caribbean. His extensive landscape, seascape and underwater photography reflects this global perspective, and he has been well received in the fringe scenes of London and Sydney. He has been published in various national and international newspapers and magazines, including “El Pais” and “La Provincia” in Madrid, and “Tangent Fashion” in Sydney. He currently splits his time between the United States and London, where a major exhibition is planned at the Strand Gallery in 2012.

Nicky Taylor commented – “I see my work as part of the ‘return to beauty’ that has gripped the new wave of young photographers in London. My work seeks it’s inspiration in Nature’s destructive, and yet creative, forces – shaping the world as we see it, and dwarfing man’s mark.” Eleven of Nicky’s works will be shown, three of his underwater photographs, such as “Nudibranch 1” above, and eight landscape photographs including “Oddacity” below. Nicky will also be exhibiting in New York later in the year.

Grace Vane Percy’s series of female nudes in classical settings reflect a strong creative flair, and artistic sensibility. The glorious, stately, backdrops celebrate English Palladian architecture at its finest. Grace Vane Percy’s approach is resolutely artistic, reflecting her training at the Charles Cecil studios in Florence as a classical artist working mainly in charcoal. This has also influenced her comprehension of anatomy, and the strong sense of chiaroscuro which is visible in her current work. Grace herself grew up in an English country house in Cambridgeshire. Her love of photography started from an early age when she discovered her father’s collection of Victorian glass plate negatives. She studied history of Art at the Courtauld Institute and Fashion photography and darkroom techniques at Central St. Martins. She has been commissioned to photograph some of the most elite and successful women in London and New York. She recently photographed new mother, and wife of Orlando Bloom,Miranda Kerr, and has been invited to join the ‘Women in Photography’ Archive at Yale.

Tim Lord works from a garret studio in London’s Soho which overlooks the city’s roof tops.  Soho is the center of London’s creative community – including advertising, theatre and film.   It is also historically the center of its sex and entertainment industries, and acts as a refuge for its outsiders and misfits.  His street work reflects that quarter’s multiple roles, and the sometimes grim and gritty backdrop in which creativity flourishes.  His portraits range across the varied characters and mavericks of Soho, captured in traditional black and white medium format film photography.

561 568 8445   or  info@christoferwalkerart.com

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ArtPalmBeach Lecture Series Features Famous Muses, Artistic Figures and Renowned Experts

In celebration of ArtPalmBeach’s 15th Anniversary the fair’s lecture program focuses on collecting, artistic processes, museum practices, art criticism, history and today’s art practices.  The fair has invited internationally acclaimed art historians, critics, collectors, museum directors, curators and artists to engage in dynamic conversations and presentations to create an informed dialogue with ArtPalmBeach attendees.  There will be time for the audience to meet the presenters personally after each session series. All lectures are free and open to the public. The schedule follows.

Behind The Lens of William John Kennedy

Friday, January 20th | Fair Hours: 12-7pm

“Full Circle: Before They Were Famous”  Video Presentation, 12:30 PM-1:30PM

Presented by Ultra Violet, Artist and Warhol “superstar” Video by William John Kennedy represented by KIWI Arts Group

A 40 minute video presentation shot in the early 1960s when fine art photographer William John Kennedy forged a friendship with both Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol, these images capture the two artists and their soon-to-be iconic works at the seminal point of their careers and the birth of the Pop Art Movement.

“In Between”     Lecture, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM 

By Jun Kaneko, Artist and ArtPalmBeach 2012 Visionary Award Recipient

Jun Kaneko will give a visual and informative talk about his artwork, philosophy and designs for opera.

“Glass as Art: The First Century”      Panel Discussion, 3:30 PM-4:30 PM

               Moderated by Bill Warmus, former curator at the Corning Glass Museum

               Panel Participants: Mary Shaffer, Mark Peiser, Beth Lipman, and Lino Tagliapietra

This panel celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Studio Glass movement. We begin with the historic workshops at the Toledo Museum of Art in 1962, explore the first major contemporary glass exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1980, and conclude by speculating wildly about the next 50 years.

Landscapes: Ceramics in a Non-Traditional Format Fired   Lecture, 5:00 -6:00 PM                By Margie Hughto represented by Loveed Fine Art

               Margie Hughto is an internationally recognized mixed-media artist who has examined ceramics in a non-traditional contemporary format.  Peter Doroshenko, executive Director of Dallas Contemporary called Hughto, “a unique and paradoxical artist. Her works are alternatively monumental and intimate in scale, mute and garish in color, objectively descriptive and purely abstract in subject matter.”

Saturday, January 21st | Fair Hours: 12-7pm

Jewish Identity & Intensity in the Work of George Wardlaw  Lecture, 1:30-2:30

            By Ori Z. Soltes, Professorial Lecturer in Theology and Fine Arts at Georgetown University and former director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.

               George Wardlaw has never allowed his work to stay confined by categories—his painting is sculptural, his sculpture is both painterly and architectural, his early small-scale metalsmithing resonate within his later gargantuan artworks.  Wardlaw’s work reflects art history in both its universal concerns and, in a varied array of works, in the questions that art history raises for contemporary Jewish artists.  His work is a dazzling expression of diversely shaped identity and intensity.

The View from Over There, Over Here     Lecture, 3:00 PM-4:00 PM  

By Michael Kimmelman, Chief Architecture Critic and Former Chief Art Critic of the New York Times

Michael Kimmelman shares his experience studying art and architecture in Europe as an overseas correspondent for the New York Times.  This lecture will discuss art, architecture and culture, and the differences in perspective between Europe and the United States.

Ceramics as Art: Not a New Idea?    Lecture, 4:30 PM-5:30 PM

               By Ulysses Dietz, Curator of Decorative Arts at the Newark Museum

Dietz has been working with both contemporary and historic decorative arts at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey for over 30 years. This lecture will examine how ceramics have been interpreted in the past and in today’s generation.

Sunday, January 22nd | Fair Hours: 12-7pm

Life with Warhol: Then and Now    Panel Discussion, 1:30 PM-2:30 PM

                Moderated by Bruce Heander, Editor-and-Chief, The Art Economist                Panel Participants: Warhol “superstars” Ultra Violet and Jane Holzer

               In the late 1960s, Andy Warhol and his “Factory” epitomized the fusion of high society and art.  Both Ultra Violet and Baby Jane Holzer were once the “superstars” who served as muses, subject matter, and company in the New York City social circuit.  This conversation will discuss the connection each woman had with Warhol during the Factory era, and how that experience has influenced their lives today.

Collecting in 2012: Various Voices of Palm Beach  Panel Discussion, 3:00-4:00 PM

Moderated by Dr. Rodger Ward, Independent Scholar and Adjunct Curator of Collectors, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach

Panel Participants: Sylvia Karman Cubina, Director and Chief Curator of the Bass Museum, Miami Beach; Michael Mezzatesta, Private Art Advisor, Director Emeritus of the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University and James Swope, Owner, Fine Arts Conservation Inc, West Palm Beach Collecting in Palm Beach has never been more representative of a wide range of age groups, interests, and priorities. Join Roger Ward and several active collectors for a lively discussion representing different spheres of engagement with the contemporary market.

The New Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art:

Directions in Contemporary Art    Lecture, 4:30 PM-5:30 PM

By Mark Leach, Director of SECCA

               Mark Leach will discuss the new direction the Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art has headed towards since he was named Director in 2007.  The diverse array of recent acquisitions, programming, and development has helped to transform the arts center and continue its distinguished legacy.

Monday, January 23rd | Fair Hours: 12-6pm

Full Circle: Before They Were Famous Video Presentation, 12:30 PM-1:30PM

 Presented by Ultra Violet, Artist and Warhol “superstar” Video by William John Kennedy represented by KIWI Arts Group

               A 40 minute video presentation shot in the early 1960s when fine art photographer William John Kennedy forged a friendship with both Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol, these images capture the two artists and their soon-to-be iconic works at the seminal point of their careers and the birth of the Pop Art Movement.

The ICP Legacy and New Directions in Photography   Lecture, 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

By Willis “Buzz” Hartshorn, Director of the International Center for Photography

               Hartshorn traces the legacy of the International Center of Photography and how the collection has transformed over the years.

Whitespace: The Impact of Private Collections on Community Programming

Panel  Discussion, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM   

Moderated by Elayne Mordes, Owner and Director of Whitespace: The Mordes Collection. Panel Participants: Nathalia Edenmont, Artist and John J. McGurk, Curator

               Owner and Director, Elayne Mordes leads a conversation on what’s to come for Whitespace and its future relevance within the community.  Nathalia Edenmont, mid-career artist, will speak about her exhibition at Whitespace and John J. McGurk, previous independent curator at Whitebox, will speak of his experience, goals and thoughts concerning the program.

For more information on ArtPalmBeach programming and for a full schedule of events, please visit www.artpalmbeach.com. All changes will be online.

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ArtPalmBeach celebrates its 15th Anniversary at the Palm Beach County Convention Center from January 20th-23rd, 2012 with a Preview evening January 19th.  ArtPalmBeach is considered one of the most influential contemporary art fairs on Florida’s Gold Coast by both critics and art enthusiasts since its opening in 1997.  In honor of the Anniversary celebration, the fair will debut the most extensive program in its history by encompassing premiere events, special exhibitions, topical lectures, special museum tours, site specific art installations, art performances and exclusive VIP programs.

ArtPalmBeach 2012 welcomes back many returning exhibitors as well as introducing newcomers to the Palm Beach art scene.  The fair is comprised of over seventy international galleries presenting works of all forms of contemporary art including painting, sculpture, photography, design, fine art glass, video and installations from modern art to new cutting-edge artists.

The fair will honor the lifetime accomplishments of Japanese sculptor Jun Kaneko and will feature a one-man exhibition of major works sponsored by Elaine Baker Gallery (Palm Beach, FL).

Originally a painting student, Kaneko discovered a passion for sculpture upon his arrival to California in the early 1960’s, a time now defined as the Contemporary Ceramics Movement in America.  Kaneko has taught at the nation’s leading art schools including Scripps College and the Rhode Island School of Design.  Kaneko’s bronze and glass sculpture and two-dimensional works appear in numerous international exhibitions and as well as over 50 museum collections around the world.  He has been honored with national, state and organization fellowships and an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London.  He has realized almost 30 public art commissions and recently designed the set and costumes for a new production of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.

Additional 2012 fair highlights:

• Beth Lipman Installation, presented by Heller Gallery (New York, NY) coinciding with her exhibition opening on January 18th at the Norton.
• Interactive Installation and Performance by Ultra Violet: artist, film maker, muse to Warhol and Dali and author of Famous for 15 Minutes; My Years with Andy Warhol.
• Exhibition and 35’ Installation and Light Performance by Stephen Knapp.
• Nathalia Edenmont, one woman exhibition of photography exhibited by Wetterling Gallery (Stockholm) coinciding with her exhibition at Whitespace.
• Lluis Barba one man  photography exhibition featuring new monumental works and personal appearance, sponsored by  Besharat Gallery (Atlanta,GA).
• Michael Taylor, Pioneer in the American Studio Glass Art Movement, presents “A Geometry of Meaning” exhibition and personal appearance, sponsored by Ruth Lawrence Gallery (Rochester, NY).
• Tribute to the “50th Anniversary of the American Glass Art Movement, 1962-2012”, group exhibition & book launch for Harvey K. Littleton: A Life in Glass by Joan Falconer Byrd, sponsored by Maurine Littleton Gallery, (Washington DC).
• Hans Kotter, “Altered Vision”, light sculpture installation, sponsored by Gallery De Buck (New York, NY).
• George Wardlaw,  installation works entitled “American Master, Passages into Abstraction, 1958-1978,”  book launch and exhibition sponsored byCourthouse Gallery (Ellsworth, ME).

The lecture and panel discussion series will include a full program of daily presentations;  Michael Kimmelman, Chief Critic of the New York Times,“The View from Over There, Over Here”; Jun Kaneko, “In Between”; William Warmus, Former Curator of Modern Glass at Corning Museum of Glass will moderate a roundtable discussion, “The Studio Glass Experiment – The First 50 Years 1962-2012”; a thought provoking panel moderated by Bruce Helander, Editor-in-Chief of The Art Economist;  Willis “Buzz” Hartshorn of International Center of Photography, “The ICP Legacy and New Directions in Photography”; Ullysees Dietz, Curator of Decorative Arts atthe Newark Museum, “Ceramics as Art, Not a New Idea”; and Mark Leach, Executive Director of the SECCA, Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art will present “The New SECCA and its New Directions in Contemporary Art”.

For more information on ArtPalmBeach 2012 hours, exhibitors and programming, please visit www.artpalmbeach.com

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