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Current Exhibitions   

 

 

Tasting Notes: The Art of Sandro Chia

Castello RomitorioDeLand, Fla. - The art of Sandro Chia, a member of the Italian Transavanguardia art movement, will be on display beginning April 19, 2013, at the Museum of Florida Art located at 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand.

In 2003, the Italian State acquired three important works of his for the permanent collection of the Italian Senate at Palazzo Madama, and in 2005 two monumental sculptures were acquired by the Province of Rome and placed in front of its headquarters in Via IV Novembre, Rome. In 1984, Sandro Chia acquired the twelfth-century hilltop fortress Castello Romitorio, in Montalcino, Tuscany.

After spending several years restoring the castle and transforming the land into vineyards, Chia built a state-of-the-art cellar and now makes prize winning wines developed with the country’s leading oenologist, Carlo Ferrini. Adorned with the artist’s unique labels, the award-winning wines are made using the finest quality grapes and the most advanced winemaking with respect to tradition.

Living between Miami, Rome and Montalcino, the Italian-born painter’s pursuit of symbolic and artistic perfection brings dynamic color to the Chris Harris Gallery at the Museum of Florida Art that one should not miss. Images from a pre-opening Sandro Chia special event March 21, 2013. Above, Sandro Chia in his Tuscan winery Castello Romitorio.  

 

Lightscapes: Paintings by Richard Segalman

Guest Curator: William Meek III, Director of the Harmon-Meek Gallery Naples, Florida

Segalman's Sea DancingDeLand, Fla. - Richard Segalman’s lush impressionistic style conveys the atmospheric play of light and shadow on his subject matter, which ranges from breezy beaches to the streets of New York City. Lightscapes: Paintings by Richard Segalman will open on April 19 with a 5:00 p.m. reception at the Museum of Florida Art, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand, FL.

Although an accomplished draftsman, Segalman prefers to suggest emotion and movement through textural brush strokes and a superb sense of composition. Many of his works indicate an intimate relationship between individuals even though details and facial expressions are only suggested. Gesture and spontaneous reflection are unmistakable hallmarks of this artist. There is an alluring intimacy that permeates this fascinating work as it draws the observer into a world of elegant design and atmosphere. One feels a sense of uncomplicated harmony emanating from these paintings.

His subjects are frequently associated with sunny beaches, aquamarine surf and women in flowing attire engaged in quiet conversation. In contrast to these scenes are dynamic “bird’s eye view” images of New York City street scenes, the deserts around Santa Fe, New Mexico, and pastoral landscapes from the Woodstock, New York, area.

In addition to oil painting Segalman is a true master of pastel, watercolor and monotype. These mediums augment each other and reinforce this significant body of work.

This exhibition offers those unfamiliar with these Lightscapes an opportunity to be captivated by their directness and sensuality. For those already familiar with this work, it is a chance to further their appreciation and insight into Richard Segalman’s contribution to American art.

Segalman is represented in many museum permanent collections, including the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Tampa Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and was awarded a prestigious Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2011. He has been represented by the Harmon-Meek gallery since 1982, where he continues to unveil new works each year in an annual exhibition. This exhibition is made possible, in part, through the support and enthusiasm of William Meek III, Director of the Harmon-Meek Gallery Naples, Florida. Painting: Blue, Red, White, oil, 40” x 50”, Richard Segalman

 

Sequined Sentinels: Haitian Flags from the Collection of Candice Russell

Guest Curator: Candice Russell

Haitian Flags Guede_La_CroixDeLand, Fla. - Sequined Sentinels: Haitian Flags from the Collection of Candice Russell will dazzle your eyes and impart the mysticism of the Voodoo ceremony at its exhibition opening on April 19, 2013, at the Museum of Florida Art located at 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand.

The glimmering banners belong to a culture in which beauty was not an isolated and autonomous value. Removed from their historical context and specific function, the flags strike our eye as enigmatic divinities that command attention.

With the discovery and evaluation of the sequined and beaded pieces of fabric from the developing country of Haiti comes a realization of the fragility of their existence. The flags link intimately to past ritual and tradition, yet are not precisely datable. They reflect the mirages of faith and the illusions of the future created by craftsmen who do not seek to win a victory over time, but to become one with its flow.

The painstaking labor invested in these bedazzled testaments represent the work of sophisticated designers. Without the collaboration and guidance Guest Curator, Candice Russell, it would not have been possible to implement this challenging exhibit gleaned from the Haitian treasures in her personal collection.

Sequined Sentinels - the ceremonial hand-sewn artifacts that express every aspect of life - will be on exhibition at the Museum of Florida Art until August 18, 2013. Haitian Flag: Guede La Croix from the Collection of Candice Russell

 

Duane Hanson: Sculpture And Photographs 1978-1995

"People, workers, the elderly, all these people I see with sympathy and affection. These are the people who have fought the battle of life and who now and then show the hard work and the frustration …It's all about human activity, it's truth, and we all get there." - Duane Hanson

The haunting lifelike sculptures of Duane Hanson (American, born in Minnesota 1925-1996) still shock and surprise us today. The best known and arguably the greatest realist sculptor of the twentieth century, Hanson for more than thirty years created works unparalleled in their power to hold our attention, fool our eyes, confound our sense of perception, and shake our sensibilities.

This exhibition, opening on December 7, 2012, and continuing through April 7, 2013, was organized with the assistance of the artist's wife, Wesla Hanson. The show is is comprised of ten of his extraordinary sculptures, ranging from works in the 1970's of his children – "Child with Puzzle" and "Children Playing" – to classic 1980's sculptures of working class figures, such as "Security Guard"," " "Housepainter I', as well as the last sculpture Hanson completed in 1995, "Man on Mower."

Hanson's sculptures are rendered in fiberglass, polyvinyl, auto body filler and bronze. But whatever the medium, in their combination of the physical and psychological, Hanson's work continues to elicit an emotional response from the viewer. But focusing his empathy for ordinary man with his concern for societal's social and political ills, Hanson created an enduring narrative on the American condition. Through the realism of his figures, at once shocking, poignant and seductive, he sought to reveal truths about life. By choosing ordinary individuals leading unremarkable lives, Hanson took sculpture off its pedestal and removed the boundaries that separated art from life.
- Duane Hanson

Although Hanson began making hyperrealistic sculptures in 1967, it wasn't until 1977 that he started to take instant photographs as a sketching tool for his sculptures. The photographs are a window into the mind of the sculptor's obsessive journey into hyperrealism. Close to one thousand photographs were found in his studio – a virtual "sketchbook" used by Hanson for selecting posture, placement and props for his models and works in progress. The Museum's exhibition is accompanied by 75 "unknown" Kodak and Polaroid instant prints intended as visual assists during the making of his sculpture. As a multi-snapshot series, the photographs add an eerie dimension to Hanson's now-famous sculpture, while bringing into question the relationship between photography, sculpture, art and life.

 

Duane Hason's "Security Guard," 1990,
 fiberglass and polyester resin, polychromed in oil, mixed media with accessories

 

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Permanent Collection And Exhibition Galleries

The exhibition, "Florida Masters I," opening December 7, 2012, will inaugurate the Museum of Florida Art's Permanent Collection Galleries. The exhibits installed in these galleries, located conveniently on the ground floor, will serve to support the establishment of a formal, in-house Docent Program. The goal of this program will be to encourage more people to visit the Museum and to attend informative lectures conducted by trained Museum educators.

In this age of "instants" – instant beverages, instant news, instant credit – it is no wonder that people look to the Museum for instant education and culture. Even though it does not occur this way, the Museum still is dedicated to make itself indispensable and easily accessible to as large an audience as possible. To achieve this, it needs to make its "treasures" easily approachable and more generously shared than we have received them.


"Rain Dance of the Lessor Gods,"
Dorothy Gillespie, Florida Masters I

 

 

 

The year-round program developed for visitors in these signature galleries will be life-oriented and therefore focused on problem solving, analysis, inquiry and decision making skills. By utilizing the "Socratic method" of conceptual thinking, the experience will be one in which students are actively and intimately involved as a participant rather than an observer.

By installing an exhibition that will remain in place longer than a temporary one thereby showcasing masterpieces from the Permanent Collection on a continual basis, the Docents will have more time to develop curriculum and to create an environment which stimulates an excitement for discovery as well as optimistic anticipation for change. This is not a matter of "instant" assimilation by proximity, but rather a dramatic, unpredictable involvement of each student with the Museum Teacher within the unique environment of permanently installed galleries.

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Florida Masters I

 

Stephen Althouse • Miles Batt • Gary Bolding • Jill Cannady • James Couper • Jon Corbino • Lynn Davison • Adolf Dehn • Jimmy Ernst • Christine Federighi • Richard Frank • Harold Garde • Dorothy Gillespie • Jim Houser • Robert Huff • Lisa Parker Hyatt • Salvatore J LaRosa • Doris Leeper • Fred Messersmith • Benn Mitchell • Jack Mitchell • Gary Monroe • Eliot O’Hara • Frank Rampolla • Janet Rogers • Richard Segalman • Syd Solomon • Robert Thiele • Larry Tobe • Robert Vickrey • Hiram Williams • Karl Zerbe

 

 



July 27 Through November 25, 2012

  



 

 Ongoing Exhibits

 

Legendary Florida: The Florida History Paintings of Jackson Walker

Ongoing Exhibit - 8 am - 5pm. Monday-Friday, Volusia County Historic Courthouse,
120 W. Indiana Ave., DeLand, FL - Free admission

In this collection, Jackson Walker weaves a visual tapestry of Florida's long and eventful past. Through the traditional usage of oil colors, executed in a carefully studied realistic treatment, incidents and personalities of over four hundred years of history are brought back to life. The result is the most dynamic exhibition of Florida history in art ever to be assembled. This visual and informative experience has proven to intrigue and delight a broad cross section of the public wherever it is viewed. Viewers of all ages will find this collection to be a most memorable and enriching experience. For more information or to download the accompanying educational resources, please visit the Legendary Florida- Portrayal of our past website at http://www.museumoffloridaart.org/legendaryflorida .

Featured Right:"Warriors from Bondage" by Jackson Walker, on extended loan from the Museum of Florida Art permanent collection
 
 
 
 

Yearnings: Photographic Portraits by Betty Press

Ongoing Exhibit - 9am - 5 pm, Monday - Friday, Spring Hill Community and Resource Center,
910 South Adelle Ave., DeLand, FL - Free Admission

 From 1996 - 1998 internationally known photographer Betty Press documented many cultural activities within the African American and Hispanic communities in and around the DeLand, Florida area. These photographs originally accompanied a feature article for the Daytona Beach News Journal newspaper that her husband wrote. These photographs helped Betty learn about the new community she had moved to after many years of working in Africa. Before the current ongoing exhibit, these photographs were exhibited at Stetson University.


  

Untitled by Betty Press,
Black and White Photography
 
 
 

Public Art Exhibitions

DeLand Sculpture Walk

The DeLand Sculpture Walk offers established and emerging artists the opportunity to display their sculptures throughout the heart of beautiful downtown DeLand, Florida.


Additional Sculptures In The DeLand Area
“WindSong” by John Wolfe
At Museum of Florida Art
600 N. Woodland Blvd.
“Golden Moments” by Felix Velez
DeLand Area Public Library (1st floor lobby)
130 E. Howry Ave.
“The Passing” by Barry J Barnett
DeLand Area Public Library (2nd Floor reading room)
130 E. Howry Ave.
“See Metal” by Harry Messersmith
MOFA – Children’s Art Center
615 N. Palmetto Ave.
“Dwelling Series” by Barbara Sorensen
MOFA – Children’s Art Center
615 N. Palmetto Ave.
“(untitled)” by Clarence E. Van Duzer
Museum of Florida Art
600 N. Woodland Blvd.
“Rivertown Brick Mural”
“Azalea Tower South”
“Azalea Tower North”
By
John Wilton, John Wolfe, Harry Messersmith
DeLand City Hall
120 S. Florida Ave.
“Bullfighter” by Nick Bradov
Alhambra Villas
231 N. Hill Street
“Wheel of Life” by Robert Sindorf
Dept. of Transportation
1650 N. Kepler Rd.
“Volusia Gaia” by Paul Fullerton
Volusia County Admin. Bldg. (lobby area)
123 W. Indiana Ave.
“The Gatherings” by Gary Slater
Lynn Business Center (N. side)
Stetson University
 

Touring Exhibitions

No Touring Exhibitions are currently scheduled.