Why don’t we begin the evening with one big collective scream?” Moments later, the Carleton Auditorium at the University of Florida erupted into a jarring choir of the cries of those feeling the heaviness of our social and political climate. I would be lying if Read More …
At first glance, Bo Bartlett‘s work doesn’t look like anything new. His large canvases are filled with the crisp realism of Edward Hopper, the small-town iconography of Norman Rockwell, and the vibrancy and luminism of George Caleb Bingham. Yet, Bartlett brings it all together to Read More …
AfroFantastic: Black Imagination and Agency in the American Experience is up now at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum on Rollins College campus. Professor Julian Chambliss, Ph.D curated the show in conjunction with students from his AfroFantastic class. Chambliss and I got the chance to sit Read More …
At the end of 2015, upon check-in at one of my favorite NYC haunts, The Ludlow Hotel, I spied a pair of Keith Haring works flanking the lobby fireplace. There were several people drinking cocktails, conversing, and reading throughout the warm, intimate space, and I Read More …
Visceral is a word used almost too often in discussions about art—especially since it is meant to describe sensations devoid of visual/sensory input—but when an image hits you in your gut in the most innate, ornate, and grotesque ways imaginable, it seems like an understatement. Read More …
Art galleries in residential buildings are nothing new. For years, art has been a requirement—some may say a necessity—in apartment buildings, specifically in residential lobby areas. Places like Boston, New York City, and Miami have unsurprisingly caught on to the trend, and now Orlando has Read More …
Last December, I took my annual pilgrimage to South Florida to suffer through the crowds and traffic and attend Art Basel Miami Beach. Though the official Art Basel event takes place in the Miami Beach Convention Center, there is a veritable plethora of art-centric events Read More …
I have abandoned Orlando for the past two summers to live in Philadelphia and work on my MFA in a low-residency program. I left the city in mourning this June, and found that my own grieving process caught up with me when I entered into Read More …
Tucked away between shops and restaurants in a sleepy town 30 miles north of Orlando, sits the Modernism Museum Mount Dora. Comprised of a relatively small, single-room gallery space which mimics the quaintness of the rest of Mount Dora, the Modernism Museum packs quite a Read More …
When we think of untold stories in art, we think of putting a voice, a past, a face to ordinary people. Launched at Maitland Art Center’s Culture Pop event, Untold Stories features two exhibitions that chronicle personal and cultural narratives within a wide historical context. Read More …
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