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Black and White Photography
www.TomCorcoran.netTom Corcoran first moved to Florida in 1970. He has been a disc jockey, bartender, AAA travel counselor, U. S. Navy officer, screenwriter, freelance photographer, automotive magazine editor, computer graphic artist, and journalist. Corcoran’s photographs have appeared on seven Jimmy Buffett album covers. He co-wrote the Buffett hits, “Cuban Crime of Passion,” and “Fins.” His photos also have appeared on numerous book jackets, including those of Thomas McGuane (“An Outside Chance”), Winston Groom (“Forrest Gump”), and Florida novelists Les Standiford (“Black Mountain” and “Last Train to Paradise”) and James W. Hall (“Hot Damn”). Tom's black-and-white photographs of Key West were displayed at the Key West Art and Historical Society's Custom House Museum. in 2007. |
| | |  | | Priscilla Derven
Oil, Encaustic
Priscilla Derven's portraits can be startling; not quite what you expect. It almost seems that you've looked around quickly and caught a glimpse of someone's face, frozen in mid-motion or in mid-sentence. You look again and see masses of color and geometric planes. These portraits convey much more than the subject's appearance. The point of view shifts in unexpected ways. You're looking up, seeing throats and chins, or down upon tops of heads. The people in these paintings seem to be completely unselfconscious, with no apparent awareness of an observer.
Paintings in the Bathers series are populated by people at the beach, eyes averted from us and each other, individuals inhabiting a solitary universe.
Derven's encaustic canvases have a depth and richness of color, which are not just "happy accidents," but the product of layers of complex construction and destruction; of adding and subtracting material, repeating again and again, until the desired result is achieved. One looks into these paintings, not at them.
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| | |  | | Gabriella Fiabane
Oils, Acrylics & Watercolors
GabriellaFiabane.com"Fiabane’s show this year at Fleming Street Gallery, is especially exciting because in addition to the emotionally powerful seascapes for which she is so well known, the viewer is introduced to her moody, provocative paintings of interiors.
The best way to describe many of Gabriella’s landscapes and seascapes is in musical terms, which are also the titles of some of her new works. The diptych “Gioioso” portrays Ballast Key on a sunny day; “Scherzo” has subtle colors describing the back country bathed in soft translucent light.
Fiabane’s interiors are suspended in time. The titles of these elegantly subtle paintings relate to different times of day and days of the week. There is also a strong sense in these paintings of what is not there; the feeling that something has just occurred or is about to happen in the room. “The Thursday You Left” and “Saturday Is Gone” suggest a loss, the source of which is never really revealed, in the microcosm of the house by the sea, which is the subject of these mysterious interiors. Don’t miss this intriguing show and the opportunity to meet the artist at the opening reception."
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| | |  | | Susan Johnson
Sculpture
"Susan Johnson's sculptures are immediately arresting and after the initial humor one knows she is seeing into the heart of things"
-The Key West Citizen- |
| | |  | | Jill Caldwell
Abstract Painting
The abstract paintings of Jill Caldwell draw upon her East Coast experiences spanning from Massachusetts, where she grew up and attended the Massachusetts College of Art, to Key West, Florida, where she absorbed the tropical atmosphere for eight years, to Mid-Coast Maine, her current home. She mixes her sense of place -those influences coming through her eyes in the form of light, shape, color, line, shadow and composition- with her interior landscape. "When painting", she explains, "I tap into this non-verbal chasm. The process of building a painting engages me. The layering of material, the texture, the revealing and editing, it is the history, it is the journey that becomes the painting."
Jill makes Key West a reference point in her wonderful abstract paintings; the inspiration this island provides is evident in her work. She is skilled at capturing the special light of this place in her sun drenched canvases, and at translating the cool tranquility of water and sky into two dimensions.
Caldwell's work is passionate and at the same time filled with restraint, conveying a complex range of emotions that spring to life as you look at her work. Playfulness is there too, in many layers of color and texture, in what is included and what has been left out. |
| | |  | | David Laughlin
Acrylics
Key West locals are familiar with David Laughlin’s distinctive work, and his paintings are valued because they transport us to places in the back country where many residents and visitors first fell in love with nature in the Keys. His skillful acrylic paintings immerse one in the natural world of water, mangroves and wildlife, giving a new appreciation of this special place to the viewer.
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| | |  | | Elio Hinds
Oils ElioHinds.com
The vigor and intensity of Elio's work is striking, as is the personal nature of her subject matter. Hinds’ paintings convey a dreamlike reality with sweeping movement and enigmatic visions. |
| | |  | | Jim Johnson
Watercolors
James Johnson, a noted watercolorist from Michigan, has been painting in Key West for many years during the winter. “American Artist Magazine” featured Johnson last October in an article by Colin Fry, “Three Proven Ways to Start Watercolors Outdoors.” The detail and clarity of his paintings reflect the artistic confidence and skill acquired during his years as an award-winning illustrator. |
| | |  | | David Gray
The oil paintings by David Gray convey a sense of refined dignity with attention to architectural detail, employing a muted northern palette. Gray’s studio is in Penobscot, Maine, and while his work has been exhibited and collected both in this country and internationally, this is his first show in Key West. |
| | |  | | Edward S. Mullins
This collection of paintings includes Mullins' work displaying the diversity of his talent and some of the different styles of painting that he explored during his lifetime.
His skill is demonstrated in the various techniqes he employed, using oil paint, pen and ink, and watercolor to offer his unique artistic vision.
Viewing the diversity of these beautiful paintings provides one with an appreciation of the wide range and scope of Mullins' talent and an enjoyable artistic experience that offers a glimpse into the life of a talented man who devoted his life to art.
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| | |  | | Nicholas Bergery
Nicholas Bergery’s photographs contain more than meets the eye in a single glance. He is moved by the juxtaposition of the physical earth and metaphysical sky and clouds. From up in the clouds, and down to earth, these images search for paradise hidden in panoramic landscapes or tropical gardens. The show includes photographic digital impressions and abstractions of Caribbean clouds in Key West and Miami Beach. French-born Nicholas Bergery considers himself a digital impressionist. The fusion of photography and digital imaging enables him to create hybrid art that goes beyond the reproduction of reality to evoke emotions by means of a personal transformation of representational images. He is a colorist; colors are the private language that he uses to create impressions of representational images for others to share. Calling upon his past experience with drawing, painting, collage, photography and photochemical retouching, he applies these traditional techniques in the digital domain. Specializing in tropical nature and urban nightlife, Bergery is inspired by Caribbean clouds, vivid parrots, and tropical flowers as well as by exotic people, Fantasy Fest and Halloween parades. Starting with photographic images, he paints and enriches both these worlds in dense, hybrid paintings with strong colors and small strokes. He works out of his studio, Digital Classics, on Ashe Street in Key West. |
| | |  | | Eric Anfinson
Oil on Canvas
The Blue Guitar Artist Statement This body of work is unusual in the sense that it has no identifiable thread, no specific goal, no message, and no specific beginning.
In this effort, I tested new canvas treatments, sizes, fabric, and restricted my palette of colors. Often it felt as if I were stumbling through the dark, slipping on a slick surface, and constantly failing to understand what was occurring. Eventually, I grew to believe that limiting choices increased my options and provided me with new tools to create with. As usual, the paintings showed me the way. Many pieces did not come to completion and were sacrificed as an offering to the scrap heap. The work that remains, stands firmly on a foundation of the wrong turns and lessons learned from chances taken. Now, in this moment of reflection to what has been created, I am once again struck with the melancholy that comes with the end of a chapter. Once again, I am eager to discover what waits for me as I turn the page. Eric Anfinson January, 2012
“Ericʼs painting has always focused on the emotional, the colorful, and the deeply meaningful aspects of life. One gets the sense that he has always known that art is dangerous.” “His condition forces him to look inward on a daily basis, and it is over the inner realms that art holds sway. Art, like a dream, has the capacity to bring the inner worlds to the surface. It is a master key, a threshold, and a gateway”. “What I call the danger of Ericʼs work really began with the way he painted eyes. From the start, the bright yellows, oranges, pinks, and browns of the naked flesh of his nudes all conveyed a gentle eroticism, respectful yet penetrating. The eyes, however, were typically left empty and open. Perhaps you could fall into them. Perhaps, like mirrors, they would reflect your own soul back to you. On the whole the eyes were neutral, but that is where the danger lay like a fault-line.”
From “Art is Life” by John R. Strain
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