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APRIL 1, 2023 — JUNE 30, 2023
TOMORROWLANDS
Patricia Patterson Debi Boyette
Tomorrowland borrows its name from the Disneyland experience described by Walt Disney at the opening of his iconic theme park in California as “...a step into the future, with predictions of constructive things to come.” The exhibition features works by Boyette and Patterson and embraces how imagination shapes nostalgia and the ways we as both individuals and members of a collective history redefine our past over time. Works on view include watercolor portraits by Patterson exploring the complexities of family and the psychology of memory, in dialogue with a series of foam cloud sculptures by Boyette celebrating the dreaming of childhood and infinite possibilities of the future.
Born in Jacksonville, Florida and currently living in Seattle, Washington, Boyette is a multidisciplinary artist who uses found objects, photographs, and vintage ephemera to create whimsical and at times dystopian imagery. Regardless of medium, her works mock and recognize their established forms, producing a distorted vantage point for the viewer to engage with the paradox of the everyday. Boyette has been included in exhibitions at Ballard Works, Seattle University, Victrola Art, MOCA Jacksonville, Florida Mining, Le Merde, Saw Gallery, Terminal Gallery and Youngblood Gallery.
Atlanta-based artist S Patricia Patterson creates large scale watercolor paintings that delve into the constructs of memory and time, and the psychology of the human condition. Drawing from her family archive of images taken from 1940 through 1980, Patterson explores family reinvention through nostalgia and recollection. Patterson has her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her works have been included in exhibitions at The Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University, Ernest G. Welch Gallery at Georgia State University Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Consult Art, Art Papers Auction Show and many others.
JULY 6, 2022 — OCTOBER 8, 2022
THUNDER FLOWER / emotional labor
Morgan Goldsmith
A "gateway to Source, Love, and God," Morgan Goldsmith invites intrepid viewers on a journey through pain, shame, fear, and anger towards a new and reclaimed sense of Self. The arduous story in these works is of healing from birth and other trauma. The fragmented compositions sing a song of a soul torn apart and fighting to be healed, to return home.
MAY 13, 2022 — JULY 1, 2022
Looking For Gravity
Addison Adams, Eugene Ofori Agyei, Michael Dika
In Looking For Gravity, each artist seeks to first uncover the hidden forces that weigh on the world around them, then render them into a visual narrative that explores the relationship between identity and place.
JANUARY 7, 2022 — APRIL 25, 2022
Devils and Saints
Richard Heipp
In Devils and Saints, Richard Heipp explores the interplay between artifact, artwork, and presentation, particularly as rendered by reliquaries. "I am fascinated by the macabre beauty and strangeness represented in these beautiful, intricate, devotional sculptural objects,” says Heipp. “I find reliquaries present an intriguing subject that questions issues surrounding belief, faith, and our value systems.”
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 — NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Fragile Horizon
Jeremiah Jossim
Fragile Horizon is a feeling Jeremiah Jossim has for the future, a reference to the precarious state of our relationship with the land. Jossim has produced a series of paintings over the last year, that express deep reverence for his time spent in less human spaces and in the alternative nature of camping. This collection revels in the joy of observing, and in the quietness of a moment. It is an idealized and abstracted body of work; every element of the picture plane is shifted into patterns. Some geometric in nature and others resembling topographical maps and geological strata.
JULY 16, 2021 — SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
tenderfoot
Kenny Wilson, Jake Carlson, Joseph Provenza
The rookie on the team may have the most pressure to pull their weight on the field, but they also have the most opportunity to bring new life to a group of experienced veterans. The same is true within visual arts. There are staples in the community, with defined bodies of work, guaranteed to bring the public something that they know and love, while the young artist plays a different role. The young artist has the untapped potential to be a pioneer for new ideas. The curated exhibition, Tenderfoot, is scheduled to open at Florida Mining Gallery on July 23. The term tenderfoot has traditionally been used to describe a newcomer or novice within a pioneer community. This show will give young pioneers of the local art community the opportunity to provide the public with a new vision of contemporary artwork. The work of Kenny Wilson and Magnet, the collaboration between Jake Carlson and Joseph Provenza, serve as examples of this fresh perspective. The artists will be presenting some of their most recent works, along with a selection of works by young artists including Cole Collier, Franklin Ratliff, Jarrett Walker, Julia McBride, Mimi Tran, Noah Mackenzie, and Ricder Ricardo. The works shown will be emblematic of these young artists’ role in injecting newfound energy and dedication to the practice of crafting contemporary art in Northeast Florida.
MAY 3, 2021 — JULY 1, 2021
mini golf of sensual sports
McKinna Anderson
McKinna’s work presents how social media accounts function as an extension of self, examines ways in which they invite the participation of others, and critiques our intimate connection to them. Curious about boundaries between online representation and physical presence, McKinna situates her practice in the context of identity construction, social connectivity, and hyperreality.
FEBRUARY 15, 2021 — APRIL 23, 2021
Higher Love
Morgan Goldsmith, Susan Carr
Morgan McAllister and Susan Carr Susan present a body of work that pushes the boundary of personal narratives told through birth and love, loss and grief, and the path that leads to acceptance of all phases of our human experience.
NOVEMBER 9, 2020 — FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Epoch
Betsy Cain, Marcus Kenney, Emily Earl, Jeremiah Jossim, Malc Jackson
We read it, we watch it. We feel it in our hearts, souls, and dreams. We sense it in the air, we see it on the news, and we experience it in our art. We are changing— the culture has changed, morphed, transitioned, and shifted. There are many ways to describe it, but we all feel it.
We are living in an Epoch.
Art is a living record, it always has been. Art that is created out of the experiences of this time will be a lasting document of the confounding era we are living through. The art in this exhibit is an attempt to create a visual representation of how we are collectively feeling about what we are all enduring.