The Goods: Weekend News (12.02.11)

Sarasota Visual Art’s round up of exhibitions and events for Friday, Dec. 2 through Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011.

Week in Review

Featured Artist: Kasey Lou Lindley http://bit.ly/slqeJ2
Featured Gallery: Stakenborg Fine Art http://wp.me/p1DJvQ-gg
Interview with Chris Stakenborg / November 2011 featured gallery
Featured Article: Art and Flight http://bit.ly/uNetu0
Sarasota Visual Art highlights seven airports where you can catch some art on the way to catching your flight if you are leaving from, or arriving into, Sarasota Bradenton International Airport.

Exhibitions

Paperwork – Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art

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December 1-31, 2011 – Presenting an exhibit featuring photo etchings by Stefan Batista, mixed-media works by Leslie Fry, hand-colored engravings from Ke Francis, and drawings by Tanja Softic.

Lists Loose_LESLIE FRY — "Lists Loose," plant stains and residue, collage on paper by Leslie Fry

The Talent Show

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Ends December 10, 2011 – This exhibit explores the competing desires of notoriety and privacy, and the evolving relationship between artists and audiences in our culture of reality television and Web-based social media.

MainfeatureTalentShow2 — Contemporary Art Museum, USF Tampa Campus

Joyce Ely-Walker Exhibit

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Ends Dec. 7, 2011 – Selected by internationally know artist Craig Rubadoux, the exhibition, “Departures,” features Ely-Walker’s drawings and paintings that empathize the fleeting nature of life including works from her series Wind Shift, Mangrove, Silent Mountain, Nest, Rain forest, and Train.

Story and Symbol: Dutch and Flemish Paintings

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Ends Dec. 4, 2011 – The more than 30 paintings in this exhibition are striking, but they are also rich in the history of sixteenth and seventeenth-century northern Europe. The works encompass biblical stories, mythological subjects, stunning portraits, scenes from everyday life, seascapes and landscapes, and still lifes.