ARTdart: There are as many ways to think about art as there are to create it. Join Pamela Beck in the second installment of, SeeSaw, to her current column, ARTdart, as she observes and explores various visual art exhibitions and happenings in the Gulf Coast area.
“My most successful relationship has been with water,” a newly single artist recently told me.
I laughed.
“I know that sounds funny, “ he continued, “but we’ve been together forever and it’s the only influence I’ll let dominate me; or at least the only one I’ll admit to,” he added with a devilish smile.
That’s what makes horse races; but seriously, nobody with a beating heart can live in Sarasota and not be affected by the pervasive presence of water.
In the conversations I have with local artists, water is often mentioned as a favorite muse. Whether referenced for its beauty, power, mystery or ever-changing properties, water leaves an indelible mark.
Here’s a sampler of what I SeeSaw around town:
Susan Zukowsky
Missing Girl, 2OO3
Mixed media collage: appropriated paper images, rubber ball, wire, glass beads, thread
2O 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches
Jack Dowd’s 27 & Susan Zukowsky
Selby Gallery, Sarasota FL, 34234
Bruce Marsh
Bay Light
Oil on canvas
60 x 65 inches
Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art
1288 N. Palm Ave.
Sarasota, FL 34236
Irene Gorman
Sarasota Journal
Collage
Florida Flavor
Art Center Sarasota
707 North Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, FL 34236
Arnold Desamarais
The Quiet Calm
oil on panel, 2011
18 x 24 inches
Stakenborg Fine Art
1545 Main Street
Sarasota, Fl. 34239
Maro Lorimer
Old Florida
acrylic on canvas
36 x 24 inches
Art Uptown
1367 Main St
Sarasota, FL 34236
Beatrice del Perugia
Siesta Gold
acrylic on canvas
18″ x 18″, framed 22″ x 22″
Dabbert Gallery
76 S. Palm Ave.
Sarasota, FL 34236
Sigrid Olsen
Marina Magic
mixed media
14 x 17 inches framed
Sigrid Olsen Art
4O7 S. Pineapple Ave.
Sarasota, FL, 34236
Pamela co-owned Pannonia Galleries in NYC. There she was also an art appraiser, private art dealer, art fair exhibitor and catalogued paintings at Sotheby’s. Perhaps it’s not surprising that she is also a psychotherapist. She has a keen interest in the arts and supporting Sarasota’s future as a lively, diverse and forward thinking city for young and old. Pamela is a member of The Fine Arts Society of Sarasota, Curatorial & Acquisitions Committee and Institute for the Ages Volunteer.
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