March 4 – April 9, 2011

Ray Burggraf

Ray Burggraf received a BS at Ashland University, OH, in 1961, and in 1965 he entered the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he became immersed in the legacy of the German Bauhaus of the ‘30s, and the Op Art movement of the ‘60s. After graduating from the Institute in 1968 with a BFA, his second undergraduate degree, he entered the University of California at Berkeley where he earned an MA and MFA.  In 1970 he moved to Tallahassee to join the Art Department faculty at Florida State University. After a 37-year career in education, Mr. Burggraf retired from teaching in 2007. He continues to live and work in Tallahassee, Florida.

Jungle Arc II Acrylic on wood, 60” X 78”, 2008

January 14 – February 19, 2011

Marylyn Dintenfass

Marylyn Dintenfass is an internationally recognized artist whose work is found in major public and private collections in Italy, Denmark, Israel, Japan, and the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts  and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.  Dintenfass was the recipient of a public art commission from the City of Fort Myers, to install a large-scale piece downtown.

Riviera
Oil on paper Monotype, 35” x 35”, 2009

August 27 - October 9, 2010

Clive King  

Jack in the Box

Ink on paper, 58” x 58”, 2009

Born in Wales, UK, Clive King has been Professor of Fine Art in the Department of Art and Art History, Florida International University since 1992. Previous positions held include Chair of Visual Arts at Oxford Brooks University, Oxford, UK and Head of Communication Arts, Salisbury College of Art. King has been awarded numerous fellowships and awards including the Florida Individual Arts Fellowship, SECAC fellowship, and Southern Arts Federation Fellowship. He has had over 20 one-person exhibitions, and has contributed to over 100 group shows over the life of his career.

October 22 – December 4, 2010

2008 Florida Fellowship Exhibition

Barry Sparkman

Transect

Monoprint & oil paint on paper, 30” x 22.5”, 2008

This exhibition features the artwork of the 25 recipients of the 2008 Individual Artist Fellowship Award in Visual Arts. Each artist included in this exhibition was reviewed by a panel of their peers and selected through a highly competitive process. Since 1976, the Individual Artist Fellowship Program has offered awards to Florida artists in recognition of their work and talent. The $5,000 awards support the artist’s general career achievements over the fellowship period. Awards are given in the disciplines of Visual Arts (both two and three-dimensional), Folk Arts, Media Arts, Dance, Theatre, Music, Interdisciplinary, and Literature.