Past Exhibitions : 2000

January 21 – March 3           
The Songs of Maybelle Stamper

The Gallery of Fine Art at Edison Community College is pleased to present the exhibition, “The Songs of Maybelle Stamper.”  Comprised of nearly 80 works from the estate of Maybelle Stamper the exhibit includes chromo-lithographs, hand-colored lithographs, watercolors and drawings.  The artist lived and worked on Captiva Island from 1947 until her death in 1995.

The exhibit is on loan to the Gallery of Fine Art from the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina.  This exhibition is made possible through the William R. Frizzell Memorial Endowment.
Gallery lecture by Jay Williams, Curator of Art at the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina on January 23, 2000
                       
March 10 – April 16                      
Robert Rauschenberg: Recent Work  

The Gallery of Fine Art, Edison Community College, is pleased to present the extraordinary exhibit, “Robert Rauschenberg: Recent Work”.  This exhibit is comprised of 13 large format pieces ranging in size from approximately 5’ square to 10’ x 15’, completed between 1997 and 1999.  These works, made with vegetable dye transfers on polylaminate, utilize a highly technical process of computer-driven laser transfers of his photographic images onto the pictorial surface.           

April 19 – May 7           
“Images 2000 – Annual Student Exhibition” 

This 29th annual scholarship exhibit is open to all Edison College students who are enrolled full time in art classes.  Sponsored by the South West Florida Craft Guild and the Docents of the Gallery of Fine Art, this exhibit is the culmination of the year’s work. 

May 19 – June 20           
Florida Artist Group, Inc. 50th Annual Exhibit

More than 50 artists from one of Florida’s most professional art organizations show their works in this 50th Anniversary exhibit.

The Florida Artist Group is Florida’s oldest statewide organization of professional artists.  The purpose of the group is to stimulate the attainment of the highest standards of creative art within the state of Florida.                               

June 29 – July 9 
Arts for ACT

This exhibit is an annual favorite that features the donated artwork of local and national artists, later to be auctioned to benefit ACT, Inc.  The preview exhibit includes work by Rauschenberg and Pottorf as well as other international artists and dozens of local favorites.                                 

July 12 – September 2 
“Kathleen Holmes: Pathways”

Painter and sculptor Kathleen Holmes is one of the busiest artists in Florida.  In 2000 alone she will have exhibits in Atlanta, Chicago, Memphis, Miami, and Orlando. Those five locations represent one-third of her schedule for the year; the other two-thirds of her schedule includes eight stops in Florida. 

The popularity of Kathleen Holmes is not hard to understand.  Her work is dramatic and subtle, alluring and provocative, insightful and challenging, and it remains accessible.  Kathleen Holmes creates work that is abstract and realistic, contemporary and traditional.  She creates paintings and sculptures that act as metaphor for her heritage of Southern culture.  Artistically she crosses boundaries both in time and concept, incorporating her delicate Flemish like painted glazes with found objects and direct presentation in the tradition of Dove, Shapiro, and Rauschenberg.  With the premise or core idea of Southern culture Kathleen draws from personal experience creating intimate metaphors that lead the viewer to tradition, family, patterns of society, and the role of women in our culture.  For Holmes, it also leads to the expression of her feelings about the life patterns that we follow, including emotional, social, behavioral, and spiritual.
Gallery lecture by Kathleen Holmes on July 15, 2000                          

September 15 – October 29              
Alan E. Cober: A Retrospective Afterlife

One of America’s most innovative illustrators, Cober’s gripping images provide glimpses of the often harsh reality of contemporary events.  This exhibit includes more than 100 pieces, split between his work as an illustrator and fine artist.  Cober’s visual commentary was seen in such publications as “Rolling Stone”, “Time”, “The New York Times”, “Esquire”, “Newsweek”, “Life” and “Look”.           
Gallery lecture by Kevin Dean, Director of The Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design on October 3 and 4, 2000                                   

November 8 – December 3               
“Celebration of the Performing Arts”      

The Gallery of Fine Art, Edison Community College, and Henderson, Franklin, Starnes and Holt, P.A. are pleased to announce the annual student scholarship exhibit.  This is a mixed media exhibit of work done by the art students at Edison Community College.  Henderson, Franklin, Starnes and Holt, P.A. sponsors the scholarship awards and organizes the local venues where the exhibit will be shown.  After the exhibit is shown at Edison Community College it will be shown at Big Arts, The Lee County Alliance of the Arts, Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre and the Cultural Park Theatre.