Past Exhibitions : 2001

February 16 – April 1          
  “Realism from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection”

Realism from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection features a selection of paintings, sculpture and photography that includes late 20th century artists who have played an important role in the resurgence of realism and given insight into a broad range of concerns and approaches.
Gallery lecture by Martin Z. Margulies on February 16, 2001   
                       
April 12 - 29  
“Images 2001 – Annual Student Exhibition”

This 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 11 – July 8 
“Tropisms and Small Fires”

This exhibit features the work of New York artist Stephanie Brody Lederman.  From the edge of ordinary daily discourse, Lederman’s work, in a sense, is a chronicle of our time and the universal story of our lives.  As in Gertrude Stein’s concept of “everybody’s autobiography”, Lederman’s work offers, through the generalities of our daily sojourn, insights into our lives, our social interactions, and our intimate personal contact with our own individual realities.

Lederman’s work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Jewish Museum, NY, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Yale University Library, New Haven, to name just a few.
Gallery lecture by Stephanie Brody Lederman on May 11, 2001
                       
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, Pottorf and Rosenquist as well as other international artists and dozens of local favorites. 
This year’s featured artist is Sherry Rohl.

                                   
August 31 – October 14
Andrew Morgan “An Exhibition of Paintings from 1991 – 2001”

This exhibit of work by Andrew Morgan spans the past decade and includes

July 19 – August 12                  
mesmerizing views of the Oregon coast, vibrant and lush still lifes as well as impressions of Florida and New Mexico.  Lush, vibrant and lyrical, these paintings, completed in the refined medium of oil bar, clearly show Morgan’s connection and commitment to still life and landscape.  More to the point though, they show his command of the medium, the picture plane and color as an expressive vehicle.

Morgan’s highly successful professional career has been two-sided, including both academics and studio work.  Morgan’s academic accomplishments include being the Chairman of the Art Department at the University of Mississippi, President of the Kansas City Art Institute, and Chairman of the Art Department at the University of Miami, among others.  As a studio artist, Morgan’s work has been included in numerous exhibitions and can by found in dozens of private collections as well as the collection of the University of Texas, The Art Museum at Florida International University, University of Mississippi and Weatherspoon Museum at the University of North Carolina, to name a few. 

This exhibit, organized by the Gallery of Fine Art, will next travel to the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, Florida, then to the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, and finally to Kennesaw State University Art Gallery, Kennesaw, Georgia.

The Gallery of Fine Art, Edison Community College, wishes to express its sincere thanks to the Richard Florsheim Art Fund for the grant awarded towards the publication of the catalogue.
Gallery lecture by Andrew Morgan on August 31, 2001
                                   
October 26 – December 9
Hollis Jeffcoat

The Gallery of Fine Art at Edison Community College is pleased to present the recent work of Hollis Jeffcoat.  The work in this exhibit was created between the years 1996 and 2001, and includes drawings on paper and paintings on vellum, canvas and Plexiglas.

As a painter, Jeffcoat’s lineage reaches back to the New York School that dominated the art world in the late 40’s and 50’s.  That is not to say that the artists and ideas that influenced her thinking were of that singular band in time.  But it does speak to the concerns that painters focused on by the time the abstract expressionists had over-powered the art world.  While that particular line of sight from the New York School can be drawn to a vast majority of artists in the late 20th century, it cannot be said of all that their work has the same integrity and focus.  Jeffcoat’s work is as clear and direct as painting gets.

Hollis Jeffcoat is a Fort Myers native and former Edison Community College student.  In pursuit of her artistic goals she also studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the New York Studio School.  Jeffcoat was an instructor and administrator at the New York Studio School, Paris, France, and has also taught at Big Arts, Sanibel, Florida, SoCo Studio School, Fort Myers, Florida, as well as Edison Community College, Fort Myers, Florida.  Jeffcoat’s work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY, The Brooklyn Museum, NY, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada, as well as the estate of Pierre Matisse. 

The Gallery of Fine Art would like to express its sincere appreciation to th en Docents of the Gallery of Fine Art and to Bluegreen Resort Services, www.bluegreenrentals.com, for their sponsorship of this exhibit.                              
Gallery lecture by Hollis Jeffcoat on November 15, 2001