Past Exhibitions : 2002

January 11 – February 17               
Voltwerks: The Fine Art of Electricity (read more)

This exhibit, an Edison Festival of Light event, incorporates the work of more than 45 invited artists from across the country as well as selected work from important collections.  Working in the Edison tradition of inventiveness, the exhibiting artists create enLIGHTened work that is filled with imagination, challenges, and cutting edge technology.  Certainly one of the most diverse shows of the year, the exhibit includes such local favorites as Darryl Pottorf, Sherry Rohl, Christopher Poehlmann, Michael St. Amand , Lawrence Voytek, Mary Voytek and the Matsumotos,  Also selected work from Graphicstudio, University of South Florida, Tampa, the Martin Z. Margulies collection, Key Biscayne, Florida, will be included in the exhibit.  From those collections is the work of Robert Rauschenberg, Keith Sonnier, John Scott and Susan Leopold.
Music by Emmy award winning flautist Kat Epple.

Before the Voltwerks Show {Left to Right}
Kellen Beck-Mills , Mel Meo, Mary Voytek, Jim Krieger

The Gallery of Fine Art wishes to express its sincere appreciation to Northern Trust Bank, the Bireley Family Foundation, Dr. John and Fran Fenning and the Edison Community College Foundation, Inc. for sponsoring the exhibit.  It is through their generosity that this exhibit is made possible.

The Gallery would also like to thank Graphicstudio, University of South Florida, and the Martin Z. Margulies Collection for their contributions to the exhibit.
                                               
February 22 – March 24                   
“The Visual Art of John Cage”

John Cage is regarded as one of America’s most significant artists and a key figure in music history.  The now famous introduction of chance operations for compositional decisions changed the perception of what music is and also what art is.  From the early 50’s on, John Cage has had a nearly immeasurable impact on the changing art world.  From his musical compositions and visual art to his collaborative work with Robert Rauschenberg or Merce Cunningham, Cage’s impact continues to be felt by artists and public alike.  This extraordinary exhibit of Cage’s visual art gives us insight into his ideas, shows his experimental nature and gives a sense of his overwhelming focus.  This exhibit includes drawings, etchings, lithographs, aquatints, watercolors and 3-dimensional plexigrams created between 1969 and 1992, the year of Cage’s death.

The Gallery of Fine Art would like to express its sincere appreciation to the John Cage Trust and to the Margarete Roeder Gallery, NY, NY, for making this exhibit possible. 
Gallery lecture by Laura Kuhn, Executive Director, John Cage Trust, NY, NY on March 1, 2002

March 28 – April 28 
Robert Rauschenberg "Short Stories" (read more)

The Gallery of Fine Art, Edison College, is pleased to present the recent work of world-renowned artist Robert Rauschenberg.  The work in this exhibit is taken from Mr. Rauschenberg’s most recent series, “Short Stories”.  The series of large format paintings, 85 ½” x 61”, was started in 2000 and completed in 2002.
           
May 2 – May 19                   
“Images 2002 – 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 30 – July 3
Merce Cunningham

Featured work in the exhibit includes performance costumes, archived performance photographs from the Cunningham Dance Company, rare manuscript dance notations, a series of prints created by Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Jones, Andy Warhol, John Cage, and delightfully whimsical drawings from nature by Cunningham.
Gallery lecture by Merce Cunningham, Trevor Carlson Director of Communications for the Cunningham Dance Foundation and Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust on May 30, 2002 

Michael St. Amand, Merce Cunningham and Lawrence Voytek
at the opening of Merce's exhibition 2002

July 20 – August 22                  
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.
                                   
September 6 – October 13                 
Amelia Tierney

With more than 150 exhibits of her work over the past 30 years, Amelia Tierney clearly is one of Florida’s most significant photographers.  Tierney’s photography, taken on her extensive travels in the United States, Europe, South America and the Caribbean, challenges the viewer’s concept of reality and fantasy by combining unexpected objects that find their relationships primarily in the realm of ideas.

The exhibit at Edison College includes images from several series that Tierney has worked on and also shows her technical versatility.  Featuring 40 photographs, including black and white infrared photographs, digital photographs, polacolor transfers and giclée prints, the exhibit is a must see for photographers, students and art lovers alike.
Gallery lecture by Amelia Tierney on September 6, 2002
                                   
October 25 – December 8               
Irene Gennaro “Dream Streams and Ex Votives”

The Gallery of Fine Art, Edison College, is pleased to announce an exhibition of the work of Irene Gennaro.  It is almost unnecessary to make the statement that Irene Gennaro’s work is enigmatic.  The various series titles are clear indication of that and viewing the work gives an immediate sense of the familiar and at the same time a sense of the unknown.  But the enigma of Gennaro’s work goes considerably further than that.  Her work stands alone, outside urban sculptors and their found or burnt or prefabricated forms, outside mainstream battles of concept and image and materials and outside technology and the immediacy it can bring.  But, this should not confuse us.  Gennaro is no outsider.

Gennaro’s work has roots in the Surrealist movement with its debt to the subconscious, it draws to our memory cross cultural references, mythological references as well as technical links to stone carving and somewhat obliquely to folk art.
Gallery lecture by Irene Gennaro on October 25, 2002