- April 18, 2024
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Hollingsworth Gallery owner J.J. Graham used a thick, stiff brush to put the finishing touches on the faces glaring out from the tarpaper surface of “Wide-eyed dreamers, green-eyed schemers,” one of the acrylic paintings he’ll display at the gallery’s art show opening Saturday.
The show’s theme is “Saints and Sinners,” timed for Halloween. “Wide-eyed dreamers, green-eyed schemers,” Graham said, deals with that duality.
“You always have these people who are dreamers, and they always see the best,” Graham said as he worked in his studio Tuesday, at the gallery. “And they’re constantly outnumbered by the schemers who are trying to get a leg up on their fellow man.”
Palm Coast artist Marilyn Leverton was also busy at work Tuesday afternoon at the gallery, selecting the sculptures she’ll show Saturday. One of them — an earthenware figure of Salome holding the head of John the Baptist — combines both elements of the saints and sinners theme in one piece.
Graham said he’ll display the pieces in this show differently from what he has done in the past.
“I’m going to suspend the paintings from the ceiling and create this kind of maze in the gallery that you have to walk through,” he said. “It kind of goes with Halloween.”
Guest photographer: Shanna Fortier
The gallery will also display a series of photographs portraying scenes of Guatemala by photographer and Palm Coast Observer Community Editor Shanna Fortier, who spent a week there on a mission trip with Epic Church.
The church partnered with a community meal center called Campos de Sueños to aid the hungry in one of the poorest areas of the country, and Fortier took photographs of some of the town's chldren as they stood in line waiting for food. She shot more portraits of local people as she traveled through other towns.
"I'm really excited to be able to show these images," Fortier said. "It's a look into another culture, another way of life, that people in America and Palm Coast aren't really familiar with."
The Saints and Sinners show will fill the gallery’s 3,000 square feet of space, Graham said, and some of the artists who rent studio space at Hollingsworth will also leave their studios open for viewing. A professional dancer, Michelina Wingerter, will perform a burlesque dance for the audience partway through the event, at about 7:30.
The reception for the Saints and Sinners art show is free and will include wine and cheese. It will be held 6-9 p.m. Oct 12 at the gallery at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suites 209B and 210B.
