- April 28, 2024
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Hollingsworth Gallery and the Flagler County Art League will be filled with new art beginning Dec. 10.
The opening reception for the show, “Neo Expressions,” will be 6 p.m. Dec. 10, at Hollingsworth Gallery, in City Marketplace. The artists — Patricia Zalisko, Karlene McConnell and Melissa Mason — will discuss their work at 6:15 p.m.
Zalisko and McConnell have shown their work at Hollingsworth before. The two artists share a studio with Mason, in New Smryna Beach.
In addition to these artists, the gallery’s SECCA Tree Studios will display its “Small Works” show in suites 206B and 207B.
Gallery Owner J.J. Graham calls the small paintings and photographs, none of which can be more than 12 inches wide or tall, “haikus.”
“This will be our second Small Works show,” Graham said. “We do it right around the holidays to get all of our members involved and offer artwork that is affordable. Everything is priced to sell, at less than $200. …
“If someone has that small corner of their house that needs some life in it, this is the place to get it,” he said.
Most of the art in “Small Works” is from local artists. Christina Burdette, of Palm Coast, will be displaying her painting, “Leaving With You,” which is inspired by the portraits of Elizabeth Peyton.
The painting is of a pink-haired man whose unsettled expression suggests transition. Burdette said the mood of the painting says, “This is the time to review my life.”
Burdette considers herself a colorist. In this painting, she said, “The use of color, to me, says that anything in life is flexible and can change.”
The show also features three expressionist landscapes by Audrey Rosen. The small squares, when displayed together, could be a set of windows in a door. The viewer is invited to imagine a wide world on the other side.
Ezra Salkin’s five entries in “Small Works” include “Blood Petals,” a scene of a matador guzzling from a Spanish wineskin. The matador’s brows are dark, creating an expression of exhaustion that comes after intense anger or adrenaline. The strong use of line in the image disrupts the spatial arrangement of the figures. The style mixes violence with a storybook innocence that is also successful in his other images of street life, which are also on display.
FCAL HOSTS JURIED PHOTO SHOW
The Flagler County Art League will display its first Juried Photography Show Dec. 10 to Jan. 10, at City Marketplace, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite 207C.
Photos were accepted in the following six categories: land/seascapes, floral, animal, architecture, portrait, digital photographic art. Monetary awards will be given to the best of show and first-place winners in each category.
Only entries that receive a minimum score from the jury of three to five judges will be on display.
