- May 9, 2024
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Local art enthusiast, Colleen McFarlanee, admiring Laura Mongiovi’s Indigo Tower. Photography by Anastasia Pagello
Margot Booth and Carole Evans pose by their favorite pieces of art done by Kathleen Lusby.
Artist at Salvo Art, Kathleen Lusby, with her portraits of her beloved dogs.
SWOOP installation done by summer camp children at the Salvo Art Gallery.
Sculpture Michael Kovach with his loving and supportive wife, Joan.
A sculpture made by Michael Kovach, Emergence.
Altered Art Artists members Eva Bishop, Taylor Tiernan, B.J. Baughman and Judi Wormeck.
Andrew Trotter plays the saxophone with guitarist Jake Cox.
The Salvo Art Project is featuring artists Michael Kovach and Laura Mongiovi.
Kovach has a bachelor degree in fine arts and sculpture from Layton Art School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He lived in New York for most of his adult life, and was featured at five different exhibits within New York City with several others outside the state. Kovach retired here in Palm Coast with his wife, Joan.
As a retiree he has taken up sculpting again as a hobby. His latest exhibit is abstract sculpting made out of wood and metal pieces and joined together as an additive process. His inspiration for his work lies in the elegantly curving forms of plant life and organic materials such as animal bones.
Laura Mongiovi is a personal friend of seven years and at one time an instructor of Salvo Art Project co-founder Petra Iston. Mongiovi has been teaching at Flagler College for 10 years in all courses from foundation to capstone. Her passion for creating started as a young child and grew into her successful career.
Her artwork displayed at the Salvo Art Project shares a common theme of drawing into dyed fabrics with stitches. Her inspiration lies with the sensual experience she feels with the weather and the landscape in which she lives. When the thunder rolls in and a cool wind rips through the trees, Mongiovi relishes the sensual experience and creates magnificent artwork characterizing her raw emotions.
In remembrance of the foundation course taken with Mongiovi, Iston organized an arts and crafts day for the summer camp kids at the Salvo Art Project. Shapes were cut out of a single piece of foam board and the children were challenged to create a beautiful tall standing sculpture by fitting the shapes together. The pieces are now hung up on the buildings ceiling in a graceful, swooping manner. The installation of mobiles creates shadows along the exhibits walls that take on the form of birds.
