Donate a belt and Stand Against Child Abuse!
at the Box Gallery May 4th, 2019 at 7 PM...
Viewers attending exhibition are invited to add their own belts to remind victims of child abuse and domestic violence that they are not alone!
The Box Gallery features poignant works that address cultural maladies in next two exhibition's...
from child abuse to homelessness!
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The Box Gallery
from child abuse to homelessness!
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The Box Gallery
located at 811 Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach Florida 33405
www.TheBoxGallery.info
"3 to See"
Series in May 2019 at The Box Gallery3 to see on May 4, 2019 | 3 to see on May 25, 2019
"3 to See"
Series in May 2019 at The Box Gallery3 to see on May 4, 2019 | 3 to see on May 25, 2019
Curator, Rolando Chang Barrero continues effort to spotlight emerging artists that make a difference in his West Palm Beach Gallery. For over 8 years Rolando has been organizing exhibitions and creating works that unite people in dialogue and experience works by artists who are creating change in our world.______________
3 to see on May 4th features
Opening reception for the artists at 7 PMIlene Adams | Ruth Sharton | Judy Polstra
Guest Speakers will share about rise in anti-Semitism 8 PM
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ILENE ADAMS
ILENE ADAMS
An award winning artist, Ilene has been featured in many design magazines both in the New York metropolitan area and the Palm Beaches. Ilene's work is shown extensively in galleries and exhibitions.
Ilene has also worked in the non-profit art world bringing her marketing talents and creativity to an art center in West Palm Beach and working to advance art and artists in the community. Ilene served as a Mayoral Appointee on the Cultural Affairs Commission and the Public Art Commission in West Palm Beach. She is currently working on several community art projects to bring art to the public including acting as co-director of ArtSynergy.
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RUTH SHARTON
RUTH SHARTON
A native New Yorker currently residing in Florida, Ruth is an accomplished fine arts painter and mixed media artist. She has studied classical drawing and painting and abstract expressionism, and works in a variety of other mediums including printmaking, photography, filmmaking and jewelry design. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College, NY, and has attended the Art Students League of NY, Parsons School of Design, the NYU Film Certificate Program, and the School of Visual Arts.
Ruth has exhibited her work in solo and group shows throughout the North and Southeast, and her art is displayed in corporate and private collections throughout the US and Canada. Corporate collections include the Intercontinental Hotels, AT&T, The Swiss Bank Corp., The Marriott, McDonalds, and Sullivan & Cromwell.
"As an artist, my goal is to communicate the essential nature of the psyche and express a vision of beauty both raw and elegant, for my viewers, and for myself".
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JUDY POLTRA
A multi-disciplinary artist based in Florida. Her embroiders on vintage garments and fabrics focus on women’s issues. Judy’s mother taught her hand embroidery at age 7, and she returned to this art at age 49, inspired by our current political climate.
This life size mannequin is covered with my childhood toys, and resined doll dresses. Her face is white as she recalls ghastly memories of her siblings and her self being beaten with belts. The toys represent happy memories mixed with the belts at her feet. Each belt represents a victim.
Size variable widths x 72” . Photo credit Leo Reinfeld
Viewers are invited to add their own belts to remind victims of child abuse and domestic violence that they are not alone.
This piece was last shown at the Boca Museum in 2013.
(My goal was to have it travel and keep adding belts enough to fill a room. I’d still like to make that happen, somehow.)
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3 to see May 25th features
Opening reception for the artists at 7 PM
Adriano Ficarelli | David Rohn | Patricio Rodrigues
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DAVID ROHNDavid Rohn grew up in New Jersey and Long Island and studied art and urbanism at Colgate University and NYU, and later Architecture at Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York, including backpack trips through Italy and France as a student..
He worked in NYC in Architecture and Design where he began painting in the 1980’s, later returning to Paris in ’89 where he continued to paint and exhibit at Galerie Julien Pellat, Paris.
In 1993 he moved to Miami where he also started writing about art, exhibiting at Bianca Lanza, and later Carol Jazzar Contemporary, developing socially-reflective and interactive installation and performative art projects, from which his (self)-Portraiture series’ emerged in 2008. And later, street figures beginning in 2017, after his Miami gallery closed.
His work has been includes, and widely reviewed at many galleries and museums in S. Florida, New York and L.A. and continues performative collaborative projects with Partner Danilo de LaTorre under the collab LaboMamo (www.labomamo.com), and his own self-portrait-based, unofficial public art projects.
Adriano Ficarelli | David Rohn | Patricio Rodrigues
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DAVID ROHNDavid Rohn grew up in New Jersey and Long Island and studied art and urbanism at Colgate University and NYU, and later Architecture at Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York, including backpack trips through Italy and France as a student..
He worked in NYC in Architecture and Design where he began painting in the 1980’s, later returning to Paris in ’89 where he continued to paint and exhibit at Galerie Julien Pellat, Paris.
In 1993 he moved to Miami where he also started writing about art, exhibiting at Bianca Lanza, and later Carol Jazzar Contemporary, developing socially-reflective and interactive installation and performative art projects, from which his (self)-Portraiture series’ emerged in 2008. And later, street figures beginning in 2017, after his Miami gallery closed.
His work has been includes, and widely reviewed at many galleries and museums in S. Florida, New York and L.A. and continues performative collaborative projects with Partner Danilo de LaTorre under the collab LaboMamo (www.labomamo.com), and his own self-portrait-based, unofficial public art projects.
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PATRICIO RODRIGUES
Patricio Rodrigues’ work is marked by the outpouring of virtuosity of his visual modus operandi in this case the draft. He creates a beautifully dangerous personal universe full of holes, leaks, findings and abruptness, in the sharp edges of their performances, as “something” endowed with desire, and that desire to be … the artist is palpable, and this danger is your best virtue; deadliest their patience before our eyes, because it will be almost impossible to escape its spell.
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ADRIANO FICARELLI
Adriano Ficarelli is a street photographer who was born and raised in the multicultural environment of Brazil, with strong family ties to Italy and the United States. He is a West Palm Beach, FL resident and a U.S citizen. He was deeply influenced by his extended family of artists: painters, musicians, composers and architects. In his youth, Adriano was captivated by the 1960's, black and white photographs he found in his father's collection of the Italian magazine, DOMUS. Later, at university, he studied electronics, architecture, art history and graphic design. But he became a self-taught photographer as he began experimenting with black and white film.
Every good movie is an inspiration to Adriano. His photographic style stems from his appreciation of cinema. His artistic eye observes a specific moment in the flow of life around him and captures it to reveal the special qualities that attracted him. The photograph is a candid shot evoking an emotional response. Handheld in any environment.
Every good movie is an inspiration to Adriano. His photographic style stems from his appreciation of cinema. His artistic eye observes a specific moment in the flow of life around him and captures it to reveal the special qualities that attracted him. The photograph is a candid shot evoking an emotional response. Handheld in any environment.
