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Memorial Art Museum & Gardens 78 East Granada Boulevard Ormond Beach, FL 32176 |
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Museum Hours: Monday through Friday 10am to 4pm Saturday & Sunday Noon to 4pm Closed on major holidays and between exhibitions |
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Museum Admission: A $2.00 per person donation is requested. Museum members, senior citizens (60 and older) and children admitted at no charge. |
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The Gardens are available for your enjoyment at no charge and are open from sunrise to sunset daily. |
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To reserve the Gardens or Gazebo for weddings or special events call the City of Ormond Beach's Leisure Department at (386) 676-3250. |
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Expressive Abandon: Essential Order
January 11, 2008 through February 29, 2008
The eighteen year Ormond Beach tradition, "A Starry, Starry Night" gallery walk along Granada Boulevard continues January 11th, 2008 from 6:00 8:00 p.m. The Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens will again co-host the event with the Casements Cultural Center and the Ormond Beach Historic Trust. Art exhibitions, entertainment and light refreshments will be featured at each location. Granada Boulevard's Metropolitan Gallery also will be exhibiting work. Gallery to gallery walks, popular in this country since the 19th century in museum districts like Boston and Philadelphia, are experiencing a surge in popularity and are now found in cities throughout the state, often on a monthly basis. Nearly two decades ago, Ormond Beach's Starry, Starry Night originators selected the title in homage to Van Gogh's masterpiece of the same name, and chose the January date to take advantage of Ormond's clear, winter nights, ideal for strolling and enjoying the evening stars.
This year's featured exhibition for the event at the Ormond Memorial Art Museum, "Expressive Abandon: Essential Order," will run through February 29, 2008. Presenting are Orlando artist Karen Carasik and Brian Taylor of Rome, Georgia. Carasik, who graduated from Chicago Kent College of Law in 1980, has built a second career in mixed media, painting and drawing. Carasik began her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, and has served locally as cofounder of COMMA Alternate Art Space in Orlando. A former officer for the Florida Women's Caucus for Art, Carasik is recognized locally for building exhibition opportunities for women and developing artists. Her work's motivation, self described as "Eastern philosophy with Midwestern pragmatism," incorporates pigmented pulp in mixed media, balancing broad, bold strokes and color with the precision of accurately placed detail. Her content-driven abstracts are message-heavy in areas related to the environment, relationships and displacement. They are expressionistic explosions, emblematic of the competition between emotion and analysis. Her work is widely held in corporate, municipal and private collections nationally.
Brian Taylor's acrylics on laminated wood illustrate a different, yet equally satisfying balance, celebrating the organized chaos of the natural world. Taylor received his B.FA. in Studio Art from Memphis State in 1984 and his M.F.A. from the University of Memphis in 1994, and works as an Associate Professor of Art at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia. Taylor's abstracts sing with the perfect measure of crisp and smooth, rhythmic and melodic. His visual choices are second only to his nomen-clature, with names like "Wild Fruit And Wild Flowers...life like a love letter with spelling mistakes," and "River Canyon Rapids...the surrender of forever now to the quick maybe." Giving up nature's realism to Brian Taylor is as pleasurable as it gets.
Starry Starry Night Photo Gallery
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Please join us for a private preview reception for Museum members, the artists, and their guests, on Friday, January 11, 2008, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.
The Museum staff is happy to accommodate media outlets by arranging artist/curator interviews or photo, film, and video shoot schedules with advance notice. Contact the Museum Director or the Curator of Education and Special Events, Barbara Saunders, at (386) 676-3347 for more information.
Museum hours are Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. and Saturday-Sunday 12:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. Seniors (60+), students and children are admitted to the Museum free of charge every day; a $2 donation is suggested for adult visitors.
The Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens is located at 78 E. Granada Boulevard (SR 40), Ormond Beach, beachside, on the southeast corner of Granada Boulevard and Halifax Avenue. Phone (386) 676-3347 for details and information.
This web page was updated on 31-May-2008 06:44 PM -0500
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