By Francesca Lyn, December 2008
Photos by Robert Ellis
Independent, local artists are trying to do something different in Gainesville. Long known for its diverse music scene, Gainesville is quickly becoming a place for new and exciting artwork.  Not content with renderings of palm trees in oil paint or tranquil watercolor beach scenes, two artists are creating new perspectives on what galleries can display in Gainesville. Read the rest of this entry »

By Charles H. Meyer, September 2008

Ridiculous as it sounds, the excretory has been part of modern art since Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, a signed urinal, was exhibited behind a curtain in 1917.  Although initially rejected as nothing but a practical joke, Fountain is now considered as important to the advent of conceptual art in the 1960s as Manet’s Olympia (1863) was to the birth of French Impressionism.  

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By Charles H. Meyer, July 2008

John Patterson’s collages on display at Volta Coffee, on southwest Second Street in the parking garage, bring together various 20th- and 21st-century art movements as surely as they do an array of vibrant imagery cut painstakingly from hundreds of cookie tins. 

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By Horacio Sierra, May 2008

            Gainesville native Mac Stone’s photography project “The Hidden Heart of Alachua County” will be in residence at the Randy Batista Gallery in downtown Gainesville through May 30. The gallery offers guests an intimate peek into some of Alachua County’s most secluded natural areas, many of which have been acquired by the taxpayer-funded Alachua County Forever land preservation program. Read the rest of this entry »