St Augustine art galleries

Art Exhibition | 10/29/21 – 10/30/22
Picturing a Nation: American Art from the Lightner Museum | GROUP
St. Augustine

Lightner Museum
75 King St St. Augustine FL 32084
(904) 824-2874

Picturing a Nation is a major reinstallation of American paintings and sculpture from the Lightner Museum’s permanent collection.

In the decades following the Civil War the United States witnessed a period of rapid modernization. The dramatic shift from an agrarian to industrial economy irrevocably transformed the country. As a new nation emerged artists critics and patrons all sought to define an American art that captured the spirit of the young nation.

While American cultural political and commercial life underwent tremendous changes opportunities for the creation exhibition and sale of works of art expanded spurred in part by increased patronage from new sources of wealth. The entrepreneurs of the post-Civil War era amassed great fortunes through financing railroads oil mining iron and steel and other capitalist ventures. These titans of American business industry and commerce expressed their new-found status by building stately mansions which they filled with beautiful objects and substantial art collections.

To satisfy their Gilded Age patrons American artists embraced the broader artistic traditions of Europe exploring subject matter and styles entirely new to American art. During this time still life genre the human figure natural history and particularly the Romantic landscape became popular subjects for American artists. European styles—Neoclassicism Romanticism Realism and Impressionism— were all adopted by artists who filtered them through a uniquely American lens.

From America’s great vistas and natural wonders to intimate scenes of St. Augustine Picturing a Nation presents a vibrant vision of the country on a local and national scale through late-nineteenth and early twentieth century American art.

Art Exhibition | 11/30/21 – 11/30/21
| Daud Akhriev
St. Augustine

Cutter & Cutter Fine Art
25 King St St. Augustine FL 32084
904-810-0460

Daud Akhriev was born in the former Soviet Union in 1959. He studied classical painting and drawing for 14 years graduating with honors from the Repin Institute (Russian Academy of Fine Art) with a masters degree in fine art under the tutelage of the late painter and Academic Piotr Fomin. In 1991 he emigrated to Chattanooga Tennessee. Akhriev now a U.S. citizen shares his time between Andalusia Spain and Chattanooga Tennessee with his artist wife.

Akhriev is internationally sought after as an instructor for figure and landscape painting and for his monumental work. The Four Seasons his four 9 foot bronze figures completed for the city of Chattanooga are listed on the national Public Art Registry. Additional public art includes the Erlanger Chapel Mosaic and the Baylor School Mosaic as well as murals at the Collegedale Seventh-Day Adventist Church and St. Peter’s Episcopal.

Daud Akhriev Stylistic Pluralism was published in 2002 by Common Place publishing. He is also featured in Traditions Rediscovered the Finley Collection of Russian Art. Akhriev’s drawings are in several books about the Repin Institute both in Russian language and in Chinese and in numerous magazines such as Artists Magazine Pastel Journal Island Journal Chattanooga Magazine Southern Living and American Art Collector.

Oil Painters of America Annual Juried Exhibition Most Original Master Signature Division Award of Excellence
USA 2018
Spanish Pastel Biennial Rembrandt Award Oviedo
Spain 2018
Most Imaginative Painting Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition Steamboat Springs Museum of Art Colorado 2018
Pastel 100 Pastel Journal 2018
Pastel 100 Pastel Journal 2017
Master Signature Status Oil Painters of America 2016
Silver Medal Winner Oil Painters of American National Juried Exhibition 2016
Grand Prize Plein Air Magazine Spring Competition 2016
Silver Prize Plein Air Magazine Spring Competition ]2016
Grand Prize Pastel Journal 100 2015
Second Portrait Prize Pastel Journal 100 2015
Finalist Salon 2015 ARC Figurative Work
Ten Best Mosaics 2015 (one of) Society of American Mosaic Artists 2015
Winning Team Erlanger Hospital Chapel Redesign competition 2014-15 (with HK Architects)
Featured Artist Hunter Museum Invitational Biennial Exhibition II 2010
National Registry of Public Art for the Four Seasons
Chattanooga TN 2009
Best Still Life Salon International Greenhouse Gallery 2008
Best Still Life and Second Place Overall National Juried Show Oil Painters of America 2006
Feature Article Artists Magazine Feb 2006

Art Exhibition | 03/25/22 – 01/01/22
MEMORIES OF JACKSONVILLE IN THE 1880S

| Frederick Carl Frieseke
Jacksonville

Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
829 Riverside Ave Jacksonville FL 32204
904-356-6857

Noted American Impressionist painter Frederick Carl Frieseke moved to northeast Florida in 1881 at the age of seven. Along with his father and sister they lived in Floral Bluff just outside the Jacksonville city limits. Today this location is in Arlington not far from Jacksonville University. The young boy was enchanted with his new surroundings. His family stayed four years before returning to Michigan. Although he would not return Frieseke never forgot his time on the First Coast. In his mid-40s while living in France he created a series of watercolors and paintings inspired by his childhood and in 1936 recounted his memories to his daughter. The words that follow are Frieseke’s own part of a narrative he called Uneventful Reminiscences. Like the watercolors on view it is part of the Cummer Museum’s permanent collection. In conjunction with our own anniversary and the City’s Bicentennial we hope you enjoy this snapshot of life in Jacksonville in the 1880s.

Art Exhibition | 02/04/22 – 06/26/22
PROJECT ATRIUM:
Letters of Love

| CHIHARU SHIOTA
Jacksonville

Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville
333 N Laura St Jacksonville FL 32202
904-366-6911

Berlin-based artist Chiharu Shiota (b. Osaka Japan 1972) is known for her performances drawings and installations that explore the intangible. Particularly well-known is her series of installations consisting of threads primarily in red or black strung across entire spaces often incorporating found or collected objects. Trained as a painter she found her ideal mode of expression early on in her career as a way to “paint” in space. Shiota describes the thread as a metaphor for human relationships that “can be cut intertwined and entangled.” Often arising out of personal experience memories or dreams her work attempts to express our most intimate experience of life: consciousness existence memory and loss; the inner universe that defines the boundaries of self and our relationship to others and the world around us.

For Project Atrium Shiota has created an immersive environment with suspended red ropes throughout the space. Weaving traces of hope for human connectedness the ropes enclose letters of love received by the artist from across the globe.

Art Exhibition | 02/07/22 – 04/25/22
Devils and Saints | Richard Heipp
Jacksonville

Florida Mining
5300 Shad Rd Jacksonville FL 32257

In Devis and Saints Richard Heipp explores the interplay between artifact artwork and presentation particularly as rendered by reliquaries. “I am fascinated by the macabre beauty and strangeness represented in these beautiful intricate devotional sculptural objects” says Heipp. “I find reliquaries present an intriguing subject that questions issues surrounding belief faith and our value systems.”

Art Exhibition | 03/04/22 – 04/23/22
Origins | Karen Hampton
St. Augustine

Crisp-Ellert Art Museum
48 Sevilla St St. Augustine FL 32084
904-826-8530

February 16 2022 — We are pleased to announce the exhibition Karen Hampton: Origins
opening at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College on Friday March 4. Hampton’s textilebased work explores stories of the African American diaspora as well as her ancestral ties to
Northeast Florida. The artist will give a walkthrough of the exhibition on Friday March 4 at
5pm followed by an opening reception until 8pm.
On Saturday March 5 at 6pm Hampton will join her esteemed colleagues Dr. Kathleen Deagan
and Dr. Jane Landers in a panel discussion to contextualize where the Clarke-Garvin family fit
into the histories of Spanish Florida and United States. This panel discussion will take place in
the Flagler Room at Flagler College and will also be livestreamed. These events are free and
open to the public and masks are required. The Origins exhibition will continue through
Saturday April 23.
Through extensive genealogical research Karen Hampton has traced her family to descendants
in St. Augustine Florida that includes the British-born George J.F. Clarke (1774-1836) who
served as the Surveyor General and Lieutenant Governor during the Second Spanish Period and
his unmarried wife Flora Leslie (1771-1832) a formerly enslaved woman whom he manumitted.
The fascinating story of their large multiracial land-owning family in the late 18th to mid19th centuries has been the catalyst for an ongoing body of work since her first visit to St.
Augustine in 2006.
Hampton’s work utilizes hand-woven textiles digital prints and embroidery on cloth and hand
dyed fabrics to consider her own lineage and how these individuals are connected to Black
American history within Spanish Florida the United States and the African Diaspora. Often
merging ancestral methods of textile production with more experimental contemporary
processes the work represents a window into the world her ancestors had to traverse from
the late 1700s to the Civil War and the return to their homeland in Florida.
A site visit in June 2021 served as further inspiration for new works Hampton has created for
this exhibition. In the installation America Now and Then narrowly woven indigo and bast
fibers unfurl and curl around vintage spools from weaving mills in Lowell Massachusetts where
the artist lives and works. Running close to twenty yards long the work suggests an aerial view
of the landscape or a map. As Hampton has explained this piece represents the distance along
the coast from Fernandina to St. Augustine as well as considers the means of production of the
transatlantic slave trade and speaks to the role of northern financiers who enabled the system.
Fort Mose and the Oysters is derived from a photograph the artist took of the grove of trees
that stand where Fort Mose the first legally sanctioned free African settlement once stood.
Fort Mose Historic State Park extends into a tidal creek where plentiful oyster beds are exposed
at low tide. This material is abundant along the waterways of Northeast Florida where her
ancestors once traveled and has been used more broadly as the building blocks of society in
Florida. The landscape of Northeast Florida has become a poetical point of departure for
Hampton to consider connections between the past and present and through a combination of
stories and historical documentation from the lives of George J.F. Clarke Flora Leslie and their
descendants the artist has crafted a generational story of love dedication and survival.

Art Exhibition | 03/11/22 – 05/22/22
AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES: STORIES FROM THE AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM COLLECTION | GROUP
Jacksonville

Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
829 Riverside Ave Jacksonville FL 32204
904-356-6857

America is a nation of stories.

Everyone has a story to tell—a life lived as a witness to and participant in events both private and shared. The stories that we tell as individuals are single strands in a grander narrative. Together they build a consensus around the principles of a nation maintaining a delicate balance between the one and the many and the fulfillment of self and being better citizens. The exhibition captures the power of storytelling through artworks that express the dualities of artist and subject to reveal a simple truth: As much as we like to mythologize America is not monolithic; the ideal and the reality diverge.

The artists in this exhibition have led vastly different lives but they are all united as Americans. In this era of unremitting uniformity and conventionalizing through mass means of commercialization communication transportation technology and media it is the very diversity of experience heritage perspective and place that revitalizes renews and strengthens. Democracy’s promise is to welcome and direct that diversity toward an implicit and collective understanding of “the way things are.”

That is America.

Click here to view the label booklet.

This exhibition has been organized by the American Folk Art Museum New York with support provided by Art Bridges.

Originally curated for installation at the American Folk Art Museum February 11 2020 – January 3 2021 by Stacy C. Hollander Independent Curator. Tour coordinated by Emelie Gevalt Curator of Folk Art the American Folk Art Museum.

Exhibition Season Presenter

City of Jacksonville

Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville

Lory Doolittle

Ronald and Karen Rettner

Exhibition Lead Sponsor

State of Florida

The Robert D. Davis Family Endowment

The Schultz Family Endowment

Exhibition Sponsor

Director’s Circle Donors at the Cummer Museum
The Winston Family Foundation

Art Exhibition | 03/12/22 – 06/11/22
WINGED DANCERS | MICHAEL CENCI
Jacksonville

The Art Center Coop
9501 Arlington Expy suite #430 Jacksonville FL 32225
904-233-9252

Michael Cenci was born and raised in Jacksonville Florida. He has been photographing Florida wildlife and nature for over 25 years. As an avid outdoorsman he attempts to capture nature at her most defining moments. From the delicate butterfly perched on a flower to the prehistoric gator lurking in the swamp from the tranquility of the marsh at sunrise to the bald eagle capturing his prey. Michael hopes that those viewing his photography will see the wonder of nature through his eyes. Mr. Cenci’s photographs are on display in many corporate collections and local galleries and have been published in The Daily Mail The Daily Telegraph and The Mirror in Great Britain as well as other international media.

Art Exhibition | 03/15/22 – 11/13/22
REVOLVE | PERMANENT COLLECTION WORKS
Jacksonville

Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
829 Riverside Ave Jacksonville FL 32204
904-356-6857

Throughout the Museum’s 60-year history its permanent collection has grown from 60 objects to more than 5000. See this collection in a new light as familiar works are paired with exciting loans from global contemporary artists working across media. Even though they span generations and geographic boundaries Tiffany Chung Jean-Ulrick Désert Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian Juan Fontanive Titus Kaphar John Frederick Kensett Amy Sherald Frans Snyders Pat Steir and Mildred Thompson among others explore the concepts of portraiture landscape cartography allegory and natural world. Come take a moment to consider the expected and unexpected links between them.

This Exhibition is organized by the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens.

Exhibition Season Presenter

City of Jacksonville

Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville

Lory Doolittle

Ronald and Karen Rettner

Exhibition Lead Sponsor

State of Florida

The Robert D. Davis Family Endowment

The Schultz Family Endowment

Exhibition Sponsor

Director’s Circle Donors at the Cummer Museum

The Winston Family Foundation

Presenting Sponsor

Ronald and Karen Rettner

Art Exhibition | 04/01/22 – 05/01/22
Middle School Art Show | GROUP
St. Augustine

St Augustine Art
22 Marine St St. Augustine FL 32084
904-824-2310

Students in grades 6 – 8 display their work in this colorful exhibit. A community outreach partnership with St. Johns County Schools.

The 17th Annual St. Johns All-County Middle School Art Show is on display both in-gallery and online April 1 – May 2 2022.

Art Exhibition | 04/01/22 – 05/01/22
Spring Members Show | GROUP
St. Augustine

St Augustine Art
22 Marine St St. Augustine FL 32084
904-824-2310

This bi-annual exhibit of STAAA members features a variety of works by emerging seasoned and professional artists. Works may be any style medium or subject.

The Spring Members Show is on display both in-gallery and online April 1 – May 1 2022.

Art Exhibition | 04/01/22 – 05/20/22
Iceland Series | Dana Hargrove

St. Augustine

Lightner Museum
75 King St St. Augustine FL 32084
(904) 824-2874

A Professor of Studio Art at Rollins College Winter Park Florida Dana Hargrove concerns herself with ideas that frame our perceptions of the land and our sense of place and space. In her art she employs a range of media from photography collage sculpture and painting installation including large-scale site-specific works.

Hargrove’s spatially illusionistic representations offer synthesized versions of the natural landscape where organic forms are tamed and organized in a way that highlights mankind’s ongoing subordination of nature.

About the Iceland Series
For a month I walked the terrain of a small remote fjord in Northern Iceland. Underfoot the track changed swiftly from tarmac to gravel mossy grass to mud over sharp rocks up to delicate mountain flowers and cushioning heather. Beyond the icy skyline constantly shifted through a variety of clean blues; horizontal banding etched across the heights of the surrounding mountains. Below road fence and path echoed these natural contours.

Work in the studio became infused with this topography. My beating of the tracks with their constant changes worked its way into the explorative process of my paintings. The outside expanse often fettered by man’s imprint instilled a rhythm of mark-making that despite the freedom of approach is mindful of the framing principle of order that reverberates through a journey no matter how far we travel from civilization.
– Dana Hargrove

The exhibition opening for Iceland Series will take place during the Lightner Museum’s April 1 Community Open House
About the Artist
Born in Edinburgh Scotland Dana Hargrove graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Dundee University Scotland with a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honors in Painting. She continued her education in the United States with a Master of Fine Art from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Hargrove is a Professor of Studio Art at Rollins College Winter Park Florida where she now resides.

Hargrove is represented by the Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia and exhibits her work both nationally and internationally. She has received several honors and awards including the National Young Painters Competition First Place Award and was a finalist for the 2017 Florida Prize. She has received artist-in-residence fellowships for The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts Hambidge Center for the Arts Vermont Studio Center CentralTrak and Greatmore Studios in Cape Town South Africa.

Art Exhibition | 04/01/22 – 12/31/22
War & Pieces | Bouke de Vries

St. Augustine

Lightner Museum
75 King St St. Augustine FL 32084
(904) 824-2874

This spring the Lightner Museum’s grand ballroom gallery will be transformed by a dramatic ceramic centerpiece created from thousands of fragments of white porcelain.

War & Pieces is a monumental sculpture created by London-based Dutch artist Bouke de Vries. A former conservator of ceramics de Vries uses broken ceramics as the primary medium for his artwork celebrating the “beauty of destruction” through his fragmentary sculptures.

De Vries’ War & Pieces is a contemporary interpretation of the decorative sculptures that adorned Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century banquet tables. During the era the ruling classes set their tables for the dessert course with elaborate centerpieces painstakingly fashioned from costly sugar. These whimsical structures depicted classical allegories grand battles and architectural follies. Over time the fragile confectionary creations were replaced with porcelain fabricated by the leading manufacturers of the day including Meissen and Sèvres who used skilled confectioners as their first modelers.

De Vries reinvents this tradition creating a provocative battle scene where sugar historic porcelain and modern plastic wage a war of materials eras cultures and values.

Looking For Gravity

Florida Mining
5300 Shad Rd Jacksonville FL 32257

In Looking For Gravity each artist seeks to first uncover the hidden forces that weigh on the world around them then render them into a visual narrative that explores the relationship between identity and place.

Art Exhibition | 06/03/22 – 06/26/22
Annual Honors Show | GROUP
St. Augustine

St Augustine Art
22 Marine St St. Augustine FL 32084
904-824-2310

They’re the best of the best. This impressive exhibit highlights the talents and new works of STAAA award-winning artists from the past 3 years.

Annual Honors Show is on display both in-gallery and online June 3 – 26 2022.

Florida Mining
5300 Shad Rd Jacksonville FL 32257

A “gateway to Source, Love, and God,” Morgan Goldsmith invites intrepid viewers on a journey through pain, shame, fear, and anger towards a new and reclaimed sense of Self. The arduous story in these works is of healing from birth and other trauma. The fragmented compositions sing a song of a soul torn apart and fighting to be healed, to return home.