Current Exhibitions

The All Florida exhibition is on display at Museum’s central galleries through July 14, 2013.

This year’s juror, Mark Scala, Chief Curator at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee, selected 149 works for the exhibition by 122 Florida artists. The 62nd All Florida exhibition offers a provocative glimpse of the state-of-the-art today through mediums which include paintings, graphics, drawings, sculptures, installations, photographs, computer-generated images, and videos.

“The artists in this exhibition were selected not just because they were the best to have submitted work or because they seemed particularly reflective of place, but because their art could be shown in a museum or gallery anywhere in the world without there being a question of its aesthetic merit,” said Scala.

“Hosting the All Florida is a rigorous but rewarding experience,” said Kelli Bodle, Boca Museum Assistant Curator and exhibition curator. “It is an honor to showcase work from across the 65,000 square miles that make up Florida, revealing the artists’ response to each unique region and society.”

Mark Scala has served as Chief Curator at the Frist Center since 2000. There, he has overseen a diverse array of exhibitions from exploring folklore and science fiction (Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination), to figure painting (Paint Made Flesh), to Asian photography (Whispering Wind: Recent Chinese Photography). Before coming to the Frist Center, Scala was curator at the Art Museum of Western Virginia, where he worked for ten years. He received his MA in art history in 1988 and MFA in painting in 1979, both from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Peck finds great interest in desolate areas, and especially the inhabitants’ efforts to make it a more hospitable space. Whether photographing in Europe or the United States, people rarely appear in her pictures. Instead, one sees mere traces of their presence: old dirt roads, cattle crossings, abandoned windmills, broken-down cotton trailers, and stunted orchards.

The horizon stretches in a taut line across the middle of her 6 x 15 inch prints, accentuating a sense of limitless space and distance. Wide, empty skies proclaim the preeminence of the land and the futility of human gestures to change it.

	Pablo Picasso (Spanish, born in Málaga, 1881-1973), Fernande Olivier, 1906, Charcoal on paper, 24 x 17 5/8 inches, Permanent Collection 1989.137, The Dr. and Mrs. John J. Mayers Collection.		Edouard-Jean Vuillard (French, 1868-1940), Study for "Madame Adrien Bénard," about 1928, Pencil and ink on paper, 7 ¾ x 4 ¾ inches, Blatt.79.2000L, Courtesy of Mr. Samuel Blatt.

Dessins: 100 Years of French Drawings moves beyond the pencil, with over 40 works demonstrating a variety of techniques and materials from pen and ink, pastel, charcoal, crayon, and even touches of watercolor. Featuring important loans from the collection of Mr. Samuel Blatt and the Museum’s own collection, the exhibition presents a wide-ranging cross-section of stunning mid-19th- through early 20th-century works from artists such as Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Matisse, Jules Pascin, Picasso, Pissarro, Redon, Seurat, Claude- Émile Schuffenecker, and Vuillard.

The exhibition also marks the beginning of a renewed look and interpretation of the Boca Museum of Art’s second-floor galleries; as it moves to intermixing in-focus exhibitions with the important collection of paintings, sculpture and works on paper from its permanent collection.

Ongoing
Grooms Room (in the Collection Galleries)

Creating environments of everyday life to tell stories of people living in modern urban cities, Grooms imbues his figures with exaggerated physical characteristics and actions, which give the work an overall feeling of cartoon-like improvisation.

Grooms Room features works, drawn from the Museum’s important collection of American art, and is augmented by generous loans from two private collections, the Steven D. Robinson Family and the Robert B. Mayer Family Collection. The energy and frenzy of Red Grooms’ zany art will be sure to delight your eyes and put a smile on your face.

Ongoing
Theresa Bernstein: An Early Modernist (Paintings from the Martin and Edith Stein Collections)

This small focus exhibition presents 12 paintings, dated between 1912 and 1930, by the long-neglected modernist New York artist Theresa Bernstein (1885-2002).

Born in Philadelphia, Bernstein was at the heart of the avant-garde from the moment she arrived in New York in 1912.  A friend of artists Zorach, O'Keeffe, Stieglitz, and Demuth, Bernstein’s technical ability, command of color, and commitment to populist subjects aligned her with the radical Ashcan school early in the 20th century.

The exhibition reveals the modernist development of a woman artist who captured the temperment of her times: New York public places, Coney Island, Carnegie Hall, and scenes of Gloucester, Massachusetts, where she and her artist husband William Meyerowitz, had a summer home.

Organized from the collection of Martin and Edith Stein.

THERESA BERNSTEIN (American, 1890-2002), The Readers, 1914, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 inches. From the Collection of Martin and Edith Stein