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June 22 - August 8, 2010

59th Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition

As the state's oldest annual juried competition, over the years, the Museum's All Florida has introduced the work of thousands of Florida artists working in all media - emerging, under recognized and established younger and mid-career artists. The 59th All Florida Juried Exhibition reinforces the Museum's commitment to Florida artists, provides professional exhibition opportunities for talented artists, and reveals a provocative glimpse - through Florida artists' eyes - of the state-of-the-art today.

The contest and exhibition drew 1398 submissions from artists around the state. This year’s juror, Linda Norden, selected 92 artworks – paintings, sculpture, photography, videos and installations – by 81 artists.

Best in Show went to Kerry Phillips of Miami for Chairs Found and Fixed, an installation on display in the front of the Museum. Merit Awards were given to three artists - Roberta Schofield for her body of work, Running and War; Noelle Mason for Nothing Much Happened Today: for Eric and Dylan and Melissa Marrero for her body of work, Measurements, Breaking It and Orange.

Ms. Norden is a curator, writer and historian based in New York, and most recently was Director of CUNY, City University of New York, Graduate Center's James Gallery. She was Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum between 1998 and 2006, and Assistant Professor at Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies between 1992 and 1998.  In 2005, Ms. Norden was commissioner of the United States Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale, where she organized, with Donna DeSalvo, Ed Ruscha's "Course of Empire"; in 2008, she was an advisor for the Whitney Biennial. She has written recently on Roni Horn, for an exhibition that will travel from the Tate Gallery to the Whitney Museum of American Art, and, with Scott Rothkopf, on the genesis of a film/event by Pierre Huyghe that they co-produced at Harvard, in 2004. In 2007, she curated an exhibition titled "Equal, that is, to the Real Itself," for the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, which included the first version of John Gerrard's "Dust Storm." Norden received her M. Phil in Art History from Columbia University, and her undergraduate B.A. in Art History and Studio Art from Brown University.

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Boca Museum Artists Guild: Biennial Members Exhibition

A juried exhibition for professional artist members of this Museum affiliate organization held every two years during the companion competition - the All Florida. A range of work is always represented which describes the pluralistic nature of artists working in South Florida. The exhibition of the Boca Raton Museum Artists Guild, a professional working artists organization, pays tribute to the level of artistic excellence existing in this state and showcases its membership's depth of talent.

This year’s juror, Dr. Carol Damian, selected 50 artworks for the exhibition. First Place went to Francene Levinson’s Rising sculpture, Second Place to Lorraine Bader’s Empress Cixi collage, Third Place to Jerome Glickman’s Rebirth of Creative Self painting, Juror’s Recognition to Hanne Niederhausen’s Gutenberg’s Notebook sculptural frottage and Honorable Mention to Sally Cooper’s La Mer triptych painting. 

Through August 8, 2010

African, Oceanic and Meso-American Treasures from the Museum's Permanent Collection

In the first decade of the twentieth century, tribal sculpture was "discovered" by modern artists. These objects - particularly those of Africa, Oceania, and Meso-America - suddenly became a crucial influence to modern art. "Primitivism" influenced the works of Gauguin, the Fauves, Picasso, Brancusi, the German Expressionists, Modigliani, Klee, Giacometti, the Surrealists, and the Abstract Expressionists, as well as contemporary artists and art movements including earthworks, shamanism, and ritual-inspired performance.

This exhibition features nearly 70 exquisite masterpieces of African, Oceanic and Meso-American art - sculptural figures, masks, ritual artifacts, architectural elements, adornments, and performance items. Visually stunning and intellectually provocative, this exhibition will confront the complex aesthetic, art- historical, and sociological problems posed by collecting and appreciating tribal art.

The exhibition presents outstanding masterpieces of African, Oceanic and Meso-American treasures from the Museum's Permanent Collection.

Skull Rack, New Guinea, Iatmul peoples, Middle Sepik River, late 19th-early 20th century, wood, human hair, fiber, shells and traces of red pigment, width 7 foot 6 inches. Permanent Collection 1990.019. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephan Lion