Established in 2010, The Hidden Lantern Gallery is committed to the visibility of local and regional emerging artists. Exhibitions feature works of art in various media, with prominence given to painting and sculpture, but where traditional materials are utilized in unconventional ways. It is the unlimited possibilities inherent in art-making that incite our curiosity and motivate our work. With the creative process at the fore, it is our hope to engage and inspire.
Art Workshops: Summer Schedule
EVENING ADULT ART WORKSHOPS
CHILDREN’S ART WORKSHOPS
Every Wednesday during high season, starting May 23rd, from 2:30pm – 3:15pm. $12 per attendee. Please reserve your child’s place in advance. Space is limited.
Polished Landscapes: Venetian Plaster Reimagined
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, May 3, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
The Hidden Lantern Gallery announces the opening of Polished Landscapes: Venetian Plaster Reimagined, featuring Atlanta-based artist James P. Garrett whose work is a perfect match for the Gallery’s aim to present traditional materials utilized in unconventional ways. The exhibition is on view from May 3 to June 9, 2012, with an Artist Reception the evening of Thursday, May 3, from 5:00pm – 7:00pm.
Born in the United Kingdom, Garrett’s training and early career as a painter was of the transatlantic kind, working his way through media and techniques in London and New York. In the mid-eighties, he was introduced to the medium of Venetian plaster, skills for which he honed with leading faux-finishing artisans, producing interior details for clients such as Jackie Onassis, The Rockefellers, Yoko Ono, and Donald Trump.
Yet it took the perspective and boldness that only certain artists possess to take a medium of the decorative realm and bring it to the world of fine art. Garrett’s luminous landscapes that fracture categorization are now featured by gallerists and found in private collections in both this country and abroad.
TECHNIQUE
Modern-day Venetian plaster has its origins in the construction of villas and churches in the lagoon waters of Venice. It replicated the appearance of marble without the dangers of its weight. It is a combination of ground marble and lime, emulsified into a silky consistency. Each of Garrett’s pieces is made of multiple colored layers of Venetian plaster, applied with a variety of trowels, plastering blades and knives. They are paintings devoid of paint, created without a single bristled brush. At early and late stages, Garrett will purposefully wash away surface areas, revealing hidden hues and creating a subtle interplay of color and tone.
The final phases include a vigorous polishing that not only produces a glossy appearance, but also draws out color. A varnish is applied to seal the work and add a desired luster. Garrett intends the works to be frameless, hung as if floating away from the wall. For this he uses sheets of birch wood ply to form the main support with a hidden frame structure behind.
Featured Artist: Laurel Siwicki
Impossibly delicate and astoundingly beautiful, these works are nothing short of wondrous. Images from the opening night soiree and more of the exhibition’s holdings can be found on the Gallery’s facebook page. While there, please like the Gallery’s profile to stay-in-the-know on exhibition news and special events.
Navigation is on view at The Hidden Lantern Gallery until April 22, 2012.
Images by Brandan Babineaux Photography.
Navigation: A Sculpture Exhibition
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, March 15, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
The Hidden Lantern Gallery opens its first show entirely devoted to the medium of sculpture. A rare happening, it presents new work of local artist Laurel Siwicki and artist-in-residence Lauren Carvalho. To mark the occasion, the Gallery will host an Artist Reception on the first evening of show, Thursday, March 15, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm.
Recalling the romantic beauty and detailed naturalism of Great Britain’s 19th century Pre-Raphaelites, a movement that set out to challenge the rigidity and stifling rules of Victorian England, Siwicki’s sculptural works echo their call to break down boundaries with poetic and expressional force. Natural symbols—coastal birds and cypress trees—and literary heroines, molded in clay, transmit the meaning of the work. Siwicki explains that “often birds are my vehicle for expressing my intrigue for the natural world and time… the ability to be an observer from a larger perspective, to fly, to escape, and to travel without boundaries or attachments.”
In this exhibition, resident artist Lauren Carvalho will debut a new series of cross-shaped sculptures. The dichotomy between the slender silhouette and the material’s rawness — the palm bark’s jagged ends — is so beautifully unforced, it creates an unusual refined aesthetic.
Navigation will be on view from March 15 to April 22.
New Eye Candy
These new arrivals, a series of 30A-inspried prints by Paul de Denus, are fresh off the printing press. With the flat, graphic quality of traditional Japanese woodblock prints and a vivid palette saturated to perfection, these prints are decidedly gorgeous. Their modern aesthetic matches the freshness of Rosemary and Alys Beaches, and they exude enough visual appeal to inspire a serious February daydream.
Now available through The Hidden Lantern Gallery. Please contact the shop for details.
On the Walls Now
From the studio to the gallery walls, follow the artist’s imagination.
On view at The Hidden Lantern Gallery is a curated selection of fanciful works by Gallery Director and resident artist Lauren Carvalho. An arrangement of new productions and archived pieces, the show represents all areas of the artist’s creative output, from drawing to sculpture, illustration to print, painting to collage.
Selected works are on view until February 8, 2012.
Images: Lauren Carvalho, Blue Bird on Green, mixed media on canvas, 26 x 22 inches and Sailing Among the Balloons, acrylic on canvas, 22 x 26 inches. Images courtesy of the artist.
Art History Inspirations
Fine art and fashion often intersect, with couture collections composed of sculptural, wearable objects. But for their spring 2012 lines, fashion designers took their cues so directly from modern and contemporary art that runways read like art history slide quizzes.
On the Rodarte runway, Van Gogh’s Starry Night (1889), housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, billowed in three-dimensional form, its emotive palette and sweeping brushstrokes adding the right amount of drama to the look above.
The minimal works of Blinky Palermo, the German painter whose retrospective is on view at DIA: Beacon in New York’s Hudson Valley, can be seen in the black ribbon details at Chanel.
Images via Vogue.com; concept by Katherine Bernard.
Artist Reception Photographs
As one can imagine, the Artist Reception for Where Color + Texture Collide was brilliant. The new show, full of exquisite color and textures that tempt the touch, was attended and enjoyed by many.
Photographs from the evening can now be viewed on The Hidden Lantern Gallery’s Facebook page. To get up to the moment news on Gallery exhibitions and events, not to mention sneak peaks, please ‘Like’ our page.
Where Color + Texture Collide is on view at The Hidden Lantern Gallery until December 10.
Where Color + Texture Collide
ARTIST RECEPTION Wednesday, November 9, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
The Hidden Lantern Gallery announces the opening of Where Color + Texture Collide, featuring the work of Donnelle Clark and Resident Artist Lauren Carvalho, with an Artist Reception on the evening of Wednesday, November 9, from 5:00pm – 7:00pm.
Color harnesses the sight and the texture is almost touchable. By means of vivid color and varying surfaces, the work of Donnelle Clark plays to both optical and tactile senses. The artist utilizes materials with different textural qualities, such as Japanese paper, tissue, sand, and as diverse as burlap and lace, to imaginatively map the natural landscape. The results defy categorization and dazzle the eye, oscillating between abstraction and representation with each vermillion brushstroke in the sunset and grains of sand from the shore.
Also on view is a selection of Gallery Director and Resident Artist Lauren Carvalho’s well-known oceanic sculptures, for which she sources her materials from the local landscape. Leaves, palm bark and pine cones are selected for the right textural qualities and natural color shifts and come together to form nuanced compositions of tone, line, and texture. These assemblages give new purpose to the materials—one that imparts a renewed notion of sculptural beauty, routed in the Florida landscape.
Where Color + Texture Collide is on view November 7 – December 10, 2011 at The Hidden Lantern Gallery.
Coastal Dune Lakes Children’s Workshop
How many Coastal Dune Lakes in South Walton can you name? Do you have a favorite? In this special workshop, children are invited to draw their own collage of these unique and rare lakes, while learning the names, history, shapes and their placement in Walton County.
Coastal Dune Lakes Children’s Workshop
Wednesday, October 12
3:00pm – 4:00pm (after Bookstore story time)
Price: $15
All colorful and sticky materials provided.
Please sign up by contacting the Gallery. Space is limited.
This workshop, in tandem with the Jewels of 30A exhibition, will be lead by Brenda Rees|Shaping Florida. Brenda holds a Florida Master Naturalist Coastal Certificate and is a former Coastal Dune Lake Lakewatch volunteer.
Image: Brenda Rees, Coastal Dune Lake Collage (detail), mixed media, 16 x 20 in. Courtesy of the artist.
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