“We Dream a World: African American Landscape Painters of Mid-Century Florida, The Highwaymen” is the heavyweight title of a dreamy exhibition at Selby Botanical Gardens. Curated by Radiah Lovette ...
Attendees of the Orange County Regional History Center’s Florida Highwaymen Meet and Greet event on December 12, 2015, admire the paintings of the late Highwayman artist James Gibson. The Space Launch ...
If you traveled by way of Florida's Route 1 in the '60s and '70s, you might have encountered young African-American landscape artists selling oil paintings of an idealized, candy-colored, Kennedy-era ...
Florida’s natural world, like its social world, is of many minds: serene, clear, or bright one minute, then dark, indignant, or utterly furious the next. And sometimes it’s a quixotic mix. The ...
Jackie Brice is one of the most well-known Florida landscape painters working today. Her paintings of the state’s rugged beauty are found in the homes of the rich and famous and her body of work ...
While the electric feel of Disney World and the neon lights of South Beach draw millions of people to Florida every year, the willowing pines and wilderness attract others. Keith Padgett, an artist ...
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — For James Gibson, a black college dropout in the 1950s, the future seemed dreary. Gibson, living here in what was an outpost of the Jim Crow South, saw few opportunities besides ...
Gray trees, bearded in Spanish moss, stand at attention before soft, glowing sunsets. Birds fly overhead, their reflections mirrored in the water below. This is the iconic imagery associated with the ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Here’s what’s brewing! John Gleason is set to present his “Florida Landscapes” paintings at Tallahassee Community College Fine Arts Gallery. The display will also feature ...
DAYTONA BEACH – Looking at the serene landscapes represented in the Florida Coast to Coast exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Sciences here might give viewers a sense of tranquility. But look closer at ...