Power and Politics: Paintings by Lance deHaven-Smith

Dancing Trees by Lance deHaven-Smith

The Council on Culture & Arts is pleased to present Power and Politics:
Paintings by Lance deHaven-Smith an exhibition at the Artport Gallery from March 23 – May 23, 2011 as part of the Arts in Public Places program.

As an adept oil painter and a professor in the School of Public Administration and Policy at FSU, Lance deHaven-Smith is uniquely capable of using art to explore power and status. deHaven-Smith's art is an aspect of his lifelong interest in politics and power. His oil paintings show how power relations are written into the architecture, location and the even the heights of the buildings in downtown Tallahassee.

“If you look at the governmental buildings in relation to other (downtown) buildings, they are straining to be on top and overshadow one another. They aren’t thinking about how they look as a group. You end up with a good deal of struggle for presence.”

In this exhibit, deHaven-Smith displays his impressionistic style filled with color, movement and energy. Downtown scenes and city-scapes that are familiar to residents and frequent visitors are compressed and presented from unusual and imaginary vantage points challenging the viewer to contemplate how power and politics are expressed in the world around us.

The exhibition is curated by the Council on Culture & Arts’ Arts in Public Places program on behalf of the City of Tallahassee. For more information about this program, visit http://www.cocanet.org/.

For more information about this exciting exhibition or upcoming exhibitions contact Amanda Karioth Thompson at (850) 224-2500 or Amanda@cocanet.org. For a schedule of other exhibitions and arts and culture programs throughout north Florida, visit http://www.morethanyouthought.com/. Learn more about COCA and sign up to receive COCA’s weekly email blast at http://www.cocanet.org/.

Creative Tallahassee Exhibition Winners

Congratualtions to all of the artists who currently have work displayed in the 2011 Creative Tallahassee exhibit. This annual juried show has become very competitive and although it is an honor to be selected for this exhibition, COCA announced some additional kudos to a few of the artists who have artwork in this show during a public reception on March 18th.

Honorable Mention Award Winners:

Let Go by Noah Z. Brock

The Kawamoto Series by Ann Kawamoto


Tarpon by Pam Talley

3rd Place Winner:

Bridge at Southwood by Peter Bigelow

2nd Place Winner:

Mill Wheel 1832 by Marguerite Foxon

1st Place Winner:

Corrugated Castle by Bill McKeown

Congratulations to these six artists and to all of the artists selected to exhibit in Creative Tallahassee exhibition.

Creative Tallahassee 2011 Exhibit at the City Hall Art Gallery

Mothership

Photography by Steve Coleman

Don Quixote
Oil on Canvas by Stephen Bennett


Sidewalk Silhouette
Photography by Niki Dunlap


Rosa and Granite
Gouache & Graphite on Paper by Ananda Balingit-LeFils

Creative Tallahassee 2011

Celebrate the skill, talent, ingenuity and creativity of some of the most exciting artists in the Big Bend area. In this multi-media show at the City Hall Gallery, the Council on Culture & Arts’ Creative Tallahassee 2011 highlights the work of many well-known Tallahassee artists, as well as emerging artists in this highly-anticipated annual juried exhibition. The exhibition of paintings, photographs, textiles and sculptures will be on display from March 9th until May 9th.

Competition in 2011 was fierce. Over 130 individual pieces were submitted for consideration. And from those, forty artists were selected by a special jury to have their work shown in this year’s Creative Tallahassee show.

Meet the artists in the City Hall Art Gallery during a reception and awards ceremony on Friday evening, March 18th from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, and enjoy light refreshments. Awards will be presented at 6:30 pm. There is no charge for the reception or the exhibition.

The City Hall Art Gallery is located on the second floor of City Hall at 300 South Adams Street and is open Monday through Friday,

8:00 am – 5:30 pm.

Creative Tallahassee 2011 is one of over a dozen annual exhibitions curated by the Council on Culture & Arts. The exhibit is part of the City of Tallahassee’s Art in Public Places program. For more information about this exhibition, upcoming exhibitions, or the Art in Public Places program, contact Amanda Karioth Thompson at COCA, (850) 224-2500 or amanda@cocanet.org.