2006 Archive
Juxtaposition
January 6th - February 4th, 2006
Artists: Ron Yrabedra and Barbara Psimas
FAMU Professor Yrabedra creates fabric and gold leaf images that form a bridge between ancient iconography and American quilt designs. Local artist Barbara Psimas’ paintings involve robust colors and flowing movement while her newest work educes sensual sculptural forms from materials far more humble in origin. Sponsored by The Gem Collection.
Identity
February 17th - March 18th, 2006
Tennessee native Libby Rowe deals with perceptions of gender, sexuality and taboo through mixed-media sculpture and painting. Texan Jade Walker, textile sculptor, transforms traditional symbols of power and submission (neckties and hoopskirts, embroidery and knitting) to shed light on sexual identity. Local artist Dom Guarneschelli explores nostalgia and longing through photography that mixes new self-portraiture and vintage snapshot images.
Domesticity
March 24th - April 22nd, 2006
New Mexico’s Christine Chin makes food sculptures recast in glorious cookbook photography format to offer humorously twisted recipes like “Eavesdrop Soup” and “Finger Sushi Rolls” - Betty Crocker beware! University of Central Florida’s award winning Professor, Rebecca Sittler, photographs the intimacies of house and home using an unlikely cast of characters. Well known Tallahassee artist Donnalee Pond-Koenig offers drawings mixed with collage and hand made papers as well as watercolor on special processed and treated papers.
TEXTure
April 28th - May 27, 2006
Abstract forms speak volumes. Sarah Raulerson creates large-scale cast iron and fabricated steel sculptures with organic qualities. Bill Humphries’ photography and painting captures miniscule detail in everyday objects, forcing the eye to focus in new ways, crafting order from chaos. Miami artist Michael Hunnewell paints the incongruity of a gritty urban landscape and its unplanned architectural jumble with mixed media including limestone, concrete, sand and wood.
ANJE
June 2nd - 30th, 2006
All-media National Juried Exhibition (ANJE) - Features a variety of work from outstanding artists from all over the continental United States. The jurors were Dr. Ronald Nasgaard, Director of the Art Department at Florida State University and Omar Thompson, Art Professor at Florida A & M University. They hand selected 25 individuals from nearly 120 well qualified applicants to form the exhibition. Awards include a $500 Best in Show prize and two $250 “Runners Up” prizes.
Adrianne Little
June 2nd - 30th, 2006
Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery: Adrianne Little is a video installation artist from Buffalo, New York. She uses video to explore trauma and ritual by questioning the presence and absence of the maternal body. The work literally transforms spaces while incorporating metaphor gleaned from nostalgic items related to motherly instinct, which is embedded in what she calls the matrilineal ghost. Little’s “ghost” serves as a vehicle for her cultural and personal history that can all be seen through video.
Trainsitions: An FSU MFA Exhibition
July 17th - 28th, 2006
Summer is a time for transitions in the Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) program. The second-year students have finished their thesis work and are preparing for new lives in art and teaching. First-years students have completed one year of learning and creating and are now ready to be leaders both in the program and in the classroom. This show will highlight contemporary works in a wide variety of media: painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, print-making and mixed media.
Julia Morrisroe
July 17th - 28th, 2006
Julia Morrisroe is an installation artist from Gainesville, Florida who plays off of popular culture, engaing with issues including consumerism, originality and ownership. She works in a variety of media. Her drawings, installations and objects provoke a sense of the familiar while exploiting the tension between a copy and an original.
Blank Walls
First Friday, August 4th, 6:00 - 9:00pm
621 will kick off the new exhibition season on First Friday, August 4th, 2006. This year we are planning to start the year with something a little different from our usual activities. Starting at 6pm we will have “Blank Walls” at the Gallery. We will have crayons and open frams mounted in the Gallery so that our new members can fill the empty walls because without their support that’s all we would ever have. Blank Walls is a membership drive to help support the Gallery and raise money for the upcoming exhibition seaons. All membership dollars go to support the exhibitions and other events at 621. We are planning to bring you a new and outstanding exhibition each month next year with an opening on each First Friday. Come and show your support, listen to some live music, draw on the walls and become a member!
Sense & Perception
September 1st - 29th, 2006
Local artists and professors from Florida State University, Florida A & M University and the University of Central Florida. Holly Hanessian creates a visual narrative based on items gained or lost in our lives. Objects hang from delicate ceramic chains suggesting that our lives are not as straight forward as we may think. Todd Bertolaet, a nature photographer, documents endangered environments including both natural and manmade characteristics of the Florida landscape. E. Brady Robinson explores the notion of play, absuridty and repitition as a form of alteration and art making. “Excerpts” features early and recent video work where the mouth is the locus of task oriented performance art.
Suspended Dreams
October 6th - 22nd, 2006
Massachusetts artist Gary Duehr is a photographer who captures the moments between events, in which narrative is fragmented, something has just occurred or is about to happen. Tallahassee artist Linda Hall creates creepy images and nightmarish sculptures that evoke uncomfortable feelings related to otherwise nurturing environments. Also from Tallahassee, up-and-coming artist John Lytle Wilson paints colorful cartoon-like images of animals with human qualities.
Armageddon
October 31st, 2006
Our annual non-juried all media exhibition. It its 25th year, Armageddon celebrates the rule of misrule by offering the Gallery walls to local and emerging artists. The exhibition is historically placed near Halloween and the reception is done in the dark with only flashlights for illumination. Many arrive in costumes and the result is a fun and funky event filled with eclectic artwork and eccentric clientelle.
Seconds
November 3rd - 5th, 2006
This brief exhibition is a group show that features the work of artists who are on the verge of hitting the national art scene. Each artist is enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts Program at Florida State University. These outstanding and energetic young artists will produce a cohesive exhibit involving cutting edge contemporary art. Featuring works by second-year students: A. Light, Andrew Ross, Becki Rutta, Brad Williams, Cathering Morris, Jeff Crawford, Julie Guyot, Kazuyo Hira, Kegera Matthews-Lawrence, Phil Gleason, Resa Groff and Tadj Dragoo.
13th Annual Art Auction
November 10th, 2006
Auctioneers: T&W Auction Company
This year’s auction promises to be our best yet, with an outstanding selection of the finest in art going to the highest bidder in what has become a much anticipated Tallahassee social event. The auction attracts a well-informed crowd of art patrons and connoisseurs and is a high point in the 621 Gallery exhibition season. With new works from the regions best and brightest artists on display, the community gets a chance to view world class artworks in Tallahassee’s trendiest gallery space. We invite you to join us for an exciting evening of live and silent bidding, food, wine and of course great art.
Out of Context
December 1st - 29th, 2006
Randy Polumbo is a sculptor from New York City that takes everyday objects and transforms them into intricate, sometimes mechanized and often elegant objects that are at odds with their original function. Amy Fleming is from Fort Myers, Florida and uses scratchboard to draw images of urban salvage yards. These works depict the detritus of consumer culture as a source of useful items for those who know what to look for. Trash to one becomes trasure to another. Jeremy Colbert is a sculptor in Tallahassee who uses metal, ceramics and natural matierials in his exploration of symbolism.