Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Breaking News! In Today's SunSentinel: Art Synergy's All Palm Beach Exhibit at Art Palm Beach Booth #718




Palm Beach County Convention Center
ArtPalmBeach will run noon-7 p.m. Jan. 22-25 and noon-6 p.m. Jan. 25 at Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., in West Palm Beach. Single-day tickets cost $15-$20; festival passes cost $20-$25. Call 561-290-8053 - 



We got mentioned in today's SunSentinel !

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By Phillip Valys, SunSentinel/ SouthFlorida.com



"......... ArtSynergy will stretch from Northwood south to Artists Alley Delray. Nine stops are part of ArtSynergy, up from six last year, says fair co-founder Craig McInnis: the South Dixie Antique Row Art Walk (5-9 p.m. Friday), Artists Alley Delray (noon-10 p.m. Saturday), Boynton Beach Art District (4-10 p.m. Saturday), Lake Park Art District (1-10 p.m. Thursday), Lake Worth Arts (all day Friday), North Arts District (3-7:30 p.m. Thursday), Northwood Village ArtX (11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday) and Worth Avenue Art Walk (all day Thursday through Sunday)."
"Miami Art Week has a great business model, but I think we'll have slower growth than a huge Basel explosion because Palm Beach is a big ol' county," says McInnis, who also helped launch Continuum ( last year. "The beauty of ArtSynergy is the infrastructure is already in place with small art districts on the rise. No one's plopping a big, white tent down."
At ArtPalmBeach, a 20-artist ArtSynergy group exhibit will promote the fair's visibility at the convention center, says curator Rolando Barrero, whose Boynton Beach ArtWalk is one of the nine stops. Barrero curated the mixed-media show
"We wanted to highlight the best working artists in Palm Beach, not just from all of the art districts, but from all over the county, and in all media," Barrero says.
ArtPalmBeach will run noon-7 p.m. Jan. 22-25 and noon-6 p.m. Jan. 25 at Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., in West Palm Beach. Single-day tickets cost $15-$20; festival passes cost $20-$25. Call 561-290-8053 or go to ArtPalmBeach.com or ArtSynergyPBC.com.
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ARTSynergy and ArtPalmBeach Announce 2nd Annual 2015 Art Districts Schedule and Curated Art Exhibition Juried Award Winners

ARTSynergy, a countywide initiative created to unify and promote the diversity of the arts in Palm Beach County announces its 2015 schedule of Art District events.  The non-profit art organization partnered with Lee Ann Lester, ArtPalmBeach organizer in late 2013 to create a series of county wide art walks and exhibitions during ArtPalmBeach 2014. Overwhelmingly successful the organizers of both organizations teamed up again to plan 2015 events during ArtPalmBeach, January 21-25, 2015 expanding to nine art districts throughout Palm Beach and Martin Counties.
The 2015 ArtSyngery program will include over 65 county wide gallery receptions, open artist studios, performances, museum openings, lectures and art tours and art demonstrations in nine historic art districts:
  • Jan. 22: Northern Palm Beaches; Jupiter; Palm Beach Gardens, Lake Park
  • Jan. 23: ART POP Lake Worth; Worth Avenue, South Dixie Antique Row
  • Jan. 24: Boynton Beach Art District; Artists Alley, Delray Beach
  • Jan. 25: Historic Northwood Village; Continuum W. Palm Beach; Whitespace, The Mordes Collection.
  • Event details: www.artsynergypbc.com
ArtPalmBeach 2nd annual ArtSynergy Juried Exhibition announces the twenty winning artists invited to exhibit their work of art at the upcoming ArtPalmBeach fair in the Palm Beach Convention Center. The selection committee included Paul Fisher, curator and Rolando Chang Barrero, artist and curator.  Artists were selected from several hundred applicants all seeking representation at the upcoming 18th edition of the international art fair. The artists selected for this year’s exhibition are:
Tony Arruza, West Palm Beach
Molly Aubry, Wellington
Orlando Chaing, Palm Beach Gardens
Joel Cohen, West Palm Beach
Javi du Art, Boynton Beach
Mazare Feliciano, West Palm Beach
Mark Forman, Boca Raton
Erin Fromkes, West Palm Beach
TD Gillispie, West Palm Beach
Norman Gitzen, Lake Worth
Doreen Grasso, West Palm Beach
Ray Gross, Lake Worth
Gregg Matthews, West Palm Beach
Atsuko Okamoto, Boynton Beach
Amilbia Pelaez, Boca Raton
Terry Rybovich, Latana
Judith Shah, Delrey
Maxine Spector, Lake Worth
Robert Vail, Latana
For more about ArtPalmBeach, visit: www.ArtPalmBeach.com
For more information about ART SYNERGY, please visit facebook.com/artsynergypbc
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Palm Beach ArtsPaper Today! ArtPalm Beach and Art Synergy-Global Focus, County Ties!




ArtPalmBeach brings global focus, and county ties to ArtSynergy

Written by Palm Beach ArtsPaper Staff on 18 January 2015.

“All About Me” (2010), by David Drebin.
With 65 international galleries from 17 countries and 14 states, this year's ArtPalmBeach features global emerging and contemporary artists with galleries and dealers from Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Europe.
Opening with a preview Wednesday, the fair runs through Jan. 25 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach.
Lee Ann Lester, who along with her husband, David, owns ArtPalmBeach sponsor International Fine Art Expositions, says it takes “a lot of patience and diplomacy” to mount the fair, now in its 18th year.
“The art market is growing in Palm Beach County,” she says. “The Palm Beach Cultural Council has put a tremendous effort into promoting cultural tourism. The influence of Palm Beach cultural institutions such as the Norton and Flagler Museums, the Palm Beach Opera, etc., bring world-class performing arts right here.
“Pink Man, Icon of Consumerism,” by Manit Sriwanichpoom.
“Artists, exhibitors, dealers and patrons all want to visit Palm Beach in the winter, as it is one of Florida’s cultural jewels,” Lester notes. “There is a tremendous desire to incorporate the arts into daily life.”
Rolando Chang Barrero. (Photo by Greg Stepanich)
ArtSynergy, a countywide gallery walk weekend founded by local artists Rolando Chang Barrero and Craig McInnis, returns for a second year, bringing weeklong art events and art walks to nine historic art districts, including the Boynton Beach Arts District, Continuum in West Palm Beach, Artists Alley in Delray Beach and the Urban Arts Loft in Lake Worth.
“When people think of ArtPalmBeach, I want them to think not only of the expo but of a countywide fine art event,” says Barrero, who founded and runs the Boynton Beach Arts District (BBAD) as well as his own gallery, ActivistArtistA, and Rolando Chang Barrero Fine Art Gallery on Lucerne Avenue in Lake Worth.
This year, ArtSynergy hosted a juried exhibition and selected 20 local artists from hundreds of submissions to be represented at ArtPalm Beach.
“Domestication,” by Orlando Chiang.
Winning artists include Wellington painter Molly Aubry, sculptor Orlando Chiang of Palm Beach Gardens, and photographer Tony Arruza and painter Erin Fromkes, both of West Palm Beach.
Chiang’s mixed-media sculpture, Domestication, of a human bust with a collar and chain around his or her neck, was inspired by his reaction to gender stereotypes.
Fromkes, who suffers from a chronic illness, paints to “escape my day-to-day reality.” Her mixed-media paintings are an attempt to “color myself out” of her difficulties, she said.
“Another Year in Bed,” by Erin Fromkes.
On Saturday, BBAD will host a tour of the district and of the kinetic art sculptures up and around the downtown area of the city in advance of the city’s International Kinetic Art Exhibit and Symposium Feb. 6-8, as well as the studios and galleries of Artists Alley in Delray Beach.
“The events at the Convention Center are not an isolated event, but a community-wide art showcase,” Barrero says. “The goal of ArtSynergy is to develop an ongoing sense of an arts community.”
An image from “The Lost Warhols,” by Peter Tunney and Karen Bystedt.
Highlights of the weekend include a screening of Pull of the Moon, a collaborative film project by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and Navajo artist Bert Benally, and Karen Bystedt’s The Lost Warhols, a collection of photographs lost for 28 years, presented by the Evan Lurie Gallery.
Also screening is a new documentary film, Pilchuck: A Dance with Fire, a story about the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, co-founded by renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly in 1971.
Israeli artist Danielle Sheinman’s canvas, graphite and wooden installation, String Line, will be suspended over the fair entrance with its black and white graphite lines creating an impression on the canvas.
“Sheinman creates a piece with a great emotional response,” notes Lester, “despite the black and white nature of her work.”
“Nude at Leisure” (2008), by Phung Pham.
This year’s panel discussions and presentations include, “Progression of Kinetic Art,” sponsored by the International Kinetic Art Exhibit and Symposium and Boynton Beach Art in Public Places, and features international kinetic artist Ralfonso and the city of Boynton Beach’s public art manager, Debby Coles-Dobay.
Jim Baker, executive director of the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, will moderate a discussion with artists Lino, Tagliapietra, Jan Frydrych, Shelley Muzylowski Allen and Rik Allen titled, “The Future of Glass Is Already Here.”
And, Irvin Lippman, executive director of the Boca Raton Museum of Art, will give a talk called “Surrealism and Magic,” exploring the surrealists’ interest in magic and spirituality.
The first view of ArtPalmBeach is set for 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, with a Collector’s Invitational from 7:30 to 10 p.m. The fair’s hours are from noon to 7 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, with hours on Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. A one-day pass is $15 in advance, or $20 at the door. For more information, visit artpalmbeach.com or nextlevelfairs.com.
ArtSynergy: The 2015 ArtSynergy program will include over 65 county wide gallery receptions, open artist studios, performances, museum openings, lectures and art tours and art demonstrations in nine historic art districts:
Jan. 22: Northern Palm Beaches; Jupiter; Palm Beach Gardens, Lake Park
Jan. 23: ART POP Lake Worth; Worth Avenue, South Dixie Antique Row
Jan. 24: Boynton Beach Art District; Artists Alley, Delray Beach
Jan. 25: Historic Northwood Village; Continuum W. Palm Beach; Whitespace, The Mordes Collection.
For event details, visit www.artsynergypbc.com.
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