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November 26 2011 – 6-9pm – Studio 1608
An exhibition showcasing works by over 20 artists
Painters, photographers, sculptors and a fashion & jewelry designer, STUDIO 1608, is home to a collection of working artist studios from a variety of disciplines.  An exciting space filled with history and architectural details, 1608 is an unexpected treasure in today’s commercial cookie cutter buildings:

A taste of New York’s SOHO in West Palm Beach.
Conveniently located between the Norton Art Museum and Antique Row, Studio 1608 is a two story New York loft style building with over 7,500 square feet of studio space. Built around 1927, with thirteen-foot ceilings, seven-foot sunlight providing windows, exposed wooden beams and beautifully finished wooden floors the studio provides an ideal setting for inspiration and exhibition of those inspirations.

1608 south dixie highway west palm beach
(2 blocks south of the Norton Art Museum)
entrance and parking in rear

Atonement Studies: Central Panel, 2005-2006 Oil on watercolor paper 99 x 72 3/4 in. (251.5 x 185 cm) Private Collection

From November 30, 2011 to March 4, 2012 – Norton Museum of Art
The paintings of the human figure by British artist Jenny Saville (b.1970) have been infrequently exhibited since first premiered in the late 1990s.  Included in the 1997 exhibition of the collection of British marketing giant Charles Saatchi entitled Sensation, she did not earn the notoriety of her slightly older peers, “the young British artists” for unusual materials.  Instead, Saville masterfully painted with oil on canvas and concentrated on the human figure but still created provocative work.  Her monumental compositions of the female form were unromantic and suggested the reality of weight, flesh and blood.  Initially restricted to a feminist critique Saville’s skill and compositions have evolved.   She continues to paint luscious canvases that reveal that her subject has always been the medium of painting itself. Taking on the challenge of the history of modern painting through the tradition of classical figure painting her contribution is the subject of this exhibition.

This selective exhibition of 25 canvases and drawings dating from 1999 – 2011 will bring Saville’s mature work together for the first time.  Included will be such recognizable works as Fulcrum (1999) and  Reverse (2002-3) as well as examples showcasing Saville’s exceptional draughtsmanship in key works from the recent series Reproduction drawing (after the Leonardo cartoon),(2009-10) which references the iconic image found in the collection of London’s National Gallery. Works from the artist’s studio which have not been previously exhibited also will be included.

Museum Hours

Portrait of the Imperial Guard Uksiltu / Keshiki Batu Luwuke Shier ( 伍 克 什 尔 图 wu ke shi er tu), the 29th of 100 portraits of Meritorious Officers participating in the East-Turkestan campaign (1755-1759) Ink on silk Qianglong seal, dated 1760 with honorific calligraphy in Manchu and Chinese by Liu Tong xun (1700-1773) Image 60 x 38 in Private collection

From October 22, 2011 to February 19, 2012 – Norton Museum of Art
The Emperors Orders: Designs from the Qianlong Imperial Workshop (1736 – 1796)
This exhibition features 10 objects in various media–painting, jade, ceramic, glass, and metalwork–all created for the greatest art collector in 18th century China, the Qianlong Emperor. Works from the Norton Museum’s own collection are featured and accompanied by important loans representing superlative examples of works produced in or from designs provided by the Imperial Palace Workshop. Being extremely inquisitive, this emperor invited many foreign artists to work at his court, including Mughal jade carvers, and Jesuit priest painters and glassmakers.

Norton Hours

The Dolphin Dream, 1997, 4′ x 9′ oils on canvas - Jill Karlin

From the 6th of February to the 11th of March 2011 – Ross Gallery Of Art
After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 1976, Karlin embarked upon her career with her first one person show at Boston Center for The Arts. At this time, she was teaching art at an exclusive prep school, a post she retained for several years before setting off for a stint of art study in Rome. She then returned to America where she took her Masters degree at Boston University School of Fine Arts. Here she was to learn traditional techniques under teachers imbued with an innate admiration for the Renaissance masters.
It was during this period that Karlin began experimentations with egg tempera and completed a series of large oil paintings called The Peaceable Kingdom.  She had been inspired by American naïve primitive painters who had visions of an arcadian paradise world, a sort of bucolic Utopia, in which swords are beaten into plowshares and the leopard lies down  with the lamb…
In 2000, Karlin was to win the prestigious Philip Hulitar award at the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach for her controversial and imaginative painting, What Does A Dolphin Dream About? This was painted in a similar style and delved into the same set of preoccupations: the interface of the real world with the world of dreams and reverie.
There is an influence of some great painters: Matisse, Gauguin, Henri Rousseau and Grandma Moses. From the study of these great artists Karlin obviously derived great benefit, but in no sense can her work be described as derivative. It has a unique freshness of its own. Perhaps the quality that distinguishes her work above all is its chaste and childlike simplicity—its rare innocency of eye. (Lasha Darkmoon)

Galery Hours

Clarence Sinclair Bull: Alfred Hitchcock with the MGM Lion, MGM, 1958

December 12, 2010 to March 6, 2011 – Norton Museum of Art
Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation
Comprising 93 photographs by over 50 photographers, this exhibition is drawn from the London-based archive of the late author and collector John Kobal. It reveals the importance of photography in manufacturing the myth of Hollywood as a magical place, inhabited by glamorous stars, where dreams came true. Joan Crawford, Grace Kelly, and Audrey Hepburn, as well as Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, and Rock Hudson are among those whom Hollywood made into gods and goddesses, worshipped by fans throughout the world.

Museum Hours

November 27, 2010 from 6-9 pm and run through December 11, 2010 – Studio 1608 – MAP
This exhibition titled ONE will be a group collective show.
WHAT IS ONE?
One is a group exhibition that will showcase one piece of artwork per artist. With over 50 artists exhibiting in multiple disciplines, there will be a wide range of interpretations.

Artists

Gallerie