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KEY WEST WEEKLY / JANUARY 3, 2019
HAYS BLINCKMANN hays@keysweekly.com
2019 SEASON OF FINE ARTS BEGINS A LOOK INTO THE CREATIVE MIND
Lastly, on Thursday, Jan. 10 at 3 p.m., enjoy a talk with P. Scott Cunningham, founder/director of O, Miami. “How to take the words out of a poem” is the first-ever public retrospective of the O, Miami Poetry Festival. Combining site-specific, cross-genre projects with poetry-in-public-space projects, O, Miami has produced more than 400 events and projects over the course of its seven-year festival history in the Greater Miami area. “How to take the words…” documents the range and depth of its accomplishment with objects, photos, video and audio.
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he Studios of Key West is ringing in the new year with a multitude of creative, exciting and innovative exhibitions, each offering an intriguing glimpse into the creative mind, from literature to the visual arts. With an opening on Thursday, Jan. 3 from 6 to 8 p.m. and running through Jan. 31, shows will feature O, Miami; Rhonda Bristol; Annie Dillard; and Larry Blackburn. In the main Zabar Project Gallery, local Pulitzer prize-winning author and multitalented artist Annie Dillard will display oil portraits of famous authors when they were young. There will be more than two dozen small-scale portraits done on pine shingles that she obtained from her summer house on Cape Cod. Dillard’s deep love of portraiture, both in prose and paint, comes through with outstanding clarity in small, well executed gems. “No one knows what those young writers looked like when they were doing their crucial work,” says Dillard. “My hope is that future young writers will not despair that they look ordinary. Almost everyone does.”
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On the second-floor Zabar Lobby Gallery, photographer Larry Blackburn has created a marriage of local arts with a truly collaborative show titled “Dual Visions.” Blackburn turned his photos into giclees on canvas and invited local artists to work and transform them. Artists such as Fran Decker, Rick Worth, Sean Callahan, Tony Gregory, Marky Pierson, Jody Rae Campbell, Amanda Johnson, Barb Fineberg, Deb Moore, Mike Kunkle and Susann D’Antonio added their distinct style to Blackburn’s initial creation.
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Upstairs in the third-floor XOJ Gallery, Rhonda Bristol’s “Glimpses: Inside Personal Space” features works on canvas and in clay which impart elements of West African and Caribbean design. The images are a colorful, frenetic use of line drawing, paint and portraiture. “I strive to capture an aspect of the human psyche and am involved with storytelling and history,” said Bristol. “These works mainly focused on ‘The Grand Feminine’ and those experiences powerful enough to be recorded as soul captured moments depicted on canvas and in clay.”
1. “Jose Marti” photograph by Gesi Schilling representing O, Miami. 2. Painting “Ernest Hemingway” is by Annie Dillard. 3. Larry Blackburn and Rick Worth create “Starry Night” together.
THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST 533 Eaton St. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.