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Boca Happenings

“Relationships in Nature” Art Exhibit

Now at Boca Downtown Library

The Boca Raton Public Library presents a new art
exhibit, “Relationships in Nature,” by Kim Heise, from now
through August 23rd. Visitors to the Art in Public Places area
of the Downtown Library will be able to view a variety of
stunning watercolors depicting Florida’s native plants and
animals.
Heise was born and raised in South Florida and has
a bachelor’s degree in fine art from Florida Atlantic
University. She frequently collaborates with other artists
and organizations to promote local habitat conservation.
Heise notes, “My goal is to contribute to the representation
of native Florida species and their relationships to other
plants and animals in the hope that they might be better
protected.” Her watercolors have been exhibited in group Kim Heise
shows in the South Florida area since 2014. Her exhibit at
the Downtown Library will be her first solo show. and in the medium of watercolor. There is almost a limitless
“Following the library’s recent presentation on female depth of pigmentation and hue, which to my mind evinces
abstract expressionists, I came across Kim Heise’s work,” both abstract and representational art.”
says Neil Schulhoff, Art Gallery Coordinator. “To me, it is “Relationships in Nature” is currently on exhibit, and
exactly in the same headspace, albeit Ms. Heise’s work is will run through August 23rd at the Downtown Library, 400
completely representational, with images drawn from nature NW 2nd Avenue, during regular library hours.
“Art After Stonewall: 1969-1989”--First Exhibition

of its Kind Opens September 14th in Miami to Honor

50th Anniversary of Stonewall Uprisings

As celebrants across the nation honor the 50th anniversary Harris, Judith F. Baca, Don Bachardy, Lynda Benglis, JEB Greer Lankton, Annie Leibovitz, Christopher Makos, Robert
year of the Stonewall Uprisings, in the heart of Pride month (Joan E. Biren), Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Arch Mapplethorpe, Frank Moore, Alice Neel, Catherine Opie,
the Frost Art Museum FIU announces that Miami will be one Connelly, Tee A. Corinne, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Karen Finley, Jack Pierson, Marlon T. Riggs, Jack Smith, Joan Snyder,
of only three cities in the U.S. to host “Art After Stonewall: Louise Fishman, Nan Goldin, Michela Griffo, Sunil Gupta, Carmelita Tropicana, Andy Warhol, and David Wojnarowicz,
1969 ─ 1989.” The major exhibition of more than 200 works Barbara Hammer, Harmony Hammond, Keith Haring, David among others.
opens in Miami on September 14th, and due to its size and Hockney, Peter Hujar, Holly Hughes, Tseng Kwong Chi,
scope will encompass the entire second floor of the museum,
including the Grand Galleries.
The Miami presentation of “Art After Stonewall 1969
-1989” in the fall will be the first time that all of the works
in this show will be exhibited together under one roof: all
of the photographs, paintings, sculpture, film clips, video,
music, and performance pieces, plus historical documents
and images taken from magazines, newspapers and television.
The show will headline Miami’s Art Basel in December,
when the global spotlight shines on this city for one of the
world’s leading art fairs, attracting 70,000+ collectors,
cultural leaders, artists and media influencers from around
the world, and will remain on view through January 5.
The groundbreaking exhibition is the first national
museum show of its kind to survey the impact of the LGBTQ
civil rights movement on visual culture, during the pivotal
two decades after the Stonewall Riots, as the first Pride
marches took flight ― a bold visual history of twenty years
in American queer life.
The exhibition presents the work of openly LGBTQ artists
alongside other artists who also engaged with the emerging
queer subcultures, between 1969 and 1989. The Stonewall
Riots are considered a historic flash-point for the LGBTQ
movement, and the first two decades of art-making that
immediately followed the uprising have never been explored
this way before.
This 20-year period blazed with new creativity from these
communities. These artists cleared a path through uncharted
cultural territories, across intersections of avant-garde art
worlds, radical political movements, and profound social
change.
The list of trailblazing artists includes:
Vito Acconci, Laura Aguilar, Diane Arbus, Lyle Ashton