Page 6 - Boca Exposure - August '19

Page 6, Boca Exposure
‘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 Aug. 23. 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. nature and in the medium of watercolor. There is almost a
“Following the library’s recent presentation on female limitless depth of pigmentation and hue, which to my mind
abstract expressionists, I came across Kim Heise’s work,” evinces both abstract and representational art.”
says Neil Schulhoff, Art Gallery coordinator. “To me, it “Relationships in Nature” is currently on exhibit, and
is exactly in the same headspace, albeit Ms. Heise’s work will run through Aug 23 at the Downtown Library, 400 NW
is completely representational, with images drawn from 2nd Avenue, during regular library hours.
‘Art After Stonewall: 1969-1989’

First Exhibition Of Its Kind Opens Sept. 14 In Miami

To Honor 50th Anniversary Of Stonewall Uprisings

As celebrants across the nation honor the 50th This 20-year period blazed with new creativity from Connelly, Tee A. Corinne, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Karen Finley,
anniversary year of the Stonewall Uprisings, in the heart these communities. These artists cleared a path through Louise Fishman, Nan Goldin, Michela Griffo, Sunil Gupta,
of Pride Month the Frost Art Museum FIU announces that uncharted cultural territories, across intersections of avant- Barbara Hammer, Harmony Hammond, Keith Haring,
Miami will be one of only three cities in the United States garde art worlds, radical political movements, and profound David Hockney, Peter Hujar, Holly Hughes, Tseng Kwong
to host “Art After Stonewall: 1969 ─ 1989.” The major social change. Chi, Greer Lankton, Annie Leibovitz, Christopher Makos,
exhibition of more than 200 works opens in Miami on Sept. The list of trailblazing artists includes: Robert Mapplethorpe, Frank Moore, Alice Neel, Catherine
14, and due to its size and scope will encompass the entire Vito Acconci, Laura Aguilar, Diane Arbus, Lyle Ashton Opie, Jack Pierson, Marlon T. Riggs, Jack Smith, Joan
second floor of the museum, including the Grand Galleries. Harris, Judith F. Baca, Don Bachardy, Lynda Benglis, JEB Snyder, Carmelita Tropicana, Andy Warhol, and David
The Miami presentation of “Art After Stonewall 1969- (Joan E. Biren), Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Arch Wojnarowicz, among others.
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-plus collectors,
cultural leaders, artists and media influencers from around
the world, and will remain on view through Jan. 5, 2020.
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 20
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.