The Rosemary Duffy Larson Archive
KX2: Ripple Effect
Deeply concerned with the urgent environmental issues facing our world, this exhibition culminates KX2's ongoing exploration into the fragile relationship between urbanization and the environment, focusing on critical themes such as water infrastructure, climate change, flooding, and diminishing access to potable water. Through this body of work, the artists aim to reflect upon climate change's impact on infrastructure and provoke a dialogue about the future of our communities and our planet.
KX2 is a collaboration combining the strengths of artists and sisters Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman, who create sculptures merging metalwork and painting. Their works delve into the realm of data research, particularly focused on climate change, to shed light on environmental issues. Since establishing their artistic collaboration in 2007, KX2's work has been featured in notable galleries and museums worldwide. Their work was leveraged to the international art scene with an invitation to represent the United States at the 2008 Beijing Biennale at the National Art Museum of China. Their work can be found in numerous private, corporate, and public art collections throughout North America. Avra and Kleinman currently reside with their families in Southern Florida.
Chao Ding: LEFTOVER
In "LEFTOVER," Chao Ding reveals the unusual beauty and poetic significance of deserted spaces through his expressive painting. In mundane scenes of quiet places and exploration of negative space, Ding finds narrative possibilities in a silent dialogue of human absence. Through this imagery that expresses feelings of isolation and displacement, he seeks to create quiet moments of reflection in our fast-paced world, so that new connections may be made.
Chao Ding is a Beijing-native perceptual painter now living and working in Sacramento, California. He received his MFA from Louisiana State University after completing his BA at Beijing University of Technology and postgraduate coursework at SUNY Buffalo State College. Ding's work has been shown in both solo and group exhibitions nationally, including a commission for documentary art from the Burden Rural Life Museum. His residencies include New York's Golden Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center, and his work is represented by Elliott Fouts Gallery.
Wednesday: August 21 - September 18
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Reveal: 45th Annual Student Exhibition
This juried exhibition showcases the works of some of Broward College's most talented art students. These emerging artists are offered a unique opportunity as they pursue careers in their field, allowing them to display their work in a professional gallery environment.
This year's juror is Kandy G Lopez, Associate Professor and Program Director of Art and Design at Nova Southeastern University. She received her BFA in Painting and BS in Marketing and Management from the University of South Florida, and her MFA from Florida Atlantic University. Lopez's work has been shown in solo exhibitions at ACA Galleries, NSU Art Museum of Fort Lauderdale, Miramar Cultural Center, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Girls Club Warehouse, and Frank C Ortis Gallery. She has also exhibited at Kinfolk House, Armory Art Center, New Bedford Art Museum, and Studio 18. Lopez received the Broward County Cultural Division Artist Innovation Grant for 2022 - 2023 and the Project Row House Grant in 2022. She has also been awarded residencies at Nacan in the Dominican Republic, Ucross in Wyoming, Hambidge in Rabun County, Georgia, and Stay Home Gallery & Artist Residency in Paris, Tennessee.
Wednesday: April 24 - May 1; May 15 - May 29
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April 18 - May 4 May 14 - May 25
Exhibition Sponsors
Art and Culture Center / Hollywood, The Bass Museum of Art, Blick Art Materials, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Butterfly World, Darsana Martial Arts, Flamingo Gardens, Gamblin Artists Colors, Jungle Queen Riverboat, Lion Country Safari, Menchie's Frozen Yogurt, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Paragon Theaters, Publix, Tate's Comics + Toys + More / Bear and Bird Gallery, WW Norton & Company
Stephanie Mercedes: I bite the brass between my teeth
"I bite the brass between my teeth" explores the precarious emotions of being queer in a society riddled with violence. Through kinetic sculptures, intimate photographs of the artist and her partner, sound, and melted bullets, Mercedes explores queer love through brass, one of the most sonically potent metals on this earth.
Stephanie Mercedes is a queer Latinx interdisciplinary artist who works between kinetic sculpture, photography, sound and performance. She is interested in creating rituals of mourning and primarily melts down weapons to create works of art. Mercedes has exhibited and performed at the Bronx Museum, the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of the Americas, and the Daura Museum. She has been funded by the Foundation for Contemporary Art, NALAC, Light Works, and Open Society Foundation. Mercedes recently produced their first opera "Never In Our Image" with CulturalDC.
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2024 Winter Faculty Exhibition
This exhibition features recent works by a selection of Visual and Performing Arts faculty and recognized artists, including Nathalie Alfonso, Rod Appleton, Angelica Clyman, Jessica Dehen, Teresa Diehl, Shady Eshghi, Jonathan Hunt, Jan Johnson, Gardner Cole Miller, Nick Starr, and Niko Yulis. The eclectic exhibit incorporates various media and disciplines such as painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, digital art, video, printmaking, photography, textiles, and installation.
Laura Tanner: Dish
"Dish" is an ongoing project by Laura Tanner, assistant professor of Visual Arts and Art History at Florida Atlantic University. Straddling drawing and social practice, Laura Tanner's works act as archives of regional foodways, shedding light on how recipes and traditions surrounding the gathering table reflect collective identity. Through collaborations with historical institutions and local communities, she reveals challenges confronting communities across America and exposes the extraordinary disparity between perceived and experienced narratives as told by those who are enduring them.
In addition to the drawings, the exhibition will include recipes and personal narratives about food traditions printed in a series of catalogs and in an online archive. The printed catalogs are designed in the same vein as community/Junior League cookbooks, alluding to the activist history of informal cookbooks as the sustenance of change in America. Visitors to the exhibition's opening are invited to bring a written recipe or food story with a connection to South Florida.
Tanner is asking contributors to consider the following questions: What is your relationship to the South Florida landscape? How has it changed throughout your life? What foods did you grow up with? What is South Florida food? How has it changed? Who sits at your table?
Tanner has exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Springfield Art Museum, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Susquehanna Art Museum, and the Jonathan Ferrera Gallery. Her research has been supported through numerous fellowships and residencies, including A Studio in the Woods at Tulane University, the Ucross Foundation, and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences. In 2023, select drawings from Tanner's ongoing project, "Dish," were selected for publication in the Fifth National Climate Assessment, a two-part congressionally mandated report by the U.S. Global Change Research Program with a mission to assess the science of climate change and variability and its impacts across the United States.
Closing Reception
Wednesday: November 29 - December 6; January 10 - 17
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Broward County High School All-Stars Art Exhibition
This juried exhibition showcases some of Broward County's most talented high school art students. The All Stars Exhibition is an opportunity for these emerging artists to show their work in a professional gallery, share their art with a wider audience, and win awards.
2023 Fall Faculty Exhibition
The Fall Faculty Exhibition features recent works by a selection of Visual and Performing Arts faculty and recognized artists, including Maria Theresa Barbist, Roumen Boudev, Yves Gabriel, Jose Luis Garcia, Kohl King, Jim Lansing, Khaulah Naima Nuruddin, Lisa Rockford, and Eduardo Rosas. The eclectic exhibit incorporates various media and disciplines such as painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, digital art, video, photography, installation, and mixed media.
Mayuko Ono Gray: 諸行無常_this too, shall pass
"諸行無常_this too, shall pass" features the work of Mayuko Ono Gray, an accomplished graphite artist based in Houston, Texas. Born in Gifu, Japan, she was trained in traditional Japanese calligraphy in her youth and later studied classical Western drawing before receiving her MFA in painting from the University of Houston. Ono Gray's powerfully large graphite drawings include people, animals, and still-life intertwined with hiragana and kanji characters that spell out Japanese proverbs associated with the images. This calligraphic writing is a continuous line that moves through the work as a metaphor for life and the passage of time. She also expresses this interest in the journey from birth to death by creating one self-portrait a year to document the changes in her own life.
Convergence: 44th Annual Student Exhibition
This juried exhibition showcases the works of some of Broward College's most talented art students. These emerging artists are offered a unique opportunity as they pursue careers in their field, allowing them to display their work in a professional gallery environment.
This year's juror is Laura Tanner, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Florida Atlantic University. She has exhibited nationally, including exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Art on Paper fair during Armory week in New York City. Her work can be viewed at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans or in the collection of the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC. Tanner is also the Co-Producer and Co-Host of the podcast The Open Call.
We Will Find Salvation in Strategic Chemical Spills
"We will find salvation in strategic chemical spills," features the work of Colin Lyons, Assistant Professor of Art at Binghamton University (SUNY). Fusing printmaking, sculpture, and site-specific installation, Lyons employs the chemistry and rituals of printmaking to consider preservation in an age of planned obsolescence and resource depletion.
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2023 Winter Faculty Exhibition
This exhibition features recent works by a selection of Visual and Performing Arts faculty and recognized artists, including Nathalie Alfonso, Rod Appleton, Angelica Clyman, Jessica Dehen, Teresa Diehl, Shady Eshghi, Jonathan Hunt, Jan Johnson, Gardner Cole Miller, Pat Pacoe, Nick Starr, and Niko Yulis. The eclectic exhibit incorporates various media and disciplines such as painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, digital art, video, printmaking, photography, textiles, and installation.
From Here: Alumni Invitational
From Here features the work of four Broward College graduates who are building their art careers and making exciting work. The artists are: Nathalie Alfonso, who holds a Master of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University; Sydney Kaye Bouwens, a graduate of the University of South Florida with a Bachelor of Fine Arts; Rivka Louissaint, who received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Berkeley; and Leeann Rae is a Master of Fine Arts candidate at the University of Central Florida. These alumni artists give us a glimpse into their experiences through their unique outlooks through drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, installation, and sound.
2022 Fall Faculty Exhibition
This exhibition features recent works by a selection of Visual and Performing Arts faculty and recognized artists, including Roumen Boudev, Lorna Ruth Galloway, Jose Luis Garcia, Kohl King, Jim Lansing, Rick McCawley, Lisa Rockford, Eduardo Rosas, and Kolos Schumy. The eclectic exhibit incorporates various media and disciplines such as painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, digital art, video, photography, and installation.
Paintings on Walls
Paintings on Walls features the work of Chris Marin, Assistant Professor of Practice and Artist-in-Residence at Louisiana State University. Marin's work expands the definition of painting and portraiture through his large-scale, mixed media works. His paintings explore identity through historical and pop culture references, seeking to reveal the duality of cultural and personal experiences. Paintings on Walls is curated by Carolina Alamilla, Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Washington & Jefferson College.
Juxtaposition: 43rd Annual Student Exhibition
Juxtaposition, the 43rd annual student art exhibition, showcases the works of some of Broward College's most talented art students. This juried show is a unique opportunity for these emerging artists as they pursue careers in their field, allowing them to display their work in a professional gallery environment.
This year's juror is Meaghan Kent, Curator of Exhibitions at the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood in Florida. She is also the Founder of Site95, an organization that holds exhibitions in available spaces including Locust Projects, Abrons Arts Center, and public outdoor spaces in Miami and New York.
Latent Adaptations
"Latent Adaptations" features work by Jim Graham and Leigh Merrill. Graham currently teaches at the University of Arizona, and Merrill teaches at Texas A&M University-Commerce. The exhibition centers around constructed landscapes that reveal connections between the environment and culture. Graham's paintings address topics of sea level rise and adaptation, expanding on the traditions of both landscape and allegorical paintings. Merrill's photographic digital collages depict a constructed reality of urban spaces that explore the impact of desire, simulation, and perception on contemporary landscape and reveal a culture of perpetual longing.
2022 Winter Faculty Exhibition
The exhibit features recent works by a selection of Visual and Performing Arts faculty and recognized artists, including Rod Appleton, Roumen Boudev, Angelica Clyman, Teresa Diehl, Shady Eshghi, Georgeta Fondos, Jon Hunt, Jan Johnson, Kohl King, Catherine Leisek, Bridgit Stoffer, and Niko Yulis. The eclectic exhibit incorporates various media and disciplines such as painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, digital art, printmaking, collage, textiles, and installation.
Diaphanous Bodies: Sarah Nguyen
Diaphanous Bodies features hand-cut fiber panels by internationally exhibiting artist Sarah Nguyen. Her intricate compositions include symbolic motifs—flora, fauna, and an ever-changing moon—to elicit childhood memories of myths, fables, and folklore. These large panels interact with the gallery space, casting shadows that thrust the imagery out of the two-dimensional picture plane, bringing her visual stories into our own reality.
2021 Fall Faculty Exhibition
The 2021 Fall Faculty Exhibition features recent works by a selection of Visual and Performing Arts faculty and recognized artists, including Ariel Baron-Robbins, Lorna Ruth Galloway, Jose Luis Garcia, James Lansing, Daniel Listwan, Lisa Rockford, Eduardo Rosas, John Sanchez, and Kolos Schumy. The eclectic exhibit incorporates various media and disciplines such as painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, digital art, video, photography, textiles, and installation.
When the Bough Breaks
Organized by Suzanne Slavick, "When the Bough Breaks" is a collection of paintings accompanied by poetry and the written word that embraces the tree — materially and conceptually — through figure and metaphor, analysis and allegory, and as record and reflection. Facing ongoing human conflict and impending climate catastrophe, the reality or representation of trees can offer solace and space — for the necessity of talking and listening.
