our art’s perspective
recently we created some pieces for a summer of ‘26 group art show at the Alliance for the Arts
“Perspectives that Shape Us: The Art of the Union Artist Studios”
there are 23 of us artists in the Union Artist Studios
housed in the Edwards building on the Alliance for the Arts complex
it includes the DAAS CO-OP Art galleries and the Arts & Eats Café
when thinking about the art we wanted to present for this show
we pondered exactly what our perspective was, or is
our art is absurd, ordinary and colorful, simple yet uncanny
we’ve leaned into all that quite a bit
and we believe it is partially due to a very beautiful state we live in
and the stories we all hear about Florida man
how do you reconcile these two threads?
by turning our conflicted feelings into the art we make
from our artist statement:
“These works begin near the Florida shoreline, where things do not always behave.
A shark slips its situation. A crewless galleon drifts through memory without explanation. A fish refuses the containment of water. A bird grows into its own exaggeration, while an old fisherman kneels beneath a thought that has taken physical form.
When the believable and the unbelievable overlap, they trade places and collaborate. Humor shows up, and each piece gets to tell its own folk tale.
We are interested in how places shape perception, and how the boundary between the ordinary and the uncanny behaves like the shoreline itself. It lifts, pulls briefly, and gives way beneath your feet just enough to remind you it was never as solid as it seemed.”
a few art pieces work in progress from our studio’s paint table
