Join Arts for ACT Gallery, located at 2265 First Street in downtown Fort Myers on Friday, November 2, 2012 from 6 to 10 pm for the opening reception and art walk for November 2012. This month, ACT Gallery will feature “A Quick Recap” a retrospective of culturally significant works from two generations, Artist Tiité Baquero and daughter Kalon Baquero. Father and daughter will transform ACT’s main gallery room into a place of earthy discovery. The exhibit will be a celebration of Nature, Humanity and the Cultural Innovation. In a world of chaos and uncertainty, these two artists will bring hope, confidence, and the vigor necessary to overcome the challenges of a modern day world. Included in this exhibition are the narrative and works of Tiité Baquero’s “Homage to the Orange River Valley, 1982” and “Earth Gallery One, 1990”, histories deeply significant to a critical role for the Arts and to Lee County history itself. Kalon Baquero will revisit her 2005 Data-A installation “Inappreciable Realities and the Words that Surround Them.” Gallery visitors will become discoverers of the minute flora and fauna that constitute the environments that in turn, constitute us. Closer looks at these minute beings reveal an inspiring array of lifestyles, adaptations, and modes of survival that we humans might take great note of in the advancement of our own cultural strategies. Also featured off the main gallery are Jamie Bendola’s mixed media photographic series “Dead People for Sale to Keep People Alive” proceeds benefit FMCancer, Inc. and Tracy Owen-Cullimore brings her impressionistic paintings of people, pets and more in her wonderfully jewel colored palette. Come downtown for great art and support ACT Gallery and Boutique.
Tiité Baquero Artist Statement: “The synthesis of my life’s work has been, to give the arts back something that was lost and something that art never had; meaning and a critical function that contains practical utility. Happily both have been accomplished.”
Tiité Baquero was born
in Bogotá Colombia, South America in 1949.
He became an American citizen in 1996.
He managed to survive to the age of 63 this year and is glad to be able
to exhibit a lifetime of work, representing
a timely contribution to civilization.
Tiité thinks humanity has come to this axis age where the effect of our
technological development and the structure of our cultural context is no
longer sustainable by any measure or can no longer be obscured by the best
creative form of denial. His work is at this time, a viable contribution of
what we can do to evolve and gradually replace one current unsustainable
cultural strategy. His life’s work
dovetails, in the worldwide Peace Marker Project, which is currently making
forward progress to create our specie’s first global work of art. Baquero completed 52 new works, which bring
to the foreground the strength, and maturity of what will be called “Data A”
art, a new art form in the context of life.
A mature art form developed from and because of the work of the
preceding years.
Kalon Lucia Baquero was born in Fort Myers, Florida but raised on the island of Kauai,
Hawaii. Kalon has been traversing the
landscape where art dances in synchrony with life since an early age. Her father, Tiité and nature have been her
teachers, one forever commenting on and exploring the lessons of the other,
always inviting conversation and contemplation on life and art. Her work have been exhibited in Hawaii and
Florida, and recognized by the respective local governments, media outlets, and
a wide range of members in both communities.
Kalon’s Artist Statement: In Kalon’s
mind’s eye, she muses on a new era for the Arts; one in which the ingenuity and
brilliance of creative minds are applied towards devising solutions to the very
real and overwhelming problems that our world currently faces. She made a conscious decision at age 20 to
dedicate her life’s work to the exploration of this possible new era. Kalon had been creating “seed projects”
within the “Data-A Art” of her fathers.
It is her ideal that each of these “seed projects” arouses new
collaborations between art and life, humanity and Nature, you and I and us and
them.
Jamie Bendola, two years ago at 25
years old, went into the emergency room.
The doctors found a large mass of fluid in her stomach that was
surrounding a tumor on the ovary. She diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Two months
later, she went to Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida and had a second
staging performed along with a complete abdominal hysterectomy. During this time, she missed a significant
amount of work. If it had not been for financial support from friends she would
have lost her car or been evicted from my apartment. Many young cancer patients
are not as fortunate. This is why Bendola decided to start a non-profit called FMCancer.
FMC MISSION: Provide hope, humor, resources
and grants to help YOUNG ADULTS both FIGHT cancer and SURVIVE the wrath it can
leave behind.
Bendola’s main focus is to provide free
resources and yearly grants to young adults with cancer and survivors. FMC is
an art based non-profit, with the motto "Live Life Outside The
Lines". Her new series entitled "Dead People For Sale To Keep People
Alive," is a creative series of enhanced photography featuring mega-celebrities
that have died. Prints will also be
available.
Tracy Owen
Cullimore paints in both watercolor and oil,
specializing in portraits of animals and people, and she happily does custom
commission work. Tracy is a graduate of
the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she received a Bachelor of
Arts degree in Liberal Arts with an emphasis in Art History and Economics. Upon
graduation, she returned to school to pursue formal training in Advertising and
Graphic Design as well as the traditional fine arts.
Tracy is a member and supporter of ACT, the American Impressionists Society, Art League of Fort Myers, The Florida Watercolor Society, The Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers Beach Art Association, The Portrait and Figure Painters Society of SW Florida and the Sanibel/Captiva Art League. She was a long time acrylic student of the late Gale Bennett as well as Lucy Macherowski. She studied oil with national masters: Rose Frantzen, CW Mundy, Quang Ho and Carolyn Anderson and watercolor under Pat Weaver and Janet Rogers.
Tracy enjoys teaching and helping her student's develop their individual styles.
Cullimore’s
Artist’s Statement “As
an artist, my mission is to record moments in time with a personal perspective,
not a direct reflection as a photograph would replicate. I am not the reporter
with a camera, but the artist with a brush.”~ Tracy Owen Cullimore
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