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LEMA 2011 Schedule Subject to Change or Cancellation Without Notice
Sept. 24 (opening 6 – 9 p.m.) – Oct. 24: INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH: JASON BURRELL. Burrell, a UCF art professor, meticulously draws and paints the metal, brawn and bricks that build a city and a society. His large works, many giving a unique perspective on NYC, without a word show the foundations and functions that make the American experience.
Oct. 29 – Dec. 5, 2010. MYTH, MAGIC & MADNESS: DOUG RHODEHAMEL. Oct. 29, 8 p.m. opening artist’s talk coincides with ADULTS ONLY ticketed Halloween Midnight at the Museum II fundraising event. $40 per person, 8 p.m. – midnight Oct. 29. Orlando conceptual artist Doug Rodehamel systematically covers the planet with paper mushrooms. His transformation of ordinary objects such as a banana, a cork and a puppet into uniquely dark version of Frankenstein’s monster, make Rodehamel the ideal Halloween exhibitor. He doesn’t stop there with his eclectic, fun bag of fine art tricks to install a “must” adventure in fine art through Dec. 5.
Dec. 10 (6 – 9 p.m. opening event) – Jan. 9, 2011, PAPER WORKS 4 ME II exhibit featuring selected entries from the art museum’s second annual national paper works juried completion.
Jan. 14, 2011 (6 – 9 p.m. opening) – Feb. 20: FLYING ARMADILLOS & FLORIDA ODDITIES: CARL KNICKERBOCKER. Self-taught, Knickerbocker paints passionate, primal, poetic, primitive postcard of the Florida that was before bulldozers and the Mouse. His deceptively playful approach entertains while enlighting viewers to the nature and battle behind Paradise Lost. His short film “A Dog Goes from Here to There” is featured.
Feb. 6, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. ART ESCAPADE III a United Arts ArtsFest event featuring CARL KNICKERBOCKER with painted primal odes to Florida, his art car and short film featuring Heather Henson puppets. WACKO III, Gesa Barto’s exhibit of art by anything-but-wacko high-functioning autistic youngsters is featured.  
Feb. 25 (6 – 9 p.m. opening) – April 10: VIBRANT VISTAS & VISIONS: LUKE ANDREWS. Andrews is equally at home in Italy or the U.S. He recently returned from Milan after a decade  perfecting his vision and painter’s voice. His unique paintings resound with an even-more-vibrant 21st century echo of Van Gough. His spirit and passion for color fill often uniquely shaped canvasses with hot cityscape nights.
April 15 (6 – 9 p.m. opening) – May 22: IN THE WHITE: BRIGAN GRESH & DINA MACK. Gresh and Mack create a melded exhibit to explore and articulate the revealed and concealed inherent in the color white, with a strong, quirky edge. Some work is mixed media in each artist’s individual style of self-expression, while other work is assemblage.
May 20 (6 – 9 p.m. opening) – June 26: PASSION, PERCEPTION, SYMBOLISM: PRINCESS RASHID. Tampa artist Rashid translates her passion for physics, astronomy and math into abstract forms and symbols using vibrant color and canvas. Fascinated by the science behind eye-to-brain communication that allows visual perception, she intuitively chooses flowing acrylic colors to brush, pour and drip with vigor to build power, beauty and emotion.
July 1 (6 – 9 p.m. opening) – Aug. 14: ROOTS & REFLECTION: WERONICA ANKARORN & CHERYL BOGDANOWITSCH. These Winter Park artists explore the personal histories and environments that formed them and their artistry. Ankarorn returns to her native Sweden for summer infusions of Northern Lights and Viking/Bronze Age influence to reflect on the nature, mythology and history she dramatically illustrates. Bogdanowitsch reflects on a childhood as a Mid-Western wood nymph with an enduring affinity for nature who finds twisted branches that suggest human forms and gives them fine art portrait-faces. ROOTS & REFLECTION is the basis for Art & Vision Summer Art School for Children June 30 – Aug. 12.
Aug. 19 (6 – 9 p.m. opening) – Sept. 25: THROUGH THE KEY HOLE: JEANINE LeCLAIRE. Philadelphia artist LeClaire peeks inside and documents the drama and beauty of life beyond closed doors with eloquent paintings, drawings and prints. Painting life is in reaction to her fear of forgetting her life, with memories worn thin with age. Depth, light and detail make the common-place extraordinary through LeClaire’s singular, masterful visual language.
Sept. 30 (6 – 9 p.m. opening) – Dec. 11: MASTER OF MYTH & MEANING: GRADY KIMSEY. Kimsey’s investment in painting and assembling dreams and visions doesn’t stop at his Winter Park studio door. He is teacher and inspiration to an endless roster of fine artists including Henry Sinn, John Whipple, Kyle and Susan Loden. Revered nationally for unique clay work, sculpture, assemblage and most recently masterful paintings, Kimsey finds new meaning in objects and images that merge into the ultimate in fine art for the ages.