Art Center Sarasota

Storytelling: A Visual Narrative invites artists to tell their most important stories through their individual style and interpretation. Your storytelling may be personal or objective, representational or abstract, and may be derived from a novel or poem. Provide us with a window into your lived or imagined experience.

Narrative art is art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time. Narratives in contemporary art range from highly straightforward and factual to magical and fairytale-like. This exhibition will showcase diverse perspectives and unique thinking. 

AN ABSTRACT VIEW
On View Aug 24-Sept 30 | Opening Night Reception: Thursday, Aug 24, 6-8 pm
This show encompasses all forms of non-representational art from Cubism to Abstract Expressionism to Minimalism and beyond. The juror is Tre Michel, Co-Owner, State of the Arts Gallery, Sarasota.

Abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead uses shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect.

Some noteworthy abstract artists include: Kazimir Malevich, Hilma af Klint, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Pablo Picasso, Barbara Hepworth, Robert Delaunay, Piet Mondrian, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner, and Cy Twombly.