Have you sent FLORIDA TODAY your 2011/2012 schedules yet? Be sure to get them in right away. The newspaper is in the midst of organizing its big annual preview of the next arts season.
If you haven’t sent them, then gather up information, including what you’re doing, when, where, cost and contact info and send them to life@floridatoday.com.
Also, if you have photos of any of your planned events, get those in ASAP. The preview is scheduled to come out Oct. 2 and should be another valuable asset to arts lovers throughout the county.
If you want an “everyone who’s anyone will be there event,” then it’s Christopher Maslow’s opening of his one-man exhibition, “Still Motion,” at the Art Gallery of Viera. The opening is Saturday evening.
Chris told me a year or so ago that he wanted to have people know him as a bona fide fine artist and not as a street graffiti artist.
Although his street work — mostly legal walls — shows some sensational style and unique aesthetic, he really comes alive when attacking a canvas. And he does it with just as much fury as he does a public wall.
In the past year or so, he’s had series of fast moving beasties caught in mid-motion. There have been tree frogs, hummingbirds and subway trains — which you never quite see, but their approach rather fills you with both foreboding and excited expectation.
His work at the Viera gallery shows more studies in animals. Of course, they are in Chris’ way — exploding with color and line.
BTW, Chris closed his popular Slow Gallery & Boutique on Municipal Lane in Melbourne. He did open a studio a few steps away.
The exhibition opens with a reception 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10. They’ll be serving complimentary hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar courtesy of the restaurant Matt’s Casbah. Live music will be performed by Don Soledad.
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