Thinking Outside the Box by Jon Miller

Obsession by Richard Fisher

GALLERY AT AVALON ISLAND PRESENTS
Jon Miller and Richard Fisher for June ’s Third Thursday Event in Orlando

Gallery at Avalon Island

Presents

Doors of Perception by Richard Fisher and Yearning for "Reconciliation" Echoes by Jon Miller

On display from June 19 through July 11, 2008 with an artists’ opening reception on Thursday July 11 from 6 – 9 PM. Refreshments will be served and the public is invited. This is a free event.

Gallery at Avalon Island is located at 39 S. Magnolia Ave., Orlando, FL at the corner of Magnolia and Pine. Call 407-803-6670 or email Jeff@ArtistsRegistry.com for more information. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 12 - 6 PM

Also

Guinevere’s gallery, adjacent to Gallery at Avalon Island

Presents

David Phillips, Paintings and Sculpture

On display from June 19 through July 11, 2008 with an artists’ opening reception on Thursday July 11 from 6 – 9 PM. Refreshments will be served and the public is invited. This is a free event.

Guinevere’s, next to Gallery at Avalon Island is located at 37 S. Magnolia Ave., Orlando, FL at the corner of Magnolia and Pine. Call 407-803-6670 or email Jeff@ArtistsRegistry.com for more information. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 12 - 6 PM

 

About the Artists:

RICHARD FISHER:

The WORK:
"Doors of Perception"
MINDWORKS art are drawing meditations... explorations into the unconscious mind. Leonardo daVinci urged us to look at clouds and stains on the walls and read into them figures, faces, animals and battle scenes. MINDWORKS are digital art, a process of discovery, art put to the service of Self-realization for the artist as well as the viewer.

At the core of this work are drawing meditations, images rising from the unconscious mind. Inspired by Carl Jung, (the psychology of the mind), Anton Ehrenzweig (the education of vision), Leonard da Vinci (on creativity), and by artists such as Hieronymous Bosch, William Blake, Odilon Redon, Max Ernst to name few, Richard has developed his own special kind of art which he calls MINDWORKS.

The advent of computer technology and digital art in the 1990s meshed nicely with his explorations of the unconscious mind which had begun in the early 1970s. In addition the new print technology allowed him to enlarge this imagery, making it more intimate and accessible to the viewer. The new tools of computer art opened ‘doors of perception’ as Aldous Huxley phrased it. It has been an adventure of discovery both artistically as well as spiritually, becoming more conscious in more ways.

Since the early 50’s Richard has been continually involved with visual arts: BA degree from Pennsylvania State University, fine arts major; MA degree from Columbia University, Teachers’ College, fine arts major; Parsons School of Design, advertising curriculum: Brooklyn Museum of Art, oil painting with Reuben Tam; extensive professional experience in textile design, packaging design graphics, corporate identity programs, and finally teaching 22 years in the Textile/Surface Design Department of the Fashion Institute of Technology (State University of New York) in New York City.

Jon Miller's Yearning for "Reconciliation" Echoes in Gallery at Avalon Island
Hear an almost audible cry for openness and understanding, and come join an important conversation about the necessity and beauty of coming together. Award-winning local artist Jon Miller cordially invites you, his neighbor, to speak with him about the artist's inner struggle to devote oneself to one's art, our individual interpersonal struggles to achieve intimacy with other human beings, and our societal struggle to accept and make peace with those different from ourselves.

This conversation takes place in a series of expansive, bold, provocative work that Miller is sharing for the first time with the general public. "Reconciliation" opens at the Gallery at Avalon Island on Thursday, June 19 at 6:00 p.m., .and runs through July 11. The Gallery at Avalon Island is a beautifully appointed, dramatically lit exhibition space located at Magnolia and Pine in the heart of historic downtown Orlando. The June 19 opening is free and open to the public.

A burning need for reconciliation torches each subject that Miller considers in this photo-realistic series. Additional philosophical messages are subtly, or not-so-subtly mapped on canvases representing both the inner world of the artist and the outer, tangible world in which our nation makes peace and war with other nations.

"My mind is on art while I am in the middle of doing other things that are a part of day-to-day life," says Miller. "Sometimes art has to wait, and I don't want it to wait. It's not that I want to paint; I have to paint. I need it to live."

That same urgency is painted into Miller's political statements: "I definitely am for everyone living harmoniously in the world, whether we be black, white, Muslim, Jewish, or whatever. I want the world to be a place that people can be who they are and practice what they practice, living in peace with other people."

While he lives in Port Orange, Miller's artistic roots are also planted in Brevard County. He sneaks out of his successful South Daytona business each Thursday morning to paint with his friends at Peggy Gunnerson Studio in Titusville. His paintings have won numerous prominent awards, including "Best of Show", in both Volusia and Brevard counties. Recently, Miller was invited to join the prestigious Beaux Arts of Volusia, an invitational, juried group of artists that is devoted equally to experimentation and to excellence in classical elements of fine art.
In addition to the upcoming opening at the Gallery at Avalon Island, Miller's work can be viewed at Peggy Gunnerson Studio and the Space Coast Cancer Center in Titusville, at Jon Terry Salon in South Daytona, at Bennett's Art Frame Gallery in Daytona Beach, and at Tropical Art and Frame Gallery, also in Daytona Beach.

The Gallery at Avalon Island is open Tuesday through Saturday, from noon to 6. Visitors are welcome and admission is free.

Gallery at Avalon Island is located at 39 South Magnolia, Orlando, FL 32801.

For further information please contact jeff@artistsregistry.com or phone 407~803~6670.