Evening at the Gallery - Everyday Magic featuring artwork of Rebecca Skelton

Name: Evening at the Gallery - Everyday Magic featuring artwork of Rebecca Skelton
Start: 2025-02-07T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-07T20:30:00-05:00
Location: 5401 Gulfport Blvd, Gulfport, FL, United States, Florida 33707

Schedule

Fri Feb 07 2025 at 05:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

5401 Gulfport Blvd, Gulfport, FL, United States, Florida 33707 | Gulfport, FL

Join us First Friday, February 7th 5:30-8:30 PM for an Evening at the Gallery and opening reception for Everyday Magic a solo exhibition featuring the artwork of Rebecca Skelton. This free community event will also feature live music with Jim Gilmour and special guest Scott Hunt!
Rebecca Skelton Artist Statement:
“The making and viewing of art is transformative. It is a spiritual experience even more than an intellectual one. I work in painting, drawing and sculpture. I begin my artwork as an experiment with a particular set of colors or elements. The goal is to see what sort of expression I can get from the various combinations and the handling of the colors and material itself. The basic result is that much of my work has been nonobjective although it contained suggested forms. I consider the goal of abstraction to be the most difficult and the pinnacle of the use of art as a visual language. Although much of my art contains figurative elements, I will always consider myself primarily an abstract artist. From the first searching mark placed on a surface and each component fabricated, the art begins to define itself more and more narrowly until there is no more to discuss. The image knows only itself as it struggles to emerge. Each is like a willful child growing into an independent image. Any element behaves only as its particular state of being allows it to behave. And each piece of art demands its own format. For this reason, my work is varied. Each new piece cries to be its own event.”
About Rebecca Skelton
Rebecca Skelton earned her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Auburn University. She has taught a wide variety of art classes as an adjunct professor for University of Tampa, St. Petersburg College, USF St. Petersburg, HCC Ybor, and Eckerd College as well as for the Morean Arts Center, Creative Clay, Youth Arts Corps, and the Dali Museum. She is the volunteer coordinator for models and monitors for Morean Art Center’s Saturday figure drawing open studio where she has been a participant for at least 30 years.
About Scott Hunt:
Scott is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist based in Tampa, FL. He received his first guitar at the age of 5, which began not only his lifelong love of music but also an interesting musical instrument collection. He has played extensively across the country and has opened or shared the stage with a wide variety of well known artists, but also some extremely talented lesser known artists. Since moving to the Tampa area, Hunt has played solo as well as with several area bands…Grindstone Syndicate (red dirt country), Cassie Jean and the Fireflies (original Americana band), Joel Hosler (original work), and a 90’s Country tribute band (Whiskey County).