Image courtesy Polk Museum of Art
This weekend, the Polk Museum of Art celebrates the debut of its recently acquired Art-O-Mat with an interactive talk by Art-O-Mat founder and creator Clark Whittington.
Whittington, a conceptual artist based in Winston-Salem, NC, first hatched the Art-O-Mat idea for an exhibition in 1997, when he transformed a dilapidated cigarette machine [...]

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Gregory Barsamian, Untitled, 1999, 4’h x 7’ dia., Courtesy of the Artist.
Visitors to artist Gregory Barsamian’s exhibition at the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland will likely notice something remarkable even before they set foot in a gallery. To host Unbelievable Transformations, an unusual showcase of kinetic sculpture, the museum’s airy exhibition spaces have been [...]

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Elisabeth Condon, Impending Fall, 2007, Watercolor, 11 x 15 in.
With few natural signals to indicate the passing of the seasons, Bay area residents are left to simulate the arrival of spring with a flowering of arts and cultural offerings. Dear friends, as we face a never-ending onslaught of oppressively sunshine-filled days in the coming [...]

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Robert Stackhouse, Indigo Way (1986). Watercolor on paper mounted on linen, 98-3/8 x 167 in. Courtesy of the John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation.
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of speaking (via conference call from their studio) with Robert Stackhouse and Dr. Carol Mickett. Read the article in Creative Loafing.
Stackhouse is a [...]

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