By John Thomason – September 13, 2019 Aphoristically, rising tides may lift all boats. Literally, however, rising tides are slowly but methodically disrupting our ecosystem to the point of irreversible peril. Climate change, a distant concern for previous generations, has been a four-alarm fire for more recent cohorts. It’s only natural that artists, especially in…
By John Thomason – September 13, 2019 Jeanne Jaffe is not an artist who was weaned on popular culture. And yet her sculptures and installations, on display through May 29 at Arts Warehouse, can feel like models for Sesame Street rejects, or extras from the “Star Wars” cantina scene, or Tim Burton creatures just waiting to…
By John Thomason – March 21, 2019 In art, is a plant ever just a plant, a flower just a flower? I suppose the answer is sometimes yes—the bouquet still-life on the wall of the dentist’s office, the floral landscape at the flea market. But for me, the best plant art evokes stranger things, deeper…
By John Thomason – January 11, 2019 Houses, apartments, trailers, pools and playgrounds are places humans inhabit, but they’re also the sum of their blueprints: plaster and water, metal and plywood, right angles and canted angles, horizontal sprawls and vertical towers. Carmen Smith is a painter, and Robert Fehre is a photographer, but…
By Trisha Andres, commissioning editor, travel 9 FEBRUARY 2019 • 9:00AM “In Delray Beach, Arts Warehouse (artswarehouse.org), an arts incubator in the Pineapple Grove district, opened in late 2017 as a place for artists to work. Visitors can pop in to view roving exhibitions and see the artists at work in their studios, with a…
Sense of Place is an Exhibition of two artists whose work explores landscape, architecture, & nature and the attachment to these subjects. Through Photography and Painting, the body of work showcases the lines, shapes, colors, and simplicity of places. With these places highlighted, the subject can become important and trigger a sense of nostalgia, or…
Arts Warehouse received the 2018 Roy F. Kenzie for Cultural Enhancement. Thank you for this honor! “The Florida Redevelopment Association Awards program recognizes the best in redevelopment in Florida. It is open to any member of the association. To recognize the projects and people involved in redevelopment throughout the state, three awards series have…
By John Thomason – October 12, 2018 Luis Garcia Nerey’s installation “Dwelling,” on display now at Arts Warehouse, is comprised of two squat houses divided by a fence. The home on the right is pure storybook suburbia, the sort of dwelling a first-grader would conceive when asked to draw a “house”: Lily-white wooden exterior,…
Art, Social Media Square Off in Arts Warehouse’s Best Show Yet
By Darien Davies What was once a 15,000 square foot warehouse just on the outskirts of the downtown district has now been transformed into arguably the hippest and most forward-thinking art destination in Delray. The CRA’s Arts Warehouse is located in the Pineapple Grove Arts District and technically opened in late 2017, but have…