After finishing up with exhibiting at Aqua 13 Art Miami during Art Basel week I travelled to Key West for a week of vacation. I once lived there as a child but have not been able to return for many years.

One of the first sights that I visited was the Key West Garden Club at West Martello Tower. The tower is across the street from my childhood home. The annual Sculpture Key West, with pieces by international, national and local artists was in full swing.

Here are a few pictures from around the tower and the exhibition that consisted of thirty works.

The exhibition ends on March 23, 2014. 

sculpturekeywest.org 

AUTOGRAPH TREE 

GRAN-ANT 2013 Craig Berube-Gray, Key West FL

steel, concrete, granite 38"L x 18"W x 18"T

TANK (camouflaged) 2013 Richard Brachman, Brooklyn NY

wood, chicken wire, vines, leaves, sticks, coconuts 6' W x 10' L

EVADE INVASION 2013 Lorrie Fredette, West Camp NY

Beeswax, tree resin, muslin, brass, nylon line

11' H  x 36" W x 36" D (approx.)

PALM GODDESS 2013 Ursula Clark, Brooklyn NY

Palms, branches, shells, pods-stones as embellishments

10' H x 6' dia. bottom of skirt

SHADOWS 2013 Liliana Crespi, Weston FL                                                    

5 figures: wire, crocheted 72" x 15" x 8" each (approx.)

Here is a recent commission that I delivered to my client at the end of February. 

Carol brought an ironing board to my studio that she had found while renovating her Victorian cottage c. 1898, in the Thousand Islands near Gananoque, Ontario Canada. The Thousand Islands consist of 1,864 islands that straddle the Canada U.S. border in the St.  Lawrence River. The ironing board has the name S. Finley engraved on the leg. It appears that the Finley family commissioned the ironing board along with other pieces of furniture found in her cottage with the same marking. 

The title of the work, Sagastaweka Island means 'house full of sunshine'. For now the piece is on display against a yellow wall in her kitchen in Toronto. She plans to hang the ironing board at the island once the cottage season begins.  

I like the way the positioning of the squares placed on the diagonal creates a secondary zig-zag pattern on the heritage wood. 

Carol chose a blue, green and yellow colour theme and the flower basket quilt pattern for her project. 

Toronto – Canadian Art at The Artist Project

Date: 2014-02-20-23

Location: Better Living Centre, Toronto

Canadian Art online editor Leah Sandals and artists Janice Colbert and Robert Labossière talk about success in art, and how such standards shift and change, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 23.

Canadian Art at the Artist Project—an art fair featuring original works from more than 250 contemporary artists—from February 20 to 23 at the Better Living Centre in Toronto.

See more at: http://www.canadianart.ca/cafevents/toronto-canadian-art-at-the-artist-project/#sthash.FhCdkMBm.dpuf