TSKW accepts proposals from sculptors from January 1-May 15 each year for the following cultural season. Sculptors can propose the installation of an existing body of work, or can choose to apply for a TSKW Residency and create work for a temporary installation.

Sculpture Garden proposal guidelines will be posted in early December for the following season.

The 2011/12 Sculpture Garden Installation schedule.

To see images from the past few years, please click here

What I Found at the End of The Road by Katie Argyle, AIR -  Space 2 Exhibition
Daily Printmaking Project

Both Exhibitions On View February 16-26

Reception, February 16, 6-9 pm

To read more about The Karmic Circus and to view images, please click here.

To read more about What I Found at the End of the Road, please click here.

Both exhibitions on view February 16-16

Light of Florida was originally planned as a coffee-table book and recently traveled to the 2010 China Sanjiangyuan International Photographic Festival where it was awarded Best Thematic Show. The project began when ASMP members were asked to submit photos that capture and celebrate the magical quality of light in Florida. To date, nearly 1200 images have been submitted in response to the call.

Having been edited down and curated by a panel of experts in the industry, only a small percentage of the best images will be shown in Key West. The resulting collection showcases multiple interpretations of Florida’s people, places and things.

Keys Eyes, in Space 2, focuses the lens more specifically on Key West, and takes a closer view of the scenes and surfaces of our island, photographed by Luchsinger and Strohbeen and presented in a variety of formats.

Luchsinger and Strohbeen are a married couple who live and make art most of the year in Iowa. They have had over 40 shows and exhibitions in a range of media — metal sculpture, painting, drawing, etching, lithography, and archival prints. Spending time in Key West for the last 23 years they have developed what they call “Keys Eyes” which means the ability to look with a sense of humanity and spirit so uniquely Key West.

“The time we have spent visiting Key West has changed the way we see our own lives,” says Luchsinger. “The island is such a beautiful and decadent place, always.”

Luchsinger draws a parallel between Key West and the remote area where he and Strohbeen have a home in Iowa.

“We live on a dead end road, and it can be two weeks before a car passes our way,” continues Luchsinger. “Key West is a dead-end road, too, although obviously, a much larger one.”

The couple transforms the mundane objects and familiar images of the island into strikingly unique photos. Occasionally utilizing extreme closeups, they train the lens on mausoleums, control boxes for traffic lights, and handicap signs, to render the usual in very unusual ways. The show will include both large format and small “postcard” images, as well as several amalgams of images printed on 3 x 10 foot floorcloths.

Gallery of Light of Florida Images

Keys Eyes Images

The public is invited to meet the artist at a reception on Monday, January 23 from 4-6 pm*

Bill Wood on his inspiration for creating High Road…

“High Road is a result of the hours spent with one of my favorite landmarks of the Keys.

The first time I was involved in Sculpture Key West, I drove down from Virginia to Key West with a friend straight through.

As we got onto the Keys as it was beginning to get light, and it was my turn to drive. When I crossed over Bahia Honda,  I saw the remnants of the Flagler Railroad with the collapsing highway above it.

I kept thinking about that bridge – and whenever I’d go back by I’d park at the bridge and look at it for a while.

It struck me that it’s so typical of the Keys – taking something and reusing it like that.

Then, a couple of years ago I started doing road pieces – (one is showing currently in the National Outdoor Sculpture Competition and Exhibition in North Charleston.)

After a while, I got this idea for High Road. I don’t know, I guess I’ve just been on the highway too long…”

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*Guests are invited to stay for the free 6 pm lecture by Seth H. Bramson, author of Speedway to Sunshine in the Armory Main Hall.

Tickets are now on sale for the first annual Key West Artist Studio Tours on Saturday, February 4 from 11 am – 3 pm. Sponsored by The Studios of Key West, this event gives ticket holders intimate access to the working studios of several of the island’s best-known artists. Tickets for the self-guided tour are $20 per person, and can be purchased in advance at TSKW or online, or at each location on the tour on the day of the event.

“This is a the first opportunity for the public to meet and talk with participating artists on their home turf,” says Rosi Ware, TSKW board chair. “The tour offers a rare glimpse of the private workspaces of artists whose work graces national and international collections.”

The exciting and diverse group of artists included on the tour include sculptor John Martini, potters Charles Pearson and Tim Roeder, sculptor John McIntosh, painter Lynn Sherman, and painter Teresa Willis.

Buy Tickets

$20.00

(Tickets can be picked up in advance at TSKW or can be collected at any of the stops on the tour. Maps will also be available.)

About the artists:

JOHN MARTINI‘s sculptures and monoprints are shown internationally in galleries and museums  including Lucky Street  Gallery, Key West; Sander Hudson Gallery, Atlanta;  the Shidoni Annual in New Mexico; Galerie Antoine Laurentin, Paris; and Galleria Santamarta, Milan. His works are extensively represented in private and public collections including the large installation, “Head2Head,” at the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ.  His studio is at 813 Emma Street.

WHITEHEAD STREET POTTERY   Potters Charles Pearson and Tim Roeder have been on Whitehead Street for over 25 years, where they create porcelain, stoneware, and Raku-fired vessels.  These ceramic pieces, in both hand-thrown and hand-built forms, incorporate function and elements of architectural design.  Visitors to 322 Julia Street will see the potters’ kiln as well as the most gorgeous koi ponds ever created.

JON McINTOSH and his small surreal sculptures are described by ARTnews “an accomplished realist painter for many years, McIntosh has branched out into what he calls ‘Constructs’…small,  generally disagreeable objects that are reminiscent of the best of the Surrealist surprises…his works on paper may call to mind…Robert Motherwell but the pluralism McIntosh embraces is purely Postmodern.”  His studio is #9 upstairs at 513 Fleming Street.

LYNN SHERMAN says “I have always had a passion for sunlight and the shapes the shadows create on people, objects, houses, and landscapes.  The light in Key West, the form of the houses, and the soft colors drew me instantly and for the last few years since moving here have been my muse.”  Lynn studied painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Barnes Foundation.  Her small paintings of houses approach their subjects head on, flat, and stripped of all details except the light, the form, the shadows.  Lynn’s own house is at 706 Ashe Street.

TERESA WILLIS, inspired by her own backyard, evolved into fine art from advertising design.  Whether focused on a hibuscus, a rooster, or a mango, her bold paintings—displayed at her converted 1927 church gallery,  Blue Turtle—present strong, singular local points.  Of her pencil drawings of orchids, Willis says her style “covers the spectrum.” Her converted church is at 330 Julia Street.

At each location the artists, aided by TSKW docents, will be available to discuss their work. The artist’s work may also be available for purchase.

Tickets of admission to all five studios are $20.  Advance ticket sales at TSKW, the Armory, 600 White Street, telephone (305) 600-1406.  Tickets will be available at each location the day of the event.

See the full 2012 season here.

All lectures are held Monday evenings at 6 p.m. in the main hall of TSKW. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis for each lecture. The doors open at 5:30.

Lauren McAloon is a TSKW studio artist and staff member who has called Key West home for the past 20 years. She is recognized widely for her site-informed / site-specific installations and smaller scale sculptures continues her exploration of combining naturally produced sound and sculptural elements to reference cultural and personal transitions and immigration. Sixteen foot Aeolian flutes, barbed wire, and translucent boats create an immersive pathway through the side TSKW Sculpture Garden.

Herbert Weissberg – Former principal flutist Vienna Symphony
Heinz Medjimorec – Piano Haydin Trio
Peter Siakala – Cello Vienna Symphony
Tickets are $100 per person and are available for purchase below or by calling 305-296-0458.

The evening will open with a performance by Catherine Weinfied, Classical Musician (Oboe) and March Artist in Residence.

Last year’s gala concert was so well received, Herbert Weissberg has graciously accepted our invitation to return to the Armory stage in March 2012.

This year he will be accompanied on stage by master musicians Heinz Medjimorec and Peter Siakala.

To view a few images from the 2011 concert, please visit www.tskw.org/etc/images-from-february-11-gala-concert

Tickets will be held in the program office and may be picked up prior to the event.

Live music, scrumptious delectables,
signature drinks, silent auction

Tickets: $150 per guest ($100 of ticket price is a tax-deductible donation to TSKW)

(Guests may pick up purchased tickets in the TSKW Program office, 600 White Street)

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