Known internationally as a master Scrimshaw Artist, his career developed towards commercial lines with illustration and graphic design projects, all the while continuing to paint for pleasure, purpose and the elusive profit.

Jimm is a fixture at Blue Heaven and can be seen on his “en plein air” porch studio intensely responding to the wild world around him.

Both exhibitions will be celebrated a second time, Thursday, September 16 from 6-9 p.m. during the Walk on White monthly Open House at TSKW.

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The artwork showcases artists living and working in the Keys, including Annamarie Giordano, Susan Sugar, Sue D’Antonio, Elizabeth Devries, Kate Miller, Lauren McAloon, Carol Tedesco, Coco Strauss, Frankie Zeh, Laurie Margolin, Marianne Motches,  Sandy Mezinis and others.

“Women weave together the various rich threads of their lives – friendships, sexuality, family, children, work, spirituality, intellectuality – into distinct and unique lifestyles.  Each woman emphasizes these characteristics differently, subduing some and flaunting others. Likewise, women share the same body elements, but each develops her own look, like refrigerator magnets, infinitely rearranged.  This exhibition attempts to capture some of that diversity, ” says Judi Bradford, guest curator for the show.

With this collection, from figure drawings and paintings to sculpture and abstracted images, the women artists of the southernmost islands see their gender with sensitive insight.

Running concurrently in SPACE 2, TSKW’s newest location to exhibit art, Jimm Sherrington: The Wild World of a Key West Legend launches the season with a sampling of new paintings paired with works from his past 30 years in Key West. Many locals will recall the “Spot Series” of work featuring his beloved canine and best friend.

Known internationally as a master Scrimshaw Artist, his career developed towards commercial lines with illustration and graphic design projects, all the while continuing to paint for pleasure, purpose and the elusive profit.

Jimm is a fixture at Blue Heaven and can be seen on his “en plein air” porch studio intensely responding to the wild world around him.

Both exhibitions will be celebrated a second time,  Thursday, September 16 from 6-9 p.m. during the Walk on White monthly Open House at TSKW.

Images: Clockwise from top left:

“I Love Love” mixed media by Coco Strauss
Encaustic image by Annamarie Giordano
Untitled pastel on paper by Annamarie Giordano
“Difference of Opinion” mixed media on canvas by Marianne Motches
“Cow Jumped Over the Moon” by Jimm Sherrington
The Artist Jimm Sherrington

Brooks can be found working at “610 Studios”, just a two doors down from the Armory.

Novel Excerpt
“September was the hottest month, the endless days bright and still, the drone of cicadas incessant. Dragonflies swooped low over dusty roads with hungry crows in eager pursuit. Alligators lolled in warm mud-brown rivers. Fruit ripened; grew fat and full then fell and rotted under sullen trees. Fruit flies swarmed leaving seeds like bones. Wooden houses swelled. Doors no longer shut. Cotton curtains hung in limp expectation. But come month’s end the cool north wind would begin to blow, lifting the leaves of the drooping orange trees, sending a rustle through the grove like hope. How we’d rejoiced that afternoon with Turkey Boy jumping out of the tree he was pruning to lift me high over his head with a whoop. That wind! It would break the stillness of the Indian-summer heat and steal the warmth before the night was through. Summer always ended that way, abruptly.”

For most of her career in Key West, She had a retail studio/gallery, Lizard Licks, named for the soft sculpture critters I made for retail and wholesale markets.

Judi has been involved in several arts project partnerships; most recently she was instrumental in developing the Full Moon HOWL café and gallery stroll, the Key West Plein Air Painters, and in developing the “From a Woman’s Hand”, a juried art show to benefit WomanKind Women’s Health Care Center.

Judi  can be found working at her studio at “610 Studios”, just two doors down from the Armory.

Work by Judi Bradford

Sally’s studio can be found at “610 Studios,” just two doors down from the Armory at 610 White Street.