Art Exhibitions
Welcome to Art Ovation Hotel’s premiere art exhibitions. Through such expressions of the arts and artists, Art Ovation Hotel furthers its mission to serve the community as an active host, facilitator, patron and partner for the arts. With this and many, new and varied initiatives, an exciting palette of artistic opportunities and experiences are presented for the enrichment of our guests and our community.
You are invited to tour our exciting present and past exhibitions and the learn more about the artworks and the talented artists that created them.
ANDREA DASHA REICH: My Silk Road
September 9, 2022 - May 6, 2023This exhibition is inspired by the artist’s journey from Prague to Israel, to New York City. For over 50 years, her extensive travels while working in the fashion and art industries influenced her colors, textures, emotions, and her constant hunger to create. Inspired by organic shapes and planes in nature, Reich’s artworks are a woven interplay of rich color spectrums that explore the depth and intimacy of our abstract world. Through pure pigments and layers of epoxy resins, her works allow her visions to breathe with motion and fluidity and reflect her optimistic and sensual worldview while giving one a glimpse of the enigmatic life she has lived.
View ExhibitJavi Suárez: Sarasota Icons
September 9, 2022 - May 6, 2023Javier Suárez Jr. (b. Puerto Rico, 1972) studied architecture at the University of Florida. Being the son of an architect, he always felt compelled to follow in his father’s footsteps, though art has been his first love. What has made him a successful artist, though, is his innate passion. The works featured in Sarasota Icons can be described as “rational-Expressionism.” They result from synthesizing rational thinking (concept) and action (body, feelings). The stories of layered images and the rendering of moments within these images’ literal overlap generate a three-dimensional space perception from a two-dimensional plane. He lives and works in Sarasota.
View ExhibitRobyn Holl: Golden Gesture
September 9, 2022 - May 6, 2023Robyn Holl is a visual artist whose paintings and collages demonstrate energetic movement and vibrant coloration. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally. Exhibitions include Visionary Women at the Columbia Art Center in 2019, 2020, & 2022, The Art of Abstraction in 2018, and Colorful Spirit in Historic Ellicott City in 2017. Robyn has held solo exhibitions in Sarajevo and Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a show featuring her travels, The Balkans, in Brooklyn, New York. She holds an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
View ExhibitCarol Lukitsch: Connecting the Parts
September 9, 2022 - May 6, 2023Originally from Colorado, Carol Lukitsch has traveled and lived in various parts of the world. She received a BFA Summa Cum Laude from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and an MFA from The University of Maryland, College Park. Her career as a college art professor and curator has involved many cross-cultural projects, including a Fulbright Grant to Turkey, where she was a Senior Lecturer. Her energetic, brightly colored, abstract paintings convey a sense of movement and discovery. They have been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally and are featured in distinguished private and public collections.
View ExhibitISAAC AZULAY: SMALL SPACES, BIG COLORS
September 9, 2022 - May 6, 2023Isaac Azulay (b. Caracas, Venezuela) received a bachelor’s degree in Communications from Reichmann University IDC in Israel, and a master’s in Business Administration from Nova University in Davie, Florida. Over the last four years, he has taken courses at Roberto Mata School of Photography in Miami, where he currently teaches urban photography. At first sight, Azulay’s photographs describe recognizable locations and commonplace imagery. However, Isaac’s work introduces the complicated interplay between form, lines, and color, suggesting a physical arrangement of geometric shapes within the landscape.
View ExhibitJude Zawaideh: Timely Encounters
September 9, 2022 - May 6, 2023Jude Zawaideh, a 21-year-old fine artist, captures the essence of the self in response to the physical body over time. With a focus on a contemporary figurative style, her work serves as a reflective medium that pushes towards notions of self-awareness and exploration. Zawaideh uses oil paint as a medium which encompasses her love of the process and the patience it takes to get to know the subjects she paints. She creates enigmatic, vaguely familiar compositions that explore the multiplicity of reality and human consciousness, diving into the artist’s personal experiences within her reality. Viewers find themselves exchanging glances with the subjects immersed in scenes of unexpected yet intensely introspective states.
View ExhibitThe Prolific Artistry of Dan Houston
September 9, 2022 - May 6, 2023Dan Houston, formerly of New York, was transplanted to Houston, Texas, more than 30 years ago. A mecca for artistry and fine art, Houston was the ideal place to cultivate his love for art, which he developed as a small child, creating his first masterpieces with crayons on brown paper bags and his mother’s walls. Dan Houston’s natural artistic talents were nurtured at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and Cooper Union School of Art. Since then, his unique art has been showcased at countless worldwide galleries. Dan has recently relocated to Sarasota, Florida.
View ExhibitClemy Abadi: Waves
September 9, 2022 - May 6, 2023Clemy Abadi was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on February 8, 1940. She studied art at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas Cristobal Rojas in Caracas, the University of Nebraska, and with Venezuelan master Pedro León Zapata. A talented pianist, she has trained in classical music with Eva Hangelaid and Harold Y. Vargas. Clemy ventured into handmade wet felting in 2018 while visiting Uruguay, in the workshop of the artist Alejandra Rodriguez Medina, with whom she continued to experiment and perfect this ancestral textile technique between 2019 and 2021. Clemy reached her own expressive language of textures and colors that refer to her intimate connection with nature, art, and the delicate universe of emotions.
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