The Center for Creative Education is pleased to announce a new series of exhibitions to be presented in the Marjorie S. Fisher Gallery at their newly renovated facility in historic Northwood. On Thursday, March 26, 2015 the CCE showcased three talented artists with completely different, but complementary work in, “Interior/Exterior.” The show which will run through April 24th features three artists: Krystofer Kimmel, Hilmar Stemmler and Raul Vega. The exhibition program is selected and curated by CCE board member Bruce Helander, and covers a wide range of artistic disciplines, styles and subject matter by artists working in South Florida, as well as other areas.
The exhibition schedule is part of the Center’s mission, which includes innovative teaching programs, distinguished lectures, artist demonstrations and art exhibitions that offer an insightful perspective on creativity and a variety of positive, inspirational examples to students and the surrounding community. The Center has also reached more than 12,000 students in schools all over Palm Beach County during the past year. Their purpose is to open the student’s educational world through art.
Krystofer Kimmel is a talented, young painter who graduated from Bak Middle School of the Arts and the Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, and has also studied at Oxford in Britain. He is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in painting from the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. Kimmel developed a strong interest in portraiture during secondary school, and his large-scale charcoal self-portraits, which are the subject of this show, have initiated enthusiastic interest from area collectors and dealers. This is the first official one-man exhibition for this artist.
Hilmar Stemmler is a professional photographer who lives in Germany and West Palm Beach. He has been exploring the fascinating concept of collaging together photo images that blend and give an almost surreal quality to the interiors he documents. Colors and forms seem to merge together in multiple layers that Hilmar patches together like puzzle parts. The focus of this show is a selection of dramatic images chosen from a two-year-long documentation of the Helander’s circa 1930 home in the historic neighborhood of Providencia in West Palm Beach.
Raul Vega will display paintings that have been inspired by the outdoor environment at his turn-of-the-century Pennsylvanian farmhouse, with its gardens and studio. He is a winter resident here, living in the Flamingo Park neighborhood of West Palm Beach. Vega has developed a distinctive style of interpreting landscapes by zeroing in on the close-up, textural details of rock formations and other surrounding organic subjects. Vega studied at the College of Mayaguez/University of Puerto Rico and later at the prestigious Pratt Institute, and has shown his work at numerous venues, including the Paul Fisher Gallery, ArtHouse 429, The Whitney condominium’s West Gallery and the Coral Springs Museum of Art. His work also was included in the recent “Bling” exhibition at the Cornell Museum of Art in Delray Beach.
To attend the opening on Thursday, March 26th, from 6-8PM, a minimum $10 donation to the Center for Creative Education is suggested. payable at the door. The show will remain for viewing through April 24th. For more information contact Center for Creative Education