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Sarasota is a city located in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the state of Florida in the United States.
Its current official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
These islands separating Sarasota Bay from the gulf near the city, known as keys, include Lido Key and Siesta Key,
which are famous worldwide for the quality of their sandy beaches.
Today the keys that are included in the boundary of Sarasota are Lido Key, St. Armands Key, Otter Key, Coon Key, Bird Key,
and portions of Longboat Key and Siesta Key. Previously, Siesta Key was named Sarasota Key. At one time, it and all of Longboat
Key were considered part of Sarasota and confusing contemporaneous references may be found discussing them.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sarasota had a population of 52,488 in 2007.[1] In 1986 it became designated as a certified
local government. Sarasota is a principal city of the Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the seat of Sarasota County.
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Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced since World War II.
Formed in late 2008, the circle of artists includes Joseph Arnegger, Ariana Franco, Brian Haverlock, Tim Jaeger, Amy W Miller, Daniel Miller, Jen Nugent, Daniel Perales, Steve Strenk, Jeff Schwartz, Nathan Skiles, Sabrina Small and Tom Stephens. S/ART/Q produces roaming/temporary exhibitions, creates educational opportunities in the community while exposing the public to how artists function in society and ultimately enhances the arts culture in Sarasota.
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Born in Boston in 1969, Joseph Patrick Arnegger grew up in Connecticut, New York and Florida. He began painting at an early age and remembers spending time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and visiting artists' studios in the Hamptons not far from his grandparents' house in Montauk. He graduated from Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota in 1994.
Growing up, I was intrigued by the placement of objects in people's homes. I made drawings on paper directed by light, shadow and corners. The installation of these drawings made the connection to the rooms, and I continued to explore this idea through the material and organization of objects. This launched the work into a conceptual relationship of investigating realities to create a poetic linguistically interpretation minimalism and fluxes. I produced hand-stitched, cut, folded-paper objects.
At the beginning of 2010, I spent six-weeks at the Vermont Studio Center where Peter Schumann, founder of the Bread and Puppet Theater, christened me a "secret puppeteer". I was inspired to combine my modeling experience with my past installation art, creating a correlation between performance and sculpture and making it about a singular object as opposed to an environment. This allows me to be more intuitive, take risks and introduce technology to the work by utilizing photography as a tool. I choose to continue to use paper for my material because I am able to manipulate, recycle and carry it with me outside of the studio.
Brian Haverlock's work expresses recalled memories, impressions, and aspects of his rich life from his time in monastic orders, to sensitive reflections of events, situations, and individuals he has met, known, or experienced. Brian holds an M.A. in theology from Washington Theological Union, as well as a B.F.A. in painting from East Carolina University. He is a 2007-08 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, among other awards, and his works have been featured in solo and group exhibitions at Green Contemporary and Allan Stone Gallery in New York City, and throughout the US. Brian was born in North Dakota and now lives and works in Sarasota, Florida.
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He's been called passionate, humble, witty, and one of the five rising artist talents in Sarasota by Sarasota Magazine, and aficionado art collectors. At 29, Tim Jaeger has achieved local and increasingly national recognition. A 2002 graduate of the Ringling School of Art and Design, Jaeger decided to remain in the resort coastal town of Sarasota after earning his bachelors of arts, where he now works and paints. Born in Michigan and raised in Paducah, Kentucky, Jaeger is attracted by the colors, warmth and light of Florida, as well as its sophisticated and growing artist communities.
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As an artist, I have been exploring life passages and social norms. Currently, I am questioning how identity is formed around these life events when we fall apart, reshape, agonize and come out anew. My work is part storyteller and part autobiographical, born from the site of cultural construction and consumption. I seek to memorialize while simultaneously reveal an increasing need to abandon or modify these fraying conventions. I commemorate these extraordinary events using the language of confections. Using this saccharine symbol, I reconstitute and exaggerate in order to convey a sense of longing, wonder and familiarity, celebration and failure, desire and anticipation. I've developed the materials I use in my process to create an aesthetic experience by mimicking the ephemeral colors, textures and forms native to confections and the pageantry associated with ceremony. My work calls for a hybrid practice of art making. I fabricate larger than life tools and ?recipes? to bring my sculptures to life.
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I have developed a collection of photographs, which are part of a yearlong investigation of my surroundings and specifically Sarasota Florida's downtown area. They were taken with a disposable camera that in its nature is quick, low quality, and unadulterated. The pictures have been used as references for paintings and drawings, small sculptures and collaged photographs. The type of political and social information that can be conveyed through photographs of neighborhoods is fascinating to me. Through various mediums I explore these details by both isolating and removing the information that is observable.
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Daniel Perales has completed undergraduate studies in Anthropology and Fine Art and has a Master's Degree in Photography. Son to a Spanish father and American mother, Daniel's work reflects his interests in the study of people and culture. Daniel has received grants and commissions related to art and social development. Daniel has also taught photography courses and workshops for The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the Sarasota County school board, and Working with Artists in Denver, CO
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Jeff received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA in painting and drawing from American University in Washington, D.C. He has also studied at Chautauqua in New York, The Vermont Studio and the Lorenzo di Medici School of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. He has been the winner of numerous awards and fellowships and has exhibited nationally. Schwartz has been teaching at the Ringling School of Art & Design since 1998. Before that he taught painting at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He lives in Sarasota with his wife Kate and their children Olivia and Alexander.
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Nathan Skiles was born in Anderson, Indiana. He received his MFA from Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey and his BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. Nathan is represented by Greene Contemporary in New York City and is currently working toward an upcoming 2010 exhibition at Sloan Fine Art in New York.
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Sabrina Small, a Philadelphia-born artist, earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore. After working in Berlin for five years, in 2008 Sabrina returned to Sarasota, Florida, her former home. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Budapest, Berlin, Mallorca, China, and all over South Florida.
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Tom Stephens is a Florida native born in Cocoa Beach. Tallahassee, is where he grew up and where he originally began to paint. While in school, at the Ringling College of Art and Design, Tom worked on the offshore fishing boats docked at Marina Jack?s close to the Ringling campus. Currently, Tom spends his time on the water, or in his painting studio at his home, near the Ringling mansion in Sarasota. He and his wife, Beth, also a Ringling graduate, operate their own businesses in the arts. They hold exhibitions of Tom?s work annually and have studio visits by appointment.
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My finished work is the effect of exploring various creative processes to reach a final arrangement. I rely on our desires for beauty and intrigue, which allows me to delve into the relationship among of the real and the abstract, re-enforcing a conversation between color and texture. My relationship with yoga and my children has been influential to my love for playful and active involvement in creation. My art has taken on an unrefined quality, stressing the connection between final image and the physical act of formation.
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