Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

Comments (0) By Marya Summers Thursday, Jun 8 2006

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Boca Raton Museum of Art

501 Plaza Real
Boca Raton, FL 33432

Category: Museums

Region: Boca Raton

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In school, colored pencil is a medium for those who've matured beyond crayon but aren't quite ready for paint. In the hands of experts, though, colored pencil can produce remarkable, diverse, and vivid results. With more than 1600 members and the mission "to present the public with the highest aesthetic standards in fine art," the Colored Pencil of Society of America has selected its finest 105 for its Signature Showcase, an exhibition which includes winners from the Society's competitive International Exhibit. Displayed in a former elementary school, now the Cornell Museum, the works are exhibited in loose thematic groups: fruits, veggies, and flowers in one room and animals, landscapes, and architecture in another. The styles are as varied as the colors: realism, photo-realism, impressionism, cubism, and abstraction among them. Some are predictable in their subject matter — like "Peppers IV," a serial study by Arizona's Bill Cupit — though expertly executed. Several, like Seattle-resident Laura Ospanik's "Shadow Lights" study the play of light through transparent objects. Others are striking in their creativity: Lula Mae Blocton from Connecticut uses a bold, geometric pattern (presumably African) to dominate the foreground of "Amistad Mende" while an image of the historical slave ship repeats in the background. Running concurrently, Gathering of Kuumba (Swahili for creativity) presents a multi-media exhibition by African-American, Haitian, and Caribbean artists in South Florida. The uneven show includes the works of both very talented artists and their less-accomplished contemporaries and displays originals — textiles, ceramics, sculptures, paintings — alongside giclee reproductions. (Through June 3 at Cornell Museum at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. Call 561-243-7922)