Gallery at The Boca Raton

Matt Devine is a self-taught sculptor working with steel, stainless steel, aluminum and bronze. The contrasts of nature and industry, light and shadow, chaos and order are themes found throughout his body of work. Pared-down organic shapes are formed out of sheet and solid materials and welded together in harmonious accord, often allowing the metal to appear as light and fluid as sheets of paper. These contrasts, plus the relationships of patterns and boundaries, address Devine’s desire to contain chaos and push out the discord of an information-saturated culture. 

Initially debuted at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary in 2022, “Passage”, measuring 8’ x 10 x 13’ was the most massive, interactive stainless-steel sculpture that the artist had created to date.   Viewers are encouraged to “pass” through its towering arches and swooping curves.  Produced during the COVID pandemic on the Zia Pueblo in Gino’s home state of New Mexico, with the assistance of a few select Zia Native Americans, it took a full year to create the sculpture. 

From a conventional point of view, Jane Manus can be described as a sculptor whose artistic materials are welded aluminum and paint.  But in a deeper sense, her materials are space, gravity, asymmetry, balance and disequilibrium.  She wields these properties, creating striking geometric sculptures that challenge our perceptions of inside and outside, movement and stasis, illusion and reality.

A colorful ode to Modernism, Ugo Rondinone’s Sun Series is a satisfying visual experience based on the repetition of circles. Merging the psychedelic patterns of Op Art with the depthless tones of Color Field painting, these mandalas fill the viewer’s field of vision with pulsing color. He began the Sun series in the early 1990s, by directing his gaze inward - translating his emotional state to circular bands of color; a reflection of his interest in Tibetan mysticism as a vehicle to explore natural phenomena and interior states of being. 

The emergence of a digital world has affected almost every aspect of contemporary life.  New forms of inhabiting the algorithmic world and the physical world emerge through relationships between human and machine.  While many aspects of natural life have become inextricable from digital life, these new coded forms are consistently evolving–avatars look human; online communication between people is referred to as “chatting”; computers have “brains” etc.

Two objects that have punctuated key moments in the history of Western modernity have undergone a process of radical transformation since the advent of the digital: books and photographs. The emergence of print culture in the 15th Century and of mechanically produced images in the 19th Century set certain parameters around knowledge, communications, circulation and truth. It was these ways of constituting knowledge as a method of enlightenment that set the stage for many struggles and forms of freedom, but also a stage of power and control. 

Her work takes many forms: furniture, outdoor installations, floor- and pedestal-mounted works, and even wall-mounted pieces that allude to the history of reductivist painting and shaped canvases. “A lot of pieces are site-specific,” says Manus, “and I think of every piece in three-dimensional terms, even wall pieces. I always think about furniture from every different angle as well.” Works such as Double Jeopardy (2004), which is mounted on the wall, are reminiscent of the work of El Lissitzky, an early 20th-century Russian constructivist who blended mass production and graphic design with high art and confounded the division between two- and three-dimensional artworks. The sculpture is a highly formal experiment: a diptych composed of two aluminum forms painted blue. The two pieces mirror one another’s shape—a vertical band with a cube mounted on each, pointing outward. The cube on the left element is closed, absorbing light, and the right one open and reflective.

Ernest Trova was an artist whose signature creation, a gleaming humanoid known as “Falling Man,” appeared in a series of sculptures and paintings and became a symbol of an imperfect humanity hurtling into the future. Mr. Trova was largely known as a sculptor, but his “Falling Man,” a standard of Pop Art, began life as a painted figure, taking shape on his easel in the early 1960s. Faceless, armless, with a hint of a belly and, its name notwithstanding, of indeterminate sex, the figure struck a variety of poses, sometimes juxtaposed with other like figures, sometimes with mechanical appendages.

Swiss-American sculptor Roger Reutimann works with contemporary materials like stainless steel and fiberglass to transform the inexhaustible subject of the human figure into innovative works of art. Influenced by such Modern Masters as Moore, Brancusi and Arp, the artist also finds inspiration in industrial and automotive design.  Relying on the purity of shapes and simple geometric lines, his minimalist sculptures suggest a semi-abstract representation of the human form. 

Born in Gat Rimon in 1951, Vaadia grew up in a rural community where his parents, Nissim Vaadia and Rivka Horozlaski, farmed strawberries. In 1968, he enrolled at the Avni Institute of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv but was drafted into the Israeli Army just a year later. After completing his service, he returned to school and began teaching there after graduating. In 1975, with a grant from America-Israel Cultural Foundation, he relocated to New York, where he studied at the Pratt Institute. The artist said he thought the move was “the worst mistake of my life,” but “within one week I actually recognized that the urban environment of New York is as natural as my village.”

Isabelle van Zeijl is an established mid-career international acclaimed artist. Recognized for her mastery to create striking self portraits with depth and meaning who enriches life, possessing lasting and impressionable depth and value. 

Van Zeijl dips into the post-modern to craft a vision of feminine power that will have you questioning both historical and 21st-century concepts of beauty. Van Zeijl produces the scenes entirely independently, she is both model, creator, object and subject. Her work  possesses a timeless beauty, transcending the boundaries of epoch and media.