Amazing Art - Julie Evans: Eating Sunshine (Boca Raton Museum of Art)

 

The Boca Raton Museum of Art presents the new exhibition Julie Evans: Eating Sunshine, on view June 12 - October 20. This is the first time the celebrated New York artist’s new ceramic sculptures are exhibited by a museum alongside her paintings.

The timing of the exhibition "Eating Sunshine" coincides with the current cycle when our Sun’s magnetic poles prepare to reverse, and our planet is experiencing a peak period of solar activity. What’s happening now is the most extravagant fireworks display in the entire solar system, as the increased magnetic energy of the Sun creates more solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The title of the exhibition ‒ Eating Sunshine ‒ reflects the artist’s fascination with plants and organisms that need life energy and nourishment from the Sun to survive. “While geared towards efficiency and survival, these interrelated systems of nature here on Earth and on our Sun share extraordinary power, logic, elegance, and beauty that is far beyond what we can see or understand,” says Julie Evans.  Julie Evans was born in New York in 1959. She received a BFA in 1981 from Syracuse University, and an MFA in 1992 from Brooklyn College.  She received the Charles Shaw Award for Excellence in Painting in 1990 and 1991. Her work has been shown extensively in museums and galleries nationwide and internationally. Watch the PBS TV studio visit video at this link.  Read more about the artist at www.julieevansart.com/pagecv.