Richard Reep

Aug 14, 2024 | orlandoweekly.com | Richard Reep

A tribute to the colorful lives and work of Qurentia Throm and Cicero Greathouse is on display at the Maitland Art Center. Theirs is a story of art, of artists, of the Maitland Art Center itself, and of Central Florida. They're both gone now, and this show is a chance for you to get to know them a little bit, too. While our times seem dominated by bombast and spectacle, these two artists worked quietly to transform everything they touched and saw, which was a lot.

Jul 10, 2024 | orlandoweekly.com | Richard Reep

The Orlando Museum of Art has trained us to happily await their Florida Prize summer exhibit with fervent feelings of curiosity about what contemporary artists in Florida are actually up to these days. This year is the 10th anniversary of the competition exhibition, and OMA's crop of creatives this year give us a deep dive into the state of the art. The Florida Prize this year went to Yanira Collado, a Miami artist.

Jun 14, 2024 | orlandoweekly.com | Richard Reep

You read that right: The same exhibit is at two places through the summer. Commanding more local gallery real estate than any other art show at the moment, Pathways exhibits the work of six emerging artists competing for the Carlos Malamud Prize. All of them have work at both Rollins and UCF, with nearly five dozen individual works on display. We managed a few minutes with Malamud at the May 31 opening, where his eyes twinkled with excitement over the impending announcement of the winner.

Jun 7, 2024 | orlandoweekly.com | Richard Reep

There are few better compelling testaments to our old lifeways than the architectural ruins they leave behind. Today, the once-legendary “Borscht Belt” of New York State hotels stands as a marker of Jewish immigration, or as the Holocaust Museum puts it, a “tale of the assimilation of Jewish immigrants.” Photographer Marisa Scheinfeld evocatively captures the eerie twilight of these abandoned resort ghost towns in this show.

May 1, 2024 | orlandoweekly.com | Richard Reep

It is impossible to overstate how different the world was in 1937 when André Smith created the Research Studio, now part of the Art and History Museums of Maitland. Knocking over the South's Jim Crow barriers and traditional male art-world barriers, Smith saw within the heart of the artist by collaborating with Zora Neale Hurston in nearby Eatonville, among many others. This view from within is the current exhibit's theme, bringing together Shannon Elyse Curry and Nneka Jones, two Black artists.