Gallery at The Boca Raton

Our art projects originated in 2009 with the installation of 15 monumental sculptures placed throughout the grounds of The Boca Raton & Beach Club. A project at The Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne was added in 2012, The Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove in 2016 and The Waterstone Resort and Marina in 2022. Artists on view have included Fernando Botero, Peter Busby, Aurora Canero, Lynn Chadwick, Johan Creten, Carole Feuerman, Patrick Hughes, Jun Kaneko, Javier Marin, Julien Marinetti, Jedd Novatt, Dennis Oppenheim, Mauro Perucchetti, Henry Richardson, Sophie Ryder, and Hans Van de Bovenkamp.

Works on view at The Boca Raton & Beach Club currently include Metis Atash, Bill Barrett, Stanley Boxer, Dan Christensen, Max-Steven Grossman, Alex Katz, Kim Keever, Wendy Klemperer, Kx2, Tom Leighton, Rob Lorenson, Donald Martiny, Jane Manus, Gino Miles, James Austin Murray, Udo Noger, Peter Reginato, Ugo Rondinone, Kenny Scharf, Donald Sultan, Ernest Trova, Tigran Tsitoghdzyan, Boaz Vaadia, Manolo Valdes, and Bernar Venet. This venue provides museum quality works for acquisition, while adding an educational and cultural enhancement to the property.

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. 

Donald Martiny’s large scale brushstroke motif paintings suggest the gestural markings of paint applied directly to the wall – a tribute to the energetic motion of action painting.  To create these highly palpable textures, he mixes polymers with pigments and applies the mixture to sheets of aluminum, allowing the gesture to dictate the form.  He once described his practice as “a dance trapped in paint” and his dynamic works are a testament to his active process.

A long-time illustrator and ceramist, Curt Brill’s art career took a turn in 1980 when he began working with bronze.   The sculptures he produced were sensual - a direct response to the feel of the materials and his history of working with clay. With a keen eye and acuity for people-watching, his work aims to reveal the universal human spirit, that which makes us each unique, yet shares a common home.

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.

Working in both monumental and small dimensions since the 1970s, Gino Miles is inspired primarily by 20th century European masters.  He instills his love of the classical figure and objects found in nature, working with a sparse and contemporary language that embodies tranquility.  Stripped of an overt narrative, his abstract forms focus on elegant minimalism with clean lines and shapes.  These kinetic sculptures can be turned, rotated or spun, allowing the viewer to change the sculpture and experience it from a different viewpoint.  

Kx2 is a collaboration combining the strengths of artists and sisters Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman who create mathematically inspired sculpture merging metal and painting. From a distance the work is bold and geometric, yet up close the viewer is engaged by textural hand-sanded metal and multi-layered paintings. By exploring geometry, symmetry and connection, their work aims to create a moment of pause, inviting the viewer to escape the stresses of the day and find a space to achieve balance. In their most recent work, themes related to environmental issues are presented with the hope to raise an awareness of the fragility of our natural ecosystems.

Isabelle van Zeijl is recognized for her mastery in creating striking self-portraits. She produces her images autonomously, taking on the roles of model, creator, object and subject simultaneously. Her work possesses a timeless beauty, while referencing the historic portraiture of her Dutch homeland. In a world that condemns beauty for shallowness, championing high aesthetics is nothing short of rebellion.  Van Zeijl presents a new way to explore female beauty ideals through her unique approach to character and emotion.  Within each series, she reinvents herself and creates a body of work to illustrate these autobiographical narratives.

Boaz Vaadia’s style has evolved into figurative forms created with layers of chiseled stone and reflects the eternal relationship between man and nature. The figures appear as though created by natural forces, such as erosion by wind or water. He said, “By using the natural forces of rocks, my work awakens ancient ‘earth senses’ that were slowly abandoned by man during his evolution to civilization. By carving the stone, I release its inherent energies. Man came from the earth and in death returns to it. I see stone as the bone structure of the earth.”

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.