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.

Abstract expressionism emerged in the United States after WWII and quickly became one of the most influential movements in the history of art. AbEx artists were influenced by the ideas of psychoanalysis and believed in the importance of tapping into the subconscious mind. They often worked spontaneously, allowing their inner thoughts and emotions to guide the creative process.

Most of the artists on view in Drips, Stains & Pours fall under the second generation of Abstract Expressionism, with the first generation including artists such as Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler. Much like their predecessors, the younger generation emphasized spontaneous, gestural expression, the exploration of color and material, and often used bold brushwork, dynamic compositions, and non-representational forms. Gesture and movement were central to their aesthetic, and evidence of their spontaneous movements are trapped in swaths of color. The resulting artworks may be viewed as an artifact of their choreographed actions.

We are pleased to present our inaugural rotating exhibition at The Boca Raton's Tower lobby featuring the work of Tom Leighton.

Tom Leighton is an artist, photographer and printmaker, with a fascination with architectural structure and form. Trained at the Royal College of Art in London, he expertly layers and manipulates his photographic images, creating work which is both beautiful and provocative, encouraging us to imagine different possibilities for the world around us.

Leighton’s close and conjectural explorations are about environments both natural and constructed. Travelling between ancient cities and the most futuristic developments of Hong Kong and the Middle East, he works with buildings and cityscapes which are part of an international iconography.

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.”

Gino Miles says of his work, “Exploring the relationship between organic design and inorganic materials has led me to a strong conceptual balance of how things grow, bond together, and respond to their neighboring environment.  I often choose materials which can reflect, absorb, or blend with their surroundings. Miles works primarily in fabricated stainless steel and bronze, choosing a curvilinear aesthetic that often appears weightless as the lines spin throughout nature. "Fandango” has the ability to be kinetically turned or spun so viewers can experience the work from several vantage points. “Presenting such mass in motion with seemingly effortless fluidity invites a challenge to the viewer’s perception of the sculpture,” remarks the artist. 

Doug Argue’s vast canvases stuffed with shimmering, bullet-shaped forms have come to be known as the “fish paintings.” To guess a species is to miss the point, though the dense cramming-in of shapes suggests sardines. With only planes of silvery forms, the fish school depicted is the perspective of a fish, a portrait of the herd. The rendered world is both tamed and wild, familiar and entirely alien. 

One cannot look at Argue’s fish paintings without contemplating the intricate hours of their creation, without imagining the obsession that took hold and sustained itself until the moment in which they were first displayed. The intricacy of the fish paintings, their obsessiveness, like so much outsider art, is not madness, but a profound interest, a fascination that abides for a time, and then, like a wave, subsides. 

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. 

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. 

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.