Gallery at The Boca Raton

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. 

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.  

New York School painter Alex Katz developed his highly stylized aesthetic in reaction to 1950s Abstract Expressionism, finding his own distinctive resolution between formalism and representation. His brightly colored figurative and landscape paintings are rendered in a flat style that takes cues from everyday visual culture like advertising and cinema, in many ways anticipating both the formal and conceptual concerns of Pop Art. Well known for his many portraits of his wife and muse, Ada, Katz has also dedicated himself to printmaking and freestanding sculptures of cutout figures painted on wood or aluminum.

By quoting figures from well-known works of art, Manolo Valdes revitalizes these familiar images by taking them out of their original context. In both paintings and sculptures, he inflates the figure's size, abstracting form and minimizing detail, while incorporating a lot of roughly applied surface texture.

In this sculpture “Infanta Margarita”, Valdes pays tribute to Spain’s great master painter, Diego Velasquez.  His painting of “Las Meninas” (The Maids of Honor), painted in 1656 depicts Margarita Teresa of Spain in fashion of the era.  The most striking characteristic is the huge expanse of the voluminous dress.

Infanta was the title and rank given in the European kingdoms of Spain and Portugal to a son or daughter of the king.  Margarita Teresa was the favorite child of her father, King Philip IV.