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September 10 October 16, 2011

Tony ChirinosAyme CruzaleguiMadeline DenaroVictoria GitmanDeborah GoldmanWalter HnatyshCristina Lei RodriguezJillian MayerMartin OppelChristina PetterssonLeyden Rodriguez-CasanovaAsser Saint-Val

The South Florida Cultural Consortium is funded in part with the support of the National Endowment ofthe Arts, the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, the Boardsof County Commissioners of Broward, Miami-Dade, Martin, and Monroe Counties, and the Palm Beach CountyCultural Council. Funding for this exhibition season is provided in part by Francie Bishop Good and DavidHorvitz.The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization supported in partby its members, admissions, private entities, the City of Hollywood, the Broward County Board of CountyCommissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council; the State of Florida, Department of State,Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and the Kresge Foundation. We welcomedonations from all members of the community who wish to support our work.

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The South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Programfor Visual and Media Artists

Foreward

About the ProgramThe South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Program offersthe largest regional, government-sponsored artists grants in theUnited States, awarding $15,000 and $7,500 fellowships to residentvisual and media artists from the counties of Broward, Martin,Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach. Since it was established in1988, the Consortium has awarded close to $2 million in fellowshipsto over 200 artists.

About the ProcessEvery year, more than 300 artists who live and work throughoutthe five counties submit their applications for consideration to the

South Florida Cultural Consortiums Fellowship Program for Visualand Media Artists. The Consortium is a partnership of the local artsagencies of these five counties. Through these agencies, applicationsare made available to artists in the region. Visual artists can submitup to 10 images of recent work, while media artists submit up to 10minutes of film or video.A regional panel of visual and media art experts from SouthFlorida is convened to provide an initial review of the submissions.The regional panel forwards its recommendations to the nationalpanel. This national panel with expertise in visual art, film, andmedia and chosen from a variety of academic and major visual artsinstitutions from all around the country is given the responsibilityof recommending the final recipients.During a daylong deliberation, the submissions are viewed by thenational panel in a series of rounds. The panelists then reduce theselection to the final group of awardees. The funding available fromeach county determines the number of awards presented from eachcounty. The dynamics of the panel shape the selections from year-

to-year. Merit is determined based on individual accomplishmentsas evidenced by the work submitted for review, with the highestpremium placed on coherent bodies of work. In addition to receivingcash awards, the artists take part in an exhibition hosted andorganized by a visual arts institution in one of the five counties. Thisexhibition is the result of that process.

The South Florida Cultural Consortium

Michael Spring Chair, South Florida Cultural ConsortiumDirector, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs

Mary A. Becht Director, Broward Cultural Division

Elizabeth S. Young Executive Director, Florida Keys Council of the Arts

Rena Blades President and CEO, Palm Beach County Cultural Council

Nancy Turrell Executive Director, The Arts Council, Martin County

We are delighted to present the 23rd Annual South Florida CulturalConsortium Visual and Media Arts Fellowship Awards exhibition.This is the first time in the Centers 33-year history that we havehosted this prestigious exhibition.

The 2011 Consortium showcases a dozen artists selected from fiveSouth Florida Counties. We congratulate all of this years winners.

We thank Michael Spring, Chair of the South Florida CulturalConsortium, as well as the other Consortium leaders for selectingthe Center to host the exhibition we are honored. Also, specialthanks to Brandi C. Reddick of the Miami-Dade County Departmentof Cultural Affairs for all of her assistance.

The Center recognizes and values the support of the NationalEndowment of the Arts, the Florida Department of State, Divisionof Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, the Boards ofCounty Commissioners of Broward, Miami-Dade, Martin andMonroe counties, and the Palm Beach County Cultural Council forsupporting the South Florida Cultural Consortium.

Please enjoy these innovative works and join us in congratulatingthese artists.

Joy Satterlee, Executive DirectorArt and Culture Center of Hollywood


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As Curator of Exhibitions at the Art and Culture Center ofHollywood, it has been an exciting opportunity to select theworks for the 23rdAnnual South Florida Cultural ConsortiumVisual and Media Arts Fellowship Awards Exhibition. This yearsexhibition includes the work of 12 artists from Broward,Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach counties.

The artists were chosen by regional and national arts expertsduring a two-tier panel process. Selection by the regional panelwas anonymous and based solely on the quality of the artists workas evidenced by digital images, slides or video/films submitted.The regional panel included: Francie Bishop Good, Visual Artist,2010 SFCC Recipient (Broward); Wendy Blazier,Senior Curator,Boca Museum of Art (Palm Beach); Denise Delgado, Miami-DadePublic Library System (Miami-Dade); Irvin Lippman, ExecutiveDirector, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale (Broward); Rene Morales,Associate Curator, Miami Art Museum (Miami-Dade); and GlexisNovoa, Visual Artist, 2010 SFCC Recipient (Miami-Dade).

The regional panel forwarded their recommendations to thenational panel comprised of Dina Deitsch, Associate Curator,DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; and CherylHartup, Chief Curator, Museo de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico. I wouldlike to thank each of these colleagues for their time and expertisein making their selections, which was a challenging process giventhe number of talented applicants who submitted for theSouthFlorida Consortium Fellowship Awards this year. I would also like tothank Brandi Reddick, Communications and Artists Manager, Art inPublic Places, Miami-Dade Countys Department of Cultural Affairs,for her tremendous commitment to this process and unboundedenthusiasm for the artists and art in our region and beyond.

As South Florida continues to evolve as one of the leading centersfor the arts in the United States, it comes as no surprise thatthe competition among artists to receive this prestigious awardhas grown. The 12 artists who make up the 2011 ConsortiumFellowship recipients each display exemplary vision, talent andprofessionalism within their respective styles. While their chosenmediums and aesthetic approaches vary widely, I believe thereis an underlying thread that connects the work presented in thisexhibition. We witness an obsessive exploration and renderingof specific subject matter from an individual standpoint, aswell as in ways that convey a shared human experience.

The process of painting is evident within the exhibition, includinga selection of labor intensive works by Madeline Denaro, VictoriaGitman, Walter Hnatysh and Asser Saint-Val. Denaros multi-layered abstractions reveal the numerous incarnations the canvasembodies as she works and reworks areas of surface and paint.Victoria Gitmans intimately scaled paintings of beaded bags aredazzling in their seeming simplicity, which belies the astonishinglypain-staking practice to render these intricately crafted accessories.Walter Hnatyshs single large-scale, mixed-media, installation pieceentitled Wisterium presents an engrossing, phantasmagorical tangleof organic elements and forms in a grisaille palette that pulls theviewer into its web. Asser Saint-Val utilizes a number of uncommon

materials such as flour, tea and shoe polish, as well as pigment andpaint, to create richly textured figurative works. Saint-Vals surrealstyle explores issues dealing with the biological pigmentationelement melanin and its historical and sociological implications.

Swedish-born artist Christina Pettersson creates large-scalegraphite drawings of dizzying detail that reflect her inheritedsensibility and embrace epic mythological tales as a metaphor forself expression. In a much different manner, multi-media artist Jillian

Mayer combines installation, painting, performance and digitalmedia to cinematically portray the conundrum of contemporarylife in a dystopian setting that is both witty and unsettling.

Three artists Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Martin Oppel and LeydenRodriguez-Casanova utilize installation and mixed media astheir primary approach. Each of these artists often employsunconventional and/or found materials, although in verydifferent ways. Lei Rodriguez fashions elaborate installationsand individual sculptural objects that combine layers of fakefoliage and other natural and artificial elements with resin andcolored liquid plastic to simulate the process of decay and itsinherent beauty. Oppel uses a trompe loeil technique to transformobjects that appear to be made from various found or existing

materials, questioning notions of what is natural versus whatis not and how this shapes interpretations of so-called reality.Rodriquez-Casanova constructs minimal, yet complex sculpturalinterventions often using commonplace architectural objectsor components to address issues of memory and perception.

The process of photography is embraced by Tony Chirinos andDeborah Goldman, each who in their own way employ themedium as a mode of systematic documentation. In his ongoingseries of black-and-white photos entitled Cocks, Chirinos drawsupon his Hispanic heritage to bear witness to the controversialactivity of cockfighting in San Andrs, Colombia. Each imageportrays as its subject one of many birds that is engaged in thisblood sport. His gaze does not pass judgment, but rather offersviewers an intimate view so they can make their own conclusionsof this culturally charged activity. Goldmans photographic worksrecord her ongoing collection, counting, sorting and arrangementof natures seeds, pods and other flora. She engages with theseitems in a ritualistic fashion, often counterpointed to the positioningof her own body parts in a sequential performance process.

Por Mis Hijos/For Them is a short documentary film directed,produced, co-written and edited by Ayme Cruzalegui.Cruzalegui was born in Lima, Peru, and chose to make this,her first such film, about a woman from her native countrywho fights against loneliness and other challenges. In thisdeeply compelling story, the woman looks for work in orderto support her family, a plight that viewers of all backgroundscan relate to in light of our current economic climate.

We are grateful to all the artists who submitted work and tothe local and national arts experts who helped make thisSouthFlorida Cultural Consortium exhibition a success. We hope thatthe diverse and engaging selection of work in this exhibitionprovides gallery visitors with an enriching experience.

Jane Hart, Curator of ExhibitionsArt and Culture Center of Hollywood

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Tony Chirinos

Tony Chirinos uses his photography to explore his Hispanic heritageand his identity as an immigrant living in the United States.He first heard about the tradition of cock fighting as a child, listeningto his fathers stories about his native Cuba. Chirinos created thisseries of photographs in San Andrs, Colombia, where he used hiscamera to integrate himself into the cock fighting community over aseries of frequent short visits.

Chirinos received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia Universityin New York. His work has been exhibited internationally, includingat the the LeRoy Neiman Gallery in New York, Centro ColomboAmericano in Bogot, Art Miami, and The Center for Photographyat Woodstock. Chirinos is currently an Associate Professor at MiamiDade College in Miami, Florida, where he has been teachingphotography since 2003.

Above left: El Pirata, from the series Cocks, 2009, Gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches.Above top: Vamos a Ganar, from the series Cocks, 2009, Gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches.Above bottom: Escorpion v. Fantasma, from the series Cocks, 2009, Gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches.

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Ayme Cruzalegi

Ayme Cruzalegui decided to focus on documentary filmmaking aftera trip through her native Peru with a camera in 2006. She enrolledin a Masters Program for Social Documentary (ESCAC/Universityof Barcelona) in Barcelona, Spain. There, she directed, produced,co-wrote, and edited her first documentary, Por Mis Hijos/For Them.It is the story of a woman who fights against loneliness and otherbarriers, while looking for a job to support her family back home.Por Mis Hijos has been exhibited and honored at various film festivals

around the world. It won Best Documentary at the Miami ShortFilm Festival; second place in Documenta Madrid 2008 in Spain; andBest Opera Prima at the Lima Short Film Festival 2008, among otherrecognition.

Por Mis Hijos/For Them (stills), 2007, Video, 15 minutes 49 seconds.

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Madeline Denaro

Committed to abstraction for over two decades, Madeline Denarocredits her education to an academic training at the South Florida ArtInstitute, broadened by extensive independent study in London andFrankfurt.

Her canvases are abstract in nature, although there is an underlyingvisual order that gradually emerges. The artist seems to be foreveraltering and adjusting the framework of some invisible reality.

Through the use of her sensitive drawing combined with layering,Denaro constantly adjusts, revisits, destroys, and renews permittingthe viewer a glimpse at where she has been before.

Denaro has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Art, FortLauderdale, Pryor Fine Art in Atlanta, Cheryl Hazan Gallery inNew York, and Galerie Veronica Kautsch in Germany. Her work is inprivate, museum, and corporate collections throughout the UnitedStates and in Europe.

Above left: The Anchor in the Storm..., 2008, Acrylic with polymers on canvas, 65 x 63 inches, Collection of FrancieBishop Good and David Horvitz.Above right: The feeling of well-being, 2011, Acrylic with polymers on canvas, 48 x 60 inches.

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Victoria Gitman

The series On Display portrays vintage beaded purses that featureabstract geometric patterns and designs. Echoing tropes of Modernistabstraction, the works play with the distinctions between art anddesign and sartorial and artistic style--pointing to style as a socialsite. They also play with the metaphoric analogies between pursesand paintings: purses as female genitalia and paintings as femininesurfaces to be penetrated by the male gaze. The works thus posepurse as image and image as purse.

Victoria Gitman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1972. Shegraduated summa cum laude from Florida International University

in 1996, and was a Fellow at the Yale Summer School of Art. Herwork is represented by the David Nolan Gallery, New York, and theDaniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, and is in the collections of TheMuseum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, TheLos Angeles County Museum of Art, and other public and privatecollections.

Above left: On Display, 2008, Oil on board, 6.5 x 7 inches.Above right: On Display (detail), 2011, Oil on board, 8 x 10 inches, Courtesy of David Nolan Gallery, New York.

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Deborah Goldman

Deborah Goldman was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, close toConcord, Lexington, and Boston. History was in the air, and earlyon she developed a fascination with the past and its narrative.Throughout her studies for a BA in history and an MFA in sculpture,she has consistently focused on the transitory nature of existence.

While in residency at The Studios of Key West, an accidental sightingof Bismarck seedpods resulted in a body of work that combines herpreoccupation with counting and a fascination with the way thatthings grow and die. These seedpods gave her the chance to developher own tracking devices.

Goldmans work has been featured in galleries throughout thecountry and jury selected for exhibitions on the East Coast. She isrepresented by Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, and serves on theboard of The Studios of Key West.

Above left:Studio Practise Counting, 2011, Photo assemblage, 56 1/2 x 62 x 1 3/4 inches.Above right: Bismarck Seed Pod Counting, 2010, Photo assemblage, 80 x 54 inches.

Monroe County


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Walter Hnatysh

Walter Hnatysh was born in Greenbelt, Maryland. He received hisBachelor of Fine Arts from Indiana University and his Master of FineArts from Tyler School of Art. He is currently a Professor of Painting atFlorida Atlantic University.

Hnatysh works in drawing, painting, collage, and photography. Hiswork has been featured in 23 one and two-person exhibitions andover 100 group shows since 1986. He has exhibited works in Istanbul,Turkey; MOCA at the Goldman Warehouse, Miami; and AtlanticCenter for the Arts. His paintings and drawings are in many privateand public collections, including the Huntsville Museum of Art inAlabama, the Everhart Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and theBoca Raton Museum of Art. He has received an Individual Artist Grantfrom the state of Maryland, and been a recipient of the South Florida

Cultural Consortium Fellowship award in 2007 and 2011.

Front cover: Wisterium (detail), 2010, Pens, markers, and collage on paper, 44 x 42 inches.Top: Biophilia (detail), 2010, Pens, markers, and collage on paper, 44 x 42 inches.Above left: Wisterium (detail), 2010, Pens, markers, and collage on paper, 44 x 42 inches.Above right: Poinked, 2011, Drawing/collage, pens, markers on paper, 17 x 12 inches.

Palm Beach County


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Cristina Lei Rodriguez

Miami native Cristina Lei Rodriguez is best known for her assemblagesculptures depicting an artificial, fantastic interpretation of thelife cycles in nature. Their surface is detailed and often excessivelylayered with color and accessories for eye candy appeal. Her workhas been displayed internationally in museums and galleries suchas the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Astrup Fearnely Museumin Oslo, and Deitch Projects in New York City. Locally, her workhas been displayed at the de la Cruz Collection and the Miami ArtMuseum, among others. Her upcoming solo shows at Team Galleryin New York and Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Miami will take placesimultaneously in November 2011. Rodriguez was born in 1974 inMiami, where she currently lives and works.

White Fly I and II, 2008-11, Ficus trees, plastic, foam, paint, chain mesh, shrink wrap, tinsel, metal studs, and glitter,Dimensions variable, Courtesy of Fredric Snitzer Gallery.

Miami-Dade County


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Jillian Mayer

Jillian Mayer steeps her artistic practice in the verisimilitude ofa generation that came of age in the 1980s. Indoctrinated intoexpectations of upward mobility, instant gratification, and thesuccinct finesse of a television sitcom, Mayer critiques the dissonancebetween her childhood optimism and the state of contemporaryculture with an erudite playfulness. In 2010, the artists work was oneof the 25 selections for the Guggenheims Youtube Play: A Biennial of

Creative Video. As part of the Guggenheims Creative Video Biennial,the artists work was exhibited at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museumin New York, Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and DeutscheGuggenheim in Berlin.

She was recently commissioned by the Borscht Film Festival tocreate and direct a short film told entirely through her installations.A modern Miami adaptation of the 1962 French short film La Jete,her film features legendary Luther Campbell (aka Uncle Luke ofinfluential musical group 2 Live Crew). Mayer lives and works inMiami, where she was born. She is represented by David CastilloGallery.

Top: We as Me (3 stills), 2011, Video, 1 minute, 33 seconds, Courtesy David Castillo Gallery, Miami.Above right: How My Best Friend Died (2 stills), 2010, Video, 2 minutes, Courtesy David Castillo Gallery, Miami.

Broward County


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Martin Oppel

Martin Oppels work often employs a dialectical approach that pairsseemingly opposing ideas and processes to arrive at a synthesis.These juxtapositions reflect on larger themes of cultural progress and

highlight shifting perceptions of what is natural. Formally, they areoften framed around distortion, reduction, and many times bring upquestions about distinctions between reality and the occult.

His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions,both nationally and internationally, such as the 2nd AthensBiennale, Weather Reports at the cole Regionale des Beaux Artsin Rouen, France; Kabul 3000 at Galeria Zero in Milan, Italy; ThinkWarm: Miami Draws for You at Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo;Japan; The Possibility of an Island at the Museum of ContemporaryArt, North Miami; Miami in Transition at Miami Art Museum. He hashad solo exhibitions at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris, France;The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY; and The Journal Gallery inNew York City. Martin Oppel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in1976, and lives and works in Miami.

Above left: Untitled (The Earth from Below), 2010, Acrylic on arches paper, 22 x 30 inches.Above center: Untitled (Squiggle #1 w/ optional Googly Eyes), 2011, Stainless steel, 90 x 36 x 30 inches.Above right: Untitled (Strata Fiction Ruin), 2010, EPS foam, plaster of paris, lightweight spackling paste, and acrylic,84.5 x 14.5 x 14.5 inches.

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Christina Pettersson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1976. Sheis known for her meticulous, large-scale graphite drawings andfor her multi-screen videos. Pettersson is represented by AnthonySpinello Gallery in Miami, where her second solo show, Resurrection,was filmed for a documentary on Artnet TV. She will have a soloexhibition,Sentinel, in February 2012 at the Art and Culture Centerof Hollywood, Florida. She received a Fulbright Grant to return toSweden in 2000, and attended the Valand School of Fine Arts inGothenburg. More recently, she had residencies at the VermontStudio Center and at Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, NY. She has anupcoming residency at the Deering Estate at Cutler in Miami.

Pettersson has exhibited work throughout the United States, at placessuch as the Birmingham Museum of Art, The Columbus Museum ofArt in Georgia, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Miami ArtMuseum. Her work is in the collections of Martin Z. Margulies, ArturoMosquera, and Martin and Cricket Taplin at the Sagamore Hotel.

Christina PetterssonAbove left: We Are No Longer In The Land Of Kings, 2008, Graphite on paper, 86 x 68 inches, Courtesy AnthonySpinello Gallery.Above right: Vanities (2006), 2011, Graphite on paper, 36 x 36 inches, Courtesy Anthony Spinello Gallery.

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Leyden Rodriguez-CasanovaTop, left to right:A Frame Hidden by Blinds, 2010, Vertical blinds, found frame, glass and foam board, 40 x 64 inches;A Frame on an Open Wall, 2010, Found frame, glass, foam board, cut wall, 84 x 43 1/2 inches; A Concealed Dresser(twoimages), 2010, Found dresser, MFD and fabric, Dimensions variable; Door Partially Behind Blinds, 2010, Vertical Blinds andwooden door, Dimensions variable; A Frame Hidden by Blinds, 2010, Vertical blinds, found frame, glass and foam board,40 x 64 inches, Courtesy of David Castillo Gallery, Miami.Above left: A Concealed Dresser, 2010, Found dresser, MFD and fabric, Dimensions variable, Courtesy of David CastilloGallery, Miami.

Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova was born in 1973 in Havana, Cuba.He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1980 duringthe Mariel Boatlift. Rodriguez-Casanova has exhibited throughoutthe United States and abroad in numerous exhibitions includinginstallations at Socrates Sculpture Park and Sculpture Center in NewYork. Recent solo exhibitions include An Uneven Floor, Locust Projects,Miami; You might sleep but you will never dream, David CastilloGallery, Miami; and the Cultural Consortium Showcase, Casas RiegnerGallery, Miami, FL (2004). His work has been featured in various

publications including ARTnews, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine,Arte al Dia, Art Nexus, and The Miami Herald. It is in numerouspublic and private collections, including the Cisneros Fontanals ArtFoundation, Miami; the Frost Art Museum, FIU; and the Bass Museumof Art, Miami Beach.

He recently returned from the artist-in-residence Ville de Paris-Cultures France program at the Centre International dAccueil etdchanges des Recollets in Paris where he spent three monthsconducting research informing his work. The artist is represented byDavid Castillo Gallery in Miami.

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Asser Saint-Val

Asser Saint-Vals oeuvre is fueled by research into the chemicaland sociological importance of melanin, a compound found in theplant, animal, and protista kingdoms among other living things. It isproduced in the human brain the pineal gland and is responsiblefor the color of human skin, hair, and eyes. He explores the way inwhich science has in the past been used to justify false perceptionsconcerning people of color. Anchored by objects that had been

invented or patterned by people of African descents and the presenceof legs, his imagery refers to melanins history part figurative, partambiguous forms or something you might see under a microscope.His paintings are comprised of a variety of media and contain botheclectic symbolism and figurative abstraction.

Born in 1974 in Haiti, Saint-Val has lived in South Florida for the past22 years. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and obtained aminor in Graphic Design at New World School of the Arts/Universityof Florida in 2004.

Above, left:Souetre, E.J., Salvati, E., Krebs, E. Belugou, et al (1987). 5-methoxypsoralen increases the Plasma melatonin Levelsin humans. Journal of Investigative Dermotology 89, 152-155, 2010, Mixed media on masonite: acrylic, color pencils, chalkpaster, oil pastel, shoe polish, coffee, flour, etc., 50 x 50 inches.Above, left: ODonohue, T.L. and Dorsa, D.M. (1982). The opiomelanotropinergic nueronal and endocrine systems. Peptides,3, 353-395, 2009, Mixed media on mesonite: acrylic, chalk & oil pastel, color pencils, coffee, flour, shoe polish etc.,24 x 24 inches.

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