The Daily Act of Art Making

Solo Exhibitions: Jaime Grant, Elizabeth Thompson, Matthew Carone

February 25, 2024 through September 1, 2024

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This program presents three concurrent solo exhibitions of South Florida artists who have dedicated their long careers to the daily act of art making. The featured artists are Matthew Carone (born 1930, lives and works in Fort Lauderdale), whose daily-executed gestural abstractions have made him a mainstay in the South Florida art scene; Panamanian artist Jaime Grant (born 1965, lives and works in Miami), who on the day he turned 50, believed he was visited by a spirit who drove him to create more than 5,000 paintings and to build machines that reflect the struggle between good and evil; and long-time South Florida resident, Elizabeth Thompson (1954-2023), who produced commanding canvases of mysterious narratives, including a series of landscapes based on the Florida Everglades, which form the cycle of mural-scaled paintings in her solo show at NSU Art Museum.

Elizabeth Thompson, Beach Show, 2016. Thompson Family Collection.
Matthew Carone, Jacob and the Angel (TangoIV), 1998. Reproduced with permission of the artist.

Interview with Matthew Carone

Images from top to bottom, left to right:

Jaime Grant

Elizabeth Thompson, Beach Show, 2016. Thompson Family Collection.

Matthew Carone, Jacob and the Angel (TangoIV), 1998. Reproduced with permission of the artist.

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Support for The Daily Act of Art Making opening reception has been provided by The Wayne and Lucretia Weiner Fund.

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Support for Matthew Carone: Hidden Visions Past and Future has been provided by the Judith Ann Linnell Foundation Fund of the Community Foundation of Broward.

Major support for NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is provided by the David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation Endowment, the City of Fort Lauderdale, Jerry Taylor and Nancy Bryant Foundation, Broward County Cultural Division, the Cultural Council, and the Broward County Board of County Commissioners, Lillian S. Wells Foundation, Community Foundation of Broward, the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts, Wege Foundation, Beaux Arts, Delia Moog, Dr. Barry and Judy Silverman, Broward Health, Friends of NSU Art Museum, Dr. Mariana Morris, and Spirit Charitable Foundation.

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