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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: 6 Decades of Painting & Sculpture by Katherine-Tink
 er-McCauley\nEvent Url: http://www.artscalendar.com/event/detail/441224708
 /6_Decades_of_Painting_Sculpture_by_KatherineTinkerMcCauley\nEvent Date Be
 gin: 2011-05-04\nEvent Date End: 2011-06-22\n\nGallery Six Highlights 6 De
 cades of Painting & Sculpture by Katherine-Tinker-McCauley\n \nOpening Rec
 eption Wednesday\, May 11\, 5:30 - 7:30 pm\n \nBROWARD COUNTY\, Fla. - Dur
 ing the months of May and June\, Gallery Six\, in Ft. Lauderdale's Main Li
 brary\, 100 South Andrews Avenue\, presents work from the 60 year career o
 f artist Katherine Helmers - i.e. Tinker- McCauley. Critics have called he
 r work\, 'earthy\, mysterious\, and powerful'.\nThe exhibition\, a retrosp
 ective titled 'Katherine Helmers McCauley / Offerings: 1968 - 2010'\, open
 s May 4th and runs through June 22\, 2011. McCauley\, who passed away last
  fall\, was a pioneer in the Ft. Lauderdale art scene. She moved to Ft. La
 uderdale in 1950\, and spent the next sixty years nurturing the arts. When
  the city had no regular museum\, she taught art to children in a small st
 orefront downtown. She didn't stop at the storefront. With the help of civ
 ic groups like the Junior League\, she helped found the Fort Lauderdale Mu
 seum of Art\, Art Amaze\, 2 Plus 3: the Artists' Organization\, and the Th
 ird Avenue Artists' group. She was also a member of the National Associati
 on of Women Artists and a participant in more than 60 group shows \, with 
 6 one-person exhibitions in her lifetime.\nMcCauley pioneered in her own a
 rtwork as well. Throughout six decades of creative activity\, she experime
 nted with media and technique. She slashed canvas in the 60s\, poured resi
 n in the 70s\, burnished metal in the 90s\, and used a propane blowtorch t
 o burn her works in the 2000s. After she turned 80\, she began some new ap
 proaches: smashing car windows\, setting off fireworks\, and exploding gun
 powder.\nBut McCauley's art was driven by ideas rather than trends. Like a
 n archaeologist\, she dug for identity. Her pieces reflect strong religiou
 s conviction and meditate on spirituality. She traced out her own quest fo
 r the Spirit by exploring two key topics: nature and ancient writing. Thes
 e topics appear again and again in her work\, as in Sanctum\, where she pr
 ojects a growing tree branch out of a burned-bronze base\, or in Paleo Pra
 yer\, a construction of recycled aviary wood scratched with ancient letter
 s spelling out Aaron's blessing from the book of Numbers.\nMcCauley strove
  to see the holiness in human growth. Her inspiration came from the growth
  of Fort Lauderdale\, the growth of a person\, the growth of a tree. She s
 ummed it up when she etched a poem\, composed by her sister\, into the fro
 nt of a small sculpture:\n \n \n \n\nStart time:  Library hours: Mon Thur 
 Fri 10 am - 6 pm\; Tues and Wed noon - 8 pm\n
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SUMMARY:6 Decades of Painting & Sculpture by Katherine-Tinker-McCauley
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