Arts Garage in Delray Beach recently unveiled “Icons, Idols, and Adoration,” a showcase of portraiture of cultural figures from multiple artists whose work celebrates those they hold in high regard. The exhibition is on view in the Marshall Family Foundation Gallery through April 28. Featured artists include:
Stephanie Gowdy
Known artistically as Alyrical, Gowdy is a legally blind artist from South Florida. Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, she also explores mixed media, incorporating graphite, watercolor pencils, and charcoal for her portrait work, which frequently references African American women.
Patricia Schuman
Schuman is a visual artist from New York who relocated to Delray Beach after years in the publishing industry. Her work explores the intricacies of human and animal faces, while also reflecting the movement and shifting hues of the ocean. This exhibition marks Schuman’s debut as a visual artist.
Ena Castillo-Barillas
Castillo-Barillas hails from Masaya, Nicaragua, and specializes in photography, exploring interfaith dialogue between Christianity and Islam. Her large-scale archival inkjet prints command attention from a distance, while the smaller, intimate transfers invite the viewer to lean in.
Anthony Primavera
Primavera is a self-taught artist from Parkland. He employs charcoal and oil paint to transform emotion into imagery. Fascinated by the stark beauty of desert landscapes, Primavera explores these vast expanses as a medium for personal expression. He also creates “psychological interiors”—stream-of-consciousness compositions that evolve through an editing process, stripping away the nonessential to reveal their core essence.
Hal Yaskulka
Yaskulka is an artist from Brooklyn, New York, who has exhibited his works in solo shows across the United States. His paintings reflect his inner connections, responses, and observations of the human experience. As an artist, he draws inspiration from nature and is fascinated by creating a heightened reality while exploring the poetic, the ethereal, and the rhythms that create mystery in his work.
The Marshall Family Foundation Gallery at Arts Garage is free and open to tour Tuesday through Saturday, from 1 to 5 p.m., as well as during performance hours.
For more information, visit https://artsgarage.org/past-exhibits/icons-idols-and-adoration/.
