Art from around the world will be showcased in a new exhibition inside a former Central Florida warehouse that has been transformed into a temporary art gallery.
“Artistic Echoes” brings together 41 creators from as far away as Africa, Mexico, Italy and London in a show curated by Patrick Noze, an independent artist and curator who formerly worked as the senior gallery curator at Crealdé School of Art.
About two years ago, realtor Junon Brutus called Noze with an invitation for him to curate an art show in an urban Orlando warehouse turned event space.
“Artistic Echoes,” curated by Patrick Noze, brings together 41 artists from around the world with 175 works in a former warehouse space at 2150 Brengle Ave. in Orlando. (Courtesy Patrick Noze)
“I started calling all the artists that I know. A lot of people started responding,” said Noze. “Now this empty space, which is now an event hall, has been transformed into a gallery that looks like a museum of sorts.”
The show includes more than 100 years of work with 175 individual works from artists both living and deceased, including detailed drawings and work by Francisco Rivas, presented as a tribute by his son. Noze will also showcase the paintings by Antoinette Bourget Furlong, who painted for President John F. Kennedy.
Other artists reveal their unique stories through their work, such as Jesus Marin, whose sculptural works reflect on the loss of his wife. The sculptures of Edmundo Lopez reveal memories of his childhood.
“Edmundo adds almost a hole to almost all of his sculptures because that’s sort of a memory of when he was captured and kidnapped as a child,” Noze said. “There was a hole there in the wall that allowed him to escape. So in all these sculptures, there’s always a lot of holes.”
“Artistic Echoes,” curated by Patrick Noze, brings together 41 artists from around the world, including Joshua Owoicho, who paints in a Renaissance style, in a former warehouse space at 2150 Brengle Ave. in Orlando. (Courtesy Patrick Noze)
The paintings of Nigerian artist Joshua Owoicho are done in the Renaissance style of Leonardo da Vinci with Black subjects.
“The beauty is the fact that although we have different cultures or different races of people, their subject matters sort of coincide with one another,” Noze said.
While the inspiration behind each creation is unique, all of the works celebrate the universal language of art.
“It’s a dichotomy of artists that are coming together in this collaboration,” Noze said. “I call it ‘Artistic Echoes’ because the echoes of art travel universally because we all speak the same language with art.”
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If you go
“Artistic Echoes” opens with a reception from 5-9 p.m. Sept. 25 at 2150 Brengle Ave. in Orlando. The event is free and open to the public. The show will be on display through Nov. 25. More information: eventbrite.com
