Contact Information
The 621 Gallery, Inc.
621 Industrial Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32310
P (850) 224-6163
F (850) 222-6163
[email protected]
www.621gallery.org
Executive Director - Denise M. Drury
ABOUT US
History - The 621 Gallery was originally established in 1981 and later incorporated in 1989 as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. The governing force of the 621 Gallery consists of a Board of Directors with officers that rotate yearly. These members include artists, faculty members from Florida State University, Tallahassee Community College, and Florida A & M University, and members of the Tallahassee Community that are interested in contemporary art.
The 621 Gallery is committed to providing contemporary art, artists, and ideas to the Tallahassee Area and well as the North Florida and South Georgia regions. We rely heavily on volunteers from our board, members, and art community. Without them, the gallery would not be able to carry on. Please join us by becoming a member, supporter, artist or volunteer, and help bring the best in contemporary art to our community. Mission - The 621 Gallery is a non-profit contemporary art exhibition and gathering space offering diverse experiences in Tallahassee, providing access to quality art and interactive opportunities. The 621 Gallery will be a unique leader and innovator in contemporary progressive art for all.
Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery - Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery is located within The 621 Gallery. The Gallery is dedicated to the memory of Nan Boynton, original founder of Railroad Square and 621. Her vision of a community of artists living and working together became Railroad Square, the commercial and residential park in Tallahassee devoted to the arts. Ms. Boynton passed away in 2002. Her son and daughter carry on the business of Railroad Square, and have donated space for 621 in honor of their mother’s vision. Railroad Square - Hosting more than 80 studios, galleries and small shops, Railroad Square is the creative haven of many Tallahassee artists and other small businesses. Railroad Square operates at its own quaint pace most of the month and then puts on the city’s most exciting “First Friday Gallery Hop†on the first Friday of each month. Visit Railroad Square and you’ll find a thriving art park filled with galleries, working studios, shops and the only café in town that is built out of a real railroad caboose. Visit their website today for more information. www.railroadsquare.com
CURRENT EXHIBITION & EVENTS
Beginnings and Endings
June 6th - 27th, 2008
The 621 Gallery explores the intensity and nuance of the human form. Though different in visual composition, the work of Tannaz Farsi, Elissa Cox and Petra Kralickova, depicts the possessive landscape of human emotions that collide in a vortex of desire, dislocation and longing. Individually, this can be seen in the intensity of each artist’s focal engagement by the juxtaposition of skin as a porous structure that filters memory and draws out the physicality of the body into an abstracted landscape. Where Farsi juxtaposes the invisible against the physical, Cox’s landscapes surge with buoyant energy, infused with forms both familiar and imagined. Quintessentially, Kralickova’s abstract installations highlight the physical and psychological body in moments of tension and respite. Collectively, the exhibition echoes the poetics of a body that is at once filled with vigor and overtaken by a sense of fragility that defines the human experience.
In the Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery: FSU Art Students’ League exhibits new works. Visit http://art.fsu.edu/asl for more details.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
ANJE III
July 4th - 27th, 2008
In its third year, the All-media National Juried Exhibition (ANJE) features a variety of work from across the nation. Juror Allys Palladino - Craig selected 27 works to create an exhibition that showcases a range of media. $1,000 in prizes will go to Best in Show, First, Second, and Third Places. Best in Show Award will also recieve a solo exhibit in The 621 Gallery 2008-2009 Exhibition Season. In the Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery, ANJE II winner: Anna Druzcz
Best in Show: Tadja Dragoo, The Boat
First Place: Richard Herzog, The Last Flower in the Emerald City
Second Place: Kati M. Luczynski, November 23, 1949
Third Place: Andrew Ortiz, Rising, La Puerta, Father
Exhibiting Artists: Vincent Barraza, Lucrezia Bieler, Ben Bivins, Charles Caldemeyer, Christina Cedeno, Terrie Corbett, Jay Michael Del Greco, Mark Dickson, Eileen Doktorski, Betsy Gandy, Devon Gibbs, Beth Kleene, Scott Marini, David McLeish, Matt Miley, Peter Prusinowski, Steven Ramsey, Bryan Vipperman, Kathleen Wilcox.
Judge: Allys Palladino-Criag, Ph.D. (Humanities) and MFA (Painting/Graphics) serves on the Museum Studies faculty of the Florida State University. Since her 1983 appointment to the “Fine Arts Gallery†she has guided the institution through successful accreditation by the American Association of Museums, thereby becoming the founding director of the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts. She has edited and produced over a hundred publications for the College of Visual Arts, Theater and Dance, winning an almost equal number of grants for projects of colleagues and the Museum while serving on grant panels for the State of Florida. -------------
Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, The City of Tallahassee and Leon County.