Mary Lou Siefker's Artwork Installed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport


3/11/2009 9:44:21 AM


The Exhibit, “Journey Through Life with Paint,”
Will be Open to the Public Through April 30, 2009

***Images Available Upon Request***

BROWARD COUNTY, FL– Broward County Cultural Division’s Public Art and Design Program announces an art exhibition at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, by artist Mary Lou Siefker. The artworks, titled Journey Through Life with Paint, is displayed in the newly opened Lee Wagener Art Gallery of Terminal 2, through April 30, 2009.

Mary Lou Seifker has been a resident of Fort Lauderdale for more than three decades. She has taught painting and design at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton; and has worked as a docent in the education department at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University.

For the exhibition, Journey Through Life with Paint, Siefker says, “I was primarily painting landscapes when I began to explore the human form in my current series, Images, an ongoing body of work that I began in 1986. These ‘images,’ or ‘people shapes’ as I refer to them, are loosely figural in form, and emerge from the vibrant, teeming surfaces I create through the thick application of acrylic paint mixed with other media….My abstractions are emotional responses that come from within and are infused with universal themes dealing with human relationships, as well as education and mentoring.”

The Lee Wagener Art Gallery offers Broward County artists an excellent opportunity to exhibit their work in a prominent, pre-security, high-traffic area in Terminal 2 of the airport departure level that is accessible to the public. Artists are selected through the Public Art and Design Program and exhibits are changed every four months. The far end of the gallery has been reserved for the exhibition of video artworks from Broward County’s permanent art collection. At present, Tree Rain, by Broward-based artists Suzanne Scherer and Pavel Ouporov, has been installed as the permanent video artwork.

For more information, contact Christina Roldan, Public Art and Design project manager at 954-357-8542 or e-mail croldan@broward.org.


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