The Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W Atlantic Ave., recently unveiled a new exhibit, “The Fusion of Image & Artist,” which will be on display in the library’s second floor gallery through Nov. 12.
And the exhibit “will turn some heads” according to Bonnie Stelzer, community relations director for the library.
The exhibit features the work of Boynton Beach artist and photographer, Terryl Best Lawrence, who bridges the gap between art and photography by synthesizing her paintings and photographs into one single image, Steltzer said.
“She blends the two into one,” she said. “She has studied the arts, so this is her spin on all the classics.”
Lawrence said her first fusion of art and photography was an accident.
“I was just taking a picture of a musical instrument I had painted with the actual instrument next to it, to figure something out and it just clicked,” Lawrence said. “The combined images looked so good.”
Lawrence, a professor at the Digital Media and Arts College in Boca Raton, said her exhibit is all about learning. “I’m into learning, it is what I do,” she said. “I think it is so nourishing to bring art to both the young and the old.”
Her work has been displayed at universities, including FAU at its MacArthur Library. Plus she has exhibited her work at galleries in New York and Connecticut, and currently at EXOR Galleries in Boca Raton.
Lawrence’s work also has received awards from the Wunsch Art Center, the Parrish Art Museum, the Heckscher Museum, the National Association of Women Artists and Columbia University. She also has been a guest lecturer at museums and universities in New York and Florida.
Lawrence's works "are color photographs with the color related to and derived from the paintings," Steltzer said. "They are imaginative, stimulating, colorful and unusual.”
“The Fusion of Image & Artist” will be on display in the library's second floor gallery, 100 W. Atlantic Ave., through Wednesday, Nov. 12.
For information visit www.delraylibrary.org or call 561-266-9490.