Unique art show displays artists’ work beyond their classical roots to showcase distinctive and personal style
Specializing in oil, acrylic, watercolor, ink, graphite, digital, and sculpture, South Florida artists Jon Hunt and Jim Radford debut their “Recent Works” exhibition, Tuesday, July 28, in the Mark K. Wheeler Gallery at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, 1799 SE 17 Street, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Hunt and Radford are both trained in traditional painting and drawing techniques yet their
individual visions have propelled them beyond their classical roots to create work that is unique and personal.
This exhibition is open to the public Monday-Friday 8am-10pm, Saturday 9am-5pm, Sundays and holidays closed. This exhibition runs through August 31. For more information, call 954.308.2109.
The two artists became fast friends while teaching at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. Hunt continues his instructions in animation, storyboarding, anatomy, and graphics, while Radford took a medical retirement in 2006 after 28 years of teaching at the college.
“I have never had the inclination to paint or sculpt images to match interior decors or colors,” says Antioch University master’s degree graduate Radford, “but I have remained true to my own feeling on realism in art. I have always had and will ever have the greatest respect for God’s design of the human form and all its idiosyncrasies and I strive to render it in graphite, paint or clay whenever I can.”
In contrast to Radford’s more traditional style, which includes magazines, TV commercials, and portraitures, Hunt concentrates more on digital art for clients such as Llewellyn Publications, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Four Wins Press, Houghton Mifflin, Analog and Asimov’s Science Fiction, Image comics, and Dragon Magazine.
“I work in both traditional and digital media and my work has been shown in galleries and used on book jackets, collectible card games, role playing manuals, and magazines,” says Hunt, who holds a master’s degree from Miami International University of Art & Design. “I have also authored and/or illustrated 11 picture books for children.”
About The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale
The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale was established in 1968, awards Bachelor of Science and Associate of Science degrees, as well as diplomas. Programs offered are: Advertising, Art of Cooking, Baking & Pastry, Broadcasting, Culinary Arts, Culinary Management, Desktop & Graphic Design, Filmmaking & Video Production, Fashion Design, Fashion Merchandising, Game Art & Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Media Arts & Animation, Photography, Residential Design, Visual Effects & Motion Graphics, Video Production, and Web Design & Interactive Media. The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale is approved for the training of veterans and eligible veterans’ dependents and is authorized under federal law to enroll non-immigrant alien students. For more information, log on to www.artinstitutes.edu/fortlauderdale.
