Fun in the Sun(2012), collage, 25 x 15"
Bruce Helander - 2014 Florida Artist Hall of Fame Inductee
This Tuesday night in Tallahassee Florida, Bruce Helander will be inducted into the Florida Artist Hall of Fame. Established by the Florida Legislature in 1986, the Florida Artists Hall
of Fame recognizes persons, living or deceased, who have made
significant contributions to the arts in Florida either as performing or
practicing artists in individual disciplines. These individuals contribute to Florida's national or international
reputation as a state with a strong and sustained commitment toward the
development of cultural excellence.
Bruce along with fellow inductee Tom Petty will be given this high award by Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner. I will be there representing the Florida Council on Arts and Culture as part of Florida Heritage Awards.
I am excited to meet Mr. Helander as I have been an admirer of his for some time. Mr Helader had a gallery on Worth Avenue that was a model for me when I was just starting to think of the gallery business. My father would take me to Bruce's to show an example of how a successful gallery was run.
Along with being an artist and gallerist Bruce is an art advocate as well. Bruce is the Editor-in-Chief of The Art Economist and currently contributes to The Huffington Post. He has been a contributor to numerous magazines, including Art and Living, ARTnews and The New Yorker. GL
Bruce Helander
From Bruce's Website Bio;
Bruce Helander is an artist
whose specialty is collage and assemblage. He has a master’s degree in
painting from the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, where he
later became the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs of the
college. He is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and
recently won the South Florida Cultural Consortium fellowship for
professional achievement in the visual arts.
Helander arrived in Palm Beach
in 1982 from New York City, where he published Art Express magazine. He
quickly established a cutting edge gallery on Worth Avenue that thrived
for thirteen years. During that time he opened a second gallery on West
Broadway in New York City. He was also a commissioner for ARCOM in Palm
Beach and the vice-president of the Worth Avenue Association. He is
active in the south Florida art scene and is on the board of directors
at the Armory Art Center.
Much More After the Break
Post Triangle(2009); collage, gouache on board, 17 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.
City Link magazine called Bruce
Helander “Arguably the most recognized and successful collage artist in
the country...” and Kenworth Moffett, former director, Museum of Art,
Fort Lauderdale said in Gold Coast magazine that “If there was a
Pulitzer Prize for collage, Helander would surely win it.”
His work is in over fifty
museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian, the
Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art and most recently, the Whitney Museum of
American Art and Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles.
Elvis Reinvented(2012); collage, 21 x 15"
His collages appear in Jazziz, The New Yorker and Palm Beach Illustrated magazines, among others.
He has written extensively on
contemporary art and furnishings and for a time studied furniture making
in college. He has an enthusiastic following for his monthly columns in
Art of the Times magazine. Star Group International just published his
book of reviews, titled Learning to See—An Artist’s View on Contemporary
Artists from Artschwager to Zakanitch, of forty of his favorite
reviews.
As a curator, Helander has
coordinated over eighty exhibitions of contemporary works. He has
organized one-man shows for Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, John
Chamberlain, Duane Hanson, Larry Poons, Jules Olitski, Dale Chihuly and
Kenneth Noland, among others.
EDEN(2002), Mixed Media, 145 x 122cm
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