With an opening reception last night, Art Center Sarasota has unveiled a series of new exhibits populating all four of the center’s galleries with everything from painting to sculpture to photography and showcasing the talents of both local and visiting artists as well as the results of the latest juried show.

The trip begins in Gallery One, where Full Fathom Five puts the sculptural works of interdisciplinary artist Tasha Lewis on full display. Inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the literal “sea change” visited upon Greek marble statues recovered from the ocean floor, the Indianapolis-based artist explores the aesthetic in her own soft sculptures using cotton muslin for marble and pearls, beads and cordage in lieu of actual aquatic colonists. Gallery Two is given over to the Miami-based duo Monica Uszerowicz and Pia Love-Toribio, whose exhibit Rite of Passage engages the viewer in a multi-faceted investigation of life as a series of transformations and personal renewal. Through sculptural installation, video projections and photography, the artists illuminate the beauty and drama inherent to even the mundane.

Local artists get the spotlight in Gallery Three, where SNAP presents the work of seven Sarasota-based photographers in a group exhibition where each “turns their lens to their surroundings, documenting a subject and in turn documenting their own point of view and experience,” says Dustin Juengel, exhibitions coordinator at Art Center Sarasota. For photographer Shane Donglasan, it represented a chance to expand her repertoire in an unconventional way. Trained in photojournalism and with a background in both documentary and commercial work, for SNAP Donglasan turned to something more akin to experimental portraiture, featuring friends in highly produced images playing with abstraction and purposeful juxtaposition. “This is something different,” she says. “Its not your typical portraiture.” Joining Donglasan include photographers Jenny Acheson, Karen Arango, Ferenc Beleznay, Audra Locicero, Sophia Schultz and David Wyant.

And in Gallery Four, Art Center Sarasota once again puts the community’s wide array of artists on display with its latest juried show Blurred Lines, juried by James Martin, fine artist and Ringling College instructor.

All exhibits are on view through September 30.