Pictured: Teens from the Boys & Girls Club of Manatee County working on artwork for The Unaligned Stars Our Starlight exhibit.

Art Center Sarasota’s 2023-2024 exhibition season continues with four exhibits, August 15-September 28. Precious Darling’s “How He Sees Me” explores, through black and white photography and sculpture, the nuanced and often troubling ways in which society, and particularly men, view and treat women. (Artist Talk on Thursday, September 12, 5:30-6:30 p.m.) In “The Unaligned Stars: Our Starlight,” features artwork created by teens from the Boys & Girls Club of Manatee County.  The show delves into the intricacies of self-identity amidst societal expectations; weaving together a diverse array of expressions through paintings, books, interactive pieces, and sculptures. Tanner Simon’s “Big Soup, Big Responsibility” features an installation of large-scale paintings that explores the intersection of humor, seriousness, and the absurd. (Artist Talk on Saturday, September 14, 5:30-6:30 p.m.) “Flora and Fauna,” juried by Dr. David Berry, is an open exhibit that invites artists to celebrate the characters of the natural world, both real and imagined, living and extinct, peaceful and poisonous. (Juror critique with Dr. Berry is Wednesday, August 21, 3:30 p.m.) 

Pictured: Teens from the Boys & Girls Club of Manatee County working on artwork for The Unaligned Stars Our Starlight exhibit.