Originally presented live on Zoom, the Artist’s Outlook series features free talks by exhibiting artists, now available to watch anytime on our YouTube channel.
In each recorded session, artists share insights into their inspirations, creative process and upcoming projects.
Browse the videos below to explore the series.
Juliet van Otteren
Recorded November 18, 2021
Juliet van Otteren is an internationally acclaimed photographer who creates striking images. Her equine series is on view through April 24 in “Heart of the Horse.” Click here to visit the artist’s website.
David Williams
Recorded October 21, 2021
David Williams is a St. Petersburg based artist who uses remembered imagery from popular culture to create layered and dynamic works of art. Click here to visit the artist’s website.
Sharon Kerry-Harlan
Recorded September 16, 2021
Sharon Kerry-Harlan’s elaborate museum-scale textile works, collages, and paintings capture the music of human experience. Click here to visit the artist’s website.
Andrew M. Grant
Recorded August 19, 2021
Andrew M. Grant’s representational figure drawings and paintings integrate surrealism, myth and legend to invite the viewer into the narrative. Click here to visit the artist’s website.
Kenda North
Recorded July 15, 2021
Photographer Kenda North uses a variety of film processes and underwater photography to create captivating and colorful works. Click here to visit the artist’s website.
Maggie Taylor
Recorded June 17, 2021
Maggie Taylor is a renowned digital artist who combines surrealism with 19th century aesthetics, referencing hand-colored tin types. Click here to visit Taylor’s Instagram profile.
Aneesha Rhodes and Matthew Bennett
Recorded May 20, 2021
Matthew Bennett, who painted the powerful visitor-favorite “Primary Color,” speaks alongside friend, model and muse Aneesha Rhodes. Click here to visit Bennett’s website. Click here to visit Rhodes’s Instagram profile.
Kristin Herzog
Recorded April 15, 2021
Kristin Herzog’s bold paintings range from non-representational to abstract, often with a landscape or vegetative reference. Click here to visit the artist’s website.
Christopher Still
Recorded March 25, 2021
Christopher M. Still is a painter of Florida’s wildlife, people and landscapes, and was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Click here to visit the artist’s website.
Anthony Ackrill
Recorded February 18, 2021
Anthony Ackrill’s large-scale dramatic works depict figures in allegorical or symbolic poses and settings. Click here to learn more about the artist.
Mark Messersmith
Recorded January 21, 2021
Mark Messersmith’s large, vibrant paintings explore themes of spirit and struggle within our modern world’s “natural environments”. Click here to visit the artist’s website.
Mac Stone
Recorded December 17, 2020
Mac Stone’s photography focuses on America’s swamps in an attempt to change public opinion towards our country’s wetlands. Click here to visit the artist’s website.
Clayton Pond
Recorded November 19, 2020
Clayton Pond’s (b. 1941) paintings and limited edition silkscreen prints are immediately recognizable for their bright, cheerful colors and their compositional balance. Click here to visit the artist’s website.
Annelies Dykgraaf
Recorded October 15, 2020
Annelies Dykgraaf’s prints reflect vast and unique personalities and relationships, also telling stories of her childhood and the uniting of cultures/races. Click here to visit the artist’s website.
Christian Durán
Recorded September 17, 2020
Christian Duran’s treats his paintings and collages as theatrical landscapes, wherein organic bodies assemble and dissolve. Click here to visit the artist’s website.