ART
What we do reaches so many people
in the community. What we offer is
important, not frivolous, and needs to be
maintained. That is a primary concern.
painting, the future will have a proliferation of art based in
photography and video,” he says. “This is a time that is wide
open, in terms of media. There are a lot of artists whose art
supply store is Home Depot.”
One of those artists is Tara Donovan, an emerging artist
whose site-specific installations are constructed using everyday
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objects such as straws, buttons and straight pins. Roberts
curated the Milwaukee Art Museum’s exhibition of the New
York artist’s work.
But Roberts’ art interests are expansive and include 17thcentury
Dutch art and 19th-century French art, as well as the
art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance. He would also
like to have the VBMA explore non-Western art.
Two upcoming exhibitions on the drawings of Maurice
Sendak and another on the history of guitars as sculptural
objects should bring in audiences that transcend the typical
museum-goer, he notes.
In the meantime, Roberts and his wife, Anna, are enjoying
their new hometown. “We have a condo on the beach, and
this is just a very lovely place to live,” he says. “We are nature
lovers and like to get out and hike and bike, and we appreciate
that Vero Beach is serious about the environment.”
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” — Brady Roberts
/www.verobeachairport.org