Fifth Avenue Art Gallery

Event Description

Fifth Avenue Art Gallery is the premier gallery in Brevard County. Member-owned and operated since 1974.

Our dedication to exhibiting only the highest quality original fine art, fine crafts, and handcrafted jewelry makes our gallery very desirable to collectors and art aficionados all over the country.

We hold various events throughout the year and monthly exhibits in our front gallery, Gallery One. For all exhibits, we hold an opening reception on the first Friday of each month complete with refreshments.

Stop by the gallery any time to view our work in person and talk with one of our gallery artists. Fifth Avenue Art Gallery is an excellent place to connect with your local and regional artists and fine craftsmen.

Gallery One, located in the front of the Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, features changing exhibitions with opening receptions held the first Friday of the month from 5:30 to 8:00 pm. The shows are open to the public, admission is free, and refreshments are served.

2022 Exhibition Schedule

January

January 4-30, 2022

Waking Up in Paradise will focus on all the things Beth Fairchild loves about life in Florida birds, the ocean, boats, flowers, and the tropical landscape. Beth-Anne Fairchild came to Florida from Vermont in the early seventies. She spent twenty-eight years as one of the first female agents with State Farm Insurance. Having started in watercolor, she believes that it is the hard work of learning techniques and experimenting with materials that really makes you an artist. She has dabbled in acrylic, mixed media, photography, and now oils. When asked why she does not keep painting in one medium or one subject, Beth tells people she gets bored with herself and must always be evolving. She loves painting from nature and studying how sunlight and colors are really a combination of interacting abstract shapes making a beautiful object.

February

January 31 – February 26, 2022

Robin Lee Makowski, was ten years old before she realized not everyone saw the world the way she did.  What appeared to be daydreaming to some people was actually an intense study of line and tone, light and shadow, by a young, budding artist.  She could draw well by the time she was four, but it was not until into her teens that she became passionate about the natural gifts inherited from her father and her maternal grandfather, both artists. Robin focuses on nature for her subjects in her award-winning work but is inspired by anything “with the right light and lots of colors.”  Working exclusively from her own original concepts, she captures nuance and personality in all her work.  The viewer realizes that the subject is something the artist knows well and loves, by the handling of the media, the composition, detail, and the play of light and color in the image.  Robin’s subjects range from her first love, fauna, to the collection of native plants in her own garden, to her creative still life set-ups, to figure studies and portraiture.    

March

February 28 – March 26, 2022

100% Pure Florida highlights the varied and extraordinary talents of local, regional and state-wide Florida artists. Pure Florida refers to the artist’s residence. Subject matter and style are unlimited. This call for artists is open to all Florida artists who are 18 years of age and up. We jury the artwork for the show by a panel of gallery artists and invite a judge each year, not associated with the gallery, to choose our award winners. Last year our awards totaled $2100 along with a solo exhibition for our 1^st Place Winner. Many of our awards are sponsored by local businesses, art organizations, and individuals who value visual arts in Brevard.

April

March 28 – April 30, 2022

John Buck is combining his skills as a graphic designer and professional photographer to reimagine his work as paintings. This exhibit features seashore-themed digital designs printed on an aluminum substrate for a clean and contemporary look. These paintings will never fade and are washable! The art is bold, colorful, and large, ranging from 20″ to 40″ in size. John’s work is carefully designed specifically for home decor and is painted with a Florida palette in mind.  He takes a complicated scene and makes it a simple and pleasing visual statement.          

MAY

May 2 – 28, 2022

There is a lot of excitement about this creative exploration by our member artists! We look forward to sharing our “interpretations” with you.

JUNE

May 30 – June 25, 2022

Here in Florida, water is a welcome element in the summer! Think blue, cool, refreshing… water. We will be accepting entries for this invitational show next April. Give a challenge to a group of artists, from all mediums, to interpret “WATER” and you can expect a very exciting exhibit!