Native Florida Gallery
Featuring photographers and artists whose work is centered on Florida’s nature and history
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| Cloud Reflection by Woody Walters Silver Gelatin Print - Matted 29" x 28" $850 |
Delray Beach by George Shellhase Giclee Print on Canvas - Framed 14" x 20" $350 |
Tamiami Trail by Oscar Thompson C Print on Watercolor Paper - Matted 20" x 24" $450 |
Florida Artist:Native Florida GalleryMail to: 49 Douglas Drive Ocean Ridge,FL 33435 561-573-7094  Web site: http://web.mac.com/cplaza/Carlos_Plaza_Photography |
| With Florida rapidly becoming urbanized—and its natural character disappearing—local graphic designer Carlos Plaza decided to stop the clock. He opened the Native Florida Gallery in summer of 2002 on US 1 in Delray Beach—in the same 1923 house that housed his graphic design studio—to showcase Florida by Florida photographers and artists—before it’s gone. Today the gallery's focus is exclusively on online sales through their website www.nativeflorida.com “I first got interested in the idea after I met Clyde Butcher Jeff Ripple and Oscar Thompson—people working out of the Big Cypress swamp who are chronicling the Everglades and creating a heightened awareness of the importance of our native landscape,” Plaza said. “Then one thing led to another and I am discovering a whole network of incredibly talented Florida artists who are photographing different aspects of the state, from Apalachicola Bay to the Fakahatchee Strand. The styles are different, but they seem to share a vision for Florida’s natural character, its fragility.” Plaza, an Italian citizen, who has lived in Florida for the past two decades, believes he has a natural affinity for Florida and the photographic arts. A graphic designer by trade who has had a lifelong interest in photography, one of the many things he had in common with his late father, who was a photojournalist in the early years of his professional life. Most of the work represented in Native Florida Gallery focuses on Florida’s natural landscape in both black-and-white and color photography, as well as other artists whose work is centered on Florida’s natural and historic character. From threatened natural wonders like the Everglades to a celebration of the state’s early years as a tourist destination, the art represented by Native Florida seeks to preserve the special quality of a Florida that is rapidly disappearing. “The fragile beauty of vanishing scrubland, a decaying winter circus town, the whimsy of early tourist attractions are all part of the magic that was Florida—and is rapidly becoming its history” Plaza said. To see Plaza's photographic portfolio, please visit http://web.mac.com/cplaza/Carlos_Plaza_Photography. The gallery's website (www.nativeflorida.com) is being re-designed and will be available for purchases on line very soon! |
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