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Local artists get a space to display their work...

Local artists get a space to display their work at Boynton shopping center with many vacancies

By LONA O'CONNOR-Palm Beach Post Staff Writer/Dec. 8, 2011

 BOYNTON BEACH — Subbora Jackson is happy, as well she should be. Several pieces of her art are on display in a shop window at Quantum Town Center on Gateway Boulevard.

Jackson, a graphic artist and painter, is showing off some of her vividly colored, fanciful paintings in her space. In the next shop window is another artist's work, and then another and another, from one end of the shopping center to another.

Quantum Town Center, like many shopping areas, has a number of vacancies because of the super-slow business climate. But the city's Art in Public Places department introduced the idea of putting the display windows to creative use, calling it "Swing Space."

The management of Quantum liked the idea as a way to attract people.

It began with five artists a year ago and now is maxed out at 14, all of whom get six-month runs in the store windows.

"We got so much interest, we added more," said Debbie Coles-Dobay, art administrator for the city. "It helps the artists get their work known and on display."

The artists on display were selected by members of the city's art commission boards.

Some of the artists are from Boynton Beach, including a group from the city's "art street," a collection of studio-work spaces on West Industrial Avenue . The remainder are from other Palm Beach County cities and Broward and Miami-Dade counties.

Subbora and the other artists installing their work in the shop windows on a recent morning became part of the ambience.

As Lea Vendetta carried her paintings to her space, she added a Parisian élan to the proceedings. Not only was she high-booted and tattooed, she happens to have been born in Paris and some of her paintings have a Paris-in-the-1920s feel to them.

Early next year, the art space at Quantum will become part of an "art walk," when people are invited to stroll and enjoy, giving added exposure to the artists.

"The businesses are all excited about it," said Coles-Dobay. "It enlivens the area."

Bobby Jones is happy too. He's the marketing director at Quantum and he likes the positive buzz of Swing Space.

Directly behind Quantum are about 2,000 residents in Quantum Lakes Villas, any of whom may stroll by the art on their way to get an ice cream cone or a pedicure.

Even though it's counterintuitive, lending space to artists seems to be coinciding with the arrival of new tenants. Other than good karma, there's no obvious explanation for this turn of events.

In addition to the Subway, nail salon, day spa, ice cream shop, Greek grocery and others already in the center, Jones says a pharmacy, a coffee shop, a restaurant, a weight-loss clinic and a cigar lounge will open in the next few months.

And the process is working both ways.

Although he has not yet sold any of the paintings in his Quantum display, Rolando Barrero is already benefiting from the city's support of local artists.

"The mayor and the commissioners came to our opening on Nov. 11. We had about 120 people," said Barrero, whose studio is on West Industrial Avenue. "I sold six pieces."


Related Article: http://activistartista.blogspot.com/2011/10/sun-sentinel-article-10-18-2011.html

Lea Vendetta!

I'm proud to announce that LEA VENDETTA has moved into the Boynton Beach Art District!

"Léa in Pajamas"

Lea Vendetta is the newest artist to join "The District," Palm Beach County's place to see and be seen. The District, as it's now know is quickly become the center point of the new Boynton Beach!  With gallery openings, art events, art walks, studio visits and the occasional tour coming through, the area once home to tractors and trash, is now a creative mecca.
 

Lea shares a huge studio with ActivistArtistA Gallery Director and District promotor Roly Chang Barrero who couldn't be happier as he sees how the area rising like a phoenix out of the ash.  


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December 11, 2011

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Sublimation Series

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Sublimation (psychology)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In psychology, sublimation is a mature type of defence mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are consciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behaviour, possibly converting the initial impulse in the long term. According to Wade and Tavris, sublimation is when displacement"serves a higher cultural or socially useful purpose, as in the creation of art or inventions."^[1]. As used by Freud, the word designated the concept of a spiritual redirection of the libido,^[2] and has roots in his psychoanalytical theory.

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Psychoanalytic theory

In Freud's classic theory, erotic energy is allowed a limited amount of expression, due to constraints of human society.

Freud considered this defense mechanism the most productive compared to the others that he identified, such as repression, displacement, denial, reaction formation, intellectualisation and projection. Sublimation is the process of transforming libido into "socially useful" achievements, mainly art. Psychoanalysts often refer to sublimation as the only truly successful defense mechanism^{[citation needed]}.

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Interpersonal psychoanalysis Harry Stack Sullivan, the pioneer of interpersonal psychoanalysis, defined sublimation as the unwitting substitution of a partial satisfaction with social approval for the pursuit of a direct satisfaction which would be contrary to one's ideals or to the judgment of social censors and other important people who surround one. The substitution might not be quite what we want, but it is the only way that we can get part of our satisfaction and feel secure, too. Sullivan documented that all sublimatory things are more complicated than the direct satisfaction of the needs to which they apply. They entail no disturbance of consciousness, no stopping to think why they must be done or what the expense connected with direct satisfaction would be. In successful sublimation, Sullivan observed extraordinarily efficient handling of a conflict between the need for a satisfaction and the need for security without perturbation of awareness.

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Sexual Sublimation

Sexual sublimation, also known as sexual transmutation, is the attempt, especially among some religious traditions, to transform sexual impulses or "sexual energy" into creative energy. In this context, sublimation is the transference of sexual energy, or libido, into a physical act or a different emotion in order to avoid confrontation with the sexual urge, which is itself contrary to the individual's belief or ascribed religious belief. It is based on the idea that "sexual energy" can be used to create a spiritual nature which in turn can create more sensual works, instead of one's sexuality being unleashed "raw."^[3][4][5] The classical example inWestern religions is clerical celibacy.

As espoused in the Tanya^{[citation needed]}, Hasidic Jewish mysticism views sublimation of the animal soul as an essential task in life, wherein the goal is to transform animalistic and earthy cravings for physical pleasure into holy desires to connect with God.

Different schools of thought describe general sexual urges as carriers of spiritual essence, and have the varied names of vital energy, vital winds (prana), spiritual energy, ojas, shakti, tummo, or kundalini. It is also believed that undergoing sexual sublimation can facilitate a mystical awakening in an individual.^[6][7][8]

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In fiction

• One of the best known examples in Western literature is in Thomas Mann's novella, Death in Venice, where the protagonist Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous writer, sublimates his desire for an adolescent boy into writing poetry.

• In Psychological Science: Mind, Brain and Behavior, by Michael Gazzaniga and Todd F. Heatherton, a more sinister example is given in which a sadistbecomes a surgeon or a dentist - A direct example of this is in the musical and movie Little Shop of Horrors characterized in the descriptively sadist character of Orin Scrivello who follows his mother's advice to become a dentist, quoting her "You'll find a way/to make your natural tendencies pay (...) Son, be a dentist/People will pay you to be inhumane."

• Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Were None features a villain whose line of work as a judge, dealing out harsh sentences to guilty criminals, had previously permitted him to sublimate his homicidal urges.

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