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New Galleria d'Arte Lights Up Contemporary Art in Palm Coast, Countering Sharp Decline in Exhibit Space


Photographer Lisette Otero-Lewis, owner of Galleria d’Arte in Palm Coast, with her work “Joy Within.”
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Step into the Galleria d’Arte in Palm Coast, and the unearthly purple glow emanating from the back room may convince you that you’ve stumbled into some sort of Twilight Zone-ish, extraterrestrial outpost. Or that you’ve time-tripped back to some hippie’s far-out, black-lit pad during the Summer of Love.
The reality is only slightly less jolting: It’s the artwork of Barb Forristall Scapin, an area abstract expressionist who does Rabo Karabekian, the artist-protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “Bluebeard,” one better. Karabekian portrayed all living creatures, from St. Anthony to a cockroach, as “unwavering bands of light.” Scapin uses fluorescent paints set on eerie fire by the ultraviolet rays of, yes, black lights to create seemingly pulsating pentagons, octagons and other geometrics, as well as wavering, twisty bands of lig ....

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