Cultural Council for Palm Beach County Presents Metamorphosis, a Solo Exhibition by Dominique Denis
Exploring memory, identity, and transformation through art, architecture, and domestic spaces
Lake Worth Beach, Fla. (June 18, 2026) – The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County’s final solo exhibition of its 2025-2026 season, Metamorphosis is set to open in July, featuring works by Delray Beach-based mixed-media artist Dominique Denis.
Denis’s work explores the intersection of art and architecture through themes of nostalgia, identity, transformation, and belonging. Using fabric, hand-built ceramic sculptures, wood, and yarns, she creates immersive installations that reimagine domestic forms.
Her new body of work blurs the boundaries between past and present, interior and exterior. Denis’s research-driven practice explores collective memory as embedded in the built environment.
“Dominique’s installation will transform the solo gallery into an experiential space for the viewer by combining her ceramic works with a built environment,” said Jessica Ransom, Director of Artist Services for the Cultural Council.
Denis holds degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning and brings over two decades of experience in design, planning, and public art curation.
The exhibition will be on view in the Cultural Council’s Gayle and Paul Gross Gallery from July 7 – Friday, August 21. Guests are invited to an opening reception of Metamorphosis on Thursday, July 2 from 5 to 7 p.m. The reception is free to attend; however, we kindly ask guests to RSVP. The exhibition is free and open to the public at the Cultural Council’s headquarters located in downtown Lake Worth Beach (Location and Public Hours).
The Council’s 2025-2026 season of exhibitions is generously sponsored by the Tourist Development Council, the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, the Florida Division of Arts & Culture, and Florida Weekly.
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Dominque Denis: Metamorphosis
July 7 – August 21, 2026
Cultural Council for Palm Beach County
(601 Lake Avenue, Lake Worth Beach, Fla. 33460)
Shekinah: The Inner Dwelling Place Opens at the Cultural Council
Lake Worth Beach artist Asandra solo exhibition transforms Sacred Symbolism into Immersive Visual Portals
Lake Worth Beach, Fla. (April 30, 2026) – The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County welcomes its next solo exhibition, Shekinah: The Inner Dwelling Place, featuring works by Lake Worth Beach-based Asandra.
Asandra draws on sacred cultures to create vibrant paintings that blend pattern, symbol, geometry, and color. Working with acrylic on wood and large-scale stamps, her Shekinah series transforms panels into portals, exploring the presence of the sacred and the balance between inner dwelling and engagement with the world.
“Shekinah is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word and denotes the presence of the sacred in a place. It is the connection to both the sacred as well as a literal home. To find our way in the current state of the world, we need not retreat from it but exist within it without losing our equilibrium. Shekinah, as a spiritual concept, represents this perspective,” said Asandra.
Asandra’s paintings and prints reflect her spirituality through vibrant color and symbolic imagery. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in New York, Washington, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina, and California. Her artwork hangs in numerous hotel chains throughout the USA including Marriott and The Omni.
Director of Artist Services Jessica Ransom believes Asandra’s work will bring a sense of calm, meditative spirit to the solo gallery. It will be a transformative space for visitors to pause and relax in the moment.
The exhibition will be on view in the Gayle and Paul Gross Gallery from Friday, May 15 to Friday, June 26, 2026. The exhibition is free and open to the public at the Cultural Council’s headquarters located in downtown Lake Worth Beach (Location & Public Hours).
Guests are invited to an opening reception of Shekinah: The Inner Dwelling Place on Thursday, May 14 from 5 to 7 p.m. The reception is free to attend; however, we kindly ask guests to RSVP.
The Council’s 2025-2026 season of exhibitions is generously sponsored by the Tourist Development Council, the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, the Florida Division of Arts & Culture, and Florida Weekly.
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Asandra: Shekinah: The Inner Dwelling Place
May 15 – June 26, 2026
Cultural Council for Palm Beach County
(601 Lake Avenue, Lake Worth Beach, Fla. 33460)
Katherine Hofmann Debuts First Solo Exhibition: Seams Between Land and Sky at the Cultural Council
Large-scale, experimental works explore memory, landscape, and material process
March 19, 2026 (Lake Worth Beach, Fla.) – The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County is pleased to announce its upcoming solo exhibition, Seams Between Land and Sky, featuring works by West Palm Beach-based artist Katherine Hofmann.
Hofmann’s work emerges from a process of burying, excavating, and tangling and detangling – unearthing memories through painting. Her large-scale works on paper, created with experimental watercolor, natural pigments, and handmade collage, trace water’s flow and stillness while weaving personal encounters into layered landscapes tied to place and time.
“I align myself between the permeable boundaries of the cerebral and tangible by mimicking the Earth’s art-making,” shared Hofmann.
“Katherine’s large scale works quite literally immerse the viewer in lush Florida landscapes laden with flora and fauna. Her intricate layering of hand-painted watercolors collaged within the larger imagery encourages close engagement with each image,” said Jessica Ransom, Director of Artist Services at the Cultural Council.
Hofmann graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design in 2023 and was awarded a residency at Salem Art Works as a ceramicist. She is currently a teaching artist at the Norton Museum of Art, and her work has been featured throughout Miami in several exhibitions and in several private collections. Seams Between Land and Sky will be her first solo exhibition.
The exhibition will be on view in the Gayle and Paul Gross Gallery from Friday, March 27 to Saturday, May 9, 2026. The exhibition is free and open to the public at the Cultural Council’s headquarters located in downtown Lake Worth Beach (Location & Public Hours).
The opening reception of Seams Between Land and Sky takes place on Thursday, March 26 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. (RSVP)
The Council’s 2025-2026 season of exhibitions is generously sponsored by the Tourist Development Council, the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, the Florida Division of Arts & Culture, and Florida Weekly.
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Katherine Hofmann: Seams Between Land and Sky
March 27 – May 9, 2026
Cultural Council for Palm Beach County
(601 Lake Avenue, Lake Worth Beach, Fla. 33460)
About the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County
The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County is the official support agency for arts and culture in The Palm Beaches, Florida’s Cultural Capital®. Headquartered in the historic Robert M. Montgomery, Jr. building in Downtown Lake Worth Beach, the Council presents exciting year-round exhibitions and performances featuring artists who live or work in Palm Beach County. The Council also features spectacular work by Palm Beach County-based professional artisans in its Roe Green Uniquely Palm Beach Store and offers complimentary resources for visitors in its Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Visitor Information Center. The Council is open to the public Tuesdays through Saturdays from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information and a comprehensive calendar of cultural events in The Palm Beaches, visit palmbeachculture.com.
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She. Her. Hers. Essay:
by Véronique Chagnon-Burke, Ph.D.
In 1969, Judy Chicago started the Feminist Art Program at the California State University, Fresno. The program was tailored to give young women artists the tools they needed to use their own life-experience to make art. Unlike in traditional art programs, where materials and techniques were conditioned by gender, the students were encouraged to experiment with a wide range of materials. By 1972, Chicago was working with another feminist artist, Miriam Shapiro, at the recently founded experimental art school, the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts). Chicago brought her Feminist Art Program to Cal Arts and in 1972, as the school building was still not ready to move in, they rented a house which became a total work of art, known as Womanhouse. Artists, teachers, and students took over rooms and created installations such as the Bridal Staircase, the Linen Closet or the Menstruation Room, which have since become part of the canon of twentieth-century art. Commenting on the legacy of Womanhouse in an 2017 interview with Susan Fischer Sterling, the Alice West Director of the National Museums of Women in the Arts, Chicago remembers how enthusiastic she was at the public success of the work, realizing that there was, back then, an enormous interest for feminist art.
Some fifty years later, Judy Chicago is having a major retrospective, Herstory, at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and earlier this year, her experimental videos from the 1960s and 70s, the Atmospheres Series were shown at the Pinault Collection at the Bourse du Commerce in Paris, signaling that women artists and more specifically feminist art are no longer at the margins. Many milestones have been achieved; the work of women artists has become more visible, better known, and better studied in museums and academia, despite the many global forces which do not share Judy Chicago’s enthusiasm. The art works displayed in She.Her.Hers hope to generate a similar type of enthusiasm. Our goal is to contribute to the current conversation about women artists and the female experience by making the works of local women artists more visible to the community.
She. Her. Hers. presents the works of ten contemporary women artists who, a couple of generations later, tackle some of the similar themes addressed by Womanhouse in 1972. The tensions between self-fulfillment and the restraints of society forced on women, the multiple roles women are expected to assume, the weights of historical stereotypes, and the ambivalent feelings about the domestic are still some of the issues at the heart of the works of women artists displayed in the show. But there is also an agency, a sense of empowerment, that may have been less present in the works of the earlier generations of women artists.
The diversity of their practices is also an homage to Chicago’s legacy. From natural fibers and wood, to ceramics, mylar, appropriated images, threads, beds sheets, sewing needles, discarded domestic objects, and sequins, the diversity of the materials used by the artists to transform their vision into art provides many anchor points to activate our own memories. Some of the works speak about family and community; bodies are celebrated through traces, hanging pieces; natural materials are anthropomorphized. The works of Lisa MacNamara, Sarah Huang, and Heather Couch, each on its own terms and using different artistic practices, talk about memory and connecting the self with others but also the fragile equilibrium that keeps all our lives together. Some of the artists, like Amy Broderick, use irony tinted with nostalgia, bringing us back to the idealized worlds of TV shows and magazine ads, images we can all remember. In the works of Nazaré Feliciano and Olivia Austin, there is whimsy and satire, and a certain violence in the détournement of domestic objects. Between deadpan humor and criticality, the artists embrace the domestic to better subvert it as Autumn Kioti Horne does in her performance, or Laura Tanner in her large mixed-media collages. Through their choices of material and techniques, the scale they use, from Quimetta Perle’s powerful images of women to Lisa Zukowski’s poetic abstract evocation of the body through painting and ceramics, all the works in the exhibition celebrate the singularity of ten individual artistic visions.
These artists stand on the shoulders of previous generations of women artists, artists such as Hannah Hoch, Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Laurie Simmons, and Marta Rosler. The ten artists of She.Her.Hers continue to build a multifaceted artistic narrative to make more visible the diversity of women’s experiences. They make art that is empowering and celebrate a long tradition of female agency. Their singular vision is carried by the formal qualities of their works. Led by strong, engaging aesthetic qualities, their art can contribute to the difficult conversations we need to have if we are to move toward a more inclusive society.