AT ACQUAVELLA PALM BEACH

Photo by Kenji Takahashi.

The work of Yuka Kashihara will return to Acquavella Palm Beach with a second solo exhibition this fall. Titled “Stardust,” the show will include fifteen new, otherworldly landscapes by the artist.

Kashihara paints evocative, atmospheric landscapes that interweave observed scenes from the natural world with the spaces of her internal imagination. Drawing from the traditions of Japanese nihonga and Western painting, she applies thin layers of oil paint and tempera to create luminous, vivid works that are characterized by a sense of transparency and a unique depth of intensity and color.

Although her dreamlike landscapes emanate largely from her mind’s eye, Kashihara has also been inspired by the diverse scenery of places she has visited, such as Yosemite National Park, Isle of Skye in Scotland, Lofoten in Norway, the jungles and rainforests of Malaysia, Indonesia, and Japan. Her paintings are often sparked by instigating moments while traveling or walking, views which she then blends with imagined, otherworldly vistas.

“Everything is connected, and everything is one. Painting, for me, is a way of knowing who I am. Tracing that history back, it became clear to me that l, too, am made of stardust; and that realization felt profoundly natural. The primeval landscapes I have encountered in my life, too, if traced back far enough, were once stardust.” says Kashihara.

October 15 – December 8, 2025

AT THE NORTON MUSEUM OF ART in West Palm Beach

Photo courtesy of The Norton Museum of Art.

Big news at The Norton this fall as Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time opens in October. A landmark exhibition of more than 75 works from The Leiden Collection — one of the world’s foremost private collections, this will be the largest exhibition of privately held Dutch 17th-century paintings ever organized in the United States. Among the highlights are more than a dozen paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn and the only painting by Johannes Vermeer in a private collection.

Organized thematically, the exhibition will offer a glimpse into 17th-century life in the Netherlands. While the heart of the exhibition will be works representing all periods of Rembrandt’s career, complementing his paintings are those by artists intimately connected to him in Amsterdam, including his teacher Pieter Lastman and pupils Ferdinand Bol, Govaert Flinck, and Arent de Gelder, among others.

Coinciding with the 400th anniversary of New Amsterdam’s founding on the island of what is now Manhattan, Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time will marks Florida’s first large-scale exhibition of Rembrandt’s work and showcases the enduring power of Rembrandt and his contemporaries — artists whose influence has shaped artistic trajectories from Impressionism to the modern era and continues to resonate today.

October 25, 2025 – March 29, 2026

Photo courtesy of The Norton Museum of Art.

Also at The Norton, will be Leslie Hewitt: Achromatic Scales from September 13, 2025  to February 22, 2026; Shara Hughes: Inside Outside from November 15, 2025 to March 1, 2026; and Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast —whose work has been featured in PALMER.

One of the Norton Museum’s 2025-2026 Artists-in-Residence, Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast will present a new body of work in which the artist traces the enduring complexities of American identity through a contemporary lens. Inspired by Berenice Abbott’s 1954 project documenting the historic U.S. Route 1, Samoylova embarks on her own photographic journey from Key West, Florida, to Fort Kent, Maine, examining the national landscape as a site of both mythmaking and fracture.

 

AT THE BUNKER ARTSPACE in West Palm Beach

Photo by Mario Gallucci

Artist Marie Watt has been named Guest Curator at The Bunker Artspace this season. From the artworks in Beth Rudin DeWoody’s vast collection, Watt will curate an exhibition in the Bunker’s largest gallery for its annual installation, opening in December 2025. A member of the Seneca Nation of Indians (Turtle Clan) with German-Scot ancestry, her interdisciplinary work draws from history, biography, Haudenosaunee protofeminism, and Indigenous teachings; in it, she explores the intersection of history, community, and storytelling. Through collaborative actions, she instigates multigenerational and cross-disciplinary conversations that hope to create a lens and conversation for understanding connectedness to place, one another, and the universe.

And, in December,  Laura Dvorkin and Maynard Monrow will present an expansive installation titled “Beyond the RAINBOW,” celebrating the LGBTQ+ community, art, and activism. They are joined by a curatorial roundtable of nineteen respected artists, curators, gallerists, architects, and writers including: Erin Christovale, Patrisse Cullors, Jeffrey Gibson, Hilary Harkness, Steve Henry, Cary Leibowitz, Kalup Linzy, Agosto Machado, Peter McGough, Ryan McNamara, Sophie Mörner, Anne Pasternak, Alina Perez, Sharmistha Ray, Joe Sheftel, Mickalene Thomas, Sarah Thornton, Ara Tucker, and Kulapat Yantrasast. Each guest curator has been invited to select artworks to be included in the exhibition.

Opening December 6.

At the ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS in West Palm Beach

“First Light,” by Paul Gervais. Photo courtesy of the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens.

The work of local artist Paul Gervais will be on view this fall at the Norton House Galleries at 253 Barcelona Avenue. The exhibition features more than 30 paintings that showcase Florida’s natural beauty, and will be presented in partnership with the National Wildlife Refuge Association.

Titled, Imperiled: Florida’s Wildlife and Habitats, the exhibition will feature local environmental treasures such the Loxahatchee Slough west of Jupiter, Pond Cypress near West Palm Beach, Archbold Biological Station’s scrub northwest of Lake Okeechobee, Blowing Rocks Preserve on Jupiter Island and Big Cypress National Preserve, which is part of the Everglades, as well as the many colorful birds indigenous to this area,  Gervais’ paintings also highlight the importance of conservation.

The Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens will also host a series of “Conservation Conversations” this season beginning with a presentation about Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee Wildlife Refuge in December. For more information, visit ANSG.org