Cultural Council PBC to Host Free Exhibition by Int'l Artist SERGE STROSBERG, Jan 6-Feb 18

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Dec. 29, 2022 - PRLog -- (Lake Worth, FL – December 28, 2022) In its dynamic Donald M. Ephraim Family Gallery, the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County will present another thought-provoking exhibition: Veni, Vidi, Vici by international portrait artist Serge Strosberg, January 16 through February 18, 2023. The exhibition is an artistic exploration of the life and influence of Henry Morrison Flagler, the founder of Standard Oil and the Florida East Coast Railroad, as well as the cities of Miami and Palm Beach.

Strosberg takes Flagler as captured in portraits and vintage photographs provided by the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum and the Historical Society of Palm Beach County, and reimagines him in a modern context, costumed in contemporary vibrant patterns and colors by Lilly Pulitzer or Maus and Hoffman, while a frieze composed of train tracks borders the works. Descriptions of the historical images were written by popular Worth Avenue tour guide Rick Rose, author of Palm Beach: The Essential Guide to America's Legendary Resort Town.

"The captains of industry from the Gilded Age seemed to have a fascination for Ancient Rome, Greece and Europe, which constructed infrastructure such as roads, aqueducts, and monuments while also building economic empires," explains Strosberg. "Henry Flagler transformed Florida (which was still mostly swamps in the late 1800s) into a flourishing state by building a railroad going all the way to Key West, plus monumental hotels and cities, 'conquering' this 'inhospitable' land. In fact, it was the monumental bust of Caesar Augustus adorning the entrance of Whitehall at the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum   that inspired this exhibition."

"After all, Palm Beach today is an ultra-wealthy enclave, a modern Rome separated from the rest of the world by an intracoastal where workers do not reside and only an exclusive crowd now lives. It is also decadent and surreal in a world that is quickly evolving," adds the artist.

The exhibition Veni Vidi, Vici by Serge Strosberg is available for free viewing in the Cultural Council's Donald M. Ephraim Family Gallery Tuesdays through Saturdays, noon to 5 pm, January 16 through February 18, 2023.

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