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Art Edit
Winter 2026

Guest Curator: Jesse Warren Gill, Art Administrator, Magnolia Art Exchange

Effluvium

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In The Meno, Socrates – with characteristic irony – defines color as "an effluvium of shape": a pedantic and deliberately unhelpful answer, offered less to explain color than to frustrate Meno's demand for definition. And yet, precisely as a piece of philosophical mischief, it names something real.

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In this collection, five Ocala artists explore different modes of figuration using highly synthetic palettes. Across these works, color appears not as a stylization of form, but strikes us as necessitated by it – flowing outward into vision with the force of light.

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Teddy Sykes

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Jordan Shapot

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Mel Fiorentino

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Brie Edwards

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Pamela Fletcher

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Teddy Sykes

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Pamela Fletcher

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Jordan Shapot

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Mel Fiorentino

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