Exhibition opens Saturday, March 1, 2025
GLASS IN FLIGHT comes to Flamingo Gardens! This traveling exhibition includes 21 hand-fashioned, welded steel sculptures including butterflies, bees, dragonflies, beetles, and a bird! Designed specifically for outdoor display, the works are crafted from hand-cut and hand-faceted Dalle de Verre glass set into powder-coated steel frames. The Dalle de Verre glass is thick and durable and glows in sunlight with a beautiful intensity. Each sculpture was painstakingly conceived, designed, cut, assembled, and welded together by the artist ALEX HEVERI herself. Light filtering through the glass amplifies the saturated colors and iridescence of the insect wings, intensifying the illusion of movement and flight.
Currently on display: Alex Heveri created 10 miniature butterflies which have been scattered throughout the garden. See if you can find them all, then scan the QR code to enter to win one of your very own!
About the Artist: Tucson-based ALEX HEVERI has been an artist her entire life. Working her way through various media, she discovered sculpture as an undergraduate student at Arizona State University. During that time Alex experienced an installation of neon art and was mesmerized by the glowing and vibrantly colored light. Immediately following that encounter, Alex signed up for her first sculpture class where she began to learn welding and fell in love with the steel medium. After taking a break from art to focus on law school and establishing a successful career as a defense attorney, Alex participated in a Dalle de Verre workshop hosted by a local glass studio. She describes the moment she cut into her first piece of the thick Dalle de Verre slab of glass as electrifying. She now considers herself a light artist and uses steel and Dalle de Verre glass to create intensely powerful experiences of light and color. Alex applies an intensity of focus and a lot of discipline to her practices as both artist and attorney and her passion and love of her work is evident in the sculptures that make up the GLASS IN FLIGHT exhibition.
Flamingo Gardens Admission:
- $24.00 for ages 12+,
- $17.00 for ages 3-11,
- Flamingo Gardens members and children 2 or younger are admitted free.
Flamingo Gardens is located at 3750 South Flamingo Road in Davie, FL 33330. Narrated Tram Tour, visits to the Wray Home Museum, Wildlife Ambassador Presentations, Animal Caretaker Talks, Butterfly Conservatory and Flamingo Gardens’ Gallery exhibits are included in admission price. Specialty weekend programs may be subject to change. Please check website for details prior to your visit. For more information, visit www.FlamingoGardens.org or call 954-473-2955.
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Sponsored by:
Major support for Flamingo Gardens provided by the Broward County Cultural Division, the Cultural Council, and the Broward County Board of County Commissioners.
Sponsored in part by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts & Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The exhibit is included with admission to Flamingo Gardens and open to the public 7 days a week 9:30am – 5:00pm. Last tickets sold at 4:00pm.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Vivian Williams
Special Programs Department
(954) 473-2955 x125