Christopher Still: Coming Home

This retrospective exhibition brings one of Florida’s preeminent painters, Christopher Still, back to his roots with a culmination of masterpieces that spans Still’s artistic career from a gifted young boy frequenting the studios of the Gulf Coast Art Center in Belleair to his most recent projects with the Tampa International Airport and the Sandpearl Resort in Clearwater. Among his most notable achievements is a commission of the portrait of Governor Lawton Chiles in the Florida Governors Mansion and his tour de force, ten murals for the House of Representatives in Tallahassee, which tells the history and heritage of Florida through captivating imagery and accurate detail. Still’s paintings are a combination of science, art history and natural history, ripe with symbolism and technical genius bridging the chasm between traditional realist painting and contemporary ideals. Organized by the Gulf Coast Museum if Art.