Team | Gainesville | Black C Art Gallery

CREATIVE TEAM

Gallery Owner and Artist at Black C Art Gallery

ANI COLLER
Owner & Artist

I love to dance. I studied ballet behind the Iron Curtain in Bulgaria, and arrived in the States a few months after the Berlin Wall came down.

I performed on stage as a dancer for many years before photography and the visual arts captured my interest.

Ballet remains my first love, but now I try to dance with my pictures. Dance is so ethereal, a moment in time. Exactly what a photograph can be...

I love collaborations. My life has become a string of new and exciting projects incorporating video, sound, choreography, painting with dancer's bodies and experimenting in different mediums.... Did i mention performing? Yes, that too :)

Photo Credit: Svetoslav Nikolov

LAUREN WARHOL CALDWELL
Artistic Consultant

I am a prismatic raconteur. I am a teller of tales which are filled with vivid imagery. My work has been called dangerous, cautionary, provoking and deliciously funny. The Theatre. My one true love.

I love to mix words with movement, shape the body for alternate expression and stir emotions that stem purely from the human skeleton.

I am a constant student. I have stood on the shoulders of giants and saturated myself with a style that is solely unique to my own work. I am an Artist.

“The human spirit is strong, sometimes broken, often in despair, and always spiritually rich. Art must follow the path of unbridled revelation to reflect such spirit and force.”

Photo Credit: Suzanna Mars

TOM MILLER
Creative Consultant

I believe strongly in two things. 1.) Creativity is the solution to adversity and 2.) The foundation of culture is story-telling, and without culture, human beings literally could not survive on planet earth. So storytelling in it's many mediums—music, art, theatre, dance, poetry and prose, social media—is where I put my energy and experience.

My love for the arts led me to write stories and scripts, direct plays, act on stage, and explore storytelling in independent cinema. I've also been involved in multidisciplinary performance art. My avant-garde variety show has been running since 1984, and I enjoy the freedom and collaboration at Black C Art..