Tampa art galleries

Art Exhibition | 03/11/22 – 06/05/22
Designing the New

| Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style
Tampa

Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement
355 4th St N St. Petersburg FL 33701
727-440-4859

Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style presents 166 remarkable works of art and design by and related to the Glasgow School the majority of which will be on public display for the first time in North America. Characterized by taut lines stylized natural forms sleek curves and emphatic geometries the unique Glasgow Style emerged from the Arts and Crafts movement to become the only British response to international Art Nouveau in the late 1890s to 1900s. Many followers of the contemporaneous American Arts and Crafts movement were influenced by the groundbreaking work of Mackintosh and the Glasgow School including Gustav Stickley’s Craftsman Workshops Dard Hunter and the Roycrofters.

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The first Mackintosh retrospective to tour the United States in a generation Designing the New introduces audiences to some of the architect-designer-artist’s most iconic works. It presents his big bold graphic designs for posters and his high-backed chairs for Miss Catherine Cranston’s famous Glasgow artistic tearooms in contrast with his lesser-known but equally striking experiments in textile design interior design and the intricate watercolors he painted in the last years of his life.

Designing the New is the first-ever exhibition in the United States to contextualize Mackintosh’s seminal work – architecture design and art – in relation to the broader yet intimately connected circle of designers architects and craftspeople with which he shared sources inspiration ideas motifs and patrons. Offering a unique and expanded dialogue about Mackintosh’s milieu this exhibition highlights the connections between Mackintosh his predecessors contemporaries collaborators patrons kindred spirits and his hometown city of Glasgow – industrial heartland of nineteenth-century Scotland.

Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style is a touring exhibition co-organized by Glasgow Museums and the American Federation of Arts. Support for the U.S. national tour is provided by the Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation. The exhibition comprises works from the collections of Glasgow City Council (Museums and Collections) with loans from Scottish collections and private lenders.

Catalogue

Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue presenting new research by guest curator Alison Brown. The catalogue is 184 pages with 223 color illustrations co-published by DelMonico Books•Prestel. Available at the MAACM Store.

Initiated in 1985 this annual juried art exhibition presents work by middle and high school students whom are invited to explore ideas and visions similar to those explored by Salvador Dalí and the surrealists. This year the theme is “The Metamorphic Moment” a theme that encourages students to explore the process and meaning of transformation through time myth and literature.

Metamorphosis is “a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one by natural or supernatural means.” With insects or amphibians metamorphosis is “the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.” Metamorphosis relates to the age-old experience of looking at clouds and recognizing familiar images like seeing a face transition into a bird. The concept is also woven into our culture. In Greek mythology metamorphosis explains Zeus’ transformation into a swan to visit Leda or Daphne turning into a laurel tree to escape Apollo’s advances. In modern culture Kafka’s short story “The Metamorphosis” focuses on Gregor Samsa’s inexplicable transformation into a cockroach. In X-Men Mystique is a shapeshifter who can morph into another shape or state at will. Western culture is bound by both the delight and terror of metamorphosis. In some situations it is seen as a punishment while in other contexts it is seen as a superpower.

In the visual arts metamorphosis is often the domain of the surrealists. From René Magritte to Max Ernst the representation of metamorphosis is a central subject. One of Salvador Dalí’s most celebrated skills was his ability to see the world differently recognize how to see something transform into something completely different by simply by refocusing one’s view then use his refined techniques to capture that vision for others to see.

“The Metamorphic Moment” theme invites students to reflect on the idea of metamorphosis and create their own visual interpretation of “the metamorphic moment.” All 2D media types are welcomed and encouraged as submissions.

This exhibit is held in the Raymond James Community Room on the ground floor of the Museum. Access to the Museum’s ground floor is free and open to the public; online timed reservations are available by selecting ‘Ground Floor Only’ at the ticket here. The Raymond James Community Room occasionally closes for private events in which case the exhibit will not be accessible.

Art Exhibition | 03/12/22 – 05/31/22
Morean Center for Clay Students’ Exhibition
| Group Show
St Pete

Morean Arts Center
719 Central Ave St. Petersburg FL 33701
727-822-7872

March 12- May 31 The Morean Center for Clay is exhibiting works produced by some of the students who have taken classes at the Morean Center for Clay. We have many students that continuously take classes year-round to enhance their knowledge of the materials and tools related to the ceramic arts. The works exhibited in this show are just a small portion of what students create within the walls of the Morean Center for Clay. Folks young and old looking to take courses at MCC have an array of options and opportunities. We welcome any and all who may be interested whether you have been throwing pots for years or have never touched the medium of clay in your life.

This fourth iteration of Explore the Vaults features pieces from the museum’s permanent collection, specifically paintings known as “cabinet pictures” and small works on paper. The former are diminutive paintings which are exquisitely executed for viewing at close range or which reveal the artist’s creative process. They take their name from the little rooms or cabinets in which such works traditionally were displayed.

Explore the Vaults: Cabinet Pictures and Works on Paper celebrates the gifts of a few key collectors. Among these is Margaret Acheson Stuart (1896–1980), the museum’s founder. The small size of these light-sensitive drawings, watercolors, etchings, and engravings, make them the perfect subject for the close looking and contemplation offered by the more intimate gallery space and drawered cabinets.

Exploring the influence of southern Europe on the famed 20th-century master Pablo Picasso’s revolutionary work. Organized in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris which holds the most significant collection of the artist’s works the exhibit presents 79 paintings drawings and collages – approximately half of which have never been seen in the U.S.

Some of Picasso’s most creative and prolific artistic periods took place during extended sojourns in the mountain towns of northern Spain and along the Mediterranean coast of France where he made many of his most important contributions to modern art. The exhibit encompasses an exceptional selection of portraits still lifes figural studies and landscapes while incorporating historical photographs that provide candid glimpses of Picasso in his series of studios in the south.

With works from six decades of his prolific career the exhibition is organized chronologically showcasing Picasso’s early experimentation and the evolution of Cubism through his later works that turned to a deeper engagement with the unconscious and Surrealism.

Visitors to The Dalí may further their understanding of the genre of Cubism through the Museum’s exclusive new artificial intelligence experience called YOUR PORTRAIT. Guests can have their photo transformed into a one-of-a-kind Cubist work of art. While their unique portrait is being generated they will gain insight into Cubist imagery compositions and color palettes alongside experiencing how the machine-learning application mimics those characteristics.

Art Exhibition | 04/05/22 – 05/06/22
VISUAL METAPHOR | HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT EXHIBITION
St Pete

Museum of Fine Arts St Petersburg
255 Beach Dr NE Saint Petersburg FL 33701
727-896-2667

“A visual metaphor is the representation of a person place thing or idea by means of a visual image that suggests a particular association or point of similarity.”

This audience favorite spotlights work by many of the most talented high school students in Pinellas County Schools. Their teachers select the art and the final works are selected by Museum staff and an outside juror. The work encompasses a wide array of media. A private reception for the students and their parents and teachers will be held on Thursday April 21 from 6-8 pm with awards presented at 6:30 pm.

Art Exhibition | 04/08/22 – 05/28/22
PCCA Senior Thesis Exhibitions | Group Show
St Pete

Morean Arts Center
719 Central Ave St. Petersburg FL 33701
727-822-7872

After three years of an intense visual art curriculum students in their fourth year at Pinellas County Center for the Arts (PCCA) at Gibbs High School begin preparation for their senior project. The senior project is required of all PCCA students wishing to graduate with a certificate from the program.

Seniors in the visual art department must develop a cohesive body of work that describes an in-depth exploration of a particular artistic concern or visual idea. Works produced between the beginning of the school year in August through the middle of February when the first exhibitions begin are eligible for exhibition. Usually the concept or concentration idea is not fully developed until mid-October when students begin to focus their full attention on their senior project. Students seeking a one person show at the Morean Arts Center must apply in December with examples of their work and an artist statement explaining the focus and direction of their concentration.

Three students are then selected from the applicants by the visual arts department faculty. This is an honor for these students and a very difficult task for the faculty since a majority of the seniors apply. All other visual arts senior projects are exhibited in a series of group exhibitions between mid-February and the end of April in PCCA’s two galleries on the campus of Gibbs High School.

The Senior Thesis Exhibitions for 2022 are:

Lauren Martin: Therianthropic Arcana

April 8 – 20

Anderson Bray: Mother

April 22 – May 4

Jayda Emerson: Revelations Rapture

May 6 – 28

Art Exhibition | 04/09/22 – 05/31/22
Instructors’ Exhibition | Group Show
St Pete

Morean Arts Center
719 Central Ave St. Petersburg FL 33701
727-822-7872

This exhibition showcases ceramic works produced by instructors teaching at the Morean Center for Clay.

Each has their own unique ideas and approaches to working with the medium of clay; from pottery to three-dimensional sculpture to large scale tile installations. Many have been working and teaching with the material for over a decade and are recognized all around Tampa Bay and beyond.

The Morean Center for Clay is proud to have such a variety of instructors passing on their skills knowledge and experiences to the next generation of ceramic artists.

Art Exhibition | 05/28/22 – 10/09/22
FRESH UP | GIO SWABY
St Pete

Museum of Fine Arts St Petersburg
255 Beach Dr NE Saint Petersburg FL 33701
727-896-2667

The Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg is proud to present the first solo museum exhibition of multidisciplinary artist Gio Swaby (b. 1991 Nassau Bahamas) whose work explores the intersections of Blackness and womanhood. Employing the portrait genre and a range of textile-based techniques Swaby’s work is anchored in a desire to present and celebrate the complex personalities of the sitters. Interested in restorative forms of resistance she has stated “My work operates in the context of understanding love as liberation a healing and restorative force. These pieces celebrate personal style strength beauty individuality and imperfections.”

Swaby works in series form and the exhibition will feature bodies of work spanning 2017 through 2021. Growing up surrounded by the threads and fabrics of her mother a seamstress Swaby chooses to work in mediums traditionally associated with domesticity as a means to imbue her works with familiarity labor and care. Swaby upends tradition however and gives the sewing medium a sense of monumentality with the life-size series Pretty Pretty. The subjects are intricately rendered in freehand lines of thread and shown on the reverse side of the canvas so that the stitching process—its knots and loose threads so often hidden—is visible. There’s a vulnerability to “showing the back” but Swaby embraces and elevates the imperfections.

Swaby’s art is centered upon the personal connections forged between subject and artist and conversation is key to achieving these portraits of beauty and power that she deems love letters to Black women. The portraits begin with a photo shoot wherein the subjects are captured in a moment of empowerment and self-awareness. Swaby foregrounds their personal style —seen in the detailed renderings of jewelry hair and clothing—creating space for self-definition and unapologetic self-expression.

Swaby earned her BFA in Film Video and Integrated Media from Emily Carr University of Art Design Vancouver BC and is currently completing an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design at OCAD University Toronto ON. She has exhibited internationally and her work is included in the permanent collections of major public institutions throughout the United States.

This exhibition is co-organized with the Art Institute of Chicago where it will open in 2023. A fully illustrated catalogue published by Rizzoli Electa accompanies the exhibition and features an interview between Swaby and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nikole Hannah-Jones as well as series introductions by the artist and essays by Melinda Watt the Art Institute of Chicago’s Chair and Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textiles and Katherine Pill Curator of Contemporary Art Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg.

Made possible in part by generous support from:
The Margaret Acheson Stuart Society Gobioff Foundation Sonia Raymund Foundation Inc. and James G. Sweeny and Garth Family Foundation with contributing support from City of St. Petersburg and the State of Florida Department of State Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.

Support for the exhibition catalogue provided by the MFA Collectors Circle.

• Date: June 01, 2022 – December 23, 2022
• Gallery: 2nd Floor Teaching Gallery

• Date: June 01, 2022 – July 01, 2022
• Gallery: Meta B. Brown + Rossi Galleries

Art Exhibition | 06/01/22 – 07/29/22
New Works | Iboms
St Pete

D Gallerie
1234 Dr M.L.K. Jr St N Unit C St. Petersburg FL 33705
407-921-3608

Biography
iBOMS is a 20-year-old artist out of St. Petersburg Florida. Throughout his artistic journey he has acquired many skills. He has been exposed to different mediums as well as various ways to visualize his ideas. He has been inspired to create and bring to life every possible thought. Upon first glance his work may seem like simple illustrations and graffiti but each piece has a very unique story to tell. Some of self-love destruction and discovery. The purpose of his work is to catch and draw the viewer in to create that “awe” experience while exposing them to his world. The world of a young African American male!

He does this by painting and creating lively characters that at a glance you may not think there was a story behind it. But like in life everything wants to appear blissful but unannounced to everyone else a dark river runs beneath the surface.

Curated by Cindy Bartosek-  While artists have been involved in making books for centuries it wasn’t until the second half of the 20th century that artists around the world began making books as an art form experimenting with innovative combinations of images text and format. The book form gives visual artists a space and a voice to explore and communicate important themes and visual ideas. This exhibition celebrates the book as art through a varied collection of inventive and intriguing works that challenge preconceptions of what a book is and can be.

Florida CraftArt invites new mid-career and established artists residing in Florida Georgia Alabama Mississippi South Carolina North Carolina and Tennessee to submit recent handmade artists’ books that represent a broad interpretation of the concept of “book” in new and unexpected ways.

Jurors’ selections are final and will be based on the level of technical skill quality and complexity of workmanship artistry and originality of design and impact of the work as represented in the images submitted. Cash prizes will be awarded.

Partnerships and educational programming include Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University and Keep St. Pete Lit

(*Fine craft techniques are ceramics fiber glass jewelry metal mixed-media sculpture and wood.)

• Date: June 10, 2022 – August 14, 2022
• Gallery: Gamble Family Gallery

August 19 – October 15, 2022

Fifteen Tampa Bay region artists will set up their workbench and studios in the Florida CraftArt Exhibition Gallery and demonstrate how they create fine craft.

Each week visitors can watch artists working in their chosen medium, such as ceramics, glass, fiber, jewelry, metal, mixed-media, and wood.

The artists’ work will be on display and for sale in the gallery:
Michael Baker (Glass), Kimberli Cummings (Ceramics), Joyce Curvin (Sculpture), Eric Folsom (Metal), Tyler Jones (Ceramics), Janna Kennedy (Mixed Media, Karen Kozak (Polymer Clay Jewelry), Angie Knowles (Fiber), Laurie Landry (Mosaics), Susan Lumsden (Fiber), Elizabeth Neily (Fiber), Nick Reale (Wood), Shelly Reale (Ceramics Sculpture), Sue Shapiro (Ceramics), and Matthew Szidik (Glass)

Sponsored by Premier Sponsor Perry and Lisa Everett, along with Kathryn Howd and Edward Rucks, Duncan McClellan, David and Becky Ramsey, and Don Strobel. 

More support is needed for this ambitious exhibit. 

Download the Sponsorship form below or contact

Katie Deits, Executive Director
(727) 821-7391

Art Exhibition | 11/03/22 – 01/08/23
: LEGACY IN THE AMERICAN WEST | BLACK PIONEERS
St Pete

The Factory St. Pete
2622 Fairfield Ave S St. Petersburg FL 33712

This exhibition the first of its kind explores the path of Black history in the West with a timeline of original pictorial quilts. The timeline begins in 1528 with Esteban’s dramatic story which marks the arrival of Africans in the American West and continues through the Civil Rights Movement.

Dispelling the myth that Black people in the old West were mostly cowboys Black Pioneers: Legacy in the American West shows rich diversity in their occupations and achievements in society religion education and the arts.

Choosing quilts as the visual medium for this exhibition accentuates the intersections of African Americans in the Western Frontier while informing others about the art form and its important role in African American history.

This exhibition is organized by The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art and Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi curator historian and artist. The quilts have been created by the Women of Color Quilters Network especially for this exhibition.

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage the Tampa Museum of Art presents a series of exhibitions focused on the achievements of women in the arts. HerStory: Stories of Ancient Heroines and Everyday Women explores the story of women in the ancient world through the depictions of goddesses heroines mythological characters and everyday women in the Museum’s collection of classical antiquities. The exhibition highlights objects that speak to the role of women in the ancient world their myths and stories from Aphrodite and Athena to Amazon Warriors to women of the everyday. These roles are examined through the museum’s collection of statues fragments vessels and objects from daily life.

Art Exhibition | 11/04/21 – 05/22/22
An Irresistible Urge to Create: | Florida Outsider Art from the Monroe Family Collection
Tampa

Tampa Museum of Art
120 W Gasparilla Plaza Tampa FL 33602
813-274-8130

During the last several decades the work of the Outsider artists has come to the forefront of our thinking about the nature of art as their paintings and sculptures have made their way into fine art museums hanging alongside new and time-tested paintings and sculptures. To date collector Gary Monroe has acquired nearly a thousand pieces of Outsider art including works by Ruby Williams Eddy Mumma Frank Ritchie and Jesse Aaron. An Irresistible Urge to Create includes 86 works and features objects by several self-taught artists from Florida’s West Coast and Central region. A publication accompanies the exhibition with an essay by Gary Monroe a discussion by Boca Museum of Art Senior Curator Kathy Goncharov about the changing nomenclature of self-taught and folk artists and a specially commissioned poem by Campbell McGrath about artists’ urge to create.​

An Irresistible Urge to Create: Florida Outsider Art from the Monroe Family Collection is organized by the Boca Raton Museum of Art.

Born in Matanzas Cuba in 1974 he grew up surrounded by intense contrasts of colors pre-1959 American cars and the surging Communist government. His immersion in Cuba’s rhythms and sensuousness was short lived but nonetheless had a lasting impact on his young imagination.

Forced into Castro’s Army at age 16 Rey served for several months until he gambled on a chance for freedom. After weeks of preparation and with few provisions he set out for the United States in a rustic boat that he built himself from found or traded materials.

Alfonso landed in Miami but soon settled in San Francisco. Over the next decade he worked with sculptors and metal craftsmen attaining an exhaustive knowledge of metal design and fabrication while forging his identity as an artist. His talent and ideas were quickly recognized and several of his public works and sculptural signs can still be seen in cities throughout the West Coast. It was his work with aluminum on a large scale commission that first intrigued and later obsessed Alfonso as he developed his present style.

Art Exhibition | 11/30/21 – 11/30/21
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Tampa

Mergeculture
1544 N Franklin St Tampa FL 33602
813 492-5656

Impact Influence | Paul Caponigro

American landscape and fine art photographer Paul Caponigro is known for his spiritual approach to image-making celebrating nature and life using his intuition rather than common compositional rules. This retrospective of Caponigro’s work will also feature platinum-palladium prints by photographers David Dennard and Pradip Malde who have been inspired and influenced by this Master of Photography. Caponigro has exhibited and taught throughout the United States and abroad. He is the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and three National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants. His images can be found in the photographic collections of most museums and publications on the history of photography. This exhibition is a tribute to all teachers and the immeasurable impact they can have on their students.

Verde: Poetics of Shade | 5 Tampa Artists

The exhibition Verde: Poetics of Shade features five artists regional to the Tampa Bay area as an introduction and a celebration of their work in a variety of mediums which include: painting ceramics sculpture and embroidery on canvas. Artists Nneka Jones Kendra Frorup Princess Smith Shannon Elyse and Jodi Minnis represent the local community through shared experiences and divergence in visual art. The artwork in Verde speaks to growth and expansion as well as timeless artistic expression. It speaks to feminine energy and artistic contributions.

Verde: Poetics of Shade is presented in partnership with the Tampa Chapter of The Links Inc.

Artists:
Shannon Elyse Curry was born in Carmel California and currently resides in South Tampa Florida. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art and Art History as an honors scholar at Spelman College in Atlanta Georgia where she studied under Dr. Fahamu Pecou.

Kendra Frorup was born in the Bahamas and received a bachelor’s degree in Art from the University of Tampa and an MFA from Syracuse University. Frorup is an international artist with a research focus on the global conversation about connections and identity in art.

Nneka Jones was born in Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago. She is a multidisciplinary artist exploring both large- and small-scale pieces. Jones’ work comments on social and environmental injustice advocating for the protection of women and girls of color. Jones holds a BFA in Art from the University of Tampa.

Jodi Minnis is a multidisciplinary artist investigating the intersection of gender race and culture scrutinizing the traditional representations and tropes around Bahamian women as a reclamation of Black Caribbean womanhood. Minnis was born in Nassau The Bahamas and holds an associate degree in Fine Arts from the College of The Bahamas and a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree from the University of Tampa.

Princess Smith was born in Los Angeles California. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tampa and a Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of South Florida. Smith’s work focuses heavily on portraiture that explores her culture identity encourages self-love and expression.

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Paul Jenkins (American 1923-2012) represents the legion of Abstract Expressionist artists who altered the landscape of modern art. Jenkins found inspiration in his journeys around the world particularly time spent in Japan. He is celebrated for his unorthodox approach to paint application. In the early 1950s and throughout his life the artist worked with controlled paint pouring. This method allowed him to create layers of translucent color as well as render stark contrasts between light and dark. This exhibition drawn from the holdings of the Haskell Collection in Jacksonville Florida and the Jenkins Estate looks at the evolution of Jenkins’ art from his large-scale paintings to works on paper. The exhibition will demonstrate how Jenkins’ groundbreaking techniques and imagery helped transform post-war painting.

Heather Rosenbach’s work serves as a critical self-reflection of identity and the social class in which she was raised. She uses craft and non-fine art materials–oversaturated, roughed up ceramics, reconstituted furniture, tablecloth scraps–which challenge the American middle-class comfort through their playful and undeniably handmade appearance. The artist develops narrative elements in form and surface that reference popular taste and employs lowbrow aesthetics. At the forefront of her studio practice is the concept of “sloppy craft” where finished pieces are intentionally created to appear rough-hewn or carelessly fabricated, but are in fact thoughtfully executed. Heather Rosenbach currently resides in Tampa, Florida where she now teaches ceramics to all ages. She received her MFA from SUNY New Paltz in 2019.

Art Exhibition | 04/01/22 – 05/07/22
INVERSO | 2022 MFA GRADUATION EXHIBITION
Tampa

USF contemporary art Museum
3821 Holly Dr Tampa FL 33620
813-974-2849

April 1 – May 7 2022
USF Contemporary Art Museum Online
This eagerly anticipated annual exhibition features Master’s Thesis work by the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. The 2022 artists are Kim Darling Aimee Jones Natalia Kraviec Krystle Lemonias Tatiana Mesa Paján and Marlon Tobias.

Inverso is supported in part by the State of Florida Department of State Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture the USF School of Art and Art History the Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation and CAM Club.

ART Thursday: Inverso Gallery Tour MFA Panel Discussion Reception – April 21 2022

Forever Young: Creative Aging Photography Show | GROUP SHOW

The fourth Forever Young exhibit features photographs by senior museum members as well as local senior residents. Seniors are the foundation of our society. They have an immense wealth of experience and wisdom that can serve as a beacon for younger generations.

“Forever Young is a special exhibit designed to showcase the talent of our residential seniors” said Zora Carrier PhD. “The exhibition highlights that amazing art of any kind is timeless.”

The Company We Keep: Photographs of Our Complex Relationships with Animals | Curator Selina Román

Throughout human history animals touch so many aspects of our lives – as companions labor food clothing and entertainment. We call them our children dress them and consider them one of the family. Other animals are raised for our entertainment or to be used for research often enduring cruel and heartbreaking conditions. The need to anthropomorphize these creatures and make them succumb to our whims has created a dangerous dynamic fraught with the best of intentions and calamitous outcomes.

In this two-fold exhibition photographers Jayanti Seiler and Jo-Anne McArthur offer poignant and powerful perspectives on the myriad interactions between humans and beast. Seiler turns her lens on a number of human-animal relationships – from the owners of exotic and big-breed animals as pets to those who employ animals as entertainers. Many of her photographs show the love and awe that these owners have for the animals; however in other images Seiler hints at the paradoxical nature of these relationships and the thin line between life and death on which these owners walk. With a heavy dose of beauty Seiler’s photographs offer a sobering non-judgmental look at the owners and their complicated bonds with their charges.

Calling all Animal Lovers! The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMoPA) and the Humane Society of Tampa Bay (HSTB) invite you to join us on April 22nd for our extraordinary art event to honor our relationship with animals.
Starting April 15th everyone who brings an image of an animal for a community exhibition receives free admission! The photographs will be exhibited as a live art installation at the museums’ Community Gallery. Additionally this exhibition will feature images taken at the Humane Society facility and hospitals by local photography enthusiasts.

OPENING RECEPTION :: SATURDAY, JUNE 11 @ 7-9PM

4220 N. FLORIDA AVE.

Gallery hours :: Tuesdays & Thursdays 10am-2pm; Fridays by appointment – text 813-340-9056

Tempus Projects presents a solo exhibition by Selina Román. A mistake, a malfunction wrapped up in magic and unintended consequences: Since late 2020, Román has been creeping at night with her camera to document malfunctioning purple streetlights around Tampa. Her series, A Bad Batch, includes spontaneous photographs as well as staged portraiture and video. Motors in the streetlights overheat and burn away the coating that makes the light white, leaving behind various shades of purple. Highlights on palm fronds become beautiful abstract forms. Alleyways become mysterious portals to other worlds. In the dark of night, these broken lights bathe their surroundings in an otherworldly hue that suspends reality and transports us to another dimension.

Tampa-based artist and Florida native Selina Román creates lens-based work that explores ideas of femininity, perception, liminality, memory, place, and how the invisible offers more answers than what’s visible. Román received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of South Florida in 2013. Prior, she worked as a newspaper reporter and investigator. Her work is in the collection of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art in Tarpon Springs, and the Tampa Museum of Art. Román has exhibited at institutions such as The Ringling Museum of Art and Tampa Museum of Art, and internationally at Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts in Jamaica and the Universidad del Sagrado Corazon in Puerto Rico. Her work was also featured at Brighton Photo Fringe in the UK during the 2016 Brighton Photo Biennial. She received a Hillsborough County Artist Grant in 2017 and 2021. She was also invited to participate in Review Santa Fe 2019 and 2022 and Critical Mass 2020. She currently teaches Photography at the university level.

Tempus Projects is located at 4220 N. Florida Ave.

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Tempus Projects is dedicated to nurturing established and emerging local, national, and international artists through exhibitions, collaborations, residencies, and events. Our non-profit organization promotes artists working in all media, and develops, organizes, and hosts exhibitions that engage the Tampa Bay community through the arts.

Our vision is to foster a vibrant and critical arts nexus that connects grassroots efforts to an international arts dialogue through innovative, equitable programming. Tempus Projects is committed to inclusion, accessibility, collaboration, innovation, and integrity.

Failure is always an Option

The Art of Life | Suzanne Camp Crosby

This exhibition showcases a retrospective of beloved local artist and art professor Suzanne Camp Crosby.

Suzanne’s career as a highly regarded artist creating art through the photographic medium achieved extraordinary recognition and accomplishments including exhibitions and collections across the United States. Camp Crosby also taught generations of students at area colleges including the Hillsborough Community College where she had been a professor of photography for 38 years.

Recognitions include selection as the City of Tampa Photo Laureate in 2004 and recipient of the Hillsborough County Artist Grant in 1991 the Florida Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in 1979 and 1988 and the Southeast Artist Fellowship for the National Endowment for the Arts and Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in 1978.

Suzanne left behind an extensive body of work and this exhibition was created to honor her legacy.

A flagship project of the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts the International Photography Competition has been running for two decades commemorating the museum’s commitment to positioning photographic art as central to everyday life and culture. The winners will be selected in seven categories and judged based on originality technical excellence composition overall impact artistic merit and otherwise determined by the judges. Every selected winner will have their images printed and displayed as part of a group exhibition in the FMoPA Community Gallery. In addition this year’s Best in Competition winner will receive $1000 and consideration for a solo exhibition at FMoPA.

THE LYRICAL MOMENT:
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACTION

Taking as a starting point a substantial award by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation the USF Contemporary Art Museum has organized an exhibition that features elegant hand-processed prints by pioneering artist Helen Frankenthaler and digitally-informed pop-inflected canvases and gouaches by Los Angeles painter Heather Gwen Martin. Born of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation initiative to support university museums in their educational programming this exhibition brings together outstanding works on paper by a modern master with lyrical paintings by an accomplished contemporary artist whose colorful efforts invoke computational algorithms and twenty-first century screen culture.

Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) whose career spanned six decades has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. Through her invention of the soak-stain technique she expanded the possibilities of abstract painting while at times referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways. She produced a body of work whose impact on contemporary art has been profound and continues to grow.

Frankenthaler experimented tirelessly throughout her long career. In addition to producing unique paintings on canvas and paper she worked in a wide range of media including ceramics sculpture tapestry and especially printmaking. Hers was a significant voice in the mid-century “print renaissance” among American abstract painters. She continued to work and exhibit through the opening years of this century.

For more than a decade L.A.-based artist Heather Gwen Martin (1977) has been creating paintings that walk a tightrope between improvisation and deliberation dissolution and structure. While a full-time student at the University of California San Diego—where she studied with Pattern and Decoration pioneer Kim McConnell—Martin worked as a colorist for DC comics adding color onto scenes and characters using computer technology. The experience had an unintended but profound effect on her painting.

Today Martin’s canvases resemble splash pages for certain copyrighted film or screen-based entertainments. Nonetheless her vividly colored abstractions remain one hundred percent handmade containing no high-tech aides or digital fillers. Denuded of figures captions and word balloons her sprightly landscapes distill reflection and sensation into loops of sinuous line and flat areas of color. While some canvases superficially resemble the livelier aspects of swipe-and-like looking—rounded emoji-like shapes and abrupt transitions between bright areas of color—they impress sensorially like the taste of underripe fruit or a sharp intake of cold breath.

The Lyrical Moment: Modern and Contemporary Abstraction by Helen Frankenthaler and Heather Gwen Martin is curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné CAM Curator-at-Large; organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum.

Art Exhibition | 06/03/22 – 11/25/22
Through the Lens of Conflict: Vietnam Press Photograph | Dr. Robert L. Drapkin Collection
Tampa

Dr. Drapkin has assembled an extensive collection of press photographs spanning the Vietnam War. These images capture the conflict and pathos of this difficult part of American history. The exhibition will explore the photographs themselves how they were created and experiences through a local context. Understanding the American War in Vietnam a book written by Dr. Drapkin will accompany the exhibition. Text in the exhibition and book illuminate the war’s history from multiple perspectives.

Proceeds from the exhibition and book sales will benefit the Rory Peck Trust which makes conflict training in hostile environments available to photographers covering conflict at their own personal risk.

Curated by Jarrett Earnest and Lisa Yuskavage and first staged at David Zwirner gallery in New York in September of 2021, Jesse Murry: Rising serves as an important introduction to the art, poetry, and criticism of a unique and polymathic American talent. The exhibition brings together paintings from the last five years of the artist’s life as well as recordings of influential voices attesting to Murry’s enduring legacy.

Jesse Murry and Lisa Yuskavage met while attending Yale School of Art, where they received their MFAs in 1986. The bonds of their creative friendship are explored in USFCAM’s concurrent exhibition Necessary Angels: Jesse Murry & Lisa Yuskavage. Besides giving proof to the idea that artistic friendship can transcend simple influence and achieve higher dimensions of collaboration spurred on by mutual learning, respect, and love, Necessary Angels features rarely seen paintings on paper by Murry and celebrated paintings and watercolors by Yuskavage. Organized by USFCAM Curator-at-Large Christian Viveros-Fauné, the exhibition is only the second time that Murry’s and Yuskavage’s work has been presented under the same roof since their Yale 1986 MFA thesis show.