Florida Artists- Permanent Collection- Elisabeth Condon at Tampa Museum of Art

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Apr 032026
 

“American Pastorale”, 2016, Acrylic, latex, glitter on linen

“American Pastorale”, 2016 (detail)

American Pastorale, by Elisabeth Condon, part of the Tampa Museum of Art‘s permanent collection, is currently on view in the museum’s group exhibition Avant Garde: Remarkable Women in the Permanent Collection.

From the museum about the work-

The foliage growing near her Tampa studio, traditional Chinese scroll painting, vintage fabrics, and wallpaper samples inspire Elisabeth Condon’s paintings of tropical flora. She often isolates an object or pattern from these source materials and incorporates it as a central image or texture in her paintings. In American Pastorale, a chrysanthemum anchors the painting. To create various layers in this work, Condon applied color with expressive brushwork and poured paint directly onto the canvas. The artist’s palette of intense reds, oranges, and pinks, as well as cooler blues and greens, evokes Florida and Southern California’s vibrant landscapes. Iridescent glitter adds texture and luminosity to the surface.

Flashback- Florida Art Shows- Kimowan Metchewais at USF Contemporary Art Museum

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Dec 192025
 

While reading through the recently released list of artists selected for next year’s Whitney Biennial, I was very happy to see Kimowan Metchewais on the list. I discovered his work when it was part of USF Contemporary Art Museum‘s 2023 exhibition, Native America: In Translation.

The exhibition included a slide show of Metchewais’s polaroids that was particularly captivating. The images in this post are just a few favorites. For more on the artist, this Aperture article from 2023 is very informative.

Below are a few more selections-

Throwback- Florida Artists- Betsy Orbe Lester at ArtLofts in St. Pete

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Oct 302025
 

Betsy Lester, “The Weyward Sisters”, Acrylic and collage on canvas

Florida artist Betsy Orbe Lester‘s mixed media work blends the familiar with the mysterious. The works pictured are from a 2023 visit to her studio at ArtLofts in St. Pete.

Flashback- Florida Art Shows- Ericka Sobrack in Morean Arts Center’s “Fresh Squeezed” in 2021

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Oct 242025
 

Threshold, 2020, a painting by Orlando-based artist Ericka Sobrack, was on view in 2021 as part of Morean Arts Center‘s Fresh Squeezed 5.  The annual Fresh Squeezed exhibitions focus on a selection of emerging artists currently living in Florida.

Her solo exhibition, Witching Hour, is currently on view at Cat Eye Creative in Decatur, Georgia, until 11/2/25.

From the artist about her work-

“My paintings are disorientations of everyday spaces, offering the viewer access into a realm of the unknown, ripe with psychological strangeness. Suburban environments are often subverted into a hyper-reality, revealing juxtapositions between the mundane and the eerie to create conflict and tension. I’m interested in how form, light and color within unassuming settings can be manipulated and orchestrated into uncomfortable, almost uncanny depictions of the banal. By deconstructing the mundane and colliding it with the abnormal, these familiar suburban settings transform into strange, otherworldly scenes that amplify human drama, usually suggesting an implied event, a vague story, or fragmentations of memory. Behind these charged scenes often lie personal yet common experiences that linger in a heightened state of uncertainty.

I often explore the idea of safety and threat within domestic spaces, where the viewer becomes a witness, an observer, or a participant of the narratives that unfold before them. These intimate scenes are an embodiment of the emotional discord many of us share, where vulnerability materializes, and we are forced to confront the uncomfortable truths of both physical and psychological isolation.”

Caturday- John Banovich’s “Partners” at The James Museum in St. Pete

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Aug 092025
 

Pictured above is John Banovich‘s painting Partners, 2007, from the permanent collection of The James Museum in St. Pete, Florida.

From the museum and artist about the work-

Lions are most affectionate with their companions of the same gender. Male lions will change prides but stay with their coalition partners for their entire lives.

“There is no greater bond in the big cat world than between pride mates.”
– John Banovich

 

Flashback- Florida Art Shows- Tania Figueroa at The Werk in St. Pete and Upcoming Exhibition at The Studio @620

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May 302025
 

Tania Figueroa‘s painting Oronym, pictured above, was part of a group exhibition at The Werk Gallery in St. Pete, Florida, in April of 2023.

About the artwork from the artist-

Expressing a point of view feeling restricted. Throwing your truth only between the lines. Not being able to express your thoughts openly because of fear, pressure or prejudice. In that restriction, we feel trapped, we feel with two faces. The one the world wants to see and the genuine face.

Like an oronym.

You might hear one thing, but what is it really saying?

The  artist is currently part of the three person exhibition, Between Worlds on view at The Studio @620, also in St. Pete. The other Florida artists included are Sketzii (Ketsy Ruiz) and Alexa Espinosa (ArttByLexx).

From the gallery-

In Between Worlds, artists Sketzii, ArttByLexx, and Tania Figueroa bring together layered narratives of memory, identity, and cultural connection. Their work moves across genres and materials—painting, digital illustration, and mixed media—to explore what it means to exist in the spaces between home and heritage, past and present, tradition and personal truth. Each artist offers a unique lens through which to view belonging, storytelling, and the way art creates meaning across generations.

Sketzii is a celebration of her Puerto Rican heritage and the experience of living within the Latinx diaspora. Her bold, vibrant compositions honor communities that are often overlooked—uplifting stories of cultural pride, displacement, and the longing for connection that spans across geography and time.

ArttByLexx’s practice centers on her connection to ancestry and the inward journey of self-discovery. Her practice embraces nature’s rhythms and emotional depth, creating intuitive pieces that blur boundaries between past and present. Through her exploration of joy, grief, and transformation, her art becomes a spiritual and reflective space.

Tania Figueroa brings a rich history of movement to her visual art practice. Trained in classical ballet and theater, her work now lives in the textures of mixed media—combining textiles, sand, and paper to evoke memory, place, and care. Her pieces draw on deep personal experience, blending the sensorial and the sacred to reflect both resilience and tenderness.

Together, their work maps a shared space between worlds—charting stories of belonging, resilience, and the quiet beauty found in complexity.

This Saturday, 5/31/25, there will be a reception held from 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM with an artist talk at 2:30 PM.

Flashback- South Carolina Art Galleries- Chenoweth. Halligan Studios

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Apr 252025
 

Work by Roger Halligan

Work by Jan Chenoweth

While visiting Lake City, South Carolina for ArtFields one must see gallery is Chenoweth. Halligan Studios. The gallery showcases the work of artists Roger Halligan and Jan Chenoweth who relocated to the area from Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2019. In addition to being a gallery, it is also a working studio with an outdoor sculpture space.

During ArtFields and other events the gallery is open to the public, but they are also available by appointment.

Work by Roger Halligan

Work by Roger Halligan

Work by Jan Chenoweth

Flashback- Florida Art Shows- Rigaud Benoit at Tampa Museum of Art

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Mar 212025
 

To celebrate the beginning of Spring, two paintings by Haitian artist Rigaud Benoit– Fleurs du printemps (Spring Flowers),1965 and Les Oiseaux (The Birds), 1973.

The work was part of last year’s exhibition Reframing Haitian Art: Masterworks from the Arthur Albrecht Collection at Tampa Museum of Art.

Florida Artists- Edel Alvarez Galban (AGalban)- Portrait of José Martí

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Jan 282025
 

Marti a flor de labios (Marti on the lips) is a portrait of Cuban poet, writer, journalist, philosopher, and activist José Martí by Cuban artist Edel Alvarez Galban (AGalban). The painting was part of the 2023 exhibition El Arte: Echos of Cuba at the Clearwater Library in Florida. Galban emigrated to the United States in 1995, later moving to St. Petersburg, Florida in 2001 where he works in both the medical profession and the arts.

José Martí was born in Havana on January 28th, 1853 and died in 1895 during the Battle of Dos Rios, fighting for Cuba’s independence from Spain. He traveled to Tampa Bay’s Latin Quarter, Ybor City, on several occasions while in exile to give speeches and to raise funds to support his cause.

Parque Amigos de Jose Marti (Friends of Jose Marti Park) in Ybor City features a statue of Martí and a plaque. The land was gifted to the Republic of Cuba in 1956 and was once home to the boarding house of Afro-Cuban activist Paulina Pedroso. She was friends with Martí and he stayed with her during his visits to the area.

 

Florida Art Shows- Peter Menzel at The Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art (formerly Polk Museum of Art) in Lakeland

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Nov 272024
 

Photographs from two projects by photographer and author Peter Menzel, are currently on view at The Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art (formerly Polk Museum of Art), in Lakeland, Florida- Hungry Planet: What The World Eats, and Material World: A Global Family Portrait. Taken in the early 2000s and early 1990s, respectively, they provide a fascinating look at what people in various parts of the world were buying and eating at the time.

For Hungry Planet, Menzel and his wife Faith D’Aluisio visited families around the world to observe, photograph and record what they eat during the course of one week. They worked with twenty-five families in twenty-one countries. The two families in pictured above are the Revis Family from Raleigh, North Carolina and the Casales Family form Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Below is some additional information on the families pictured, including the cost of food for the week and their favorite items.

For Material World, a project created in the early 1990s, Menzel assembled a team of photographers who spent a week living with families around the world who then photographed them outside their homes with everything they owned. Pictured are the Hodson Family, from Godalming, England, and the de Goes Family, from São Paulo, Brazil.

 

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