“A Cut Below”, 2000, Acrylic on canvas
Theo Wujcik’s painting, A Cut Below, is part of Tampa Museum of Art‘s All in Favor: New Works in the Permanent Collection, on view until 7/30/23.
Jul 272023
Jul 202023
Polly E. Perkins, “Woodstork Portrait”, 2022 from Ferman Center for the Arts
24 Hands is a printmaking collective of Florida Gulf Coast printmakers founded by Marjorie Greene Graff. The group has regular exhibitions throughout the year at various locations in the area.
Recently a group of their artists were showing work at The Ferman Center for the Arts, on the University of Tampa’s campus. Below are a few selections from that exhibition.
For more information on Polly E. Perkins, whose work is in the first image, check out her Instagram.
Linda Dee Guy, “Botanical Shroud”, 2021, acrylic, Inkjet print, Goldleaf on canvas
Linda Dee Guy, “Nucleus”, 2021
Linda Dee Guy, “Seascape”, 2021
For more work by Linda Dee Guy, check out her website and Instagram.
Serhat Tanyolacar, “Untitled”, 2020, Laser engraved relief print
Serhat Tanyolacar, “Untitled”, 2020, Laser engraved relief print
For more work by Serhat Tanyolacar, check out his website.
Ry McCullough, “Meditations in Orange”, 2021, Pochoir, serigraphy, gouache, watercolor, vinyl, gaffers tape on okawara
For more of Ry McCullough’s work, check out his website and Instagram.
Currently at Brooker Creek Preserve’s Education Center in Tarpon Springs is Nature Inspired, another exhibition of work by the 24 Hands collective.
From the exhibition-
For “Nature Inspired”, the artists visited Brooker Creek Preserve in March 2022 and March 2023 to strategize the exhibit and hike around the Preserve. Their love for Brooker Creek and nature has been inspiring and their work represents a variety of approaches from comical to realist to aesthetic abstraction. The exhibition includes prints by: Holly Bird, Saumitra Chandratreya, Tyrus Clutter, Elizabeth Coachman, Marjorie Greene Graff, Mary-Helen Horne, Stephen Littlefield, Ry McCullough, Polly E. Perkins, Christine Renc-Carter, and Rachel Stewart.
Below is work from the exhibition by Mary-Helen Horne. You can also find her work on Instagram.
Mary-Helen Horne, “Floating on Air”, 2023, Monoprint with drypoint, relief and pochoir
Nature Inspired has been extended until 8/13/23. It’s a great show and a chance to check out the natural surroundings that helped create the work.
Jun 232023
Closing tomorrow, 6/24, is Cross Communication, an exhibition of Chris Burden’s relics, films, video works, and other materials that document his early performances at Gagosian’s 75th and Park location in NYC.
Walking into the gallery and hearing one of his TV commercials in which he reads off the names of famous artists followed by his own name (Chris Burden Promo (1976)), is a humorous introduction to Burden’s often audacious work. Poem for LA from 1975, which follows with the messages- “SCIENCE HAS FAILED”, “HEAT IS LIFE” and “TIME KILLS” still resonates today.
Check out the video below to see the commercials and hear Burden discuss the work.
Other videos included have him crawling across glass; lying between two sheets of glass that are on set on fire (Icarus); and one of his most infamous- being shot in the arm (Shoot, 1971). The less outrageous works are great too, including Disappearing (1971), pictured above.
For more on the artist, the excellent documentary Burden, by Richard Dewey and Timothy Marrinan, follows his career from these earlier works to the large scale sculptures like Metropolis II and Urban Light that came later. Both of these installations are on view in Los Angeles at LACMA.
Jun 162023
The latest pop-up exhibition at Chad Mize’s SPACE in St. Pete’s Warehouse Arts District, is Hot Box, which opened Friday 6/9/23. The show includes a LOT of artists and installations as well as, for this past weekend, an immersive performance by Dirty John’s comedy troupe.
Below are some of the works from the show-
Jay Hoff, “Criminally Divine”, Lego on Lego
Gianna Pergamo, “Pool Day”, Mixed Media
Miss Crit, “Love and Hisses” Acrylic on Wood
Rhys Meatyard, “Apollo, Artemis, Demeter”, Acrylic on wood
Macy Eats Paint (Macy Higgins), “Pieces of Me”, Mixed Media
In an upstairs section, artist Paul LeRoy has created a mixed media world of art world and celebrity icons, drawings, paintings and more.
The show will be open for its final weekend on Saturday 6/17 from 4-9pm and Sunday 6/18 from 11am-3pm.
Jun 162023
Paintings by Tiffany Snow
Work by Ride or Die Rod (left two paintings) and Zulu Painter
Work by Shereka Solomon
Green Book of Tampa Bay’s 3rd Annual Art Show -“Poetic Justice” at The Studio@620 was open to the public for June 2023’s ArtWalk in St. Pete.
In the back gallery were works by artist Dallas Jackson, which combine collage and painting- seen below.
Dallas Jackson, “Sharecropper”, 2018
Dallas Jackson, “Sharecropper”, 2018 (detail)
Dallas Jackson, “Journey to the Valley of Sin”, 2019
Dallas Jackson, “Journey to the Valley of Sin”, 2019 (detail)
This exhibition will be up until the end of June.
Jun 102023
Ketsy Ruiz, “El Yunque in my Corazón I and II”, acrylic on canvas
Work by (L to R)- Chloe Lewis, Kyra Connolly, Ketsy Ruiz. and Joerod Collier
Photos by Joerod Collier, Ceramics by Babette Herschberger
Currently on view at Parachute Gallery in Ybor City, Tampa, is the group exhibition Buy Me Flowers & Call Me Pretty. The show celebrates the beauty of nature and features seven artists with Florida roots.
The artists included are-
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Joerod Collier aka Surreal Styles (Tampa, FL)
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Kyra Connolly (St. Petersburg, FL)
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Babette Herschberger (St. Petersburg, FL)
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Chloe Lewis (Brooklyn, NY)
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Jenn Ryann Miller (Tampa, FL)
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Ivan Riascos (Apopka, FL)
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Ketsy Ruiz aka Sketzii (Largo, FL)
This show is on view until 6/25/23.
Jun 052023
Currently at Jenny Carey’s Gratus Gallery in Ybor City are photographs by Johanna Keefe.
Keefe is a talented ceramicist as well as photographer. For this series she created the objects, photographed them, and than used a specific AI filter to obtain her final results.
This exhibition will be on view until 6/15/23.
May 092023
“Curtains”, 1972, Acrylic and fabric on canvas
“Curtains”, 1972 (detail)
“Voyage”, 1973, Acrylic and collage on canvas
“Shrine: Homage to M.L.”, 1963, Oil on canvas
“Big Ox”, 1967, acrylic on canvas
There’s only a few days left to see Miriam Schapiro: The André Emmerich Years, Paintings from 1957–76 at Eric Firestone Gallery.
From the press release-
Miriam Schapiro (1923–2015) is now well-known as a pioneer of the Women’s Art Movement, and for her contribution to the Pattern and Decoration Movement. She fused craft work, traditionally made by women, with modern painting in collages termed “femmage.” However, this exhibition will additionally shed light on her early Abstract Expressionist canvases, and her pioneering approach utilizing computer technology to create Hard Edge geometric painting in the 1960s. Spotlighting the legacy of this feminist artist, the exhibition will explore three stylistic phases, with significant examples from these two decades of Schapiro’s career.
This exhibition closes 5/13/23.
Mar 262023
Kirsty Wither “Tumbling Crowd”
Yelena Lezhen “Clockwork Bird Song”
Esther Rosa “Goes around, comes around III”
This weekend is the Affordable Art Fair in NYC. It’s a chance to check out and buy art at reasonable prices.The fair goes to Hampstead, London next, and will return to New York in September of 2023.
For more on the artists pictured above and their galleries-
Kirsty Wither runs the London gallery Cameron Contemporary with her husband, Robin Cameron.
Yelena Lezhen’s work was shown by Barcelona gallery Manifest Destiny Art. Check out her Instagram for current work.
Esther Rosa’s sculpture was part of InSight Artspace’s booth. Her Instagram is also a good place to see her work.
Mar 232023
Stefan Kürten, “We are all made of stars”, 2013
Stefan Kürten, “Running to Stand Still”, 2014
Stefan Kürten, “Running to Stand Still”, 2014 (detail)
Stefan Kürten, “Fine Wrinkles”, 2000
Rita McBride, “Mae West Mandala (Oaxaca), 2009 and “Color Test (Green Bar)”, 2009
Stefan Kürten’s paintings of houses and Rita McBride’s wall coverings (and other sculptures) work with each other to question the concept of home, as well as the objects you might find within one. The exhibition, titled I Continue To Live In My Glass House, is on view at Alexander and Bonin until 3/25/23.
From the press release-
Stefan Kürten is known for detailed depictions of homes. Although constructed from both found and invented imagery, his homes feel known or experienced. The slippage between archetypes, memories, and dreams are central to his compositions. Set in lush landscapes and mysteriously unpeopled, Kürten’s homes evoke modern art or design museums with iconic sculptures and furniture viewable inside and outside of their transparent walls.
Rita McBride’s work invites us to reconsider structures and design elements such as ductwork, awnings, wall coverings and other utilitarian objects. McBride represents a bentwood chair in Murano glass, fastened together by a material that evokes spun candy or plastic wrap. Chair (1999) comments on the life of a domestic object whose usage necessitates an inventive approach to repair or stabilization.
McBride is also showing Particulates, an art installation that combines lasers with ambient dust and water molecules, will be on view at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles starting 3/27/23.