For more of Tony Tasset’s work, check out his website
Oct 082021
Oct 052021
Kim Anderson, “Alone Together”, 2021
Stereoscope for viewing the above painting
Skyway 20/21: A Contemporary Collaboration, is the second iteration of a joint exhibition across four institutions that highlights contemporary art created in the Central Florida region. Artists selected by a jury are from five counties- Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Manatee, and Sarasota. The exhibitions are an excellent sampling of the work being made in the Tampa Bay area.
The works shown in this post are from the exhibition at the Tampa Museum of Art. The museum has a video playlist on YouTube that includes all of the artists in the exhibition discussing their work. The links below are to the artists’ websites or those videos.
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Jaime Aelavanthara and Amanda Sieradzki – Hillsborough
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Kim Anderson – Sarasota
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Wendy Babcox – Hillsborough
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Janet Folsom – Pinellas
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Samson Huang – Hillsborough
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Jason Lazarus – Hillsborough
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Kirk Ke Wang – Hillsborough
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Cassia Kite – Sarasota
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Jenn Miller – Hillsborough
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Sarah O’Donoghue – Sarasota
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Herion Park – Sarasota
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Anat Pollack – Hillsborough
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Libbi Ponce – Hillsborough
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Selina Román – Hillsborough
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John Sims – Sarasota
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Mike Solomon – Sarasota
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Jill Taffett – Sarasota
Selina Román “XS” 2019
For Selina Román’s XS series, she created abstract self portraits that examine standards of beauty in relation to expectations of weight and body. The title XS references an extra small size and alludes to the word excess.
This exhibition closes 10/10/21.
Sep 202021
Jake Troyli, “Shhh…this is the best part!”, 2018
Jake Troyli, “Shhh…this is the best part!”, 2018 (detail)
Jake Troyli, “Shhh…this is the best part!”, 2018 (detail)
Jake Troyli, “Shhh…this is the best part!”, 2018 (detail)
Skyway 20/21: A Contemporary Collaboration, is the second iteration of a joint exhibition across four institutions that highlights contemporary art created in the Central Florida region. Artists selected by a jury are from five counties- Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Manatee, and Sarasota. The exhibitions are an excellent sampling of the work being made in the Tampa Bay area.
The works shown in this post are from the exhibition at the The Ringling in Sarasota. I’ve included links for these artists as well as those not pictured.
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Carrie Boucher – Pinellas
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Ya La’Ford – Hillsborough
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Kalup Linzy – Hillsborough
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Noelle Mason – Hillsborough
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OK! Transmit – Pinellas
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Eric Ondina – Hillsborough
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Heather Rosenbach – Hillsborough
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Jake Troyli – Pinellas
Heather Rosenbach, “American Dream Byproduct”, 2018
Heather Rosenbach, “Class Warfare Shooting Star”, 2019
Eric Ondina, “Miss 911”, 2018
Eric Ondina, “Miss 911”, 2018 (detail)
Eric Ondina, “Palms”, 2020
Eric Ondina, “Keep the Change”, 2020
Ya Levy La’ford “American/Rōōts”, 2021
This exhibition closes 9/26/21.
Sep 162021
Untitled (Man with Briefcase), 2019, from Lenz Geerk’s 2019 exhibition Mixed Blessings at Roberts Projects in Los Angeles.
Sep 062021
From Here, 2019
The Passengers, 2019
Paintings by Lisa Golightly, from her 2019 exhibition at George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles.
Aug 142021
Casey McDonough “the immeasurability of this cosmological collider”, 2021
Casey McDonough “the immeasurability of this cosmological collider”, 2021 (detail)
Casey McDonough “the immeasurability of this cosmological collider”, 2021 (another view)
Skyway 20/21: A Contemporary Collaboration, is the second iteration of a joint exhibition across four institutions that highlights contemporary art created in the Central Florida region. Artists selected by a jury are from five counties- Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Manatee, and Sarasota. The exhibitions are an excellent sampling of the work being made in the Tampa Bay area.
The works shown in this post are from the exhibition at USF Contemporary Art Museum. I’ve included links for these artists as well as those not pictured.
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Rosemarie Chiarlone – Hillsborough
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Danny Dobrow – Pinellas
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Babette Herschberger – Pinellas
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Akiko Kotani – Pinellas
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Cynthia Mason – Pinellas
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Ry McCullough – Hillsborough
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Casey McDonough – Pinellas
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Kodi Thompson – Pinellas
Cynthia Mason, “Limp Grid with Arm”, 2021
Cynthia Mason, “Limp Pricks and Plants in Rising Water” 2021
Akiko Kotani, “Red Falls”, 2021
Akiko Kotani, “Red Falls”, 2021 (detail)
This exhibition closes 9/1/21.
Aug 132021
Dolores Coe “Perimeter”, 2019
Dolores Coe, “Borderland”, 2020
Dolores Coe, “Borderland”, 2020 (detail)
Skyway 20/21: A Contemporary Collaboration, is the second iteration of a joint exhibition across four institutions that highlights contemporary art created in the Central Florida region. Artists selected by a jury are from five counties- Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Manatee, and Sarasota. The exhibitions are an excellent sampling of the work being made in the Tampa Bay area.
The works shown in this post are from the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. I’ve included links for these artists as well as those not pictured.
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Robert Aiosa – Hillsborough
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Dolores Coe – Hillsborough
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Keith Crowley – Sarasota
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Becky Flanders – Hillsborough
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Dakota Gearhart – Pinellas
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Bassmi Ibrahim – Pinellas
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Morgan Janssen – Sarasota
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Ezra Johnson – Hillsborough
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Karl Kelly – Hillsborough
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Savannah Magnolia – Hillsborough
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Jon Notwick – Hillsborough
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Gabriel Ramos – Pinellas
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Lynne Railsback – Sarasota
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Matthew Wicks – Hillsborough
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Janelle Young – Hillsborough
Gabriel Ramos, “Mi Isla”, 2021
Gabriel Ramos, “Mi Isla”, 2021 (detail)
Savannah Magnolia, “Chemical Inhalation”, 2019
Savannah Magnolia “In Big Pharma We Trust”, 2019
Savannah Magnolia “In Big Pharma We Trust”, 2019 (detail)
Savannah Magnolia “In Big Pharma We Trust”, 2019 (detail)
Keith Crowley, “Rain Season”, 2019
Keith Crowley, “Nocturne”, 2020
Bassmi Ibrahim, “Awareness 41”
Bassmi Ibrahim, “Isness 158”
Bassmi Ibrahim, “Isness 158” (detail)
The exhibition at this location closes 8/22/21.
Aug 102021
summer syllables, 2021
soft, dark, demigod, 2021
marshling, 2021
Currently at Jack Shainman Gallery is Diedrick Brackens: Rhyming Positions, the artist’s second exhibition with the gallery. Brackens’ weavings use nature as symbolism to tell stories about the current world.
From the press release-
In several tableaux situated in nature, Brackens plays with the idea of creating home in a wild space, honoring the outdoors as a place in which queerness lives. This is a nod to the history of queer and femme folks who have gathered in nature, creating safe spaces for ritual and communion. This notion of commune is present in summer syllables, in which two figures stretch in lyrical movement, seemingly fashioning loops out of their own bodies, as if flowing one into the other within a vast, yellow landscape. In soft, dark, demigod, a figure bends over, caught within a thicket of roses in full bloom. This moment is indicative of Brackens’ own observation of the outside world over the course of the past year, as he has relished in these quiet moments of continued life as flowers grow. The presence of roses hint at the sensuality and eroticism that are apparent throughout this body of work and in Brackens’ practice more broadly.
In marshling a lone figure stands poised in the water, akimbo, surrounded by catfish and flora of the swamp. Catfish are a recurring motif in Brackens’ work, an emblem of the American South, embodying the soul and ancestral spirits. Continuing his practice of pulling from traditional folklore, two rabbits rest on chairs in each their own, almost as if they have been conjured up by the figure seated in their midst. Rabbits, creatures that live both above and below the earth, have shown up throughout African and African-American tales and literature as messengers and trickster figures. To Brackens, the animals in these works feel less literal and more like other humans or spirits in communion with the figures, the trio seated together almost as if awaiting a dance.
This exhibition closes 8/20/21.
Aug 082021
Deresolution Tools, 2014
Also at Pace Gallery is the group exhibition Hiding in Plain Sight, a collection of work that includes Hito Steyerl’s installation (pictured above). It accompanies her video How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013. As we approach possible new ways of being tracked by technology, the work has never seemed more relevant.
From the gallery’s website–
Hito Steyerl’s video installation examines how hidden infrastructures operate at both an individual level and at a global scale. Offering five lessons in invisibility, the film wryly maps the formal, symbolic, and real connections between the worlds of art, economics, and global political regimes in our era. In an interview Steyerl explains “in the case of How Not to Be Seen, it started with a real story that I was told about how rebels avoid being detected by drones. The drone sees movement and body heat. So, these people would cover themselves with a reflective plastic sheet and douse themselves with water to bring down their body temperature. The paradox, of course, is that a landscape littered with bright plastic-sheet monochromes would be plainly visible to any human eye—but invisible to the drone’s computers.” Exploring the complexities of the digital world and its relationship to lived reality, Steyerl’s film and installation chart circuitous connections to art and capitalism through vision and technology.
This exhibition closes 8/20/21.
Aug 062021
Calvin Marcus’ Los Angeles Painting, 2018, was part of the 2019 Whitney Biennial. The next one is postponed until Spring 2022.
Marcus’ current work can be seen in Beverly Hills at Clearing until 9/3.