May 272023
 

Jaime Aelavanthara, “Cicada Calling “and “Ribs”

As part of St. Pete Month of Photography (SPMOP), Morean Arts Center is showing Photo Laureate 2023: The Nominees.

For more on the five nominees, below are links to their websites and an example from their personal websites of their work.

Jaime Aelavanthara (see first image above)- website and Instagram

Selina Románwebsite and Instagram

Selina Román “Refusal to Unpack”, 2020, image from her website

Emily Willwebsite and Instagram

Emily Will- “Saint Petersburg, Russia”, image from her website

Tristan Wheelockwebsite and Instagram

Tristan Wheelock- “NASCAR Family”, 2014, image from his website

Thomas Sayers-Ellis became the winning finalist and will be the Photo Laureate this year. The 2023 Photo Laureate will create an historical document of events, people and places of Tampa Bay for the next twelve months. The results of this project will be shown next year in a solo exhibition.

Thomas Sayers-Ellis, “The Mirror in Uncle Tom’s Camera”, 2011 image from his Instagram

The best place to see his photography is on his Instagram.

The photo exhibition will be on view until 6/30/23.

 

 

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.

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.