Monday, September 16, 2013

This Insidious Week, Sept 16th - 22nd

With the coming of Fall, hope is renewed. Ok, it is still brutally hot, but...you can feel Fall is on its way, and that is more than enough to get us through. Last weekend held a few surprises on 2nd Sat., more on that later...what does this week hold?
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Monday, Sept 16th, 2013
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From USF Centre Galler [If they had guest parking, I would review these shows.]


From September 16 through 27, the Centre Gallery at the University of South Florida will host Heart Out by Kelly Boehmer. Visitors to the gallery will encounter artwork that is a chaotic visual overload with kitsch elements, used in an unexpectedly sincere way.

The sculptures of this show are inspired from cartoons, myths, and fairytales. Using fabric as her primary medium, Boehmer represents fear, heartbreak, and death reduced to silly and magical scenes, involving pitiful creatures. She also uses taxidermy, video monitors, glitter, and etc. The sculptures are all s
Sewn by hand with an aggressive, undefined stitch reconstructed from Boehmer’s old sculptures with new elements in order to create new narratives. Her sculptures use seductive, bright colors and sensual shimmering textures in contrast to gory or repulsive details.

Boehmer received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999 and went on to graduate from the University of South Florida in 2006 with a Masters of Fine Arts. In the future, she would love to do a residency abroad.

DessART, Centre Gallery’s opening reception, will be on September 16 from 12 – 1pm. The closing reception for Heart Out will be held from 7 – 9pm on Friday, September 27, in the Centre Gallery. The Centre Gallery is located on the second floor of the Marshall Student Center in room 2700, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa, Fla. It is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are 11am to 5pm, Monday through Friday.

For more information, please contact the Centre Gallery at 813-974-5464.

4202 E. Fowler Ave., MSC 2700, Tampa, Florida 33620

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Tuesday, Sept 17th, 2013
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 For only $75+ you can network and get a head shot...


Head Shots @ Happy Hour is a new monthly event in which me plus 6-10 people will meet at a local and independently-owned bar/restaurant, enjoy a drink, get a little networking in, and then walk around a block or two, getting some fabulous head shots of each participant using downtown's awesome architecture lit by none other than Mother Nature.

I mean, come on, does this not sound like fun?!??!

Fee is only $75 per person and includes one high resolution image, with touch-up editing applied, and full copyright release. Additional hi resolution images will be available for purchase at the rate of $65 each.

Head Shots @ Happy Hour sessions will be on the third Tuesday of the month, starting at 5 pm.

Join us for this great night of mingling and creative photography and gain new friends AND new head shots for your next promotional campaign!

Here are some samples of recent head shot sessions:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150576091532716.403704.83395402715&type=3

529 Central Avenue, Saint Petersburg, Florida 33701

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Meet the Political Candidates @ Nova 535-

The City of St. Petersburg, Florida USA will be holding its Municipal Elections this year, with the Primary Election taking place on 8/27/13 and the General Election on 11/5/13. Offices up for election include the Mayor and Council Member Districts 2, 4, 6 and 8.

We're presenting an opportunity for the community to get to know the candidates (post-Primary) and ask questions, especially related to issues affecting small business owners, the arts, sustainability. *ASK YOUR QUESTION VIA THIS FORM:
http://www.keepsaintpetersburglocal.org/meet-the-candidates/

Mitch Perry, Creative Loafing Tampa's News & Politics Editor, will serve as moderator.  


Sounds.....promising.
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Art is a Problem. Joshua Decter Talk @ USF


Curator and Critic Joshua Decter will give a FREE talk titled Art is a Problem, based on his forthcoming book with the same title.

Decter is a New York-based writer, curator, art historian, theorist, educator, and editor. Decter has contributed to Artforum, Afterall, Texte zur Kunst, Flash Art, The Exhibitionist, among other magazines and journals. He was the editor/publisher of Acme Journal in the 1990s.

Decter’s forthcoming book, Art is a Problem, will be published by JRP|Ringier in 2013. Comprised of a selection of Decter’s writings, interviews, and curatorial projects from 1986 through 2012, the book examines contemporary art in relation to its various ideological, public, institutional, discursive, curatorial, and social contexts.

Decter is also the author of a forthcoming book in Afterall’s Exhibition Histories series that rethinks the social, urban and political dimensions of the 1993 exhibition, Culture in Action.

Decter has organized exhibitions at P.S. 1 (now MoMA PS1), The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Apex Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Kunsthalle Vienna, and The Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Decter was Director of the Master of Public Art Studies Program at the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Fine Arts in Los Angeles, where he founded the M.A. Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program.
 
USF School of Music Barness Recital Hall / MUS107 at 7:00 PM
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 Thursday, Sept 18th, 2013
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USF Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present “Zine Fest” – part of the Art Thursday series – celebrating the CAM exhibition SubRosa, which examines the language of art across continents and cultures in response to social, political, and environmental repression.

Zine Fest will feature zines and handmade books by local artists Kevin Brophy, Shae Krispinsky, Gigi Lage, Allison Jai O'Dell, Kelly Steele, Grace Szeja, Yasmin Uriel, Bruce Wright, and the Tampa Drawers Sketch Gang (comprised of Neil Bender, Tim McMillan, Lauren Moradi, Justin Nelson, Sam Newton, Monica Perez, Anthony Record, Ericka Richardson, and Ville Mehtonen).

A dialogue between visiting artist Ramón Esono Ebalé (Equatorial Guinea) and Tutu Alicante, Executive Director of EG Justice, begins at 7pm.

This FREE event will also offer refreshments, music, and more.

(Interested in displaying or selling your zines? There is no charge for local artists to participate, but space is very limited! For information, please email mjgordon@usf.edu no later than September 10!)

USF Zine Fest -
USF Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present “Zine Fest” – part of the Art Thursday series – celebrating the CAM exhibition SubRosa, which examines the language of art across continents and cultures in response to social, political, and environmental repression.

Zine Fest will feature zines and handmade books by local artists Kevin Brophy, Shae Krispinsky, Gigi Lage, Allison Jai O'Dell, Kelly Steele, Grace Szeja, Yasmin Uriel, Bruce Wright, and the Tampa Drawers Sketch Gang (comprised of Neil Bender, Tim McMillan, Lauren Moradi, Justin Nelson, Sam Newton, Monica Perez, Anthony Record, Ericka Richardson, and Ville Mehtonen).

A dialogue between visiting artist Ramón Esono Ebalé (Equatorial Guinea) and Tutu Alicante, Executive Director of EG Justice, begins at 7pm.

This FREE event will also offer refreshments, music, and more.

(Interested in displaying or selling your zines? There is no charge for local artists to participate, but space is very limited! For information, please email mjgordon@usf.edu no later than September 10!)
 
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Saturday, Sept 20th, 2013
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Culmination @ Oleson Gallery
 
Participating Artists

Dean Arscott
Aurailieus
Lindsey Bassett
Carrie Boucher
Jenipher Chandley
J. Christopher
Sebastian Coolidge
Derek Donnelly
Maria DiSclafani
Alex Duensing
Kristin Eschenroeder
Callie Ferraro
Jake Fox
Robert Gallardo
Naomi Glueck
Julian Grimes
Scott Hillis
Reid Jenkins
Eric Kent
Trent Manning
Chad Mize
Aaron Kyle Nelson
James Oleson
Thomas Ris
Saori
Stoic
Kimberly Cook Stone
John Taormina
Van Der Luck
Justin Wagher
Cassandra Wahuhi

DJ Earl Grae spins
Emily Turnage and Donley Bennett from Hussar play the cage
 
@ 685 Central 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM  
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