Winter is over. Days are growing disturbingly warmer, but are still far from hot. Enjoy it while it lasts...
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Dominique Labauvie: Off the Ground: Two Decades of Table Sculptures
Saturday April 6 th:1-5 PM; Sunday April 7 th: 2-5 PM and by appointment.
Free, at 109 W Columbus Dr Tampa
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On a Clear Day: Theo Wujcik @ Tempus Projects - April 5 2013 - May 3 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, April 5th, 6-10pm
Theo is one of the area's renowned artists, a cultural treasure who has burned brightly for decades. His work has had innumerable shows, is in many private and museum collections and has been reviewed here. His influence on the area has been multifaceted, between his art, guidance, teaching and simply by
The event is free and open to the public but
donations are greatly appreciated. Refreshments and light hors d'oeuvres
while they last. Feel free to BYOB. Classes and groups are encouraged
and welcomed. This exhibition will run from April 5 through May 3, 2013,
with gallery hours by appointment. This event is sponsored in part by
the Mermaid Tavern. Tempus invites you to join us at the Mermaid for an
after-party at 10:00 PM, following the reception. The Mermaid is located
at 6719 N Nebraska Ave, Tampa, FL, 33604.
What: On a Clear Day: Theo Wujcik; Public reception/art exhibition, hors d’oeuvres and drinks.
When: Friday, April 5, 2013; 6-10pm
Where: Tempus Projects; 5132 N. Florida Ave. Tampa, FL 33603
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USF MFA Graduation Show @ Contemporary Museum of Art -
"We Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends: MFA 2013 Graduation Exhibition"
Artists include Felici Asteinza, Jaime Bird, Michael Covello, Rick
Dailey, Vanessa Diaz, Stephen John Ellis, Adam W. Hill, Reiko Kawahara,
Sarah Krupp, Chalice Mitchell, Desireé Moore, Kale Roberts, and Selina
Roman
Join us at 7pm as Margaret Miller, Director of IRA/CAM,
introduces the graduating MFA artists, and Wallace Wilson, Director of
the USF School of Art and Art History, announces the award winners for
the 37th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition and Art History Research
Paper Competition installed in the School of Art and Art History
(FAH102), and invites attendees to ArtHouse next door (FAH) at 8–11pm
for open studios, music and more, after the CAM event.
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Saint Paint One Year Anniversary Show - It seems like five years, but Saint Paint is cenebrating its one year anniversary with a show and blow out party. The brainchild of Derek Donnelly, this space is much more than a gallery showing edgy work from St Pete's outlier artists, but it is also a social hub and a place to find encouragement and friendly faces. Saturday, April 6th, at 6 6th St. N St Pete. Free.
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Learn More >> http://www.mindysolomon.com/exhibits/ex_sylvia_hommert/index.php
Exhibition Dates: April 6 - May 11, 2013
Opening Night Reception: Saturday April 6 from 6-9pm
Artist's Talk: Saturday April 6th at 6:30pm
"The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break
up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it
contains." - E.E. Cummings
The Mindy Solomon Gallery is proud
to present the work of New York based artist Sylvia Hommert. Born in
1967 and educated at the famous Otis Parsons School of Art in Los
Angeles, California, her background as a successful textile artist and
designer led her to explore abstraction and the use of color and light
in painting as another form of textural experimentation. Pushing the
possibilities of pigment and surface with an almost alchemistic
precision, Hommert creates colorful surfaces that project prismatic
color and pattern.
Gallery Location: 124 2nd Ave. NE. St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm
Phone: 727.502.0852
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8pm - $5
The Venture Compound is excited to announce the return of Tampa Bay’s
premier avant-garde, multi-genre mashup. In the tradition of the
legendary Happenings of Andy Warhol’s Factory, Parallels is a
collaborative, improvised stew of words, music, and live projection.
Some of Tampa Bay’s most adventurous narrators will read to the
accompaniment of a 15-piece rotating ensemble of Venture-approved
abstract improvisers, brought together to form the Pangaea Tectonic
Shift Improvising Orchestra. Behind all of this, the Venture Compound’s
team of video archivists and dyed-oil projectionists will treat your
head to a cocktail of old and new light patterns.
The layer cake of ideas and sine waves is guaranteed to be as crunchy as a frog.
Readers include:
Cole Bellamy, Author of The Mermaid Postcard (Yellowjacket Press), of
which George Shricker of the US Review of Books said, “these poems surge
dark waters—evoking sorrows as deep as the sea.”
Bradley Morewood, whose work has appeared in Wild River Review.
Wayne S. Williams, author of collection “The Trunk.”
Lynze Poet
Kristyan Panzica, author of chapbook "A Heritage."
David Z. Morris, Venture Compound writer-not-in-residence and Minister
of Disinformation, whose mad ranting has appeared in Subverts Unite!,
Steampunk Magazine, and Wag’s Revue.
The Pangaea Tectonic
Shift Improvising Orchestra will be conducted by Jesse Thelonious Vance
(DC9V), and feature (among many others) Kersey Williams, Sarah Capps,
John Freda (Just Satellites), Chris Costabile (River Guard), and Nathan
Corder (Monthmind).
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A rare Sunday event...
This
is your chance to not only visit my PHOENIX GLASS STUDIO & GALLERY
but to come inside my home to see how this historic house has been
renovated!
PLUS, we will be having GLASS BLOWING demonstrations all day long!
Tour starts at Seminole Garden Center
5800 N. Central Ave. Tampa
Cost is $15.00 in advance. $20 day of tour.
For more information visit the
Old Seminole Heights web page or call 813-361-8307.
You can drive, walk, bicycle or enjoy a
ride on the Jolley Trolley through this beautiful urban neighborhood
nestled in the heart of Tampa.
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A second Sunday event....
Open Books Literary Event Comes to
Whimzey House April 7
Please join us on Sunday, April 7 for a special event from 3
to 7 p.m., as Whimzey House and the Open Book Exchange join forces to toast all
things literary!
During this celebration of art and performance, we will
officially dedicate the Book Box installed outside Whimsey House—a Little Free
Library of the “take a book, leave a book” variety.
Visitors will be treated to live poetry readings by Marc
Smith, the Safety Harbor Writers and Poets, Richard James Girard, and a host of
other talented guests soon to be announced. The Bluebird Books bus will be on
site with books, zines, t-shirts and a free paper craft station.
All activities are free and open to the public. Book
donations are welcomed – Please feel free to bring your gently-read tomes! Book Box dedication takes place at 4:30 p.m.
What: Open Books event
When: Sunday, April 7, 2013
3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Book
Box dedication at 4:30 p.m.
Where: Whimzey House
1206 Third St. N.
Safety Harbor, FL
34695
www.safetyharborartandmusiccenter.com
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eve-N-odd gallery is pleased to showcase the Visual poetry work of Reed Altemus this April. 
Professional Photographer, Bob Croslin will be speaking...
Some of the icons of our age are as mythical as those of the Middle Ages, and much more secular. One example is the piece on left, where the figures are characters from the long-running The Simpsons TV show. Titled "The Countryman and the Serpent". That title is from one of Aesop's Fables about a man that rescues a nearly-frozen snake only to be bitten by it when it recovers. The man chops it up into three pieces, unwittingly mutiplying it. The snake segments try to reunite in vain. Here we see them at the bottom of the image (click to enlarge). Each isolated in its own compartment. Just above, we see those domed compartments,but about eight of them. Above the figure of Maggie Simpson rises, fourteen of them, into two arches, the outlines of which repeat around the edge of the central rectangle of the image. Above it all, Bart, wearing wings, rises, holding a bloody hatchet in each hand. He is both Countryman and Serpent.
