Image courtesy of Christian Viveros-Fauné “My engagement with art has something to do with [its] mystery, a continuous exploration of how it is put together.” Christian Viveros-Fauné Christian Viveros-Fauné is an internationally respected independent art critic and curator. His appointment as Curator-at-Large to the University of South Florida’s Contemporary Art Museum (USFCAM) [...]
Read MoreTwo photography exhibitions currently on view, Tableau and Transformation, and Contemporary Performance, at the Tampa Museum of Art and the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts respectively, explore themes of artifice and theatricality in photography since the mid-20th century. Viewed together they harmonize visual trends that came after modernism and that [...]
Read MoreTongue and Groove - Exploring a Common Visual LanguageCreative Pinellas, Largo, FLJuly 11 - July 28, 2019Opening reception: Thursday, July 11, 6 - 9 pmThe curator and the artists will do a gallery walkthrough at 6:30 pm and 7:30 pm. Free and open to the public Traditionally, the creative process is [...]
Read MoreMay's podcast featuring artists Libby Ponce talking with Nabil Harb about growing up in Lakeland, his photographic series and cultural influences, was one of Bay Art Files most popular features. Included here is the transcript of the thoughtful and insigntful interview and additional images from the artist's 2018 Towards the [...]
Read MoreBy Sabrina Hughes The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg’s newest exhibition is Theo Wujcik: Cantos, a series of works based on Dante’s Inferno. The exhibition is in turns lyrical, poetic, and dark in keeping with Wujcik’s literary inspiration for the paintings. If, like me, it’s been decades since thinking about Dante [...]
Read MoreIn this month of March, celebrating Women in History, Sarah Howard, USF Curator of Public Art & Social Practice, will lead a free walking tour on Wednesday, March 27th of site-specific public art on the Univerity of South Florida campus in Tampa. The one-hour tour starts at artist Nancy Holt’s [...]
Read MoreOur Country's Family Pictures: Here and Now Tyra Mishell Untitled (Memories) from the series Family Pictures, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist and Samsøñ. Walking into this exhibition, steve locke: the color of remembering, I was first drawn to the photos with the ornate picture frames. Looking at the frames, I was instantly [...]
Read Moresteven locke: the color of remembering On view through March 7th at Hillsborough Community College’s Gallery 221 as part of an annual exhibition celebrating African American heritage and presented in conjunction with the Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival. steve locke: the color of remembering is on view at HHC's Gallery 221 though [...]
Read MoreBosco Sodi, Muro. Installation view in Washington Square Park, New York. September 2017. Photo: Diego Flores and Chris Stach. Courtesy of the USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL. Bosco Sodi’s MURO (WALL) A one-day public installation and performance in conjunction with USF Contemporary Art Museum's current exhibition Visible Turn: Contemporary Artists Confront [...]
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