The Constant Curator: The Important Work of Nellie Mae Rowe by Katherine Gibson The exhibition REALLY FREE: THE RADICAL ART OF NELLIE MAE ROWE was on view at the High Museum of Art, in Atlanta, Georgia, from September 3, 2021 - January 9, 2022, and was organized by Katherine Jentleson, the Merrie and [...]
Read MoreBy Selina Roman In late February 2020, a colleague from the college where I teach asked me how I felt about the virus as it raged in China but had yet to get a foothold stateside. I shrugged my shoulders in response and indifferently said, “Hopefully it won’t come our way.” [...]
Read Moreby James Cartwright “The main appeal of the name is that it speaks to how an artist collective functions on exhibition night: one shared space with many distinct voices.” – Katelyn Montagna and Adam Mathieu Separate Checks is an artist collective founded in the summer of 2018 by Katelyn Montagna and Adam [...]
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 [...]
Read MoreThe upcoming essay by St. Petersburg photo historian Sabrina Hughes, My Camera My Self(ie), which will post on Bay Art Files next week, examines the complex relationship between photographic self-portraiture and the selfie. That such a relationship might exist and be scrutinized is explicitly suggested by the title of the current [...]
Read MoreComing soon - An essay by Sabrina Hughes on the exhibition 'This Is Not a Selfie' currently showing at the Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida.
Read MoreDisturbed by Delight by Caitlin Albritton “Woman dressed as a turkey arrested for shoplifting,” “Someone donated a loaded grenade launcher to Goodwill,” “Man claims wife was kidnapped by holograms”—please, don’t let this be a headline from Florida, a local might plead. I can’t begin to imagine how non-Floridians make sense of the Sunshine [...]
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