Marisol Escobar. Dinner Date, 1963. Yale University Art Gallery. Marisol in Miami By Kathy Gibson Two figures sharing a meal together, Dinner Date from 1963, was my introduction to Marisol's work. I gravitated to it right away when scrolling sculpture images several years ago. I was not familiar with the artist [...]
Read MoreFrom Chaos to Order: Greek Geometric Art from the Sol Rabin Collection By Dr. Bob Bianchi Some of us, I suppose, might initially be reluctant to attend an exhibition featuring 57 relatively small objects from the obscure Geometric period (about 900-700 BCE) of ancient Greek art placed within the context of ancient Greek [...]
Read MoreRecent Acquisitions from The Ringling Photography Collection by Robin O'Dell “In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its phantasy on to the female form which is styled accordingly.” ― Laura Mulvey, Visual And Other Pleasures The above quote was written [...]
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 Moreby Sabrina Hughes “I didn’t know that that work was even radical in the way that I see it as being radical now until I started to have a conversation with people—even black people—who thought that my work was “positive.” Derrick Adams, Artnet News, February 5, 2020. Derrick Adams: Buoyant is on [...]
Read MoreFALL 2020 AT THE DUNEDIN FINE ART CENTER R. Lynn Whitelaw Over the past 15 years Catherine Bergmann has served as the Curatorial Director at the Dunedin Fine Art Center where she has organized over 300 thoughtful and thematic exhibitions for the Center’s seven galleries. Last year she was recognized by Creative Loafing [...]
Read MoreBy Dr. Bob Bianchi You may not realize it, but if you’re a movie buff you may be surprised to learn about just how indebted Hollywood is to the civilizations of Greece and Rome. I’m not just talking about the obvious, like Gladiator (2000) or 300 (2006), but about films like the eleven in [...]
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 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 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 [...]
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