X: A Decade of Tempus Projects
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X: A Decade of Tempus Projects

This exhibition celebrates ten years of the gallery cultivating and contributing to the vitality of the arts in the Tampa Bay region. The exhibition features works by artists who have advanced the success of Tempus Projects over the past decade, and commemorates the non-profit’s commitment to providing a platform for local, national and international artists, and as a space for community engagement through the visual and performing arts.

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FERAL BRUSH :: Roger Palmer
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FERAL BRUSH :: Roger Palmer

For over 50 years, Roger Clay Palmer has been producing poetry, paintings, installations and, primarily, a large body of drawings. Ruthless black humor blends with gentle compassion in a world where animals and objects often mimic and reflect us. Growing up on a ranch in Florida listening to family members tell stories, his work reflects his love of Southern oral tradition. Strongly affected by his experiences in the army before being discharged as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, he often focuses on the dark side of current events. Six weeks in Japan in 1985 deeply influenced his work; as with Japanese haiga and Zenga, words are an indispensable component of his brush, pigment and ink drawings.

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NEW WORLD :: Bella Maria Varela
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NEW WORLD :: Bella Maria Varela

My practice is rooted in the resourceful legacy of immigrant hustlers, which has compelled me to not only collect but also corrupt and alter this junk to amplify the power dynamics inherent within. I created New World from my perspective as a first-generation Guatemalan-American woman, reinterpreting what it means to take up space in an emblematically American vacationland and repurposing the trauma and humor embedded in found objects. It is a story written collectively and trans-historically in response to contemporary anti-immigrant sentiments; it is made in honor of child immigrants, resilient dreamers, and the ones getting swept away, around and through the mess highlights the confusion, pride and resiliency of first-generation Latinx women.

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3rd Annual Heights Arts Studio + Gallery Tour</strong>
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3rd Annual Heights Arts Studio + Gallery Tour

3rd Annual Heights Arts Studio + Gallery Tour will be held on October 19, 2019 from noon to 6 pm. The self-guided tour includes 12 sites featuring private artists’ studios and art exhibition spaces. With many of the studios located in private spaces, the tour provides unique access, highlights the artists and cultural organizations residing in and contributing to the vibrancy of our neighborhoods, as well as builds and expands community through engagement with the arts.

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COUNTDOWN :: Laura E. Perez Insua
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COUNTDOWN :: Laura E. Perez Insua

​The untitled series of watercolors depicting rocket launches from U.S space stations is a body of work that reflects my encounter with the U.S society. The watercolors show colorful and blurry images of what it is an expansionist aim; the hidden nature of rocket launches. The unclear appearance of the watercolors emulates the turbulent motive behind the spectacle.

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WAIST DEEP :: Presented by Psychic Jacuzzi

Psychic Jacuzzi is an artist takeover account on Instagram which features different contemporary artists each week. Founded in 2017 by Matthew Drennan Wicks, Psychic Jacuzzi has hosted over 100 artists through this digital residency. Artists are selected through an open call and invitational process, at times coinciding with an external exhibition, which serves to promote the event and the artists’ overall practice. This exhibition will highlight a handful of local and national artists, further expanding the scope and reach of this Tampa based curatorial initiative.

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WOMAN OF GOD

The exhibition, “Woman Of God,” traces the artist’s evolution through different characters and music styles. “Woman of God” tells a story of a woman divided, deconstructing her faith and putting it back together again. Her characters, Cyborg Mystic, One Armed Woman, Wild Flame, The Prophet, tell their story within the framework of a music video installation in the gallery with the aid of with live music, performance, immersive song and movement. The exhibition includes four video projections, two live feed monitors of live performances and a TV monitor playing works from the artist’s band, Natrix.

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SIGNS-IN-SPACE :: K. Tauches
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SIGNS-IN-SPACE :: K. Tauches

Karen Tauches is an artist, designer, and curator based out of Atlanta, GA. Using photography and graphic design, her work focuses on clashes and connections between the commercial and Natural worlds.

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LET THE WIND CARRY US :: William Downs
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LET THE WIND CARRY US :: William Downs

‘Let the wind carry us’ is an exhibition of site-specific works and murals by the artist. Downs' drawings and prints are figurative and surreal. They depict human beings participating in a dream-like, fantastic world of activities.

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BRING ME INTO YOUR LIFE, I WILL MAKE YOU FEEL HAPPY :: Jenn Ryann Miller

Jenn Ryann Miller explores materiality and aesthetics through abstract sculpture and painting. With a background in functional ceramics, her work subverts tradition and process through experimentation with oblique materials and forms. Miller has been part of numerous solo and group exhibitions in Florida and the United States. Originally from Connecticut, she received a BFA from the University of Connecticut and MFA from the University of South Florida. Miller currently teaches ceramics and foundations at the University of South Florida, University of Tampa, and Hillsborough Community College and is currently a member of QUAID Gallery.

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SHIFTING UTILITY :: Shannon Rae Lindsey
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SHIFTING UTILITY :: Shannon Rae Lindsey

The exhibition embodies notions of disorder through man-made construction materials that challenge their conventional context, setting, and function. I hope to inspire reflection on the role of perception when understanding utility and entropy. The materials will reiterate a sense of irreversible change through physical manipulations and forms installed throughout the space.

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GAMING THE TILT :: Walter Matthews

Gaming the Tilt is an exhibition of recent paintings by Walter Matthews. By using pours, various airbrush techniques, staining, and, at times, working on the backside of the unprimed canvas/reversing the surface, Matthews explores the ways in which language – textual and visual – often fail us. Leaving traces of his reversals, indecisions, and rooted in the vernacular of his lived experience, Gaming the Tilt seeks new languages that neither proclaim nor insist, but invite multiple subjectivities.

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SHIP SHOW :: Johanna Keefe &amp; Kyle Lascelle
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SHIP SHOW :: Johanna Keefe & Kyle Lascelle

Tampa, FL - Artist-run, nonprofit gallery Tempus Projects is proud to present ‘SHIP SHOW’, a collaboration from Johanna Keefe & Kyle Lascelle. This exhibition features investigations of studio and material process embarked upon while the two were professors at RIT in New York.

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GUCHI :: Johanna Keefe
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GUCHI :: Johanna Keefe

These art works are about the structure of object acquisition from the 17th century to present day. From their design, in the materials and their creation, through production, and within delivery methods, the European implementation of brutality and hard power has been coded into art and decorative vessels as an imagery of success and wealth. GUCHI is a brand created by the artist to better investigate the visual language and impact of this brutality through an investigation of utilitarian objecthood, image making, and desire.

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DARK + FULL OF FLOWERS :: Secundo Sunistra
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DARK + FULL OF FLOWERS :: Secundo Sunistra

TEMPUS PROJECTS is pleased to announce their summer juried exhibition. ‘DARK AND FULL OF FLOWERS: Secundo Sunistra’ is a multi-media, juried art exhibition focusing on theme of the sinister side of the Sunshine State. The word ‘sunistra’ is a portmanteau of "sunshine" and the Latin word "sinistra" and reflects the often idyllic/nightmarish dichotomy Florida embodies in its natural, social and political climates.

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ANATOMY OF A MESH :: Curated by Christina Humphreys
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ANATOMY OF A MESH :: Curated by Christina Humphreys

Tempus Projects presents Anatomy of a Mesh, a group exhibition featuring works by Kayla Mattes, Robert Otto Epstein, Victoria Palombit, David Schiesser, and Amber Tutwiler, curated by Christina Humphreys. Through technology-enabled experimentation and a diverse range of practices, including drawing, painting, photography, video, and textiles, each artist navigates the screen as a source of aesthetic inspiration and existential quandary. In reframing the body within the sleek enclosures of software interfaces, these works amplify the irregularities native to digital representation.

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OH! MARY MARY MARY :: Will Douglas
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OH! MARY MARY MARY :: Will Douglas

Tempus Projects presents Oh! Mary Mary Mary, a solo exhibition by Tampa based artist Will Douglas. Oh! Mary Mary Mary is an exhibition of works by Will Douglas made in response to the ways in which spontaneous screen-based collage influences and complicates our perception of the 3-dimensional world. In these works, religious imagery and ritual objects serve as a vehicle to speak about the construction of an experience economy at the intersection of consumerism, masculinity and devotion. Oh! Mary Mary Mary features sculptural collaborations with Matthew Drennan Wicks which allow the photographic language to speak, not only through the lens but also through the object. With these works the photograph returns to a form that references the history of western functional object making.

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PUNCTURE :: Christine McCarty
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PUNCTURE :: Christine McCarty

The exhibition features McCarty’s new body of drawings that examine the intersections and contradictions of temptation, competition, and irreverence. The pieces feature passive and active depictions of growth and conflict, culling from sources such as plant propagation, mixed martial arts, and weaponry. Through the fetishizing and fusion of these figures and objects, she restructures the them to blur the line between the revered and impure. Lines and layers featuring composite and grafted forms serve to track and dismantle tropes of structure and muscularity and their dispersal across popular culture to reach the apex of danger and sensuality.

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PENUMBRA : CORRIDOR OF AMBIENCE :: Ya La'ford
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PENUMBRA : CORRIDOR OF AMBIENCE :: Ya La'ford

Penumbra /pəˈnəmbrə/ (from the Latin word paene "almost, nearly") is the region in which only a portion of the light source is obscured by the occluding body. Penumbra: Corridor of Ambience is the 6th and most significant Central Florida based site-specific installation, featuring geometric aerial sculptures representing La’ford’s focus on how light ripples in space, the metaphysics of illumination, and the emotive responses to sound and time. Inspired by sacred spaces, patterns and place, La’ford’s installation invites viewers to activate both space and senses through a whimsical array of intersecting geometric forms. Fascinated by paths of light, La’ford’s lined encased environment is an echo of her interests in a concept she coined as geometric-lineage; a parallel sense that each line exists as a compatible path that defines each individual’s intersected human experience.

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NOTIONS OF SAINTLY FLESH :: Living Melody Collective

Living Melody Collective is comprised of female-identifying Atlanta based artists including Haylee Anne, Angela Bortone, Jessica Caldas, Angela Davis Johnson, and Danielle Deadwyler. Formally established in 2017, their history of multidisciplinary collaboration dates back to 2015. They have performed together throughout Atlanta and one of their first major projects, the Living the Legacy II mural was shown at the Center for Civil and Human Rights. For the 2018 midterm elections, they painted the Hope for Georgia bus to drive up voter engagement. Their bold interventions have been written about in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Wussy Mag, Creative Loafing, ArtsATL, and heard on Atlanta’s NPR station WABE.

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