Boys on Film delves into the feedback loop of fiction and fantasy that contributed to the making of the Columbine High School Massacre—a violent reality staged to look like a Hollywood film and strategically orchestrated to make use of the media spectacle.
The exhibition is a vivid hallucination of the artist’s exploration of her body as a sculptural object. Shot almost entirely with a GoPro camera attached to her head and hips, Weitz insinuates the perspective of a lover as she interacts with a headless, limbless sculpture of herself. Layered in dreamlike sequences of saturated color, the video’s hypnotic imagery is accompanied by a resonating soundtrack composed of binaural beats and recordings. In question is the artist’s relationship to herself as an object of desire, enacted through sculptural and photographic means.
Tempus Projects presents the University of South Florida’s School of Architecture and Community Design (SACD) Alumni Design Exhibition, curated by Michael LeMieux in the project space. This exhibition will feature work from Jon Jay, Ryan Swanson, Manuel Leon, Zorth Pilonieta, and Marcus Peduzzi.
CunstHaus is proud to announce the first CO/LAB collaboration. A one-night only interactive installation accompanied by performance and music. Come out and walk through your brain to explore what paradigm you might find, featuring you in a dreamlike, All Hallows’ Eve nightmare of illusions. The installation may be remembered like a dream or nightmare after exiting. This exhibit may leave you questioning your own reality and why thoughts in general are processed in a surreal manner. This event features Alexandra Worthy, Jimmy Neely, and Gino Capone.
April Childers’ exhibitions include Regina Rex, NY, NY., Field Projects, NY, NY., Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), NY, NY., White Projects, Paris, FR., Zola / Liebermann Gallery, Chicago, IL. Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL. and Imersten, Vienna, AT. April is part of the collaborative duo, Destineez Child. She is also co-director of L.O.G., an experimental exhibition space in Chapel Hill, NC.
This exhibition presents new photographic works by Becky Flanders created using handbuilt kaleidoscopes. Born in the Washington D.C. area in 1980, Flanders migrated to Florida in 2006, subsequently receiving her MFA from USF. Like many other things that come to Florida, her intentions were never to stay, but once here, she found she had taken root and was no longer able to move.
Stasny presents an immersive diorama that he describes as a “natural history museum” of oddities.”
Four Scores will feature Clifford Owens’ interpretation of a selection of performance scores—written or graphical instructions for actions—written specifically for Owens by an inter-generational group of African-American artists, including William Pope L., Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Terry Adkins, Glenn Ligon and Lorraine O’Grady.
Subjective Camera Library is a re-purposing of both visual and text research materials for a larger book project on the production and distribution of a niche market of independent films in the 1970s and 1980s. The project includes books, prints, and other physical materials in an attempt to redistribute narrative keywords, isolated screenshots, and collective perspectives on horror, adult, and exploitation films. The exhibition looks at the complicated relationship between perceptions of fiction and the mirroring of both fantasy and reality. The exhibition primarily revolves around an accumulative library of volumes composed of user-generated narrative keywords documenting the patterns of viewer perspective and focus.
Tempus Projects presents a juried group exhibition, My Little Town. Selections were made by guest juror, Carrie Mackin. This all-media exhibition features works that address themes of love, nostalgia, and disappointment in the places we call home. Exhibiting artist include: Ericka Sobrack, Dominique Labauvie, Penelope Livingston, Angelina Parrino, Janelle Wisehart, Hildebrando Bellizzio, and Gary Schmitt.
A fundraising dance party to benefit those most affected by the tragedy at Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub. All proceeds raised were donated to Equality Florida’s Pulse Victims Support Fund.
ROSE FLAVORED new work by Matthew Brennan Wicks presents a thought-provoking collection of sculptures and photography. Wicks' work exemplifies a process-based exploration of traditional craft in a contemporary context that highlights specific domestic materials and the intrinsic properties of clay.
Suns. Moons. Stars. Dreams. is a new collection of collages, videos and photography works created in Tampa during his time as the inaugural resident in the Tempus Projects Artist Residency Program. The first of its kind in the region, the Tempus Projects residency program aims to foster and develop arts in the Tampa Bay area.
Bellizzio works in a wide variety of media that reflects his broad spectrum of visual reference and influences. Paint and graphite frequently contrast against collage-work and found materials. His exuberant compositions are as often frenetically painted as they are meticulously labored over, rebelliously aloof yet intensely attended to. Clearly echoing the visual language of punk rock posters as well as zine and skater culture, Bellizzio’s work is urgently created and asks viewers for a similar urgency. Yet his approach to dimensionality and perspective, or rather his defiant resistance to it, call to mind folk art and even.
Tampa-based artist Vincent Kral presents new work in the Project Space. From his website: "The work of Vincent Kral participates in observation, self definition and resistance. Vincent enjoys making art that is humorous on the exterior but deals with important issues beneath the surface.
Jamias vu, a French expression meaning “never seen,” is a psychological phenomenon akin to déjà vu whereby a common-place or recognizable situation suddenly feels unfamiliar. Through the artwork in the exhibition, Graves investigates this phenomenon in the context of a personal childhood experience.
World-renowned Moleskine postal notebooks were sent to over 200 artists for this exciting collaboration. Made possible in part by the Moleskine Store at The Mall at University Town Center in Sarasota.
An exhibition featuring new artwork comprising an ongoing project by the Honolulu-based artist Kasey Lou Lindley. By subverting the popular Instagram hashtag #luckywelivehawaii, Lindley explores the recesses between her new home in Oahu and the island’s self-representation on social media. Like many other hashtags, #luckywelivehawaii is dominated by images with variations on a familiar theme: idyllic landscapes and people. Lindley’s work reinserts some of the Islands’ nuances, challenges, subjects and locales into a hashtag that largely ignores them.