Cunsthaus presents Hot Melon Nest, an experiment in human absorption and understanding. A collaborative experience between artist Jake Northrup and Estefania Velez Rodriguez in which both artists blend their dualistic perceptions of the world into a singular auditory and visually stimulating experience through video, animation, soundscapes, and two-dimensional work.

Cunsthaus presents Stranger in Paradise or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love el Son, a new installation by Beatriz Monteavaro. Monteavaro, artist and drummer for the band Holly Hunt, will be mapping a musical journey that reignited Monteavaro’s love of Cuban music.

Tempus Projects is pleased to present Sad Tropics, a new iteration of an on-going collaboration by New Orleans-based artists Cristina Molina and Jonathan Traviesa from September 15th – November 2nd, 2018. As both Gulf Coast residents and Florida natives, Molina’s and Traviesa’s travels to South Florida, along rural roads and coastal routes, stimulated the concepts for Sad Tropics as a celebration and critique of the eccentricities of the Florida aspiration expressed through photo-murals, videos, and installations.

CUNSTHAUS is pleased to present Migrant Mothers S.1, curated by Libbi Ponce and Alyssa Cordero. Migrant Mothers is a series of exhibitions aimed at increasing visibility of artists who are immigrant mothers or children of immigrant mothers. The first installment in the series, on view August 3 – 31st, includes women artists of diverse heritage, adapting to the cultural landscape of the United States.

Tempus Projects, is pleased to present Awkward Handshake, recent works by Jake Troyli. Troyli is a painter born in Boston, MA, currently working out of Tampa, FL. Jake’s work focuses on the societal systems in which ideas of race, otherness and culture are subversively perpetuated and proliferated.

Tempus Projects, is pleased to present The Sea Wants to Take Me. Through a variety of media from artists based throughout the country, the exhibition sets its focus on melancholic, tragic themes often coupled with sentiment and devotion. The work highlighted in The Sea Wants to Take Me evoke a poignancy at times softened by a whip of cheeky dark wit.

Ride of the Valkyries is artist Meg Leary’s first show in Tampa. The featured works on view are nine gold-leafed hairdryers that represent the valkyries (Brünhilde, Waltraute, Helmwige, Gerhilde, Siegrune, Schwertleite, Ortlinde, Grimgerde and Rossweisse) portrayed in Wagner's epic Opera Der Ring des Nibelungen. The hairdryers spin and sing, flying through the air in chaotic patterns.

Tempus Projects is proud to present Defining Beauty, a solo exhibition featuring the work of artist Sharon Norwood. Through a variety of media, Norwood explores gender, race, and class as well as formal technique and mark making. Whether in drawing, painting, ceramic or other mediums, the curved and curly line is at the center of Norwood’s work.

CUNSTHAUS Presents Power Play, a solo exhibition of works by Natalie Baxter. Baxter’s soft sculpture combines sewing and quilting techniques learned from her grandmother to produce pointed cultural commentary on issues of gender equality, the patriarchy and gun violence. Power Play brings together two series of her work, Warm Gun and Money Quilts.

5.19.18, Main Gallery

Tempus Projects is pleased to present Sunistra, a group exhibition featuring art selected by guest juror Christopher Jones, curator of Photography and New Media at The Ringling Museum of Art where he oversees the photography, new media, and works on paper collection. Exploring the sinister side of the Sunshine State, the exhibition features work in a wide variety of media.

5.4.18, Project Space

Installation by Devon Brady. Brady creates a (possibly) transcendent environment for viewers (participants) in the Project Space at Tempus Projects to open May 4th. 'It might be completely disorienting with people bumping into each other and falling down, or it might be totally transcendent.' Acrylic mirrors cover the ceiling of a gallery, coupled with viewers in belay glasses, set a stage onto which other dramas can be projected.

4.6.18, CUNSTHAUS

CUNSTHAUS is pleased to present Never Met Her, curated by Jessica Barber and Alyssa Cordero. This group exhibition of all women artists explores the importance of taking up space through materiality and craft. Never Met Her features artists of varying backgrounds that emphasize the diversity and similarities of experiences. This exhibition goes beyond the canon of the traditional white space to create an unapologetically colorful experience that showcases these individual investigations of identity.

3.24.18

Dylan Beck is a studio artist and the Department Head of Ceramics and Digital Fabrication at Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, OR. He holds a BFA from Ohio University, a Post Baccalaureate Fellowship from Illinois State University, and an MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA.

March 24, 2018

Second Sky: The space between two moments can be vast and yet seem perfectly in sync. Time is in constant flux, but moments of beauty seem to possess the ability to withstand its passing.

The work for this show reflects on time’s relationship to perception. Moments of time: past, present, future and their intersections (time-less-ness). Second Sky engages with time as a historical placeholder of the past, a processing of the present, and a mirage of the future

3.2.18, Project Space

Auction of artwork made by national and international artists. The bidding starts at $6 and cap at $66. The University of South Florida MFA and MA Art History students are working to raise funds in order to publish the exhibition catalog for the graduating class of 2018.

2.24.18, CUNSTHAUS

CUNSTHAUS is pleased to announce Genital Panic, a group exhibition curated by Noelle Mason and Neil Bender. Genital Panic is an exhibition of artwork that presents bodies in a straight-forward, humorous, unapologetic and earnest way.

Liz Ferrer + Bow Tie

1.20.2018, Project Space + Cunsthaus

Miami-based artists and children’s rights activists Liz Ferrer and Bow Tie work collectively as LIZN’BOW, dedicated to empowering children and youths. They state, “We are interested in learning from kids as much as we are in teaching them.” LIZN’BOW are Tempus Projects Artists in Residence for the month of January, and present collaborative artworks at both the Project Space and Cunsthaus.

January 20, 2018

More and Better Ideas for You, a solo exhibition of new work by Tampa-based Jenn Ryann Miller, opens the dialogue between materiality and the perception of form.