Neil Bender. Borders. Mixed media on paper, 2007, 30 x 22 in. Courtesy Bleu Acier.
Neil Bender is Randy.
Check out his opening tomorrow night at Tampa gallery Bleu Acier.
Click here to read the feature in Creative Loafing.

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Sean Erwin. Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness. Hand-build, press-molded porcelain; earthenware; glaze; resin; steel; pump; water. At the USF MFA 2nd Annual Graduation Exhibit.  
If you don’t see your event here, please leave a comment.
Friday, Apr. 25
6-9 p.m. – Reception for Ringling College of Art and Design Fine Arts Students Exhibition, Mack B Gallery
7-9 p.m. [...]

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Laura Bergeron helps a walker pick her poison.
A couple of weeks ago, I got to hang out with a group of USF students staging a collaborative performance designed to draw attention to the way we walk—or, most often, don’t walk—in Tampa Bay. (See the previous post, Desert Walk at Sulphur Springs, for more information about [...]

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As always, if you don’t see your event here, please leave a comment!
Friday, Apr. 18
6-9 p.m. – Blood, Sweat ‘n’ Two Years, an exhibition of USF’s graphic design program graduates, Salt Creek Artworks Gallery, St. Petersburg
6-11 p.m. – Members’ Opening Reception for Small Expressions (“an annual, international, juried exhibition that features high quality, contemporary fiber [...]

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Sure, New York and Washington got visits from the Pope, but we’ve got a chance to hang with America’s high priest of bad taste, John Waters, as he makes a public appearance for one night only at The Salvador Dali Museum.
For more info, go here.
In related news, the museum will hold a Dali lookalike contest [...]

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From the press release:
123 Show 
An exhibition of the first, second, and third place winners of the first annual Juried Art Show.
Artist Biographies
First Place
Alicia Loomis
Alicia Leigh Loomis is a native to Florida and currently resides in Bradenton, FL.  In 2006, Alicia received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Eckerd College with a major in [...]

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From the press release: 
Open Call to Artists for NOVA 535
This project is an experimental sound and street art exhibition.
We are seeking street art, graffiti, pop surreal, experimental, installation and abstract artist creating or evoking a sound element into their work.
Please follow submission format below before June 30, 2008.
1) Website Address

2) Artist’s Statement of Interest: A brief [...]

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Janae Easton
Golden Locks that Moss Grew, 2008
Floral foam, dried plant material, wrapping paper, Mylar, found paper, pen, colored pencil and polymer clay
Courtesy of the artist
If you haven’t been to see the exhibit Drawing Beyond the Plane at the Tampa Museum of Art, I urge you to drop everything and head over today (Saturday) to catch [...]

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Alan Moore has combined two of my favorite things—art books and Airstream trailers—into the Moving Thought Bookmobile. Click here to visit his blog, where you can see photos of the books and read about the project’s development.
The bookmobile is merely one among many attractions beckoning art lovers tonight to Seminole Heights for Neighborhood Watch: Projection [...]

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I feel like this list is missing something… Please let me know if I’ve overlooked your event.
Friday, Apr. 11
5-8 p.m. – Downtown Life After 5: Boomtown Block Party on N. Franklin Street; Orange Park Gallery International open late; downtown Tampa
7-11 p.m. – Riot@The Factory: USF BFA Exhibition at West Tampa Center for the Arts
7:30 p.m. [...]

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Sous les pavés, la plage? Raul Romero (front), Victoria Skelly and Alan Moore walk the cracks at Big K.
It must have been about 90 degrees today on the expansive blacktop of K-mart’s concrete parking lot. That didn’t stop University of South Florida student Raul Romero from staging a relational performance titled “Desert Walk” in [...]

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I did something this week that I rarely do and which gives me absolutely no pleasure (in fact, it makes me feel like I’m getting an ulcer): I went to see a show and I didn’t like some things about it—and I wrote an article that said so.
Critical Reaction in this week’s Creative Loafing
At least [...]

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