Chris Parks, The Fleet of Doom, digital illustration, 2008

Saturday night marks the return of The Exhibitionists (the TMA young members group formerly known as Avant Garde) to downtown Tampa. Their show, Brand New Day, staged in the ground floor of Skypoint, aims to be an art party with a curatorial premise that actually holds some water– the works included in the show exhibit various relationships with advertising culture, branding or art-as-product. Read the complete article here, in Creative Loafing.

P.S., I’ve already been informed by a CL staffer that while I indentified the inspiration for Chris Parks‘ digitial illustration, shown above, as The Transformers, it’s actually Voltron.