I’m sure I’m missing some stuff because it’s been an insane week with Sensory Overload 4.0 coming down the pike. Nevertheless, here’s what’s going on this weekend in the visual arts. Don’t miss one of my favorite annual events, taking place tonight– USF ArtHouse!
Friday
5 p.m. – Opening reception for Take or Remake: An Exploration of [...]

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3D rendering from Giancarlo Giusti’s Occupiable Highways
For the past two years, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing the artists who participated in Creative Loafing’s Sensory Overload and writing about their work in advance of the event—but I’ve never been involved in planning the annual art-music-performance party. This year, after CL staffers decided that Sensory Overload [...]

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Steve McClure. Portrait XII, Ink on Paper, 2009, 8″ x 6″.
Thursday
6-9 p.m. – Open Wall Night, an exhibition of art by members of Tampa Bay Creative Network, at the Studio@620.
6 p.m.-12 a.m. – Opening reception for Re:AGE, featuring art by Frank Strunk III, Jen Saavedra, Kim Coakley, Daniel Williams, Anthony Zollo, Bask and more [...]

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Us I abús (Use and abuse, 1990) by Pere Noguera with texts by Carles Hac Mor. Tin box containing two glass bottles with stoppers and an instruction manual.
When does a “book” consist of a pair of vials in a metal tin, a triptych of glass “pages” or a cardboard box filled with pamphlets, drawings [...]

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The University of Tampa’s digital art biennial Electronics Alive closes Mar. 24. Check out the exhibit– and a screening of award-winning 3D animations that takes place at UT’s Reeves Theater tomorrow night.

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The weekend’s visual art events.

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A rendering of the new TMA, currently under construction in Curtis Hixon Park. Image courtesy tampamuseum.org.
Times are tough. This morning the Tampa Museum of Art announced that its finances were in enough of a bind to merit slashing the institution’s budget for the 2009 fiscal year by 29%, including the elimination of three full-time [...]

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On Sat., Mar. 21, the 3rd annual Self-Employment in the Arts Conference at the University of Tampa aims to give practitioners in the visual, literary, performing and film arts a leg up on the climb to self-sufficiency. The daylong lineup includes sessions on marketing, networking, work-life balance and intellectual property led by professional artists, writers, filmmakers, professors and an attorney. This year’s conference is organized by Suzanne Williamson, a recent transplant to Tampa Bay whose experience as a visual artist makes her uniquely suited to the task.

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The seventh annual Ybor Festival of the Moving Image (what the hell– let’s call it FoMI) has released its schedule of events.

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C. Emerson Fine Arts’ latest exhibit, Under the Influence, showcases the genre of contemporary art often dubbed ‘pop surrealism.’

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Laura Mae Dooris. Cornucopia of Discovery. Mixed media on canvas, 36″ x 24″.
I just learned today about TampaArtist.com, which has an extensive image gallery featuring work by about 200 Bay area artists. About 75% of the names were new to me (unlike, say, Laura Mae Dooris, whose work I’ve seen in several exhibitions over the [...]

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Thomas Allen. Fancy, 2006. 20 x 24 inches, chromogenic print. Courtesy Foley Gallery.
Who says pop-up books are for kids? Just check out artist Thomas Allen’s sly constructions, crafted from pulp fiction book covers and beautifully photographed to produce images that resonate with adult concerns: eroticism, repression and the enticements of nostalgia’s mirage.
Learn how to [...]

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