Artist Brandon Dunlap at REAX Space.
The historic district’s visual arts cred just went up a notch, thanks to the launch of two new art venues: REAX Space, a boutique for artists’ prints, t-shirts and other products that also houses offices for the popular music magazine, and Arts On Ninth, a nacent community arts center. [...]

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Dominique Labauvie, Firecloud, 2009, Steel, 21 X 21 X 5 in. Courtesy Blue Acier.

Bleu Acier announced last night that French sculptor Dominique Labauvie has received a Gottlieb Foundation grant for 2009. Labauvie, who lives in Tampa, will be featured in an exhibit at the gallery opening May 23.

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Photo by Marina Williams
Photographer extraordinare and ARTpool owner Marina Williams has posted some beautiful people pics from the St. Pete gallery/boutique’s one year anniversary party on Flickr. Check ‘em out. Congrats to Marina and company for a great first year!

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Oil painting by Kimberly Adams
The University of South Florida’s MFA grads are having an End of the Semester Studio Sale in anticipation of summer vacation. Snag affordable art by up-and-coming artists. Facebook users, click here to find out more and peruse pics.
Wed., Apr. 29, 2-5 p.m.
FAS Grad Studios (Located in the small building just north [...]

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Pan Yue. Time Transfixed. 2008, digital print. Image courtesy Eli Klein Fine Art, New York.
[This is a great little show that I could visit again and again (and probably will before it closes in early May). -MV]
Though the recent frenzy to acquire Chinese contemporary art has cooled with the global recession, the 21st century [...]

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Gregory Barsamian, Untitled, 1999, 4’h x 7’ dia., Courtesy of the Artist.
Visitors to artist Gregory Barsamian’s exhibition at the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland will likely notice something remarkable even before they set foot in a gallery. To host Unbelievable Transformations, an unusual showcase of kinetic sculpture, the museum’s airy exhibition spaces have been [...]

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Sensory Overload 4.0 has come and gone, but you can watch video of the event on YouTube (above) and check out pictures on Flickr (click on the image of artist Valerie George below). Congratulations to the judges’ choice winner of the student competition, Thomas Pregiato, Ringling College of Art and Design, and the audience favorite [...]

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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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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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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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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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