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

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Jasper Johns. Flags II, 1970. Lithograph. Courtesy of the Arts Center.
Virtually every artist, no matter how modest, aspires to create a body of work that will serve as a turning point for artists to come. For American art during the second half of the 20th century, Jasper Johns‘ paintings stand out as just such [...]

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Cone of the past, point of the present. Diran Lyons’ Goodbye Victoria Artifact 5: Notes Written In Gilles Deleuze Text, a photographic print from Five + 5. To watch scenes from Lyons’ Deleuze-influenced movie, to go http://www.youtube.com/user/LYONSPOTTER.
Good things are afoot at [5]art.
The West Tampa exhibition space — synonymous with the quintet of artists who [...]

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Christina Nguyen Hung. McCarshcroft: a morphology of extremism. Image of a 200 mm. square petri dish with nutrient agar and the bacterium S. marcescens grown to form a Joseph McCarthy/John Ashcroft hybrid. Color digital print 47” x 47.” Courtesy christinahung.net.
The University of Tampa’s Electronics Alive, a biennial invitational of digital art, continues through Mar. [...]

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Sculpture by Linda Armstrong. Courtesy HCC Ybor Art Gallery.
Visitors to Hillsborough Community College’s Ybor Art Gallery may do a double take when they encounter Linda Armstrong’s inverted tree and other simultaneously natural and alien subjects in “Specimens, Observations and Drawings,” on view through Mar. 12.
The delicate sapling, which hangs from the gallery ceiling and [...]

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Audio interview between Jim Wegener and Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo with images of the artist’s work, via cynthialawson.com.
Every two years, the University of Tampa hosts Electronics Alive, an invitational exhibition of computer animated shorts, graphics and otherwise digital artworks with a global flair. During the exhibit, which runs through Mar. 24 and takes place in [...]

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Tampa Public Mood Ring by Will Pappenheimer and Chipp Jansen, courtesy Tampapublicmoodring.com.
Yes, this weekend also marks the last chance to view Lights On Tampa 2009 installations downtown. If you’re tuning in to media coverage of the Super Bowl this week, you may already have seen Will Pappenheimer and Chipp Jansen’s Tampa Public Mood Ring—located in [...]

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Check out Creative Loafing’s cover story for your guide to Lights On Tampa action this weekend. Drop in on tomorrow’s symposium at 4 p.m. at Tampa Theatre. Listen to CL’s ArtsSpeak podcast on LOT (below). And—if you’re really a glutton for punishment—tune in to see me and Casa Magica artists Sabine Weissinger and Friedrich Foerster [...]

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Tes One. Change We Made. 45”x60”, 2008.
Artworks by four Tampa Bay artists—Tes One, Bask and Phillip Clark and Chad Mize of Bluelucy—are headed to Washington, DC, where they will be featured in Manifest Hope, an exhibit celebrating the election of Barack Obama.
Shepard Fairey’s now-iconic, red-and-blue portrait of the president elect will serve as the [...]

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Madden 09 screenshot
It’s lunchtime on the third and last day of the Sarasota International Design Summit, and some conferees are playing video games (literally). We’ve just listened to Phil Holt, general manager of EA Tiburon, offer insights into some of his company’s recent successes and where gaming as an industry is headed in the [...]

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