Jeppe Hein
Smoking Bench, 2003
Fog machine, bench (stainless steel and leather), mirror
Courtesy Johann König, Berlin
For most folks, Sarasota’s John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is synonymous with Old Master style: ginormous Rubens tapestries, Italian canvases in dramatic chiaroscuro, twisting Baroque columns. In comparison, the Ringling’s current exhibit of modern art from the mid- to late-20th [...]

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Alex Espalter-Torres in his studio at the West Tampa Center for the Arts. Photo: MV

Over Memorial Day weekend, the West Tampa Center for the Arts held an opening reception for the last exhibit of their inaugural season. (Click here to read the article I wrote in September about the organization’s transformation from Gallery 1906 into [...]

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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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