Customers browse at the Tampa Artist Emporium in South Tampa. Pictured below: Boggs stands behind the Emporium’s front desk.
Two years ago, Tampa photographer Shelby Boggs took a gamble. Inspired by the Kress Emporium, an historic building in Asheville, NC, that serves as a marketplace for more than 80 regional artists and craftspeople, she set [...]

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Denis Gaston. Little Boxes. Mixed media on masonite, 20″ x 16”. Pictured below: Denis Gaston. Ground Control To Major Tom (Grab ‘n Go Art Collection). Ink on paper, 7″ x 5″. Images courtesy of the artist.
If it’s summer, it must be time for the Cool Art Show. Any other time of year, the region would [...]

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Tes One’s spray-paint-on-wood painting measures 10-ft. by 11-ft.
You know what they say: when the going gets tough, the tough get…bigger?
Despite the ongoing economic malaise—which seems to find Florida in a particularly compromising position—St. Petersburg artist and art party impresario John Vitale isn’t giving up. Though the muralist and owner of Vitale Studio recently downsized [...]

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Image courtesy Polk Museum of Art
This weekend, the Polk Museum of Art celebrates the debut of its recently acquired Art-O-Mat with an interactive talk by Art-O-Mat founder and creator Clark Whittington.
Whittington, a conceptual artist based in Winston-Salem, NC, first hatched the Art-O-Mat idea for an exhibition in 1997, when he transformed a dilapidated cigarette machine [...]

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Roger Chamieh. Eventually You Will Say Something of Interest (detail). PVC tubing, paper, and Plexiglass.
[This review of Chamieh’s solo exhibition at Three04 in West Tampa is by guest contributor Kurt Piazza. - MV]
Roger Chamieh: New Work
Closing reception Fri., May 22, 7-9 p.m.
Three04
1906 N. Armenia Ave., #211, Tampa
813-260-0130
Roger Chamieh’s sculptures defy the laws of gravity, [...]

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Enigma by Charles Parkhill. Courtesy of the artist.
Understated yet profound, sculptor Charles Parkhill’s solo show is one of three current exhibitions eminently worth checking out at the Dunedin Fine Art Center (DFAC). A graduate of the University of South Florida and the University of Utah/Salt Lake City, Parkhill crafts large-scale, abstract wood sculptures that [...]

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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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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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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 Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tenn., has commissioned five proposals for public sculptures, two of which will be constructed and placed in Chattanooga’s Renaissance Park. St. Petersburg-based artists Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse are among the artists in the running. Click here to vote for their proposed sculpture, Place in the Woods [...]

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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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