Guest contributor Kurt Piazza provides this review of artist Allen Hampton’s latest work. -MV >>

Installation view of work by Allen Hampton.
“I feel like I’m not able to connect to most people. Eventually they disappoint you,” says Allen Hampton. I met up with Hampton recently to talk about his new work, which deals primarily with [...]

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Image courtesy Isabel Czerwenka-Wenkstetten and Leslie Fry
Tuesday evening marks the public debut of a collaborative project between St. Petersburg-based artist Leslie Fry and Austrian artist Isabel Czerwenka-Wenkstetten at the Studio@620. The pair met via email and Skype earlier this year then teamed up for an intense, ten-day collaboration in St. Petersburg. During Tuesday’s opening reception [...]

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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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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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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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Tomorrow, Tampa Bay Creative Network (not the same as Creative Tampa Bay, a different local group whose advisory network I sit on) presents Jelly, a casual co-working experience. More and more of us these days (especially artists and creative industry workers) seem to be living the free agent lifestyle, either out of layoff-driven necessity or [...]

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Passersby in downtown Tampa - or anyone with a view of the waterfront just north of the Platt Street Bridge - may have been wondering about the giant, red steel sculpture sprouting up in MacDill Park this week. It’s part of Chattanooga-based artist John Henry’s Peninsula Project, which brings his monumental sculptures to seven Florida [...]

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Havana Days poster design by Keith Burnson. From envy.artistikmagazine.com.
Over at Artistik Envy, the competition between student designers at the International Academy of Art and Design is on. You can watch videos from the first “episode” by clicking on each designer’s photo.
Time suckage alert: with 10 designers at roughly 5 minutes each, I recommend securing [...]

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If you’re like me, you can’t get enough of Bravo’s darned addictive design-related reality shows, like Project Runway, Top Design and Shear Genius (the one about hair stylists). Well, get this–the International Academy of Art and Design has created their own online reality series, Artistik Envy, which focuses on a competition between ten multimedia and [...]

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The folks at Flight 19 have announced a closing reception date for Bob Wysocki’s Post-Metal: Sat., Nov. 8, 7-11 p.m. If you haven’t seen this installation yet, it’s one of the most exciting projects to take place in Tampa this fall (or year…perhaps even in recent memory). Check out the video above to see my [...]

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On Friday night, I paid a visit to Pride & Passion 2008, the Tampa Museum of Art’s annual celebration of gay pride, to check out Equilibrium, a one-night exhibit featuring three Tampa-based GLBT artists: Jen Saavedra, Santiago Echeverry and Kurt Piazza. Wish y’all could see the exhibit, but it’s gone now. Instead, check out this [...]

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