Past Exhibitions
Small Expressions
April 19 - July 6, 2008
Sponsored by the Handweavers Guild of America and
coinciding with the organization’s biennial conference in Tampa in late
June, Small Expressions is an annual international, juried exhibition
that features high quality, contemporary small-scale fiber art. Completed
within the last two years, the artworks showcase various fiber techniques
such as interlacing, felting, paper, beading, and embellishing while not
exceeding 15 inches in any direction, including the mounting or display
devices!
Donya Stockton
Untitled
Reed can
Courtesy of the artist and the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.
It's Not Easy Being Green
July 11 - September 28, 2008
In
late March of this year, artists, designers, architects, and developers
interested in making a positive difference in both their lives and their
communities were invited to submit design schemes, art works, or commercial
products that provided real solutions for people to live better, healthier lives
with less impact on the environment for display in It’s Not Easy Being Green.
The resulting exhibition showcases not only conceptual drawings and sketches,
but actual artwork and design products that offer community members information,
ideas, solutions, and motivation to live sustainably.
The
exhibition is divided into three subdivisions. The first portion explores urban
design issues such as housing, energy, transportation, and land use, while the
second section exhibits environmentally friendly products ranging from custom
eco furniture to commercial objects made from recycled/salvaged materials. The
final section features fine art created by artists who address issues of
sustainability, activism and/or environmental concerns in their work.
Other works in It’s Not Easy Being Green include models and conceptual
drawings that explore modern prefabrication techniques for multi-family housing
in Tampa, landscape designs for a proposed museum of contemporary art linked to
the historic water pump building in Tampa, and a planned mixed-use community
that ties sustainable design with mass transit.
Brian
McMorrow (American, born 1969)
Landscaping along the Roadways, Dubai,
2007
Digital print
Courtesy of the artist
Drawing beyond the Plane
March 7 - April 12, 2008
The first exhibition planned in the interim
location features recent drawings by many regionally and nationally
recognized artists.
The act of drawing is perhaps the most intimate artistic form because it
often illustrates the artist’s thought process and is imbued with a special
sense of immediacy and a tangible presence. The practice of drawing has
greatly expanded in the hands of contemporary artists, many of whom don’t
necessarily confine themselves to the limited scale or two-dimensionality of
paper. The drawings in this exhibition will take surprising new forms as
well as illustrate drawing’s continued links to representation, to
preparatory studies, to mapping and to documentation.
Leslie Fry (Canadian/American, born 1954)
Torso, 1998
Ceramic
Courtesy of the artist
This survey exhibition from the museum’s permanent collection will feature
works of art from a variety of media and cultures. The diversity and richness of
the artworks and “voices” in this exhibition represent all the Latin American
communities that are transforming the United States at large. The exhibition
reflects the cultural heritages of residents who make up part of Tampa’s ethnic
mix, and is organized by the Tampa Museum of Art.
The exhibition features approximately 60 photographic portraits of the
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo taken throughout her life. Beginning with childhood
and ending with an image of Kahlo on her deathbed, these portraits bring into
focus the painter, the patient, the wife, the daughter, the lover, and the
friend. Kahlo had a keen understanding of how to craft an image and construct an
identity in front of the lens. Viewers will see how some of the photographs mask
– as well as reveal – much about the woman who described herself as "la gran
ocultadora," the great concealer. The portraits belong to the collection of
Spencer Throckmorton, a specialist in Latin American photographs. His dynamic
collection started more than two decades ago and includes more than 100 images
of Kahlo, many of them unique. Featured images by such modern masters of
photography include those taken by Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Lucienne
Bloch, Florence Arquin, and Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Leading photojournalists
include Giselle Freund, Bernard Silberstein, and Fritz Henle, as well as Kahlo’s
relatives, lovers, and friends, which include Guillermo Kahlo, Nickolas Muray,
and Lola Alvarez Bravo. The exhibition is organized by Throckmorton Fine Art,
New York.
This vibrant exhibition celebrates African American identity in 38 works made
from clay, fiber, wood, glass, and found materials. The artistic expressions of
the 10 featured artists are rooted in the materials, structure, processes and
history of the craft tradition. The exhibition was organized by the Society for
Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
This exhibition showcases some of the best recent sculpture from the United
States and abroad, while celebrating the evolving tradition of figurative
sculpture in America. Among the 34 works showcased,11 sculptures represent the
animal form, each unique in its interpretation of the subject. The exhibition
was organized by the Tampa Museum of Art and the National Sculpture Society.
This unique exhibition addresses
two contemporary social issues facing America and the world – global warming and
the war in Iraq. A full-scale replica of a Hummer vehicle, handcrafted from
bricks of Styrofoam, is on display in the museum's Center Gallery.
Each year the City of Tampa Public Art Program commissions a photojournalist,
documentary photographer, or fine art photographer to explore and photograph
life within the city of Tampa. Steven S. Gregory served as the 2006 Photographer
Laureate, and constructed digital images capturing Tampa’s unique aspects.
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