Museum Collection
The Tampa Museum of Art's collection of contemporary art is in storage
while TMA is housed in its temporary location at
2306 N. Howard Avenue
in Tampa. Construction of the new museum facility in downtown Tampa's
Curtis Hixon Park will begin in early 2008, with the opening of the new
building expected in the fall of 2009.
Decorative Arts
The Museum houses a small, yet
expanding collection of decorative arts that includes European and
American porcelain pieces manufactured by Sevres and Boehm. Turn of the
century glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emil Galle, and Antonin Daum
compliment more recent contemporary objects, such as Night Street Chaos
by Toots Zynsky and Duncan McClellan's My Garden After Glass.
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Toots Zynsky
(American, born 1951)
Night Street Chaos, from the series "Chaos,"
1998. Fused
and thermo-formed glass threads,
7 1/8 x 13 x 7 inches
Collection of the Tampa Museum of Art
Gift of Dale & Doug Anderson 1999.3
Photo: Bill Sanders
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creates work in which she pairs painting and sculpture by
utilizing glass threads. In a technique that is uniquely her own,
she fuses her pieces out of thousands of glass threads which are
pulled out of heated glass rods. The multi-colored, hair-fine
threads are then applied in profusion, consequently appearing as
wide liquid brushstrokes on the outside walls of her objects. The
many layers of threads are built up, leaving the outer one on the
bottom of the piece. Zynsky then fuses and coaxes her pliable
"glass canvas" into its ultimate vessel form, which can
range from palm size to quite large and in shape from tulip-like
to bowl-like. Night Street Chaos is part of the continuing
series of work entitled "Chaos" originally inspired by a
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Duncan McClellan
(American, born 1955)
My Garden After Glass, 1999
Hand-blown and sand-carved glass, and
steel
27 x 25 inches
Collection of the Tampa Museum of Art
Gift of Hank Houser 1999.013.a-.b
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Josette Urso
(American, born 1959)
Hand Dance, 1996
Fabric and mixed media, 23 x 38 inches
Collection of the Tampa Museum of Art
Gift of Mr. Henry Feiwel given in memory of
Maria Feiwel 1999.47
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