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  <title>Creative Loafing Tampa: Arts: Visual Art</title>
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    <title>Lesley Dill&amp;#39;s breathtaking artwork explores how words shape our world</title>
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        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      For all the blows that have been struck against the once-hallowed ideal of the artist as expressive genius, for many museum-goers a visit to that sacred temple of art is still about encountering the &quot;voice&quot; of a visionary. (For example, while, say, community-based artworks are gaining some traction as the focus of museum exhibitions, the blockbuster showcase devoted to a single, prodigious creative mind remains the gold standard.) From a certain perspective, this makes perfect sense: for many artists, artistic
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The walls of academia: galley shows at local universities</title>
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        University galleries are prime destinations for art lovers....
       
      
        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      From cutting-edge international exhibitions to MFA showcases, local universities are ripe for gallery-hopping. University of South Florida The smart, adventurous exhibitions at USF&#39;s Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) hold appeal for visitors from far beyond the university&#39;s Tampa campus. Together with its sister institution, world-renowned print atelier Graphicstudio (both comprise the USF Institute for Research in Art), CAM offers students a first-rate opportunity to engage with established and emerging practitioners through exhibits, symposia, artist talks and tours. Past highlights: Elsewhere (2007),
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The Ringling International Arts Festival dances on the cutting edge</title>
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        By Brian Ries
      
      
      Sarasota&#39;s arts scene has been damn exciting of late, from international DJ events to Ringling College of Art and Design alums starting artistic co-ops to promote less traditional works. Ringling Museum, however, has always been the area&#39;s artistic grande dame, its formidable collection and parade of international traveling exhibits a dependable lure for visitors and locals alike -- a serious, if not exactly cutting-edge, institution. But this week the venerable museum is blurring the lines a bit with the Ringling
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Draw together, right now, at Big Draw Ruskin</title>
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        A festival and a mural honor the sprit of Ruskin's namesake....
       
      
        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      On a sweltering Sunday afternoon in mid-September, the building that houses the administrative offices of Mary and Martha House -- a Ruskin non-profit dedicated to the care of women and children in crisis -- is a blindingly white beacon on pavement, bordered by irrepressible flora. The two-story structure&#39;s distinctive simplicity and curving walls (a dollop of Florida modern adjacent to a highway lined with strip malls) have earned it at least one colorful nickname: the Flintstones building. With straw hat
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Fall Arts: The most anticipated museum and gallery shows of the season</title>
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        The most anticipated shows from museums and galleries this fall....
       
      
        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      Scissors: Pop Up. Who says pop-up books are (just) for kids? Check out Florida Craftsmen&#39;s sophisticated showcase of playful, painstaking books, handmade by contemporary artists. Sept. 18-Oct. 31, Florida Craftsmen, St. Petersburg, 727-821-7391, floridacraftsmen.net. 3rd Annual Folkfest St. Pete. Creative Clay&#39;s outdoor street festival brings together folk, na&iuml;ve and visionary artists from around the country; Donna the Buffalo headlines a bevy of music acts. Sat., Sept. 26, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Sun., Sept. 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Creative Clay, St. Petersburg,
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Gulfport artist Sheree Rensel&amp;#39;s international art show inspired by social media and Twitter</title>
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        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      If you&#39;re following St. Petersburg artist Sheree Rensel, aka @wizzlewolf, on Twitter -- that&#39;s to say, if you&#39;ve signed up to read her &quot;tweets&quot; or 140-character updates throughout the day -- you can pretty much count on receiving a smile-inducing greeting routinely at around 9 a.m. It goes something like this: &quot;Good morning ART Tweople!&quot; (For those not already fluent in Twitterspeak, tweople -- or tweeple -- is a blend of &quot;Twitter&quot; and &quot;people&quot; used to refer to other users
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    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Tampa&amp;#39;s photographer laureate Jeremy Chandler gives face time to Floridians</title>
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        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      First there was Beth Reynolds&#39; documentation of Tampa life in heterogeneous form -- from the flamenco dancer to the crab fisherman. Then came Suzanne Camp Crosby&#39;s more surreal take on the city&#39;s character -- think headless mannequins in period costume arranged on the veranda of Plant Hall. Next, Rebecca Sexton Larson&#39;s pinhole photographs, Steven S. Gregory&#39;s digitally altered landscapes and Marion Belanger&#39;s haunting interior spaces, devoid of people. Now the sixth shooter to take up the mantle of photographer laureate
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Paper: Off and On the Wall, a wallpaper-inspired exhibit at Florida Craftsmen</title>
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        Florida Craftsmen unveils <i>Paper</i>, an exhibit of new wallpaper art....
       
      
        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      For a couple of years now, Florida Craftsmen has been organizing a series of exhibitions that explore a single theme: living with art and fine craft. Despite their conceptual commonality, the exhibits couldn&#39;t be more diverse. At Home With Crafts, the inaugural effort in 2007, offered everything from artist-designed linens and a custom fireplace to one-of-a-kind flatware and a handmade wood crib, all presented in a model home-style layout inside the gallery. Last year&#39;s Architectural Details and Other Decorative Crafts
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    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>New Andy Warhol exhibit at St. Petersburg&amp;#39;s Museum of Fine Art reflects our fascination with American icons</title>
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        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      At the outset of writing anything about Andy Warhol, it seems like a sure bet that nothing new can be said. Nothing, anyway, that hasn&#39;t already been better articulated by scholars, biographers and filmmakers, by Warhol himself in his published diaries, or even by Lou Reed and John Cale in their album Songs for Drella (the Warhol nickname that fuses Dracula and Cinderella). His trademarks -- the painstaking accounting for even small expenditures, the chronic unhappiness with his physical appearance
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Picturing Eden at the Ringling Museum of Art</title>
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        A flowery Ringing photo exhibit ponders Eden...
       
      
        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      Given the breezy brightness of this spring&#39;s weather, you could be forgiven for imagining that west central Florida constitutes a little slice of paradise -- especially in the manicured gardens outside the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, where blissed-out tourists wander among the flora. As May progresses, of course, mid-day temperatures are taking a turn toward the infernal, but until the full heat of summer arrives a trip to the Ringling&#39;s grounds remains a heavenly option.
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      In this economy, it&#39;s pretty much a no-brainer that if you&#39;re buying art at all, you&#39;re looking for the bargains. (Of course what constitutes a bargain is relative. Last week, a New York art dealer snapped up a late Picasso previously owned by contemporary artist Julian Schnabel for a cool $7.7 million -- just undercutting the projected sale price; a steal of sorts.) That&#39;s why Chris Parks, a St. Petersburg artist and owner of Pale Horse Design and Gallery, feels
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Sculptor Charles Parkhill talks plywood and Puryear</title>
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        Charles Parkhill makes remarkable sculptures from wood....
       
      
        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      Understated yet profound, sculptor Charles Parkhill&#39;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 invite contemplation and interpretation. (Not least of the mysteries they invoke is how lowly plywood, in the sculptor&#39;s hands, can be crafted into a beautiful, M&ouml;bius strip-like shape.) A former Tampa resident, Parkhill
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>REAX Space &amp;amp; Arts On Ninth spark arts center revival in Ybor City</title>
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        The historic district makes yet another arts revival....
       
      
        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      In the time it takes Jeff Svajdlenka to answer a question, his eyes make a quick pass around a freshly painted art gallery. &quot;For me, 20 years,&quot; he says after a moment. That&#39;s how long the systems administrator and part-time ceramicist has dreamt of opening a community arts center. Now, in a former dry goods warehouse in Ybor City, the New Tampa resident is living his dream -- or starting to, at least. Arts On Ninth, the space Svajdlenka, his
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    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        A new Polk Museum exhibit plays tricks with our perceptions....
       
      
        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      Visitors to artist Gregory Barsamian&#39;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&#39;s airy exhibition spaces have been painted charcoal gray and plunged into darkness. Entering them requires stepping behind a black curtain, as if visiting a magician&#39;s lair. What&#39;s inside could well pass for magic to anyone who&#39;s never seen a zoetrope in
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Student art shows Closure and Pompous Circumstance at USF</title>
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        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      Toward the end of spring, local colleges and universities observe a right of passage: the student art show. What such exhibitions lack, at times, in craft or sophistication, they make up for in exuberance. (On the other hand, sometimes they are dazzling displays of craft and sophistication.) Check out the following shows for a glimpse of emerging talent in the Bay area -- and let&#39;s hope a few of those talents stick around and make a difference locally. The University
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