Current Exhibition at Gallery114

How do artists and galleries prepare for new exhibitions? This spring, Gallery114@HCC invites students and community members alike to learn more about what goes on behind closed doors with a series of professional workshops and collaborative learning experiences. Join us for topics such as preparing for an exhibition, explorations into the local arts community, and photo-documentation (among others), with guest appearances from local artists and arts professionals.

Exploring the arts in Ybor 
Saturday, February 22, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. 
Join the gallery for a one-day public art festival, Now on View. Installations can be found in three Ybor City locations: the HCC Performing Arts building, Hotel Haya, and TEMPUS Projects. The festival is come-as-you-will and open to the public, or you can sign up on 
Eventbrite for free guided art & history tours.

Professional Photo Portraits for HCC Students 
Wednesday, February 26, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.  
Led by: Katelyn Montagna, Professional Photographer 
Sign up

Photographing your work
Wednesday, March 5, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.  
Led by: Omar Richardson, Art Instructor, HCC

Building a Portfolio 
Thursday, March 6, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.  
Led by: Eszter Sziksz, Art Instructor, Ringling College of Art & Design

Marketing your art
Monday, March 10, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.  
Led by: Nneka Jones, Internationally Exhibited Artist

Ready to Hang
Thursday, March 27, 12:30 - 1:15 p.m. 
Friday, March 28, 11 - 11:45 a.m. 
Led by: Piper Harrow, HCC Art Galleries Preparator

January 7 – February 20, 2025

Reception Thursday, February 20, 5-8 p.m.

Artist talk begins at 6 p.m.

Each year, the HCC Art Galleries presents a selection of work by arts faculty currently teaching at a four-year university in Florida. This exhibition introduces HCC students to potential mentors, departments and schools to consider for further study upon completion of their AA degree at HCC. This year, Gallery114@HCC Ybor City hosts multimedia artist Eszter Sziksz, DLA (Doctorate in Liberal Arts), a Visiting Professor at the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota.

“Eszter Sziksz: Let It Go” includes videos, sculptures and prints that explore the shifting material states of each piece as it grows in time, decays and leaves a trace of memory. Sziksz prints family portraits using ephemeral materials like ice, sand, milk, MSG and ash that quickly wash away, speaking to her acceptance of change as a constant. Her work also addresses environmental impacts, touching on collective concerns about impending catastrophes and how the fragility of life can be both universal and deeply intimate. For Sziksz, the sentient impressions of her work may be more important than the survival of the work itself. She asks us to confront the fact that nothing lasts forever—not the exhibition, not the work, not us. Maybe the Earth endures.

Sziksz received a Doctorate in Liberal Arts from Pecsi Tudomany Egyetem, Pecs, Hungary in 2018 and her MFA in Studio Art from Memphis College of Art in 2010.