Past Exhibitions at Gallery221
Fall 2024 – Summer 2025
Flourishing Dichotomies: Florida Art, Past & Present
EXHIBITION TITLE | Flourishing Dichotomies: Florida Art, Past & Present |
LOCATION | Gallery221@HCC Dale Mabry | 2nd Floor DLRC |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE | August 19 – October 17, 2024 |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | View a photo album of this exhibition. |
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For centuries, Florida has captured the imagination as a land imbued with mystique, diversity, and contradictions. Flourishing Dichotomies reveals the eclectic truths and perceptions of Florida’s varied reputations through a range of themes, from tropical paradise to urban jungle. Through painting and photography, this exhibition pairs work by five contemporary artists with select works from one of the world’s largest collections of Florida Art, the Vickers Collection, on loan from the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida. Spanning works from the 1920s to the present, Flourishing Dichotomies examines aspects of the state’s unique history, many of which continue to shape the lived experiences of today’s Floridians, and places them in an ever-evolving context. Artists include: Mathias J. Alten, Frank Beatty, Virginia Berresford, Jenny Carey, Johnny “Hook” Daniels, Edward Clarence Dean, Miguel Fleitas, George Snow Hill, Louis Jambor, Bruce Marsh, Selina Román, Alex Torres, T.W. Wilson and Florence Baran Wise. |
Fall 2023 – Summer 2024
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Live-Work |
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Gallery221@HCC Dale Mabry | 2nd Floor DLRC |
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March 18 – June 27, 2024 Reception Wednesday, June 26, 5-8 p.m. Artist talk to begin at 6 p.m. |
EXHIBITION ALBUM |
View a photo album of this exhibition. |
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The relationships between people and places are constantly renegotiated as we act on the world and it, in turn, acts on us. Live-Work is an exploration of built environments in transition and how we move through them. It takes its name from the language of mixed-use development, asking us to consider the connection between labor, recreation, daily life and cultural perceptions of place. Three artists—matthew anthony batty, Dakota Parkinson and Andrés Ramirez—speak to the transformative processes involved in placemaking through media such as installation, ceramic sculpture and photography. matthew anthony batty is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who earned their MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University. Dakota Parkinson is a ceramic artist and educator who is currently an artist in residence at the Morean Center for Clay. Andrés Ramirez is a photographer and educator who earned his MFA in Photography from the University of South Florida. |
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CSAI 24th Annual Hillsborough County High School Fine Arts Competition |
LOCATION |
Gallery3@HCC Dale Mabry | 3rd Floor DLRC |
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April 1 – 25, 2024 Reception Thursday, April 4, 6-8 p.m. Awards ceremony to begin at 7 p.m. |
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Now in its 24th year, the Calyx Schenecker Art Infinitum displays winners of the Annual Hillsborough County High School Fine Arts Competition. The juried competition gives students an opportunity to be recognized for their achievements in the visual arts, with scholarships awarded to students in the categories of 2D art, 3D art, and photography. |
In Their Own Words
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In Their Own Words: Selections from the HCC Permanent Art Collection |
LOCATION |
Gallery3 | 3rd Floor DLRC |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
June 26, 2023 – February 29, 2024 |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | Photo album of this exhibition |
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION |
Over the past four decades, the Hillsborough Community College’s Permanent Art Collection has fostered strong connections between the college and local arts community. Now including over 200 objects, the collection maintains a strong focus on artists who have lived or worked in the Tampa Bay region. This exhibition spotlights significant artworks curated by the college’s collection manager, Alyssa Miller. Accompanying oral history interviews add richness to the work on view, as selected artists were asked to discuss their work as well as their own connection to the region. In Their Own Words engages the local community in honoring the artistic and cultural legacy of Tampa Bay by inviting a greater diversity of voices to lead in the interpretation and discussion of the artworks in the collection. Artists include: Suzanne Camp Crosby, Aneka Ingold, Aimee Jones, Akiko Kotani, Tom Kramer, Tracy Midulla, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Renatto Rampolla, Frank Rampolla, Babs Reingold, Omar Richardson, Emiliano Settecasi, Kirk Ke Wang, and Ruby C. Williams. |
Roving: Nneka Jones, Kandy G Lopez & Eugene Ofori Agyei
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Roving: Nneka Jones, Kandy G Lopez & Eugene Ofori Agyei |
LOCATION |
Gallery221@HCC Dale Mabry | 2nd Floor DLRC |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
January 8, 2024 - February 28, 2024 Reception Thursday, January 18, 5 - 8 p.m. Artist talk to begin at 6 p.m. |
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION |
Roving presents mixed media and fiber-based artworks by Nneka Jones, Kandy G Lopez and Eugene Ofori Agyei. Deftly weaving together the medium of fiber with painting, sculpture, performance and installation, Roving invites viewers to investigate notions of home, belonging, identity and ancestry. Rather than arriving at fixed destinations or meanings, the artworks included in Gallery221@HCC examine the psychological and emotional complexities of self-reflection, movement and memory, intertwining our sense of being with the process of becoming. Nneka Jones is a Trinidadian-born multidisciplinary artist currently working in Tampa, FL (BFA, University of Tampa, 2020). Kandy G Lopez is an Afro-Caribbean artist currently working as an Associate Professor at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, FL (MFA, Florida Atlantic University, 2014). Eugene Ofori Agyei is a Ghanaian-born artist currently working as the Robert Chapman Turner Teaching Fellow at Alfred University in Alfred, NY (MFA, University of Florida, 2023). |
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Leftovers: Lisa McCarthy and Georgia Vahue |
LOCATION |
Gallery221@HCC Dale Mabry | 2nd Floor DLRC |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
October 23, 2023 - November 30, 2023 |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | Photo album of this exhibition |
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION |
The things we hold onto from the past speak to our intent for the future. Whether a precious keepsake, last night’s dinner or social perceptions, what is “left over” can be tossed as easily as it can be treasured. Leftovers are tangible evidence of skill and care that remains after the initial act of creation has passed, full of nostalgia and urgency, of possibility and untapped potential. Lisa McCarthy received her MFA from the University of South Florida in 2021 and is a founder of Factory Mark Gallery in Framingham, MA. Georgia Vahue is an arts educator, curator and former Executive Director of the Ruskin Firehouse Cultural Center. |
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Touchy/Feely: Form, Function & Contemporary Fiber Curated by Alyssa Miller |
LOCATION |
Gallery221@HCC Dale Mabry | 2nd Floor DLRC |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
August 14, 2023 – October 12, 2023 |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | Photo album of this exhibition |
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION |
Art touches you, and sometimes you get to touch it back. Challenging conventional gallery manners, Touchy/Feely encourages visitors to assume the role of participant by handling and manipulating several of the works on view. Contemporary fiber artists disrupt the long-held distinction between art and craft, blending the conceptual with the experiential in a highly tactile medium. In Touchy/Feely curated by Alyssa Miller, artists Jessica Caldas, Saumitra Chandratreya, and Emiliano Settecasi go one step further in collapsing the space between artist and viewer, exploring themes of labor, motherhood, relationships, conscious choice, and joy through fiber art that both holds and is held. |
Fall 2022 – Summer 2023
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Snow in September: Kirk Ke Wang |
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LOCATION |
Gallery221 | 2nd Floor DLRC |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
March 23 - June 22, 2023 |
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Kirk Ke Wang (b. Shanghai, China) is a multimedia artist whose work focuses on critiquing modern stereotypes as a diaspora. Throughout his career, Wang has used painting, installation, mixed media, video and photography to present his vision of the world, led by a consistent thread: the fear of inexorable cataclysm. Wang’s solo exhibition in Gallery221@HCC draws inspiration from a 13th century Chinese play called The Injustice to Dou E, also known as Snow in Midsummer. In the story, the tragic and unjust death of Lady Dou E causes the heavens to snow during a hot midsummer day, thereby proving her innocence. Today, the story symbolizes injustice and tragedy, and in Wang's exhibition Snow in September, the artist parallels the Chinese fable with abstracted images of more recent tragedies such as 9/11, calling to mind the moment when the twin towers collapsed and debris rained down like falling snow. Through retelling tragedies, Wang tries to find a spiritual solace and the meaningfulness of being human. Kirk Ke Wang received two MFA from Nanjing Normal University and University of South Florida. He is a Professor of Visual Arts of Eckerd College and serves on the Board for the Ringling Museum of Art. Read a review of Kirk Ke Wang’s exhibition by Jessica Todd |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | View a photo album of the exhibition here |
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Calyx Schenecker Art Infinitum (CSAI) 2023 |
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LOCATION |
Gallery3 | 3rd Floor DLRC |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
April 3 - April 27, 2023 Opening Reception Thursday, April 6, 6 - 8 p.m. Awards Presentation to begin at 7 p.m. |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | View a photo album of the exhibition |
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION |
Now in its 23rd year, the Calyx Schenecker Art Infinitum displays winners of the Annual Hillsborough County High School Fine Arts Competition. The juried competition gives students an opportunity to be recognized for their achievements in the visual arts, with scholarships awarded to students in the categories of 2D art, 3D art and photography. Exhibition, awards ceremony and reception will take place in Gallery3@HCC Dale Mabry Campus.
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Spirit, Rhythm, Blues: Le’Andra Leseur |
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LOCATION |
Gallery221 | 2nd Floor DLRC |
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January 9 - March 2, 2023 Opening Reception: Thursday, January 19, 5 - 8 p.m. Artist performance to begin at 6 p.m. |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | View a photo album of the exhibition |
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Le’Andra LeSeur (b. 1989, Bronx, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses a range of media including video, installation, photography, painting, and performance. LeSeur’s body of work—a celebration of Blackness, queerness, and femininity—seeks to dismantle systems of power and achieve transcendence and liberation through perseverance. In Spirit, Rhythm, Blues at Gallery221@HCC, LeSeur’s installation encourages viewers to contemplate themes such as identity, family, grief and joy, the experience of invisibility, and the power of language. |
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HCC Permanent Art Collection |
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LOCATION |
Gallery3 | 3rd Floor DLRC |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
June 20 - December 16, 2022 |
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From modest beginnings in the late 1970s and early 1980s, HCC’s visual art galleries have brought ambitious and compelling exhibitions to Tampa Bay for more than four decades. Over the years, the close connections forged between HCC’s galleries and the arts community resulted in the establishment of a Permanent Art Collection. Today, the HCC Permanent Art Collection has grown to represent a range of artistic perspectives, media, and styles with an emphasis on strong artistic talent from the region. This exhibition represents a selection of those acquisitions curated by the college’s collection manager, Alyssa Miller Artists include: Kate Alboreo, Jeanne Cameron, Suzanne Camp Crosby, Sandra Cinto, Alejandra Gotera, Steve Holm, Bassmi Ibrahim, Thomas Kettner Jr., Carolyn Kossar, Akiko Kotani, Jerry Meatyard, Tracy Midulla, Justin Nelson, Nike D. Okundaye, George Pappas, Omar Richardson, Mimi Shapiro, Dorothy Summers, Doug Sutherland, Mark Thomas Gibson, Josette Urso, William Villalongo, and Kathy Wright.
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Lost Trees: Babs Reingold |
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LOCATION |
Gallery221 | 2nd Floor DLRC |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
October 10 - December 1, 2022 Opening Reception Thursday, October 13, 5 - 8 p.m. Artist talk to begin at 6 p.m. |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | View a photo album of the exhibition |
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Babs Reingold (American, born Caracas, Venezuela) is an internationally renowned artist whose mixed media sculptures, drawings and installations investigate themes such as the environment, poverty and beauty. In Lost Trees at Gallery221@HCC, Reingold combines assemblage, hand stitching and appliqué graphite rubbing to create a materially rich site-specific installation. Elements like silk organza columns, upcycled paper bricks and yarn-wrapped tree limbs coalesce to form an immersive environment that is at once a celebration of the beauty and resilience of trees, as well as a poignant reminder of their ecological necessity as human-driven climate change threatens all life on this planet. Babs Reingold received an MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo and lives and works in St. Petersburg, FL. |
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FASTA: HCC Faculty, Staff & Alumni Exhibition |
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LOCATION |
Gallery221 | 2nd Floor DLRC |
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Exhibition extended through December 1, 2022 |
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The HCC Art Galleries are pleased to reintroduce FASTA, a new biennial exhibition of HCC faculty, staff and alumni. This juried exhibition highlights the diversity and talent of those who have contributed to Hillsborough Community College past and present. Guest juror for this year’s exhibition in Gallery221@HCC is independent curator Katherine Gibson, who has selected innovative work from a range of media representative of the depth and breadth of the College’s creative community. Gibson, a former HCC Gallery Director from 2011 to 2014, instituted the first faculty and staff showcase during her tenure. Featured artists: Christina Acosta, William Douglas, Lisa Guadalupe, Mia Hollenback, Aneka Ingold, Isabelle Klauder, Helen Mathyssen Dobbins, Alyssa Miller, April Muchmore-Vokoun, Eric Ondina, Fred Pirone, Mario J. Perez, Laura Perez Insua, Renato Rampolla, Omar Richardson, Selina Román, Jacquelyn Rosado, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, Nicole Schirk, Emiliano Settecasi, Alfredo Vilchez, Christopher Weeks.
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Fall 2021 – Summer 2022
EXHIBITION TITLE |
Files & Film 8 |
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LOCATION |
Gallery221 | 2nd Floor DLRC |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
May 23 - June 30, 2022 |
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Founded in 2014 by artist Xina Scuderi, Files & Film is an annual juried photographic art exhibition. Featuring 42 lens-based artists, Files & Film 8 at Gallery221@HCC continues the exhibition’s tradition of providing those in Tampa Bay’s photographic arts community with an exclusive opportunity to showcase their work in conversation with that of their peers. Featured artists include: Megan Beckler, Cristina Casiano, Linda Costa, Glen DePasse, Ashley Gregory, Georgia Hardage, Rosa Harsh, Skyler Johnson, Deidra Kling, Thomas Kramer, KT, Eddie Leonardson, Gabriel Loewenberg, Jodi Loson, Dacota Maphis, Jefferson Mendoza, Allan Mestel, Steve Nesius, Michael O’Leary, Ricardo Peirats, Richard Pollin, Patricia Preston Mastry, Kristin Randall, Mechelle Rene, Beth Reynolds, Selina Román, Lance Rothstein, Terry Scopelliti, Xina Scuderi, Michael Sheehan, Lisa Sibley, Arthur Skinner, Curt Steckel, Karen Tullo, Emilio Valdés Espinosa, Alex Vicente, Colin Ward, Ron Weiss, Luci Westphal, Thomas Whitworth, Dayna Wood and Stephen Zane. |
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Land of Plenty: College Students and the Fight for Food Sovereignty |
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Gallery221 | 2nd Floor DLRC |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
March 21 - May 12, 2022 |
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As one of the top producers of food on the globe, the United States is often visualized as a land of bountiful harvest and with resources for all. However, many Americans experience some level of food insecurity, unsure when they will be able to consume their next nutritious meal. Research suggests that college students are more likely to be food insecure than the general population and, on average, the rate of food insecurity among college students is 42%. The photographs included in Land of Plenty in Gallery221@HCC visualize how students feel food insecurity affects their community and educational experience, as well as what food insecurity means to them personally. Utilizing the research method of photovoice, which supports participatory photographic storytelling and self-advocacy for socially excluded groups, this exhibition is the result of a research project led by a consortium of Anthropology Faculty from Hillsborough Community College. |
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CSAI: 22nd Annual High School Fine Arts Competition |
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LOCATION |
Gallery3 | 3rd Floor DLRC |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
April 4 - 28, 2022 |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | View CSAI: 22nd Annual High School Fine Arts Competition |
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Now in its 22nd year, the Calyx Schenecker Art Infinitum displays winners of the Annual Hillsborough County High School Fine Arts Competition. The juried competition gives students an opportunity to be recognized for their achievements in the visual arts, with scholarships awarded to students in the categories of 2D art, 3D art, and photography. Exhibition, awards ceremony, and reception will take place in Gallery3@HCC Dale Mabry Campus. |
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REVERBERATIONS: Black Artists on Racism and Resilience |
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Gallery221 | 2nd Floor DLRC |
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January 10 – March 3, 2022 |
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Uncaged Art |
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LOCATION | Gallery221 | 2nd floor DLRC |
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November 8 - December 2, 2021
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At the end of 2018, two teachers at Tornillo Detention Center in Texas—the largest detention camp for asylum seeking children in the United States at the time—instructed their students to create art about their homelands, architecture, and culture. Though more than 400 artworks were produced, less than thirty were rescued when the center closed in 2019. Uncaged Art includes documentation of these surviving artworks and represents the perspectives of migrant children from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Organized by Glen Ring and the Florida Institute for Community Studies, the exhibition raises significant questions regarding immigration while also poignantly demonstrating the talent and resilience of youth who had travelled thousands of miles to seek a new life. |
EXHIBITION TITLE |
Vision, Power, Axé |
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LOCATION |
Gallery221 | 2nd Floor DLRC |
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August 16 - October 28, 2021 |
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Vision, Power, Axé highlights the nuance and complexity within Afro-Brazilian art from the city of Salvador, capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia and internationally acclaimed center of Afro-Brazilian culture. Contemporary artists J. Cunha, Ayrson Heráclito, Goya Lopes, Ronaldo Martins, Daiane Silva, and Domingos Terciliano Jr. explore Bahia’s complex racial history and rich cultural traditions with artworks intricately interwoven with stories of resilience, activism, and pride. Ranging from paintings, sculptures, prints, and videos, the work presented in Vision, Power, Axé at Gallery221 articulates current sociopolitical issues, expressions of African heritage, the struggle for equality, and the power of self-definition. |
Fall 2020 – Summer 2021
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New Roots Art Collective: Root’d |
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LOCATION | Gallery221 | 2nd floor DLRC |
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May 24 – July 1, 2021 |
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Founded in the summer of 2020 amidst a national groundswell of calls for racial justice, New Roots Art Collective is a group of four Tampa-based artists committed to expanding African American representation in the arts. In Root’d at Gallery221, artists Melvin “Langstn'' Halsey Jr., Indie Reece, Ron Simmons and Briauna Walker share traditional, contemporary, aspirational and reimagined visions of black power. Through their work, the members of NRAC build on the legacy of previous generations of black artists, acknowledging and honoring their cultural history, while striving to create more space for African American artists to be able to center their work in pride, joy and free expression. |
EXHIBITION TITLE | Engulfed |
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LOCATION | Gallery221 | 2nd floor DLRC |
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March 8 – May 6, 2021 |
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Engaging issues around climate crisis, sustainability, and pressing ecological concerns, Engulfed is a group show that highlights artistic responses to our evolving environmental issues. Co-curated by Sarah Howard and Amanda Poss, the exhibition features a range of regional voices alongside select works from the Permanent Art Collection of the USF Contemporary Art Museum. Featured artists include: Liset Castillo, Mark Dion, Brandie Dziegiel, Kenny Jensen, Carol Mickett & Robert Stackhouse, Laurencia Strauss and Tory Tepp. Sarah Howard is the Curator of Public Art and Social Practice, and Research Associate at the University of South Florida’s Institute for Research in Art. Amanda Poss is the Gallery Director for Hillsborough Community College Dale Mabry and Ybor City Campuses. |
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Calyx Schenecker Art Infinitum: 21st Annual Hillsborough County High School Fine Arts Competition |
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Location | Gallery3 | 3rd Floor DLRC |
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April 5 – April 29, 2021 |
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Exhibition Description |
Now in its 21st year, the Calyx Schenecker Art Infinitum displays winners of the Annual Hillsborough County High School Fine Arts Competition. The juried competition gives students an opportunity to be recognized for their achievements in the visual arts, with scholarships awarded to students in the categories of 2D art, 3D art, and photography. Exhibition will be on display in Gallery3 Dale Mabry campus, and a reception and awards ceremony will be held virtually on Zoom. |
Gallery3 | 3rd floor DLRC
October 5 – December 10, 2020
Rampolla: Three Generations Illuminate Human Dignity spans the artistic and research efforts of the Rampolla family. The exhibition features the photography of Renato Rampolla alongside works by his father, the figurative expressionist artist Frank Rampolla, as well as interfamilial research conducted by Renato’s daughter, Selena Rampolla.
Renato Rampolla (b. 1959) is an artist living and working in Tampa, FL and a recipient of a 2019 Arts Council of Hillsborough County Professional Development Artist Grant Award. Frank Rampolla (1931-1971) was a nationally recognized artist whose work remains in permanent collections of institutions like the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art. Selena Rampolla, HCC alumnus, graduated with an Academic Excellence Award in Psychology and presented on Frank’s work at the 2019 National Collegiate Honors Council Annual Conference.
Gallery221 | 2nd floor DLRC
November 2 – December 10, 2020
Narrative Nowhere is an exhibition produced by the artists of the Tampa-based artist collective Separate Checks. Their exhibition in Gallery221@HCC encourages viewers to take part in viewing a wide array of artwork from artists representing various backgrounds and narratives. In response to the tumultuous events of 2020, the artists of Separate Checks showcase work which allows viewers to reflect on their own narrative by accessing the various stories on display in the exhibition. Narrative Nowhere includes photographs produced from across the country, video works that explore personal histories, and sculptures that physically conjure up the past.
Featured artists: McKinna Anderson, Aaron Castillo, Krista Darling, Jon Dorofy, Anna Dunwody, Nabil Harb, Adam Mathieu, Katelyn Montagna, Andres Ramirez, Erika Schnur, Kristy Summerson, and Jessica Thornton.
Gallery221 | 2nd floor DLRC
August 17 – October 22, 2020
Gallery221@HCC’s Warm Up: In Tandem is a solo exhibition of work by Dominique Labauvie (b. 1948 in Strasbourg, France) featuring a large, site-specific sculpture and a selection of prints published by Bleu Acier Inc. Labauvie’s rigid, yet lyrical lines remind the viewer of the gallery space’s own role as an instrument for artists—a vessel for play and practice as well as a tool for showcasing finished work.
Originally set to open in mid-March, the exhibition was delayed due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) health crisis and extended into the fall. A virtual exhibition reception was held on May 21, 2020, with Dominique Labauvie, Erika Greenberg-Schneider, Soprano Esther Labauvie, and Dee Moses, principal double-bass in The Florida Orchestra. During the event, Esther Labauvie and Dee Moses shared a virtual performance of Dido’s Lament, composed by Henry Purcell (1688) and arranged by Gilda Lyons (2017). You can view both the performance and the Warm Up: In Tandem reception online.
Labauvie is an internationally renowned artist living and working in Tampa, FL. He has had notable solo exhibitions at the Tampa Museum of Art and the Leepa Rattner Museum of Art, and his work is in public collections at the National Collection of Contemporary Art in France, the Mead Art Museum in Amherst, MA, and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, FL among many others. He is represented by Bleu Acier Inc.
Gallery3 | 3rd floor DLRC
Saumitra Chandratreya and Kevin Mooney
August 17 – September 24, 2020
Language is a transcription of a perceived thought, concept, emotion, or image. In Secret Language of Intimacy, Kevin Mooney has taken the perception of emotions in relationships and transcribed them into a poetic form of language, and Saumitra Chandratreya has interpreted that language into abstract artistic images. Both transcriptions are valid interpretations of the same emotions.
Chandratreya is a fiber and installation artist living and working in St. Petersburg, FL, who received a Masters of Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. Mooney is an author, poet, minister, and Reiki Master residing in Venice, FL, who received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Marquette University in 1979.
Fall 2019 – Summer 2020
Calyx Schenecker Art Infinitum: 20th Annual Hillsborough County High School Fine Arts Competition
Gallery3 | 3rd floor DLRC
April 2020
Now in its 20th year, Calyx Schenecker Art Infinitum displays winners of the Annual Hillsborough County High School Fine Arts Competition. The juried competition gives students an opportunity to be recognized for their achievements in the visual arts, with scholarships awarded to students in the categories of 2D art, 3D art and photography. Scholarships are awarded by the Calyx and Beau Memorial Fund.
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) health crisis, this exhibition was made available virtually. Visit the exhibition and view the 2020 winners in our online gallery.
Kalup Linzy
January 21 – March 5, 2020
Gallery221
Kalup Linzy (b. 1977, Clermont, FL) is an internationally recognized video and performance artist whose work examines gender, sexuality, identity politics and popular culture through the tropes of daytime soap operas and reality television. Relations: Discord, Melodrama, and the Intimate in the work of Kalup Linzy surveys nearly 20 years of the artist’s episodic video works alongside related works on paper, chronicling the ties, conflicts, and drama of the extended Queen Rose family. During the opening reception, Linzy will perform in the gallery as both Kaye and Taiwan, two assumed personas from his extensive compilation of identities.
Linzy received his MFA from the University of South Florida in 2003. His work can be found in the public collections at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Whitney Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Linzy is currently a fellow at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and represented by David Castillo Gallery in Miami, FL.
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Samir Bernardez, Bahareh Khoshooee, Laura Kim Meckling, and Sam(ira) Obeid
January 13 – February 27, 2020
Gallery3
Named after an excerpt from “The New Colossus”—the sonnet by Emma Lazarus enshrined inside of the base of the Statue of Liberty—Mother of Exiles at Gallery3 is a group exhibition of works that document, represent and recontextualize the difficulties and obstructions immigrants face in the current political moment. Through photography, poetry, video and installation, artists Samir Bernardez, Bahareh Khoshooee, Laura Kim Meckling, and Sam(ira) Obeid examine their own experiences navigating the United States immigration system while raising timely questions about citizenship, borders and popular perception.
Lynn Foskett, Leslie Neumann and Roberta Schofield
October 7 – December 5, 2019
Gallery3
This exhibition was the second showing at Gallery221 to explore the artistic careers of older artists. The three painters in this exhibition are female artists over the age of 65 who collectively have been practicing artists for more than 130 years. It is a complement to the exhibition 130 Years: John Gurbacs, Tom Kettner, and Stephen Schatz presented in Gallery221 in the fall of 2017. Guest curated by Lynn Whitelaw.
Lynn Foskett
“More often than not, I am taken aback by what I think I see or understand and the reality beneath; perception is, at best, imprecise. Whether visual or emotional, our interpretations of our world, seen and unseen, are equally deceptive. My work reflects a continuing curiosity in exploring the dichotomy between perception and reality, and the resulting ambiguities.”
Leslie Neumann | www.leslieneumann.com
“Oftentimes, I paint nature from the ‘kayak point of view,’ up close, nose to nose with the wetlands. These paintings are full of vibrant colors and lush textures. Occasionally, I paint nature from a flying bird’s point of view, when I float above it all in the clouds, but I’m still within view of the earth. Once in a while, the journey is deep into the cosmos where there’s no attachment to land, and I feel free from time and gravity.”
Roberta Schofield | www.rschofieldart.com
“My current work uses a wide range of subjects, all processed through photo-editing software to emerge with painterly and fantasy quality that reveal my vision for color, line, volume, and texture. With manipulations applied to an image until it is something new, the worlds created in the computer take on a reality of their own, both modern and timeless.”
Ashley Ortiz-Diaz and Janelle Young
Gallery3
September 30 – November 21, 2019
Co-curated by Amanda Poss and Phillip A. Townsend, What lies beyond at Gallery3 presents recent work by artists Ashley Ortiz-Diaz and Janelle Young. Moving deftly between physical expanses and psychological topographies of the self, the selected artworks by Ortiz-Diaz and Young question our understanding of matter, materials and what lies beyond our perception of the known world. Including drawings, photographs, prints and found objects, What lies beyond encourages viewers to consider the liminal spaces between what was and what lies ahead—the spheres of transitions, pauses and the unknown. Ortiz-Diaz (b. 1991) received her MFA from the University of Florida in 2019 and currently lives and works in Gainesville, FL. Janelle Young (b. 1983) is an artist and educator currently living in Tampa, FL who received her MFA degree from the University of Georgia in 2016.
Gabriel Ramos
Gallery221
Gabriel Ramos (b. 1987 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico) is an internationally recognized artist currently living and working in Tampa Bay, FL. In Una pausa en un apuro at Gallery221, Ramos’ wire and fabric installations, which are largely inspired by his childhood memories of Puerto Rico, explore concepts of fragility, the ephemeral quality of home, and the potentiality of line and shape. Ramos received his MFA from Cornell University in 2018.
"The line for me is the vehicle for invention. With a simple line my world is transformed. A single line can make you doubt your reality. A line can have an infinite number of configurations. Within my work gravity determines how the line is presented but the use of a material such as wire challenges it. El garabato or in English 'the doodle' portrays an automatic sense of failure. However 'the doodle' also exemplifies the potentiality of the line in humor and action."
Kenny Jensen
July 22 – September 19, 2019
Gallery3
A Florida native who spent much of his childhood outdoors, artist Kenny Jensen (b. 1977) maintains a deep connection to the state’s unique natural environment. Jensen actively collects, categorizes, and re-contextualizes found organic objects and phenomena, which in turn serve as inspiration or raw material for sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, and videos. His exhibition Although I am not you, I am not other than you either in Gallery3 contemplates current social issues like tribalism, xenophobia, and climate change apathy/denial by drawing comparisons between human behavior and natural processes found in insect and plant life. Jensen, who received his BFA from Carson Newman University in 2000, currently lives and works in St. Petersburg, FL.
“My newest sculptures and paintings are the result of my studio practice evolving and expanding over the past few years. Shifting away from using found specimen as the primary art making materials, I have begun to push toward more intentional manipulation and reproduction of the natural forms and patterns using more traditional sculptural materials. These new creations remain faithful to the original forms, while simultaneously exploring ecstatic new possibilities through wild exaggerations in scale, composition, and color.
Fall 2018 – Summer 2019
Robert Aiosa and Jay Giroux
May 13 – June 27, 2019
Robert Aiosa and Jay Giroux examine the parts of the urban landscape that are often most forgettable: walls displaying only the torn fragments of weathered advertising, architectural structures in transition and/or decay and concrete environments devoid of any sign of human life, save for the occasional article of litter. All of these coalesce into a visual lexicon of “non place.” In an expansive exhibition take-over of both Gallery221 and Gallery3, Aiosa and Giroux employ sculpture, painting and installation to explore the structure, grit and story of urban areas overlooked.
Aiosa received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015 and is now a Faculty Research Associate and Sculpture Fabricator at the University of South Florida’s Graphicstudio. Giroux is an artist, designer and educator who received his MFA from the University of Houston in 2011.
Experimentation and Orthodoxy: Printmaking at the University of Tampa
March 25 – May 2, 2019
Gallery221
Visiting and residential artists have been making prints at the University of Tampa since 1990. From the inception of STUDIO-f, to the current Meridian Scholar Program, invited artists have worked alongside faculty members and students to create work that involves a wide range of traditional and experimental practices.
Across time, techniques and processes, this exhibition showcases the breadth and depth of UT’s print collection, which testifies to the development of different voices and languages of scholarly research in this rich artistic practice. From woodcuts to lithographs, from silkscreens to monotypes and digitally produced images, this medium is as versatile as it is challenging in its ability to foster experimentation, reflection, and mastery, as well as the creation of an ever-present tension between absolute control and sublime chance management.
Image credit: Joyce J. Scott, Obama & St. Martin, '08, 2008. Image courtesy of Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, University of Tampa.
Francesca Bacci (co-curator) is an inter-disciplinary curator and scholar specializing in museum and visual studies and the history of modern and contemporary art. As a Fulbright fellow, Bacci earned a Ph.D. and a Curatorial Certificate from Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ, 2004). She is currently Associate Professor and Head of the B.A. in Museum Studies at the Department of Art + Design, University of Tampa, FL, where she also serves as Chair of the Exhibition Committee and Chief Curator at Scarfone/Hartley Gallery. Her scholarly contributions include the acclaimed volume “Art and the Senses” (Oxford University Press, 2011 and 2013). She is currently completing two book projects: “The Body at the Museum,” on multisensory engagement in exhibition practices, and “The Art of Misogyny,” a history of misogyny in Modern and Contemporary Art.
Ry McCullough (co-curator) is an artist and educator, working in Tampa, Florida. He earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio where he concentrated in the areas of printmaking and sculpture. Upon completion of his undergraduate work he served as the Director of Sculptural Studies as well as teaching printmaking at Stivers School for the Arts. McCullough received his MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. He currently is serving the Department of Art + Design as an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Tampa. McCullough has exhibited nationally, internationally and is the founder of the Standard Action Press Collaborative Zine Project.
Calyx Schenecker Art Infinitum: 19th Annual Hillsborough County High School Fine Arts Competition
April 1 – 26, 2019
Gallery3
Now in its 19th year, the Calyx Schenecker Art Infinitum displays winners of the Annual Hillsborough County High School Fine Arts Competition. The juried competition gives students an opportunity to be recognized for their achievements in the visual arts, with scholarships awarded to students in the categories of 2D art, 3D art, and photography. Exhibition, awards ceremony, and reception will take place in Gallery3@HCC Dale Mabry Campus. Scholarships awarded by the Calyx and Beau Memorial Fund.
Steve Locke
January 22 – March 7, 2019
Gallery221
Omar Richardson
January 14 – February 28, 2019
Gallery3
Kingship and Celebration
Pop-up exhibition with performances by Orisirisi African Folklore
December 4 – 7, 2018
Gallery221
Kate Helms
November 5 – December 12, 2018
Gallery3
An Art Exhibition Celebrating HCC's 50th Anniversary
October 15 – November 21, 2018
Gallery221
Roberto Marquez
September 17 – October 25, 2018
Gallery3
Jezabeth Roca Gonzalez
October 8 – 11, 2018
Gallery 221
April Hartley, Catherine Joslyn, Carolyn Kossar, Gary Schmitt, and Matthew Wicks
August 20 – October 4, 2018
Gallery221