![A painting of an older house with veranda and a crepe myrtle in front](/sites/default/files/Seminole%20Heights%20Tampa%20by%20Mike%20King.jpeg)
Past Exhibitions at Gallery 114
2023 –2024
![A painting of an older house with veranda and a crepe myrtle in front](/sites/default/files/Seminole%20Heights%20Tampa%20by%20Mike%20King.jpeg)
EXHIBITION TITLE |
HCC Art Galleries Annual Juried Members Show |
LOCATION |
Gallery114@HCC | 1st Floor YPAB |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
May 20 - June 28, 2024 |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | |
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION |
HCC Art Galleries hosted its inaugural Annual Juried Members Show from May 20 through June 28, with an opening reception Thurs., May 23, 6-8 p.m. Forty-eight gallery members submitted work to the show, which exhibited artwork created by HCC student and faculty gallery members alongside artwork created by Tampa Bay-area artists. |
50th Annual HCC Student Juried Art Exhibition
![Collage of lottery tickets superimposed over a portrait of a black man](/sites/default/files/Camille%20Denmark_The%20Numbers.png)
EXHIBITION TITLE | 50th Annual HCC Student Juried Art Exhibition |
LOCATION |
Gallery114@HCC | 1st Floor YPAB |
SCHEDULE |
April 11 – May 2, 2024 Reception Thursday, April 11, 6-8 p.m. Awards Ceremony at 7 p.m. |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | View a photo album of this exhibition |
DESCRIPTION |
The diversity of media entered by HCC’s students and the instruction of HCC’s art faculty combine to make the Annual HCC Student Juried Art Exhibition a challenging, exciting show. Now in its 50th year, featured artworks span the many disciplines of HCC’s School of Visual and Performing Arts, such as photography, design, digital media, printmaking, drawing, painting, sculpture and more. This year’s exhibition will be presented in Gallery114@HCC with a special awards ceremony to take place in the Mainstage Theatre. Additionally, HCC Art Galleries is continuing the tradition of the Salon des Refusés by displaying works not accepted by the juror on the second floor of YPAB |
![Red art piece.](/sites/default/files/images/2024-04/oof_WOO_2.jpeg)
EXHIBITION TITLE |
Selected Topics: USF Faculty Exhibition |
LOCATION |
Gallery114@HCC | 1st Floor YPAB |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
January 8 - February 22, 2024 |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | View a photo album of this exhibition. |
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION |
Each year, the HCC Art Galleries presents a selection of work by full-time arts faculty currently teaching at a four-year university in the state of Florida. This exhibition is intended to introduce HCC students to potential mentors, departments and schools to consider for further study upon completion of their AA degree at HCC. Selected Topics: USF Faculty Exhibition features artists from both Tampa and St. Petersburg campuses who work across a wide array of media and conceptual frameworks, offering a glimpse into the breadth and variety of artistic and pedagogical perspectives at the University of South Florida’s College of the Arts. Artists include: Wendy Babcox, Neil Bender, Adam Farcus, McArthur Freeman, Gregory Green, Erika Greenberg-Schneider, Sue Havens, Ezra Johnson, Ro Lawrence, Jason Lazarus, Noelle Mason, Anat Pollack, Susanna Wallin, David Watts and Joo Yeon Woo. |
EXHIBITION TITLE |
Howard W. Blake High School: Senior Master Certification Exhibition |
LOCATION |
Gallery114@HCC | 1st Floor YPAB |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
November 27 - December 7, 2023 |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | |
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION |
Now in its 25th year, the Senior Master Certification Exhibition includes a selection of work by graduating students from Howard W. Blake High School. To receive the distinction of a Master Certification, these students must take a rigorous set of art classes within their four-year high school program culminating in the development of a cohesive art portfolio. Initiated in 1999 by Linda Galgani, this exhibition provides opportunities for local collaboration and for young artists to be recognized for their achievements. |
![Ligth brown transparent image superimporsed on black and gray geometrc spirals](/sites/default/files/YA%20LA%27FORD%20HENGE%202023.jpg)
EXHIBITION TITLE |
Ya La’ford: HENGE - unearthing ancestral memory |
LOCATION |
Gallery114@HCC | 1st Floor YPAB |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
August 28 - November 2, 2023 |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | |
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION |
Ya La’ford (b. 1979, Bronx, NY) is an internationally recognized multimedia artist whose bold, geometric work explores themes of transformation and transcendence. Her solo exhibition HENGE – unearthing ancestral memory in Gallery114@HCC invites viewers to reconsider symbols from ancient civilizations as keys for navigating the shapes and patterns of modern life. Concepts such as connection, excavation, reverence, and memory are woven together for an immersive and multi-sensory installation. Inspired by forms such as neolithic henges, kivas, and other ancient architectural monuments, these new works by La’ford investigate ancestral messages and reimagines them for contemporary audiences. Ya La’ford received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from The Art Institute of Boston in 2012. She also holds a JD from the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of NIKE, the Boston Public Library, and many others, as well as on the walls of buildings throughout the Tampa Bay area including the Morean Arts Center, the James Weldon Johnson Public Library, and Al Lang Stadium. She is has exhibited and collected with SPP, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations, The Jeff & Penny Vinik Family, Tampa Museum of Fine Arts, Orlando Museum of Fine Art as a Prize Artist, NIKE, Asia Contemporary, Venice Biennale Activation Projects, YEELEN Gallery, SNAP Orlando, and the Ringling Museum, among others. Her community projects with installations on exterior walls throughout Tampa Bay area include USF, Historic Manhattan Casio, HYATT, Community Foundation, Rays Stadium, the Morean Arts Center, the James Weldon Johnson Public Library, and Rowdies - Al Lang Stadium, WADA and many more nationally & internationally. |
2022 – 2023
![Neon green field notebook lying on dried plant material](/sites/default/files/FieldNotes.jpg)
EXHIBITION TITLE |
Finn Schult: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted |
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Exhibition Location |
Gallery114@HCC | 1st Floor YPAB |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
May 22 – June 22, 2023 Reception Thursday, May 25, 5-8 p.m. Artist talk to begin at 6 p.m. |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | View a photo album of the exhibition. |
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION |
Everything You’ve Ever Wanted is a solo exhibition of new work by Finn Schult (b. 1993, Naples, FL) reflecting on the inevitability of the end of the world and the fantasy of apocalypse as catalyst for utopia. Schult’s multimedia series exists as fragments, sketches and interludes distilled from an otherwise deranged web of theories. At times, the artworks presented in Gallery114@HCC feel terroristic, violent and unbearably bleak–at other times, they remind us of the beauty inherent in loss, longing and love. Schult’s work yearns for a world that doesn’t yet exist and mourns for a world that isn’t yet gone, answering the cry, “How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?” with “The only way out is through.” Finn Schult is a visual artist and co-director of Heiress Gallery currently living and working in St. Petersburg, FL. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2019. Guest curator Emiliano Settecasi earned his BFA in Studio Art from the University of South Florida in 2016. He is the founder and director of the Department of Contemporary Art Tampa, FL and a member of the artist collective QUAID. |
![A painting of a face with two hands touching the cheeks](/sites/default/files/Touch%20Starved.jpeg)
Exhibition Title |
49th Annual HCC Student Juried Art Exhibition |
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Exhibition Location |
Gallery114 | 1st Floor YPAB |
Exhibition Schedule |
April 10 – May 4, 2023 Reception Thursday, April 13, 6-8 p.m. Awards ceremony to begin at 6 p.m. |
Exhibition Album | View a photo album of the exhibition. |
Exhibition Description |
The diversity of media entered by HCC’s students and the instruction of HCC’s full-time and adjunct art faculty combine to make this a challenging, exciting exhibition. Now in its 49th year, featured artworks include the fine arts disciplines of the HCC Ybor City Campus’s School of Visual and Performing Arts, such as photography, ceramics, digital art, design foundations, digital media, printmaking, drawing, painting, sculpture, and mixed media artworks. This year’s annual exhibition will be presented in Gallery114@HCC with a special awards ceremony to take place in the Mainstage Theatre. |
![Organic sculpture mounted on rod pedestal](/sites/default/files/Finding_Form01.jpg)
Exhibition Title |
Finding Form: McArthur Freeman |
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Exhibition Location |
Gallery114 | 1st Floor YPAB |
Exhibition Schedule |
January 9 - February 23, 2023 Closing Reception Thursday, February 23, 5-8 p.m. Gallery talk to begin at 6 p.m. |
Exhibition Album | View a photo album of the exhibition. |
Exhibition Description |
McArthur Freeman’s practice explores how identity construction and hybridity are visually generated. The artworks in Finding Form at Gallery114@HCC consist of globular, amorphous forms spliced together and given organic features. The strange mutations suggest familiarity while simultaneously collapsing into abstraction, proposing the breakdown and reformation of new identities. Freeman’s work begins as speculative drawing—a term coined by the artist to express the intuitive nature of his process—and is then translated into digital sculpture, fabricated through 3D printing, and finally cast in bronze. The pseudo-scientific multi-step process allows the artist to intentionally conceive forms virtually and then physically materialize them in the world. Freeman earned a BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Florida, an MFA from Cornell University with a concentration in Painting, and a Master of Art and Design from North Carolina State University in Animation and New Media. Freeman is the recipient of the prestigious McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship from the Florida Education Fund. |
![Painting titled 'Do Whatever'](/sites/default/files/dowhatevercrop.jpg)
Exhibition Title |
Howard W. Blake High School: Senior Master Certification Exhibition |
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Exhibition Location |
Gallery114 | 1st Floor YPAB |
Exhibition Schedule |
November 28 – December 8, 2022 Reception Thursday, December 1, 5–8 p.m. |
Exhibition Album | View a photo album of the exhibition. |
Exhibition Description |
Now in its 24th year, the Senior Master Certification Exhibition includes a selection of work by graduating students from Howard W. Blake High School. To receive the distinction of a Master Certification, these students must take a rigorous set of art classes within their four-year high school program culminating in the development of a cohesive art portfolio. Initiated in 1999 by Linda Galgani, this exhibition provides opportunities for local collaboration and for young artists to be recognized for their achievements. |
![Women in garden with headdress](/sites/default/files/Wanda_Nature_Queen.jpeg)
Exhibition Title |
Sanctuary: Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz |
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Exhibition Location |
Gallery114 | 1st Floor YPAB |
Exhibition Schedule |
August 15 - October 27, 2022 Closing Reception Thursday, October 27, 5-8 p.m. Gallery talk to begin at 6 p.m. |
Exhibition Album | View a photo album of the exhibition. |
Exhibition Description |
Throughout her career, internationally recognized artist Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (b. 1973, The Bronx, New York, NY) has confronted issues of race, bias, trauma, and class in her work, often through embodying strong, alpha-female archetypes ranging from the regal Las Reinas to the street-wise Chuleta. In her solo exhibition Sanctuary at Gallery114@HCC, new works in sculpture and performance portraits create a space of healing and refuge that intertwine with themes related to nature, hair culture, social politics and urban-futurism. Raimundi-Ortiz received her MFA in 2008 from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of Art and is currently an associate professor of studio art at George Mason University. |
2021 – 2022
![Marjorie Green Graff: In a dream I was a flower](/sites/default/files/Marjorie%20Greene%20Graff_In%20a%20dream%20I%20was%20a%20flower_2021-2_0_1.jpg)
EXHIBITION TITLE | Driven from the Garden: Marjorie Graff & Kim Kirchman |
EXHIBITION LOCATION | Gallery114 | 1st Floor YPAB |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE | May 16 - June 23, 2022 Reception Thursday, May 19, 5-8 p.m. Gallery talk to begin at 6 p.m. |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | View a photo album of the exhibition. |
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION | Bonded by their enthusiasm for the natural world and parallel careers in arts education, artists Marjorie Graff and Kim Kirchman have nurtured a long-standing friendship and ongoing artistic dialogue. Encapsulating 25 years of collaboration and conversation, Driven from the Garden at Gallery114@HCC Ybor City Campus presents works by Graff and Kirchman that demonstrate their shared affinity for floral imagery and the limits to which they have pushed such imagery in printmaking and ceramics. Embracing floral motifs for their opulence, femininity and symbolism, the artists forge harmonious connections between their distinct practices. Marjorie Graff received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and is a retired Professor of Fine Arts at St. Petersburg College. Kim Kirchman received her MFA from the University of South Florida and is a Professor of Arts at St. Petersburg College. |
![Table and chair seen from above with coffee, bagel, and crumpled napkin](/sites/default/files/images/2024-04/Sanna%20Inkin_Leftovers.jpeg)
Exhibition Title |
48th Annual HCC Student Juried Art Exhibition |
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Exhibition Location |
Gallery114 | 1st Floor YPAB |
Exhibition Schedule |
April 11 - May 5, 2022 |
Exhibition Album | View a photo album of the exhibition. |
Exhibition Description |
The diversity of media entered by HCC’s students and the instruction of HCC’s full-time and adjunct art faculty combine to make this a challenging, exciting exhibition. Now in its 48th year, the Annual HCC Student Juried Art Exhibition features artworks representative of the fine arts disciplines of the HCC Ybor City Campus’ School of Visual and Performing Arts, such as photography, ceramics, digital art, design foundations, digital media, printmaking, drawing, painting, sculpture and mixed media artworks. This year’s annual exhibition will be presented in Gallery114@HCC with a special awards ceremony to take place in the Mainstage Theatre. |
![Brush stroke painting of palms](/sites/default/files/images/2024-04/22YC_Gallery114_CumulativeNature_NorthFL_PalmBrush.jpeg)
EXHIBITION TITLE |
Hyphenated Nature: Lilian Garcia-Roig |
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Exhibition Location |
Gallery114 | 1st Floor YPAB |
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
January 10 – February 24, 2022 Reception Thursday, February 17, 5 – 8 p.m. Artist talk begins at 6 p.m. |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | View Hyphenated Nature: Lilian Garcia-Roig |
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION |
Who we are and where we are from—two seemingly simple inquiries—are complex territories for negotiation that shape the core of our personal identity. Florida-based artist Lilian Garcia-Roig (b. 1966, Cuba) uses landscape painting as a vehicle for examining notions like sense of place, belonging, and identity in both perceptually-based plein-air paintings and conceptually-based studio works. In Hyphenated Nature at Gallery114, Garcia-Roig displays her two approaches to landscape painting side-by-side, reconciling on-site works that capture dense, expressive vegetation with paintings made in her studio using Cuban soil. Seen through the lens of Garcia-Roig’s Cuban-American experience, these distinct bodies of work call to mind the intricate nature of one’s own attachment to time, place, and the lands we inhabit. Lilian Garcia-Roig received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. She lives and works in Tallahassee, FL where she is a professor and the Chair of the Department of Art at Florida State University. |
![coffee on table](/sites/default/files/images/2024-04/YB_BlakeHS_G114_FA21.jpeg)
EXHIBITION TITLE |
Howard W. Blake High School: Senior Master Certification Exhibition |
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EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
November 29 – December 9, 2021 Reception Thursday, December 2, 5 – 8 p.m. Ceremony begins at 6 p.m. |
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION |
Now in its 23rd year, the Senior Master Certification Exhibition includes a selection of work by graduating students from Howard W. Blake High School. To receive the distinction of a Master Certification, these students must take a rigorous set of art classes within their four-year high school program culminating in the development of a cohesive art portfolio. Initiated in 1999 by Linda Galgani, this exhibition provides opportunities for local collaboration and for young artists to be recognized for their achievements. |
![Por Todas Partes exhibition](/sites/default/files/images/2024-04/YB_Por-Todas-Partes_0.jpeg)
EXHIBITION TITLE |
Por Todas Partes: Alejandra Gotera and bujikimo |
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EXHIBITION SCHEDULE |
October 4 – November 10, 2021 Opening Reception Thursday, October 7 from 5 – 8 p.m. Panel discussion begins at 6 p.m. |
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION |
Por Todas Partes is an exhibition of work by bujikimo (Cesar Garcia) and Alejandra Gotera. United by a common freneticism, chromatic intensity, and an all-over approach to painting, Gotera and bujikimo place their two distinct, yet complementary, artistic practices in conversation for their exhibition with Gallery114 Ybor City Campus. Often combining Japanese hannya mask-inspired avatars with tropical imagery, bujikimo organizes iconography to pay equal attention to all areas of his compositions. In contrast, Gotera builds fully abstract compositions out of a frenzy of marks and bright fields of color, an exercise in finding stability amidst chaos that reflects her experiences as a Venezuelan living and working in the United States. bujikimo is an artist living and working in Tampa Bay, FL. Alejandra Gotera is an artist and educator living and working in Miami, FL. |
![multimedia art of skull with patterns](/sites/default/files/YB_Paradoxical-Synthesis_G114_FA21.jpeg)
Exhibition Title |
Illsol: A Paradoxical Synthesis |
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Artist | Illsol |
Exhibition Schedule |
August 16 - September 23, 2021 Reception Thursday, September 16, 5 - 8 p.m. Artist lecture to begin at 6 p.m. |
Exhibition Album | View a photo album of the exhibition. |
Exhibition Description |
A Paradoxical Synthesis is a visual narrative that explores how artists Tony Krol and Michelle Sawyer, who work collectively as Illsol, merge contrasting thought processes and approaches into one cohesive style. While the contrasting methods are apparent in their murals, A Paradoxical Synthesis offers a more intimate exploration of the pair’s artistic dichotomy. Through the display of both small- and large-scale artworks, their exhibition in Gallery114 provides a closer examination of how each individual’s influences, experiences and inspiration have shaped their collective aesthetic. |
Exhibition Title |
47th Annual HCC Student Art Exhibition |
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Exhibition Schedule |
April 12 – May 7, 2021 |
Location | Gallery 114 | 1st floor YPAB |
Exhibition Album | |
Exhibition Description |
The diversity of media entered by HCC’s students and the instruction of HCC’s full-time and adjunct art faculty combine to make this a challenging, exciting exhibition. Now in its 47th year, featured artworks include the fine arts disciplines of the HCC Ybor City Campus’s School of Visual and Performing Arts, such as photography, ceramics, digital art, design foundations, digital media, printmaking, drawing, painting, sculpture and mixed media artworks. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis, this year’s annual exhibition will be presented in the form of a virtual art exhibition featuring works by a select number of students nominated by faculty. |
EXHIBITION TITLE | Howard W. Blake High School: Senior Master Certification Exhibition |
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EXHIBITION SCHEDULE | March 25 – April 9, 2021 |
EXHIBITION ALBUM | View this online exhibition |
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION | Now in its twenty-second year, the Senior Master Certification Exhibition includes a selection of work by graduating students from Howard W. Blake High School. To receive the distinction of a Master Certification, these students must take a rigorous set of art classes within their four-year high school program culminating in the development of a cohesive art portfolio. Initiated in 1999 by Linda Galgani, this exhibition provides opportunities for local collaboration and for young artists to be recognized for their achievements. |
![painting of trees superimposed on blue water and whale.](/sites/default/files/styles/ifde_wysiwyg_full/public/images/2020-02/20YC_Gallery114_As-the-Gulf-Turns.jpg?h=db65751a&itok=OACGaKHE)
Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse
February 6 – March 20, 2020
As the Gulf turns, so does the world. Its bodies of water, masses of land, the great expanse of sky, and all its living and unliving inhabitants form a collaboration of ecosystems. Because of decades of human use of fossil fuels and the deforestation of our planet, there has been a significant increase of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) in the world. Our ecosystems are not in balance. Our planet and our waters are warming. As inhabitants of the west coast of Florida, Mickett and Stackhouse, as in their past work, focus on the Gulf of Mexico in this show. For what happens here in the Gulf impacts and is influenced by what happens there in the rest of the world. In particular, this show acknowledges the effects of the warming of the Gulf and the waters of the world by their over-capacity absorption of CO2. In so doing, they celebrate the local Florida mangrove and live oak which are natural, large absorbers of CO2. Our survival depends on reducing the levels of CO2 in the world. Like sand in the hour glass, our time is running out.
Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse have been working collaboratively for over 10 years. During this time, they have produced large-scale sculpture, painting and prints, many of which have been commissioned. Their collaboration is one in which both artists work on all aspects of their projects. Mickett and Stackhouse have chosen to work together because they push each other beyond their comfort zones to do work that neither of them would attempt individually. Mickett comes to the collaboration from a background in philosophy, film, radio, poetry and theatre. Stackhouse followed a traditional visual arts path and his individual work can be found in museum collections around the world. They will create a site-specific installation inside Gallery114.
Clyde Butcher
October 3–December 6, 2019
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 3, 4:30–7:30pm
Book Signing, 4:30–6:30pm
The majestic beauty, boldness and depth of Clyde Butcher’s photographs have earned him the recognition of the foremost landscape photographic artist in America today. He has been called the next Ansel Adams by Popular Photography magazine. The silver gelatin hand processing of each photograph hallmarks his work. Clyde was invited to photograph the mountains of Cuba for the United Nations’ Conference for the Sustainable Habitat of the Mountain. This exhibition transcends political boundaries and challenges us to work together to protect natural places across the globe.
Sponsored in part by a Resources for Excellence Grant from the HCC Foundation. Celebrating Hispanic Heritage on the Ybor City Campus.
![Digital art cover of Mark Rodriguez's "Conjuring" exhibition.](/sites/default/files/styles/ifde_wysiwyg_full/public/images/2019-08/19YB_Gallery114_img10.jpg?h=eddf64cf&itok=VwHvzw19)
Mark Rodriguez
August 19–September 19, 2019
Artist's Talks 6:15pm
Mark Rodriguez is a Tampa visual artist whose work is a twisted ride through reality and the subconscious. His self-portrait work is a blend of elements from pop-culture surrealism, humor, horror and all points in between. His Photoshop images are steeped in story and hidden meanings, and they frequently juxtapose the familiar with the unexpected in what he calls “approachable darkness.” He is the recipient of the “Best in Show” 2015 Photoshopworld Guru award. The exhibit is curated by HCC Assistant Professor of Art Christopher W. Weeks, Photography and Digital Art.
![abstract art titled "Inside Out" by Debra Radke](/sites/default/files/styles/ifde_wysiwyg_full/public/images/2019-07/19YC_Gallery114_img8.jpg?h=1c83a90f&itok=hfQCaHZW)
Creatives Exchange Artists Collective
June 27–July 31, 2019
Creatives Exchange Artists bring together diverse histories and unique processes in an array of media and methods of making. Working towards inclusion, they offer multiple perspectives and unique voices. Fractured/Spaces is a visual dialogue of the artists’ personal and collective explorations expressed in photography, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, painting, glasswork, and dance.
Community Stepping Stones
May 18 – June 14, 2019
Collaborating for 17 years now, the gallery at HCC has provided an important link to the ever-evolving, well-respected, art-infused, collaborative learning program for at-risk kids 7-13 years of age in Sulphur Springs and surrounding areas. In 2018 for their Remastering A Masterpiece exhibition, Community Stepping Stones partnered with several other child service groups to create their exhibition. Community Stepping Stones is proud to be able to make positive contributions to the environment, economics and quality of life for families in this community and others around Hillsborough County.
April 17 – May 1, 2019
This exhibition will be our 45th Annual HCC student show in which all art students enter selected mediums created in the Fall and Spring semesters of 2018-19. The work will be judged by a respected outside juror. Winners receive monetary scholarships sponsored by Tampa’s women’s art support group, Las Damas De Arte, who have collaborated with HCC Ybor Art Department for 30+ years.
![Installation of "3D Printed Sculpture"](/sites/default/files/styles/ifde_wysiwyg__floated/public/images/2019-07/19YC_Gallery114_img1.jpg?h=cab1ad39&itok=TcFzn924)
Doug Sutherland
3D Printed Sculpture
March 19 – April 3, 2019
Bruegel-RoboJugman, 3D Printed Sculpture, 2018
Doug Sutherland has been working with technology as a creative medium along with traditional art materials and techniques for more than 2 decades. Having recent access to the medium of 3D printing has allowed him to successfully bring together many of the elements that he has been working with. His fascination with the works of the Northern European Renaissance artists that embodied the bizarre and surreal, has been an influence and inspiration since he discovered a reproduction of Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights.”
![Installation of "Sea the Light" exhibition](/sites/default/files/styles/ifde_wysiwyg_full/public/images/2019-07/19YC_Gallery114_img2.jpg?h=7442fb0b&itok=Ph4foLYR)
![Installation of "Sea the Light" exhibition](/sites/default/files/styles/ifde_wysiwyg__floated/public/images/2019-07/19YC_Gallery114_img2.jpg?h=7442fb0b&itok=c8PfHG2B)
John David Hawver
February 7 – March 7, 2019
For years John David Hawver worked in Miami as a commercial artist, but along with traffic, he gave that up to live and work by the ocean in Islamorada, in the Florida Keys, and paint his personal poetic visions finding inspiration in nature’s design. Hawver’s brushstrokes, each an explosion of energy, give a sensual movement to the surface of the canvas, like the light as it shimmers off the water and sand. His large landscape paintings and collages have been shown extensively in major museums and galleries throughout the South.
![Installation of "The Waterfalls of Milford Valley"](/sites/default/files/styles/ifde_wysiwyg__floated/public/images/2019-07/18YC_Gallery114_img3.jpeg?h=501e0f76&itok=KlSe9i6x)
Akiko Kotani
January 7–31, 2019
Akiko Kotani's work embodies the surprising power and attraction of simplicity. The Waterfalls of Milford Valley is a site-specific installation consisting of crocheted white plastic, cascading from atop the gallery's 20 foot ceilings to puddle on the floor. The installation reflects the deep impression of countless waterfalls she saw during her drive through the Milford Valley in New Zealand's Fiordland National Park. Whether her works are playful or serene, they contain a depth of feeling within an economy of means.
An Art Exhibition Celebrating HCC’s 50th Anniversary
The Foundations exhibition celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Hillsborough Community College, alongside 5 decades of innovation and inspiration. Foundations is a collaborative visual art exhibit showcasing the Permanent Collection artists from the Dale Mabry and Ybor City Campuses, curated by Gallery Directors Carolyn Kossar and Amanda Poss, and featuring selected artworks from current faculty and staff juried by Josette Urso. This multi-phase exhibition opened first at the HCC Dale Mabry Gallery 221 and continues there until Nov 21.
Artists featured from the Ybor City Permanent Collection include Clyde Butcher,Suzanne Camp Crosby, David Briand, Nike Okundaye, David Diaz, Jeanne Cameron, Andreas Goff, Tom Kramer, John Gurbacs, Bradley Arthur, LaszloHorvath, Tra cy Midulla, David Dye, Kirk Ke Wang, Eric Lawson, Jerry Meatyard, Steve Holm, Josette Urso, Elizabeth Mitchell, Arline Erdrich, Ruby C. Williams,and Katlyn Vazquez-Vila
![Installation of "Dormant" exhibition](/sites/default/files/styles/ifde_wysiwyg_full/public/images/2019-07/18YC_Gallery114_img4.jpg?h=2c5cc5a4&itok=9p3wEiyS)
Edgar Sanchez Cumbas
September 27 – October 25, 2018
The magic of Edgar’s artworks shown in this exhibit is their abstraction. He creates the illusion of something known and familiar that speaks about the climate of contemporary humanity. He crafts a world that is form-filled. There is a life-force, a power in his works that makes it seem as though each one has a personality of its own. The works serve as an autobiographical statement of living through this current moment of transition.
Dormant, a solo exhibition by Tampa artist Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, celebrates not only an esteemed HCC alumnus and current art instructor, but also the 50th Anniversary of Hillsborough Community College, and Hispanic Heritage Month on the Ybor City Campus.
![Installation of "Take Me Down"](/sites/default/files/styles/ifde_wysiwyg__floated/public/images/2019-07/18YC_Gallery114_img5.gif?h=2e2ae3be&itok=s-WJ6TaE)
Fountain of Pythons Photography Collection
August 20 – September 20, 2018
Fountain of Pythons is a photography collective consisting of Tampa based artists and diaspora. Current members include Wendy Babcox, Jeremy Chandler, Shawn Cheatham, Marcus DiSieno, Becky Flanders, Forrest MacDonald, Noelle Mason, Kym O’Donnell, and Selina Roman. Their mission is to provide a regular forum to incubate, discuss, and share new works, knowledge, and resources in support of each individual’s studio practice, as well as to build a foundation for collaboration, exhibition, and engagement of the public with the fruits of that practice.
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Creatives Exchange
June 28 – August 3, 2018
Creatives Exchange is a collective of professional women artists and creators who come together with the intent to serve the artistic interests of the participating artists and engage in the community, individually and as a group. Works presented will be in a variety of media, including photography, works on paper, mixed media, clay, painting and glass. This artist collective consists of artists with local and national accolades. Their work has been exhibited, published and promoted throughout the United States and beyond.
Community Stepping Stones
May 19 - June 20, 2018
Remastering a Masterpiece is an art exhibition about students taking an existing, culturally celebrated painting, sculpture or object and reimagining it in a new way. A painting becomes a rug, a theme is modernized, and new materials replace old. Students were challenged to change how we experience the art, whether that change was physical or visual was left to them. For example, shown on the cover, Community Stepping Stones students are recreating The Great Wave, Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1760–1849, as dimensional wall art.
Inspired by Community Art Activist Maria Saraceno
May 4-11, 2018
Maria Saraceno is a European born sculptor working in St. Petersburg, Fl. Saraceno has long been fascinated by art and community. With “The Pearl Project” textile art she pushes beyond traditional connotations of common objects, such as a tablecloth, and cultural customs, such as sitting down to dinner. The intricately embroidered pearls are joined together by many hands in layered messages that communicate the individuality of each maker, while reflecting their societal inter-connectedness. The artwork that emerges is a visual dialogue that engages community in shared experience, challenging what is to be treasured, preserved, or lost.
A very special thank you to Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture and the Arts for co-sponsorship of this unique community arts endeavor.
HCC’s Ybor School of Visual and Performing Arts Gallery presents the 44th Annual HCC Juried Student Art Exhibition April 4–25. The Opening Reception will take place on Wednesday, April 4 from 4:30–7:30pm with an Awards Ceremony sponsored by Las Damas De Arte at 6:00 pm.
The diversity of media entered by HCC’s talented students, and the influence and instruction of HCC’s full-time and adjunct art faculty, combine to make this a challenging and exciting exhibit. Featured are the fine arts disciplines of the Ybor School of Visual and Performing Arts, including photography, ceramics, digital art, design foundations, digital media, printmaking, drawing, painting, sculpture, and mixed media artworks. This year’s judge is Katherine Pill, Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Fl.
Works not accepted into the 44th Annual Student Show may be selected for the Salon des Refusés that will be on exhibit in The Maze Student Art Gallery located in the Administration Building, third floor, during the same hours.
Beatrice Coron
February 15–March 21, 2018
Cutting different materials and experimenting with scale and visual story-telling in silhouette, Beatrice Coron will show illustrations, pop-ups, dimensional work and wearable sculptures. Born and raised in Lyon, France, she now lives in NYC. Come discover the incredible variety of contemporary papercutting and the many possible applications of this art form, from fine art to public art commissions. Her work is in the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Gallery in Washington DC; and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
January 11 – February 7, 2018
Curated by Tampa Attorney Walter Aye and Michael A. Murphy of Silver Meteor Gallery, several Ybor City artists, past and present, will highlight the Historic Latin District, showcasing local culture, history and the vibrancy of the Ybor City art community. Featured artists are Bradley Arthur, David Audet, Dan Balk, David Dye, Ken Echezabal, Becky Flanders, Barton L. Gilmore, Joe Griffith, Kurt Holyoke, Joe Howden, Dominique Labauvie, Ellen Marshall, Duncan McClellan, Elizabeth Mitchell, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, Richard Sorrentino, Brian Taylor and Katlyn Vazquez-Vila.
Barton L. Gilmore
November 9 – December 7, 2017
Professor/Faculty in Charge of the Photography Department at St. Petersburg College in Clearwater, Barton Gilmore presents a series of his recent mixed-media assemblages and related digital photographs. Utilizing manufactured and metaphorical symbols from organic and functional materials, these assemblages corroborate with photographs, both functioning as serendipitous documentations and filtered interpretations about the significance of lifelong lessons.
Carlos Arturo Camargo Vilardy
October 6–31, 2017
The HCC Ybor City Campus Art Gallery celebrates Hispanic Heritage 2017 with an exhibition by accomplished Colombian painter and sculptor Carlos Arturo Camargo Vilardy. Carlos is a respected artist throughout the world. He now lives, works, and exhibits his work in Tampa and throughout the U.S. The installation will showcase a myriad of magnificent bronze circus figures and trapeze artists under the Big Top.
Tony Wong Palms
August 21 – September 28, 2017
Of the trinity of essences (breath, heart and mind) that gives life and makes a human being cohesive, this exhibition focuses on the heart part of the equation. There are fifteen pieces in various media, exploring the human story: the loves, the suffering, the evolution and discoveries in this one organ, during this journey we call life.
Tony is Exhibitions Designer for the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum; and an avid explorer of inner space.
July 13 – August 3, 2017
Creatives Exchange is a collective of professional women artists and creators who come together with the intent to serve the artistic interests of the participating artists and engage in the community, individually and as a group.
Works presented will be in a variety of media, including photography, works on paper, mixed media, clay, painting and glass. There will also be a site-specific audience participation piece, and works from guest artist, Melissa Fair.
This artist collective consists of artists with local and national accolades. Their work has been exhibited, published and promoted throughout the United States and beyond.
May 18 - June 20, 2017
Over 100 young artists from schools and organizations across Tampa Bay including Oak Grove Elementary School, Community Stepping Stones' Sulphur Springs Campus, Metropolitan Ministries, Tampa Housing Authority and Hispanic Services Council explored the effects of transportation on our world. From Viking long ships to space shuttles students traced the impact of exploration and cultural expansion through history. They learned that transportation can influence many aspects of our lives including how we eat, what we wear and where we live.
April 5 – 26, 2017
Sponsored by Las Damas de Arte
Salon des Refusés
Kendra Frorup
February 9 – March 21, 2017
As an artist and educator who grew up in the Bahamas, Kendra Frorup researches the influences of culture on expression. This new, site-specific body of work continues her investigation of Caribbean and African cultures, identifying elements that include history, community, sculptural form, symbolism, and spirituality. Through these explorations she hopes to understand more about the commonalities and diversity of human social existence. Kendra is an associate professor of art at the University of Tampa.
Henthorne
January 5 – 31, 2017
Henthorne is a Tampa artist/photographer/explorer who works in the medium of high contrast black and white photography. Influenced by his passion for the oceans of the world, his photographic intersections of ocean and earth provide the backdrop for his minimalistic visions of cumulative geological time. These long-exposure images capture an alternate perspective on reality. Henthorne collaborates with earthscape artist Andres Amador, whose massive beach murals evoke a message of grandeur and transience.
Stan Natchez
November 10 – December 9, 2016
Stan Natchez is a ShoShoni/Tatavian artist who currently lives in Santa Fe, NM. Stan’s mixed-media paintings document the Native American in the 21st Century. Inspired by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, T.C. Cannon and other pop artists, his works exude the power of color and familiar objects. Natchez combines Native American imagery with commercial images to create powerful, provocative artworks, using US currency, food stamps, maps, and comics.
Mark Stuart Gagnon
October 6 – 31, 2016
Bradenton artist Mark Stuart Gagnon began drawing in the NeoPopRealism style in the early 1990s. His Stream of Consciousness, No Edit approach lent well to Mark’s loose style of Abstract Pen and Ink. By the year 2000, these drawings had evolved into a series of abstract mazes. Solvable with more than one solution. Mark’s mazes became more than simply interactive puzzles. They stimulate the eye and challenge the mind. Gagnon is currently working on a 3 foot x 100 foot Solvable Maze which he hopes will secure him a place in the Guinness Book of World’s Records for the Largest Hand Drawn Maze.
Tampa Audubon Society Photo Club
July 7 – August 4, 2016
Tampa Audubon Society is a volunteer, non-profit organization established in the 1940s. This exhibit showcases the wildlife photographs of over 15 Photo Club members. Audubon's mission is to conserve and restore our ecosystems, focusing on birds, wildlife and their habitats, through education, advocacy and community involvement.
April 11 – 30, 2014
This exhibition is a major milestone for the college as HCC students enter their work in the 40th year of student exhibits presented on the Ybor Campus. All mediums created in the 2 semesters of 2013-14 will be judged by a respected outside juror. Winners will receive monetary scholarships sponsored by Tampa’s Art support group, Las Damas De Arte.
January – May 2014
“Foreverglades”is an environmental installation of six large red recycled plastic snail sculptures installed in front of the SSB and PAB. The installation will be in place mid-January through Earth Day, April 22. The “Foreverglades” installation premiered at Art Basel Miami at Miami-Dade College’s Freedom Tower—large recycled, plastic animals by international artist collective William Sweetlove and the “Cracking Art Group” based in Europe, represented by Gallery Ca d’Oro, Italy and Miami. The snails made their way to Tampa from Central Park in NYC where they were installed through the months of November/December. You may have seen them on CNN, while reporting on the recent snow storms in NY.
In its REgeneration Art Projects, the “Cracking Art Group” creates public art using recyclable plastic. The red snails are part of an intriguing public art series designed to inspire community-wide conversation about the importance of recycling and its environmental impact. They are bold, unexpected visuals that will leave a memorable artistic trace in Tampa. The REgeneration Art Project has developed an international following by placing large, colored animal installations in a variety of unusual spaces worldwide, including Paris, Milan, Venice, Rome, Prague, New Orleans, NYC and L.A.
Santiago Echeverry
October 7 – 29, 2013
An exhibition of digital photography, prints and alternative video exploring the nature of human strength and the dichotomy between realism and hyper-pixilation, using three-dimensional grids and video mapping.
Kirk Ke Wang
August 26 – September 30, 2013
This site specific installation was inspired by the artist's recent travel to China and Cuba, his memory of enjoying Cuban sugar during the cold war time in China, and the connections Ybor City has with Cuba. It deals with the love-hate relationships between opposite or different political systems. The paradox and irony of "bombs" made of brown sugar, candy, tobacco and other culture icons will instigate a debate regarding today's international affairs. Kirk is currently Professor of Art at Eckerd College.
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