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2011 Hillsborough Community College

Ybor City Campus Art Gallery

2012 Exhibition Season

   
  Hillsborough Community College's Art Gallery is located in the Performing Arts Building Room 114 on the Ybor City Campus located at 2204 N. 15th Street Tampa, FL 33605. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., except Tuesdays from 12 noon to 7 p.m. The gallery is open to the public, and admission is free for everyone. Click here for a map of the campus. For further information or to arrange special hours, contact Gallery Coordinator, Carolyn Kossar at ckossar@hccfl.edu  or 813-253-7674.
   
   

 PROCESS

HCC Student Sculpture Invitational

February 2-23, 2012

 

 February brings a student invitational exhibit by members of the current HCC sculpture class and art instructor and sculptor Roger Chamieh.  PROCESS includes unique, edgy works using a variety of mediums from tea bags to foam, chicken wire, sugar, plastic, wood, rusted steel and found objects. The presenting students are Jenna Alderiso, Nick Cruz, Cor Fahringer, Jerad Owens and Chris Polidoro.

   
   
   

 GIL DE MEZA, Notes of Interest

January 5-26, 2012    

Opening Reception: Jan 17, 5:30-8:00pm   Gallery Talk: 6:30pm

 

 De Meza's mixed media work stems from childhood memories, mythology, ancient art, literature and the music of modern and contemporary composers. He studied music and the visual arts, painting in particular. Most of his teaching career at the University of Tampa focused in the area of sculpture. Now his work goes from two to three dimensions without hesitation or constraints with an emphasis on structural formality.

 

 Gil DeMeza, Pretty Woman

                                       "Pretty Woman," Gil DeMeza, 24" x 19"                                                  Photo by Laszlo Horvath
 
   

 BLAKE HIGH SCHOOL, SENIOR MASTER'S EXHIBITION

December 1-14, 2011

An exhibit of drawing, painting, sculpture and photography by eight Blake High seniors who have completed their 4-year concentration in the visual arts. Award winners are given HCC Art Department scholarships for tuition.

   

 Blake HS #1

 

Felipe Packard and Ricardo de la Vega 

collaborative cast paper fantasy sculpture    

Oct 20-Nov 22, 2011

 

 Celebrating Hispanic Heritage artists Felipe Packard and Ricardo de la Vega combine influences from Mexico and the United States to create vibrant, cast paper, mixed media sculptures that challendge the imagination.

 
 de la vega 4  De la Vega 3
   
   
   

 NEVERNE COVINGTON, "A Hungry Attention"

Drawings, Paintings, Prints and Books, Sept 15-Oct 13, 2011

 

 To Swoon

 

HCC FINE ART FACULTY EXHIBIT, Aug 4- Sept 8, 2011

Recent work by Jeanne Cameron, Catherine Thompson, Suzanne Camp Crosby, Linda Galgani, Thomas Judge, Katherine Moyse, Tracy Midulla Reller, Jim Sims and Christopher W. Weeks

 

 Chris Weeks Roller Queen

 
   

 PAINT THE POSSIBLE

Artistic Mural Messaging by Community Stepping Stones

July 14-28, 2011   Receptions take place July 14, 5-8pm & July 22, 5-8pm 

   

 Community Stepping Stones is a nonprofit art-based community project dedicated to using an arts-infused curriculum to inspire, educate, and prepare at-risk youth to become successful adults.

 

 Paint the Possibilities

 
   

 THE CUBAN SANDWICH SHOW, All Art*All Tampa*No Mayo

June 8-July 8, 2011

 

 Featuring over 40 artists, the current Cuban Sandwich Show , curated by David Audet, is the 20th Anniversary expanded version
of a very popular annual arts exhibition that originated in Ybor City
.

 

 Cuban Sandwhich Show

   

 MICHAEL MASSARO

experiments in truth - a sculpture exhibit          

May 12 - June 2, 2011

 

 Mike Massaro is a University of Tampa fine art graduate. He makes use of diverse materials in his work including new, found, natural and manufactured woods, metals, stone and fiber. Of his assembled sculptures and installations Massaro says, "i have alwways had a intense interest in the connectivity of materials and a natural curiosity of how things fit together.

   
 Sinew of Indifference, Massaro  Homeless, Massaro
 

 37th Annual HCC Juried Student Art Exhibition

April 14-May 4, 2011

   
   
   

 "Florida's Finest"  Ceramic Artists with Roots in Florida

March 30-April 5, 2011

Part of NCECA 2011 Conference & Clay Around the Bay

   
 Ceramic 2  Ceramic 3
   

 The Digital Lounge Show - 9th Annual Ybor Festival of the Moving Image

March 23-27, 2011

Video Installations and Single Channel Exhibition

   

Digital Lounge Poster

   

 "INDEPENDENT WOMEN'   An Artist/Faculty/Student Exhibit, Series IV

HCC Fine Art Faculty Suzanne Camp Crosby with students

Amanda Arocho, Janine Graham, Laura Iuzzolino, Brandy Klein and Joanne Villanueva

   

 On display is a sampling of new work by HCC directed independent study photography students and fine art faculty Suzanne Camp Crosby. The exhibit will highlight a variety of advanced photo techniques including black and white, toned and hand-colored images.

   
 Crosby, Mistakes  Crosby, Home Wrecker
 

 The Visionary Art of MICHEL DELGADO, "Prescriptions"

February 3-25, 2011

 

 An exhibition of intensely powerful outsider, intuitive, Art Brut paintings by Senegalese-born artist Michel Delgado, currently a resident of Key West, Florida. Prescriptions is a collection of mixed media pieces created in his direct, powerful style filled with intense color, crisply painted shapes and images that evoke childlike wonder and simplicity.

 
 
Michel Delgado Speaks in the Gallery
 Blue Drops Master, Delgado
   

 KURT PIAZZA: The Future Belongs to Ghosts    

January 6-28, 2011

 

 Kurt Piazza

 The Future Belongs to Ghosts is an exhibition exploring twentieth-century philosopher Jacques Derrida's notion of the technologial image as an apparition of the future, and the "night light" radiated by these images reproduced in our absence. Dealing with the ideas of phenomenality, spectrality, and phantomality, Mr. Piazza presents an exhibition consisting of black and white artworks, including videos and large-scale xerox prints.
   

 DAN NAMINGHA, "Symbolism"    November 4-29, 2010

Celebrating Native American Heritage on the Ybor City Campus

 

"Symbolism" presents a series of paintings by internationally-recognized Hopi/Tewa artist Dan Namingha of Santa Fe, NM, that blend abstraction and reality. Namingha's paintings contain the emblems and symbols of Hopi ceremonies, to which he is strongly connected in both spirit and person. Raised in the combined tradition of two Pueblo peoples, the Hopi and Tewa, Dan marries the colorful, geometric imagery of his indigenous roots with the tradition of twentieth-century abstract modernism. "By drawing on his 3,500-year-old culture as well as his experience of modern America, Namingha gives us American art not only at its source, but at its best."--Harvard Magazine

This exhibit is co-sponsored by Tom and Mary James and the Arts Council of Hillsborough County

 
Dan Namingha
   

 ERNESTO PILOTO, "Reflections" - October 7-29, 2010
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage on the Ybor City Campus

 

Cuban-born artist Ernesto Piloto exhibits several of his mixed media canvases and edible chocolate sculpture.

 

 Ernesto Piloto, Tight Rope  Ernesto Piloto

   

 "East Meets West," Faculty Photography from the
Southeast Center for Photographic Studies at Daytona State College
September 2-28, 2010    Opening Reception-Thurs., Sept 9, 7-9pm

   

 Lecture: Sept 9, 6:15pm, Mainstage Theatre, GARY MONROE--"Here and There: Photographs of People and Places
Lecture: Sept 10, 11:15am, Mainstage Theatre, STEVE BENSON--"The Cost of Power in China: The Three Gorges Dam Project"
Lecture: Sept 16, Mainstage Theatre, ERIC BREITENBACH--"Beauty and Cruelty, Holding Hands"

 

 Rain on the Yangtze River

   

 "The Red Show" - Art Cloth Alliance
August 3-26, 2010 

 
This exhibition explores the color RED in all its shades, hues and values. Both abstract and realistic expressions of red are based on culture, on tradition and on atmosphere. Individual artists produced cloth yardage, responding to the stimulus of red on various fabrics. An artist who creates a piece of complex cloth layers colors, dyes, discharges, screen prints, stamps, foils and embellishing, creating layers of meaning and color.
   
 
Sarah Butz, The RedShow
 
Bonnie Bowman, The Red Show
   

 An Artist/Instructor/Student Exhibit Series #3
"PRINT III" - June 17-July 22, 2010

 
This show is our third in a series of Artist/Instructor/Student exhibits. Featured in "PRINT III" are contemporary prints by HCC Fine Art Instructor Tracy Midulla Reller with HCC Printmaking students. They are David Diaz, Joel Ellison, Viviana Mayumbo, Ashley Niven, Jasmin Pititto, Brenna Robe, Sarah Schomers and Stephanie Swanson. The exhibit showcases mixed media, experimental and traditional printmaking practices including etching, chin colle, litho transfers and various monotype techniques.
   
 
Student Print, Ellison

 Student Print, Diaz

   

 GINGER OWEN, "Kite Piece"   May 18-June 10, 2010
Cyanotype and mixed media installation

   

HCC graduate Ginger Owen, presently Photography and Intermedia Program Instructor at Western Michigan University, will present a unique 2-D and 3-D photographic installation in the Ybor Art Gallery featuring cyanotype prints.

 
 
 
   

 36th Annual HCC Juried Student Art Exhibition - April 22-May 13, 2010
Sponsored by Las Damas De Arte

   
                               Student Honorable Mention Award, 2010

  Winning members of the 3-D Design Team 

Honorable Mention Award Winner
Seongmi Seol and Dean Alford

   

"Dreamers and Troublemakers"
Charlotte Lee, Mixed media sculpture and Christopher W. Weeks, Digital imagery
April 5-15, 2010 Complementing the HCC Ybor Festival of the Moving Image
 

   
              
chris weeks 1
                                  
chris weeks 2

 Chris Weeks, digital image from
"The Apostle" series

 Chris Weeks, digital image from
"The Apostle" series

   

 X Y Z - Navigating the Landscape of Belief - DOLORES COE, SHERYL HALER & DEE HOOD
March 1-25, 2010

 
"XYZ" creates a transmedia gathering of physical and visual icons, both real and invented, that speak to the human need to believe in something. The historical creation of systems of belief--stories, entities, objects, symbols and spaces that we create to comfort, validate, explain and connect is the starting point. The power of the mystery and magic assigned these spirits to guide, heal, protect, enlighten and avenge provides the basis for this metaphorical space--with a contemporary take on navigating the landscape of belief.
 
 
Buzzards
 
Surfing with Dante
   

 An Artist/Instructor/Student Exhibit Series - "Crossing the Line"
Feb. 3-17, 2010

 

This is our second in a series of Artist/Instructor/Student art exhibitions entitled "Crossing the Line." It is a sampling of new work by HCC drawing students and drawing instructors Jeanne Cameron, Katherine Moyse, Yoko Nogami and Britzel Vasquez. On display are several works on  paper in the traditional media of charcoal, pen and ink, colored pencil and graphite, as well as digital drawings.

 Peanut Butter
 
Seol drawing
   

 cancelled - New Work by Maria Saraceno    January 7-28, 2010

 
Maria is a sculptor and installation artist with an MFA from the University of South Florida. Born and raised in Italy, but having lived the majority of her life in the US, her work has dealt with issues of marginalization and sociopolitical issues frequently associated with a bicultural person. Maria is the recipient of several awards and of a Pinellas Arts Council Individual Artist Grant. She has exhibited at the Tampa Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Art in St. Petersburg, the USF Contemporary Art Museum and the Dunedin Fine Arts Center.
   
 
Cancelled
 The Girls

 Maria installs "cancelled"
in the Ybor gallery.

 
   

 Blake High School Senior Masters Certification Exhibit
December 3-16, 2009

   
Howard W. Blake Arts Magnet High School seniors exhibit all fine art disciplines from their 4-year concentration in the arts. Winners are given HCC scholarships for tuition.
   

 "Snake Dance Moon," Contemporary Native American Art
November 3-27, 2009
 

 

"Snake Dance Moon."Native American Artists Brian Coffin, Doug Coffin and Linda Haukaas 

This exhibit showcases painting and sculpture by father and son Doug and Brian Coffin of Taos and Abiqui, New Mexico and ledger drawing by Rosebud Lakota Sioux artist Linda Haukaas during Native American Month November 3-27.

   
 
Brian Coffin, Beginning
 
Linda Haukaas Horses
   

 Juan Pacheco & the Ancient City of Caral, October 5-28, 2009 

 
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month on the Ybor Campus, the Art Gallery has invited artist Juan Pacheco from Lima, Peru, to create an installation in the performing arts building. Juan’s current work is inspired by the Ancient City of Caral, Peru, about 5 hours north of Lima. Caral is a relatively new acrheological find, discovered only 10 years ago. It consists of 7 pyramids that are approximately 5,500 years old, making it the oldest city in the Americas. During the construction of the pyramids at Caral the ancients made knotted fiber bags filled with rocks called “shicras,” that were used as the mortar between the huge stones of the pyramids. They are being excavated at the site today, and have are the source inspiration for Juan Pacheco’s fiber, “Peruvian stitch” shicra artwork. In 2009 Caral was designated a World Heritage Patrimonial Site by UNESCO. 
 
 Pacheco2  Pacheco Creates Installation
 Caral 2  Caral 3
   

 Roger Chamieh, Swing Your Empire, sculpture    September 3-30, 2009 

 
Chamieh
 
Vector Z, Chamieh
   
   
   
   
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