Dominique Labauvie: Warm-Up in Tandem
March 23 – May 7, 2020
Gallery221 | 2nd floor DLRC
Reception: Thursday, March 26, 5 – 8 p.m.
Performances and lecture to begin at 6 p.m.
Gallery221’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. Over the course of Warm-Up in Tandem, musicians and vocalists will be invited to enter the gallery and create sonic responses to the piece, taking musical cues from the shape and flow of the sculpture to produce an arrangement of sounds more akin to a warm-up exercise than a refined song.
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.
Calyx Schenecker Art Infinitum: 20th Annual Hillsborough County High School Fine Arts Competition
April 1 – 30, 2020
Gallery3 | 3rd floor DLRC
Reception and Awards Thursday, April 2, 6 – 8 p.m.
Now in its 20th 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 Dale Mabry campus.
Separate Checks: Narrative Nowhere
May 18 – June 25, 2020
Gallery221 | 2nd floor DLRC
Reception: Thursday, May 21, 5 – 8 p.m.
Panel discussion with artists to begin at 6 p.m.
Narrative Nowhere is a cross-country collaboration uniting the Tampa-based artist collective Separate Checks with photographers from across the United States. Their exhibition in Gallery221 encourages viewers to consider one’s own geographical presence and how that affects perceptions of self, space, and time. 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, Tom Bond, Aaron Castillo, Krista Darling, Jon Dorofy, Anna Dunwody, Cody Graham, Nabil Harb, Marie Jane, Adam Mathieu, Katelyn Montagna, Xander Opiyo, Andres Ramirez, Erika Schnur, Rachel Silver, Josh Sinn, Kristy Summerson, and Jacob Zimmerman.
Rampolla: Three Generations Illuminate Human Dignity
May 11 – July 2, 2020
Gallery3 | 3rd floor DLRC
Reception: Thursday, May 21, 5 – 8 p.m.
Panel discussion with artists to begin at 6 p.m.
Rampolla: Three Generations Illuminate Human Dignity spans the artistic and research efforts of the Rampolla family. The exhibition features the photography of Ron Rampolla alongside selections by his father, the figurative expressionist artist Frank Rompolla, as well as the interfamilial research conducted by his daughter, Selena Rampolla. Ron 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 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, FL, among others. Selena Rampolla is an HCC alumnus with an AA in Psychology.