Sponge Exchange: Hope Ginsburg Exhibition Walkthrough

Sponge Exchange expands artist Hope Ginsburg’s work with ecology and knowledge transfer in two new collaboratively-produced video and sculpture installations. Historic sponge diving and contemporary coral restoration inspire these explorations of climate crisis impact on coastal ecosystems. Sponge Exchange is curated by Sarah Howard, organized by USFCAM, and is supported by a National Endowment for the Arts Art Works grant, a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Dr. Allen Root, and the USFCAM ACE Fund.

The Return of the Real Artists Conversation

A conversation with artists Robert Lazzarini, Rodrigo Valenzuela, and USFCAM Curator-at-large Christian Viveros-Fauné, discussing their practice and work in the USF Contemporary Art Museum exhibition, The Return of the Real.

Nancy Holt Solar Rotary Summer Solstice Timelapse

Time-lapse video of summer solstice shadows cast on and by Nancy Holt's Solar Rotary on June 21, 2019. Video by Chien Quoc Truong.

Timelapse of Bosco Sodi's Muro at USF Contemporary Art Museum

Artist Bosco Sodi’s "Muro" (Wall), built of bricks handmade in Oaxaca, Mexico, will be constructed and deconstructed in one day in front of USFCAM, as part of The Visible Turn: Contemporary Artists Confront Political Invisibility. Members of the public are invited to participate in the deconstruction by removing a brick from the wall, which becomes a gift from the artist, and includes a custom printed carrying bag, a tag and a certificate of authenticity. Bosco Sodi, Muro is sponsored by The Gobioff Foundation and USF World.

Bosco Sodi, Muro, Artist' Talk at USF Contemporary Art Museum

As part of The Visible Turn: Contemporary Artists Confront Political Invisibility, USFCAM presented the public installation and performance of Muro, an approximately 6 foot high by 20 foot long wall constructed with 1080 unique clay bricks. Muro was erected in front of USFCAM’s entrance for one day, at the end of which visitors are invited to collectively disassemble the wall by removing one brick to take home with them.

Made by hand at Bosco Sodi’s studio in Oaxaca, Mexico, with the help of local craftsmen, each brick is sealed by the artist with his signature. Each of the brick timbers distributed to participants included a custom printed carrying bag, a tag and a certificate of authenticity.

The project expanded upon Sodi’s ongoing interest in organic processes beyond the artist’s control. The impermanent nature of Muro underscored the sentiment that all obstacles have the potential to be dismantled through united forces.

The Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation is the major supporter of The Visible Turn: Contemporary Artists Confront Political Invisibility. Bosco Sodi, Muro is sponsored by The Gobioff Foundation and USF World.

Prodigy Cultural Arts Program Showcase

Danny Suárez produced this video while working with young people in the Prodigy Cultural Arts Program, a program dedicated to the cultivation of positive life skills through the visual and performing arts in west central Florida. Danay coached the students who wrote, recorded and performed their own lyrics during a weeklong workshop at the University Area Community Development Corporation in Tampa. This workshop led to a performance with Danay Suárez at the Prodigy Cultural Arts Program Showcase at the University Area CDC Community Center in March, 2018. Check out Danay Suárez on YouTube.

Read more on the USFCAM blog.

Pedro Reyes Legislative Theatre Performance
Amendment to the Amendment: (Under)stand Your Ground

The performance was truly a collaborative effort that included USF College of the Arts faculty and students. The USF percussion ensemble and jazz combos played Reyes’ unique instruments, crafted from firearms confiscated and disabled by the Mexican Army, which are on view at USFCAM in the exhibition CAM@25: Social Engagement through March 8. Everyone who attended the sold-out event was invited to participate in the performance, which was created by Reyes in partnership with USF Theatre professor Dora Arreola, and USF and Community Stepping Stones students, to encourage dialogue and address issues related to the Second Amendment.

Read more on the USFCAM blog.

USF Graphicstudio Research in Production Techniques: Keith Edmier, Cycas revolute bulbil

This 2003 video illustrates research in the production techniques developed at Univesity of South Florida's Graphicstudio used to make artist Keith Edmier's Cycas revoluae bulbil

Keith Edmier developed new techniques for pouring molten lava in collaboration with Graphicstudio's fabricators and University geologists. Basalt, the solid form of lava, was crushed, heated to the melting point, and poured around the form of a cycad plant, leaving a cavity with an impression of the cycad. A urethane resin cast of a cycad plant was hand painted and attached to the lava form. Edmier has been interested in making sculpture with molten rock from the earth's core for several years. In Hawaii he investigated the phenomenon of lava tree molds, created when molten lava engulfs a live, wet tree, leaving a negative cavity or impression. The cycad is an ancient plant that has survived with few changes for millions of years. Although there are male and female cycads, the plant can reproduce asexually, by generating pups of the same sex as the parent. His plant sculptures address aspects of sexuality -- the male and female functions of reproduction, renewal and rebirth.

CAM@25: Social Engagement Exhibition Walkthrough

The USF Contemporary Art Museum celebrates its 25th anniversary with CAM@25: Social Engagement to highlight its history of bringing artists, and the practice of making contemporary art, to the Tampa Bay community. This selection of installations serves to mark CAM’s extensive history of exhibitions, commissions and collaborations with artists whose practices and projects embrace an ethos of responsible social meaning, purpose and motivation in the public sphere. Artists include Los Carpinteros, Pedro Reyes (Mexico), and Janaina Tschäpe (Brazil/Germany).

SubRosa: The Language of Resistance Colloquium

The art exhibition SubRosa: The Language of Resistance examines the language of art across continents and cultures in response to social, political, and environmental repression. Sometimes covertly and dangerously, the artists in SubRosa share a desire to question dominant political systems and the cultural status quo. Artists include Ai Weiwei (China), Ramón Esono Ebalé (Equatorial Guinea), Barbad Golshiri (Iran), Khaled Jarrar (Palestine), Zanele Muholi (South Africa), and José Toirac and Meira Marrero (Cuba). Curated by Noel Smith; Organized by USFCAM.

Colloquium Participants include: Curator Noel Smith; Tutu Alicante, Executive Director, EG Justice; and Esra Akin-Kivanc PhD, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History, USF School of Art and Art History.

ROUSE: MFA Graduation Exhibition Walkthrough

The exhibition features artworks in a variety of media that reflect the research interests of these seven graduating MFA candidates from the School of Art and Art History: Ariel Baron-Robbins, Toni Danette Billick, Maxim Maximovitch, Andrew Nigon, Victoria Lee Skelly, Stead Thomas, and Carmen Tiffany.

Noam M. Elcott "Christian Marclay and the Antiquarian Avant-Garde"

Noam M. Elcott is Assistant Professor of Modern Art History at Columbia University. He specializes in the history of modern art and media in Europe and North America, with an emphasis on interwar art, photography, and film. His research and teaching combine close visual analysis with media archaeology and critical theory. He also writes and teaches on contemporary art. Recent classes include Art Humanities, an undergraduate lecture course Art, Media, and the Avant-Garde, and seminars on Dada, on Futurism, and on art between photography and film.

Exhibition Walkthrough | New Weather

New Weather brings together the monumental sculptures of Diana Al-Hadid, the turbulent paintings of Iva Gueorguieva, and the enigmatic drawings of Robyn O’Neil. Their works explore the atmospheres and forces, which characterize our time, presenting us with an apt metaphor for the unpredictability of a rapidly changing world. Curated by IRA Chief Curator David Louis Norr; organized by USFCAM.

New Weather Symposium

New Weather brings together the monumental sculptures of Diana Al-Hadid, the turbulent paintings of Iva Gueorguieva, and the enigmatic drawings of Robyn O’Neil. Their works explore the atmospheres and forces, which characterize our time, presenting us with an apt metaphor for the unpredictability of a rapidly changing world. Curated by IRA Chief Curator David Louis Norr; organized by USFCAM.

Curator's Lecture: Carlos Garaicoa, Architecture and the Utopian City

Corina Matamoros, Curator of Contemporary Cuban Art at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba, and Noel Smith, Curator of Latin American and Caribbean Art at USF Institute for Research in Art discuss the work of Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa in the context of the exhibition Carlos Garaicoa: Making Amends, which they are co-curating for the USFCAM in 2010.

Special Guest Helmo Hernández, President, Ludwig Foundation of Cuba will briefly discuss the contemporary arts scene in Cuba.

Curator's Talk with Alma Ruiz | Carlos Garaicoa - La enmienda que hay en mí (Making Amends)

Curator´s Talk: Alma Ruiz, Associate Curator Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles discusses the USFCAM show Carlos Garaicoa: La enmienda que hay en mí (Making Amends)

Carlos Garaicoa - La enmienda que hay en mí (Making Amends) Exhibition Walkthrough

Inspired by the architecture and culture of his native Havana, Carlos Garaicoa explores issues relevant to contemporary society including urbanism, politics, history and human rights. He uses a variety of materials and techniques that incorporate drawing, photography, sculpture and text in dramatic, large-scale installations as well as precious miniatures. Garaicoa was born in Havana in 1967 and currently lives and works between Havana and Madrid.

Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape Exhibition Walkthrough

Teresita Fernández is internationally known for her immersive installations and evocative large-scale sculptures that address space, light, and the perception of change. The exhibition is curated by USF Institute for Research in Art Chief Curator, David Louis Norr and will present a spectrum of the artist’s most recent and ambitious projects, including a new sculpture and a room sized installation created specifically for this exhibition.

Featured among the works in the exhibition is Vertigo (sotto en su) from 2007. Made in collaboration with USF Graphicstudio, Vertigo is comprised of layers of precision-cut, highly polished metal, woven into a reflective and intricate arboreal pattern suspended high above the viewer—not unlike an immense, cascading tree branch. The multiple planes of space, through which the viewer looks, become visible simultaneously, vacillating between object and optical phenomena, continuously disassembling and reassembling. "The idea that one must turn away from nature in order to see it is a loaded concern at the crux of Fernández’ new works," states David Norr. "Nature, for Fernández, is a fabrication of culture where cinematic illusions, industrial design and lasting ephemeral experience intertwine—collapsing artifice and nature into prismatic experience."

Artist Talk | Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape

Fernández is internationally known for her immersive installations and evocative large-scale sculptures that address space, light, and the perception of change. The exhibition will present a spectrum of the artist's most recent and ambitious projects. Curated by IRA Chief Curator David Norr; Organized and traveled by USFCAM.

Timelapse Installation of Epic | Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape

Time-lapse of the installation of artwork "Epic" from Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape. Exhibition ran August 17 -- October 10, 2009 at USFCAM, Tampa, FL. Fernández is internationally known for her immersive installations and evocative large-scale sculptures that address space, light, and the perception of change. The exhibition will present a spectrum of the artist's most recent and ambitious projects. Curated by IRA Chief Curator David Norr; Organized and traveled by USFCAM.

Stacy Levy | Tampa Wind

Stacy Levy's, Tampa Wind, is a wind-activated rendering of a section of the Hillsborough River as it passes through the eastern edge the USF Tampa Campus. Fabricated in stainless steel, Tampa Wind reflects the changing light and environmental conditions specific to the site. The Levy commission is mounted on the exterior stair tower wall running the full height of the four-story Natural and Environmental Sciences facility. There are over 2000 stainless discs ranging in size from one and half inches to four inches, attached to individual posts that emerge from a stainless plate cut to render the topography of the river. The slightest breeze causes the discs to move creating an ever-changing field of reflected light that can be seen thousands of yards away from the site. The effect is not unlike the play between wind and light on water, reminding the viewer of the source of Levy's imagery and the nature of the natural environment.

Museum at Work Exhibition Walkthrough

What do museums do behind closed doors? Visit CAM this summer when the museum opens its doors to the public to see the process for photographing and documenting the collection with Peter Foe, Curator of the Collection. See what really happens, participate in the project and explore the collection online at CAM’s Collection kiosk.

Sixty Minutes Exhibition Walkthrough

The program features videos by artists Olaf Breuning, Kate Gilmore, Luis Gispert, and William Villalongo, alongside interview based profiles with each artist. Sixty Minutes is conceived to expose the diversity and complexity of artists’ process and provide an inspiring critical space to research, analyze and debate contexts for practice now and in the future. Sixty Minutes is curated by David Norr, Chief Curator for the Institute.

Closure MFA Graduation Exhibition Walkthrough

The exhibition features Master’s research project work by Master of Fine Art candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. This exhibition gives the graduating students an opportunity to have their work viewed by the public, as well as University faculty and colleagues, in a professional environment.

Artists include Kimberly Adams, Jeremy Chandler, April Childers, Rebecca Flanders, Chad Harmon, Shane Hoffman, Lauren Howard, James Reiman, Ivan Reyes-Garcia, Marta Slaughter, Jonathan Vaughan and Wesley Wetherington.

Public Art: Process & Process

Public Art: Process & Product was produced for the State of Florida, by Vincent Ahern. The videos can be purchased on DVD at our Museum Store. Please email caminfo@arts.usf.edu

Dave Hickey | The Age of the Art Fair

Dave Hickey, recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” award, and internationally acclaimed art critic gave this lecture on February 22, 2007, entitled “The Age of the Art Fair.”

SIGNS: Baselitz/Creeley

Performance of the poem SIGNS by the poet Robert Creeley with interview segments on the collaboration of the Baselitz/Creeley SIGNS project produced at Graphicstudio.

Woodblock Printing in the Americas

From Graphicstudio’s Woodblock Printing in the Americas Colloquium. Interviews with woodblock artists of the U.S., Canada, South America, and the Caribbean, with demonstrations of various block printing techniques, and the significant cultural influence of block printing in the shaping of the Americas.

Graphicstudio in Oaxaca

Graphicstudio travels to Mexico and presents an exhibition in Oaxaca as well as workshops for local artists involved in printmaking techniques.

Advanced Heliorelief Techniques

A demonstration of the Advanced Heliorelief Process, as developed at Graphicstudio. Demonstrated by Eric Vontillius, Sculpture Coordinator, Graphicstudio.

Faculty Focus:
Neil Bender, Elisabeth Condon & Cesar Cornejo Exhibition Walkthrough

The Faculty Focus exhibition series highlights the recent work of artists on the studio faculty from the USF School of Art and Art History.

Faculty Focus:
Neil Bender, Elisabeth Condon & Cesar Cornejo | Artist Talk

The Faculty Focus exhibition series highlights the recent work of artists on the studio faculty from the USF School of Art and Art History.

Werner Reiterer: Raw Loop Exhibition Walkthrough

Raw Loop is the first US solo exhibition of works by Austrian artist Werner Reiterer. The exhibition features drawings, objects and participatory installations that engage the viewer in a re-examination of everyday experience that makes us think and often smile. Curated by Julien Robson, Speed Art Museum. Organized by the consortium of participating institutions, including USFCAM.

Werner Reiterer: Raw Loop | Artist Talk

Raw Loop is the first US solo exhibition of works by Austrian artist Werner Reiterer. The exhibition features drawings, objects and participatory installations that engage the viewer in a re-examination of everyday experience that makes us think and often smile. Curated by Julien Robson, Speed Art Museum. Organized by the consortium of participating institutions, including USFCAM.

Audience & Avatar Exhibition Walkthrough

Audience & Avatar brings together an international group of artists who explore diverse ways in which videogames, game culture, technology and psychology influence participation of the viewer in art. Artists include: John Paul Bichard, Damiano Colacito, Jon Haddock, Eva and Franco Mattes (a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG), Eddo Stern and Phillip Toledano. Curated by Don Fuller and organized by CAM.

Audience & Avatar | Artist Talk: John Paul Bichard

Audience & Avatar brings together an international group of artists who explore diverse ways in which videogames, game culture, technology and psychology influence participation of the viewer in art. Artists include: John Paul Bichard, Damiano Colacito, Jon Haddock, Eva and Franco Mattes (a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG), Eddo Stern and Phillip Toledano. Curated by Don Fuller and organized by CAM.

Audience & Avatar | Artist Talk: Damiano Colacito

Audience & Avatar brings together an international group of artists who explore diverse ways in which videogames, game culture, technology and psychology influence participation of the viewer in art. Artists include: John Paul Bichard, Damiano Colacito, Jon Haddock, Eva and Franco Mattes (a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG), Eddo Stern and Phillip Toledano. Curated by Don Fuller and organized by CAM.

Brody Condon: Modifications Exhibition Walkthrough

Brody Condon is a New York-based artist who uses game development tools, online games, sculpture, live performers and found footage as performance surrogates blurring the boundary between fantasy and reality. For his project gallery Modifications in Audience & Avatar he uses game technology to re-imagine late medieval religious paintings into self-running games simultaneously implying and denying interaction.

Brody Condon: Modifications | Artist Talk

Brody Condon is a New York-based artist who uses game development tools, online games, sculpture, live performers and found footage as performance surrogates blurring the boundary between fantasy and reality. For his project gallery Modifications in Audience & Avatar he uses game technology to re-imagine late medieval religious paintings into self-running games simultaneously implying and denying interaction.

Mash Up Exhibition Walkthrough

MashUp is a group exhibition that traces the history of destruction as a creative force in visual art, and its resonance in the mass culture realm of popular music. Inflicting damage for audio effect and visual ends, MashUp features newly commissioned installations by artists Pedro Reyes and Ted Riederer—plus, an historical array of art and artifacts dating from the 1960s-on by Czech Fluxus “Broken Music” pioneer Milan Knížák, The Art Guys, Christian Marclay and The Plasmatics. Guest Curated by Jade Dellinger, and organized by CAM.

In conjunction with MashUp at USFCAM, Flight 19’s exhibition space at Downtown Tampa’s Union Station will present a site-specific project Bob Wysocki: Post Metal (August 30 – October 5)

1º Celsius | Exhibition Walkthrough

One Degree Celsius is part of a series of projects called Molecular Urbanism developed by Torolab, a Tijuana-based consortium of artists, architects and designers. For USFCAM the artist collective morphs the gallery space into an actual proposal and a laboratory for creative experiments investigating the multiple uses of a garden. The exhibition includes drawn proposals for large-scale architectural interventions (on the USF campus and downtown Tampa), displayed with functional sculptural elements. Illustrating a system of insertions and communications, the artists envision the creation of multiple bio-ecological environments within specific architectural urban voids, indented to have a transformative long-term positive impact upon the local climate, human interaction and disposition, and the city’s physical and socio-cultural condition.

1º Celsius | Exhibition Interviews

One Degree Celsius is part of a series of projects called Molecular Urbanism developed by Torolab, a Tijuana-based consortium of artists, architects and designers. For USFCAM the artist collective morphs the gallery space into an actual proposal and a laboratory for creative experiments investigating the multiple uses of a garden. The exhibition includes drawn proposals for large-scale architectural interventions (on the USF campus and downtown Tampa), displayed with functional sculptural elements. Illustrating a system of insertions and communications, the artists envision the creation of multiple bio-ecological environments within specific architectural urban voids, indented to have a transformative long-term positive impact upon the local climate, human interaction and disposition, and the city’s physical and socio-cultural condition.

1º Celsius | Colloquium: Art as a Catalyst for Social Transformation

The USF Institute for Research in Art hosts scholars, curators, artist collectives, architects, and social scientists in a one-day colloquium on art as catalyst for social transformation in contemporary society. Structured more as a platform for questioning and debate and less as a lecture series, the discourse is meant to focus on the multifaceted implications of socially-engaged art. The colloquium is meant to address the aesthetic considerations and implicit cross-disciplinary collaborations that such projects entail, as they take form within the broader socio-political and economic contexts. Ultimately, colloquium participants attempt to address the role of the artist and the contemporary art institution in formulating a sustained relationship within communities.

One Degree Celsius is part of a series of projects called Molecular Urbanism developed by Torolab, a Tijuana-based consortium of artists, architects and designers. For USFCAM the artist collective morphs the gallery space into an actual proposal and a laboratory for creative experiments investigating the multiple uses of a garden. The exhibition includes drawn proposals for large-scale architectural interventions (on the USF campus and downtown Tampa), displayed with functional sculptural elements. Illustrating a system of insertions and communications, the artists envision the creation of multiple bio-ecological environments within specific architectural urban voids, indented to have a transformative long-term positive impact upon the local climate, human interaction and disposition, and the city’s physical and socio-cultural condition.

Rauschenberg: USF Exhibition Walkthrough

Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) created over 50 editions of prints, sculptures and photographs with USF’s Graphicstudio from 1972 through 1987. The exhibition includes selected works from USF and area collectors.

Roger Palmer: In Dog Light Exhibition Walkthrough

Roger Palmer: In Dog Light is an exhibition of selected drawings (2003–2008) by Tampa-based artist Roger Palmer. Palmer’s brush, wash and ink drawings are darkly humorous meditations on humanity’s foibles and actualities. Anthropomorphic animals, local flora and fauna and technologies of modern man such as cannons and fire trucks unfold in pure-pigment amalgamations of word and image. Curated by David Norr.

Robert Stackhouse: Editions Archive | Exhibition Walkthrough

In 1993, distinguished USF alumnus and artist Robert Stackhouse designated USF Contemporary Art Museum as the archive for his editioned works. USFCAM celebrates this gift with the publication of a catalogue for the Robert Stackhouse Editions Archive and an exhibition of work selected from the archive. This exhibition explores the evolution of Stackhouse’s work from his first print to the most recent editions, his relationship with various print workshops and the interaction across media of his prints, paintings and sculpture. Curated by Peter Foe and organized by the USFCAM.

Everyday Atrocities: Faculty Focus Exhibition Walkthrough

Faculty Focus Exhibition: John Byrd, Gregory Green and Julie Weitz use painting, sculpture and installation to explore themes and the aesthetics of violence, danger and empowerment embedded in politics and popular culture.

Everyday Atrocities: | Artist Talk

Faculty Focus Exhibition: John Byrd, Gregory Green and Julie Weitz use painting, sculpture and installation to explore themes and the aesthetics of violence, danger and empowerment embedded in politics and popular culture.

Homing Devices Exhibition Walkthrough

Homing Devices is a group exhibition that considers the way contemporary Latin American and Caribbean sculptors—who may live and work anywhere in the world—approach the idea of home in context of increasing globalization, mobility, exile and migration in the Americas. By including works that are accented but not defined or delimited by cultural, geographical, and national boundaries, the exhibition considers the vital question of how art and artists preserve their identity within a global landscape.

Homing Devices | Symposium: María Fernanda Cardoso

Homing Devices is a group exhibition that considers the way contemporary Latin American and Caribbean sculptors—who may live and work anywhere in the world—approach the idea of home in context of increasing globalization, mobility, exile and migration in the Americas. By including works that are accented but not defined or delimited by cultural, geographical, and national boundaries, the exhibition considers the vital question of how art and artists preserve their identity within a global landscape.

Homing Devices | Symposium: Noel Smith

Homing Devices is a group exhibition that considers the way contemporary Latin American and Caribbean sculptors—who may live and work anywhere in the world—approach the idea of home in context of increasing globalization, mobility, exile and migration in the Americas. By including works that are accented but not defined or delimited by cultural, geographical, and national boundaries, the exhibition considers the vital question of how art and artists preserve their identity within a global landscape.

Homing Devices | Symposium: Edouard Duval-Carrié

Homing Devices is a group exhibition that considers the way contemporary Latin American and Caribbean sculptors—who may live and work anywhere in the world—approach the idea of home in context of increasing globalization, mobility, exile and migration in the Americas. By including works that are accented but not defined or delimited by cultural, geographical, and national boundaries, the exhibition considers the vital question of how art and artists preserve their identity within a global landscape.

Elsewhere Exhibition Walkthrough

Elsewhere explores the familiar and often tragic theme of the quest. The artists included in this exhibition embark upon quixotic adventures to both real and imagined places - at times edging on the ridiculous, treacherous, and sublime. Pulling from sources as varied as Victorian expeditions, romantic tourism, travel literature, and Hollywood films, the artists in Elsewhere blend documentary styles with found footage, tableaux, and performance into potent mixtures of fact, fantasy, and feeling. To this end, they employ strategies of displacement, re-enactment, and repetition in an effort to erode the temporal boundaries implicit to existing representations of histories, identities, and geographies.

Stereo Vision Exhibition Walkthrough

Stereo Vision, an interdisciplinary museum project, gazes simultaneously at the past, present and future as it proposes a glimpse at ways art and technology shape our vision and perception. Stereographs, a 19th century groundbreaking historical antecedent of virtual reality, are joined with contemporary works that make use of perspective, features of virtual reality and immersive environments to probe and disturb our normative visual, auditory, and kinetic perceptive experiences.

Stereo Vision | Symposium: Margaret Miller

Stereo Vision, an interdisciplinary museum project, gazes simultaneously at the past, present and future as it proposes a glimpse at ways art and technology shape our vision and perception. Stereographs, a 19th century groundbreaking historical antecedent of virtual reality, are joined with contemporary works that make use of perspective, features of virtual reality and immersive environments to probe and disturb our normative visual, auditory, and kinetic perceptive experiences.

Stereo Vision | Symposium: Izabel Galleria

Stereo Vision, an interdisciplinary museum project, gazes simultaneously at the past, present and future as it proposes a glimpse at ways art and technology shape our vision and perception. Stereographs, a 19th century groundbreaking historical antecedent of virtual reality, are joined with contemporary works that make use of perspective, features of virtual reality and immersive environments to probe and disturb our normative visual, auditory, and kinetic perceptive experiences.

Stereo Vision | Symposium: Robert Drapkin

Stereo Vision, an interdisciplinary museum project, gazes simultaneously at the past, present and future as it proposes a glimpse at ways art and technology shape our vision and perception. Stereographs, a 19th century groundbreaking historical antecedent of virtual reality, are joined with contemporary works that make use of perspective, features of virtual reality and immersive environments to probe and disturb our normative visual, auditory, and kinetic perceptive experiences.

Stereo Vision | Symposium: James Tunick

Stereo Vision, an interdisciplinary museum project, gazes simultaneously at the past, present and future as it proposes a glimpse at ways art and technology shape our vision and perception. Stereographs, a 19th century groundbreaking historical antecedent of virtual reality, are joined with contemporary works that make use of perspective, features of virtual reality and immersive environments to probe and disturb our normative visual, auditory, and kinetic perceptive experiences.

USF School of Art & Art History MFA Graduation Exhibition Walkthrough

This premiere of the Master of Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition at the USF Contemporary Art Museum features diverse artworks by twelve artists from the nationally ranked studio art program at USF.

Trisha Brown: Drawing on Land and Air Exhibition Walkthrough

The Trisha Brown Dance Company has presented the work of its legendary artistic director for 35 years. In addition to dance, Brown is known for her work in the visual arts, including improvisational works combining dance and drawing, and collaborations with artists including Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Laurie Anderson and Terry Winters. Trisha Brown: Drawing on Land and Air will present Brown’s new improvisational drawings, a selection of collaborative works with artists, and new prints commissioned by Graphicstudio.

Trisha Brown: Drawing on Land and Air | Symposium: Trisha Brown

Symposium with Margaret A. Miller, Susan Rosenberg, Michael Foley and Trisha Brown

Trisha Brown: Drawing on Land and Air | Symposium: Susan Rosenberg

Symposium with Margaret A. Miller, Susan Rosenberg, Michael Foley and Trisha Brown

Trisha Brown: Drawing on Land and Air | Symposium: Michael Foley

Symposium with Margaret A. Miller, Susan Rosenberg, Michael Foley and Trisha Brown

Trisha Brown: Drawing on Land and Air | Symposium: Margaret Miller

Symposium with Margaret A. Miller, Susan Rosenberg, Michael Foley and Trisha Brown

Berni Searle: Approach

Berni Searle: Approach, is a multidimensional program with internationally celebrated South African artist, whose work in performance, photography, film and video installation address racial and gender inequities through the use of her body, personal histories and the construction of personal mythologies.

Berni Searle: Approach | Symposium: Berni Searle

Symposium with Berni Searle, Laurie Ann Farrell and Mark Coetzee.

Berni Searle: Approach | Symposium: Laurie Ann Farrell

Symposium with Berni Searle, Laurie Ann Farrell and Mark Coetzee.

Berni Searle: Approach | Symposium: Mark Coetzee

Symposium with Berni Searle, Laurie Ann Farrell and Mark Coetzee.

Vic Muniz: Reflex Exhibition Walkthrough

Since the mid-1990s, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz has been making an international impact with his photographs documenting images he has made in an astonishing variety of non-art, often ephemeral materials, including dirt, sugar, wire, string, chocolate syrup, peanut butter, fake blood, color chips, the circular paper remnants made by hole punches, and diamonds. Muniz’ images are at once familiar—they are often of recognizable news images, works from art history, or well-known personages—and alien: after an initial moment or recognition, it quickly becomes clear that these images are not what they first seemed.

Vic Muniz: Reflex | Artist Talk

Artist Vik Muniz spoke about his work in his exhibition Reflex with Peter Boswell, Curator, Director of Programs, Miami Art Museum.

Collectors Club Lecture: Cary Leibowitz/Candyass

Cary Leibowitz/Candyass is an artist, collector and currently Print Specialist at Christie’s in New York City. Leibowitz’ text-based art has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Stockholm, Paris, Dusseldorf, Berlin, Montreal, and Nagoya, Japan.

Collectors Club Lecture: Cary Leibowitz/Candyass

Cary Leibowitz/Candyass is an artist, collector and currently Print Specialist at Christie’s in New York City. Leibowitz’ text-based art has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Stockholm, Paris, Dusseldorf, Berlin, Montreal, and Nagoya, Japan.

Beautiful Losers / Contemporary Art and Street Culture | Symposium: Ryan McGinness

An exhibition of multi-media art and design that explores the recent work of a diverse group of visual artists that have emerged from aspects of street culture loosely organized around the subcultures of skateboarding, graffiti, punk, and hip-hop in urban U.S. cities.

Symposium with Angela Boatwright, Ryan McGinness and Christian Strike

Beautiful Losers / Contemporary Art and Street Culture | Symposium: Angela Boatwright

An exhibition of multi-media art and design that explores the recent work of a diverse group of visual artists that have emerged from aspects of street culture loosely organized around the subcultures of skateboarding, graffiti, punk, and hip-hop in urban U.S. cities.

Symposium with Angela Boatwright, Ryan McGinness and Christian Strike

Beautiful Losers / Contemporary Art and Street Culture | Symposium: Christian Strike

An exhibition of multi-media art and design that explores the recent work of a diverse group of visual artists that have emerged from aspects of street culture loosely organized around the subcultures of skateboarding, graffiti, punk, and hip-hop in urban U.S. cities.

Symposium with Angela Boatwright, Ryan McGinness and Christian Strike

Audio Files Exhibition Walkthrough

AudioFiles brings together converging elements of the spectrum of Sound Art. Artists Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Christian Marclay and Stephen Vitiello create three individually engaging and enigmatic sonic installations, which defy convention and resist categorization.

Audio Files | Symposium: Christoph Cox

AudioFiles brings together converging elements of the spectrum of Sound Art. Artists Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Christian Marclay and Stephen Vitiello create three individually engaging and enigmatic sonic installations, which defy convention and resist categorization.

ARTE 2005: Los Carpinteros / Inventing the World Exhibition Walkthrough

The first mid-career survey of the work of Los Carpinteros, a collective of young Cuban artists who live and work in Havana, Cuba. The artists—Marco Castillo, Dagoberto Rodriguez, and until 2003 Alexandre Arrechea—began to work together as students in the early 1990s at Havana’s prestigious Superior Institute of Art (ISA) and have since emerged as important presences on the expanding global terrain of art.

ARTE 2005: Los Carpinteros / Inventing the World | Artist Talk with Marco Castillo

The first mid-career survey of the work of Los Carpinteros, a collective of young Cuban artists who live and work in Havana, Cuba. The artists—Marco Castillo, Dagoberto Rodriguez, and until 2003 Alexandre Arrechea—began to work together as students in the early 1990s at Havana’s prestigious Superior Institute of Art (ISA) and have since emerged as important presences on the expanding global terrain of art.

ARTE 2005: Los Carpinteros / Inventing the World | Symposium: Esterio Segura

The first mid-career survey of the work of Los Carpinteros, a collective of young Cuban artists who live and work in Havana, Cuba. The artists—Marco Castillo, Dagoberto Rodriguez, and until 2003 Alexandre Arrechea—began to work together as students in the early 1990s at Havana’s prestigious Superior Institute of Art (ISA) and have since emerged as important presences on the expanding global terrain of art.

ARTE 2005: Los Carpinteros / Inventing the World | Symposium: Corina Matamoros

The first mid-career survey of the work of Los Carpinteros, a collective of young Cuban artists who live and work in Havana, Cuba. The artists—Marco Castillo, Dagoberto Rodriguez, and until 2003 Alexandre Arrechea—began to work together as students in the early 1990s at Havana’s prestigious Superior Institute of Art (ISA) and have since emerged as important presences on the expanding global terrain of art.

ARTE 2005: Los Carpinteros / Inventing the World | Symposium: Dr. Juan A. Martinez

The first mid-career survey of the work of Los Carpinteros, a collective of young Cuban artists who live and work in Havana, Cuba. The artists—Marco Castillo, Dagoberto Rodriguez, and until 2003 Alexandre Arrechea—began to work together as students in the early 1990s at Havana’s prestigious Superior Institute of Art (ISA) and have since emerged as important presences on the expanding global terrain of art.

Roxy Paine

In his Graphicstudio collaboration, Paine has delivered a challenging work: Head Cheese, a sculptural meditation upon the visually arresting cold cut commonly available in grocery stores.

Guillermo Kuitca

In the photogravure print Naked Tango, Kuitca pays homage to Andy Warhol’s dance step paintings, which were simple copies of diagrams created for teaching popular dance forms in mid-century America.

Burt Barr: Solid Water Exhibition Walkthrough

New York based artist Burt Barr has been making video-works since the 80s. Often using black and white and working from a singular viewpoint, he transforms common objects and everyday situations into intensely focused paeans of stylistic beauty.

Janaina Tschäpe: Blood, Sea Exhibition Walkthrough

New York and Brazil based artist Janaina Tschäpe works in a variety of media including drawing, photography, film and installation. She employs the female body, transformed by her sculptural costumes and nature, to explore the space between dreams and reality.

The Amazing & The Immutable Exhibition Walkthrough

The Amazing & The Immutable is an exhibition combining and contrasting vintage and contemporary photographic-based work from the distinguished Florida collections of Robert Drapkin and Martin Margulies.

(Im)Printing Pictures Exhibition Walkthrough

Photographic prints from the Dropkin Collection and Graphicstudio.

DNA Art & Science | Artist Talk: Eduardo Kac

USF’s Institute for Research in Art (Contemporary Art Museum and Graphicstudio), and the Office of Research, held an open competition for art and design to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA.

Jim Campbell & Walk Ways

San Francisco-based artist Jim Campbell comes from a technical background in engineering - he holds two Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from MIT - and an artistic background in filmmaking.

Walk Ways brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists who have focused on the theme of walking, a purposeful or meandering activity that unites physical and mental freedom.

Trespassing: House X Artists Exhibition Walkthrough

Trespassing is an exhibition about house designs by nine contemporary artists in collaboration with the California architectural firm, TK Architecture.

Vik Muniz & Lilian Tone Symposium

Artist Vik Muniz and Lilian Tone each will present a brief history of their work, and discuss concerns and ideas they share, such as the ways in which manners of representation, and the impact and reliability of reproduction, influence perception and affect issues such as civil liberties and censorship; They ground their observations in their experiences living under the military dictatorship of Brazil (1964–1985).

Bandy: Sharon Engelstein & Aaron Parazette

Media of exhibition set up.

Lucy Orta: Nexus Architecture + Connector IV

Lucy Orta has been researching the poetic nature of clothing and portable habitats for the past ten years. Her transformable sculptures, Refuge Wear, Body Architecture, Nexus Architecture, and Modular Architecture, are highly original concepts for mobility, nomadism and networking.