After Structure + Beyond Support
June 13 - August 2, 2025
USF Contemporary Art Museum
Admission: Exhibition and events are free and open to all.
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Thu 10am-8pm; Sat 1-4pm
Closed: Sundays and USF Holidays (June 19, July 4-5)
Special Hours: June 13, 8-9pm
July 25: Mike Cloud Exhibition Walkthrough
Richard Tuttle, Renaissance Unframed #13, 1994. Encaustic monotype painting on muslin with a sculptural dimension. Published by Graphicstudio, University of South Florida Collection. Photo by Will Lytch.
After Structure and Beyond Support are two related and concurrent exhibitions that complicate our accepted notions of support systems as both the formal structures of artworks and necessary aspects of social, cultural, and political life.
After Structure pairs a selection of works from artists Richard Tuttle and Mike Cloud. Tuttle’s conceptual experimentation is represented by a project completed at USF’s Graphicstudio in 1995 titled Renaissance Unframed, 25 unique encaustic monotypes on muslin fabric, which are loosely folded and pinned to the wall according to the artist’s precise instructions.
Mike Cloud, Rabbit Quilt, 2008. Oil and clothes on canvas. 42 x 32 x 4 in. Courtesy of the artist and Thomas Erben Gallery, New York.
Where Tuttle’s works are presented without the constrictions of wooden stretchers, Mike Cloud’s abstract and iconographic portraits defy their traditional uses and implement wooden stretchers as an artistic medium. Cloud presents a formal reorganization of support systems in a series of paintings that depict people who have been fundamentally unsupported by society in ways that have led to tragic outcomes.
Lucy Orta, Urban Life Guard, Ambulatory Sleeper, 2001. Various fabrics, screenprint on iron frame, folding camp bed. 29 1/2 x 78 x 27 1/2 in. Gift of the artist, University of South Florida Collection. Photo by Peter Foe.
Beyond Support is drawn entirely from the USF Collection. These artworks and the stories of their creators present an expanded idea of support systems, understood as the structures both within the artworks and within the systems that each artist must negotiate in their everyday life. Beyond Support features work by Carlos Amorales, El Anatsui, Abel Barroso, John Cage, Carlos Garaicoa, Barbad Golshiri, Nancy Graves, Robert Huff, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Orta, Tavares Strachan, Richard Tuttle, Siebren Versteeg, and Claude Viallat.
After Structure is curated by Mark Fredricks. Beyond Support is curated by Mark Fredricks, assisted by Christian Viveros-Fauné. The exhibitions are organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, and supported in part by the USF College of Design, Art & Performance, the Lee and Victor Leavengood Endowment, the Kathleen Binnicker Swann Endowment, the Sara Richter IRA Operations and Program Fund, and The Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation.
EXHIBITION BROCHURES
View and download a 1.5MB pdf of the After Structure brochure.
View and download a 1.5MB pdf of the Beyond Support brochure.
VIRTUAL TOUR
Explore this virtual 360 degree interactive walkthrough of After Structure and Beyond Support. For the best experience click the View Fullscreen icon in the lower right of the window. Virtual tour Courtesy of USF Access 3D Lab, Dr. Laura Harrison.