Painting, as usual, in public here at the Interior Motives gallery in St Petersburg, in real time and without a net, Caleb completes two more paintings set in Crescent Lake Park, St Pete. The overwhelming feeling presented is one of heat and mystery, said one onlooker, which sounds about right. These two paintings are 36×36 on stretched canvas, and, unlike the last Crescent paintings, these are not commissioned work and hence are available for purchase.
Joyce Lazzara, one of Tampa Bay’s best-known artists, has a new blog which includes galleries of her available prints and original paints. Joyce has long been a painter of Florida’s distinctive scenes and landscapes, and her reputation is international in scope. You can check Joyce Lazzara’s new site here.
Joyce’s Art is available in St Petersburg here at Interior Motives.
The Phelps Brothers Reception featuring pro boxer Jeff Lacey was very well attended and convivial! More importantly, several of Leslie’s gang sold paintings– none of whom, I should point out, subsequently buying rounds for the house.
St Petersburg Florida artist Caleb has finished, for a Tampa Collector, another view of St Pete’s Crescent lake, this time looking west across the lake just after sunset. This is a 48 inch square canvas, and is reminiscent of his work from the nineties, when he favored large and frequently equilateral pieces. He is currently at work on two similar 36 inch square canvases which, by contrast, are being done on spec and will be available for purchase when complete.
Seven North , a Tampa Bay, Florida area art wholesaler has partnered with Arte De Cuba/CubanArt to distribute paintings, prints, and art of all varieties from the the nation of Cuba in North America, Europe, and Asia. View the first of the inventory *here*.
This art is available through Interior Motives Gallery of St Petersburg, Florida.
Vendor space for the Craft Emergency Show in St Petersburg, Florida is long since gone, so this show should be a crowded one.
Show hours are 9 AM – 2 PM. Artists and Fine Handcrafted Items will be for sale in Red Cross Park, located on the corner of 4th Street North and 9th Avenue North in St. Petersburg, as well as in Hamilton Hall inside the Red Cross Building located at 818 4th St. N., St. Petersburg FL 33701
Read all about it at the Craft Heroes blog.
Opening Show And Reception
Saturday, June 14, 2008
6:00 PM TO 9:00 PM
Interior Motives
1110 Central Avenue St. Petersburg, FL 33705
TEL 727. 898. 6061 FAX 727.898.9125
Sculptor Leslie Fry, who summers on her modest estate in Vermont and winters here in St Petersburg, has been getting great reviews on her new book “Wild Life“.
Leslie writes:
Hi Caleb,
Thank you always for your wonderful design of the map/announcement card for my park sculpture project last year. I also thanked you in the Acknowledgments of my recently completed book documenting the project:
Wild Life: A Public Art Project, is a 44 page, full color book available at *Lulu.com*
A six-minute video about the project, Wild Life Sculpture Search, can be seen *here*
The book, Wild Life: A Public Art Project, includes an essay by Dr. Nick Capasso, Curator, DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, who wrote:
“Wild Life thus acts as a vehicle for a multi-sensory awareness of place and nature. Through artifice, nature is found. The placement [of the sculptures] also intensifies their liminality. They live at the edge – of the wilderness, and of our perception, as if seen in the corner of the eye. Such slippage in and out of awareness is a profound metaphor for the dream world – the mental land where myths are born.”
An athletic Leslie Fry inspects Laura Mogollon’s prints at St Petersburg Saturday Art Market.
James Cournoyer took some photos before the opening of Marsha Hammel’s show at Hyde Park Fine Arts in central Tampa, Fl. (1608 W. Snow Ave. in Hyde Park Village) Although Marsha enjoys an international reputation for her paintings and prints and has done so for 30 years, and although her first-ever show was held in a Tampa Bay warehouse all those years ago, this is the first show she has had in the the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area since then. To this North Carolina-based snowbird we say– welcome back!
Marsha Hammel’s work is available through Interior Motives, St Petersburg.
The Gulf Coast Museum in Largo, Florida announced they had obtained an extended loan of Robert Bruce Epstein’s “Islands In The Dream”, a large (48″x66″) acrylic painting on masonite for their permanent collection.
Islands in the Dream is a combination of imagery from looking out the airplane window on to the vast Gulf and islands while flying into St. Petersburg.
–Gulf Coast Museum
Robert’s work can be obtained at Interior Motives Gallery.
