Brush to canvas: News from the visual art scene
The 2023 SHINE Mural Festival is right around the corner (it’s Oct. 13-22). Look for 14 brand-new murals, and more, to appear over a short span of days. We’ll have reports from the field (well, reports from the walls) as things heat up.
Oct. 14 will bring, of course, the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance’s monthly Second Saturday ArtWalk. Tread carefully that night; you might trip over a muralist hard at work on a plein air masterpiece.
Here are a few more visual art events this month.
Creative Clay’s Friday Art Market (10 a.m.-2 p.m. today) will include a visit from Mayor Hideto Onishi of Takamatsu, Japan, St. Pete’s Sister City, along with his delegation. Creative Clay has had a partnership with Heart Artlink Takamatsu, a similar organization, since 2003. More info here.
Photography by Harvey Drouillard.
Opening with a reception Saturday at thestudio@620: 30 Years of Harvey, an exhibition of photographs by Michigan transplant Harvey (Drouillard). Although Harvey’s notorious for his amusing “guerilla” photo shoots, featuring totally naked people wandering nonchalantly through familiar locations, he has a varied portfolio of work. Saturday’s reception is 6 to 8 p.m. (admission is free), and the work will be on the walls through Oct. 30. He’ll give an Artist Talk on that very day.
Channelside thrills: Now open at Sparkman Wharf (next to Splitsville near the water) in Tampa is “Dune,” an interactive light exhibition by Netherlands-based Studio Roosegaarde. Part of an experience called Arts in Motion, this walk-through exhibit will be there through Oct. 29. From the same creators, “Waterlicht” will be up at Water Street Oct. 27-29. Admission to both is free; click here for details and directions.
Morean Glass Studio artists have created more than 200 handblown glass pumpkins, and they’ll be for sale at a “pumpkin patch” from 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 14 at the Chihuly Garden.
Opening with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 14 (during the ArtWalk) is the Drew Marc Gallery, inside The Factory St. Pete.
Metals artist Frank Strunk III has an exhibit of new works opening Oct. 14 with a reception, during ArtWalk hours. Strunk calls Construct Destruct Restruct “an invitation to explore perpetual cycles: birth, growth, life, trauma, betrayal and addiction. Confront the way we are forever restructuring and rebuilding ourselves behind the scenes and in our conscious lives.” The studio is at 2638 6th Ave S.
