Part One and TASKO will showcase on downtown Tampa's Franklin Street on February 16, 2019. Credit: c/o Mergeculture

Part One and TASKO will showcase on downtown Tampa’s Franklin Street on February 16, 2019. Credit: c/o Mergeculture

Tampa Heights’ Oceanic Market block gets two art shows in one night when wildstyle graffiti innovator Part One — who is a street art veteran from the golden years of New York City subway painting — brings a Tampa Meets Broadway exhibition to the the new Mergeculture gallery, all while SHINE St. Petersburg Mural Festival alum TASKO presents his work on canvas at Café Hey just two doors away.

This, combined with the already existing mural work local artists did on the Heights Walls project, makes for a very good evening for the neighborhood. Admission to both shows is free.

TASKO: Works on Canvas at Cafe Hey (1540 N. Franklin, St.) and Part One: Tampa Meets Broadway at Mergeculture (1544 N. Franklin St.), Tampa. 6 p.m. mergeculture.com.

This article appears in Feb 14-21, 2019.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...