Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming arts events to mark your calendars for. If three’s a trend, the multimedia live art scene in Tampa Bay is a downright craze. Both sides of the Bay offer fine examples of live local art next weekend.
Tampa’s Tempus Projects, housed in a former garage in Seminole Heights, offers Grey Matter, a cerebral exploration of drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture by more than a dozen art scene staples, among them Alessandro Midulla, Deon Blackwell, Justin Nelson, Cindy Mason and Allen Hampton (whose paintings are often eerily rendered in pig’s blood). Opening night also offers a video installation in the courtyard by Kurt Piazza and an open-air market of handcrafted goodies and artlets.
The Studio@620’s Multiple Oneness: Time Released Art and Music may not be named for your noggin like the Tempus show, but boy will it have those synapses jumping. Oboist and composer Matt Sullivan and earthwork painter Ken Cro-Ken offer
This article appears in Mar 10-16, 2010.