Salon style installation of modern and contemporary Florida art at Gallery221@HCC Dale Mabry. Credit: Uploaded by HCCArtGalleries

A piece of the world’s largest collection of Florida art is now on display at Hillsborough Community College’s Dale Mabry campus.

Flourishing Dichotomies presents artwork from the Vickers Collection, on loan from the Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville. Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers’ collection includes more than a thousand Florida artworks, made during the early-1800s through the mid-1900s. The collection is too large for even the Harn to show all at once, so it slowly started loaning these artworks out to galleries throughout Florida.

Flourishing Dichotomies—up through Oct. 17—presents nine works of modern Florida art from the Vickers collection alongside works by contemporary Florida artists Jenny Carey, Miguel Fleitas, Bruce Marsh, Selina Román, and Alex Torres. Together, they span 100 years of Florida art.

Flourishing Dichotomies: Florida Art, Past & Present opens with a no-cover artist talk on Thursday, Sept. 5 inside Gallery 221 at Hillsborough Community College’s Dale Mabry in Tampa.

And while you’re at HCC, check out “Common Grounds,” an exhibition that includes selections from the college’s permanent collection.

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This article appears in Sep 5-11, 2024.