CURRENT MEMBERS
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NEIL BENDER
Neil Bender's work is the epitome of Boucher’s quote: “I detest the natural world because it is too green and poorly lit." The aim of the work is to seduce and give pleasure through imagery that is social and accessible, that loves the idea of surface as a way of picturing mischievous belief systems. The work is a communicative device that takes imagery that is exploited by our popular culture and forms a new interface for open dialogue, with an interest in pleasure, sensuality, and black humor as the starting points. Through a restructuring of provocative images, Bender hopes to open up new contents that are potentially morally questionable. The current work is an attempt to locate the figure through a variety of pictorial modes –the traditional model-in-studio, a mash-up of Internet and palpable photographic images, and made-up characters and images. Bender finds virtue in the space between guilty pleasure and moral culpability. |
ELEANOR EICHENBAUM
Eleanor Eichenbaum is a writer and educator. Material and narrative arrangement, form, and perception are ongoing interests in her work. Eleanor holds graduate degrees focused in Literature and in Architectural Studies. She has been honored to attend residencies at Trelex in Paris, France and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL.
Eleanor Eichenbaum is a writer and educator. Material and narrative arrangement, form, and perception are ongoing interests in her work. Eleanor holds graduate degrees focused in Literature and in Architectural Studies. She has been honored to attend residencies at Trelex in Paris, France and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL.
CYNTHIA MASON
Trained as an architect and fascinated by the overlap and edges of topographies, Cynthia Mason makes soft paintings and mixed media constructions that scramble the spatial and material codes of painting and sculpture. Mason’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States. Mason received her MFA at the University of South Florida and BFA from Ringling College. She is the recipient of a Professional Artists Grant from Creative Pinellas, an Honorable Mention in the Visual Arts by CAA, two Florida Artist Enhancement Grants and has been selected for numerous artist residences including The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Jentel Artist Residency Program in Banner, Wyoming; and the School of Visual Arts Summer Painting Program in New York. She currently lives and works in St Petersburg, Florida.
Trained as an architect and fascinated by the overlap and edges of topographies, Cynthia Mason makes soft paintings and mixed media constructions that scramble the spatial and material codes of painting and sculpture. Mason’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States. Mason received her MFA at the University of South Florida and BFA from Ringling College. She is the recipient of a Professional Artists Grant from Creative Pinellas, an Honorable Mention in the Visual Arts by CAA, two Florida Artist Enhancement Grants and has been selected for numerous artist residences including The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Jentel Artist Residency Program in Banner, Wyoming; and the School of Visual Arts Summer Painting Program in New York. She currently lives and works in St Petersburg, Florida.
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JUSTIN NELSON
Justin Nelson’s recent body of work is an examination of warmth, empathy, and intimacy in a time of technologically induced disconnectedness. Using colored pencils to render delicate and highly detailed drawings, artist Justin Bryan Nelson conjures a response to his personal experiences of attempting to build relationships and seek intimacy through screen-based interactions that often obfuscate these efforts |
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SAM NEWTON
Sam Newton is a painter whose process involves a strong sense of play and sensuality. Her most recent body of work builds surface texture as a way to enter the body as landscape and as a site for control. An invasion of hair, limbs and stretched skin bring to question what it means to have agency over ones own body. What happens when a body submits to another body? What happens when one loses control? Inner turmoil, emotional strife, and what feels like living on the surface of yourself. The figures reproduce like a hydra, limbs multiply and entangle, accumulating to suggest an alternative agency. Themes involved are both personal and universal, and through well-crafted questions she hopes to further communications, to come full circle, to find the right questions. |
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ANTHONY RECORD
Anthony Record, through paintings, drawings, and woven works, addresses the limits of perception and the boundaries of recognition in a weird place between figuration and nonrepresentation. His work is an art of interruption that offers up an uncomfortably quiet arena for ruptures and associations to burrow and bloom. |
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EMILIANO SETTECASI
Emiliano Settecasi is a Tampa-based artist and designer whose work examines consumer culture, semiotics, craft, and Floridian aesthetics. He has studied at the Pratt Institute and the University of South Florida, and earned his BFA from the latter in 2016. Settecasi has exhibited work in a number of establishments throughout the Tampa Bay area including the Silver Meteor Gallery, Tempus Projects, and Gallery 501, and participated in the Emerging Artist Program at the 2018 Gasparilla Festival of the Arts. He is also currently an Assistant Technician at Gallery 221@HCC. |
JESSI SHERBET
Jessi Sherbet is a Florida artist who makes paintings, drawings, digital collages, and sculptures. "I try to make things that embrace the dollar store and the river, and am motivated by peace, play, catharsis, chaos, and convenience. I'm interested in the ebb and flow of excess and presence within and around me, and often utilize accessible/convenient tools to express colors, distortions, characters, shapes, and texture. My art usually mirrors memory mutations IRL and URL, musical-gender fluidity, dream and meme dandruff, and the haunted visions of oceans filled with pig and clown figurines.
Jessi Sherbet is a Florida artist who makes paintings, drawings, digital collages, and sculptures. "I try to make things that embrace the dollar store and the river, and am motivated by peace, play, catharsis, chaos, and convenience. I'm interested in the ebb and flow of excess and presence within and around me, and often utilize accessible/convenient tools to express colors, distortions, characters, shapes, and texture. My art usually mirrors memory mutations IRL and URL, musical-gender fluidity, dream and meme dandruff, and the haunted visions of oceans filled with pig and clown figurines.
PAST MEMBERS
WARREN COCKERHAM
Warren Cockerham is a film and video maker who received his MFA in Film, Video, and New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010 and a BA in English from the University of Florida's Film and Media Studies program in 2006. He is the founder of FilmLAB@1512: a film and video program for teenagers in Chicago's North Lawndale Community. His work is motivated by a curiosity about complex power structures in familial/intimate relationships and how they are presented and observed through the mediation of public and private archival material. His films, rather than tell stories, pose a series of problems. His short films and videos have screened at a variety of moving-image venues domestically and abroad. He is currently faculty at the University of Tampa and the artistic director and programmer of the Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival in Tampa.
Warren Cockerham is a film and video maker who received his MFA in Film, Video, and New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010 and a BA in English from the University of Florida's Film and Media Studies program in 2006. He is the founder of FilmLAB@1512: a film and video program for teenagers in Chicago's North Lawndale Community. His work is motivated by a curiosity about complex power structures in familial/intimate relationships and how they are presented and observed through the mediation of public and private archival material. His films, rather than tell stories, pose a series of problems. His short films and videos have screened at a variety of moving-image venues domestically and abroad. He is currently faculty at the University of Tampa and the artistic director and programmer of the Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival in Tampa.
TAYLOR FINKE
Taylor Finke explores personal narrative in relation to family, identity, femininity, and the domestic space through constructed images, often paired with photographs found in her family archive. Taylor received a BA in Psychology from the University of South Florida, where she also studied photography. Her work has been exhibited nationally in venues such as the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Roman Susan Gallery in Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, among others.
Taylor Finke explores personal narrative in relation to family, identity, femininity, and the domestic space through constructed images, often paired with photographs found in her family archive. Taylor received a BA in Psychology from the University of South Florida, where she also studied photography. Her work has been exhibited nationally in venues such as the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Roman Susan Gallery in Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, among others.
JENN RYANN MILLER Jenn Ryann Miller explores materiality and aesthetics through abstract sculpture and painting. With a background in traditional ceramics her work subverts tradition and process through experimentation with oblique materials and forms.
GARY SCHMITT
Gary Schmitt is a multi-media artist whose work consists of sculpture, vinyl decals, and site responsive installation. Through discreet and often satirical juxtapositions of mundane images, industrial grade materials, and fabricated forms, Schmitt's works engages in a critical analysis of contemporary culture while deconstructing personal aesthetic.
Gary Schmitt is a multi-media artist whose work consists of sculpture, vinyl decals, and site responsive installation. Through discreet and often satirical juxtapositions of mundane images, industrial grade materials, and fabricated forms, Schmitt's works engages in a critical analysis of contemporary culture while deconstructing personal aesthetic.
LAUREN MORADI
Lauren Moradi is an artist based out of Tampa, Fl who draws a lot and makes sculptures/installations out of drawings. Her work often deals with the domestic and the abject to make familiar things uneasy and challenge mainstream ideas of what makes beauty.
Lauren Moradi is an artist based out of Tampa, Fl who draws a lot and makes sculptures/installations out of drawings. Her work often deals with the domestic and the abject to make familiar things uneasy and challenge mainstream ideas of what makes beauty.
CHASITY WILLIAMS
Chasity Williams is a Tampa-based artist whose work challenges preconceived ideas of cultural identity through the combination of classical baroque elegancies and urban contemporary inspired fashion styles. Through a mix of a diverse and often problematic array of materials within painting and sculpture, her aim is to represent human complexity and creative expression. All things possible at all times. Williams builds up layer upon layer of patterns, textures, and specific color combinations to examine ideas of beauty, excess, and decadence simultaneously. Invention takes form through the merging of oil paint with ceramics and faux hair with weaved fabric, wood and found objects.
Chasity Williams is a Tampa-based artist whose work challenges preconceived ideas of cultural identity through the combination of classical baroque elegancies and urban contemporary inspired fashion styles. Through a mix of a diverse and often problematic array of materials within painting and sculpture, her aim is to represent human complexity and creative expression. All things possible at all times. Williams builds up layer upon layer of patterns, textures, and specific color combinations to examine ideas of beauty, excess, and decadence simultaneously. Invention takes form through the merging of oil paint with ceramics and faux hair with weaved fabric, wood and found objects.
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VILLE MEHTONEN
Ville Mehtonen is interested in a systematic investigation of the human body and its relationship to its environment. He believes that the human mind works diligently to find patterns in all things, and therefore he strives to create imagery that removes itself from any sort of familiar lexicon. Without context an image fails to produce immediate meaning, but instead floats in a realm of the unknown. Concepts of memory, identity, history and origin seem to teeter on the edge of an abstract plane that he finds very potent and wish to explore through painting and drawing. |
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CHRISTINA HUMPHREYS
Christina Humphreys, interested in the gray area between conscious and unconscious space, investigates areas of careless observation and unquestioned experience. User error, process dysfunction and material distortion become aids in combating visual complacency, presenting objects and images of ambiguous form and misleading subject matter that challenge the viewer’s understanding of their own perceptual awareness. |
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ERICKA RICHARDSON
Ericka Richardson’s work explores non-verbal communication of an emotional inner world through painting and sculpture. In recent works the relationship between the structure of language and the structure of painting is investigated, and using formal elements of color and shape as open-signifiers, she creates abstract scenarios containing teetering, ambiguously metaphorical structures. |
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CHASE SHERMAN
Repeating mistakes, pissing off friends, and ignoring pets. Notes are made and crossed out again, ideas are loved then hated. Drink another beer, then draw a tombstone and a Charlie Brown head. You can’t go wrong. |
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GEORGIA HOURDAS
Georgia Hourdas's work, with inspiration taken from soup, candy, fabric and plants, takes moments from her memory and mixes them with images she finds around her in books and online. By mashing them together she creates a window into another world of microbes interacting with fabric motifs and suggestive shapes that flow into abstract forms. With soft pinks and poppy greens, reds and muted blues packed together in a clearly divided space she aims to evoke taste or memory through a visual experience. |
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MONICA PEREZ
Monica Perez's work deals with the way we absorb information and perceive images. She transforms familiar ideas and settings by creating a manipulated product stripped down of any preconceived meaning. Her process involves heavy layering and intuitive deduction and revolves around themes that bring focus to the arbitrary. Her work triggers an instant attraction without providing an obvious connection to what is recognizable. |
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TIMOTHY McMILLAN
Timothy McMillan assembles found objects and materials to create narrative based sculptures and dioramas. He constructs narratives from common folklore, legends, fables, and myths Collecting and scavenging is an integral part of his process. Timothy prefers to utilize craft materials as well as the cheap and ordinary trinkets and tokens tossed aside or abandoned by their middle class owners. The use of the low-brow materials to construct these hybrid narratives undermines the authority of these stories while creating unique, frail, and personal contemporary mythologies. |
QUAID GALLERY
1624 E 7th Ave., Suite 241
Tampa, FL 33605
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1624 E 7th Ave., Suite 241
Tampa, FL 33605
quaidgallerycontact@gmail.com