Outdoor Musical Performance and Closing Reception for "Juice Choir" at QUAID Gallery
You're invited to fall asleep and dream with us! For the closing of "Juice Choir," Jessi (sleepy) and Eric (the moon) will be playing new songs from their musical project Gooder that will bring you through a series of dreamscapes (and a couple nightmares). Since dreams can be non-linear and non-physical, each attendee will receive a tiny booklet to help guide them through the dreams. We might need your help through! Click here to get your free ticket. Tickets are free but required to limit capacity.
Luckily, QUAID is secluded, with a very large outdoor courtyard for socially-distanced gathering, and the building has two large garage doors that can be opened on the east and south walls of the gallery. To keep everyone healthy and comfortable, the following guidelines will be in place for all events at the gallery:
+ The inside of the gallery is limited to 4 people at a time. Chairs and ground markers spaced 6 ft. apart are in the surrounding outdoor courtyard for the audience to gather.
+ The garage doors on the east and south sides of the building will remain open.
+ Face masks and 6 ft. social distancing required at all times inside and outside.
+ This event is BYOB. Straws will be provided for guests to sip with a mask on.
+ Obviously, if you don't feel well, please stay home
Luckily, QUAID is secluded, with a very large outdoor courtyard for socially-distanced gathering, and the building has two large garage doors that can be opened on the east and south walls of the gallery. To keep everyone healthy and comfortable, the following guidelines will be in place for all events at the gallery:
+ The inside of the gallery is limited to 4 people at a time. Chairs and ground markers spaced 6 ft. apart are in the surrounding outdoor courtyard for the audience to gather.
+ The garage doors on the east and south sides of the building will remain open.
+ Face masks and 6 ft. social distancing required at all times inside and outside.
+ This event is BYOB. Straws will be provided for guests to sip with a mask on.
+ Obviously, if you don't feel well, please stay home
You are invited to an opening reception for "Juice Choir," a solo exhibition of new work from Jessi Sherbet at QUAID Gallery.
Saturday, February 27. 7-10p
Jessi Sherbet , A.K.A Jeffie Sherbet, is a Floridian artist who makes digital collages, linocuts, drawings, paintings, and clothing. They’ve been making art and music since their early teens and formerly worked in illustration design.
“I strive to make things that embrace the dollar store and the river, and am motivated by catharsis, convenience, peace, and play. I’m interested in the ebb and flow of both excess and presence within me and around me, often utilizing accessible and convenient tools to express colors, distortions, characters, shapes and texture. My art often echoes memory mutations IRL and URL, musical-gender fluidity, the dandruff of dreams n’ memes, and the tragic vision of oceans filled with clown and pig figurines.”
Saturday, February 27. 7-10p
Jessi Sherbet , A.K.A Jeffie Sherbet, is a Floridian artist who makes digital collages, linocuts, drawings, paintings, and clothing. They’ve been making art and music since their early teens and formerly worked in illustration design.
“I strive to make things that embrace the dollar store and the river, and am motivated by catharsis, convenience, peace, and play. I’m interested in the ebb and flow of both excess and presence within me and around me, often utilizing accessible and convenient tools to express colors, distortions, characters, shapes and texture. My art often echoes memory mutations IRL and URL, musical-gender fluidity, the dandruff of dreams n’ memes, and the tragic vision of oceans filled with clown and pig figurines.”
Fidget Splinter is a show of recent work from three generations of abstract painters from the Tampa Bay area: Rhonda Donovan, Erica Greear, and Anthony Record.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fidget-splinter-tickets-131767144075
Whether it’s the assembled and stained paintings of Donovan, the scratchy enmeshed digital collages of Greear, or the shadowy inscrutable paintings of Record, the artists in Fidget Splinter exercise a disciplined imagination and a restless spirit to create genre-defying works that are spontaneous and dense.
With a structural whimsy and a formal rigor that is challenging to enter and a joy to get lost in, the works in Fidget Splinter shimmer with a jittery ferment that rewards searching eyes.
Rhonda Donovan:
“My artworks map memories of human interaction, manifested by cut, torn, unraveled, painted, and sewn materials, assembled as metaphors of the many possible outcomes from damaged or mended associations. The abstracted layers encapsulate pain, scars, healing, and the joyous moments of life. Surfaces are well stocked with layers of color or texture to mimic these complexities, scars from surfaces that have fallen apart and been rejoined to gesture the story of our existence, and materials assembled over time which index relationships rejoined in forward momentum. Hope is that advancing movement. It is the last thing to go, but it is also what forces us to stay the course, make an effort, and search for the possibility of repair.”
After a career of making art for advertising and publishing, Rhonda Massel Donovan returned to fine art studies. Since completing her MFA last spring during the onset of the COVID pandemic, she has been working from her home studio while also as art faculty for USF. Since making this career shift, she has been recognized with exhibitions, invitations, and awards in Florida, New York, Hawaii, and Europe.
Erica Greear:
“Subconscious renditions & anxious tendencies are condensed with the intent to be digested into interpretative purity. My process is rapid and highly intuitive as a means of limiting anxiety induced perfectionism, and to trick myself into a sense of control. It is my poetic attempt to supply clarity and invite the subliminal to guide me through play - to hone the anxiety occupying my life into spatially aware submission, taming it into a fluid and palpable visual manifestation. The nature of this work is to rein in, encapsulate, and examine the psychological themes of being plagued by emotional exhaustion, overactive thoughts, and rumination - to create a sense of balance amongst the chaos. The redirection of thought and energy inspires a central rebirth through cathartic practices.”
Erica Greear is an interdisciplinary artist who paints, works digitally, and dabbles in ceramics and textiles. She graduated from The Lois Cowles Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, and she works as a floral designer & vintage seller, taking inspiration from botanicals, items from the past, street fashion, Co-Star & the exhausted human spirit.
Anthony Record:
“I strive to make things that are organically hyper-ambiguous and inscrutable. My painting is an art of interruption that reflects the searching and restless qualities of contemporary consciousness as it has evolved online, and is influenced formally by the primordial forms suggested by the kudzu-covered trees that line Florida’s highways most of the year. Those ambiguous shadowy forms, reminiscent of the birth of galaxies and the end of civilization, suggest to me simultaneously scenes from the distant past and the distant future. My paintings share many formal qualities with this kind of messy organic growth as a way of engaging with the sublime dread of deep time, and as an expression of how the haunted history of the landscape echoes out into our everyday lives.”
Anthony Record is an artist and educator, and he has been the Studio Programs Coordinator at the Tampa Museum of Art since 2018. From 2009-2018 he was a professor of art and art history, and his art has been exhibited internationally at galleries and museums in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Kanazawa, Vancouver, and elsewhere. He is the co-founder and co-director of the artist cooperative gallery QUAID, located in the Seminole Heights neighborhood of Tampa, FL since 2014.
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Luckily, QUAID is secluded, with a very large outdoor courtyard for socially-distanced gathering, and the building has two large garage doors that can be opened on the east and south walls of the gallery. To keep everyone healthy and comfortable, the following guidelines will be in place for all events at the gallery:
+ The inside of the gallery is limited to 4 people at a time. Markers spaced 6 ft. apart are sprayed in the surrounding outdoor courtyard.
+ The garage doors on the east and south sides of the building will remain open.
+ Face masks and 6 ft. social distancing required at all times inside and outside.
+ This event is BYOB. Straws will be provided for guests to sip with a mask on.
+ Obviously, if you don't feel well, please stay home
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fidget-splinter-tickets-131767144075
Whether it’s the assembled and stained paintings of Donovan, the scratchy enmeshed digital collages of Greear, or the shadowy inscrutable paintings of Record, the artists in Fidget Splinter exercise a disciplined imagination and a restless spirit to create genre-defying works that are spontaneous and dense.
With a structural whimsy and a formal rigor that is challenging to enter and a joy to get lost in, the works in Fidget Splinter shimmer with a jittery ferment that rewards searching eyes.
Rhonda Donovan:
“My artworks map memories of human interaction, manifested by cut, torn, unraveled, painted, and sewn materials, assembled as metaphors of the many possible outcomes from damaged or mended associations. The abstracted layers encapsulate pain, scars, healing, and the joyous moments of life. Surfaces are well stocked with layers of color or texture to mimic these complexities, scars from surfaces that have fallen apart and been rejoined to gesture the story of our existence, and materials assembled over time which index relationships rejoined in forward momentum. Hope is that advancing movement. It is the last thing to go, but it is also what forces us to stay the course, make an effort, and search for the possibility of repair.”
After a career of making art for advertising and publishing, Rhonda Massel Donovan returned to fine art studies. Since completing her MFA last spring during the onset of the COVID pandemic, she has been working from her home studio while also as art faculty for USF. Since making this career shift, she has been recognized with exhibitions, invitations, and awards in Florida, New York, Hawaii, and Europe.
Erica Greear:
“Subconscious renditions & anxious tendencies are condensed with the intent to be digested into interpretative purity. My process is rapid and highly intuitive as a means of limiting anxiety induced perfectionism, and to trick myself into a sense of control. It is my poetic attempt to supply clarity and invite the subliminal to guide me through play - to hone the anxiety occupying my life into spatially aware submission, taming it into a fluid and palpable visual manifestation. The nature of this work is to rein in, encapsulate, and examine the psychological themes of being plagued by emotional exhaustion, overactive thoughts, and rumination - to create a sense of balance amongst the chaos. The redirection of thought and energy inspires a central rebirth through cathartic practices.”
Erica Greear is an interdisciplinary artist who paints, works digitally, and dabbles in ceramics and textiles. She graduated from The Lois Cowles Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, and she works as a floral designer & vintage seller, taking inspiration from botanicals, items from the past, street fashion, Co-Star & the exhausted human spirit.
Anthony Record:
“I strive to make things that are organically hyper-ambiguous and inscrutable. My painting is an art of interruption that reflects the searching and restless qualities of contemporary consciousness as it has evolved online, and is influenced formally by the primordial forms suggested by the kudzu-covered trees that line Florida’s highways most of the year. Those ambiguous shadowy forms, reminiscent of the birth of galaxies and the end of civilization, suggest to me simultaneously scenes from the distant past and the distant future. My paintings share many formal qualities with this kind of messy organic growth as a way of engaging with the sublime dread of deep time, and as an expression of how the haunted history of the landscape echoes out into our everyday lives.”
Anthony Record is an artist and educator, and he has been the Studio Programs Coordinator at the Tampa Museum of Art since 2018. From 2009-2018 he was a professor of art and art history, and his art has been exhibited internationally at galleries and museums in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Kanazawa, Vancouver, and elsewhere. He is the co-founder and co-director of the artist cooperative gallery QUAID, located in the Seminole Heights neighborhood of Tampa, FL since 2014.
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Luckily, QUAID is secluded, with a very large outdoor courtyard for socially-distanced gathering, and the building has two large garage doors that can be opened on the east and south walls of the gallery. To keep everyone healthy and comfortable, the following guidelines will be in place for all events at the gallery:
+ The inside of the gallery is limited to 4 people at a time. Markers spaced 6 ft. apart are sprayed in the surrounding outdoor courtyard.
+ The garage doors on the east and south sides of the building will remain open.
+ Face masks and 6 ft. social distancing required at all times inside and outside.
+ This event is BYOB. Straws will be provided for guests to sip with a mask on.
+ Obviously, if you don't feel well, please stay home
QUAID Gallery Presents Sled Dogs
QUAID is back IRL on October 3 with a group exhibition of recent work by the artists who run and fund one of the best artist-run exhibition spaces in the southeast. Sled Dogs features works by Neil Bender, Warren Cockerham, Taylor Finke, Jenn Miller, Justin Nelson, Sam Newton, Anthony Record, Gary Schmitt, and Emiliano Settecasi.
October 3 also marks the launch of the QUAID Patreon, where you can support QUAID Gallery for as little as $5 a month, with 4 levels of rewards, including entry into our monthly art lottery. QUAID t-shirts and koozies are on-site for immediate pickup for those who subscribe to our Patreon at the reception, and our first QUAID Lottery drawing will take place at the gallery on October 17.
Get your free ticket (required for admission) here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/119929860441
Luckily, our space is secluded, with a very large outdoor courtyard for socially-distanced gathering, and the building has two large garage doors that can be opened on the east and south walls of the gallery. To keep everyone healthy and comfortable, the following guidelines will be in place for all events at the gallery:
+ CAPACITY IS LIMITED. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO REGISTER AT EVENTBRITE FOR A FREE BUT REQUIRED TICKET.
+ The inside of the gallery is limited to 4 people at a time. Markers spaced 6 ft. apart will be placed in the surrounding outdoor courtyard.
+ The garage doors on the east and south sides of the building will remain open.
+ Face masks and 6 ft. social distancing required at all times inside and outside.
+ This event is BYOB. Straws will be provided for guests to sip with a mask on.
+ Obviously, if you don't feel well, please stay home.
QUAID is back IRL on October 3 with a group exhibition of recent work by the artists who run and fund one of the best artist-run exhibition spaces in the southeast. Sled Dogs features works by Neil Bender, Warren Cockerham, Taylor Finke, Jenn Miller, Justin Nelson, Sam Newton, Anthony Record, Gary Schmitt, and Emiliano Settecasi.
October 3 also marks the launch of the QUAID Patreon, where you can support QUAID Gallery for as little as $5 a month, with 4 levels of rewards, including entry into our monthly art lottery. QUAID t-shirts and koozies are on-site for immediate pickup for those who subscribe to our Patreon at the reception, and our first QUAID Lottery drawing will take place at the gallery on October 17.
Get your free ticket (required for admission) here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/119929860441
Luckily, our space is secluded, with a very large outdoor courtyard for socially-distanced gathering, and the building has two large garage doors that can be opened on the east and south walls of the gallery. To keep everyone healthy and comfortable, the following guidelines will be in place for all events at the gallery:
+ CAPACITY IS LIMITED. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO REGISTER AT EVENTBRITE FOR A FREE BUT REQUIRED TICKET.
+ The inside of the gallery is limited to 4 people at a time. Markers spaced 6 ft. apart will be placed in the surrounding outdoor courtyard.
+ The garage doors on the east and south sides of the building will remain open.
+ Face masks and 6 ft. social distancing required at all times inside and outside.
+ This event is BYOB. Straws will be provided for guests to sip with a mask on.
+ Obviously, if you don't feel well, please stay home.
QUAID GALLERY
5128 N. FLORIDA AVE
TAMPA, FL
quaidgallerycontact@gmail.com
5128 N. FLORIDA AVE
TAMPA, FL
quaidgallerycontact@gmail.com