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Art: hot ticket
By LENNIE BENNETT
© St. Petersburg Times
published August 15, 2002
Inner visions
Art as therapy has created powerful work among patients with mental and physical handicaps, and is often lumped into the big catch-all genre known as Outsider Art. "Women of Vision," a small exhibition at the Tampa Museum of Art, could be categorized as outsider. Twelve blind or visually impaired women participated in a program at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville for about three years, exploring their creativity. They wrote memoirs, sculpted, wove baskets, made relief prints and, yes, painted, using grids made with string to delineate horizons and color planes.
The paintings especially have the charm and the naive treatment of form and perspective found in much outsider art with none of the edge. You get the feeling that these women found joy in running a wet brush across paper, an experience just as tactile as sculpting. It's a reminder that art is as much about looking inward as outward. Through Sept. 15.
Also on view is "UnderCURRENT/overVIEW 6" with work by local artists. Through Sept. 22.
The museum at 600 N Ashley Drive is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Tuesday and Wednesday; 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday; and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday. Admission is $5 adults; $4 seniors 62 and older; $3 students; free for 5 and younger; by donation 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. Call (813) 274-8130 for more information.
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