The Art Gallery on the Hillsborough Community College Ybor campus delivers a double whammy with "Wavelengths," an exhibition developed in conjunction with the second annual HCC Ybor Festival of the Moving Image and to celebrate Women's History Month. It features work by four distinguished women artists working in various film and video media. Nancy Cervenka creates a multi-piece installation of her coiled celluloid; Nancy Yasecko offers animated video; Mariannah Amster also works in video and mixed media and Dee Hood is both a still photographer and video artist. Hood's collage, Digital Bomb, is shown above.
The campus gallery is in the performing arts gallery on the corner of Palm Avenue and 15th Street in the historic Ybor district. A reception open to the public is Wednesday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. (813) 253-7674.
And check out the schedule for the Festival of the Moving Image at www.yborfilmfestival.com It runs from Monday through March 21 at various venues in Tampa and features films, music and performance art.
Among the offerings are Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle, which was part of a one-man show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2003; a new documentary on Dr. Ferdie Pachecho, Ybor legend and sometime artist, by Daphne Wynn Boyd; a look at the art of land sculptor Andy Goldsworthy by German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer; and many more intriguing films and videos, such as Debra Hussong's look at human shield Faith Fippinger.
One that caught my eye was The Gleaners and I, an Ages Varda film that uses as a launching point Jean-Francois Millet's 19th century painting of women gathering the leavings in a wheat field. It examines the present day poor who search already-reaped fields for the turnips and potatoes left behind by harvesters. The film is scheduled to show at the Ybor campus performing arts theater at 2 p.m. March 21. Sounds worth seeing.
Picasso's print portfolio
The late Pablo Picasso possessed one of those magical names that has transcended the insular art world to become something of a brand, known to people who have never entered a museum or gallery. He was a prolific, protean artist who worked through most of the 20th century's major art movements and loved to roam through mediums at will. One that fascinated him throughout his career was printmaking, and he produced several thousand prints. A collection of them, which includes aquatints, etchings and lithographs such as Untitled (Head of a Woman) created in 1958, above, will be on view and for sale at Syd Entel Galleries, 247 Main St., Safety Harbor, beginning with an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday and continuing through April 8. (727) 725-1808.
