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Hot ticket: A carnival of art

By LENNIE BENNETT
Published October 20, 2005

The Post-Industrial Carnival, a followup to last year's Industrial Carnival, is one of those events that makes you believe the Tampa Bay area may actually be a cool place. At least for a week, when a concentration of artists and musicians will take over the gallery Flight 19 (another cool indicator) with a riot of traditional and new media, including Lifers, a video installation by Wendy Babco (shown, in part, above), which will be projected on the gallery's brick facade. Among the themes explored by more than 30 individual artists and several collaborative groups are spectacle entertainment and commodity culture, globalization, surveillance and compliance and - my favorite - the acceleration of successive nostalgias. Flight 19 is at 601 Nebraska Ave., Tampa, at the old Union Station Baggage Building. Opening event Friday is 6 to 11 p.m. Daily hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (including Oct. 30), with a closing party and video festival from 6 to 11 p.m. Oct. 29. (813) 238-5910.

Abstracts in abundance

Lovers of abstract art will have lots to enjoy at Horizon Line Gallery, 11005 N 56th St., Temple Terrace. A free reception opens "Abstracts, Abstracts, Abstracts" on Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. Work by Jack Bond, Theresa Spoto, Jason Allen, Desiree Soule, Virginia Rhan, Pam Patton, R. Gabriella, Norie Karnig and John Martinez, whose painting is shown above, will be on view through Nov. 12. For gallery hours or more information, call (813) 988-3424.

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