By LENNIE BENNETT, Times art critic
Published August 31, 2006
Faith on film
Shannon McMahon says she's a stay-at-home mother of two, not an artist. But something moved her, on June 6 (6/6/6) to take a camera to a plot of land near her in-laws' home in Alabama and shoot photographs of a farmer's witness to his faith: hundreds of crosses planted in the ground, along with placards and detritus, painted with warnings of hellfire and hallelujahs of possible salvation. They are on view at her first art exhibition - sort of outsider art about outsider art - at Bombshell Gallery, 2534 Central Ave., St. Petersburg. For information about gallery hours, call (727) 519-5208.
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Seasonal changes
The Tampa Museum of Art, 600 N Ashley Drive, has made some revisions to its exhibition schedule published in Weekend on Aug. 24. Here's the new lineup for the coming season. For more information, call (813) 274-8130 or go to www.TampaMuseum.com.
Theo Wujcik: Global Warming, Sept. 16 through Jan. 7.
Luis Montoya and Leslie Ortiz: Revisions of Nature, Sept. 30 through Jan. 7.
Minimal to the Max: The Brownstone Collection, Oct. 14 through Dec. 17.
Josef Albers: Color Genius, Oct. 14 through Dec. 17.
Frederic Church, Winslow Homer and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape, Jan. 6 through April 1. Shown above is Homer's Girl Picking Apple Blossoms (1879, oil on canvas), which will be part of the exhibition.
Purvis Young from the Tampa Museum of Art's Collection, April 28 through July 22.
