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Art: Hot ticket
By MARY ANN MARGER
© St. Petersburg Times, published January 11, 2001
Art lovers, direct your feet
Holiday let-down? Not at the St. Petersburg Downtown Arts Association's monthly walk, St. Petersburg Downtown Arts Association walk, 5:30-9 p.m. Saturday at downtown venues. Two new showplaces, JHM Studio and Gallery and Lewis-Atkinson Galleries, will be participating for the first time. Several other galleries are using the occasion to open new shows, including Fusion Gallery, with works including Sean Parrish's Elevator Music, above, oil, acrylic, latex and Plexiglas on wood, 24 by 48 inches.
Don't miss these premieres: four shows including a new body of work by popular Tampa Bay glass artist Duncan McClellan at the Arts Center, and a traveling exhibit of contemporary crafts by African-American artists at Florida Craftsmen.
The event is free.
See the Art Calendar for show information. Other participating galleries are: Ambiance Galleries, Crystal Mirage Gallery, Davidson Fine Art, EastWest Gallery, 531 Central Fine Arts, Glass Canvas Gallery, Grand Finale Restaurant & Gallery, Heavenly Things, Red Cloud Indian Arts, Shapiro Studio & Gallery, Sidler Fine Art Studio/Gallery, Soho South Gallery, Studio Encanto, Studio Szabries, Thomas Kinkade Beach Drive Gallery, T.W. Curtis Galleries and Ungala.
For more information, call Shapiro Studio and Gallery at (727) 894-2111 or 531 Central Fine Arts at (727) 822-2787.
-- Mary Ann Marger, Times art critic
Persephone's legacy
Seeds -- roots -- veins -- empty vessels. Artist Tanja Softic sets these symbols against an economy of color and geometrics in Memory Folios: Persephone, a work in mixed media on paper, on view at Mira Mar Gallery. A pomegranate in the lower right recalls the seed swallowed by Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, goddess of agriculture. Abducted by Hades, Persephone was forced to live in the underworld four months of every year. Uprooted teeth and vegetables, a heart with its vessels laid bare and an empty bowl all reflect on the artist's own losses. Softic, who was born in Bosnia of Serbian Muslim heritage, exhibited briefly in the bay area while teaching at Rollins College in Winter Park. Today she is associate professor of art and art history at the University of Richmond (Virginia). Mira Mar Gallery is at 1284 N Palm Ave., Sarasota; (941) 366-2093. The show is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday through Jan. 27. Free.
-- MARY ANN MARGER, Times Art Critic
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