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Art: Hot Ticket
By MARY ANN MARGER
© St. Petersburg Times, published April 12, 2001
Off the Web, into the gallery
As the world has become more attuned to technology, outsider art has shown up on the computer screen. Look up Sarah Rakes on your Internet search engine, and you'll find dozens of references, as well as works of art in the style of Summer Cosmos in the Front Room, shown here. But those tiny images don't yet substitute for the real thing, now on view at Clayton Galleries, where Rakes is one of more than 30 artists exhibiting in "Contemporary Folk Expressions," curated by Jeanne Kronsnoble. Rakes' vase of flowers rests on a surface of squares that seem to go straight up because, front to back, they are all the same size. This lack of learned perspective gives the work a certain charm, as does her painting of the picture frame by hand. She uses conventional oil on canvas, but many of the artists make do with discarded wood or metal, leftover paint, twigs, beads and even mud. The show runs through April 21 during the gallery hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Free. Clayton Galleries is at 4105 S MacDill Ave., Tampa; (813) 831-3753.
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