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Art: Hot Ticket
By MARY ANN MARGER
© St. Petersburg Times,
published October 4, 2001
Tools of his trade
 The double entendre of the one-word title, Drill, gives viewers the only tool they'll need to enter Sarasota artist Jeffrey Whipple's painting and to explore a situation that can never be resolved. Such visual oxymorons are the stock in trade for Whipple, who posed different props and models against fabric designed by a friend until he got the effect that he found most satisfying.
Whipple is delighting viewers with paintings and sculpture at Clayton Galleries, Tampa, where he is paired with Virginia Dewberry of Asheville, N.C., exhibiting ominous still lifes. He also has sculpture on view, including Attitude, a near-life-size woman holding a removable bomb in the palm of her hand. When Tropical Storm Gabrielle caused a power outage 15 minutes into Clayton Galleries' opening reception Sept. 14, quick-thinking owner Cathy Clayton replaced the bomb with a candle and passed more candles to guests who had braved the elements to come. "We sat around in the dark and just memorialized the people at the World Trade Center," says Clayton. She is considering repeating the experience next year on the anniversary of the disaster.
The current show continues through Oct. 13 during gallery hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Free. 4105 S MacDill Ave., Tampa; (813) 831-3753.
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