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Art: Hot Ticket
By MARY ANN MARGER
© St. Petersburg Times,
published November 1, 2001
Inspired by the earth
Past meets present in the sculpture of Lutz artist Susan Livingston, featured in an exhibition opening Friday at Hillsborough Community College. Livingston combines original clay forms with fossils, thus drawing both her medium and her inspiration from the earth. She uses Florida fossils, either bought or personally dug, dating from the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. The untitled work here, 2 feet tall, was created in eight steps involving sculpting, staining, burnishing and firing.
Livingston has long been a presence on the bay area art scene. Her work is in the permanent collections of local art museums and won the coveted best of show prize at Tampa's 1979 Gasparilla art festival. Back then, she was building pots from coils of naturally colored clay, layering them into suggestions of landscapes. Though those pots have been the most popular of her efforts, she wanted something new to master, and her current work gives her both intellectual and artistic challenge.
The exhibit is at HCC's Ybor City Campus, in the Performing Arts Building, room 101, Palm Avenue and 15th Street, Tampa. An opening reception with the artist is 5-8 p.m. Tuesday. The show runs through Dec. 2. For information call (813) 253-7674.
-- MARY ANN MARGER, Times art critic
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