UT Art Faculty Exhibition Opens Nov. 6

Stop by the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery Nov. 6–Dec. 4 to see the diversity and expertise of The University of Tampa’s art faculty. The Art Faculty Exhibition features photography, painting, sculpture, digital images, drawings, installations and mixed media.

Chris Valle, chair/associate professor of art, is showing two paintings from his Packaged series, which explores the themes of excess and consumption in American culture.

“As a whole, our culture is consumed by the way our bodies look, and it is the images on television and social media that we try to emulate because we are conditioned to believe we are supposed to look, dress and act like what is presented to us,” said Valle. “In essence the figures (in my paintings) are being wrapped in plastic like meat at a grocery store, ready to be consumed.”

The works Doug Sutherland, assistant professor of art, is showing range from 3D printed computer models to drawings that represent the developmental process of computer modeling and texturing.

Two pieces are from an animation class project where he requires students to make an inanimate object to come to life. The first, a hammer, is named Martin Cohen and becomes MC Hammer; the other, a talking toilet, is named Potty Mouth.

Ina Kaur, associate professor of art, is exhibiting works from her Entangled series and her Hybrid Mediums series.

“Our identity is a complex, ‘Entangled’ assimilation of varying influences from past and present,” said Kaur. “My works abstractly express these nuances of our identity, being or existence, from a microscopic and macroscopic lens.”

Similarly, the works in Hybrid Mediums “attempt to blur the boundaries between mediums and materials, and symbolically express my/our hybrid identity,” said Kaur.

Santiago Echeverry, associate professor of art, is sharing Narcissus, an experimental video created using a Kinect sensor, along with two prints from the video. Inspired by the drawings of Colombian artist Luis Caballero, Narcissus explores the nature of love and tension.

Other faculty exhibiting work include Kendra Frorup, Corey George, Lew Harris, Michael Ingold, Jack King and Brooke Scherer.

The campus and Tampa Bay community are invited to a reception honoring the art faculty on Friday, Nov. 6, from 7–9 p.m.

The gallery is located on campus at the R. K. Bailey Art Studios, 310 N. Blvd. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday. The gallery will be closed Nov. 25–30 for the Thanksgiving holiday. There is no charge for admission.

For more information, contact Dorothy Cowden at dcowden@ut.edu or (813) 253-6217.