If you are in Philly this weekend, come through! Facebuster is about a feeling. The exhibition Facebuster comprises works by 22 artists that span age, dimension, and space but share an affinity for irreverence. The work is irreverent to medium, discipline, and form. It is juvenile, petty, snotty, dim-witted and ugly-pretty in it’s surrender to chance, process and whim. Join us for an exhibition of of USF Alumni, Faculty, and Friends Facebuster is curated by artist Noelle Mason and Will Douglas who run Parallelogram Gallery, an independent gallery space in Tampa, FL Large Contagious Smile Some people are able to fake it under the worst circumstances. A flutter of the eyes, a stirring in the corners of the mouth. “Write me a poem about smiles!” “No!” she frowned “I’m not a poet and I don’t pretend to be.” Her glasses fogged from the boiling water, “What type of smile are you looking for anyway?” “The large contagious kind,” I replied smartly as I tried to embody the very thing I was trying to describe. She frowned again. “Well, I wouldn’t know anything about that. Pass me the salt.” Yours is the best. Sometimes you fake it but I know that it is not sincere. QUAID is an artist collective and gallery space located in Tampa, FL. The Collective was founded in 2014 by members of the Tampa Drawers Sketch Gang, a group of Tampa artists who met weekly at various locations to collaborate and draw. The project has since expanded to a permanent location with a focus on contemporary artists creating mixed media exhibitions. In addition to monthly curatorial projects, QUAID hosts a variety of events including first Fridays, literature readings, drawing nights, and film screenings. CHANCE MEETING highlights the material discourses of sculptors Phillip Scarpone and Taylor Pilote. The sculptural objects included retool and re-imagine the texture, grit and detritus of contemporary culture while simultaneously investigating and fossilizing, glorifying and interrogating, excavating and categorizing, reflecting and memorializing #kaluplinzy #pilotestudios #contemporaryart #quaid #usffaculty #USFAlumni #philly #tampa #nyc #florida #contemporaryart (at Fishtown, Philadelphia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpSMEG8hmCS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ontr6habnsy8
