Sunday, July 12, 2009

Size Matters opens at Nova 535: Big art, big crowd (photos)

Posted by Denis Baldwin on Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:06 AM

With images pulled from pop culture of both today and yesterday, Size Matters took over Nova 535 on Friday night. The Vitale Brothers were the stars of the show, with a supporting cast of artists who brought their insight and character to the exhibit. A complete list of artists, plus photos of artwork and partygoers after the break:

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Artists taking part included: Bask, Tes One, Andrew Spear, Terribly Odd Frank, Strunk Ill, Davey Montooth, Chris Parks, Hydro 74, Sarah Gail Hutcherson, John Hutcherson, Chad Mize, Phillip Clark, T.W. Curtis, Dolla Bill, Melia White, Mark Michaels, Smilemaker Krystal Ralph, Hug Smugglers, Ron Pieniak, Ever, Cody Meagham, Ricardo Hernandez Marquez, Heinz Hinrighs, Andrea Pawlisz, Joey Vitale, Paul Vitale, and John Vitale.

Appealing to a wide audience, their subjects included a moniker of Lady Liberty with a Burger King parody, the recently deceased pitchman Billy Mays, Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, an iconic metal structure resembling a rusted boombox from the mid ’80s, a headshell and needle brought to life size in a third model and a vectorized picture-of-a-picture take on Polaroid's ad campaign from a decade ago. A trip upstairs revealed a callback to the ’80s with Skeletor holding a lollipop. Dozens of pieces, most reasonably priced under $1,000, ran the cultural range from the dawn of disco through the modern age.

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It was very much a see-and-be-seen event. Hundreds of people poured in over the course of the four-hour show. The accompanying fashion show was too big for just one post, so I'm running a separate post specifically for it.

Here's some more photos of the artwork on display:

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Here's some crowd photos as well:

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To see more photos from the Art Show, see the whole album:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/denisbaldwin/sets/72157621258657146/

Denis Baldwin is constantly crashing art shows on his own website, MyTampaLife.com.

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