'Out of Cuba' coming to Gulf Coast Museum of Art
Article published on Wednesday, March 2, 2005
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| Flora Fong, “La Palma Barrigona,” 1999, oil on canvas. |
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LARGO – The Gulf Coast Museum of Art will host a preview reception for the exhibition “Out of Cuba: Alfredo Sosabravo and Flora Fong,” on Friday, March 4, 7 to 9 p.m. in the Rhoda Newberry Reed Gallery and Gallery One. The reception will include a slide lecture on the exhibition at 6:30 p.m.
In cooperation with the Tampa Bay Latin American Festival Foundation, the Gulf Coast Museum of Art and cultural institutions throughout the Tampa Bay community are mounting visual, performing and literary programs to celebrate Latin life and culture.
The Out of Cuba exhibition will feature recent work of these two internationally acclaimed artists, Alfredo Sosabravo and Flora Fong. Each artist has works in major museum and private collections throughout the world, including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, the country's national art museum.
Sosabravo's work is vibrant, colorful, and surreal with a world of characters and imagery emanating from his fertile imagination. This exhibition will include acrylic on canvas with stitched and collaged fibers.
Fong's paintings celebrate the natural world; vibrant and colorful, often speaking of the landscape and vegetation of her homeland.
Museum members can attend the reception for free; the charge for guests is $10.
The exhibition will open Saturday, March 5 and will run through Sunday, May 1. Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.; closed Monday. Admission is $5 adults, $4 seniors (over age 62), $3 students with valid identification, free for children (10 and under) and museum members. Admission is free to the public on Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon.
The museum is at 12211 Walsingham Road. Call 518-6833 or visit www.gulfcoastmuseum.org.
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Article published on Wednesday, March 2, 2005
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