Open Air Artist Conversation

Saturday, October 12, 5-6pm, Wild Space Gallery

Address: 2606 Fairfield Ave S BLDG #7, St. Petersburg, FL 33712

Join us for a lively conversation with artists Scott Fisher, Babs Reingold, and David Waterman, featured in the exhibition. Their works collectively explore our changing urban environment as Florida’s untouched landscapes face development. The panel will be moderated by Wild Space Curator Noel Smith.

About Open Air:

David Waterman’s projected black and white photographs direct our eyes from the heavens to the earth and back. Working with an iPhone camera, the artist has focused on the open sky, and captured dynamic cloudscapes and subtle tonalities. In contrast, his closeup images of road surfaces, constantly redrawn by tire traffic, oil, and weather, are graphic testaments to the accretion of daily acts that lead, inexorably and for better or worse, to lasting change.
Scott Fisher’s loose and free brushstrokes describe a world in flux. In one painting, a cement pier built for interstate expansion resembles a strange thorny tree planted in a concrete island, all green vegetation swept aside. In another work, a bright red “Wrong Way” sign bars entrance to a jungle of palmettos and mangroves.
Babs Reingold’s graphite drawings of felled trees from her Old Southeast neighborhood reveal the beauty and vulnerability of these essential entities. Her sculptural works feature soft silken ladders that connect humans, animals and trees in a struggle to survive and overcome. Taken together the works suggest the existential and real poverty arising from the diminishment of our natural environment.
Open Air is collaboratively curated by Raheem Fitzgerald, Tony Palms, and Noel Smith.

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