Join us at Tempus Projects on Thursday, July 18th from 6-9pm for a public reception for ‘Theo Wujcik, Too Big for Tempus’, selected works from the archive.
Members Cocktail hour with ‘special perks’ from 5-6pm.This exhibition runs through September 11, 2024
Tempus Projects is located at 1624 E 7th Ave. in Ybor City, Florida at Kress Contemporary.
Artist Theo Wujcik (1936–2014) was a true original and his work defies categorization. One of the Tampa Bay area’s best-known artists, he was prolific, experimental, and completely dedicated to art, producing an exceptional and eclectic body of fine graphic art (drawing and printmaking) and painting.
There is consensus that Wujcik was just approaching a high point in his career at the time of his passing. His work offers a compelling and relevant narrative of a committed artist of great depth who drew on a boundless creative spirit and whose eclecticism resists and defies categorization.
-Valerie Ann Leeds, Phd. Independent Curator
𝕄𝕀𝕊𝔼 𝔼ℕ 𝔸𝔹𝕐𝕄𝔼, juried by Carissa Heinrichs at 𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗣𝗨𝗦 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗦, explores the medium of printmaking. This exhibition centers around the concept of mise en abyme, a notion rooted in the French phrase “placed in the abyss”. Mise en abyme encompasses a form of self-reference characterized by the replication and reflection of content or formal elements from a primary level onto subsequent levels. Such mirroring can manifest as repetition, similarity, or even contrast, offering a multilayered exploration of form and content. While the inclusion of mise en abyme within the compositions of submitted works may be limited, the exhibition invites contemplation of the printmaking process itself as an embodiment of this artistic concept.
About the Juror: Carissa Kalia Heinrichs is a collaborative printmaker and interdisciplinary artist based in Tampa, Florida. She received her MFA in 2019 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a Project Assistantship and exhibition at Tandem Press, and her BFA from Arizona State University. She has participated in artist residencies with Gallery 224 Studios in Wisconsin (USA), Shiro Oni Artist Residency (Japan), Alfonso Crujera’s electroetching residency workshop in Gran Canaria (Spain), and Tides Institute and Museum of Art’s StudioWorks in Maine (USA). Carissa has taught college courses in printmaking at Pensacola State College and the University of Virginia, as well as public workshops at a wide range of venues. She is currently a production printer at Graphicstudio in University of South Florida’s Institute for Research in Art.