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Skyway 2024 | Artist Panel
Skyway 2024 is a multi-venue exhibition shared among five institutions: the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College Art and Design; the Tampa Museum of Art; and the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa. Working together, curators from each institution offer context for the diversity of art produced in Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, and Sarasota counties. With this iteration of Skyway—the MFA’s third—seven artists were invited to engage with our institution’s collection galleries and architecture.
Kendra Frorup, Emily Martinez, and Anat Pollack will be speaking about their practices as well as their individual experiences researching the collection of the MFA to create site-specific work and installations for Skyway.
Skyway 2024 | Artist Panel
Saturday, October 26, 2024
11:00 AM–12:30 PM
Marly Room
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg FL 33701
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Kendra Frorup (b. 1965, Nassau, Bahamas) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator, and also a collector: a collector of memories, of sounds, movements, and, most of all, objects. For Skyway 2024, Frorup created site-specific sculptures in the Rococo gallery of the MFA, along with a painting of her daughter Lexi which is conversation with a 1799 portrait of French artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s daughter Julia. Frorup often draws upon personal memories to investigate Caribbean culture and the wider African Diaspora, often unrecognized in discussions of so-called western art. Born in the Bahamas, Frorup is Associate Professor in Sculpture at University of Tampa. She is also the first woman artist to have a solo career retrospective at the National Gallery of the Bahamas.
Emily Martinez (b. 1999, Queens, NY) draws from family photographs, Renaissance paintings, and Mexican muralism to highlight and elevate brown bodies so often left out of traditional, particularly western religious, narratives. For Skyway 2024, Martinez has created a work that responds directly to the Museum of Fine Art’s painting The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine by Fabrizio Santafede (Italian, 1560-1635). Martinez earned her BFA from the University of Central Florida in 2022 and is currently pursuing an MFA from the University of South Florida. Born to Mexican and Dominican parents, her work often explores the personal experiences of Latin-American immigrants in the United States.
Anat Pollack (b. 1968, Cleveland, OH) Pollack skillfully moves between cutting edge technologies and ancient ones, employing both 3D printing techniques and hand-formed clay sculptures. For Skyway 2024, she has placed her hand-built bronze cast fertility objects throughout the Museum of Fine Arts’ ancient Greek and Roman galleries. Pollack earned her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A convergent media artist exploring the perception and pliability of time, she is Associate Professor of Art at University of South Florida, Tampa.
