Last night, we went to Mirta’s Gallery for their latest opening, “Summertime Fun”, a collection displaying over 20 local artists that explore mediums ranging from sculpture to painting. The overall theme seemed to express a resurgence of passion with bold use of color and shadow. And many of the pieces were of a particularly excellent price range, with the average piece being somewhere in the very affordable $300 to $500 category.
As I browsed the collection, Brian stuck up conversations about good bad movies with one of the owners. A few that came up in discussion were Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Toxic Avenger, and Barbarella. As the conversation got animated, I decided to go get a glass of wine that was served by the ever charming and entertaining, Mathieu, who introduced me around and gave me the pleasure of meeting one of my favorite painters of the evening, Jason Fondren, who mentioned that the gallery just started holding meetings for the recently founded, Tampa Painter’s Guild, that is schedule to hold their next meeting on August 20th at 6pm.
But that was just the beginning of the evening…
After leaving the gallery, we decided to hook up with some friends at The Hub, a local watering hole that is like walking into an old fashioned Polaroid photo album for locals that grew up in Tampa. Over the course of the evening, we ran into probably a dozen old friends. Brian even ran into a couple ex-girlfriends. It was quite a comical evening.
As I started to make new friends, Brian and the boys decided that it was time for our next adventure so we headed over to Tom’s place, where he dazled us with his guitar as I sketched away in my pastel journal while Micheal and Brian discussed their plan to take over the world.
As the evening progressed into morning, we eventually made it back to our place…
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Hey, I made your blog. That’s me. The bald guy talking to Brian and Duane at the gallery.
I wish I had met you guys earlier in the evening. This page is great and your musings are very cool. I live in Atlanta, but may end up moving back to Tampa soon. It’s great to know there are some like-minded people that I might be able to hang out with. I’ll be back down toward the end of the week and hope to catch up with you guys at the next groovy event.
Yes, you’ll definitely have to look us up next time you’re in town. Tampa is finally getting to that point where sometimes there are too many cool events going on at the same time so there’s typically always something to do.
Thanks. I’ll do it. In the meantime, keep on musing, it’s a nice change of pace in my hectic day.
LOL.. Yes, a nice change of pace for our own hectic days. A place where we unwind, hehe.