Angelika Kollin

Curated by OXH Gallery

DRIFT: an independent curators space

In celebration of Women’s History Month, OXH Gallery invites the Tampa community to "The Endless Passage," a solo show by Angelika Kollin, a fine art and documentary photographer from Tampa. 

Angelika’s portraits, which explore the symbiotic relationship between women and the natural world, serve as a perfect vessel for reflecting the gallery’s intention to recognize individuals daring to dream and refusing to surrender hope. In her own words, she describes this journey as transcending the surface, where intuition intertwines with nature, revealing the rhythm of life and a woman’s readiness for self-discovery.

Widely acclaimed for her ongoing project “Mary’s Children,” Angelika will take over the gallery with medium-scale works that aren't based on a particular series but share a common concern with the challenges women face in asserting themselves against societal expectations and biases based on gender or race.

juried by: Jenal Dolson

"Just as Your Ship's Drifting in They're Pushing Out the Tide," juried by Jenal Dolson, will showcase works from talented artists Gina Lee Robins, Amber Toplisek, Ian Wilson, Justin Quaid, Brandin Vance, Jared Ragland, Amy Jones and Elizabeth Molitor in TEMPUS VOLTA.

About the Juror: Jenal Dolson lives and works in Chicago, Illinois as an artist and arts professional. She received her MFA in 2020 from the University of South Florida, and her B.A. in 2007 from the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). She has participated in residencies at The Dorland Mountain Arts Colony (Temecula, CA), Tempus Projects (Tampa, FL), Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto, ON), and the Vermont Studio Centre (Johnson, VT). Recent exhibitions include the Roper Gallery, Frostburg State University (Frostburg, MA) and the Kimball Arts Center (Chicago, IL). She currently holds the position of gallery director at ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL) and has a studio space at Mana Contemporary, in Pilsen (Chicago, IL.)

Onajide Shabaka

"La Florida: Improbable Stories," featuring works by the interdisciplinary cultural practitioner Onajide Shabaka. Onajide Shabaka (Born Cincinnati, OH 1948. Lives and works in Miami, FL) studied at California College of the Arts and Art Center College of Design and earned his MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Shabaka has participated in numerous international art residencies, some established and others self-made. A selection includes Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI) in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (the artist was the first and only resident at the time); Oolite Arts’ Home and Away program with Anderson Ranch in Aspen, CO; Project Row Houses in Houston, TX and Artist in Residence in the Everglades (AIRIE). These residencies, including the self-made ones, often coincide with an intentional walk, a meditative part of Shabaka’s practice that he frames as performance. Some of these include walks in the Gullah Geechee Cultural Corridor along the coast between Georgia South Carolina, and Florida; Mangrove Walk in Greynolds Park, North Miami Beach, FL; the BWCA, Superior National Forest, Minnesota; and African Rice & Maroon Subsistence Farming Residency, Paramaribo, Suriname.

George Ferradi

TEMPUS PROJECTS

"You Can't Hear It, but We're Cheering For You" presents the recent works of Tempus Projects Resident Artist, George Ferrandi. George Ferrandi is an American artist whose participatory projects address issues of vulnerability, impermanence, fallibility, and spectacle, often through experimental approaches to narrative. Employing unique humor and a deep sense of humanity, her work ranges in form and scale from a simple gesture–like resting her head on the shoulder of a stranger on the subway, to a giant spectacle–like parading with hundreds through the streets of South Philly. It’s often a collaborative experiment in storytelling, with participants becoming performers or even creating the narrative. George’s projects have been awarded an NEA Our Town Grant and featured in Documenta 15. Her work has been performed/exhibited at the WeltMuseum (Vienna), International House of Japan (Tokyo), Brunnenpassage (Vienna), Abrons Arts Center (NY), The Kitchen (NY), Cinders Gallery (NY), McKinney Contemporary (Dallas), Wexner Center (Columbus), Harn Museum (Gainesville), Fleisher Art Memorial (Philadelphia), and Sluice (London). She is an NEA fellow of the Japan-US Friendship Commission and has been awarded grants from the Franklin Furnace Fundwinners for Performance Art, MAP fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Mid Atlantic Arts Council. She is currently the Kennedy Family Artist and Scholar in Residence at the University of South Florida.