#Julia Parrino

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Anthony Freese “State of Emergency”, 2023 vinyl and “Termination”, 2023 3D print

(L to R) Jay Giroux “Slow Burn”, 2023, waterborne acrylic on aluminum sign panel mounted to MDF; Ryan Lagasse, “This Isn’t Sunshine”, 2023, acrylic on wood; Blake Bailey, “Solar Pressure”, 2023, linocut relief print

Ryan Lagasse “This Isn’t Sunshine”, 2023, acrylic on wood

RJ Martin, “Cold projections”, 2023, digital print on signboard and “Truth in blue”, 2023, 3D print

Jay Giroux, “Drug Store”, 2023, acrylic on primed MDF

(left) Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, “Where There Is Brown There Is Gold”, 2023, digital print embellished with wax, acrylic, and charcoal on Arches cold press 140lb paper; (right) Joana Hila “Equilibrium of Insect & Flora”, 2023, mixed media

The works above are from Department of Contemporary Art’s latest group exhibition Degrees, organized with Tampa’s Greater Public Studio. It explores the multiple uses of the word “degrees” including in climate change, education and history. Artists included in the exhibition- Blake Bailey, Anthony Freese, Jay Giroux, Joana Hila, Ryan Lagasse, Richard Martin, Julia Parrino, Alex Roberts, and Edgar Sanchez Cumbas.

About Degrees from the gallery’s website-

In this exhibition, we unravel the layers of meaning behind ‘Degrees’. From the nuanced shades of truth that shape our perceptions to the tangible degrees of temperature that influence our environment, the exhibition creates a dynamic dialogue between different dimensions of this concept.

Situated in a pivotal battleground state, the exhibition also contemplates the intricate relationship between degrees and the pressing issue of global warming. Delving into the political discourse, we examine how degrees of belief and denial intersect, particularly in the context of climate change debates.

Furthermore, the exhibition prompts contemplation on the notion of an art degree. What does it signify? How does it define one’s creative journey? These questions guide us through an exploration of artistic qualifications and the degrees of expertise they represent.

A journey through art history reveals the connection between degrees and lines, as we delve into the associations between angles, perspectives, and the progression of artistic movements. This collection invites you to ponder how degrees of inclination can shape artistic expression and historical narratives.

Join us in this immersive exhibition, where degrees of interpretation converge, offering a multi-dimensional encounter with the concept of ‘Degrees’.

Tomorrow (10/26/23) from 6-9pm is the last chance to see the show.

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The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities), edited by David Punter, Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Cover image by Irina Kharchenko, info: edinburghuniversitypress.com.

The Gothic in all its artistic forms and ramifications is traced from the medieval to the twenty-first century. From architecture, painting and sculpture through music, ballet, opera and dance to installation art and the graphic novel, each of the 33 chapters reflects on and weighs in on the ways in which the Gothic is taken up in the art forms and modes under examination. An Introduction discusses Gothic as a changing cultural form across the centuries with deep psychological roots. This is followed by sections on: architectural arts; the visual arts; music and the performance arts; the literary arts; and media and cultural arts.

Contents: List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction – David Punter     Part I: Architectural Arts 1. Gothic and Architecture: Morris, Ruskin, Carlyle and the Gothic legacies of the Lake Poets – Tom Duggett 2. Gothic and the Built Environment: Literary Representations of the Architectural Uncanny and Urban Sublime – Sara Wasson 3. Gothic and Design: The Geometrical Roots of Gothic Aesthetics in the Cologne Cathedral Choir – Robert Bork 4. Gothic and Sculpture: From Medieval Piety to Modern Horrors and Terrors – Peter N. Lindfield and Dale Townshend 5. Gothic and Installation Art: Spectral Materialities, Monstrous Ephemera – Katarzyna Ancuta　     Part II: The Visual Arts 6. Gothic and Earlier Painting: Nightmares and Premature Burials in Fuseli and Wiertz – Maria Parrino 7. Gothic, Caricature, Cartoon: Insatiable Nightmares – Franz Potter 8. Gothic and Portraiture: Resemblance and Rupture – Kamilla Elliott 9. Gothic and Surrealism: Subculture, Counterculture and Cultural Assimilation – Avril Horner 10. Gothic and Modern Art: The Experience of Ivan Albright – Antonio Alcalá González 11. Gothic and Photography: The Darkest Art – David Annwn Jones     Part III: Music and the Performance Arts 12. Gothic and Music: Scoring ‘Silent’ Spectres – Kendra Preston Leonard 13. Gothic and Opera: Overwhelming Passions and Irrational Dreams – Anne Williams 14. Gothic, Ballet, Dance: The Aesthetics and Kinaesthetics of Death – Steven Bruhm 15. Gothic and Contemporary Music: Dark Sound, Dark Mood, Dark Aesthetics – Isabella van Elferen     Part IV: The Literary Arts 16. Gothic and Graveyard Poetry: Imagining the Dead (of Night) – Eric Parisot 17. Gothic Chapbooks and Ballads: Making a Long Story Short – Doug Thomson and Wendy Fall 18. Gothic and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Thresholds of Influence, Possibilities and Desire – Angela Wright 19. Gothic and Modern Poetry: The Poetics of Transgression – Maria Beville 20. Gothic and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: At Home in the English Style – Robert Miles 21. Gothic and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Art of Abjection – Jerrold E. Hogle 22. Gothic and Recent Fiction: Fears of the Past and of the Future – David Punter 23. Gothic and the Short Story: Revolutions in Form and Genre – Sarah Ilott 24. Gothic, Melodrama, Victorian Theatre: Gothic Drama to 1890 – Clive Bloom 25. Gothic and Modern Theatre: Staging Modern Cultural Trauma – Ardel Haefele-Thomas 26. Gothic and Children’s Literature: Wolves in Walls and Clocks in Crocodiles – Anna Jackson 27. Gothic and Young Adult Literature: Werewolves, Vampires, Monsters, Rebellion, Broken Hearts and True Romance – Gina Wisker     Part V: Media and Cultural Arts 28. Gothic and Cinema: The Development of an Aesthetic Filmic Mode – Xavier Aldana Reyes 29. Gothic and Television: The Monster in the Living Room – Linnie Blake 30. Gothic and Comics: From The Haunt of Fear to a Haunted Medium – Julia Round 31. Gothic and the Graphic Novel: From the Future Shocks of Judge Dredd to the Aftershocks of DC Vertigo – Stuart Lindsay 32. Gothic and Videogames: Playing with Fear in the Darkness – Dawn Stobbart 33. Gothic and Internet Fiction: Digital Affordances and New Media Fears – Neal Kirk Index