Get the best of local art and music with style and an edge tonight at USF Tampa.
Sarasota band MeteorEYES will headline an electro-pop dance party, 7-9 p.m. at the University of South Florida's Centre Gallery, where Alicia Everett’s photographic show, Face Time, has just been hung. It's all free to attend.
Accessible yet uniquely inventive, MeteorEYES is an indie-synth-electro-pop-rock quintet fronted by Shannon Fortner, an activist who writes about freedom and individuality. The band will be debuting a new song called "Some Other Way" along with other new tunes.
The MeteorEYES show will begin at 8 p.m.; free refreshments and snacks will be served until they run out.
Everett’s Face Time investigates our systems of communication in relation to various aspects of our lives and relationships. According the gallery, the series explores interpersonal, technologically-based sexual interactions through live video connections. The printed digital video stills were captured from transmissions during iPhone video chats and printed as large scale, colorful abstracts. The view is left questioning feelings of connection and/or disconnection associated with devices.
Everett's nationally exhibited installation, My Best Thing, consists of an antique red oak cabinet and 54 brass mailboxes fitted into a stand with a full-length lightbox backing both pieces. Viewers experience the piece by peering through the glass panes at backlit images of male genitalia, which where transmitted to the artist via email and text and are a part of an ongoing archival collection.
Everett, a recent BFA graduate of USF, currently lives and works in Tampa and plans to attend graduate school in the fall of 2014. More information can be found on her website at aliciaeverett.com.
The Centre Gallery is located on the second floor of the Marshall Student Center in room 2700, at 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa. Regular gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, please contact the Centre Gallery at 813-974-5464. Closing reception will be held 7–9 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 14, in the Centre Gallery. For more information, call 813-974-5464.