Skyway 20/21: A Contemporary Collaboration
June 14 – September 1, 2021
USF Contemporary Art Museum + Online
USFCAM HOURS + ADMISSIONS
Monday-Friday 10am-5pm; Closed Weekends and USF Holidays (July 5) – Reservations required for visits June 14–25. No reservations required starting June 28 when USF lifts COVID restrictions on public access to campus.
Admission to the Museum is free; however, a USF parking permit ($5.00 daily) or pay-per-space parking is required. Please call (813) 974-4133 for questions regarding reservations, parking, directions, or more information on events associated with the exhibitions.
CAM EXHIBITION ONLINE
Exhibition Home // Essay by Sarah Howard // Foreword + Acknowledgements
Rosemarie Chiarlone // Danny Dobrow // Babette Herschberger // Akiko Kotani
Cynthia Mason // Ry McCullough // Casey McDonough // Kodi Thompson
DANNY DOBROW
Danny Dobrow expands his ongoing conceptual discourse with the field of craft, and specifically pottery, with a playful interrogation of the cultural hierarchies between the disciplines of craft, pottery, fine art, and design. Using appropriation to construct a fabricated narrative, Dobrow presents the working studio of the fictional artist Martin Martin. Building the imagined history of the ceramicist’s successful early career with functional objects, Dobrow’s accompanying exhibition catalogue for Martin Martin on View: The Hyper Pots explains the evolution of Martin’s career. After renouncing and destroying some of his early works, Martin reimagined a series of white vessels through two phases, resulting in highly saturated objects oozing with contemporary materiality and primed for the digital stage of a social media era. Hyper Pots refers to a movement within contemporary ceramics where a proliferation of highly decorated and extreme glaze surfaced ceramics on Instagram propelled ceramics into the valuable blue-chip art market.
Artist's Website: dannydobrow.com
Artist's Instagram: @DannyDobrowart
INSTALLATION VIEWS
Danny Dobrow, Martin Martin on View: The Hyper Pots, 2021. pottery, spray foam insulation, Silly String, ceiling popcorn, table, catalog, electric kiln, paint, sound system. dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of Skyway 20/21 exhibition at USF Contemporary Art Museum. Photo: Will Lytch.
Danny Dobrow, Martin Martin on View: The Hyper Pots, 2021. pottery, spray foam insulation, Silly String, ceiling popcorn, table, catalog, electric kiln, paint, sound system. dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of Skyway 20/21 exhibition at USF Contemporary Art Museum. Photo: Will Lytch.
Danny Dobrow, Martin Martin on View: The Hyper Pots, 2021. pottery, spray foam insulation, Silly String, ceiling popcorn, table, catalog, electric kiln, paint, sound system. dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of Skyway 20/21 exhibition at USF Contemporary Art Museum. Photo: Will Lytch.
Danny Dobrow, Martin Martin on View: The Hyper Pots, 2021. pottery, spray foam insulation, Silly String, ceiling popcorn, table, catalog, electric kiln, paint, sound system. dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of Skyway 20/21 exhibition at USF Contemporary Art Museum. Photo: Will Lytch.
Danny Dobrow, Martin Martin on View: The Hyper Pots, 2021. pottery, spray foam insulation, Silly String, ceiling popcorn, table, catalog, electric kiln, paint, sound system. dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of Skyway 20/21 exhibition at USF Contemporary Art Museum. Photo: Will Lytch.
Danny Dobrow, Martin Martin on View: The Hyper Pots, 2021. pottery, spray foam insulation, Silly String, ceiling popcorn, table, catalog, electric kiln, paint, sound system. dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of Skyway 20/21 exhibition at USF Contemporary Art Museum. Photo: Will Lytch.
ABOUT DANNY DOBROW (b. 1994, Baltimore, MD)
Danny Dobrow was an artist-in-residence at the Morean Center for Clay, St. Petersburg, FL, and has exhibited his work nationally and extensively across the Tampa Bay region. In addition to his studio practice, Dobrow curates exhibitions that provide a platform for emerging artists contributing to the national field of ceramics. Dobrow received a BA from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, and a post-baccalaureate in Ceramics from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. He lives and works in St. Petersburg, FL.
Skyway 20/21: A Contemporary Collaboration at the USF Contemporary Art Museum is supported by the Gobioff Foundation, the Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation, the Lee and Victor Leavengood Trust, and Dr. Allen Root in honor of his late wife Janet G. Root.
