In a city where murals battle for your attention and coffee-shop galleries pawn to the Instagram clock, one artist quietly remolds the air—Juliann Rowe, the half-whispered legend reshaping how St. Pete sees itself. A Whisper Becomes a MurmurBy day, St. Pete hums with pastel sunsets and sun-worn tourists. But tucked in its back alleys, Rowe…
Showing at: Brenda McMahon Gallery Calm and Chaos: Paintings by Joe Legrand will be unveiled at the Brenda McMahon Gallery on September 1st 2025, and run throughout the month, and an artist opening featuring the artist and live music will take place on Friday, September 5th, from 6–9 p.m. LeGrand is an oil painter, and the show…
Isac Gres is a St. Petersburg contemporary artist known for bold abstractions that balance vibrant color, texture, and form, creating works that are both visually striking and emotionally resonant. INTERVIEW: Q Your journey from Cuba to the United States must have been transformative. How did your experiences during that transition shape the surrealist themes in your artwork? A…
I was born in New York but moved to Florida where my early formative years were steeped in the sunlight and the botanical diversity of the south. I have always drawn and painted since early childhood. Like all children, I loved it. I just never stopped. My passion, then and now made every moment feel…
The undertone of her work is rooted in the story of love. The journey to find it, revel in it, cherish it, lose it and find it again are all deeply seated. Nature, energy, and the connection between them are injected into her view of the human condition. Her emotionally charged realism is infused with symbolism and…
Patti Suzette, a St Pete-based visual artist and muralist, creates artwork that exudes raw energy and intensity. Her work marries nature with an urban grunge that is representative of the man-made changes to natural habitat. Her work is featured in galleries across major cities such as Tampa, St. Petersburg, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami and Manhattan, NY….
In St. Petersburg where sun-soaked walls double as canvases and creativity spills onto every corner, one figure has persistently left his mark. Chad Mize, with an unmistakable style and determined vision, has become the bandleader of the St. Petersburg art scene. If this city has a patron saint or guiding hand, it would be him:…
of the Photographer as Photo Laureate The persons asking and answering the questions are both photographers, the former Photo Laureate and current Photo Laureate of St Petersburg. To make a portrait of what it means to be practitioners of this way of seeing, its degrees of perspective, they have agreed to opposite sides of the…
Stop. Look. Appreciate. The biophilia hypothesis is the belief that humans are genetically predisposed to be attracted to nature. It states that all humans inherently love the natural world, or as artist Luci Westphal puts it, “that we are of and long for nature.” The term comes from Greek and translates to “love of life.” Psychologist…
My name is Victoria Kudryavtseva, I am engaged in artistic ceramics and painting on natural silk and cotton (batik). My creativity is a very exciting process to me! It’s like magic, when the white material begins to live and glow in my works and emotions. My creativity is very diverse, I paint all types of…