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February 5th 2010 Artist Tom Carabasi To Visit Sarasota Florida

Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art To Feature Artists Tom Carabasi and Gustavo Ramos Rivera.

Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art will feature the photographs of Tom Carabasi and collages and monotypes from Gustavo Ramos Rivera from Wednesday, February 3rd through Saturday, February 27th. A Salon Series Artist Reception will take place Friday, February 5th when artist Tom Carabasi will speak about his work. This free event begins at 6PM. and Carabasi will take the floor at 7pm. Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art is located at 1419 5th Street, in Sarasota Florida’s Rosemary District.

“We are excited to be featuring our second photographer this year, alongside one of our most popular abstract artists,” remarked Gallery Owner Allyn Gallup. “Technology has really brought photography to the forefront of contemporary art taking it to a new level of creativity. Displaying Rivera with Carabasi will be a very colorful, as well as exciting show. We are looking forward to displaying this thought-provoking and appealing work captured by these two seasoned artists.”

Carabasi is the Department Head of Photography and Digital Imaging at the Ringling College of Art + Design in Sarasota, Florida. His work resides in the Ringling Museum Collection as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, and the Museo Ken Damy in Brescia, Italy. Carabasi is also known as a highly regarded Jazz drummer, bringing another level of creativity into his life. Carabasi calls his new show “Cultural Collisions.” He explains “The work in this series is mostly urban scenes from trips to Eastern and Central Europe, where the wounds from WWII and Communism are still being felt. Since 2001, I have felt the need to respond to the collisions of people, ideologies and cultures I see daily in the media and in my travels.”

The second artist is painter, printmaker and collage maker Gustavo Ramos Rivera. Born in Mexico he has emigrated to the U.S. in 1968 and works in San Francisco. His art has been exhibited extensively in private galleries, universities and public institutions throughout the world. It can also be found in the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of Art, and the Phoenix Museum of Art.