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Husband-And-Wife Team Open Art Symphony Galleria

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: September 10, 2008

TAMPA - There's a new kid on the art block.

Art Symphony Galleria, 2714 S. MacDill Ave., is a home, studio and gallery for the husband-and-wife team of Marc De Waele and Jill Oliver De Waele.

Marc De Waele specializes in all sorts of artistic and decorative elements - thus the "Symphony" in the gallery's name. His talents include realistic and abstract oil paintings, some incorporating found objects that make them three-dimensional.

He also creates sculptures, candle holders, elaborate fountains and more from metals. Some of the works are covered with chrome, giving them a brilliant, reflective surface. Two large, chrome-finished working fountains in the front yard will make the gallery easy to spot for Saturday's grand opening.

A native of Belgium, Marc De Waele came to the United States about nine years ago. He said he found some space in New Port Richey and began indulging his dream of making large metal sculptures and fountains.

That's also where he met his wife, a weaver. Several of her intricate pieces hang on the gallery walls, and a shelf holds her hand-woven purses.

Her husband often provides the metal handles for the purses and the hangers for the tapestries.

Meet the couple at the free grand opening from 4 to 8 p.m. While there, check out the gallery walls. They look highly textured but are as smooth as glass, owing to the addition of a little marble powder imported from Italy.

Call the gallery at (813) 205-4905 or (727) 726-1959 for information.

Husband And Wife Do Photos Differently

The Hillsborough Community College Ybor Campus Art Gallery presents a photographic exhibit by Maggie Taylor and Jerry Uelsmann.

Called "Just Suppose" and featuring 54 photographic montages and collages, the couple's show opens today and runs through Oct. 24.

Uelsmann is considered a pioneer in the field of photomontage. Working in the darkroom, he manipulates negatives, cutting and pasting a number of photographs together to create a seamless photographic print.

Taking a different approach than that of her husband, Taylor shoots images with her digital camera and layers them on the computer, creating dreamlike, surreal photographic prints.

The artists will attend the free opening reception from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. today at the gallery, on the first floor of the Performing Arts Building at Palm Avenue and 15th Street. At 6 p.m., they will present a lecture in the Mainstage Theater.

For information, call gallery director Carolyn Kossar at (813) 253-7674.

Works by Taylor and Uelsmann also can be seen from Sept. 18 through Oct. 24 in Gallery C of the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, 200 N. Tampa St.

Trip To Southwest Inspiration For Show

It's always interesting to see how an artistic husband-and-wife team influence each other, if at all, said Cathy Clayton, owner of Clayton Galleries.

The South Tampa gallery opens the fall season with "Double Take," a show by Bruce Marsh and Delores Coe. The husband and wife both work in oil, and both do landscapes. But that's where they part ways.

Their different approaches can be seen in the exhibit, which showcases how the artists interpreted what they saw on a recent trip to the Southwest.

"Bruce's is an observation of the great outdoors," said gallery manager and curator Mark Feingold. "His works are from Utah and the mountainous areas; hers deal strictly with things in Las Vegas."

Coe has used the reproductions of icons often seen in Vegas - such as the Statue of Liberty - and juxtaposed them with other images.

"The main thing is that it's from one trip they took together," Feingold said. "They are zeroing in on different things."

Meet the artists at the free opening reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the gallery, 4105 S. MacDill Ave.

For details, call Feingold at (813) 831-3753.

Artist Back In Town For Exhibit At Library

Wendy Boucher, who recently moved to the Miami area from Tampa, is back in town for an exhibit of her works through September at the Kotler Art Gallery of the John F. Germany Public Library.

An author as well as an artist, Boucher creates paper collages on canvas. Two of her favorite subjects are landscapes of places she has visited and Oriental-style still life images.

Boucher will attend the free opening reception from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the gallery, 900 N. Ashley Drive.

Correspondent Esther Hammer can be reached at (813) 259-7662 or ehammer@tampatrib.com.

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