arts Everybody’s a Critic
Gabber Staff Picks: Top Five Favorite Local Pieces of Art After an Art-Filled Year A huge chunk of what I write for the Gabber is arts-related, so I meet more than my fair share of artists on my quest for local stories. Some of the pieces are fantastic, and some are... not. I love them all. Our hub of newbie and professional artists, and many houses with home studios... well, it says something about us as a community. Here are five of my favorites from 2021:
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By Abby Baker
The Food Forest Book If you know Gulfport, you know Crea Egan. Last May, when I heard that Egan, who founded the Gulfport Food Forest, wrote a book, I was intrigued. “What the Tree Whispered” has poems and surreal drawings. It feels like a private love letter between Egan and her own spirituality. I’ve dropped mine in the bathtub twice, so it’s definitely a compelling read.
“First Lady” by Nick Davis.
Michelle Obama by Nick Davis Each piece in Nick Davis’s Black is Beautiful series has intense, un-
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wavering eyes. Davis himself is a shy, perpetually smiling character with a happy-go-lucky lookout on life. I like this juxtaposition. Davis’s “First Lady,” a digital, colorful portrait of Michelle Obama, features the First Lady and her husband, Barack Obama. “I’m going to keep creating this series until I feel it’s time to stop,” Davis once told me. “It’s not time yet.” Yorman Gal
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I met Yoman Gal at last year’s Gulfport Fine Arts Festival. His work looks like a psychedelic trip gone wrong, and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head. This particular piece, he told me, he saw in a dream. South St. Petersburg By Vivia Barron
theGabber.com | December 30, 2021 - January 5, 2022
