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
BABETTE HERSCHBERGER
Intrigued with how structures in the built environment contrast with the natural world, Babette Herschberger works intuitively to create abstract compositions with minimal color and form to emphasize surface. Using informal and banal materials, she uses collage to build pigmented layers generating sublime surfaces of planes and forms that function as a form of drawing within painting. Her boldly colored compositions suggest objects, structures, and shadows as interruptions within the landscape.
Artist's Website: babetteherschberger.com
Artist's Instagram: @abstractbabz
INSTALLATION VIEWS
Installation view of Skyway 20/21 exhibition at USF Contemporary Art Museum. Works by Babette Herschberger. Photo: Will Lytch.
Babette Herschberger. Clipped Yellow, 2021. acrylic on plywood. 47 x 45 x 2-1/4 in. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of Skyway 20/21 exhibition at USF Contemporary Art Museum. Photo: Will Lytch.
Babette Herschberger, Interrupted Structure #39, 2019. acrylic and paper collage on canvas. 27 x 26 in. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of Skyway 20/21 exhibition at USF Contemporary Art Museum. Photo: Will Lytch.
Babette Herschberger, Interrupted Structure #24, 2017. acrylic and paper collage on wood panel. 10 x 10 x 1 in. Interrupted Structure #37, 2019. acrylic and paper collage on wood panel. 10 x 10 x 1 in. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of Skyway 20/21 exhibition at USF Contemporary Art Museum. Photo: Will Lytch.
Babette Herschberger, Collage Painting #38, 2018. acrylic and paper collage on wood panel. 10 x 10 x 1 in. Collage Painting #41, 2018. acrylic and paper collage on wood panel. 12 x 12 x 1 in. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of Skyway 20/21 exhibition at USF Contemporary Art Museum. Photo: Will Lytch.
Babette Herschberger, Tidbit #88, 2017. collage, found cardboard. 11-7/8 x 8-7/8 in. Tidbit #113, 2019. collage, gaffers tape on cardboard. 10-3/8 x 8-5/8 in. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of Skyway 20/21 exhibition at USF Contemporary Art Museum. Photo: Will Lytch.
ABOUT BABETTE HERSCHBERGER (b. 1961, St. Joe, IN)
Babette Herschberger has exhibited widely across the United States and was an artist-in-residence at ArtCenter South Florida/Oolite Arts in Miami, FL. Her work was published in New American Paintings, edition #112, and is in the collection of Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art + Design, Miami, FL, as well as a number of corporate collections. Herschberger completed her AS in Graphic Design with honors at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL. She 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.
