The art world lost a giant when British painter David Hockney died in June. Thanks to the Tampa Museum of Art, we can reflect on his influential work at the “David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed” exhibition, opening Sept. 24. The show features more than 140 prints, collages, photographs and iPad drawings, drawn from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation. Immerse yourself in Hockney’s world of Los Angeles swimming pools, color-saturated landscapes and personality-capturing portraits. The exhibition also includes his stage designs, which are as cool and vibrant as one would expect. On view through Feb. 28, 2027. tampamuseum.org
“The Disappointed Tourist” by Ellen Harvey, seen here at Turner Contemporary.
Count on the curators at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum to continually show thought-provoking exhibitions by renowned artists. They’re back at it with “PICTURE(SQUE): Ellen Harvey Works, 1999-2025.” Harvey is a prolific artist, and this exhibition showcases four major bodies of her work. It includes “The Mermaid: Two Incompatible Systems Intimately Linked,” a staggering 100-foot-long painting based on a satellite map of Florida, in which a section between the Everglades and Miami bears an uncanny resemblance to a mermaid’s tail.
“The New York Beautification Project” recalls Harvey’s practice of making traditional landscape paintings on graffiti sites across the city. We get the East Coast debut of her most recent work, “The Utopia Machine,” which consists of more than 100 paintings depicting the answers library patrons gave in response to the question “What would make our world into a utopia?”
You can also participate in Harvey’s ongoing project, “The Disappointed Tourist,” an installation of over 300 paintings made in response to the question “Is there a place that you have always wanted to visit or revisit that no longer exists?” While our suggestions aren’t likely to be reflected in this show, it feels like after the 2024 hurricanes, there are plenty of places we’d like to see memorialized. Submit your response at disappointedtourist.org. On view through March 6, 2027. ira.usf.edu
“Cantilever Ring” by Jill Herlands.
Fine craft gallery Florida CraftArt’s new exhibition focuses on the metal arts of casting and fabrication. Opening Sept. 19 with a reception from 6-8 p.m., “Formed by Fire” puts emphasis on the transformative nature of heat. Participating artists work in both traditional and contemporary processes. The show was both an open call and invitational, so there’s bound to be some innovative hybrid techniques we haven’t seen before. But metal as a material is the star of the show. On view through Oct. 24. floridacraftart.org
On Sept. 29 and Oct. 6, four Momentumcohort artists will present “MovingSurreal.”
Mentorship is critical to any artist’s professional development, and the proof is evident in dance company projectALCHEMY’s Momentum: Choreographic Mentorship program. Founder and artistic director Alexander Jones said that when he started the initiative in 2018, it was with the goal of keeping artists working. Fast-forward to today, and the project has found a collaborator in The Dalí Museum. On Sept. 29 and Oct. 6, four Momentum cohort artists will present “Moving Surreal,” in which they’ll perform original choreographic works inspired by the “Dalí in America” and “The Architecture of The Dalí” exhibitions throughout the museum. The artists include Aynsleigh Morehouse, Curvacia Elysée, Sami Mangione and Victoria Gonzalez. thedali.org. projectALCHEMY season passes are available at projectalchemy.dance.