Open Air
Multimedia works by Scott Fisher, Babs Reingold,
and David Waterman
Artist Statement
In Open Air, Tampa Bay-based artists Scott Fisher, Babs Reingold, and David Waterman explore various aspects of our changing urban environment through painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. Florida attracts growing numbers of new inhabitants, and while natural areas fall to development, our cities are also experiencing alterations to their topography via the construction of new roads, bridges, and buildings.
This exhibit is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Ruth and J O Stone Foundation.
Meet The Artists
David Waterman
David Waterman’s projected black and white photographs direct our eyes from the heavens to the earth and back. Working with an iPhone camera, the artist has focused on the open sky, and captured dynamic cloudscapes and subtle tonalities. In contrast, his closeup images of road surfaces, constantly redrawn by tire traffic, oil, and weather, are graphic testaments to the accretion of daily acts that lead, inexorably and for better or worse, to lasting change.
Scott Fisher
Scott Fisher’s loose and free brushstrokes describe a world in flux. In one painting, a cement pier built for interstate expansion resembles a strange thorny tree planted in a concrete island, all green vegetation swept aside. In another work, a bright red “Wrong Way” sign bars entrance to a jungle of palmettos and mangroves.
Babs Reingold
Babs Reingold’s graphite drawings of felled trees from her Old Southeast neighborhood reveal the beauty and vulnerability of these essential entities. Her sculptural works feature soft silken ladders that connect humans, animals and trees in a struggle to survive and overcome. Taken together the works suggest the existential and real poverty arising from the diminishment of our natural environment.
Luna Window: Ladder No.14, 2016
Rust and tea-stained silk organza stuffed with human hair, encaustic, string, thread, yarn, old nails and old window
Approx. 96h x 108w x 144d inches
$16,000
Luna Window: Ladder No.16, 2016
Silk Organza, rust, tea, human hair, encaustic, string, thread, yarn, cheesecloth, leather, old nails and fabricated old window
93h x 80w x 60d inches
$15,000
Felled Tree: Uprooted, 2022
Graphite on panel coated with gesso and
modeling paste
48x48x2 inches
$8,000
Felled Tree No. 3 (triptych), 2020
Graphite on cradled Clayboard panel
30w x 6h x 2d inches
$2,500
Study for Luna Window: Ladder No. 7, 2009
Graphite on Moleskin Paper
Drawing Size: 8.25 x 5.25 inches
Framed size: 12 x 16 inches
$900
Study for The Last Tree: Squared, 2015
Graphite on Moleskin paper
Drawing Size: 8.25 x 5.25 inches
Framed size: 12 x 16 inches
$900
Study for Luna Window: Ladder No. 14, 2015
Graphite on Moleskin Paper
Drawing Size: 8.25 x 5.25 inches
Framed size: 12 x 16 inches
$900
Measure: Animal With Shroud, 2015
Graphite on Moleskin Paper
Drawing Size: 8.25 x 5.25 inches
Framed size: 12 x 16 inches
$900
Study For The Last Tree, 2008
Graphite on Moleskin Paper
Drawing Size: 8.25 x 5.25 inches
Framed size: 12 x 16 inches
Not For Sale
Study for The Last Tree No. 4, 2013
Graphite on Moleskin paper
Drawing Size: 8.25 x 5.25 inches
Framed size: 12 x 16 inches
$900
Study for Luna Window: Ladder No. 16, 2016
Graphite on Moleskin Paper
Drawing Size: 8.25 x 5.2 inches
Framed size: 12 x 16 inches
$900
Study for Hair Nest ‘01 No. 2, 2020
Graphite on Moleskin paper
Drawing Size: 8.25 x 5.25 inches
Framed size: 12 x 16 inches
$900
Study for Hair Nest ’13, 2014
Graphite on Moleskin paper
Drawing Size: 8.25 x 5.25 inches
Framed size: 12 x 16 inches
$900
Beach Drive, 2023
Acrylic, pastel + charcoal on canvas
48 x 60 inches
$4800
Dumpsters / Gradient in Yellow, 2023
Acrylic, pastel + charcoal on canvas
[5] 12 x 24 inches each
$3800
Wrong Way, 2024
Acrylic, pastel + charcoal on canvas
48 x 60 inches
$4800
49th + Bryan Dairy, 2022
Acrylic, pastel + charcoal on canvas
48 x 60 inches
$4800
Howard Franklin Expansion, 2024
Acrylic, pastel + charcoal on canvas
48 x 60 inches
$4800
Up & Down, 2024. Digital Movie
The selection of photographs by David Waterman projected in Open Air were taken in Hillsborough County, with a majority of them being taken in the environs of the USF Tampa campus.
The black and white images were made on an iPhone with a technique known as multi-exposure high dynamic range (HDR).
About Wild Space Gallery
As an extension of the Foundation's mission, Wild Space Gallery advances awareness of conservation issues within the state of Florida. By curating thought-provoking exhibitions, we create a space where art becomes the vessel for engaging, challenging, and inspiring collaborative ideas towards protecting Florida's wild spaces. Wild Space is open to the public every Wednesday - Friday from 2-6pm and Saturdays from 3-7pm. Hours are extended until 9pm for Second Saturday Artwalk.
