A piece of the world’s largest collection of Florida art is now on display at
Hillsborough Community College’s Dale Mabry campus
.
Flourishing Dichotomies presents artwork from the Vickers Collection, on loan from the Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville. Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers’ collection includes more than a thousand Florida artworks, made during the early-1800s through the mid-1900s. The collection is too large for even the Harn to show all at once, so it slowly started loaning these artworks out to galleries throughout Florida.
Flourishing Dichotomies—up through Oct. 17—presents nine works of modern Florida art from the Vickers collection alongside works by contemporary Florida artists Jenny Carey, Miguel Fleitas, Bruce Marsh, Selina Román, and Alex Torres. Together, they span 100 years of Florida art.