Untitled from fossil record series Anthony Record

Work on Paper

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HCC Permanent Art Collection

Name/Title

"Untitled" from fossil record series Anthony Record

Entry/Object ID

2024.8.1

Description

"Untitled" from fossil record series

Made/Created

Artist

Anthony Record

Date made

2023

Notes

Born and raised in Florida, Anthony studied studio art at the University of South Florida, and graduated with an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. While teaching art history and studio art courses at various Florida colleges, he co-founded the artist cooperative gallery QUAID, located in Tampa, FL, where he curated exhibitions from 2014-2023. From 2018-2022 he was the Studio Programs Coordinator for the Tampa Museum of Art, and from 2022-2024 Anthony was the Curator at the Museum of Florida Art & Culture, where he curated exhibitions of contemporary artists and collectors from Florida. Anthony is also a painter, and his art has been exhibited internationally at galleries and museums in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Kanazawa, Vancouver, and elsewhere.

Location

Category

Permanent

Web Links and URLs

Anthony Record's website bio, Lighthouse Arts bio

Exhibition

Lingering Echoes: The Pulse of Past and Present

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Didactic

Label

Drawn from Anthony Record’s Fossil Record series, this loose yet detailed work on paper occupies the space between representational and abstract, inviting viewers to engage their perception and imagination. Often depicting animals from the Mesozoic Era, the forms suggest a pair of theropods—are they dancing, dapping, or entwined underground in some ancient embrace? Inspired by the primordial forms of kudzu-entangled Floridian trees—reminiscent of galaxy formations—Record uses visual ambiguity in the natural landscape to explore deep time and the ghost-like presence of past and future in everyday life. Anthony Record is the curator at Lighthouse ArtCenter and formerly served as curator at the Museum of Florida Art and Culture (2022–2024). This work of art is a part of the HCC Permanent Art Collection. Through its Campus Loan Outreach Program, HCC Art Galleries seek to share original works by collecting a diversity of art for the education and enjoyment of the HCC Community.