Front Cover: Kendra Frorup. McAllen. 2013. Mixed media. 60 x 40 inches.

“McAllen” is the middle name of the artist’s brother, Keith; Kendra Frorup created the work as a tribute following his death in a traffic accident last March. Absence is felt in the empty straw bag in the top half of the image, and in the empty arch that suggests departure in the bottom half. Tapping into digital technology, Frorup also employs “augmented reality” within the arch, and readers with the Aurasma app on an iPhone, iPad, or smart device can view the emptiness within that arch as a threshhold to moving images from their family home in the Turks and Caicos Islands. This leap into Augmented Reality is a first for Tampa Review, and a beautifully complex statement about the ways art leads us to express and understand multiple layers of reality. Much of Frorup’s work involves perceiving and constructing meaning from emptiness. She approaches the work “with the mindset of a collector and an affection for disdained items, urban refuse, and industrial materials.” A sense of place and history also pervades her work, As she has written, “The objects used within the artwork maintain their integrity to reflect where they have been, and the artwork I create is reflective of who I am.”

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Richard Mathews

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Erica Dawson

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