Exhibition of video installations by film and video artist Charles Atlas, including 'Kiss the Day Goodbye', his 2015 piece of 36 sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico.
Charles Atlas is on view at the Tampa Museum of Art through fall 2026, with the exhibition centered around his video installation Kiss the Day Goodbye. It's a good time to catch it—the show opened August 22, 2025, and will be running through the end of the year, so you've got plenty of room to fit it into a weekend.
Kiss the Day Goodbye came out of a 2015 residency Atlas spent at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation on Captiva Island, right here in Florida. Over the course of that stay, he filmed 36 sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico and paired them with a clock counting down from 18 minutes to zero. It's the kind of piece that asks you to just sit with it for a while and watch the light change.
If you aren't familiar with Atlas, he's an American film and video artist who's been working since the early '70s. He spent nearly 40 years with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, starting as an assistant stage manager and filming the dancers on a Super 8 camera. That work led to what he calls 'media-dance'—choreography made for film and video rather than just documenting a live performance. Along the way, he befriended Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns and collaborated with Michael Clark, Yvonne Rainer, Marina Abramovic, Leigh Bowery, and Lady Bunny. His work has shown at the Venice Biennale and Tate Modern, and his archive is held at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.
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The museum is at 120 W Gasparilla Plaza in Tampa. Admission ranges from $0 to $25, and all exhibitions are included in that ticket, so you can see this and whatever else is on the floors at the same time.
