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Lease Agreement (2013 - ) is an artist-run & nomadic curatorial project run by Adda Farcus & Kitty Davies. Tampa, FL

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Documentation of @notbritneyspearsofficial ‘s exhibition for earlier this year!

Cooper L. Gibson
“606-312-2004”
February 20 - May 9, 2026
all works are untitled

Cooper L. Gibson is an artist and musician based in Lexington, KY. Their work reflects on their experience as a queer person in Kentucky. 606-312-2004 explores how public spaces can operate as sites of desire. With her lens as witness and co-conspirator, Gibson opens a hole between two worlds: a boat ramp located in the Daniel Boone National Forest, which functions as a cruising site for predominately gay men, and an adult arcade located on a street named “Family Circle.” These sparse and abstracted photographs evoke the sweaty and thick sensuality of these spaces and the hauntology of desire that lingers long after we are gone. by @lease_agreement

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Closing Reception!

Cooper L. Gibson
“606-312-2004”

Closing Reception
Saturday, 5/9/26, 5-8pm

Cooper L. Gibson is an artist and musician based in Lexington, KY. Their work reflects on their experience as a queer person in Kentucky. “606-312-2004” explores how public spaces can operate as sites of desire. With her lens as witness and co-conspirator, Gibson opens a hole between two worlds: a boat ramp located in the Daniel Boone National Forest, which functions as a cruising site for predominately gay men, and an adult arcade located on a street named “Family Circle.” These sparse and abstracted photographs evoke the sweaty and thick sensuality of these spaces and the hauntology of desire that lingers long after we are gone. Gibson received their BFA in Art Studio in 2018, and in 2023 they earned their MFA in Sculpture & Expanded from the Illinois State University Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. by @lease_agreement

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Tonight!
2/20/26 5-8pm

Opening reception of Cooper L. Gibson’s @notbritneyspearsofficial exhibition “606-312-2004.”
Part of @artweektampa

Lease Agreement
118 W. Thomas St, Tampa, FL by @lease_agreement

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8 months ago

Friday — Art Week Tampa

Friday, February 20, 2026

Art Week Tampa continues with standout exhibitions and exploration on the University of South Florida campus:

Contemporary Art Museum at USF – Open 10:00 AM–5:00 PM
Visit the CAM for BRIAN MAGUIRE: LA GRANDE ILLUSION
La Grande Illusion is a major exhibition of works by internationally acclaimed artist, Brian Maguire. The exhibition spans two decades of work that spotlights the artist’s lifelong quest to draw attention to global injustices, war, and human rights. One of Ireland’s leading cultural figures, Maguire has turned the practice and tradition of painting into acts of visual testimony. Maguire’s paintings are global in scope and are derived from projects undertaken between 2007 and 2024 in Mexico, the Mediterranean, Syria, Sudan, the United States, and the Amazon. Maguire’s artworks are painted from direct experience and involve the artist spending extensive time on the ground with the communities that welcome him. The results are, plainly put, paintings that visualize the commonality of human suffering and dramatize the plight of people in need.

USF Graphicstudio – Open ~10:00 AM–5:00 PM
Step inside Graphicstudio, the internationally renowned print workshop where artists and master printers collaborate on ambitious editions and experimental work in print and multiples.

Then head into the evening:

Lease Agreement | 5:00–8:00 PM
Reception for Cooper L. Gibson’s “606-312-2004.” Through spare, atmospheric photography, Gibson explores how public spaces operate as sites of queer desire—moving between a cruising site in Daniel Boone National Forest and an adult arcade on “Family Circle,” tracing longing, secrecy, and the lingering charge of place. taken in Tampa, Florida by @lease_agreement

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Cooper L. Gibson
“606-312-2004”

Reception
Friday, 2/20/26, 5-8pm
part of Tampa Art Week

Cooper L. Gibson is an artist and musician based in Lexington, KY. Their work reflects on their experience as a queer person in Kentucky. “606-312-2004” explores how public spaces can operate as sites of desire. With her lens as witness and co-conspirator, Gibson opens a hole between two worlds: a boat ramp located in the Daniel Boone National Forest, which functions as a cruising site for predominately gay men, and an adult arcade located on a street named “Family Circle.” These sparse and abstracted photographs evoke the sweaty and thick sensuality of these spaces and the hauntology of desire that lingers long after we are gone. Gibson received their BFA in Art Studio in 2018, and in 2023 they earned their MFA in Sculpture & Expanded from the Illinois State University Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. by @lease_agreement

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9 months ago

“Blue and, Red, White”
Dakota Parkinson & Malic Amalya
November 15, 2025 / 5 - 8pm (one night only!)

God bless America. We’re number one. Please ignore the ruins. The works in “Blue and, White, Red” upturn US nationalism through slippery references to Ozymandias and inversions via drag and formal playfulness.

Malic Amalya is a transgender filmmaker working across experimental 16mm film, video installation, and expanded cinema performance. Visceral and cacophonous, his films traverse gritty landscapes of abandoned buildings, blast zones, and back rooms. His creative framework is informed by an intersectional trans-feminist politic rooted in decolonization, anti-racism, gender self-determination, disability justice, prison abolition, anti-capitalism, and climate justice.
Malic is an Assistant Professor of Experimental Media and Film Production at Emerson College in Boston. His films have screened in festivals and queer bars across the world, and are distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco and CJC in Paris.

Dakota Parkinson is a resident artist at the Morean Center for Clay and a technician at the Hive St. Pete. She grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and graduated from the University of Missouri in 2016. She is a ceramicist, community builder, and stalwartly visible trans femme. She got her start in ceramics at a community studio in 2019, and she went on to join Access Arts as an artist in residence (2020-2022). She is interested in clay as a place, clay as an extension of body, clay as a mourning ritual, and clay as a deeply relational social practice. by @lease_agreement

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a year ago

Dakota Joan Parkinson @transfunctional
“Loadstone”

installed in our front yard until November 15

part of 2025 Terrain Biennial @terrainexhibitions by @lease_agreement

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Dakota Parkinson
Loadstone

October 1 - November 15, 2025

“Loadstone” is a site-specific sculptural intervention created by artist Dakota Parkinson. Made with raw clay, natural forces will change the surface and structure of “Loadstone” over the duration of the installation. Parkinson’s ephemeral installation formally resembles foundational support structures: pillars and pylons. The surface references hand slipped vessels and clay wall adornment while evoking an image of derelict Midwestern Americana. She incorporates themes of industrial architecture, nationalism, decay, and human hand. Parkinson also invites you, the viewer, the comment on her work. Comments can be submitted via the Lease Agreement website (link in bio).

“Loadstone” is part of the Terrain Biennial 2025. Terrain Exhibitions brings contemporary art where it is most needed and least expected: yards, front steps, windowsills, porches, and rooftops in neighborhoods worldwide. Terrain hosts the Terrain Biennial, a public art festival that builds community by creating space for public art through relationships between artists and their neighbors. The Biennial creates accessible contemporary art experiences available to the public, 24/7 for the duration of the festival. View more projects online and find projects near you at www.terrainexhibitions.org

Dakota Parkinson is a resident artist at the Morean Center for Clay and a technician at the Hive St. Pete. She grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and graduated from the University of Missouri in 2016. She is a ceramicist, community builder, and stalwartly visible trans femme. She got her start in ceramics at a community studio in 2019, and she went on to join Access Arts as an artist in residence (2020-2022). She is interested in clay as a place, clay as an extension of body, clay as a mourning ritual, and clay as a deeply relational social practice.

Lease Agreement is located at 118 W. Thomas St, Tampa, FL. by @lease_agreement

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a year ago

Early documentation of the moving image installation and performance by Ruby Que and Yea Big’s Dissociated Ensemble (Michael Carlson, Jon Byler, Briar Darling, Jamie Mauck, Tommy O’Donnell, & Stefen Robinson) at cometogetherspace in Bloomington, IL. July 22, 2023
@rubyq.ue @stefenrobinson @cometogetherspace by @lease_agreement

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3 years ago

Lauren Warnecke from WGLT came by Lease Agreement on Monday to talk about Whitney Johnson’s @whit.g.j exhibition, the gallery, and the nature of artist-run spaces. by @lease_agreement

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Ruby Que with Yea Big’s Dissociated Ensemble

cometogetherspace @cometogetherspace
212 N. Roosevelt Ave.
Bloomington, IL

Saturday, July 22
Open: 5pm
Show: 7pm

$10
BYOB

Ruby Que @rubyq.ue is a Chicago-based installation artist. In their work they open portals and create hauntings. Many of their projects grapple with absences: the missing person, the deserted homeland, the obsolete medium, the traumatic memory. They try and often fail to fill, embrace, or expand these gaps with videos, projections, stories, and sculptures. Human connection lies at the center of their practice and they enjoy engaging the audience as co-authors and documentarians.

Yea Big is Stefen Robinson @stefenrobinson , solo and in collaboration. Dad, partner, teacher, multi-instrumentalist music-maker, Buddhist pacifist-anarchist, tree-admirer, in Bloomington, IL. Sounds range from hip-hop to electro-acoustic compositions to free-improvisation. taken in Cometogetherspace Gallery by @lease_agreement

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3 years ago

Installation details from Whitney Johnson’s @whit.g.j solo exhibition at Lease Agreement.
On view until June 24 - message or email the gallery to make an appointment taken in Bloomington, Illinois by @lease_agreement

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