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Sarasota News Leader November 30, 2012 projector that they affectionately referred to as "Frankie" and a repurposed overhead projector, manipulating a number of found or homemade objects and raw materials, including strands of hair, glass lamp shades, colored Saran Wrap sheets, perfume bottles, magnifying glasses, stencils, dry erase markers and more. The result was a constantly metamorphosing splash of lights and shadows in the shapes of globules and polygons in colors that traversed the spectrum — a unique sight that could not have been produced any other way. Page 57 In addition to the projection team and the musical acts, one of the artists whose work is on display in the Curated Unknowns exhibition was present at the event. Between sets, S. Paul Matkowsky spoke with the News Leader briefly about what it is like to be an artist working to attain increased recognition in Sarasota and the role of the Art Center in that process. "If you want to get exposed and you're just emerging and you want to get involved with art, you have to go to the Art Center. It's the Garibay and her collaborators have been seen first step," he said. contributing this unique light show to musical performances around Sarasota over the past few Matkowsky went on to express his apprecimonths, a project they plan to continue. "It just ation for what the Art Center contributes to became an addiction," Garibay said, explaining the Sarasota art scene. "It seems like there is the genesis of the idea to the News Leader. "I'm a need for something authentic of an artistic nature in Sarasota in general, and it seems like always looking for something to project." S. Paul Matkowsky stands with War Paint, one of his two pieces included in the Curated Unknowns exhibition, part of a body of work he described to The Sarasota News Leader as "based on organic impulse and the parallel of nature and the human impulse."