You Are Invited to Experience
Hot Hot Heat
Judy Chicago
Andy Dixon
John Gurbacs
Lucky LeRoy
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Hot Hot Heat is a fiery group show featuring national and local artists, taking on topics that are at once sensual, beautiful, heated, and absolutely necessary.
Opening Reception & Brunch
Saturday, August 22, 2026 from 11am-3pm
Main Gallery | Station House 3rd Floor
260 1st Ave S, Ste 200, St Pete, FL 33701
Meet the artists of Hot Hot Heat.
Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago is an American artist, author, educator, and pioneering figure in feminist art. Born in Chicago in 1939, she began her career in a male-dominated art world that often excluded women’s experiences from serious artistic consideration. Her work challenges that exclusion by placing women’s bodies, histories, creativity, and voices at the center of monumental art.
Judy Chicago, Voices from the Song of Songs: Yes, I am black and radiant, 1998 | Heliorelief and lithograph, 24 x 20 in. Published by USF Graphicstudio
BELEN, NM | Interdisciplinary
Andy Dixon
Andy Dixon is a Canadian-American artist whose work embraces aesthetics, splendor, beauty, and material luxury while blurring the boundary between high art and popular culture. Dixon is also the original illustrator behind the cover art for Hot Hot Heat, an art-punk band that emerged in Vancouver in the early 2000s.
Andy Dixon, Pink Composition with Cherry Pie, Hand-pulled serigraph in 53 colors on coventry rag, 30 x 25 in.
LOS ANGELES, CA | Interdisciplinary
John Gurbacs (b. 1947, Budapest) is a Hungarian-American painter whose oil-on-canvas works explore the systems and patterns connecting natural and man-made worlds. Moving between microscopic detail and cosmic scale, Gurbacs reveals visual relationships among tropical foliage, construction debris, fractals, and planetary forms.
John Gurbacs, Palmetto Micro #2, 2018, Oil on canvas, 32 × 32 in.
TAMPA BAY, FL | PainterJohn Gurbacs
Lucky LeRoy
Lucky LeRoy is a queer artist whose work dives into provocative current events as well as the politics of power and fame. Published in The New Yorker and Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine. LeRoy is compelled to be an agent of change, elevating social consciousness around some of the most triggering topics with his signature playfulness and dark humour.
Lucky LeRoy, I’m nude and you’re not, 2009, acrylic and sharpie on fabric attached to canvas, 14 × 11 in.
ST PETE, FL | Relational AestheticsStay tuned to collect
Collect works by these artists at browneart.co beginning August 22, 2026.
CURATORIAL ESSAY
Interpretations of Love
Jovian Browne
Unlike other exhibitions I have curated, Hot Hot Heat did not emerge from my mind—at least not in any logical sense. This exhibition was birthed from a feeling: a feeling that asked me to set aside reason, and tune into an energy. And so I did. I followed this guiding flame joyfully, wherever I felt its warmth, discovering only afterward, that the artists and artworks I had drawn together formed an exploration of love.
Hot Hot Hot Heat is an exhibition about sensuality, passion, desire, the body, masculine and feminine, and the self in relation to the other. Viewed together, the works of Judy Chicago, John Gurbacs, Lucky LeRoy, and Andy Dixon, illuminate different facets of love—as mutual, redemptive, embodied, and unifying. By consciously interpreting each artist’s work, we restore sacred glimmers of a more evolved interpretation of love and expand our understanding of what love can be.
The Mutuality of Desire | Judy Chicago
Three diptychs from Judy Chicago’s Voices from the Song of Songs form the allegorical spine of the exhibition. Each pairs an image with a text panel featuring English and Hebrew excerpts from poet Marcia Falk’s feminist translation of the Song of Songs, the biblical collection of erotic love poetry traditionally attributed to Solomon. Completed in 1998 at Graphicstudio at the University of South Florida, the series combines lithography with heliorelief—a photographic woodblock process—while the text panels incorporate polymer relief printing and hand-coloring.
Falk’s translation emphasizes the poem’s shifting female, male, and collective voices, presenting erotic love as neither passive nor possessive but as a mutual expression in which both lovers retain their agency. Chicago gives this reciprocity a new visual language: bodies merge with flowers, trees, rocks, and landscapes; limbs become branches, while sexual forms become petals and openings. These deliberately ambiguous figures unsettle the familiar division between active men and passive women, presenting desire as physical, fluid, and powerfully mutual.
Judy Chicago, Voices from the Song of Songs: There you stand like a palm, 1998 | Heliorelief and lithograph, 24 x 20 in. Published by USF Graphicstudio
Manifesting Passions | Andy Dixon
Andy Dixon, whose early graphic work included album art for the Canadian art-punk band Hot Hot Heat, turns punk’s irreverent visual language toward opulence in Pink Composition with Cherry Pie. Produced by Serio Press, the hand-pulled serigraph required 53 distinct colors, making it the most technically complex edition the studio has printed.
Within this extravagant field, two bodies—one male and one female—interlock like yin and yang, drawing a puppy, a cherry pie, an ornate vase, and other objects into their orbit. By making romantic love, domestic affection, appetite, and material pleasure equally alluring, Dixon dissolves the hierarchy among them. Passion becomes the composition’s organizing force, gathering its disparate bodies, objects, and desires into a single exuberant constellation.
Andy Dixon, Pink Composition with Cherry Pie, Hand-pulled serigraph in 53 colors on coventry rag, 30 x 25 in.
Love is Redemption | Lucky LeRoy
In the series Pardon We, interdisciplinary artist Lucky LeRoy asks viewers to confront some of history’s most troubling events and consider the possibility of forgiveness. In doing so, he does not erase the original transgressions. Instead, he creates a dialectic that returns power to groups and individuals who have been cast in the role of victim.
Lucky LeRoy, Pardon We, Placements & Potholders, 2026 | Satin, polyester, cotton, quilt batting, spray paint, acrylic, Sizes variable: 9 X 15 in. to 11 X 23 in
Nature’s Unity | John Gurbacs
The artwork of Florida painter John Gurbacs is as lush and colorful as can be, pairing views of native flora and fauna with magnified images of rocks and minerals. Gurbacs reveals that the structures emerging at the center of all natural systems—whether on the micro or macro scale—contain mathematical patterns that repeat and correspond with one another. It is as if everything has been designed to fit together like a perfect puzzle piece. Even our peculiarities make us compatible, similar, and complementary.
By splicing images of nature into intricate cross-sections, Gurbacs makes the fractal-like structure of the living world undeniable. His work pulses with life and appeals to the senses through color, form, and the union of elements. Underneath their apparent differences, all things share a fundamental structure that draws them toward their complements. Could attraction be built into the underlying unity of nature.
John Gurbacs, Palmetto Rainbow 2023, Oil on canvas, 32 × 32 in.
Book a tour
Reserve time to meet personally with the curator of this exhibition. Convene for your tour at the Salon located in the Station House lobby across from Bad Mother