art safaris
artblog Art Safaris, Episode 10 – Painting, video and sculpture at Grizzly Grizzly and Vox Populi
We visited Grizzly Grizzly and Vox Populi on our May 4 Safari tour. At Grizzly, we talk with Charlotte Hallberg and Johannes Deyoung whose two-person exhibit Microwave includes three walls partly wallpapered with paintings and an eerie clay animation video. At Vox Populi we peek at Jamie Dillon’s hobby horse and hear Stefan Abrams talk about his ChaChing photos. This 3.45 minute video is the second episode from the May 4 outing. The third and final episode from Safari 3 is coming next week. See all the Art Safari videos on the art safari page or the video page. You ... More » »
Art Safari Episode 9 – We visit Peep, a painting exhibit at Little Berlin
We visited Little Berlin on our May 4 Safari tour, to see the group painting exhibition, Peep, curated by LB member Alana Bograd. Bograd, a painter, rounded up works from local, national and international painters — it’s the first painting show at the alternative gallery space in Kensington. This 2.45 min video is the first episode from the May 4 outing. More episodes coming in the next few weeks. See all the Art Safari videos on the art safari page or the video page. You can watch the video at our YouTube channel. This episode is recorded and edited by the ... More » »
artblog Art Safari – Episode 8 – interactive fiber at Grizzly Grizzly and Yun, Bailis and Crombie at Vox Populi
In this three and a half minute episode, we visit Grizzly Grizzly and Vox Populi and talk with Grizzly member Mary Smull about the interactive, motion-activated fiber show there by collaborating artists, Annica Cuppetelli and Christobal Mendoza. At Vox Populi, we talk with Linda Yun, Leah Bailis and Kara Crombie about their solo shows in that member gallery. This is the final episode from artblog’s second Art Safari, which took place April 14, 2012. In the coming weeks we’ll roll out the episodes from our third Safari tour, which happened May 4. Or watch the video at our YouTube channel. ... More » »
artblog Art Safaris – Episode 7 – Ronnie Bass at Marginal Utility
This almost 3-minute episode shows us watching and discussing the video works at Marginal Utility by Brooklyn artist Ronnie Bass. When puzzling out meaning, it’s often good to have multiple points of view, and we did. The scenes of a young man and woman chanting and playing drums, guitar and a saw seemed like music videos to some, and to others like an interesting puzzle to be
artblog Art Safaris, Episode 6 – Phoning it in from Yogyakarta at Space 1026
In this 2-minute episode we visit Space 1026 to talk with Hidden City Philadelphia Creative Director Lee Tusman about the show he brought together from Yogyakarta, Indonesia (at Space 1026 until April 27). The works are graphically bold, and Lee tells us Yogyakarta’s youthful art scene is kind of like Philadelphia’s. You can see all the Art Safari videos on the art safaris page. Or watch the video at our YouTube channel. This episode is recorded and edited by the gifted Kim Paynter of WHYY’s NewsWorks.org — thanks Kim! Thanks also to the Knight Foundation for the matching Arts Challenge Award ... More » »
artblog Art Safaris, Episode 5 – Nick Lenker’s Apocalypse of Now at Pageant Soloveev
This 3-minute episode from our April 14 Art Safari takes us to Pageant Soloveev, 607 Bainbridge St. for an encounter with Nick Lenker‘s The Apocalypse of Now. Lenker lived in the gallery for 3 days last weekend, enacting a rite of passage as he transitions from MFA student at Tyler School of Art to graduation and the great beyond. Accompanying us on this tour are a group of intrepid souls including a couple of artists, two art collectors and three psychotherapists! And stay tuned for two more episodes from the April 14 Safari, which will run here later in the ... More » »
artblog Art Safaris, Episode 4 – Tiger Strikes Asteroid and Vox Populi
This breezy, 2.50 minute-episode, the third from our first official Art Safari on March 2, takes us to the Vox building, 319 N. 11th St., where we have a chat with Jaime Alvarez at Tiger Strikes Asteroid and Kate Stewart at Vox Populi. Barnes Foundation educator John Gatti’s Art Now students were with us, and in this episode Barnes student Martha Harris sums up her experience of Alvarez’s photos — great stuff! To watch all the safari videos go to the art safaris page of the blog. Or watch the video at our YouTube channel. This episode is recorded and ... More » »
artblog Art Safaris – Episode 3, Not a Stitch at B Square Gallery
Episode 3 continues the chronicle of artblog’s Art Safari last March 2. This short (2.54 min) video takes us to B Square Gallery for the show “Not a Stitch,” a drawing exhibit based on the theme of fiber arts. The show is curated by Amber Dorko Stopper, who talks in the video about some of the the knitting fetish drawings in the show and about her knitting tarot card book, also in the show, which she hand printed on her letterpress. ”Not a Stitch” is on view through April 28. If you’re wondering who was on safari with us, our ... More » »
artblog Art Safaris – Episode 2, Outside/Inside the Box at the Icebox
We ventured out for our first official artblog Art Safari on March 2, traveling to Crane Arts, B-Square Gallery and the Vox building. Episode 2, here , shows Bruce Hoffman and Amy Orr talking with us at the Icebox about their Fiber Philadelphia shows. Two more video episodes on their way for the other two stops we made. Stay tuned! We’ll try to run them on Mondays to supercharge your week. If you’re wondering why this is episode 2, that’s because episode 1 ran last October and chronicled our trip to Temple Gallery as part of our safari practice run. ... More » »
Friday picture post – Outside/Inside the Box at the Icebox
Rachel Udell‘s “The Shapes of My Dreams and of My Nightmares” hangs at about eye level in the middle of the Crane’s Icebox Project Space. Part of Fiber Philadelphia‘s big juried art exhibit, the piece is a carnival of crocheted yarn, thread, heirloom clothing, fabric, felt and fiberfill. We love its Dr. Seuss-ian ambiguity — is it good? is it going to gobble you up? And it got us thinking about the late Mike Kelly, perhaps the first to use stuffed animals in his installations. artblog’s first art safari went out last Friday to see this show and some others. ... More » »
