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News and Ops: Norway->NYC, Red Scare lecture, Philly Photo day, and more

News Norway in NYC Following our last news post about Milwaukee in New York, now you can catch a piece of Norway too!  NORWAY NOW in NYC opens at .NO Gallery at 253 E. Houston on Sept. 7.  The multimedia exhibit mirrors Oslo’s annual juried art exhibition Høstutstillingen. The New York show had almost 600 submissions, but the jurors Koan Jeff Baysa and Omar Lopez-Chahoud narrowed it down to six artists. Opening reception is September 7 from 6 – 10 PM and the show runs until October 2.

Abington-monumental burned wood, cellophane collages and clothing

We’d been overdue a trip to Abington Art Center to see the solo series shows and check out what’s new in the woods.  We picked a cool enough day before the heat wave and ventured out.  Abington — like many small arts organizations — is suffering the effects of the recession.  They had to let go staff including their curator, the great Sue Spaid.  The solo shows — we don’t know who curated them — include works by Judy Engle, Alison Stigora, Atsuko Tajima and Jay Walker.  With one exception, we know all the artists.

Endurance at Abington

This summer heat’s hard to endure so we’re going to tell you about a trip we took to nice shady cool Abington Art Center. Abington has this really great sculpture garden and generally we make that trip at least once a year. There’s a new show in the garden and woods that just opened and will be up through Nov. 30, Endurance: Visualizing Time.

Global Suburbia at Abington Art Center

Thomas Wrede, Settlement with a Road, 2005, Digital C-print, 19 x 39 inches, West Collection Recently appointed Abington Art Center Curator Sue Spaid has thrown the gauntlet down with her first exhibit there, Global Suburbia: Meditations of the World of the ‘Burbs.” It’s a show a little unpredictable and chock-a-block with yummy art worth a chew. Lee Stoetzel, McMansion #5, 2005 Lambda print, 36 x 57.5 inches I say unpredictable because the same exhibit has photographic, old-masterish paintings by Sarah McCoubrey of inflatable swimming pools on lawns as well as Lee Stoetzel’s McMansions, photos of model he made from fast-food ... More » »

After the storm at Abington

Meetinghouse Road was closed thanks to fallen trees after this week’s violent storm. I almost turned around and went home. After all, I’ve been lost before around the Abington Art Center.But feeling like I hated to have wasted my time getting there, I went to the next corner and voila! I knew where I was and I knew I could get there after all. The Art Center had suffered the loss of a number of trees. I took a bunch of pictures of the broken trunks and branches. As usual, when I tried to follow the map I was flummoxed. ... More » »

Born to Be Wild and a Public Service Announcement

Nick Paparone and Jamie Dillon on “Born to Be Wild”, which will be part of the Abington Sculpture Park for at least two years. On Sunday I helped fellow Copy gallerists Nick Paparone and Jamie Dillon christen their new outdoor sculpture, Born to Be Wild at Abington Art Center’s Sculpture Park. Born to Be Wild is a great hairy mound of dirt and grass with a bell on top of it that brings to mind games like “king of the hill” or that weird sense of achievement you get from walking up an incline of some sort. The bell works ... More » »

Grove Breakdown: Into the Woods at Abington

Detailed view of It’s Always Hard to Say Good-bye; Part 2 of Grove, photo by the artistLouise Barteau Chodoff’s exhibition at the Abington Art Center follows the second part of her ongoing project, Grove, which opened with an installation, In an instant, everything changes, at The Media Bureau last September. It included two videos, with imagery shot in Fairmount Park, projected onto a group of papier mache trees as well as an original sound tract created by Simon Rogers (click here for post on the installation). Barteau-Chodoff instructing friends and neighbors about siting the trees in Carpenter’s woods for the ... More » »

Thursday this and that

Trenton Doyle Hancock TODAY at TylerTrenton Doyle Hancock’s Sesom’s Mission. This breaking news from Hillel Hoffman of Temple’s PR department. Tyler grad, Trenton Doyle Hancock will give a free public lecture TODAY up at Tyler’s Elkins Park Campus. Hancock, who made an indelible impression in his Art 21 episode a few years back, is featured now in a Smithsonian Magazine story as one of 37 young Americans under 36 who are influencing arts and sciences. Trenton Doyle HancockSpeaks at Tyler School of ArtTODAY, Thursday, Nov. 15,11 a.m.President’s Hall,Tyler School of Art,7725 Penrose Ave., Elkins Park, Pa. Organized by Produce Exhibitions, ... More » »

Abington: Inside and Out

Detail of Annette Monnier’s piece in Handmaking at Abington Art Center. Just a very quick note to alert you to the last few days of The HandMaking at Abington Art Center. The show, up through July 28, is devoted to art that breaks of the barrier between high and low and gleefully embraces JoAnne Fabrics and AC Moore as well as Pearl Paint’s finest. Great show. Libby told you about it here. And while I was out there I got to walk through the sculpture garden and woods with Curator Amy Lipton who showed me the new works in Inside/Outside: ... More » »

New solos for four at Abington

Locker, front view, by Frank Vagnone, tool box, glass vases, mixed Using a strategy a number of galleries, like Pentimenti, use, Abington Art Center is hosting four small solo shows at once. And there’s another group of four scheduled to open Mar. 10.Frank Vagnone, one of the current four on exhibit until March 3, is the rare artist who makes bricolage art that is not overly precious. Instead, his conglomerations of objects and materials have a jury-rigged, held-together with string look (indeed, parts of them are held together with string). Locker, detail They are gizmos that light, or threaten to ... More » »