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News – Joan Mitchell grants, Whitney Biennial list, Helen Frankenthaler and more…
News Joan Mitchell Foundation grants The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced its 2011 Painters and Sculptors Grant Program recipients — 25 artists who will each receive $25,000. Among the winners are Philadelphians Virgil Marti, Jackie Tileston, and former Philly artist Anabeth Rosen. Congratulations! Here’s the full list: Diana Al-Hadid, Brooklyn, NY Nicole Awai, Brooklyn, NY Keith Benjamin, Cleves, OH William Cordova, Miami, FL Cicely Cottingham, West Orange, NJ Florine Demosthene, Brooklyn, NY Daniel Douke, Fallbrook, CA Julie Green, Corvallis, OR Tommy Hartung, Ridgewood, NY Janelle Iglesias, Provincetown, MA Gary Kachadourian, Baltimore, MD Simone Leigh, Brooklyn, NY Andrew Lenaghan, Brooklyn, NY Anne Lindberg, Kansas City, MO Virgil ... More » »
First Friday layer cake–pix galore
What a delicious First Friday–a layer cake of delights. I’m putting up a bunch of pictures, hoping they might entice you to take a taste.
Weekly Update — Pentimenti’s summer group show
Here’s my post on Pentimenti. Here it is in this week’s Weekly. Working with six local artists new to her gallery, Pentimenti’s Christine Pfister organized Think Global, Go Local as a show about relationships. It’s an exhibit of clean, sleek, beautiful work consistent with the gallery’s aesthetic and has two surprises — an architectural piece that bulges like a pregnant wall of a house and two sculptures that puncture a freestanding gallery wall, their “heads” on one side and “tails” on the other.
A whole lot of artists at Woodmere
Alexis Granwell’s Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart There’s enough critical mass at the Woodmere Art Museum to pull a devoted sidewalk stomper to the almost-burbs of Chestnut Hill. What got me out there first of all was the Emerging Artists Series show, in conjunction with the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, with works from Christopher Hartshorne and Hiro Sakaguchi. But the surprise for me was the excellence of the 67th Annual Juried Exhibition, with 68 pieces in the show (67 plus one for good luck?). Juried by installation artist Polly Apfelbaum, the show skews contemporary, and the quality is ... More » »
Tower Gallery: Jacobs and Granwell
I stopped in at Tower Gallery on Friday to see Alexis Granwell and Hedwige Jacobs‘ works. Granwell’s big installation piece, Navigating the Ecstasy I and II was leaving for Delaware on Saturday so I wanted to catch it before it left to be in the DCCA’s Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition, opening jan. 26 and juried by PAFA’s Alex Baker. Another Granwell sculpture will be installed at Tower for the duration of that show Tower Gallerist Jenney Jaskey told me. Alexis Granwell, Navigating the Ecstasy, I and II Navigating the Ecstasy, two small walls each made of foam, wood, wire, fabric ... More » »
