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New News: Comedy at PhilaMOCA, POST studio tours, Campuzano run-in with a snake
News Comedy Night @ PhilaMOCA This Saturday, October 1, at 7:00 PM, PhilaMOCA will be the site of I LOVE MITCH HEDBERG: Art for the Late Great Comedian. A number of comedy acts (including comedy by Andrew Jeffrey Wright), refreshments, and artwork are on tap. Special guest Lynn Shawcroft will screen a video of unreleased Mitch Hedberg comedy footage.
Amir Lyles finds his own route, on artblog radio
Amir Lyles has used the brick dust that falls off the cellar walls to give his paint texture. He has also used bits of his beard. His house and his family are essential parts of the identity that he pours into his paintings, many of them with themes of African identity–but also Rastafarianism, jazz, and hiphop to soul. This self-taught artist is finding original ways of keeping his artwork real, accessible and affordable, with marketing help from his life partner Naeemah Patterson. They are a team. Lyles is in a show opening June 18 at photographer Ken White’s gallery at ...
Outsider artist Amir Mark Lyles, next week on artblog radio
Amir Mark Lyles worries about the influence of gangsta culture on his kids, and many of this Rastafarian’s paintings and multi-media works stem from a desire to paint a different cultural heritage infused with the values and the music that he loves. The outsider artist grew up in Harlem and lives and works in Germantown. He is in a show opening June 18 at Ken White’s gallery at Sharktown Studios. Below is a short sample from our talk with him and his partner Naeemah Patterson and some info about the upcoming exhibit. The full podcast interview will run next Monday. ...
The Young Master from Amir Lyles
Check out Amir Lyles’ cartoon The Young Master, a multi-culti mashup that reflects the ways that hip-hop culture has incorporated Japanese martial arts and manga and Zen into American street belligerence. Lyles adds his own Rastafarian ideas, values and imagery and voila, let the new age begin. The video also incorporates some of the charm of The Little Mermaid and the mischievousness of early Mickey Mouse.
Amir Lyles’ peaceable kingdom
A welcome house of another sort is the place where Germantown artist Amir Mark Lyles lives. To call it Lyles’ house is somewhat misleading, since he’s a part of a complex organism, a web of love that includes Lyles’ life partner Naeemah Patterson and their five children, ages 5 to 11. They all live together in a little row house, just two stories, crowded with art and people who somehow live in a peaceable kingdom.
People we love in places we love that are not Philadelphia!
If you’re on the road this summer, or hanging out far and wide, we have some tips here of Philadelphia artists who are all over the place. Italy to Cyprus by way of L.A.
