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Intimacy and dynamism in PAFA’s Urbanism
By Mary Murphy This show at the Academy is notable for the way its title is embodied in the jostling relationships among the works displayed. Like city residents, they bump into each other in various contexts, defining the urban environment as a place of anonymous intimacy, dynamic energy, and jarring juxtaposition. Four local emerging artists use a variety of means – scale, color, gesture, and context – to state these themes, but each connects them differently toward social ends.
Panel discussion on Urbanism at PAFA – today at 2pm
It’s going to be a rainy day–perfect for a panel discussion! Come out for the panel, The Role of Place in Contemporary Art at 2pm today, at PAFA’s historic Frank Furness building. The panel is in conjunction with the exhibit Urbanism, organized by PAFA Curator of Contemporary Art, Julien Robson. Robson will moderate and panelists include two artists in the show, Ben Peterson and Arden Bendler Browning, bloggers Libby and Roberta (ahem), Boston Phoenix critic and blogger Greg Cook, and Mark Harris, Director of the School of Art at the University of Cincinnati. This is meant to be a casual conversation. So ... More » »
Amy Walsh and Blaine Siegel’s Kaiserpanorama at Freeman’s
Amy Walsh and Blaine Siegel, Kaiserpanorama detail. Before cinema and cinerama and I-Max and panorama cameras, there was the Kaiserpanorama, a sort of multi-peephole device with a stereoscopic slide show. It’s sort of the opposite of painting panoramas, in which the person stands in the middle of a circular landscape, and can scan around, thereby taking in the impression of the space. Locally, there’s one out at the Gettysburg battlefield visitor’s center, depicting the battle. On the other hand, the Kaiserpanorama is a look inside and is closer to a television in concept. a kaiserpanorama It’s this tradition of panorama, ... More » »
Weekly Update (1) – Spiritual Challenge
This week’s Weekly has my review of the Fleisher Challenge 2. Here’s the link to the art page and below is the copy with a couple of pictures. More pictures at my flickr set. God’z in Da Houze!Three artists tackle the urban cave. Three artists in this month’s “Challenge 2”—the second in the four-part Wind Challenge Exhibitions at Fleisher—turn their sights on Philadelphia’s abandoned buildings, squats and degraded housing stock. They end up with work that—in spite of its heavy sledding through issues of poverty, embattlement and despair—offers a tiny ray of hope. Light is the director in this show, ... More » »
Innocence lost, innocence found–The Day After
untitled painting by Joe Protheroe Post-Minimalism and Post-Photoshopism and Post-Illustratorism have all joined forces to abhor the straight line and perspective, abhor the mass produced, abhor the slick perfection and abhor the uniformity that Minimalism and computer graphics–and advertising–promised. Those were the formal issues that struck me silly when I walked into Slought to see The Day After, an exhibit of work by recent MFA graduated of Penn, Tyler and PAFA. To put it another way, this show is sad and angry, a declaration of innocence lost and dreams tucked away. The Day After is literal in these students’ lives, ... More » »
Weekly Update – Student shows rise above
[This week's Weekly has my review of some of this Spring's curated student shows. Here's the link to the art page and below is the copy with some added pictures.]School Daze The graduate shows revealed a fascination with entrapment and vulnerability. Blaine Siegel’s Gobdiddlymuck at Slought, a tour-de-force piece with humor and thoughts of society’s decay. Many of the student works seemed to be about decay. I made it to five of the dozen or so graduating student shows in town this spring—Philadelphia Sculptors’ “Five Into One” at Moore College of Art & Design, “Voxumenta” at Vox Populi, Penn’s M.F.A. ... More » »
