Tag Archive "andrea-modica"
Photographing the Baker family – an interview with Andrea Modica
The photographic series “Fountain” by Andrea Modica gives an insider view of modern industrial hunters, aka the Baker family. The Bakers run a small slaughterhouse that has been in the family for three generations. The collaboration between artist and family created a series of photographs that are like a well-developed philosophy of the expired, expressed with the gentle and careful use of tone and mood that constantly challenges a carnivore’s contribution to animal slaughter and its often quiet consequences (i.e. health). In this series of photographs, animal and human merge within the shadows without ever showing the blood and guts ...
Shibata’s roads, Modica’s boys of summer at 339
The pairing of photographic works by Toshio Shibata and Andrea Modica at Gallery 339 is inspired. From the sublime breadth of Shibata’s unpeopled highway landscapes to Modica’s specific, humanistic portraits of farm-league baseball players, the two excellent stand-alone exhibits reach across the gallery spaces in conversation with each other.
Philly portraits at Gallery 339 and PAFA
Portraits are everywhere, right now, major portraits. I had a nice conversation with myself after seeing two terrific shows of Philadelphia portraits in the same week–the show Personal Views: Contemporary Photographic Portraiture in Philadelphia, at Gallery 339; and the paintings in Barkley L. Hendricks’ Birth of the Blues at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Photography off the grid at Basho
Installation shot at Project Basho Something old, something new, something borrowed and cyanotype are mixing things up at Project Basho. My first visit there ever was Thursday, and I drove by the place twice, on a street where there were no other options. Finally I asked a rare passerby for help and he directed me to the only place with lights on. Duh. Basho is one of the city’s new co-op darkrooms that opened in the past year. It’s on Germantown Ave., a couple of blocks north of Girard. The exhibit there, ONWARD ’08, is a juried group show, capturing ...
