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Unsettled and unsettling at the UDel Gallery at the Crane

According to the curators of The Unsettled, a 15-person theme show at University of Delaware’s Crane Arts’ gallery, the exhibit explores “notions of duality, hybridism, and transformation.” Patrick Koziol and Michael Merry, two second-year MFA students at the University of Delaware, admit this premise is broad, but their show introduces you to a lot of interesting works.

First Friday–an introspective Fourth of July

The streets may have been deserted, But the few galleries that were opening for First Friday on the July 4th holiday weekend still had a surprising number of attendees, if not exactly major crowds. And since I began at Bambi at the Piazza, everything seemed quite celebratory.

Weekly Update — First Friday picks and why

Here’s my Weekly First Friday picks. Sarah Gamble recently received one of the coveted Pew Fellowships. But before that, her year was a mess. Her house was struck by lightning and vandalized. She lost her job. And she got sick and wound up in the hospital.  In her show Unemployment Paintings at Bambi Gallery , Gamble displays the fruits of her turbulent year in a handful of new work. One standout piece is an untitled painting of a dark and quirky castlelike house bleeding from one side while a rainbow sits on its other shoulder. Gamble paints from imagination and ... More » »

What we want to see Friday…and next Wednesday, too

First Friday falls on the official July 4 holiday this month so it’s slim pickings but we found these gems for you. Friday, July 3

Some news, some olds

Norm Paris, Michael Jordan, Save the World Norm Paris’ fabulous piece Michael Jordan, Save the World is now included in the West Collection, the amazing but little-known collection of contemporary artists in Oaks, Pennsylvania. The sculptural installation, depicting multiple Michael Jordans leaping up to catch bombs before they explode, got its first big exposure in a Fleisher Challenge in 2005. Jenny Jaskey announced in her gallery newsletter that the piece will be shown in future exhibitions organized through the collection’s loan program. and…[this is now a corrected version] Penn MFAAndrew Prayzner, whose work we’ve been watching since the Voxennial (2005, ... More » »