Tag Archive "annette-monnier"

The wonderfulness of this week’s too much stuff

Another crazy week, art campers.  We’ll start with First Friday and work our way forwards and backwards all at once.  It seemed logical to us. FRIDAY, April 3 Man’s best art opening

Our hunch on a not-to-be-missed show

We are shameless about letting you know about our contributer Annette Monnier‘s latest curatorial adventure. That’s because we believe it’s going to be great. Her show Given Enough Eyeballs includes art that hacks open source computer software for art’s sake–for example Super Mario Brothers visuals put to very different purposes. The exhibit opens tonight at the Esther Klein Gallery, 5-8. The big pre-opening news is this from Annette: “We just got some press from Rhizome, the New Museum’s New Media web-site: http://rhizome.org/.” So maybe we’ll see you there tonight!! Given Enough EyeballsMarch 14th-April 26thThe Esther M. Klein Art GalleryThe Science ... More » »

A.V.O.W (Amps, Volts, Ohms, and Watts)

Painted Bride Art Center February 1 – March 15, 2008 Jeremy Boyle, Pablo Colapinto, Kara Crombie, Max Lawrence, Justin Marshall, and Huong Ngo. Curated by Sean Stoops. Painted over outlets were dug out for A.V.O.W at Painted Bride I’m tempted to call Sean Stoops’ exhibition at Painted Bride a Max Lawrence solo effort with some Jeremy Boyle mixed in for good measure. Which is not really a horrible critique, as I enjoyed the show, especially the offerings by Maximillian Lawrence. I just might be a little annoyed if I was Pablo Colapinto’s video in the downstairs’ back corner or even ... More » »

Paul Coors on Publico part 2

Part One SO WHY STOP? Annette: Why are you shutting the doors? Paul: Some of my favorite times here have had to do with people coming in from out of town. Annette: The shows that have included people from out of town? Paul: Yes. For instance, there are no local artists in this current show, and that’s nothing I was trying to do, it just sort of happened that way. Ironically the show is called Local Color. A Steve Mumford watercolor from Publico’s current exhibition, Local Color. Annette: But it’s exciting? Having people from out of town? Paul: It’s exciting. ... More » »

Paul Coors Talks About Publico

Over Christmas I journeyed back to my hometown; Cincinnati, Ohio and caught up with an old classmate, Paul Coors, who also happens to be one of the founders of one of the best independent non-commercial, artist-run galleries in the country. Publico Gallery, located at 1308 Clay Street in the under-privileged neighborhood of Over-the Rhine and at publicoart.com via the internet, was opened five years ago, quickly becoming a beacon of culture in the vast desert of the mid-west. Paul plans to shut Publico’s doors this month, hosting a final hurrah that you can find out more about on the website, ... More » »

Hany Armanious Year of the Pig Sty

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on Earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this Earth. -Jean Paul Sartre Foxy ProductionsExtended through Dec. 15th. Hany Armanious, the egyptian artist who brings us Year of the Pig Sty(up through December 15th) has been making mysterious installation-thingies for sometime if I am to believe the two essays I picked up ... More » »

High Art, Cheap Beer and Regionalism

Annette Monnier, one-fifth director of Copy Gallery and one-sixth founder of the now defunct Black Floor Gallery, will be writing on artblog from time to time, by way of introduction her first post is on the relationship between place, art, and cheap beer. Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR) Before I moved to Philadelphia I thought of PBR as the beer in the David Lynch movie, Blue Velvet, it was somewhat unusual and hard to find and even a little bit avant garde. “The Hard to find” part of that idea was quickly displaced upon arrival in Philly. One of the first ... More » »

Blessed big bucks are one step behind

Andria Bibiloni’s Blaster Bike at FLUX Of the 10 Philadelphia arts organizations receiving a total of $5.3 million from the Wallace Foundation to attract a bigger audience, visual arts, which is red hot in Philadelphia right now, got two of the grants (see article in Philadelphia Inquirer). To be specific, Fleisher Art Memorial will receive $320,000 over four years, and the Clay Studio will receive $375,000 over four years. Of the other organizations, only the Fringe Festival, at $365,000, received in this relatively low dollar range. Here’s the list of other awards: Philadelphia Teatre Company, $410,000Arden Theater Company $425,000Wilma Theater ... More » »

The changing scene, part 2: Annette Monnier interview

This is part 2 of a post about Annette Monnier, including an interview I had with her in May. Part 1 is about her exhibit at Padlock Gallery, up through November. Flower Arrangement #12; This time Monnier made the vase out of papier mache–a breakthrough, she decided. Just out of the Art Academy of Cincinnatti four years ago, Annette Monnier came to Philadelphia because a bunch of people she knew had come here. The group– which included Nick Paparone, Jamie Dillon, Elsa Shadley and Carrie Collins, plus Monnier and her sweetheart Gerick Forston–founded Black Floor Gallery, which, after three years, ... More » »

The changing scene: Annette Monnier at Padlock, plus an interview

This is part 1 of a two-part article on Annette Monnier. Part one is about the exhibit at Padlock Gallery, and Part Two is an interview about her various collaborations with Nick Paparone, Jamie Dillon and others to create first Black Floor and then Copy galleries. Annette Monnier standing in the Portal of History, 2006-7 her installation about art history, time and space. Because the portal is opposite a mirror above the fireplace mantle, Monnier spelled out art historian Giorgio Vasari’s name in reverse. The word under the mantle is Today. It is not backwards. Annette Monnier has staked out ... More » »