Tag Archive "artblog-radio"
Old City gallerists Becky Kerlin and Christine Pfister on business and art – podcast interview on artblog radio
On the 20th anniversaries of Gallery Joe and Pentimenti, two wonderful contemporary art venues in Philadelphia that we admire, we talk with the gallery’s owner/directors, Becky Kerlin (of Gallery Joe) and Christine Pfister (of Pentimenti). Both galleries are located in Old City, and both started in the recession of 1992/93. In our interview, they talk with us about starting their galleries, about deciding to participate in the art fairs, about working with artists and selecting artists, and about some of the online scams involving the sale of art that are circulating on the Internet. We spoke with the two gallery owners ... More » »
Next week on artblog radio – Rebecca Kerlin of Gallery Joe and Christine Pfister of Pentimenti
Gallery Joe and Pentimenti galleries are celebrating their 20th anniversaries, which is really impressive, given how galleries come and go. Both show cutting edge contemporary art that we admire and both are located in Old City, where First Fridays defined hip, joining art and social excitement here in Philadelphia. Rebecca Kerlin, director of Gallery Joe and Christine Pfister, director of Pentimenti are women business owners in a male-dominated global art world. And, as longtime observers of the Philadelphia art scene, they have interesting things to say about Philadelphia and its place in the national and international art world and how that ... More » »
Shelley Spector on making things look effortless, and on the Philly art scene – a podcast on artblog radio
Shelley Spector studied dance for many years — her mother was a dance teacher and taught dance classes out of the studio in the basement. So the idea of creating art that looks effortless — the way dancers make dancing look effortless — was built into Shelley’s way of working. Spector founded the influential Spector Gallery on 6th and Bainbridge in 1999, and that space, which closed in 2006, was a launching pad for a lot of young Philadelphia artists, like Jim Houser, Adam Wallacavage, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Rebecca Westcott, and Rob Matthews. For many years Shelley showed her work ... More » »
Syd Carpenter’s gardens and farms of clay – a podcast interview on artblog radio
Syd Carpenter’s ceramic sculptures are in many museum collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy and the Renwick in Washington, DC. Carpenter’s muscular and biomorphic forms pull together recognizable imagery — chains, fences, flowers, and a series of farms based on small family farms in the South. Considered together, her work is a loose narrative that suggests personal and black history. Syd, who is a Pew Fellow (1992) and Tyler MFA chairs the Studio Art Department of Swarthmore College. In our podcast, she talks about what fuels her art, and about her experience working with a community in ... More » »
Open Air on the Parkway – Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, next up on an artblog radio podcast
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was in town in August to prepare for his mega-public art installation Open Air, which debuts 8pm Sept. 20 on the Ben Franklin Parkway. Open Air involves big spotlights that send beams of light into the night sky, triggered by people’s voices speaking into their cellphones. He tells us how that works. We ask the Mexican-born Canadian artist about the possibility of migrating birds flying into his lights, and about how he wound up as a public artist (his degree is in engineering). “Open Air” was commissioned by the Association for Public Art (formerly the Fairmount Park Art ... More » »
Tim Portlock’s digital simulations – a podcast interview on artblog radio
Tim Portlock‘s new digital prints, made using 3D animation and gaming software, are influenced by the American sublime landscape painting tradition, he says. That makes sense if you know that the artist comes from a painting background, where he painted beautiful landscapes, including some murals in Chicago. Portlock’s new works — which go on exhibit at Vox Populi Gallery this Friday (he is a member) — are indeed painterly, although they are not make with paint. What they look like are birds-eye views of depopulated urban scenes of Philadelphia and other cities. Working from photographs that he takes, Portlock builds up ... More » »
Tim Portlock’s ghost cities – next up on our podcast series, artblog radio
Tim Portlock was once a mural painter. He is influenced by the American sublime landscape painting tradition, and now in his digital works on paper, he is using of the tropes of the sublime (gorgeous sunsets, threatening skies) to create simulations of cities (Philadelphia, for example), with 3D gaming technology and 3D animation software. What you see in Portlock’s painterly images are birds-eye views of depopulated urban scenes with large portions of the real world altered. Working from photographs, Portlock builds up his cities from scratch. In this new world order, there are no people in evidence because the artist would ... More » »
Alex Baker, back from Melbourne and taking charge at Fleisher-Ollman – next up on our podcast series
Alex Baker, the new director of Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, returned this Spring to Philadelphia after four years in Melbourne, Australia, where he was senior curator of contemporary art at the National Gallery of Victoria. Before he went to Australia, Alex was a major asset in the Philadelphia art scene. He was an influential curator at ICA and PAFA of wonderful outside the box exhibits. In this sample from our interview, Alex talks about how living in Australia gave him a new perspective on art from the Asia-Pacific world. The full episode will run next Monday. Right click to download Alex Baker ... More » »
Next Monday on artblog radio – podcast with C. Grant Cox, III
C. Grant Cox, has a rather thunderous name but he goes by Grant, which is easier to wrap your mind around. Grant is a 2011 University of Delaware MFA who makes sculptural installations from found objects. Often the works have kinetic components (see videos here), and sometimes they don’t quite work, but the artist is fascinated with the idea of failure, so he’s into that as well (although for his exhibited pieces, he gets them to function and not fail, he said). Grant is from the small Southern Illinois town, El Dorado, and he grew up in an artistic household ... More » »
Artblog radio – Rob Matthews has stories to tell, on today’s podcast
The art world’s interest in drawings came just at the right moment for Rob Matthews, an artist whose drawings merge humor and faith in puzzling scenarios often staged in his own home. Rob who grew up in the South, talked to us about self-combustion and animal sculptures on building facades–some of the things that have set his imagination afire. Human folly, Hitchcock movies and childhood adventures inflect his work, which has earned widespread attention–he’ll be in a show at the National Portrait Gallery in November; he is represented by Gallery Joe in Philadelphia and by Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New ... More » »
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