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News: art security, O.U.R., Bambi Gallery’s return and more

News Attack on Matisse at National Gallery highlights art security After a recent attack on a Matisse painting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, art security is on the minds of writers at the Washington Post.  That publication ran two stories recently about art security issues.

Weekly Update – First Friday to do -Bambi’s last opening at the Piazza

In January, when the sprinklers went off unexpectedly in Bambi Gallery and damaged some of its art, Bambi proprietress Candace Karch decamped, taking her February show to another location. Now, Karch says, Bambi will migrate permanently out of its location at the Piazza after her March show. But this is not the end of Bambi—the effervescent gallerist vows to make “floating Bambi” pop up again sometime this year in a new location.

Process makes it – Bambi, Projects and Vincent Michael

Process, layering, and a love of materials are evident this September at Projects Gallery, Bambi Gallery, and Vincent Michael Gallery. Projects Gallery Fresh! 2010 is the third edition of Projects Gallery’s annual season opener of emerging artists. One of the criteria in organizing this exhibition, co-curated by Gallery Director Helen Meyrick and artist Brooke Holloway, is that the participating artists must have been educated or live in Philadelphia. The show includes eleven recent BFA and MFA graduates of local art schools, and even though eight of them graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the individuality of each artist’s ...

Our big night at Bambi Biennial

The second Bambi Biennial opens tonight, and we, the jurors, will be there taking pictures and schmoozing. We think it’s a great show! Are we allowed to say that?

See what happens – Evolutionary artwork at Projects, Bambi, and Little Berlin

At Projects Gallery, Susan B. Howard’s exhibit “Tipping Point” features expressionistic paintings of animals in natural environments. At a cursory glance, these brightly colored pieces seem to embody the harmony of peaceable kingdoms. “Actually,” Howard said, laughing when I suggested this, “each painting is more like a mini soap opera.”

Bambi Biennial juried by us — apply now!

Hey, we’re jurying the second Bambi Biennial at Bambi Gallery — the show is in July and the deadline for applying is April 30. Here’s where to find the info. Special news for all you last minute potatoheads, April 30 is a soft deadline. May 10 is the hard deadline.

NoLibs First Friday: Adventures (Mostly) in Clay

Several shows this month in NoLibs above Spring Garden step outside the norms of a medium, bringing new life to photos, prints and clay. At PPAC through May 15, .matrix includes work by artists interested in “pushing the limits of the printed image and how it is created, used and disseminated.” This isn’t your grandmother’s printmaking. Much of it purposefully challenges our perception of the single matrix, or surface onto which one unique print is impressed.

Fired up about clay, the tour — Part 2

This post continues the tale of our NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) shuttle bus tour on Mar. 31 of ceramics exhibits in the Fishtown/Northern Liberties parts of town. Little Berlin “Scene,” an international show organized by Jennifer Woodin at Little Berlin is spare and a little chilly. The grid of ceramic knots held up by wire by Henny Linn Kjellberg (of Sweden) reminded us of how many other grids we had seen that day — at Tyler, up on Amber St. and elsewhere.  Grids are great, but we had trouble conversing with the ceramic knots in the ...

Dangerous home life–Gail Cunningham at Bambi

We all know that internet images of art lie. But I still got whipsawed by how much they lie when I stopped in to see “Social Diagrams,” an exhibit of cut paper art by Gail Cunningham at Bambi Projects.

What we want to see Friday

First Friday in August might just as well be the beginning of the fall art season, so busy is it with openings and talks. Here’s what’s on. And in another post I’ll tell you about a special fundraiser happening on Saturday. 319A North 11th Street–5 worthy venues