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“Incarnational Aesthetics” in New York and Cool Conversations around Barkley Hendricks at PAFA

Jenny Jasky is Philadelphia’s loss and New York’s gain; she recently moved and already found an outlet, curating an exhibition at NYCAMS (New York Center for Art and Media Studies) with Stamatina Gregory.  Incarnational Aesthetics (Oct.  24-November 25, 2009) is one of those idea-driven exhibitions where I found the work provocative but couldn’t entirely reconcile it with the curators’ statement: to showcase artists who use embodiment or ‘role play’ in their work as a means of interrogating and deconstructing the public and private boundaries between self and 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.

Barkley Hendricks posterized at PAFA

In an emotional opening ceremony at his solo exhibit Birth of the Cool, artist Barkley L. Hendricks lost his cool for a moment.

Whole lotta shaking going on at PAFA

When an institution announces the receipt of a big grant for contemporary art programming we want to know more. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Curator of Contemporary Arts Julien Robson snagged a whopping $440,000 grant from the William Penn Foundation for contemporary art programing over the next three years, including support for the Philagrafika exhibit opening January 2009, five solo exhibits of young and emerging artists starting in May in the Morris Gallery, and the exhibit We’re All Still Here, scheduled to open October 2011.

Congratulations!!! Three new Philly USA Fellows!

Barkley L. Hendricks, Gone…Goodnight, 1973, oil, acrylic, and magna on linen canvas, 72” x 72”;
photo courtesy A. Vincent Scarano Thanks to Zoe Strauss for the heads up on this year’s new USA Fellows, bringing to 5 the number of Philadelphia artists who have received the $50,000 award now in its second year. The 2008 winners who we claim for Philadelphia are Terry Adkins, Judith Schaechter and we’re going to claim Philly native and PAFA alum Barkley L. Hendricks as ours too even though he doesn’t live here now. Adkins, sculptor and UPenn professor shows locally at Pageant Gallery and has ... More » »