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Intimacy and dynamism in PAFA’s Urbanism
By Mary Murphy This show at the Academy is notable for the way its title is embodied in the jostling relationships among the works displayed. Like city residents, they bump into each other in various contexts, defining the urban environment as a place of anonymous intimacy, dynamic energy, and jarring juxtaposition. Four local emerging artists use a variety of means – scale, color, gesture, and context – to state these themes, but each connects them differently toward social ends.
Panel discussion on Urbanism at PAFA – today at 2pm
It’s going to be a rainy day–perfect for a panel discussion! Come out for the panel, The Role of Place in Contemporary Art at 2pm today, at PAFA’s historic Frank Furness building. The panel is in conjunction with the exhibit Urbanism, organized by PAFA Curator of Contemporary Art, Julien Robson. Robson will moderate and panelists include two artists in the show, Ben Peterson and Arden Bendler Browning, bloggers Libby and Roberta (ahem), Boston Phoenix critic and blogger Greg Cook, and Mark Harris, Director of the School of Art at the University of Cincinnati. This is meant to be a casual conversation. So ... More » »
Fare at the NY art fairs – the Armory
We know we missed some of the Armory — for starters, we never made it to Pier 92, the Modern section. And while it seems like we saw tons of art we fear we missed some at Pier 94 where the Armory Contemporary was. Carrumba.
Obsessive collectors convention this month at Copy
Post by Brandon Joyce Installation shot from Collections Show at Copy. Image features Neon Pink Things collected by Callie Konane Rickards (center), Andrew Jeffrey Wright‘s Family Circus books collection (left) and Erica Prince’s Best Friends photos collection (right) This month, at Copy Gallery, Luren Jenison curated a Collections Show, with entries gathered from the private caches of various New York and Philadelphia obsessives. Slews of ski masks, records, stationery, squeaky toys, succulents, weirdo children’s videos, Family Circus Books— pinned up and spread out like cases of dried butterflies. Leslie Rogers’ paper bag collection Three or four entries, in particular, really ... More » »
Ben Peterson Reports on Poland
Ben talks to a friend at the “Psychedelic Club”, part of a project being undertaken at the residency program at the Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw. Ben Peterson is an artist currently residing in Philadelphia, artblog talked to him in detail back in May regarding his all-round awesomeness and detail-oriented mega-realistic yet fantastical landscapes/architectures. Once I overheard a friend who isn’t all that into art in general compliment one of Ben’s pieces by saying “If I was high I could look at that all day”. . . so drug-induced stupor or no Ben’s the kind of artist who generously ... More » »
PAFA’s hits three homers outta heeeere
This Place is Ours!, by Jim Houser, acrylic on paper collaged on canvas, 40 x 40 inches This is the age of aquarius over at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts–harmony and understanding and three star-quality shows. At last the the place is living up to that name that came and then slunk off into the night; what was it, the Museum of American Art? The place not only has recovered from the folly of meaningless corporate branding at the same time that it has actually become that museum it dreamed it was. So if you go there this ... More » »
Watch out for all of this
Anthony Campuzano, “The Fall Back and Forth,” 2004, Colored pencil and graphite on panel, 22″ x 28″ First I got an email from Anthony Campuzano saying he was going to be in an exhibit at Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York this summer, an exhibit called Text Messages. I checked it out and it’s a star-studded summer confection, including the likes of Ed Ruscha, Jennie Holzer and Aline Kominsky Crumb. That one opens June 14. And then he added that he and Isaac Resnikoff were among the local artists whose recently acquired work would be included in the Pennsylvania Academy ... More » »
Ben Peterson, Part 2
[See Part 1 of this studio visit.] I asked Ben Peterson about California Ten a monumental work that was pinned to the wall when I visited his studio a month ago. (The piece went to Dusseldorf as part of Ratio 3′s booth in the First Dusseldorf Art Fair.) Peterson said that the structure is loosely modeled on a Spanish galleon and the house is based on a Spanish-style house. There are San Louis Obispo tiles and the sleeping bags on the roof are references to Hurricane Katrina. Ben PetersonCalifornia Ten, 2006/7 (detail)Ink and graphite on paper58 x 108 inches “It’s ... More » »
Ben Peterson has a Philly moment, Part 1
I visited Ben Peterson, former Bay area artist now living in Philadelphia, about a month ago. And before the blooms are off the dogwoods I want to let you know about this great artist addition to Philadelphia. Ben Peterson, in his studio, standing in front of the angled wall he draws on. Ben and his girlfriend, Katharine Karnaky, moved here so she could attend graduate school in Textile Design at Philadelphia University. Ben’s got a gallery, Ratio 3, in San Francisco, and he can continue to work with them, shipping his drawings through the mail. I heard about Ben’s arrival ... More » »
