Tag Archive "bill-lohre"
Sun moon stars rain–Bambi’s Welcome to my World
Bill Lohre, detail, Life, Light, Air (inspired by Chutes and Ladders and Joust),mixed media Bill Lohre has more than one show up at a time, with work at Vox Solid Gold until the 27th (see Roberta’s post) and work at Bambi Gallery’s Welcome to my World, up until July 20. The exhibit at Bambi, Welcome to my World, includes work by three (four?) artists, Lohre, Joshua Erbe alone and collaborating with gallerist Candace Karch, and Marie DesMarais. Bill Lohre, installation shot of Life, Light, Air Lohre is a model maker par excellence, but the work I found most endearing, the ... More » »
Weekly Update – Solid Gold winners at Vox Populi
This week’s Weekly has my review of Solid Gold at Vox Populi. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr. Vox Populi’s fourth annual emerging artist show is a lovely human-centric affair full of narrative art with many stories that attempt, each in its own way, to explain the vulnerable place humankind is at right now. We’re bodies and minds threatened by the collision of man-made and natural worlds and by disease, excess, hatred and war. But while the show channels some dark thoughts, the 24-artist show doesn’t whine or nag, and remains energetic if not optimistic. ... More » »
Weekly Update 1- Summer Roundup
This week’s Weekly has my summer art roundup. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr. Philadelphia’s art scene doesn’t take summer vacation anymore. Miguel Luciano, interactive piece based on Puerto Rican saying that (loosely translated) means that children can be heard when hens pee (which they never do). Miguel Luciano’s identity-fueled works at Taller Puertorriqueño use exaggerated stereotypes to poke fun at bromides about Puerto Rican identity. Luciano, a New York-based artist, turns Taller’s galleries into an interactive playroom with sculptures (including a slot machine) that let people “play” with their own identities. Luciano’s work is ... More » »
Afterword on Nick Lenker’s chutes and ladders
A detail of Nick Lenker’s Window on Broad installation Somehow, we didn’t say enough about Nick Lenker’s ceramic window installation in the Window on Broad, 333 S. Broad St. in the most recent Look! It’s Libby and Roberta. The ceramic shelves and figures that comprise the installation succeed because they draw you in with the charming/scary details of their Grimm’s fairy tale narratives. But the stacked worlds also serve as levels of a video game, with chutes and ladders linking them. In another age, of course, it’s the levels of Hell or any other system of multiple realities. A view ... More » »
Reflections on windows and art
Bill Lohre’s Light Life and Airhas enough eye appeal to overcome reflections and draw into its magic world a casual passerby What a great idea! Put art in a store front and bring art to the masses! Uh, but you better watch out. Unless the installation has some juicy eye candy that can overcome both the mindset of pedestrians and distracting reflections, it doesn’t work. You can walk a pedestrian past a window installation but you can’t make him look. I recently visited four different window art installations and find myself wondering in some of the cases, who would even ... More » »
