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Amy Walsh and Blaine Siegel’s Kaiserpanorama at Freeman’s

Amy Walsh and Blaine Siegel, Kaiserpanorama detail. Before cinema and cinerama and I-Max and panorama cameras, there was the Kaiserpanorama, a sort of multi-peephole device with a stereoscopic slide show. It’s sort of the opposite of painting panoramas, in which the person stands in the middle of a circular landscape, and can scan around, thereby taking in the impression of the space. Locally, there’s one out at the Gettysburg battlefield visitor’s center, depicting the battle. On the other hand, the Kaiserpanorama is a look inside and is closer to a television in concept. a kaiserpanorama It’s this tradition of panorama, ... More » »

Innocence lost, innocence found–The Day After

untitled painting by Joe Protheroe Post-Minimalism and Post-Photoshopism and Post-Illustratorism have all joined forces to abhor the straight line and perspective, abhor the mass produced, abhor the slick perfection and abhor the uniformity that Minimalism and computer graphics–and advertising–promised. Those were the formal issues that struck me silly when I walked into Slought to see The Day After, an exhibit of work by recent MFA graduated of Penn, Tyler and PAFA. To put it another way, this show is sad and angry, a declaration of innocence lost and dreams tucked away. The Day After is literal in these students’ lives, ... More » »

Weekly Update – Student shows rise above

[This week's Weekly has my review of some of this Spring's curated student shows. Here's the link to the art page and below is the copy with some added pictures.]School Daze The graduate shows revealed a fascination with entrapment and vulnerability. Blaine Siegel’s Gobdiddlymuck at Slought, a tour-de-force piece with humor and thoughts of society’s decay. Many of the student works seemed to be about decay. I made it to five of the dozen or so graduating student shows in town this spring—Philadelphia Sculptors’ “Five Into One” at Moore College of Art & Design, “Voxumenta” at Vox Populi, Penn’s M.F.A. ... More » »