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November’s First Friday
Well! November’s First Friday was an exciting time to visit the galleries down in Old City (certainly better than the rainy First Friday of October) – lots of people out, lots of live music, and lots of awesome art. I went to some seven or eight galleries in total, and here will highlight six artists featured in four of these galleries whose art I found to be especially interesting. To start, it seemed that 2nd Street was the place to be on First Friday – and more specifically at Artist’s House. Viewers spilled out onto the street and waited in ... More » »
Cut Up and Newly Pasted
“Cut&Paste” is an exhibit about collage and reinvention. Images, both still and video, are taken out of their context and manipulated into something new: a reflection of the artists’ own imagination. Five artists, Anita Allyn, Ellie Brown, Kent Latimer, Eric Lendl, and Caroline Shields participated in the exhibit at Falling Cow Gallery. Ellie Brown’s Found Book Collages Ellie Brown’s found book collages tell a story about her sexuality. All but one of the pages inside are glued together; the inside cover features a collage of mixed media, which represents the story within. Apparently, each book represents a past relationship, and ... More » »
Don’t Think "She Lost It" With Her New Exhibit
Posted by Caitlin Detail of Bourgeois’ 1992 performance at the Fabric Workshop, “She Lost It” The Louise Bourgeois exhibit at the Fabric Workshop highlights the artist’s recent works in different materials, concentrating on her use of textiles. The majority of what is on view revisits her 1992 performance “She Lost It,” which revolves around a 245 foot-long scarf with red writing. A video documentation of the performance is on display in the lobby, with catchy dance music (you may recognize the 90′s hit “Rhythm is a Dancer”) accompanying the images of the original exhibit and the live-performance. I recommend watching ... More » »
Pirates and Hillbillies at Space 1026
Cannonball Press at Space 1026. First Friday July 2006. Photo courtesy of Roberta.The atmosphere was relaxed when I arrived at Space 1026 around 10 p.m. on Friday, July 7th, where all were looking at a diverse array of prints: some very large, others poster-like in size, and even an interesting 3D sculpture. The artist was Cannonball Press, based out of Brooklyn, who were celebrating the opening of their first show in Philadelphia, “HANG ‘EM HIGH: A Caffeinated Exercise in Woodcutology.” Cannonball Press is known for its black and white prints, its grungy subject matter (pirates, hillbillies, deer, porn stars) and ... More » »
First Friday, July 2006
I have to admit that last weekend was my first trip down to First Friday – really a terrible confession, for the artblog intern. Never fear, I had the chance to wander around and enjoy my first experience down in Old City with the company and guidance of the artblog gurus, Roberta and Libby, and their friend Andrea. After a visit to a local tavern, the ladies and I wandered down 2nd street between Market and Arch and checked out the local vendors. For more pictures of what they saw, both before I met them and after, check Roberta’s flickr ... More » »
Katz’s pictures of Maine at the PAFA
Cut-out of Vincent, Katz’s son – “Trophy III” This summer the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art features the work of New York-based painter Alex Katz, (b. 1927) in an exhibit that opened June 24th. “Alex Katz in Maine” features nearly 40 paintings completed between 1958 and 2006 while the artist summered in Skowhegan, Maine. Especially attractive were the two cut-outs, which preserve his abstract approach in representing his subject, but remain edgy in lacking right-angles. There were two cut-outs in the exhibit: “Trophy III” (see above), and a cut-out of a cow, which greets you immediately when you enter the ... More » »
Anselm Kiefer at the Aldrich
A painting from Keifer’s “Velimir Chlebnikov” show The feature exhibit at the Aldrich this summer is Anselm Kiefer‘s “Velimir Chlebnikov,” an homage to the Russian poet and thinker of the same name. Besides being a writer, Chlebnikov wrote complex mathematical formulae which apparently prove the existence of naval battles recurring every 317 years. Evidence of these equations grace the paintings, along with small ships made of scrap metal and, on some of the paintings that allude to Aphrodite and other figures from Greek mythology, dried sunflowers. The paintings not only represent naval battles and the sea, but also the more ... More » »
