Tag Archive "candace-karch"

Bambi’s Lovely Things pop up at Projects Gallery

Bambi Gallery closed its doors last spring, but its four person show, Lovely Things, popped up this month at Projects Gallery (through January 28). The show’s artists, Matthew Osborn, Stacy Lee Webber, Bonnie Brenda Scott, and Jim Garvey, have disparate practices, from drawing to installation to finely-crafted objects.

News: art security, O.U.R., Bambi Gallery’s return and more

News Attack on Matisse at National Gallery highlights art security After a recent attack on a Matisse painting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, art security is on the minds of writers at the Washington Post.  That publication ran two stories recently about art security issues.

Weekly Update – First Friday to do -Bambi’s last opening at the Piazza

In January, when the sprinklers went off unexpectedly in Bambi Gallery and damaged some of its art, Bambi proprietress Candace Karch decamped, taking her February show to another location. Now, Karch says, Bambi will migrate permanently out of its location at the Piazza after her March show. But this is not the end of Bambi—the effervescent gallerist vows to make “floating Bambi” pop up again sometime this year in a new location.

Breaking news – Bambi’s at Proximity this month, and, a cancellation at PPAC

First a sprinkler leak and then a burst pipe has Bambi moving to a temporary home away from home this month. But the show must go on, says Candace Karch, Bambi proprietress. Only it’s going on at Proximity Gallery’s space (see map here), instead of at Bambi’s normal digs at the Piazza. The opening for Daniel Forrest Hoffman and Gretchen Diehl’s exhibition is tonight, First Friday, from 6-10pm. In happier news, Karch and Bambi are featured on WHYY TV’s Friday Arts segment. Here’s a 6-minute clip of the program that you can watch on the web (spoiler alert, the video also ... More » »

Curating the personal – I Just Can’t Get You Out of My Mind at Seraphin Gallery

Hiro Sakaguchi is an honest curator. His curatorial statement for “I Just Can’t Get You Out of My Mind” at Seraphin Gallery reads: “I choose artists whose works I want to see again for selfish reasons.” Simple enough. And, as uncalculated as his curation may be, Sakaguchi still managed to weave together a diverse and talented group of artists he discovered in the Philadelphia-area, all of whom tackle conceptually and aesthetically complicated issues with ease. By using personal taste to navigate the curatorial process, one begins to understand just what it is that Sakaguchi is interested in: detailed, relatively small ... More » »

‘Tell All’: Marie Ulmer at U Arts and an exhibition of broadsides by 15 small presses at Kelly Writers House

92-year old Fishtown resident, Marie Ulmer, studied at Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Design, the predecessor of University of the Arts, and was a long-time illustrator at the Free Library. Tell All, which can be seen through Oct. 14 at U Arts’ 817 Gallery (on the 8th floor of the Anderson Building, 222 S. Broad St.) is her first solo exhibition, and long overdue.

Weekly Update — The eyes have it in Vitreous at Klein Art Gallery

This week’s Weekly has my review of The Vitreous: Of Eyes and Optics at Klein Art Gallery. Below is the copy with some pictures.  More photos at flickr. Esther M. Klein Gallery, situated in the University City Science Center, has a mission to merge art, engineering and science while serving the public. Its latest exhibit, “The Vitreous: Of Eyes & Optics,” hits the mark. The national juried show of 22 artists is a jaunty group exhibition with interactive art, optical trickery and many pieces that get you thinking about the slippery nature of sight. The show is homey enough for ... More » »

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 » »