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The harmony networks – It’s Who You Know at Projects Gallery

Projects Gallery did something unique for their current exhibition. Instead of choosing 25 artists for a summer group show, they chose five and asked them to each pick five more. The show’s fate rested on networking.

Ox Gallery–now you see it, now you don’t

Subject to Change, a juried group show in an unheated squat of a loft space in Kensington, is certainly subject to change, given its location and its history. But it’s well worth seeing. The one-week show is up to Dec. 11 by appointment only (see below for more on getting in). Nicole Wilson and Sheila Whitsett, who kindly let me in, described the serendipity of finding the space when they attended a party in the same building–the part of the building that has heat! They labored mightily to turn the raw space into someplace that can show art. It may ... More » »

First Friday–an introspective Fourth of July

The streets may have been deserted, But the few galleries that were opening for First Friday on the July 4th holiday weekend still had a surprising number of attendees, if not exactly major crowds. And since I began at Bambi at the Piazza, everything seemed quite celebratory.

The great society at Little Berlin and Basekamp

Little Berlin and Basekamp, part of my First Friday route, were both you-had-to-be-there moments, something quite different from a quiet gallery visit in the middle of the week. Little Berlin‘s exhibit, Offerings, is made of works created by small groups of four people collaborating together. The total number of participants at play–71 participants in 20 groups–was pretty amazing. Little Berliners Alex Gartelmann and Martha Savery mixed and matched group members for the most part, so participants barely knew or didn’t at all know their collaborators. Little Berlin, once again, is reaching out beyond their core group and finding lots of ... More » »

Little Berlin–from zoetropes to The Shining

Conor Fields, a view of the works behind the Untitled bookcase projection We all have a love affair going with the movies–arguably the narrative art form of our times–and the exhibit in Little Berlin is all about that. Post Production features multi-media installations by Sarah O’Donnell and Conor Fields that blow kisses to the movies. Conor Fields, Day in Paris Fields’ works hark back to early movie technology, with Neanderthal mechanics imbuing old-fashioned special effects with a sense wonder and eager ingenuity. In Day in Paris, a zoetrope/lampshade salutes both early movie technology and early aviation technology, recreating Alberto Santos-Dumont’s ... More » »