Tag Archive "constantina-zavitsanos"
Weekly Update – Slought’s emerging artist shows
This week’s Weekly has my review of 1:5:25 at Slought Foundation. Below is my copy with some pictures. Video is a huge part of the art world and many galleries now include the medium as part of their regular programming. Shows of all video art are less frequent although they too occur. Slought’s “1:5:25” is an all-video show curated by a team of 5 and presenting works by 25 artists or artist groups. A veritable dim sum video banquet of stuttering, fast-paced, culture-questioning videos, the show is good but it raises the question: How much video is too much?
Relationships R Us in the Fleisher Challenge 3
Fleisher Art Memorial ends its season of Challenge exhibits with works that range from whimsical to nostalgic to earnestly activist. The Challenge shows have always been three emerging artist solo shows in one but if you work at it you can see a common thread running through the works. In this show, it’s all about relationships.
Little Berlin pushes collaboration buttons
When I ran into Martha Savery at the opening of A Closer Look at Arcadia she was very excited about the show at her space, Little Berlin. There’s a collaboration in the Arcadia show (by long-time collaborators Tom Kocot and Marcia Hatton) and Savery had fostered some collaborative pieces at LB–between sound artist Michael McDermott and sculptor Michael Murray and with the members of the video Shift Collective. Shift’s piece involved tossing an expensive video camera off a 6-story roof while the camera was on (it was attached to a rope and didn’t hit the ground). Well, that alone was ... More » »
New Fleisher Challenge winners–plus money!
Timothy Belknap and his brothers plus a girlfriend on the drums (I’m not sure whose) performing at FLUXspace in June 2007. Fleisher Art Memorial‘s juried Wind Challenge Exhibition Series will be awarding the next batch of winners an honorarium of $1,000 each, the first time in its history, the program announced. This is great news and a swell way to celebrate its 30th anniversary (the first Challenge exhibits were in the 1978-1979 season)!!! The coming year’s winners for the ’08-’09 season are: Timothy Belknap, installationKara Crombie, videoCheryl Harper, sculptureJohanna Inman, photographyMark Khaisman, installationYvonne Lung, installationHope Rovelto, sculptureJohn Slaby, paintingConstantina Zavitsanos, ... More » »
5 into 1 + 1, 2- into 3-D, 3- into 2-D
For Philadelphia Sculptors to have asked the FLUXspace posse to curate their annual 5 into 1 exhibit, now in its 9th year, says a lot both about the FLUXers and about Philadelphia Sculptors. FLUX has in just a brief time made an incredible mark on what is showing in Philadelphia from off in its Kensington outpost. For all their youth, the people who run the space–Joseph di Guiseppe, Chris Golas, Josh Kerner and Nike Dessis–know how to make exciting things happen, know how to navigate through an art world that is part business and part romance, know how to show ... More » »
