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Annette Monnier talks about guilt, community, humor and values

Perhaps you remember the Tiki Bar at Copy Gallery. Annette Monnier, one of the group that ran Copy Gallery, calls it one of her favorite shows there–a kind of social experiment in which people expect to find a gallery with one set of rules, but instead enter a bar with a whole other set of values. She talks about her confused relationship to the American Flag and about how guilty she feels in spending time making art when there are so many problems in the world. Her antidote to that guilt is her job running the ClayMobile program. She talks ...

Annette Monnier on liking–and not liking–art, next on artblog radio

Before the Vox building became a stacked art building, it was home to Black Floor Gallery. The groundbreaking Black Floor and its successor, Copy Gallery, are both gone, but they will remain remembered as among the best collective galleries in town in the first decade of the Twenty-First Century. One of the founders of both spaces is artist Annette Monnier, who came to town after art school in Cincinnati.  Monnier is still making art. But most of her time is spent running the ClayMobile program out of the Clay Studio. And she writes a blog about art, One Review a ...

Art in Chinatown north – the Good, the Bad and the Slippery

Vox Populi’s Dead Flowers—guest curated by Lia Gangitano of PARTICIPANT INC, New York—invites us to consider the spirit of the underground through little known director Timothy Carey. A vintage poster for The World’s Greatest Sinner! at the entrance of the exhibition proudly announces Carey’s film as—and suggests that any other work in the show should aspire to be—the “Most condemned and praised […] of its time.”

First Friday layer cake–pix galore

What a delicious First Friday–a layer cake of delights. I’m putting up a bunch of pictures, hoping they might entice you to take a taste.

Fall go-round, round 2

Friday I went to the Vox building with Cate and a few of my St. Joseph’s students.  We were early and so missed the huge crowds which was good for seeing the art.  This is in no way a comprehensive review of the many shows on view but it seemed that revolutions were the recurring theme of the evening.

John Vick: One Quiet & One Loud

John Vick is a curatorial fellow in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  He has a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania. Successful artworks seem to fall under one of two humors – they can call attention to themselves overtly or be so plainly understated as to provoke curiosity. This has been true of modern art for quite a while. Consider the simultaneous success of the frenetic work of Jackson Pollock and the contemplative work of Mark Rothko. At present, when images, video, and sound are more readily available ...

First Friday at 319 N. 11th St.

The Collective Spaces at 319 N. 11 St. were teeming with activity last Friday night – openings at Vox, Copy Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and a new space called ‘Progressive Sharing‘ that just opened on the 6th floor of the building. Secret Passage by Charles Hobbs, on display at Vox, is a somewhat awkwardly choreographed interactive piece.  As one approaches the opening to the exhibit a large, almost surreal twisted gate structure is immediately viewable, inhabiting the center of the room. As one draws nearer to this large structure, the inner-workings of the exhibit begin to expose themselves.  The entryway ...

Weekly Update — Mighty drawings at Copy and Tiger Strikes Asteroid

This week’s Weekly has my review of the great big drawings by Annette Monnier and Phillip Adams at Copy and Tiger.  Below is my copy with some pictures.     The town is full of great exhibits this month but don’t miss two ambitious narrative drawings with tales for the times.  They  will make you ponder, chuckle and shudder.  Annette Monnier’s wall-spanning ink drawing of City Hall at Copy Gallery and Phillip Adams’ charcoal mural of President Obama caught in a tidal wave at Tiger Strikes Asteroid are marvels that reward your trip up the dark creaky stairs at 319 ...

Craigslist–David Dunn’s tv of tvs at Copy

Copy Gallery has installed for the month of February a video called Craigslist, by Dave Dunn, one of the gallery’s organizers and curators. The video is of 1,100 images of tvs. The images are not his own. They are home-made photos of tvs uploaded to Craigs Lists around the world. Gotta sell your tv? You take a picture of it on its little tv table and upload it, hoping someone will pick yours from all the other tvs. David Dunn, Craig’s List, 30 seconds of the installation at Copy Gallery The tv portraits show a little of each seller’s house ...

Obsessive collectors convention this month at Copy

Post by Brandon Joyce Installation shot from Collections Show at Copy. Image features Neon Pink Things collected by Callie Konane Rickards (center), Andrew Jeffrey Wright‘s Family Circus books collection (left) and Erica Prince’s Best Friends photos collection (right) This month, at Copy Gallery, Luren Jenison curated a Collections Show, with entries gathered from the private caches of various New York and Philadelphia obsessives. Slews of ski masks, records, stationery, squeaky toys, succulents, weirdo children’s videos, Family Circus Books— pinned up and spread out like cases of dried butterflies. Leslie Rogers’ paper bag collection Three or four entries, in particular, really ...