Tag Archive "copy-gallery"

Words, words, noise and a melon on First Friday

First Friday was full of goodies. We started at the Fab. Here’s some pictures and a short video and some gossip at the bottom so be sure to scroll down. Ed Ruscha at the Fabric Workshop last Friday night Ed Ruscha was looking like a little leprachaun in front of a packed audience at the Fabric Workshop’s new space last Friday.  The 2nd floor gallery space — which makes a great lecture hall — was certified for only 200 people with a live feed downstairs for the big spillover crowd.   Ruscha and his slide of the Barnyard Rembrandt According ... More » »

This Side of Paradise, by Nick Paparone

Nick Paparone, This Side of Paradise, installation at Copy. Image provided by the artist. That sly boots Nick Paparone wrote us a note declaring that his current installation at Copy Gallery was a “life changing experience.” I really like Nick’s work (not to mention Nick himself) and it probably was a good move on his part, given that I for one was less than likely to make it to this particular show. (I should mention in all fairness that Paparone is one of the founders of Copy Gallery, although I wouldn’t call this a vanity show). Well, turns out it ... More » »

High Art, Cheap Beer and Regionalism

Annette Monnier, one-fifth director of Copy Gallery and one-sixth founder of the now defunct Black Floor Gallery, will be writing on artblog from time to time, by way of introduction her first post is on the relationship between place, art, and cheap beer. Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR) Before I moved to Philadelphia I thought of PBR as the beer in the David Lynch movie, Blue Velvet, it was somewhat unusual and hard to find and even a little bit avant garde. “The Hard to find” part of that idea was quickly displaced upon arrival in Philly. One of the first ... More » »

The changing scene, part 2: Annette Monnier interview

This is part 2 of a post about Annette Monnier, including an interview I had with her in May. Part 1 is about her exhibit at Padlock Gallery, up through November. Flower Arrangement #12; This time Monnier made the vase out of papier mache–a breakthrough, she decided. Just out of the Art Academy of Cincinnatti four years ago, Annette Monnier came to Philadelphia because a bunch of people she knew had come here. The group– which included Nick Paparone, Jamie Dillon, Elsa Shadley and Carrie Collins, plus Monnier and her sweetheart Gerick Forston–founded Black Floor Gallery, which, after three years, ... More » »

The changing scene: Annette Monnier at Padlock, plus an interview

This is part 1 of a two-part article on Annette Monnier. Part one is about the exhibit at Padlock Gallery, and Part Two is an interview about her various collaborations with Nick Paparone, Jamie Dillon and others to create first Black Floor and then Copy galleries. Annette Monnier standing in the Portal of History, 2006-7 her installation about art history, time and space. Because the portal is opposite a mirror above the fireplace mantle, Monnier spelled out art historian Giorgio Vasari’s name in reverse. The word under the mantle is Today. It is not backwards. Annette Monnier has staked out ... More » »

First Friday with limits

Adam Cooper on guitar in the one-night performance/installation Breakfast at Tiffany’s, at Copy Gallery Hey, First Friday was great–at least all that we saw of it, which wasn’t much given Roberta has the sniffles and I was plain old tired. Here’s what we saw:Copy Gallery had a pretty funny one-night performance. Adam Cooper, tented in a hilarious costume by Elsa Shadley, was on guitar; the gallery was decorated in piss-elegant splendor, a lit-up nightclub with reflective mylar and floral sconces, hanging stuffed plastic bags from the ceiling, blue draperies, and clothes strewn across the floor, implying either earlier debauchery or ... More » »

Libby and Roberta run a test

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Team Lump and Copy on Look! It’s Libby and Roberta

To watch the quicktime movie version (recommended for broadband high speed users) click here. This episode takes us on the road with Team Lump, a collective of artists from Raleigh, N.C., on exhibit at Space 1026. We also went to Copy Gallery where we looked at an imposing photograph by Anastacia Kapp. Annette Monnier also showed us around the goods in Store, Copy’s in-house sales outlet for Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Copy Gallery and Art in the Age are essentially projects of the same group of people. As always, our wonderful filmmaker-collaborator is David the Great Kessler ... More » »

Weekly Update 2 – Spring art emerges and looks good

This week’s Weekly has my Spring art roundup. Below is the copy with some pictures. More images at flickr here. And see some “before” shots of the new Vox Populi and new Black Floor/Copy, sill under construction when I visited a couple weeks ago.Be Still My Aching ArtPhilly’s scene retools for spring. The emerging artist scene is, well, emerging this season, with big changes at several venues. Vox Populi moves, while Black Floor assumes a new name. Art Syndicate loses its space but will partner with Jinxed for an upcoming show. Meanwhile, at the institutions and established venues, life goes ... More » »