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Scot Borofsky – from street art to gallery, an interview

Scot Borofsky started as a graffiti artist in the East Village (NYC) and eventually made his way into the museum and commercial gallery art world. His work can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Brooklyn Museum of Art, a rare accomplishment for a graffiti street artist. Borofsky’s art combines the depth of tradition with the uncertainty of the contemporary, linking the ages with a sacred line. The work (@Jules Goldman Books and Antiques) may appear to be simple abstractions but Borofsky is giving you the ARCHETYPE, layered. God knows what these images are doing to viewers’ ... More » »

David Huggins – an uncommon life

David Huggins is a 68 year old painter who lives in Hoboken, NJ. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City, and he’s been divorced for a little under ten years, with a 27 year old son who lives in Thailand. David concentrates most of his talent on the creation of a series of testimonial paintings about his life-long experience as an alien abductee. David is not on any medications nor has he been institutionalized at any time in his life.  He says he’s never had an illness a day in his life, not even a cold!? ... More » »

Eric Doeringer – Into the fold

Eric Doeringer is best known for a series of forgeries that he sells on the streets of New York City and yes, in galleries. He calls this series “Bootlegs” because the works are copies of contemporary paintings made famous by all the usual suspects within the art star system. These aesthetic clones have become a type of barometer for contemporary art’s appeal to the random person on the street. Eric can tell you what the public really likes in terms of well-known works of art made in the past fifteen years. The original vs. the copy is often misunderstood and the ... More » »

Wally Gilbert – Crossing Lines

Post by Corey Armpriester Delicate dark chocolate squares and tiny ceramic cups half-filled with espresso slowly consumed in a small studio kitchen; flying high on my caffeine buzz (and feeling over confident) I start a modest conversation about art, science, robots and genetically modified foods with the artist that helped map the Human Genome Project, 1980 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Wally Gilbert.

Disclosure–bad boy photographer Tony Ward reveals all

Post by Corey Armpriester With art, cigarettes and sex on my mind, I sit down with Philadelphia’s very own agent provocateur, photographer Tony Ward, for a little talk, revealing a man with drive and ambitions fueled by art and costing him his marriage. Art as home wrecker–I’m sure spouses of artists can understand such a thing.

African Americans at Sherman Mills

African American Students and Emerging Artists Group Exhibition at the Schuylkill Gallery in East Falls is a bit scattered as a show–a shame because there’s some good work in it. Cullen Washington, 50 CENTS, etching and rhinestones on fabric The most surprising work in the show was by Cullen Washington, who is studying at Tufts University. While his old-fashioned looking etching of a black man on paper. “Poppa T,” a pun on the word “property,” was nicely done, it’s his portrait etched on a ragged, stained piece of fabric is extraordinary. The head of the subject, who I presume is ... More » »

Nikki Lee’s Identity Quest

Corey Armpriester wrote me the other week wondering why Libby and I had spent so much ink covering Roger Buergel’s lecture at Penn and no ink at all on the fabulous Nikki Lee who gave a lecture the same week. Armpriester was at both lectures and the Nikki Lee beat the Buergel by a mile he thought so he was a little curious as to our choice and peeved that we’d missed this great artist’s lecture. Well that’s how it is, I told him. We miss some of the things some of the time but the town is hopping and ... More » »