Tag Archive "crane-arts-building"

Viva Cascarones!

Cascarones por la vidaSilent art auction and receptionCrane Arts1400 north american street Saturday, March 15th – 5-7pm $5 donation The charity auction, Cascarones** por la vida, organized by Latina artist and educator Marta Sanchez started in 1992 and is still going strong contributing needed funds to families affected by HIV/AIDS. Libby and I have joined the cause a number of times including this year where our flat of 30 eggs have hand drawn images from artblog (what, you think we ever get away from the computer these days?) Other artists participating this year are Rebecca Honig, Margret Matt, Sarah McEneaney, ... More » »

Notes from beyond

Matthew Suib Cocked for action in BrooklynVideographer Matthew Suib, just opened Saturday in Brooklyn at Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth St., 718.834.8761. His video Cocked is included in the exhibition Infinitu et Contini, curated by Denise Carvahlo. The show runs through Dec. 30. The exhibit is supported by a huge bunch of grants, included money from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation. I just saw Cocked again at Moore College of Art and Design in the exhibit Facts, Fantasies, and Fictions: Christian Curiel, Sarah McEneaney, Matthew Suib), and projected large and wide, in a ... More » »

Look! It’s Libby and Roberta at the Crane Art Center

Click To Play This fine episode from our ongoing series of gallery visits takes us to the Crane Art Center for Metaphoric Vinyl at Nexus and Charmaine Caire’s solo show Then and Now at Kelly/Weber Gallery. Our video guru David Kessler is a wizard who captures it all and makes the magic happen. Here’s a link to David’s popular Shadow World videos. And here’s a link to all the Look! It’s Libby and Roberta episodes.

We’ll try to see everyone we know and sell some paintings, too

Flaubert and Flow Chart from the Couples We Love Series, by libby and roberta Just in case you were wondering what to do today, we have a happy reminder (our first post on the subject was here). We’ll be spending the afternoon today at Art for the Cash Poor, noon to 6 at the Crane Building. Last time we were there it was like a whole big happy party. So hope you get a chance to say hello.

Fresh Paint–Us at Art for the Cash Poor!!

The bat man and Batman, 2007, acrylic on panel, approx 4x8x3/4″. Part of the Couples We Love series. You think we only write? Well, we make OK Paintings too and we make ‘em collaboratively. Come see them and buy them at Art for the Cash Poor at the Crane this weekend (an inLiquid sponsored event). We take the poor part seriously. Our prices are rock bottom. Happy little populists that we are. We’ll be there Saturday, June 9 from 1 pm-6 pm, but Libby must leave at 5 pm so come before then : ) We won’t be there Sunday. ... More » »

Sticks and Stones: Austin Heitzman’s elegant junk sculpture

Austin Heitzman’s sculptural bark at Gallery 201 The art Austin Heitzman makes is a combination of scrap lumber, scrap fabric, twigs, stones, cardboard, pulp paper and rope– all held together with string. The ambiance is skeletal: Elbows and limbs poking the air every which way and no fat on the bones. But while bodies are evoked, so are boats and animals, anthropological digs, shipwrecks and Robinson Crusoe — that progenitor of today’s Survivors. The ambiance is travel but these are rafts of a different kind. Their journey is post-apocalyptic — and North Philadelphia. Their journey back to civilization comes after ... More » »

Victory for Tyler opens tomorrow

Victory for Tyler poster Libby and I were up at Crane Arts last night after hearing the AMAZING William Kentridge lecture. (Libby told you about it) It was Second Thursday and the Crane had openings at Nexus, 201 Gallery and inLiquid. Nearby, Tower Gallery celebrated the opening of its first big group exhibit, an outstanding figurative show. Second Thursdays seem to be working well — all venues were hopping when we got there, and we observed a serious number of Vox Populi members showing support, something they couldn’t do before when everybody had First Friday openings at the same time. ... More » »

Weekly Update 2 – Big Room Now at the Icebox

This week’s Weekly has my review of Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch’s Big Room Now installation at the Icebox. Here’s the link to the art page. And here’s my flickr for more photos, and check out Libby’s flickr set. Pairing DownHe adds his touch to her papier-mache sculpture. She stars in his YouTube video. Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch with Lindsay BeebeMr. Ashley, 2006Mixed media82 x 26 x 36 inches (208.3 x 66 x 91.4 cm) Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch moved to Philly last summer after Hurricane Katrina interrupted their year in New Orleans. Their new collaborative sculptures in ... More » »

Weekly Update 1 – Nexus, Second Thursdays and the Crane

Here’s the copy for my Editor’s Choice piece in this week’s Weekly. I’ve added a few pictures below and there’s more at flickr. Jennie Thwing, video projection of her grandfather talking about his past. It’s moving and captivating with a soundtrack that stutters his phrases repeatedly and in time to an electronic dance beat. It’s a little haunted and haunting. Not only are the co-op’s new digs a wow—concrete floors, high ceilings, exposed beams, huge factory windows—but with the arrival of Nexus, the Second Street/American Street corridor has reached a critical mass of galleries to warrant a new event: Second ... More » »

Second Thursdays at Crane/NoLib

How I missed it I don’t know but here’s something that should have been in my Monday list of what’s to do this week: Second Thursdays, a multi-gallery opening-go-round that unites Northern Liberties galleries with their near-neighbor above Girard Avenue, the Crane Art Center. That’s tomorrow night, Feb. 8, 6-9 pm. Galleries involved include Art Star, Tower Gallery, Gallery 908, Nexus and The Framer’s Studio. Nexus Executive Director Nick Cassway in front of Catherine Passante’s billboard-photo in Nexus’s new space at Crane. –Check out Nexus at its new home at Crane, with shows by Jennie Thwing and Catherine Passante. e-poster ... More » »