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Studioscopic’s latest picks

Check out the hysterical Steven Dufala and Billy Blaise Dufala’s interview by David Kessler, now up at studioscopic. The brothers are the Jay and Silent Bob of Philly’s art world. The interview was recorded right after the close of their show in ‘Challenge 3′ at Fleisher Art Memorial Also new on studioscopic, See Doug Herren talks about how he came to make his quirky, riveted ceramic sculptures, inspired by the industrial scale of Philadelphia’s infrastructure. The work opens tonight at Kelly & Weber Fine Art in Crane Arts.

Studioscopic debuts

Hello video fans. We want to tell you about David Kessler‘s new project, Studioscopic, up now at his website and running once a week on Uwishunu. This is an ongoing series of studio visits with local artists. Up at the moment are segments with Ira Upin (at Kelly and Weber right now) and Ryan Widger (studio in the Crane). Coming next, says Kessler, are visits with Norm Paris (currently featured in the Mezuzah Show at the Museum of Jewish Art at Congregation Rodeph Shalom), Steve and Billy Dufala (currently up at this month’s Fleisher Challenge) and Jenny Kanzler. The videos ... More » »

Damian Moppett: Look! It’s Libby and Roberta struggling

Click To Play Look at Libby and Roberta struggle to understand work by Canadian artist Damian Moppett at Temple Gallery, the latest episode from our ongoing series of gallery visits on video. Check it out, and check out the show, which is definitely worth the time to grapple with unfamiliar, but excellent work. Our video guru David Kessler captured it all and makes the magic happen. Hey, there’s still time to catch his work up at Bambi Gallery until Jan. 20. We didn’t review it because we love him to death and it’s hard to give the show a credible ... More » »

What we want to see Friday

First Friday’s coming up Dec. 7, 2007. Here’s some of what we’re excited about. For gallery times and locations, check the links to the gallery websites. David Kessler‘s Shadow World videos and Candace Karch’s black and white photographs at Bambi. At Vox Pop, members Josh Rickards (image above), Max Lawrence and Micah Danges, plus more in the 4th room, the video lounge and in Screening!! Jane Irish, Room with Blue Vases/VVAW San Francisco, 2006. oil on Tyvec with raised letters and modeling paste, 5 x 8 feetIrish is at Locks Gallery along with etchings by Lucien Freud and work by ... More » »

Tonight, tonight, check it out…If you break the skin

If you haven’t seen David Kessler’s gutsy documentary about Zoe Strauss, tonight’s the night to catch it at its World Premiere! $10 at www.firstpersonarts.org or 800.838.3006The First Person Stage at 2111 Sansom StreetFor more information, call 267.402.2059 From the p.r.: The documentary If You Break the Skin, You Must Come In does more than just scratch the surface of the lives it examines. When a group of adolescents in foster care were chosen to help make a film about maverick photographer Zoe Strauss, the process was turned inside out by having them turn the camera on themselves. The result is ... More » »

Hitch a ride to POST open studios

As luck and life would have it, we totally missed mentioning that the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours of nearly 300 artists around town, began last weekend and will continue into next weekend. When Roberta and I looked through the who’s who in the artists directory, it seemed to us this is POST’s best year yet. Fortunately, there’s still time to visit artists studios west of Broad Street this coming weekend–Chestnut Hill, Mount Airy, Germantown, Manayunk, East Falls, Fairmount, Center City West, Rittenhouse Square, Graduate Hospital, and West Philly. Here’s a still from David Kessler’s video on the artists’ studios at ... More » »

Cover boy: David Kessler in PW!

Cover story on David Kessler’s video project Shadow World. Read the article. Watch the Shadow World videos. Great coverage and most deserved for one of our favorite artists (who also does the Look! it’s Libby and Roberta videos.) Congratulations to David! xoxo from artblog!

Shadow World at Kelly Writers House tomorrow

Click To Play David Kessler, who does the magic on our video series Look! It’s Libby and Roberta is having a screening of his heartbreaking Shadow World videos tomorrow night, Tuesday, Sept. 18 at Kelly Writers House. Shadow World, which documents people who live or work or hang out in Kensington under the El, is riveting when seen small on the internet. The short pieces (a ten-minute clip showing several episodes will screen) will be very powerful when projected large. The series tells much about a part of the city and its inhabitants most people never see. Shadow World is ... More » »

Look! It’s Eastern State Penitentiary in our newest video

Click To Play Here we are visiting Susan Hagen’s new work at Eastern State Penitentiary. The pieces, in Cellblock 7 (which was the site of the Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller Pandemonium piece) are poignant miniature tableaus depicting scenes from prison life, each tableau isolated in an individual cell. The tableaus are carved in wood and then bleached white. We also stopped to see Linda Brenner’s ghost cats and Dayton Castleman’s escape routes. Not covered in the video but also good to see are works by William Cromar, Michael Grothusen, Judy Taylor and others. As always, the building itself ... More » »

Look! at the Book of War in the peace of the PMA

Click To Play We love the Indian miniatures we’ve been seeing in Gallery 227 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, so when we saw the gallery now had The Book of War: The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Mughal Razmnama Folios, we had to pay a visit. The 25 book pages on display are elaborately illustrated folios are from a single Mughal manuscript, the Razmnama (literally, “Book of War”), dated to 1598–99. While we were there, PMA Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art Darielle Mason showed up and explained to us (and to you too if you watch this episode) just ... More » »