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Douglas Witmer’s School Papers and Fruitville at AxD
By Dennis D’Alesandro Douglas Witmer’s strong one-man show at AxD is comprised of two separate bodies of work. A suite of smaller works titled The School Papers shows off Witmer’s excellent color sense and supple surface textures. The other half of the show is called Fruitville, which showcases the artist’s never before exhibited wooden relief objects that adorn the gallery walls like bright, little satellites.
Philadelphia Notes
An artists’ demolition derby in a still from Aaron Rose’s Beautiful Losers (2008)Lives of the Artists (ca. 2000) I asked Tyler Kline to join me at the January 21 International House screening of two films on art/skateboarding cultures since he comes out of a Portland skateboarding and art scene of a younger generation than Aaron Rose’s Beautiful Losers (2008) and I thought he could provide footnotes (which he did). Rose’s film made for an interesting comparison with Ted Passon’s Space 1026 (2007) and told quite a different story of how the art and community developed. Rose portrayed Margaret Kilgallen, Mike ... More » »
More Phillyites in New York and elsewhere
We now know that we missed at least five Philly artists in our previous post about our town’s world class art invading the world (or at least places on the Eastern seaboard). We are hereby bringing these artists and venues to your attention so you can feel even better about Philadelphia’s solid and growing art scene and so you can go see this stuff in the real world. JUDITH SCHAECHTER Judith Schaechter,Seeing is BelievingStained Glass installation120 x 120 inchesMuseum of Arts and Design Judith Schaechter — stained glass artist extraordinaire and all around art whizz kid (see our previous post ... More » »
A Kiss for Mayor Nutter–from Doug Witmer, artist
Here’s Douglas Witmer and two of his kids. He’s a Philadelphia artist and co-owner of the Green Line Cafe. He’s joining our citizen artists in asking for an Office of Arts and Culture with a budget and the power to implement big ideas. Here’s info on how you too can join the Kiss for Mayor Nutter campaign.
Batter up in nifty duds
The fabulous Douglas Witmer sent us this pitch-perfect pitch for the season: Hi Liberta–thought you’d maybe dig this site. They advertise themselves asobsessive and they’re not kidding. It’s called UniWatch and it’s allabout the aesthetics of sports uniforms. Okay, so yesterday they had this great post. Cheers,DGLS By the way…check out the new Tim Gierschick show over at ourPowelton shop…just hung it last night and I think it’s great! Anyway it is a great post. I love the way it crosses the lines between aesthetics and sports and design and all the relevant practical considerations. I’m sending it right off ... More » »
