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2010 Liberta awards!
It may be a recession year, but 2010 saw a whole lot of good art stuff happening in Philadelphia. Here’s our annual awards roundup! 6 best shows of 2010 that we saw: Mika Rottenberg @Mary Boone Paul Outlaw and Jennifer Catron’s The Honeymooners @Grizzly Grizzly Value City @Little Berlin Failure to Show @Extra Extra Philagrafika @Temple Gallery (especially for Heavy Industries) Bauhaus @MoMA
The Duke of Riley meets the King of Petty’s Island
We wandered over to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania last week while Duke Riley was installing his show about Ralston Laird and Petty’s Island, his chosen subject for his Philagrafika project. The artist, 38, had the society’s large glass cases full of artifacts and photos from his excursions to Petty’s Island, and he’d made a large family history drawing based on research he did about the Laird clan. Over the mantle was a photo taken in a helicopter flyover of Riley’s piece de resistance for the project, a mural painted on top of a Citgo oil holding tank that sits ...
Some conversations with Philagrafika artists
We’ve been making some of the rounds, talking to a variety of Philagrafika artists in The Graphic Unconscious and Out of Print exhibits. Here are some tidbits, mostly recollected, but I noted when the conversation is based on notes.
Philagrafika–90 venues, holy smokes!
Philagrafika 2010, the largest international city-wide art festival in Philadelphia, celebrating the vitality of printmaking, opens this Friday, and with 90 different venues and events to consider; what’s an art lover to do? Well, we’re going to help you here with some tips and picks.
The art of history, politics and other thoughts in Chelsea
Duke Riley, a drawing from his installation After the Battle of Brooklyn. After seeing Kara Walker show at the Whitney Thursday, one of our goals of Saturday’s Chelsea run-around included seeing her work at Sikkema Jenkins. But we saw lots more,, and an awful lot of it had historical and political thoughts in it. Riley’s submarine, modeled after drawings for such a vehicle from the pre-sub era. Roberta is checking out the insides, which, much to her surprise, had some beer cans strewn about. Duke Riley at Magnan Projects was spectacular. Riley, if you remember, is a guy who has ...
Duke Riley’s One Man Submarine
Photo: Damon Winter / The New York Times We at artblog love Brooklyn artist Duke Riley‘s art, which we first saw at Pulse art fair in 2006. Riley’s art comes from a deep love of history and a kind of whimsical insertion of himself into re-enactments of long ago events. Most recently, Riley created a one-man submarine out of wood and fiberglas that’s based on a Revolutionary War-era submarine The Turtle. He put the little egg-shaped vessel in the water off Redhook Brooklyn and went for a little voyage over to see the cruise ship the Queen Mary parked right ...
Art world seances
Dan McCarthyOriginally uploaded by sokref1. Picture is Dan McCarthy’s painting of a mythical beach scene. Click to see it bigger. Over the course of two days our trek of two piers and one historic armory gave me the sense that artists are reaching out to channel ghosts of the past or spirits of a parallel universe. Maybe we’re all running away from the present because it’s too …present. In any case, here’s a list of the art “mediums” whose work reminded me that art right now is often not just P.T.Barnum but Barnum and El Magnifico the conjurer. It’s all ...
Criss-cross at Pulse
DSCN1044.jpgOriginally uploaded by sokref1. Chris Gilmore’s “Ford A” made of cardboard. Not only are Western artists making Eastern-influenced art but everybody’s playing fruit basket upset with the materials. How about Chris Gilmore‘s “Ford A,” a luxury sports car made out of cardboard at Perugi’s booth at Pulse? A clear highlight at Pulse, it was one of several cardboard pieces we saw. Crossing cultural and materials boundaries is not even a cool idea anymore. It’s a fait accompli. It’s just another tool. People are making what they want, no matter where on earth they are, and they’re using whatever materials please ...
