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Grove Breakdown: Into the Woods at Abington

Detailed view of It’s Always Hard to Say Good-bye; Part 2 of Grove, photo by the artistLouise Barteau Chodoff’s exhibition at the Abington Art Center follows the second part of her ongoing project, Grove, which opened with an installation, In an instant, everything changes, at The Media Bureau last September. It included two videos, with imagery shot in Fairmount Park, projected onto a group of papier mache trees as well as an original sound tract created by Simon Rogers (click here for post on the installation). Barteau-Chodoff instructing friends and neighbors about siting the trees in Carpenter’s woods for the ... More » »

From Taboo to Icon–to one global art world

Pepon Osorio, Mangual, 2007, video a short video loop of a dark-skinned man vigorously, but unsuccessfully rubbing off white-face makeup–referencing identity and culture and art history all at once. There’s some terrific work included in the exhibit From Taboo to Icon: Africanist Turnabout, an exhibit currently at the Ice Box, a group show of about 70 works that grew out of a series of symposia at Temple University last year. The symposia, African Impressions/Contemporary Art, explored African influences in modern and contemporary art. They pondered the meanings behind the experiences of artists of color, especially when they used Africanist imagery. ... More » »

The Politics of Africanist Aesthetics

installation view of From Taboo to Icon: Africanist Turnabout at the Icebox Project Space, Crane Arts Building, photo Libby Rosof I headed to the Crane Building Saturday primarily to see an exhibition with an intriguing title: From Taboo to Icon; Africanist Turnabout – the premise being that work either derived from or in response to African aesthetics is central to artists of the African diaspora and has been relatively excluded by mainstream (e.g. white) institutions. Organized under the auspices of Temple University by Sophie Sanders, a PhD student in art history, and artist Shervon Neckles, it filled two very large ... More » »