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News Roundup: Knight Arts Challenge, LOOK! Lancaster Ave, new Barnes logo
News Philadelphia Knight Arts Challenge Year 2 The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is opening up their second year of applications for the Philadelphia Knight Arts Challenge. They are investing $9 million over three years in ideas that engage and enrich Philadelphia arts and culture. In the first year, 36 ideas were awarded a total of $2.7 million… including artblog’s own Art Safaris! Applications for the Knight Arts Challenge will be accepted from October 3 – 31, 2011. Be sure to visit the Knight Arts website on October 3 to find out how to submit your idea!
Ceci n’est pas un review
Michael Grothusen channeling Anish Kapoor and Quentin Morris. The show Paper Jam at My House Gallery includes not only us but some great surprises as well. Above is a piece by the wonderful Michael Grothusen, a piece with enough gravitas to hold the entire wall. Jonathan Berger also has a piece in this show. My own Eoin Burke. I got to take home a piece by Eoin Burke. I’m always a sucker for giveaways, this one available from a small carton pinned to the wall. Burke was one of the contributors to the collaboration between Peter Rose and Mark Campbell ... More » »
Metaphysical Conflation at UArts
Snippets from Conflation. 1 minute 12 seconds. One of the best collaborative installations we’ve seen in a while is down at UArts’ Hamilton/Arronson Galleries right now. Conflation/Living Above the Store brings together sculpture, video and sound in a rendering of a pre- and post-apocalyptic city. Mark Campbell, who builds installations about suburban sprawl here has created a floating city in a void of black space. Peter Rose, projects video that suggests the real world at its most lyrical — and apocalyptic. Anthony Angelicola‘s soundtrack evokes sounds of the city run through a deep sea Cuisinart. The team also included ... More » »
5 into 1 and Nexus Selects–juried senior shows
detail of I and I by Katie Elia, University of the Arts Only two juried shows of works by graduating seniors from the five big local art schools went up this year–5 into 1 and Nexus Selects. The year after, The Day After, the senior exhibit at Slought Foundation, is no more. And no sequel to Voxumenta or the Voxennial is on the horizon (KO’d perhaps by Vox’s moving blues). Both shows draw from graduates of local art schools, with the Philadelphia Sculptors-organized “Five Into One” focused on sculpture. Nexus Selects takes a more multi-disciplinary approach, with photography, video and ... More » »
Survival plan for First Friday
First Friday was swell, and apparently, it was a good thing we went at 5, because we heard reports later that the galleries and streets of Old City were brimming with art lovers. Here are some pix from what we saw. Joseph Hu used his own hair for the bristles in his replica of his grandfather’s brush for clearing off eraser debris. It was one of a number of wonderful personal items he created for his first solo show at Pentimenti Gallery. Another outstanding piece was a replica of a shirt. But I loved each and every piece. Hu has ... More » »
Fabulous Friday-Got enough to see? Here’s more.
Eoin Burke. Life size sculptural figure. See it April 6-18, UArts, Senior Thesis Show, Havana Lofts. 301, 303, 307 N. 3rd St. Hours: Wed-sat 11am-6pm Reception First Friday, April 6, 6-9 pm. I got an email from University of the Arts student Eoin Burke inviting me to the students’ senior thesis show. The image attached intrigued me so I wrote back. ME: Your work looks tres Yves Klein. Are you a sculptor? A performance artist? A photographer? I can’t quite tell from the image. EOIN: I am a sculptor, but I am a student and apprentice to Mark Campbell (thus ... More » »
