Tag Archive "eva-wylie"

Print-Ditty-Doo-Dah at Gallery Joe

Printmaking was once the realm of the inky fingered.  But today a lot of printing takes place on digital printers, where the ink is in cartridges and the only dirty fingers belong to those who service the machines. Gallery Joe‘s two new Philagrafika-related shows, “Appropriate, Manipulate, Duplicate” and “Big Ditty” are full of ink jet prints and other manifestations of works run through a computer. Appropriate, Manipulate, Duplicate

Vox Populi’s January shows

Vox Populi‘s January show opened Jan. 9 and, carumba, it closes Feb. 1 — get over there quick because there’s good stuff! Vox Members Shows Julianna Foster’s From Morning On Julianna Foster‘s From Morning On continues the artist’s exploration of narrative through serial photography. This group of photographs shows gorgeous misty landscapes, decrepit mystery interiors that are also misty; claustrophobic backyard mists and more. It’s like the misty moors of Wuthering Heights come to the American Northeast farmland. The actor is a woman who performs ambiguous and rather static actions (listening through a wall; blowing dust off a box; staring ...

Wandering and wondering at Vox Populi–Paparone, Abrams and Wylie

Nick Paparone, The Wonder Wander, torchiere lamp, polystyrene, alumnium foil, paint, motor The cheerful boyishness that permeates Nick Paparone‘s work is always a little slippery. He is one of the trio of Vox Populi artists up for the month of May, plus a couple of guest artists, and he almost steals the show with one of his pieces–The Wonder Wander. The piece, a sort of portable den, consists of a globe spinning slowly on the axis of a lamp pole. The gizmo on the wall that turns the globe is a small motor that spins a small rubber cylinder. The ...

In the Garden 2 & 3

Jackie Tileston, Opera Brain Incantation, mixed on linen Gardens become figments of the imagination on the shortest days of the year. So naturally, a show about gardens that begins as the days shorten and ends before they lengthen turns my thoughts to the divide between art and the real thing–any real thing, any art. Jackie Tileston, detail, Opera Brain Incantation, mixed on linen The exhibit is Garden in Winter, a small group show featuring work by six artists–Jackie Tileston, Margery Amdur, Bill Scott, Robert Straight, Carole Sivin and Diane Pieri–at Hopkins House in New Jersey. Each artist takes a different ...

Weekly Update 1 – Fleisher Challenge 3

This week’s Weekly has my Editor’s Picks short review of Fleisher Challenge 3. Below is the copy and I have more pictures at flickr. Silver-plated take-out box by Susan Myers at Fleisher Challenge 3. All three artists in this year’s Fleisher Challenge (3) deserve the label of virtuoso, since all are formidable makers of works requiring fastidious adherence to technique. But Eva Wylie’s and Colette Fu’s works have me questioning the staying power of technique-heavy production that’s content-lite. Artist Colette Fu demonstrating how to open and close her complex pop-up books which look like they are too delicate to do ...

Can’t you hear the music on First Friday West

Caitlin the intern took the East side and I took the West side of First Friday–hitting the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Vox Populi, Space 1026 and Black Floor. There was lots to look at, lots to ponder–and lots to love. Paul Chan and the Fabric Workshop Paul Chan’s 1st Light (I don’t know how to make the word Light look crossed out; sorry) silenced the usually chatty gallery goers. The excitement at the Fabric Workshop and Museum is Paul Chan. He’s showing 1st Light, a projected piece he had at the Whitney Biennial. Unlike last time I saw it in ...

Redecorating art

Near Berserk, silk screen on fabric by Eva Wylie Art about decoration is a better proposition than decorative art. It’s about something. And that’s what the show “A Delicate Constitution” at the Art Alliance is about, featuring work by four artists who explore undercurrents in decorative motifs, especially as pertains to the ladies’ heavily decorated purviews of hearth, home and herself. untitled silk screen on wall, by Wylie Eva Wylie, a member of Vox Populi Gallery, has silk-screened friezes on the wall of imagery borrowed from popular-culture sources like the internet and magazines. The result looks pretty at first blush, ...