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Shout out to a show that closes tomorrow – Nick Paparone and Dan Murphy at Fleisher-Ollman

This is a particularly good exhibit to look at as Occupy Philadelphia and Occupy Wall Street continue.  There’s little love for corporations in either Murphy’s or Paparone’s works, and yet, and yet, there’s a clear love of production; of doing it yourself; of personal empowerment that’s very 99 percent and quite a bit like what the founding fathers had in mind when they set up personal freedoms for individuals. Nick Paparone – Accents for the Self-Made Man

News: Warren Angle’s passing, John Vick at NWAA, Wooster Collective at Print Center, and more…

News Warren Angle died Friday We are sad to bring you the news that Warren Angle passed away on Friday, September 9 after a long battle with cancer. Angle, an artist, was the exhibitions director of the Fleisher Art Memorial for many years. He will certainly be missed by many.  There’s a Facebook page set up as a memorial for Warren.

Off Camera at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery

At this moment when photos of Egyptian protests remind us all of the documentary power of photographs, along comes a show that reminds us that even reportage photographs can have a sort of truthiness. In the exhibit Off Camera at Fleisher/Ollman, self-invention and inner projections rule in the mostly small works by 17 artists.

Weekly Update – Four decades of thinking outside the box at Fleisher-Ollman

“Four Decades” celebrates John Ollman’s captaincy of the blue chip gallery, Fleisher-Ollman.  With some 90 works of drawing, painting and sculpture by acclaimed self-taught artists (and contemporary artists influenced by them) as well as antique craft works by native Americans and Pre-Columbians on display, the show is museum quality.

Hot stuff this month at Sweatshop, Templeton, Grizzly and elsewhere

It’s a blizzard out there — with shows dropping like snowflakes on the Philly art scene.  Here’s some pictures and a few comments from our travels around town this past month.  All these venues have serious monthly (or bi-monthly) programs and with First Friday around the corner it’s time to get out and see some more. Things We’ve Made Since September at Sweatshop

Weekly Update – Postmodernist Flurries in Fleisher-Ollman’s emerging artist show

This week’s Weekly has my review of Fleisher-Ollman’s emerging artist invitational.  Below’s the copy with some pictures.  More photos at flickr. The world is a diminished place in “I Don’t Watch the Internet,” Fleisher-Ollman Gallery’s seventh annual emerging artist survey. A non-themed invitational that’s big on miniatures and works that whir and clack, the show rounds up modest-scale sculptures, and drawings and forlorn videos that fit with the current economic climate.

Magicians of the Earth

John Baldessari that bastard, the late Jimmie Byers, the late Nancy Spero, august Louise Bourgeois, Claes the great Oldenburg, and Alighero e (and) Boetti are International School artists sharing space with Third World or “marginal” or “vernacular” or “outsider” artists in Back to the Earth: Revisiting Magiciens de la Terre at Fleisher/Ollman through December 5.

Frenz at Fleisher-Ollman

The standout piece at Fleisher/Ollman‘s Frenz exhibit is more than a standout. It’s outta heeeere. The exhibit includes work by 11 artists selected by singer-songwriter Will Oldham, aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. The work in the show is a suprising mix of homey and slick, the result of what I imagine is one guy’s personal taste mixed with loyalty to his posse of frenz. But after seeing Lori Damiano’s video animation, Lord I: The Records Keeper, 2003-2009, I think I want to be frenz with her, even though she lives on the West Coast.

Trophy Brothers — Steven and Billy Dufala at Fleisher-Ollman

 The timing couldn’t have been better.  The day after the Dufala brothers won the West Prize grand prize (cash purse of $25,000) on Feb. 26, their first solo show at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery opened (Feb 27).  So of course what did the brothers do after winning the West prize?  They went back to their studios to finish up work for the show, of course!  

Weekly Update — Fleisher-Ollman’s Winter Invitational goodness

This week’s Weekly has my review of the winter invitational show at Fleisher-Ollman. Below is the copy with some pictures and a few changes. Shawn Thornton, one of five paintings in the show, oil on panel, 11×11″ Sly and serpentine works turn Fleisher-Ollman’s sixth annual emerging artist show into an Eden with bite. F-O is known for exhibiting the works of visionary outsider artists like James Castle.  But in this annual winter emerging artist exhibit it’s unusual to see a visionary.  So painter Shawn Thornton is the surprise.  Thornton at the opening reception, posing with two of his works. His ... More » »