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Participate, activate, engage – programming is in the air!

Years after 1969′s Summer of Love, it’s the fall of power to the people. More than just looking, this season galleries, museums and alternative venues all over town want you to come in, hang out, eat, discuss, make, share, and generally become an active participant in what they’re doing. There’s no city-wide manifesto, and nobody organized this fall programming juggernaut.  Call it the influence of online social networking or the influence of foundations eager to fund socially-engaged programming. For whatever reason, the Philly art world wants You!

Grizzly Grizzly – the parallel processes of Skye Gilkerson and Sarah Steinwachs

Subtle, intricate, and intelligent – that is how to best summarize Out of Context at Grizzly Grizzly. The show consists of two artists with a similar process, but vastly different products – Skye Gilkerson and Sarah Steinwachs – and runs until September 24.

First Saturday roundup — Tiger, Napoleon, Vox and more

Cate and I went to the Vox building the Saturday after First Friday (which is usually a great day to go — mostly, the audio-video-robo works will be functioning; and often artists are lurking who will talk with you about what they’re up to).  We found a bunch of good stuff at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Napoleon and Vox Populi. TIGER STRIKES ASTEROID

News and Ops: Norway->NYC, Red Scare lecture, Philly Photo day, and more

News Norway in NYC Following our last news post about Milwaukee in New York, now you can catch a piece of Norway too!  NORWAY NOW in NYC opens at .NO Gallery at 253 E. Houston on Sept. 7.  The multimedia exhibit mirrors Oslo’s annual juried art exhibition Høstutstillingen. The New York show had almost 600 submissions, but the jurors Koan Jeff Baysa and Omar Lopez-Chahoud narrowed it down to six artists. Opening reception is September 7 from 6 – 10 PM and the show runs until October 2.

One night wonders at Grizzly and Vox and other things worth seeing at August First Friday

Grizzly Grizzly It was a night of one nighters and the piece de resistance was Mike Richison’s Simulsuck, a computer and vacuum-cleaner-propelled video and performance that screeched and hummed as the artist fiddled with his laptop and pulled valves and pushed buttons on the hybrid musical instrument made from vacuum cleaner parts.  Richison, a Cranbrook grad (and classmate of Grizzly Jacque Liu), is a friendly sort who explained his multi-channel piece with the audio hooked up to the video and all triggered by the vacuum instrument.

Jeff Williams’ low-fi industrial strength art at Grizzly Grizzly

By Becky Hunter To access Jeff Williams’ pair of low-fi dissolving machines in Grizzly Grizzly’s appropriately-industrial, paint-pocked space, you must squeeze past a waist-high concrete beam held horizontal by a hydraulic jack under it and by its attachment to the wall and to a single white support beam in the gallery. Behind the concrete barrier at the center of the small, rear area sits Rebar Corrosion, four separate clear plastic or glass tanks – like clunky, oversized test-tubes – containing tap water, salt water, vinegar and lemon juice. The tubes sit atop a white concrete “plinth” that emphasizes the construction’s ... More » »

Smells Like Paint at Grizzly Grizzly or Get ‘Em While They’re Hot!

By Dennis D’Alesandro When I walked into the Laura Moriarty and Josh Weiss show at Grizzly Grizzly last week, I was almost knocked to the ground by the gloriously strong and chemically sweet odor of paint and painting mediums that was lingering in the air. Like most painters, I love the smell of paint, so it was a very welcoming scent that gave me instant satisfaction with the show before I even looked at the pieces. Then, when I looked at the pieces and smelled the pieces while I looked at them, I felt like a kid in a candy ... More » »

Rethinking landscapes–Carrie Dickason and Mike Hein at Grizzly Grizzly

One of the many excellent shows I saw First Friday was at Grizzly Grizzly, the little gallery that could. A surprising pairing of artists, Carrie Dickason and Mike Hein, impressed with the two artists’ engagement with materials and ideas.

Jenna Weiss at Grizzly Grizzly tries Xerox

While I was trolling around 319 N. 11th for November’s shows (now gone), I met the artist Jenna Weiss (Tyler MFA 2010) at Grizzly Grizzly. She was gallery sitting her own show and happy to have someone to talk to. The show, Two Dozen, was about multiples, and  the papers hanging on the wall were Xerox copies of hand-made works. They had that black, smudgy feel of crappiness even when the marks looked like they might be interesting in person.

Weekly Update – Antiheroes at Grizzly Grizzly this Friday

It’s antihero time at Grizzly Grizzly—in video, two artists parody classic heroes with acts of mock-heroism against the non-monsters of clutter, trash and darkness. Chris Carroll’s short videos deal with the man/nature relationship, all ominous foreplay with no payback. In his Branta Branta series, a two-second clip of a goose attacking a goose decoy is stuttered to rock backward and forward; in repetition, the animal’s action is mesmerizing and poignant, eternal violence and eternal failure. In another video, the artist walks waist-deep in a river running under a small stone bridge, disappearing into the darkness under the bridge to light ... More » »