Tag Archive "isaac-lin"

Creator’s block? Consider some “Inspiration Information”

The show “Inspiration Information” in the Maas Building at 1325 Randolph Street is an introspective take on what motivates artists to create. Located in a spacious old trolley factory that until now hasn’t shown much visual art, the exhibition includes work by fourteen artists and runs the gamut of mediums from video to foam insulation to prints and photographs.

New news! Bruce Conner screenings, urban farming documentary, Phillies mural and more!

News Latest issue of Nicola Midnight St. Claire On September 11, the newest issue of the Nicola Midnight St. Claire came out. In this installment, there are some articles on Katie Murken’s installation Continua as well as Bodega’s show Mobile Device. There is also a video “centerfold” and a curious take on a relic from 9/11 on display in the Penn Museum’s show Excavating Ground Zero: Fragments from 9/11. And in breaking news ...this just in from Matt Kalasky, editor of the Nicola: “Tonight at 7 PM in Temple Gallery the editors of the Nicola Midnight St.Claire will be presenting ... More » »

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 – old and new at the Print Center

Looking to the past and the future, the Print Center this fall celebrates old-school letterpress and youth-culture favorite screenprinting.

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 – Am the Rhythm rocks

This week’s Weekly has my review of Am the Rhythm at Painted Bride. Below is the copy with some pictures. More pictures at flickr and see Libby’s review here. Jeanne Jaffe, Polygenesis-Progeny installation at Painted Bride. Undulating stripes and bursts of color, pulsing psychedelic patterns, delicious pink sculptural bubbles—all this and more make “Am the Rhythm” at the Painted Bride a jolly good show. The five-person exhibit of painting, sculpture and installation curated by Shelley Spector possesses a youthful ebullience. While the artists range from young to established, the high energy, sense of play and focus on beauty is uniform. ... More » »

Am the Rhythm– zingy psychedelic Pop

Jeanne Jaffe, Polygenesis-Progeny, detail, Resin and acrylic paint Am the Rhythm at the Painted Bride riffs in unexpected directions by grouping a somewhat unlikely quintet of artists–Jeanne Jaffe, Isaac Tin Wei Lin, Jackie Tileston, Laura Watt and Andrew Jeffrey Wright. Curator Shelley Spector asked the artists to respond to the space and to one another’s work, improvising, sort of the way a jazz combo improvises and riffs. The end result goes beyond the metaphor of music, turning the combo into something bigger and better. First of all, the artists in the show transcend the generational divide and the genre divide– ... More » »

Lights, color, 3-D action in the Cave (Paintings)

Isaac Lin, detail, from his installation at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery Not only is there the pleasure of wearing 3-D glasses to look at art at Fleisher-Ollman’s Cave Paintings, but there is pleasure in looking at paint that’s zipping with color in works alive with energy and emotion. If the gallery’s last outing was an ode to sculpture (the well-loved 2000 Years of Sculpture show), F-O’s offering this month is a tribute to the pleasures of color, texture, line and story, all of which are things paint delivers well. With seven artists in the show and acres of wall space the artists ... More » »

New York today and tomorrow

Isaac Lin’s cut paper and wall painting at Fleisher-Ollman’s Cave Painting show. Lin provided 3-D glasses to see the piece. Don’t miss it — and the other work in the very nice show. Dear lovely readers, we’re off to New York to the art fairs today. See you on the other side and stay warm and dry–it’s gonna be rainy today, well, in Philadelphia and New York at least.

White Noise mystics at Space 1026

Jessie Rose Vala, Cosmic Storm, Graphite on paper, 10 feet tall x 6 feet wide At a moment when the so-called adults of the world are failing to find solutions to the big problems that face us on Planet Earth, a desperate new generation is turning to mysticism for a way out of the mess we are making. Their thinking is not so far from the thinking of the ’60s, with its search for transcendance through sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. White Noise at Space 1026 this month is a group show about modern mysticism, spirituality, new psychedelia and ... More » »