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Kensington ramble to Crane Arts, Little Berlin, Rebekah Templeton

It’s remarkable how much territory you can cover and art you can see in an afternoon, on foot, in Kensington. Here’s a sample of some offerings from my walk last Saturday afternoon.  I started at Little Berlin, where Landscape Techne, the group show curated by LB member Kristen Neville, suggests that no matter how electronically-or technologically-sophisticated we are as a society, artists will always have a need to create landscape imagery of some sort.

Philly artists out and about

Christopher Davison, Girl with Yellow Legs, 2008, Micron, Pitt pen, gouache, acrylic, ink wash, colored pencil and collage on paper, 50 x 30 inches Philly artists are all over the place lately, and we’re having trouble getting out all the news of who is showing where. We missed the deadlines on getting a lot of the info up, but here’s a group that’s still fresh. Chris Davison in New York There’s still another week or two to catch the possessed Chris Davison in My Happy Demons. It runs to Aug. 10 at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York. Bobos in ... More » »

Weekly Update – Tower Gallery’s Cool Heat

This week’s Weekly includes my review of the group show at Tower Gallery in Northern Liberties. Below is the copy with some pictures and here’s the link to the art page.“Bright Lights,” Pink CityThree young artists confront violence and disaster with pastels. Tower Gallery, the high-ceiling, cement-floor space in the Tower Investments Building at 969 N. Second St., has been showing art for a couple years now. But until last summer—when Jenny Jaskey approached Bart Blatstein, president and CEO of Tower Investments, about running an exhibition program—there wasn’t a gallery director, and shows stayed under the radar. Orlando Soria’s I’m ... More » »