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Weekly Update – Emerging artist shows highlight sculpture

This week’s Weekly has my review of two emerging artist shows — Street Button and Isskustvo Transmagica Provinces Animamina. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flicker (street button, isskustvo ). And here are Libby’s street button post and Libby’s Isskustvo post. Happy Happy Joy ToyNew sculpture emphasizes friendliness. Jesse Greenberg’s installation at Pageant sprawls across the gallery. That’s Kate Norton’s piece to the right of the doorway. Two great sculptural installations push the emerging artist shows at Pageant and Fleisher-Ollman into the desirable (but often unachievable) zone of art as serious fun. It’s too soon to ... More » »

First Friday with limits

Adam Cooper on guitar in the one-night performance/installation Breakfast at Tiffany’s, at Copy Gallery Hey, First Friday was great–at least all that we saw of it, which wasn’t much given Roberta has the sniffles and I was plain old tired. Here’s what we saw:Copy Gallery had a pretty funny one-night performance. Adam Cooper, tented in a hilarious costume by Elsa Shadley, was on guitar; the gallery was decorated in piss-elegant splendor, a lit-up nightclub with reflective mylar and floral sconces, hanging stuffed plastic bags from the ceiling, blue draperies, and clothes strewn across the floor, implying either earlier debauchery or ... More » »

Weekly Update 2 – Spring art emerges and looks good

This week’s Weekly has my Spring art roundup. Below is the copy with some pictures. More images at flickr here. And see some “before” shots of the new Vox Populi and new Black Floor/Copy, sill under construction when I visited a couple weeks ago.Be Still My Aching ArtPhilly’s scene retools for spring. The emerging artist scene is, well, emerging this season, with big changes at several venues. Vox Populi moves, while Black Floor assumes a new name. Art Syndicate loses its space but will partner with Jinxed for an upcoming show. Meanwhile, at the institutions and established venues, life goes ... More » »

Home on the DIY range

Oil Rugs in Themescapes, an installation by Paul Coors, Jamie Dillon and Nick Paparone Romantic notions of the American landscape, American optimism, suburbia and relentless home decoration meet in a sometimes hilarious installation by Paul Coors, Jamie Dillon and Nick Paparone at 222 Gallery in Old City. The installation, Themescapes, includes wallpaper that looks like siding, fabric that looks like bricks and cardboard fashioned into faux wood house framing. But where the work takes off is where it no longer looks quite like anything it’s imitating. The oil rugs, which suggest a fabulous griminess, are shaped like puddles with subtle ... More » »

Magic mountains

Nick Paparone and Jamie Dillon standing in front of Everest Mountains and boulders of papier mache are everywhere, it seems. In the past year Roberta and I have seen four. The first was Everest, the hilariously diminutive, comic-booky version of a white-out mountain at Space 1026 by Nick Paparone and Jamie Dillon. A deadpan rendition of the grandeur of nature, including a white rug beneath, it came straight out of Miss Dingle’s kindergarten’s stage-set building project. It made a mockery of the ambitions of mountain climbers and the eagerness of travellers and their tourist snapshots at the same time that ... More » »