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Jane Irish’s Multiple Perspectives at Locks Gallery

As her third solo exhibition at Locks Gallery, The Home Front: Jane Irish’s Art of War continues a ten-year investigation of anti-war resistance. On view from February 4 to March 12, the exhibition brings together various perspectives on the Vietnam War through Irish’s appropriation of poetry from a Vietnamese civilian and American war veterans.

Events in Philadelphia and Elsewhere

An incomplete, biased and otherwise personal list of some of the events I hope to get to in the next two weeks: Tuesday, Feb.  2, 6 pm YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, a Seoul based web-art group, will be speaking at Temple where their work is part of Philagrafika. 126 AUDITORIUM, Temple University Architecture building,  1947 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Free and open to the public Who wouldn’t want to hear from artists who did a web piece called CUNNILINGUS IN N0RTH K0REA?  You can see it, and more of their work at their site.

Jane Irish’s poem pots at Locks gallery

We’ve told you about Jane Irish’s ceramic vases before (see posts here and here). Now on view at ICA in Dirt on Delight and recently at Locks Gallery, Irish’s pots, with their beautiful designs and colorful paintings embellishing their chunky and earth-bound selves are both beauty and the beast. The beast is the words — poetry — commissioned by Irish or conscripted by her for her subject, that appear on the pots. Angry or questioning, the poems reveal the legacy of the Vietnam War and they feel just right for our equally conflicted feelings about the Iraq war. Jane Irish’s ... More » »

Dirt on Delight at the ICA

[This is part 2 of a 2 part article that first appeared in the March issue of Ceramics Monthly. Click on the Dirt on Delight tag at the bottom of the post to find part 1.] Not everything in the exhibit is explicitly about body and bodily functions. Numerous pieces revel in clay’s historic use as a decorative medium. Jeffry Mitchell, Pickle Jar, 2005, glazed ceramic, 15.5 x 13 x 13 inches, collection Ben and Aileen Krohn

Two ICA-related shows-Rich Text and Jane Irish

Anthony Campuzano, Bicycle Bomb, 2008, ink on board, 20 x 30 inches Two Philadelphia galleries are showing art with lots of words–both shows with tie-ins to current exhibitions at the ICA. The galleries are the blue-chip Locks and Fleisher/Ollman, and the shows they have mounted are tip-top. At Fleisher/Ollman, the group exhibit Rich Text is keying off Touch Sensitive: Anthony Campuzano, an ICA exhibit of the artist’s text-based art.

Weekly Update – ICA’s Dirt on Delight is sexy and great

This week’s Weekly has my review of Dirt on Delight at ICA. Below is my copy with some pictures. Robert Arneson Lustred Rose, 1966 glazed ceramic 29×60 1/2 x 28″ From earthly delights in clay to pithy word art and a cerebral video animation, ICA’s Spring shows are bon bons of creamy goodness, crunchy ideas and beautiful packaging. Kathy Butterly speaking about her sexy pots at ICA’s opening. The big downstairs show, Dirt on Delight, commands attention by sheer volume of gorgeousness on display.  The survey of sculptural clay brings together 22 artists breaking ground in the traditional craft material.  ... More » »

Peter Saul skirts the truth but so does everyone really, and we all have a great time at PAFA panel

Patricia Hills, David Curtis, Daniel Heyman, Peter Saul, Jane Irish at the Symposium at PAFA, Nov. 1. Peter Saul‘s exhibit at PAFA was the excuse for an all-day symnposium there on political art earlier this month. But Saul wasn’t the only headliner participating. We also fell for Art Spiegelman‘s bon mots, Laylah Ali’s sometimes veiled wait-wait-don’t-tell commentary about her own work, and Enrique Chagoya’s conflation of art and cartooning. The day also included insights from Philadelphia artists Daniel Heyman and Jane Irish, scholar David Carrier, New York artist/activist Sue Coe and moderator Patricia Hills. Two political posters by artists. On ... More » »

Weekly Update – Year end roundup

This week’s Weekly has my year end wrap up. Below’s the copy with some pictures. More images at flickr. It Was a Very Good YearIn spite of hardships and lack of leadership, the art scene thrives. Video projection at Little Berlin. The up and coming alternative space carved out a video viewing space curtained off from the rest of the gallery and added seating — getting it right from the start! It’s been a shockingly good year for visual arts in Philly thanks to new utopianism leading the way. Young artists rose up like a wave, opening cooperative venues like ... More » »

Jane Irish at Locks–Vietnam vs. the good life

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.To view this set at your leisure and see the details of the lettering, go to my Flickr set here. Jane Irish’s exhibit Paintings for Winning Hearts and Minds at Locks Gallery moved me to tears. The paintings, some of them 11 or 12 feet long, are of sumptuous, historical-looking spaces painted atop anguished words–poems and quotations–from the Vietnam War era. Perhaps I was primed to be affected because I had just the week before had a conversation with Pheoris West and James Dupree about how their high school classmates who weren’t college-bound all died in the ... More » »

What we want to see Friday

First Friday’s coming up Dec. 7, 2007. Here’s some of what we’re excited about. For gallery times and locations, check the links to the gallery websites. David Kessler‘s Shadow World videos and Candace Karch’s black and white photographs at Bambi. At Vox Pop, members Josh Rickards (image above), Max Lawrence and Micah Danges, plus more in the 4th room, the video lounge and in Screening!! Jane Irish, Room with Blue Vases/VVAW San Francisco, 2006. oil on Tyvec with raised letters and modeling paste, 5 x 8 feetIrish is at Locks Gallery along with etchings by Lucien Freud and work by ... More » »