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		<title>News: Warren Angle&#8217;s passing, John Vick at NWAA, Wooster Collective at Print Center, and more&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[News Warren Angle died Friday We are sad to bring you the news that Warren Angle passed away on Friday, September 9 after a long battle with cancer. Angle, an artist, was the exhibitions director of the Fleisher Art Memorial for many years. He will certainly be missed by many.  There&#8217;s a Facebook page set [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Warren Angle died Friday</strong><br />
We are sad to bring you the news that Warren Angle passed away on Friday, September 9 after a long battle with cancer.  Angle, an artist, was the exhibitions director of the Fleisher Art Memorial for many years. He will certainly be missed by many.  There&#8217;s a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/149991388425820/?notif_t=group_activity" target="_blank">Facebook page set up as a memorial for Warren</a>.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/WarrenAngle.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23185" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/WarrenAngle-269x300.jpg" alt="Warren Angle" width="269" height="300" /></a></strong></p>
<p><span id="more-23165"></span><strong>John Vick is juror for New Wilmington Art Association show</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_23166" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/falerNWAA.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-23166" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/falerNWAA-300x214.jpg" alt="Kim Faler" width="300" height="214" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Kim Faler, &quot;Slack Tide&quot;, 2011, latex paint, paper, wood, clothing and bananas, dimensions variable. Photo courtesy of the artist.</p></div>
<p>Former artblog writer and co-founder of <a title="Art Workers Resource Group" href="http://www.artworkersphiladelphia.com/" target="_blank">Art Workers Resource Group</a> John Vick was the juror for the <a title="NWAA" href="http://thenwaa.org/" target="_blank">New Wilmington Art Association</a>&#8216;s current show <a title="RSVP 2011" href="http://thenwaa.org/2011/09/08/rsvp-2011-opening-friday-september-9th/" target="_blank">RSVP 2011</a>. The exhibit showcases 20 artists in a variety of mediums and runs from First Friday, September 9 to October 20.</p>
<p><strong>Print Center hosts lecture by Wooster Collective founders</strong><br />
There is a lot going on these days at <a title="The Print Center" href="http://www.printcenter.org" target="_blank">The Print Center</a>. Of particular interest is the upcoming <a title="Wooster lecture" href="http://www.printcenter.org/pc_events.html#wooster" target="_blank">lecture</a> by NYC&#8217;s <a title="Wooster Collective" href="http://www.woostercollective.com/" target="_blank">Wooster Collective</a> co-founders Marc and Sara Schiller. The topic of the lecture is the complex and controversial relationship between street art and graphic design/marketing. The free lecture takes place on October 14 at 6 PM.</p>
<p><strong>Temple presents 9/11 Moments of Silence</strong><br />
Throughout September the Temple Gallery will be filled with recorded <a title="Temple Moments of Silence" href="http://www.temple.edu/newsroom/2011_2012/09/stories/Moments_of_Silence.htm" target="_blank">moments of silence</a> from public and private events in commemoration of September 11, 2001. Gathered from newsreels, libraries, and the internet, these moments express a nation&#8217;s quiet remembrance and solidarity.</p>
<p><strong>CofFREE Mondays at Temple</strong><br />
The Temple Gallery is also holding CofFREE Mondays starting September 12. Stop by the gallery from 7:45 &#8211; 9:45 AM for free coffee and the lowdown on cultural events at the university and around the city. Special guest lectures will also be on the agenda from time to time.</p>
<p><strong>Opposites Attract at UArts</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_23167" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><strong><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/FuhrmanWarholUArts.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-23167 " src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/FuhrmanWarholUArts-300x195.jpg" alt="The Blind Tongue" width="300" height="195" /></a></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">The Blind Tongue by James Fuhrman and Mark Warhol.</p></div>
<p>Starting September 6 as part of the Philadelphia Sculptor&#8217;s exhibit Opposites Attract: Collaborative Installations at <a title="UArts" href="http://www.uarts.edu/" target="_blank">University of the Arts</a>, sculptor <a title="James Fuhrman" href="http://jfuhrman.com/" target="_blank">James Fuhrman</a> and composer <a title="Mark Warhol" href="http://www.markwarhol.net/" target="_blank">Mark Warhol</a> present &#8220;The Blind Tongue&#8221;, a sculptural installation with video projections of an opera performance. The exhibition will be on display through October 13.</p>
<p><strong>New online publication Hidden City Daily launches</strong><br />
<a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/HiddenCity.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23187" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/HiddenCity-232x300.jpg" alt="Hidden City" width="232" height="300" /></a></p>
<p><a title="Hidden City" href="http://hiddencityphila.org/" target="_blank">Hidden City Daily</a>, a new Philadelphia arts and culture publication affiliated with Thadeus Squire&#8217;s Hidden City project, has just gotten underway. They have a lot of picture-rich coverage of arts and culture and info on some of the more off-the-beaten-track locales around the city. One of the co-editors, Nathaniel Popkin, says the Hidden City Daily is geared up to be a hub of informed, reflective and innovative thinking about the city. It will be very interesting to see how Hidden City progresses in the near future.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Rees lecture at Haverford College</strong><br />
Artist <a title="Michael Rees" href="http://www.michaelrees.com/Michael_Rees/home2.html" target="_blank">Michael Rees</a> will <a title="Michael Rees lecture and workshop" href="http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/182291" target="_blank">hold a lecture</a> on September 26 from 4:30 &#8211; 6 PM at Haverford College. Rees operates at the intersection of biology, art, and 3D rendering and will be hosting a workshop earlier in the day. If you have an interest in 3D art, sculpture, or contemporary art, this is definitely worth checking out!</p>
<p><strong>Madelyn Roehrig Conversations with Andy</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_23168" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/ConversationsWithAndy.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-23168" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/ConversationsWithAndy-300x225.jpg" alt="Conversations with Andy" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Madelyn Roehrig, Conversations with Andy.</p></div>
<p>For the past two years friend of Libby and Roberta&#8217;s, Madelyn Roehrig, has been videotaping individuals visiting the tombstone of Andy Warhol. Her project will be part of <a href="http://www.warhol.org/uploadedFiles/Warhol_Site/Warhol/Content/The_Museum/Press_room/documents/WOG_Max%20Gimblett__Biennial_Press_Release_FINAL(1).pdf" target="_blank">Pittsburgh&#8217;s Biennial</a> at the <a href="http://www.warhol.org/" target="_blank">Warhol Museum</a> opening Sept-17 and running to Jan 8, 2012.  Also in the show are photos by <a title="LaToya Ruby Frazier" href="http://www.latoyarubyfrazier.com/" target="_blank">LaToya Ruby Frazier</a> and work by <a title="Dara Birnbaum" href="http://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/dara-birnbaum/" target="_blank">Dara Birnbaum</a>. So far Roehrig has taped over 200 individuals with a range of insights and whimsical observations. Follow her project &#8220;Figments: Conversations with Andy&#8221; on its <a title="Conversations with Andy" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Conversations-with-Andy/307749664290?sk=wall" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Sprint 3D video</strong><br />
It may be a commercial for a phone company, but it&#8217;s also pretty fantastical! Check out Sprint&#8217;s recent <a title="3D flash art video" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uj_z2bBLEA" target="_blank">3D &#8220;flash art&#8221; video</a> (or <a title="2D flash art video" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htzfY_cEKoQ" target="_blank">in 2D</a>) in which park goers get accosted by  swarms of massive bubbles.</p>
<p><strong>Met finds its funny bone</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_23173" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/HeadAche.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-23173" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/HeadAche-300x212.jpg" alt="Headache" width="300" height="212" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Head Ache, a print after George Cruikshank by Enrique Chagoya.</p></div>
<p>The <a title="Metropolitan Museum of Art" href="http://www.metmuseum.org/" target="_blank">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> will be display works of humor, satire, and caricature in its newest show <a title="Infinite Jest at the Met" href="http://www.metmuseum.org/press_room/full_release.asp?prid={3C813722-421B-499D-A1DD-B0E1C8C71651}" target="_blank">Infinite Jest</a>. Works range from the Italian Renaissance to present day and offer a wide spectrum of satirical and comical work. The exhibition starts on September 13 and runs until March, so you have plenty of time to catch a few laughs.  One of the featured works is Enrique Chagoya&#8217;s &#8220;The Head Ache,&#8221; a print made when the artist was in residence at the Rosenbach Museum and Library.</p>
<p><strong>Freeman&#8217;s Auctioneers record sale</strong><br />
<a title="Freeman's Auctioneers" href="http://www.freemansauction.com/" target="_blank">Freeman&#8217;s Auctioneers</a> had a record sale of a Chinese imperial-style double dragon white jade seal for $3.5 million. This creates a record for the highest-selling single lot and most successful sale of the company.</p>
<h3><strong>Opportunities</strong></h3>
<p>There&#8217;s an opportunities page set up on the <a title="Bartol Foundation" href="http://bartol.org/" target="_blank">Bartol Foundation website</a> announcing teaching opportunities available to teaching artists. A few groups are seeking requests for proposals and teachers. Check out the details <a title="Bartol teaching opportunities" href="http://bartol.org/teaching-artist-programs/news/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<h3><strong>Artist News</strong></h3>
<div id="attachment_23176" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/GabeMartinezLemon.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-23176" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/GabeMartinezLemon-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Gabe Martinez, &quot;Lemon&quot;, 2011, archival inkjet print, 30 x 30 inches (76 x 76 cm</p></div>
<p>Pew Fellow and UPenn factulty member <a title="Gabe Martinez" href="http://www.gabrielmartinez.com/" target="_blank">Gabe Martinez</a> has a show dealing with gay male sexual identity at <a title="Samson" href="http://www.samsonprojects.com/index.php" target="_blank">Samsøn</a> in Boston from September 9 &#8211; October 15.</p>
<div id="attachment_23178" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 240px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/HustonRipley.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-23178" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/HustonRipley-230x300.jpg" alt="" width="230" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Huston Ripley, &quot;Untitled&quot;, 2008, # 8XL1: Ink on Japanese paper: 25&quot; x 19&quot;  </p></div>
<p><a title="Huston Ripley" href="http://www.projectsgallery.com/Ripley/Ripley_CV.html" target="_blank">Huston Ripley</a> will be displaying drawings at the <a title="Adam Baumgold Gallery" href="http://www.adambaumgoldgallery.com" target="_blank">Adam Baumgold Gallery</a> in New York from September 8 &#8211; October 8.</p>
<p>In July, the <a title="Woodmere Museum" href="http://www.woodmereartmuseum.org/" target="_blank">Woodmere Museum</a> acquired one of <a title="Doug Witmer" href="http://douglaswitmer.com/" target="_blank">Doug Witmer</a>&#8216;s 2008 paintings &#8220;How Soon is Too Soon?&#8221; for their permanent collection.</p>
<p>Three former Philadelphia area artists &#8211; <a title="Jesse Greenberg" href="http://www.jesseagreenberg.com/" target="_blank">Jesse Greenberg</a>, <a title="Nick Paparone" href="http://nickpaparone.com/" target="_blank">Nick Paparone</a>, and <a title="Walter Benjamin Smith" href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arts/mfathesis2011/students-smith.html" target="_blank">Walter Benjamin Smith</a> &#8211; will have work at the <a title="Socrates Sculpture Park" href="http://www.socratessculpturepark.org/" target="_blank">Socrates Sculpture Park</a> on Long Island. Paparone&#8217;s solo show also opened at <a title="Fleisher-Ollman" href="http://fleisher-ollmangallery.com/" target="_blank">Fleisher-Ollman</a> on September 8.</p>
<p><a title="Dave Kim" href="http://jongkyu.com/" target="_blank">Dave Kim</a>&#8216;s recently completed project My Best Friend Facebook Forever has a website called <a title="My BFFF" href="http://www.mybfff.com/" target="_blank">My Best Friend Facebook Forever</a>.  My BFFF was a month-long performance/experiment where Kim did everything he was asked to do via Facebook.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.juliecourtneyprojects.com/" target="_blank">Julie Courtney</a> and <a title="Jennie Shanker" href="http://jenniershanker.com/home.html" target="_blank">Jennie Shanker</a> will soon be completing their collaborative curatorial project <a title="CENTERpieces" href="http://www.catskillcenterpieces.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">CENTERpieces</a>, affiliated with the <a title="Center for Discovery" href="http://vimeo.com/28467870" target="_blank">Center for Discovery</a> in upstate New York. Stay-tuned for an upcoming event for artist <a href="http://catskillcenterpieces.blogspot.com/p/torchia-project.html" target="_blank">Richard Torchia&#8217;s work in one of the center&#8217;s geodesic domes</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my review of the show at the Weekly. Below is my copy with some pictures. “Vox V,” the national juried emerging art show, demonstrates that childhood memories, loss and sadness – themes at play in the art world for at least fifteen years &#8212; are still major obsessions. Selected and organized by Cerealart founder [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Here&#8217;s </em><a href="http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/art/Vox-V-51242692.html" target="_blank"><em>my review</em></a><em> of the show at the Weekly.  Below is my copy with some pictures.</em></p>
<p>“Vox V,” the national juried emerging art show, demonstrates that childhood memories, loss and sadness – themes at play in the art world for at least fifteen years &#8212; are still major obsessions.</p>
<div id="attachment_8638" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/steve-cossman-carrie.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-8638" title="steve cossman carrie" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/steve-cossman-carrie-300x225.jpg" alt="Steve Cossman's Macbook animated portrait of Carrie Collins in Vox V" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Steve Cossman&#39;s Macbook animated portrait of Carrie Collins in Vox V</p></div>
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<p>Selected and organized by Cerealart founder Larry Mangel and video artist Ryan Trecartin &#8212; featured this summer at the Fabric Workshop and Museum and in the New Museum’s Younger than Jesus show &#8212; Vox V continues to be “the” big emerging artist show in Philadelphia, drawing from both coasts and places in between.   This is the fifth year <a href="http://www.voxpopuligallery.org" target="_blank">Vox Populi</a> has put out the call and the group received more than 400 applications from which Trecartin and Mangel selected around 100 works by 51 artists.</p>
<div id="attachment_8639" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/stevecossmanemily.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-8639" title="stevecossmanemily" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/stevecossmanemily-300x225.jpg" alt="Cossman's animated portrait of Emily Glaubinger" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Cossman&#39;s animated portrait of Emily Glaubinger</p></div>
<p>The high point for me in a show with much solid work is Steve Cossman’s animated video portraits of local clothes designer Carrie Collins and artist Emily Glaubinger. The portraits—shown on two small Macbooks—look like paintings. From a distance you might think they were photos of two painted images. Up close you see that Carrie and Emily’s pupils are spinning like tumbling balls in the lottery wheel; their lips are twitching, and nothing at all is still. Art world gurus keep waiting for a breakthrough moment in painting. Well this feels like it, the moment where painting embraces new media and vice versa. I am very excited.</p>
<p><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/tylerkline.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8640" title="tylerkline" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/tylerkline-300x225.jpg" alt="tylerkline" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Elsewhere, video and sculpture look impressive in this sprawling show.   There’s not a theme to the show but the overwhelming spirit in the gallery is of “dress up,” fantasy, and shrug-shouldered resignation.  Photos by Jennifer Layzer of Barbie Dolls dressed as wrathful Salem witch hunters embody this spirit.</p>
<div id="attachment_8642" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/jessegreenberg1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-8642" title="jessegreenberg" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/jessegreenberg1-300x225.jpg" alt="Jesse Greenberg's trash moderne altar piece." width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Jesse Greenberg&#39;s trash moderne altar piece.</p></div>
<p>Tyler Kline’s dangling tin-foil skulls adorned with black feather boas and headdresses greet you in the lobby and perfectly evoke thoughts of witches, goblins and Day of the Dead festivities. Elsewhere, Jesse Greenberg’s bauble-encrusted altar—made with what looks like decorated trash and a few dim lightbulbs—channels American culture’s current obsession with home decor and nesting. Call it Trash Moderne, Greenberg’s aesthetic would look great in an apartment makeover show on Bravo.  It’s an artier shabby chic and a perfect counterpoint to the pervasive domestic landscape of sleek, cheap Ikea throw-aways.</p>
<div id="attachment_8641" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/leslierogers.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-8641 " title="leslierogers" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/leslierogers-300x225.jpg" alt="Leslie Rogers" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Leslie Rogers video, Blood, Rest, Void</p></div>
<p>Leslie Rogers’ video “Blood, Rest, Void” suggests a world of aliens among us. And Jonathan Monaghan’s beautiful, odd and compelling 3-D animation “Into Temptation” merges the animal and the architectural and surpasses Matthew Barney for satisfying non-narrative storytelling.  See the video at his <a href="http://www.jonmonaghan.com" target="_blank">website</a>.</p>
<div id="attachment_8643" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/penguin.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-8643 " title="penguin" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/penguin-300x225.jpg" alt="Jonathan Monaghan" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Jonathan Monaghan, Into Temptation, 3-D animation</p></div>
<p>We live with ongoing wars and a looming eco-disaster and art is a reflection of those themes. What’s new here, especially in the videos by Cossman, Monaghan and Rogers, is the savvy technological package that delivers the message.</p>
<div id="attachment_8644" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/matthewsavitsky.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-8644" title="matthewsavitsky" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/matthewsavitsky-300x225.jpg" alt="Something about Matthew Savitsky's twisted, Picasso-esque figure is fresh and intriguing" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Something about Matthew Savitsky&#39;s twisted, Picasso-esque figure is fresh and intriguing</p></div>
<p><em>“Vox V”: Through Aug. 2. Vox Populi, 319A N. 11th St., third fl. 215.238.1236. </em></p>
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		<title>People we love in places we love that are not Philadelphia!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>libby and roberta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re on the road this summer, or hanging out far and wide, we have some tips here of Philadelphia artists who are all over the place. Italy to Cyprus by way of L.A. Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib go global this summer. (See a clip of their video Soft Epic on their Soft Epic [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re on the road this summer, or hanging out far and wide, we have some tips here of Philadelphia artists who are all over the place.</p>
<p><strong>Italy to Cyprus by way of L.A.</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_8181" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/nadiamattsoftepic.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-8181" title="nadiamattsoftepic" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/nadiamattsoftepic-300x67.jpg" alt="Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, The Soft Epic, video still" width="300" height="67" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, The Soft Epic, video still.  click to see it bigger.</p></div>
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<p><a href="http://nadiahironaka.com" target="_blank">Nadia Hironaka</a> and <a href="http://matthewsuib.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Matthew Suib</a> go global this summer. (See a clip of their video Soft Epic on their <a href="http://softepic.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Soft Epic</a> website, a piece so epic it gets a site of its own!) See their works  here:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.panorama.it/culturaesocieta/2009/05/26/anteprima-web-mnemocyne-latlante-delle-immagini/" target="_blank">Pesaro, Italy, June 13th-28th</a><br />
<a href="http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru/competition/?language=en" target="_blank">Moscow, June 22nd and 23rd</a></p>
<p><a href="http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru/competition/?language=en" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.kimlightgallery.com/" target="_blank">Los Angeles, July 11th-mid August</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.tritongalleryllc.com/" target="_blank">New York, NY, July 28th, </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.tritongalleryllc.com/" target="_blank">and Nicosia, Cyprus, Sept. 3</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.tritongalleryllc.com/" target="_blank"></a><br />
<strong>Boston</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_8178" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 281px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/alexdacorteSerge_And_Bacch_web.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-8178" title="alexdacorteSerge_And_Bacch_web" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/alexdacorteSerge_And_Bacch_web-271x300.jpg" alt="Alex Da Corte, Serge and Bacchus" width="271" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Alex Da Corte, Serge and Bacchus</p></div>
<p>Look for Philly alum Alex Da Corte&#8217;s Casual Luxury ultra-exhibit in New England! Now there&#8217;s a culture confrontation!<br />
<a href="http://www.lamontagnegallery.com/" target="_blank"> LaMontagne Gallery</a><br />
<a href="http://www.lamontagnegallery.com/" target="_blank"></a>June 18th to July 31st</p>
<p><strong>Greensboro, NC.</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<div id="attachment_8188" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/eileenneffbride.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-8188" title="eileenneffbride" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/eileenneffbride-300x196.jpg" alt="Eileen Neff, photo from her show at Weatherspoon Museum" width="300" height="196" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Eileen Neff, photo from her show at Weatherspoon Museum</p></div>
<p>Eileen Neff is showing selected work from the last 10 years in her museum exhibit Eileen Neff: Photographs!  Are they real or are they art? Greensboro, check it out!<br />
<a href="http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/" target="_blank"> Weatherspoon Museum of Art</a><br />
May 24,  2009  – August 16,  2009</p>
<p><strong>Harrisburg</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_8177" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 306px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/sarahgamble.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-8177" title="sarahgamble" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/sarahgamble.jpg" alt="Sarah Gamble" width="296" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Sarah Gamble, painting that&#39;s in the Art of the State exhibit in Harrisburg</p></div>
<p>Mind-boggling: 157 works of art by 798 Pennsylvania artists, selected for more than 2,000 entries.</p>
<p>A shout-out to Matt Pruden for this breaking news about the Art of the State.<br />
Here&#8217;s a selection of artists we&#8217;ve written about from some of the 66 artists from the Philadelphia area.<br />
Arden Bendler Browning<br />
Nanette Acker Clark<br />
Dominic Episcopo<br />
Sarah Gamble<br />
Ed Bing Lee<br />
Lisa Murch<br />
Matthew Pruden<br />
Kate Stewart<br />
Ben Volta<br />
Kip Deeds<br />
Csilla Sadloch</p>
<p>Art of the State, June 27 &#8211; September 20<br />
<a href="http://www.statemuseumpa.org/museum.html" target="_blank"> The State Museum of Pennsylvania</a></p>
<p><strong>New York, NY</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_8175" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/adamparkerSmith_2009web_Untitled-Plane-Crash.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-8175" title="adamparkerSmith_2009web_Untitled Plane Crash" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/adamparkerSmith_2009web_Untitled-Plane-Crash-300x200.jpg" alt="Jesse A Greenberg (Greenberg will be going to Columbia for grad school this fall)" width="300" height="200" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Adam Parker Smith, untitled plane crash</p></div>
<p style="margin: 0px;">Adam Parker Smith  in A Greek Play with a Main Character Named Oblivious (Parker Smith is a Philly alum).</p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><a href="http://www.priskajuschkafineart.com" target="_blank">Priska C. Juschka Fine Art </a></p>
<p>June 23 &#8211; July 31, 2009<br />
Opening Reception: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 6 &#8211; 9 PM</p>
<div id="attachment_8176" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 210px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/jessegreenberg.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-8176" title="jessegreenberg" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/jessegreenberg-200x300.jpg" alt="Jesse A. Greenberg, Invitation Station Arch 1, 2008, Plastic, foam, rubber, silicon, plexi-glass, acrylic, vinyl, mylar, fabric, glitter, urethane, wood, electric lighting 96” x 80” x 28” (243,8 x 203,2 x 71,1 cm)" width="200" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Jesse A. Greenberg, Invitation Station Arch 1, 2008, Plastic, foam, rubber, silicon, plexi-glass, acrylic, vinyl, mylar, fabric, glitter, urethane, wood, electric lighting 96” x 80” x 28” (243,8 x 203,2 x 71,1 cm)</p></div>
<p>Jesse A Greenberg will be going to Columbia for grad school this fall, but we still claim him as a Philly guy. He will be in<br />
Wild Feature, a group show with Melissa Brown, Brendan Cass, James B. Franklin, John Hodany, Misaki Kawai and Taylor McKimens.<br />
<a href="http://www.galeriezurcher.com" target="_blank">Zurcher Studio</a><br />
June 25 – July 26, 2009<br />
Opening Thursday June 25, from 6 to 8 pm</p>
<p><strong>Austin, TX</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_8179" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 262px"><a href="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/amirlyles.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-8179" title="amirlyles" src="http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/amirlyles-252x300.jpg" alt="Amir Lyles" width="252" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Amir Lyles</p></div>
<p><a href="http://www.amirlylesart.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Amir M. Lyles</a>, Africa Create Us:  Art Exhibit and Gallery Talk<br />
<a href="http://austin.craigslist.org/eve/1207230220.html" target="_blank">DiverseArts&#8217; New East Arts Gallery and Pro Arts Collective</a><br />
June 13-July 9</p>
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		<title>Weekly Update &#8211; Emerging artist shows highlight sculpture</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>roberta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Weekly has my review of two emerging artist shows &#8212; 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&#8217;s street button post and Libby&#8217;s Isskustvo post. Happy Happy Joy ToyNew sculpture emphasizes friendliness. Jesse Greenberg&#8217;s installation [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-style: italic;">This week&#8217;s Weekly has my <a href="http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/16202" target="_blank">review of two emerging artist shows</a> &#8212; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Street Button and Isskustvo Transmagica Provinces Animamina</span>. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flicker (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/sets/72157603581793450/" target="_blank">street button</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/sets/72157603586469799/" target="_blank">isskustvo</a> ). And here are Libby&#8217;s <a href="http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/2008/01/fleisher-ollmans-street-button.html" target="_blank">street button</a> post and Libby&#8217;s <a href="http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/2007/12/brave-new-world-emerges-at-pageant.html" target="_blank">Isskustvo</a> post. </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Happy Happy Joy Toy<br />New sculpture emphasizes friendliness.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/2149694342/" title="Jesse Greenberg, Kate Norton, Pageant by sokref1, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2212/2149694342_a3fb20aa13.jpg" alt="Jesse Greenberg, Kate Norton, Pageant" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesse Greenberg&#8217;s installation at Pageant sprawls across the gallery.  That&#8217;s Kate Norton&#8217;s piece</span><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">to the right of the doorway.</span></span></p>
<p>Two great sculptural installations push the emerging artist shows at <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pageant</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fleisher-Ollman</span> into the desirable (but often unachievable) zone of art as serious fun. It’s too soon to tell whether new, fresh and accessible sculpture like this will save art from its self-imposed isolation in formalist concerns and hermetically sealed abstraction, but it might well point the way.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pageant</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesse Greenberg</span>’s wall-to-wall installation at Pageant is the epitome of a new kind of friendly object-making, one that grows from whatever materials and methods are at hand into an installation that looks different each time it’s shown. The end is more important than the materials, and the goal is almost theatrical­: to create a kind of stage on which the viewer prowls like an actor in a play.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/2149699346/" title="Jesse Greenberg, binxes by sokref1, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2289/2149699346_45fe34bed4.jpg" alt="Jesse Greenberg, binxes" height="375" width="281" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesse Greenberg&#8217;s Binxes, sprinkled around the room like a toy trail.</span></span></p>
<p>Greenberg annoints Pageant’s space with a hundred or more big and small objects. With his crazy mix of plastics, cast resins, found wood and other scavenged material, the local artist is one of the finest makers of this new kind of sculpture. His particular invention is what he calls binxe­s—small handheld objects cast and glued together. These are meant to be picked up and touched (they’re for sale), and with their Jolly Rancher colors they look like toys.</p>
<p>Greenberg’s larger works are fantasy furniture and art made for an alternate universe. These works are riding a contemporary collective unconscious­—like<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Eva Hesse</span> did in her day. Their longing for Candy Land as well as for a place for spiritual connection is palpable.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/2148902403/" title="Jesse Greenberg by sokref1, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2372/2148902403_a7f4eb76b4.jpg" alt="Jesse Greenberg" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Detail from Greenberg&#8217;s installation&#8211;visually rich and emotionally open.  Altars and offerings everywhere.</span></span></p>
<p>The work is like nothing else being made anywhere. You could compare it to what’s in “Unmonumental” at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">New Museum of Contemporary Art</span> in New York, but Greenberg’s emphasis on the positive instead of the forlorn/abject puts his work in a class apart.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/2149694890/" title="Jesse Greenberg, Kate Norton by sokref1, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2204/2149694890_791836eba4.jpg" alt="Jesse Greenberg, Kate Norton" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kate Norton&#8217;s work, right, is edgy and like a sex fetish toy.</span></span></p>
<p>If Greenberg is the boy-child visionary, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kate Norton</span>’s sensibility is pinker, softer and more threatening (chains and feathers instead of resin), but she’s a shaman and a dreamer/anointer as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/2149698986/" title="Nick Lenker by sokref1, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2095/2149698986_065a5b7a30.jpg" alt="Nick Lenker" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nick Lenker&#8217;s photo collage where tiny animal-headed warriors seem to be working for or against the big pig-headed giant. Weird and new.</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/2148901273/" title="Sarah Everton by sokref1, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2362/2148901273_09978735fa.jpg" alt="Sarah Everton" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarah Everton&#8217;s paintings of polar bears and a skier.</span></span></p>
<p>Rounding out Pageant’s show are <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nick Lenker</span>’s digital prints of nude warriors struggling against powerful animal-headed powers, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarah Everton</span>’s bear, deer, bunny and horse paintings, which with their cute imagery are overshadowed by the extroverted works nearby.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fleisher Ollman</span><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/2148912183/" title="Andrew Brehm by sokref1, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2071/2148912183_f65360e05f.jpg" alt="Andrew Brehm" height="375" width="281" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Andrew Brehm&#8217;s suitcase-furniture at Fleisher-Ollman. The piece appears in a video in which the artist assembles the furniture and sits down &#8212; gingerly &#8212; to read.</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/2149705482/" title="Jamie Dillon by sokref1, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2188/2149705482_4a4108e42a.jpg" alt="Jamie Dillon" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jamie Dillon&#8217;s circus-like stack at Fleisher Ollman lends some color to a show with little bright color in it.</span></span></p>
<p>At Fleisher-Ollman, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Andrew Brehm</span>’s sculptural installation of a desk, a bookshelf and a living room for a young nomad living out of suitcases is both goofy and poignant. The stagey piece is evocative of students living on nothing but pennies and their imaginations, and also adults who dwell in similar circumstances. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jamie Dillon</span>’s sculpture Step Pyramid No. 2 with its circus colors and circus elephant ambience is a reminder of life’s comedies. Also in the show are <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stephanie Beck, Gregory Brellochs, Andrew Gbur, Jennifer Levonian, Ryan McCartney, Eva Wylie</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Yvonne Lung</span>.</p>
<p>The user-friendly sculptures exhibited in these shows point to a time when art was a dinner conversation opener instead of a conversation killer—and that’s good for everyone.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">“Isskustvo Transmagica Provinces Animamina”</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Through Feb. 3. </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.pageantsoloveev.com/" target="_blank">Pageant: Soloveev</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, 607 Bainbridge St. 215.733.0309. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">“Street Button”</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Through Jan. 26. </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.fleisher-ollmangallery.com/" target="_blank">Fleisher/Ollman Gallery</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, 1616 Walnut St., suite 100. 215.545.7562.</span></p>
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		<title>Brave new world emerges at Pageant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>libby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesse Greenberg unloaded a bunch of these all over every horizontal surface in the gallery Isskustvo Transmagica Provinces Animanina may be a bewildering title for an art exhibit, but the objects in the show at Pageant Soloveev Gallery are equally bewildering&#8211;and wonderful. I felt like I was walking into a space filled with gifts. Pageant [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/libbyrosof/2138540683/" title="Jesse A. Greenberg by libbyrosof, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2052/2138540683_d6cd301497.jpg" alt="Jesse A. Greenberg" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesse Greenberg unloaded a bunch of these all over every horizontal surface in the gallery</span></span></p>
<p>Isskustvo Transmagica Provinces Animanina may be a bewildering title for an art exhibit, but the objects in the show at <a href="http://www.pageantsoloveev.com/" target="_blank">Pageant Soloveev Gallery</a> are equally bewildering&#8211;and wonderful. I felt like I was walking into a space filled with gifts.</p>
<p>Pageant once again proves to be a gallery you can&#8217;t pin down, putting together a juried show of four emerging young artists that sparkles with alternative universes and alternative life forms that are the opposite of the plodding online parallel universe of Second Life. Instead these young artists use to world we know take off for parts unknown.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/libbyrosof/2139310352/" title="Jesse A. Greenberg by libbyrosof, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2103/2139310352_a119134c52.jpg" alt="Jesse A. Greenberg" height="375" width="281" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesse A. Greenberg, Binx Invitational Wall Unit, plastic, foam, rubber, urethane, mylar, paint, wood, steel, acrylic, plexiglass, aluminum, fabric</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesse A. Greenberg&#8217;s</span> small cast what-is-its of gum-drop-y resinous bits are scattered all around the edges of the place, resting atop radiators and window sills and shelves, looking like unnameable toys awaiting installation under some plastic Christmas bush. They made me think of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alan McCollum&#8217;s</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> multiple  ingots, but Greenberg&#8217;s are playful, and they are multiplying and mutating faster than fruit flies.</p>
<p>Greenberg, who Roberta wrote about <a href="http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/2007/10/megabinxes-useful-comforting-fabulous.html" target="_blank">here</a>, in one gallery room installed a sort of anti-Ikea arrangement of lamps and shelves and such, bizarre enough to barely suggest the household-goods inspirations. He also created a flashy object of wood, goop and found gewgaws that looks like a slot machine married to a tanning lamp, with a handlebar mustache hanging underneath.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/libbyrosof/2139313950/" title="Kate Norton by libbyrosof, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2220/2139313950_1308b40402.jpg" alt="Kate Norton" height="375" width="281" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kate Norton, Miner VA</span></span></p>
<p>Not quite so playful but equally mysterious are the hanging creatures and landscapes suggested by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kate Norton&#8217;s</span> assemblage sculptures&#8211;one with what looks like a heating unit radiating from its center with red, feathery ears and stuffed, hanging appendages; one an enormous, architectural framework held up by knotted fabric lianas; one a chair-like fabric construction with crocheted appendage hanging from a wire&#8211;suggest alternate modes of survival in a strange world.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/libbyrosof/2138532145/" title="Kate Norton by libbyrosof, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2011/2138532145_7c722f0230.jpg" alt="Kate Norton" height="375" width="281" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kate Norton, Sprinkle Toes</span></span></p>
<p>The tumbling architecture of Sprinkle Toes reminds me of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarah Sze</span>, with its tenuous and delicate hold against gravity. The art works&#8217; titles suggest creatures&#8211;Yellow Bellied Black Bones, Sprinkle Toes and Miner VA.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/libbyrosof/2139309358/" title="Nick Lenker by libbyrosof, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2158/2139309358_254bd573b5.jpg" alt="Nick Lenker" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nick Lenker, Untitled/Piggy Bank, archival pigment print </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nick Lenker&#8217;s</span> two enormous, sexy digital pigment prints are photo collages of man as beast&#8211;one a pig surrounded piles of gold coins, whipping little naked slaves to help him amass still more. The other, equally cinematic, is a wolf, a man-beast crouching and slouching toward Bethlehem, with prominent genitals hanging down. Both make me think of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cecil B. DeMille</span>, with the enormous crowd scenes of tiny extras looking like an army of ants beneath the giant scale of the wonders of Egypt. These works are allegories of power, greed and sex.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/libbyrosof/2139312860/" title="Sarah Everton by libbyrosof, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2254/2139312860_9605039d89.jpg" alt="Sarah Everton" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarah Everton, Bear and Skier (left), Countries Where Black Bears are Found (right), oil and graphite</span></span></p>
<p>Drawings by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarah Everton</span> of animals have a deadpan, DIY vibe. Bear and Skier, and Countries Where Black Bears are Found are both Olympics posters gone wrong. There&#8217;s a strange, celebratory quality mixed with threats in these images, in which bears star with laurel wreaths and a lot of scary red. Her Majestic Double Bunny is a mutant resting uncomfortably on stilt-like pedestals in a forcefield with religious overtones. These works express anxiety about values we blindly embrace.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/libbyrosof/2139321468/" title="Sarah Everton by libbyrosof, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2284/2139321468_2ddb763a82.jpg" alt="Sarah Everton" height="375" width="281" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarah Everton, Majestic Double Bunny, pen, ink, markers</span></span></p>
<p>This exhibit, which is as dark as any I have seen in the past year, also manages to inject bright notes. Greenberg has a jaunty optimism and playfulness in his manic creations and Everton has a sweetness and a belief in the natural world that helps to keep my spirits up. Norton seems to be creating a foothold for mankind in the outer reaches of a universe that operates under different rules. Lenker&#8217;s predatory seX-men, however, do not move on to some brave new world. The mutant man-beasts look back to fables, fairy tales and bestiaries. They are moral tales of the digital age.</p>
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		<title>MegaBinxes: Useful, comforting, fabulous</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>roberta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesse Greenberg, in a photo he sent me, demonstrating how to interact with one of his MegaBinxes. Jesse Greenberg invited me to his studio a while back and when I finally made it over there last month I found him busy preparing for his show at Bobo&#8217;s on 9th (til Oct. 19). Greenberg, a young [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/1525122354/" title="Photo Sharing" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2392/1525122354_7ca9e8d525.jpg" alt="Jesse A Greenberg, Mega Binx 5 copy.jpg" height="375" width="281" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesse Greenberg, in a photo he sent me, demonstrating how to interact with one of his MegaBinxes.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesse Greenberg</span> invited me to his studio a while back and when I finally made it over there last month I found him busy preparing for his show at <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bobophiladelphia"target="_blank">Bobo&#8217;s on 9th</a> (til Oct. 19).  Greenberg, a young artist (RISD BFA 2004) who&#8217;s been in Philadelphia for about a year, is part of the recent RISD influx that also includes <span style="font-weight:bold;">Ryan Trecartin</span> and <span style="font-weight:bold;">Lizzie Fitch</span> and company and the Bobo&#8217;s trio, <span style="font-weight:bold;">Phil Cote, Drew Gillespie</span> and <span style="font-weight:bold;">Nick Payne</span>. (Greenberg like Trecartin and Fitch lived in New Orleans after graduation, then left after Hurricane Katrina, spent time in Los Angeles and then settled on Philadelphia as a place to live and work.) The RISD classmates form a loose network of allies, helping each other with work (Jesse has appeared in Trecartin&#8217;s videos and the Bobo&#8217;s have shown Fitch and Trecartin&#8217;s work and now Greenberg&#8217;s in their gallery space). </p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">MegaBinxes</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/1401089435/" title="Photo Sharing" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1303/1401089435_81e1966c8f.jpg" alt="leaning station, detail" height="375" width="281" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A MegaBinx leaning station, seen in the studio. The height is just right for leaning on it and it&#8217;s soft and cushioned for that purpose.</span></span></p>
<p>For his senior thesis project Greenberg conceived his first interactive sculptural environments and called them &#8220;MegaBinxes&#8221; a word he made up that combines today&#8217;s reliance on <span style="font-style:italic;">mega</span> to describe anything big and awesome and <span style="font-style:italic;">binx</span>, a made-up word that sounds mischievous although harmless.  &#8220;Oh you little binx, you!&#8221;</p>
<p>The idea was to make something intriguing and interactive; colorful, luminous and low-tech; a useful piece of sculpture with soft edges, glitter, rick rack, beads, swag.  The artist filled the MegaBinxes with what he calls &#8220;touchables,&#8221; cast resin and rubber objects that fit in the hand and feel good to the touch and look familiar (they resemble things like harmonicas, chess pieces, buttons, buckles, and pieces of toys).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/1401977240/" title="Photo Sharing" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1388/1401977240_f0b575e7c0.jpg" alt="box of touchables" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">a box filled with touchables.  </span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/1525126552/" title="Photo Sharing" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2180/1525126552_d5b03e6f05.jpg" alt="Jesse A Greenberg, Touchables 7 copy.jpg" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Touchables seen in a professional photo the artist sent me.  These remind me of Mardi Gras bling.</span></span></p>
<p>The MegaBinxes &#8212; which were featured in the Lousiana Biennial at <a href="http://www.cacno.org/"target="_blank">New Orleans Contemporary Art Center</a> in 2006 &#8212; are made with materials scavenged from the street and with recycled industrial scraps the artist gets at 10 cents/pound from scrap dealers up and down the East Coast. (One he mentioned is <a href="http://www.rrie.org/"target="_blank">Recycling for Rhode Island Education</a> (RRIE).</p>
<p>Plastic and foam in many colors and with sparkles embedded might be left-overs from a diner&#8217;s re-upholstery project.  Greenberg works with the materials, building an armature then adorning it with the great cast-off materials.  The end result looks old and new, DIY hand-made and whiz-bang industrial, as if Willy Wonka became an artist and threw aside chocolate to make delicious things out of plastic and foam rubber.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/1401086571/" title="Photo Sharing" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1052/1401086571_42d247faca.jpg" alt="Jesse Greenberg, megabinxes" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Little MegaBinxes.</span></p>
<p>Greenberg, serious and soft-spoken, knows he is making something highly seductive.  And while he wants people to interact with his works (in fact one piece is called a &#8220;leaning station&#8221; ie it&#8217;s to lean on) he doesn&#8217;t want to come out and say that in a gallery setting.  Instead, he prefers people to come to their own mind about touching the art and playing with the touchables.  Most people are reluctant to interact with art but there&#8217;s something so humble, so engaging and non-threatening about these pieces that I imaging people will overcome their natural hesitation and leap right in.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/1401981844/" title="Photo Sharing" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1171/1401981844_0f3d4d2d1f.jpg" alt="Jesse Greenberg" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Greenberg leaning on his leaning station in his studio.</span></span></p>
<p>This is generous work that taps into everyone&#8217;s childhood memories of toys and play.  And without being made with any thought towards politics or geopolitics, the very fact that these are comfort stations says volumes about how discomfited most people today are.  This art is intended to entertain; it&#8217;s meant to lift you out of your worries and anxieties and take you to a pleasant place where your senses are stimulated in a gentle way.  Art has always represented an escape into some other realm.  Good art will draw you in and transport you.  Where it takes you to depends on where the artist leads.  Here, the young artist is leading the flock into a zone of trinkets and gentle play.  While the environments resemble video arcade stations the game they offer is not one of winning and losing, stress and discomfort.  Instead, they&#8217;re like getting a hug from a big sister who&#8217;s come to visit and brought  you a present expecting nothing in return but a kiss.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Paintings</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/1401087465/" title="Photo Sharing" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1320/1401087465_5d56b2003d.jpg" alt="Jesse Greenberg, paintings" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Greenberg had his paintings laid out on a sofa in the common space outside his studio.  Something about the hodge-podge of works all together like a high school class posing for a picture was really terrific.  </span></span></p>
<p>Greenberg is debuting some paintings in this show.  He&#8217;s been making them on the computer and in the real world.  Some of the works are representational but most are abstract with shapes, colors, textures leading the way.  The abstract works have a collage feel to them the way the MegaBinx sculptures are collages, made from this and that.  The colors evoke the sculptures as well, with hues that are clear references to colors you might find on seat cushions made out of pleather.  Some of the 2-D works seem like they might be microscopic sections from the MegaBinxes, although interestingly the 2-D works are not fuzzy and warm, not full of comfort and not terribly welcoming the way the sculptual works are.  The paintings are new and feel like they&#8217;re searching. I do believe the artist &#8212; who has much to contribute and has created something unique and wonderful in the MegaBinx works &#8212; will figure a way to express himself in paint as well.  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/1401985980/" title="Photo Sharing" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1142/1401985980_ee77454b90.jpg" alt="Jesse Greenberg's upstairs studio" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The artist&#8217;s upstairs/downstairs studio, seen from the outside.  The light bulb is to the left of his easel.</span></span></p>
<p>The artist&#8217;s studio by the way is in a shared space at 1712 N. 2nd St. just a little north of the Crane Art Center.  The big warehouse has around 25 artists studios, each carved out individually inside the large space.  There are several common areas for congregating, showing art, and working.  Greenberg made himself a &#8220;two-story&#8221; studio in the high-ceilinged building.  He built a roof on his studio, made a ladder to a roof and it&#8217;s up in the rafters &#8212; on his rooftop space &#8212; where he makes his paintings.  The warehouse is run by <a href="http://www.pifas.net/"target="_blank">Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study </a> an art group as mysterious as their <a href="http://www.ias.edu/"target="_blank">Princeton-nodding title</a> is funny.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/1401086085/" title="Photo Sharing" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1155/1401086085_4874697c06.jpg" alt="common area in shared studio building" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">One of the common areas in the large studio building which has skylights and a good ventilation system.</span></span></p>
<p>So what does the artist do as a day job?  He works for a faux finishing service, something that keeps his hand in the art realm &#8212; and maybe started him thinking about painting.  More photos at <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/sets/72157602068215451/">flickr</a>, and be sure to get over to see the show at Bobo&#8217;s.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">New work by Jesse Greenberg</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">to Oct. 19</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BOBO&#8217;S ON 9TH</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1134 South 9th Street</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Philadelphia, PA 19147</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">(770)330-0615</span></p>
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		<title>Mexabinxes on 9th St. at Bobo&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesse Greenberg, Megabinxes, posing at his studio at Philadelphia Society for Advanced Studies in Kensington. I&#8217;ve been meaning to tell you about my studio visit with Jesse Greenberg, a RISD grad and friend of Ryan Trecartin and company and of the Bobo&#8217;s on 9th crowd. They&#8217;re all here now here in Philadelphia&#8211;a little RISD tributary [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/1401974668/" title="Photo Sharing" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1384/1401974668_c2f4deb630.jpg" alt="Jesse Greenberg" height="281" width="375" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Jesse Greenberg, Megabinxes, posing at his studio at Philadelphia Society for Advanced Studies in Kensington.</span></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to tell you about my studio visit with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesse Greenberg</span>, a RISD grad and friend of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ryan Trecartin</span> and company and of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bobo&#8217;s on 9th</span> crowd.  They&#8217;re all here now here in Philadelphia&#8211;a little RISD tributary that&#8217;s run right into our Schuylkill.  Greenberg, whose work you may have seen at FUEL last year, is making wonderful interactive sculptures that look like R2D2 with the logic board missing.  I will tell you about the studio visit soon.  But first, you must go see his show which opens tomorrow night, Friday, Sept. 28, at 8 pm at Bobo&#8217;s on 9th, a new space, run by three RISD grads whose art band is called <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bobo</span>. </p>
<p>Bobo&#8217;s on 9th&#8217;s story is intresting, Greenberg&#8217;s is interesting.  And you&#8217;ll love the art&#8211;interactive works the artist calls Megabinxes (like the ones above) with lots of touchable small objects inside each play station to play with (and buy!).  And Greenberg will have some paintings too, some made on the computer and others painted by hand.  Catch it at the opening or call for an appointment.  And check my <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/sets/72157602068215451/" target=" _blank=">flickr set</a> to see more of Jesse&#8217;s art.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Jesse Greenberg<br />New Works<br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/bobophiladelphia" target=" _blank=">Bobo&#8217;s on 9th</a><br />1134 S. 9th St.<br />(770)330-0615<br />Opening reception, Friday, Sept. 28, 8 pm.</span></p>
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