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Not the Brady Bunch

Kara Crombie’s video Mother’s Birthday [Vox Populi, October 1-31, 2010] offers a new take on the cobbled-together American family. A rag-tag collection of characters from different races and centuries offer a play-within-a-play in honor of their drunken plantation-belle of a mom. Basking in the unreal glow of computer-generated twilight, they remind us how we as Americans have come to know each other through the shallow representations of popular culture. Crombie’s ability to piece together high and low, new and old is compelling, and likely a factor that helped win her a 2010 Pew Fellowship.  Along with the other artists featured ... More » »

Revolutions in the art of three women – at Vox

Just when you thought you had artists boxed up neatly and tied in a little bow, they force you to rethink them and their oeuvre. So it is this month at Vox Populi, with big shifts in the work on exhibit by three of the member artists–Leah Bailis, Kate Stewart and Kara Crombie.   Experimenting and changing course is not for everyone.  We are wowed at these risky shifts and wonder what comes next.

Interventions and displacements at Fleisher Challenge

Mark Khaisman’s packing-tape stills on light boxes. At what point, I say to myself, does an intervention or displacement of some sort become suggestive of something bigger than the mere act of creating a shift. That’s what I came away thinking about at the Wind Challenge Exhibition #2 at the Fleisher Art Memorial, which features work by Mark Khaisman, Kara Crombie and Hope Rovelto. Khaisman and Crombie are both doing something rather similar in a way–displacing and inserting something outside the normal context. Mark Khaisman Khaisman, who is known for his packing tape drawings of noir film stills, is pushing ... More » »

Weekly Update — Pageant’s Rag and Bone men and ladies

Bon Jour from Paris!!! This week’s Weekly has my review of Rag and Bnne at Pageant Gallery. Matthew Osborn, untitled drawing at Pageant’s Rag and Bone. Rag and Bone, Pageant Gallery’s Winter Invitational, brings together 26 artists, some of them familiar names and some gallery newcomers.  The exhibition continues Pageant’s shaggy-around-the-edges aesthetic – drawings pinned to the walls; tv monitors sitting on the floor;  sculpture in the gallery’s odd nooks and crannies.  It’s a sprawling show and treasures abound. Matthew Osborn, Financial Oblivion Matthew Osborn‘s wall of cartoon drawings kept me engaged for quite a while.  “Tools are weapons and weapons ... More » »

A.V.O.W (Amps, Volts, Ohms, and Watts)

Painted Bride Art Center February 1 – March 15, 2008 Jeremy Boyle, Pablo Colapinto, Kara Crombie, Max Lawrence, Justin Marshall, and Huong Ngo. Curated by Sean Stoops. Painted over outlets were dug out for A.V.O.W at Painted Bride I’m tempted to call Sean Stoops’ exhibition at Painted Bride a Max Lawrence solo effort with some Jeremy Boyle mixed in for good measure. Which is not really a horrible critique, as I enjoyed the show, especially the offerings by Maximillian Lawrence. I just might be a little annoyed if I was Pablo Colapinto’s video in the downstairs’ back corner or even ... More » »

Weekly Update – Vox Populi’s New Members Show

This week’s Weekly has my a-list review of Vox Populi’s new member’s show. Below is the copy with a few pictures. More photos at flickr. MY VOX IN A BOX Brent Wahl, Tear, at Vox Populi’s new members’ show. Tear is nicely ambiguous–it’s a tear drop shape but the dance it does is like a tear on a tear. And the red color makes it a blood drop which connotes a tear in the skin…or other bodily organ. Vox Populi’s new members show romps in a playground where the scary, the existential and the humorous are separated by a heartbeat, ... More » »

Weekly Update – Out of Frame at the Art Alliance

This week’s Weekly has my review of Out of Frame, the HD video exhibit at the Art Alliance. Here’s the link to the art page and below is the copy with some images. And you can see more images at flickr. Dreaming in HDMoving pictures take you away at the Art Alliance. Ben Jones of Paper Rad’s Dr. Doo TV Document, from Out of Frame at the Art Alliance. Give artists high-definition video equipment and the opportunity to show their work on television, and the results will be amazing. That’s the hypothesis proven by the 18-artist HD video extravaganza at ... More » »