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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.
What we want to see Friday
First Friday in August might just as well be the beginning of the fall art season, so busy is it with openings and talks. Here’s what’s on. And in another post I’ll tell you about a special fundraiser happening on Saturday. 319A North 11th Street–5 worthy venues
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 » »
First Friday ramble
Beth Brandon, Clearing, 8.5″ x 11″, 2008We headed out to Old City and Chinatown last Friday and saw some stuff worth seeing. TOPSTITCH Beth Brandon‘s show at Topstitch was our first stop. Her small eco-drawings showed a seriousness of purpose with their intense mark-making. The woodsy iconography floating on a sea of white is familiar (Justin Witte, Ben Volta, Robyn O’Neil, etc) but the dreaminess and the fashion sensibility (a series of drawings show a line of balaclavas made from leaves) give it a little surprise. Brandon will be in a two-person show at Copy Gallery in September. That show’s ... More » »
Construction, real and imagined, at the FWM
Storefront, by FWM’s artist-in-residence Mark Bradford in collaboration with Juan Carlos Avendaño and FWM; photographic images on static cling film-laminate stock adhering to the windows. If you are wondering just what’s going on with the Fabric Workshop and Museum, as in where are they and where are they going, you’re not alone. But at last they have dropped the coy stance about their plans. So, as you probably know (or you wouldn’t be asking these questions), no more Gilbert Building. The FWM is now ensconced temporarily in three adjacent store fronts on the 1200 block of Arch Street. It took ... More » »
Pageant’s indoor muralists: Doyle and Stewart
While their aesthetics differ wildly, Kate Stewart and Jessica Doyle, both formidable young painters and Penn grads, pair well together at Pageant. This in fact is another one of Pageant Director Daniel Dalseth‘s surprising pairings of apples and oranges that I’ve enjoyed this year. I’m going to run just a few photos, and, because I’m crunching a deadline for a magazine piece, will add not a lot of commentary, except to say that that the show is pertinent especially in light of the other indoor mural show at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Outside In. Walls and walls of color, shape, ... More » »
Browsing Old City and Bainbridge’s new art corridor
One of Damian Weinkrantz’s politically-transcendant owls at Honeymilk Stella and I went around to a couple of boutiques two Saturdays ago. Nowadays that can mean an encounter with art as well as an eyeful of blue jeans, dresses and jewelry. Honeymilk, in Vagabond‘s back space on 3rd St. in Old City has been keeping up an art presence with changing exhibits every few months. Carrie Powell, who I believe is Honeymilk’s proprietor, curated a show for June and July that includes owl portraits by Emily Glaubinger and Damian Weinkrantz. The portraits are nicely done, and they’re all framed and hung ... More » »
