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Global Suburbia at Abington Art Center

Thomas Wrede, Settlement with a Road, 2005, Digital C-print, 19 x 39 inches, West Collection Recently appointed Abington Art Center Curator Sue Spaid has thrown the gauntlet down with her first exhibit there, Global Suburbia: Meditations of the World of the ‘Burbs.” It’s a show a little unpredictable and chock-a-block with yummy art worth a chew. Lee Stoetzel, McMansion #5, 2005 Lambda print, 36 x 57.5 inches I say unpredictable because the same exhibit has photographic, old-masterish paintings by Sarah McCoubrey of inflatable swimming pools on lawns as well as Lee Stoetzel’s McMansions, photos of model he made from fast-food ... More » »

The lives of objects: Stoetzel, Hawkinson, Paine

Two gallery shows in New York and one public art project are having a nice conversation right now about sculptural objects and how vibrant that practice is. While the works by Lee Stoetzel, Tim Hawkinson and Roxy Paine couldn’t be farther apart in affect ultimately their points and purposes are not so far apart. All ruminate on nature and the unnatural, humankind and machinery — and the importance of materials to help tell a story. They’re all great. Lee Stoetzel at Mixed GreensLee Stoetzel’s computers, cypress pecky wood. Lee Stoetzel makes finely-crafted sculpture out of wood. Among the pieces at ... More » »

It’s art, it’s craft, it’s good: Artists talk at Abington

Ambush, by Kimberley Hart, 2005, fabric, yarn, pailettes, sequins, beads, upholstery tacks, ladder, salt. This is a female version of a tree house, all crocheted. Even the ladder is pink. There are grill-covered windows on this that remind me of grills behind which Muslim women invisibly peer out onto the street. In the left corner is art, and in the right is craft, but at Abington Art Center right now, it’s tough to tell the two apart–and by mixing it up, the exhibit–The HandMaking–asks all kinds of interesting questions about both and about value and about women’s work and men’s ... More » »