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“O Zhang: The World is Yours/Ours” at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery

Photographs of confident Chinese youth, subtly evoking powerful political and cultural statements, line the walls of Drexel’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery this month. O Zhang: The World is Yours/Ours showcases two impressive photography series by the New York based artist, O Zhang.

Hot stuff this month at Sweatshop, Templeton, Grizzly and elsewhere

It’s a blizzard out there — with shows dropping like snowflakes on the Philly art scene.  Here’s some pictures and a few comments from our travels around town this past month.  All these venues have serious monthly (or bi-monthly) programs and with First Friday around the corner it’s time to get out and see some more. Things We’ve Made Since September at Sweatshop

Machine, man and life: Michael Grothusen’s Life’s Joys, Life’s Disappointments

Michael Grothusen, Life’s Joys, Life’s Disappointments, detail, at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery. The two structures look like duplicates of one another but because they’re each hand-make they of course have their idiosyncracies and are not exactly alike. Michael Grothusen‘s welded metal structures Life’s Joys and Life’s Disappointments are as far from today’s anti-matter assemblage art as Gustave Eiffel‘s Tower was foreign to the streets around it when it debuted in 1889. Eiffel’s Tower , which took 2 years, 2 months and 5 days to complete and is composed of 18,038 pieces fastened with 2,500,000 rivets is of course a completely different ... More » »