Tag Archive "leslie-mutchler"
Slice, dice and fold–Art Alliance, Pageant and Fleisher-Ollman
Natasha Bowdoin, I am the sun in the morning, I am a dog at night, 2006; cut cards and gouache on paper, 36 x 54 x 9 inches.image courtesy the artist And now for the medium of the season, cut paper!! Three exhibits exploring the limits of paper as a medium are ripping up the town– Paper[space] at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Thanks to Mom and Dad/The Chain of the Worlds at Pageant Gallery, and a cleaner heart a do it at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, which dips into paper along with some other work. All three shows are worth the effort ... More » »
Look! It’s loads of art in Episode 9
In Episode 9, we find some great stuff in the South Street area. First we stop at Falling Cow Gallery, which was showing lots of cut paper from Adam Parker Smith, Sarah Daub and Leslie Mutchler in its Paper Cuts exhibit which ran until May 12, and then we go to Jinxed, where we see some terrific graffiti-style drawings by L.A. artist Albert Reyes. That show, too is over, so the only place to see these great exhibits–and our commentary, as filmed by the great videographer David Kessler–is right here on Look! Check it out!!! You can find the entire ... More » »
Two good ones for tonight
But We’re Already Here, by Jackie Tileston, 60 x 72 inches, oil, mixed on linen, 2006 Two good stops for tonight artists are two one-person shows at Pentimenti and a group show, Showroom, at the Crane Arts Building. Artist Jackie Tileston is coincidentally (or maybe not so coincidentally since she’s really great) in both of them. So I’ll just rave a little about her rather large paintings and her gouaches at Pentimenti, imaginary landscapes which evoke travel and Asia and weather. Tileston’s paint is as important as her imagery, sensual, at times encrusted and baroque, at times barely kissing the ... More » »
Hollow men: revisiting Xiang Yang at the Bride
Relationship:Buddhism-Saddamism. This one shows Saddam. Bush is on the far side. The execution by hanging of Saddam Hussein served as a nice reminder that I wanted to bring up Xiang Yang’s exhibit, Beyond the Duplicated Voice at the Painted Bride. Even though Roberta wrote a great post on it, I wanted to add my two cents because I’m such a fan. George W. Bush’s portrait is paired with Saddam Hussein’s, and it seems like a dead-on coupling, the two of them undone by one another. They are each framed, several feet apart, with the embroidery threads that edge the portraits ... More » »
Leslie Mutchler’s accumulation of holes
Leslie Mutchler, accumulation piece with paper and flags. The first time I saw a Leslie Mutchler piece, it was at Tyler School of Art in a group show on the theme of paper put together by Produce Gallery. Mutcher’s work was an accumulation of stacks of small cut papers on a large plywood plank with red flags holding the piles together like those toothpicks in club sandwiches. The piece was a little jaunty and a lot forlorn, bespeaking (for me at any rate) the world of armies on the move, generals planning maneuvers on ad hoc tables in camp tents. ... More » »
