Tag Archive "libby-and-roberta"

Zero .1% for Art Commission stages giveaway at PIFAS!

Plan for the Zero .1% for Art Commission Reading Room and Fire Sale What is 26x18x16″ and open Sunday, April 27, from 7-9 pm? It’s the Zero .1% For Art Commission Reading Room and Fire Sale!!   The one night stand exhibit, produced by Commissioners Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof is at Gallery Under the Stairs at PIFAS. GUS is unusually small as galleries go. We think it should be called the Zero .1% Gallery! You’ve probably never experienced one of the Commission’s fabulous street giveaways in action. Here’s your chance to get in on the Commission’s bargain basement prices– ... More » »

Tuesday kisses for Mayor Nutter

Maggie Van Scoyk …taking pictures with Austin Lee @ Exclamation Gallery! Hi my name is Leigh Owens and I am a Writer and Photographer. This is one of my favorite photos titled Mystikal, which I took in Philadelphia on Benjamin Franklin Parkway last summer. We need the Office of Arts and Culture in this city…Please keep your promise!!! Michelle Posadas Alana Bograd Hey pals, Great project! If Nutter opens the office the ArtJail organization will provide free office space inside of one of the giant ArtJail TVs! One less roadblock on the glorious road to Arts and Culture! Albo Jeavons ... More » »

More kisses for Mayor Nutter

Join the Kiss for Mayor Nutter campaign! Send in your 281(h) x 375(w) jpeg photo of yourself to libbyandroberta@gmail.com and help us demonstrate how many people care about the mayor’s campaign promise to create an Office of Arts and Culture. Email this project info around to every Philadelphia artist and art lover you know. Let’s show Mayor Nutter the face of Philadelphia’s amazing arts community. No broken promises, Mayor Nutter, please!! University of the ArtsMFA Ceramics, Painting and SculptureStudents and Faculty2007Annual Summer Softball Game (l-r) Laura Graham, Darla Jackson, Aubrie Costello and Laura McKinley standing in front of Laura Graham’s ... More » »

A Kiss for Mayor Nutter

Here are five artists at the late lamented Siano Gallery, left to right Chris Ashley (visiting for Cali.), Roberta Fallon, Tim McFarlane, Vince Romaniello and Libby Rosof.Hello artists and art lovers! Here’s a great opportunity to get on artblog and be part of the stream of love going out to our new Mayor Michael Nutter as he gets ready to appoint an art czar and create an Office of Arts and Culture (we hope). Here’s the deal. We will create a series of photo posts on the blog called A Kiss for Mayor Nutter that will include images of artists ... More » »

Metro love

Libby and Roberta in the Metro?!!! It’s in today’s edition. Yipppeeee! A humungithumpus thanks to freelance writer Eric Sullivan, who did a great job of capturing the Philly art scene, and why we write the blog in about 500 words! Plus the pictures–us peering out of little portholes next to Sophia Wang’s installation at PIFAS–were great choices.

Yo, emerging artists, listen up!

Bambi Gallery and Boutique on Frankford Ave. in fabulous Fishtown. Why wait for the Whitney Biennial when you can be in the Bambi Biennial??? We’re jurying this show. Deadline for submissions is Dec. 29 $20 to enter ($15 for students) and the show dates are Feb 1-Mar 18, 2008. Super Bonus !!!!Three artists will be chosen from this exhibit for a three-person show at Bambi Gallery. You still have 12 days to get your submissions in for this break out event — sure to be a bright spot in the dead of Philly’s gray winter (if we don’t say so ... More » »

Dig break

An installation shot of dig, with Nick Lenker’s Elephant in the Room, Thom Lessner’s John Coltrane behind, small Thom Lessner pieces to left and Zoe Strauss Pushpin Installation of photos to right We’re taking a break tomorrow, taking down Dig, the exhibit we curated for H&F Fine Arts in Mt. Ranier, MD. (Here’s our post on the exhibit, if you missed it previously). A big hug to Christopher Lawrence, who’s transporting the work for us. Here are more people we want to thank:J.T. KirklandCheryl FountainKaren Handy …and a big xoxo to all the fabulous artists who agreed to show their ... More » »

Something else we’re up to

Postcard (front and back) for Dig, with Zoe Strauss image, detail, I-95 (Philly’s Imprint Removed Sign), archival inkjet print, color photography and/or digital projection, dimensions variable, 2001-2007. Click image to read the words. Dig this!!! We’ve been asked by J.T. Kirkland, author of Thinking About Art, to curate a show of Philly artists. The show, which has an opening reception Sat., Oct. 20, 4-7 p.m., is at H & F Fine Arts in the Washington D.C. suburb of Mt. Rainier, MD. It’s a star studded cast, including Barbara Bullock, Kip Deeds, Candy Depew, Nick Lenker, Thom Lessner, Jayson Scott Musson, ... More » »

Libby and Roberta in Paris, well, virtually at least

Libby and Roberta are in Paris. That is, two of our collaborative paintings are on display in a wine shop window in Paris. And the paintings are pretty much autobiographical in an eliptical way…so we’re in Paris! The group show is curated by our friend, the artist and writer Matthew Rose. Photo by Ric Erickson. That’s a Libby and Roberta painting in the wine shop window at Cave des Papilles. The painting is from the Dorothy Speaks series and this is Stovetop Dorothy. We are delighted that our two little works, (from the Dorothy Speaks series, which were used as ... More » »

It’s all about us, #2

Check out how smart we sound on Annette Monnier’s post in Vulture Droppings, like we know what we’re even talking about. The Vulture is a product of those hip and trendy folks at Gyro Worldwide. They describe their own publication as “unusually incisive and occasionally cruel trendspotting weblog.” How they managed to write something so kind about the always sappy, often generous us is one of the mysteries of life and trend-spotting. But we’re not fighting it.