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Weekly Update – Deconstructing image, Wall Space at PPAC

Virgil Marti’s sculptures “Night Watch” and “Vesper” stand like sentinels at the entrance to the Philadelphia Photo Art Center with a kind of haunted-castle grandeur. The 6-foot, 80-pound slabs are shaped like ornate mirrors one might find in Snow White’s stepmom’s bedroom; instead of glass and foil, though, they’re made of rough plywood plated in chrome. They reflect a dull sheen from a nearby window, but no clear images—it’s a standoff between viewer and mirror in which Narcissus loses, and a perfect greeting to Wall Space, a great little show about image.

Light fare at the fairs-Part 2

It’s easy to see themes when you see so much work all at once as we did in two days at four art fairs. I saw polka dots all over the place, I saw snail mail references in three venues and things about communities seemed to crop up everywhere. I guess it’s the anthropologist in all of us. We want to group things together and classify and study them. I have always loved doing it. And many artists seem to be doing this kind of armchair anthropology in their work at the moment. Part 1 of this post is here.

Weekly Update – Transformer

On the art page in this week’s Weekly is a piece by Lex Chalat about Lineage Gallery. Lineage is a transplant from Burlington, VT that moved to Philly soon after Jonathan Levine‘s Tin Man Alley decamped. (The newly dubbed Jonathan Levine Gallery is now in New York). Both galleries show similar art in the illustration/album cover genre. In fact both galleries have Mark Ryden and Jeff Soto in their stables. Chalat’s is an opinion piece and while I don’t agree that Lineage is the best new thing in town, nor is it the first time we’ve seen such art, check ... More » »