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Vox VII – nice and easy

Not as wild as some of its predecessors, Vox VII, the annual emerging artist show at Vox Populi, is a whale of a good show. With 35 artists and all media except performance represented, paintings make a strong showing. No matter how many times people say painting is dead, it just is not, and here the variety of paintings demonstrates the media’s still got some tricks up its sleeve. Sculpture is literally all over the map, from a highly crafted fiber object to a sprawling found-object installation with a video embedded in it to a low-tech gizmo made of wood ... More » »

Artists in Wartime at Swarthmore

Two exhibitions at Swarthmore College feature artists addressing the subject of war. Daniel Heyman curated the exhibition, Printmakers go to War at Swarthmore College’s McCabe Library, in conjunction with Philagrafika (on through April 9, 2010).  It includes an international group, Nick Flynn, Damian Cote, Eric Avery, Ehren Tool and Michael Reed, in addition to Heyman, who print onto every possible material: postcards, clay, medical bandages, industrial carpeting, and yes, paper.

Minty fresh as paint at Vox

by Anita Allyn I don’t have time to write a real post, but I wanted to squeeze in a word about Minty at Vox. It’s the new members group show, that includes a returning member, M.Ho, as well as truly new members Anita Allyn, Leah Bailis, Micah Danges, Sarah Gamble, M. Ho, Roxana Perez-Mendez and Joseph Protheroe. All the work looked pretty snappy, but Anita Allyn’s video installation and mural were what I brought home with me in mind, a wall supergraphic of a sunset and road with a video inset where the sun would be. The video is a ... More » »

Weekly Update – ICA’s new formalism

This week’s Weekly includes my review of the ICA’s Gone Formalism. Here’s the link to the art page and below is the copy with some more pictures. For a more complete view of the ICA’s current crop of shows see my flickr set. And here’s Libby’s posts on the ramp project and on the Ben Franklin installation.Cold Hands, Warm HeartSix artists tackle chilly formalism, but with heated anxiety. The Institute of Contemporary Art‘s “Gone Formalism” is an exhibit of antisublime works by six out-of-town artists (two of whom, Liz Larner and Mark Grotjahn, are in the Whitney Biennial). Like the ... More » »