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Candy Depew at Design Center and installations at Park Towne Place

Candy Depew’s new installation at the Design Center feels like an escapist fantasy. The radically altered black bicycle in the entry hall becomes the perfect vehicle on which to hit the road and not look back. 

Interventions and displacements at Fleisher Challenge

Mark Khaisman’s packing-tape stills on light boxes. At what point, I say to myself, does an intervention or displacement of some sort become suggestive of something bigger than the mere act of creating a shift. That’s what I came away thinking about at the Wind Challenge Exhibition #2 at the Fleisher Art Memorial, which features work by Mark Khaisman, Kara Crombie and Hope Rovelto. Khaisman and Crombie are both doing something rather similar in a way–displacing and inserting something outside the normal context. Mark Khaisman Khaisman, who is known for his packing tape drawings of noir film stills, is pushing ... More » »

Weekly Update – Summer dreaming at Fleisher-Ollman

This week’s Weekly includes my review of Rip, Rig and Panic at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery. Below is the copy with a few more pictures. And here’s the link to the art page. For more, read Libby’s post on the show.Let It “Rip”Fleisher/Ollman’s summer show straddles realism and fairy tale. Logs speak, pictures whisper and bookshelves cast long shadows in the exploded fairy tale of “Rip, Rig & Panic” at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery. Anda Dubinskis, Isaac Resnikoff and Mark Khaisman provide work that’s not too hot and not too cool, but just right for summer dreaming. Dubinskis diptych showing the female woodcutter. As ... More » »

Rip, Rig & Panic: Resnikoff, Khaisman, Dubinskis

Death of the Sunshine Patriot (front), by Isaac Resnikoff, and paintings by Anda Dubinskis on the walls Isaac Resnikoff’s picnic table looks just right in this hot weather, center stage at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, part of a three-man show that also includes Anda Dubinskis and Mark Khaisman. On the table sits a mix of carved tools, beverage containers, a hand as umbrella, fat candles, a guitar, a gas can–all the makings of a summer weekend of puttering around the house, hanging with friend, or pitching woo. The delicate paint drips applied along the side add a nice touch of dripping sweat, ... More » »