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Artists at Work: ‘Muralmorphosis’ and ‘Inside the Painter’s Studio’
Last month I attended the first screening of Muralmorphosis, the short animated film documenting the mural project of the same name curated by Sean Stoops (and organized by the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program) at 2nd and Race Streets during the 2009 Fringe Festival last September.
A Sneak Peek Behind the Fence – Mauro Zamora Prepares for Wave Hill
Mauro Zamora has been working hard to get ready for the September 19 opening of his exhibition at Wave Hill in the Bronx, and he recently let me visit his studio for a sneak peak at what he’s been preparing. Wave Hill is a 28-acre public garden and cultural institution that overlooks the Hudson River. Its manicured gardens and breathtaking landscape are the perfect foil for Zamora’s paintings that are all about nature’s impulse to thrive despite human-made restrictions.
Joseph Hu and Mauro Zamora: Forest Reverie at Vox
Joseph Hu and Mauro Zamora team up this month at Vox Populi to present an installation that suggests the possibilities and limits of daydreaming in nature.
Summer refresher at Pentimenti
Aurora Robson’s plastic sculptures are made from recycled materials, this one from plastic bottles. In a final hiccup before the onslought of September shows, Pentimenti has reopened its sweet summer group show, Summer Journeys, Summer Dreams for a couple of weeks. There’s some terrific and surprising work here. The artists in the show are a mix of the familiar and unfamiliar–Darlene Charneco, Heather Hutchison, Aurora Robson, Ben Roosevelt, Paul Villinski and Mauro Zamora. I was pretty taken with hanging sculptures from Aurora Robson–biomorphic interplanetary shapes from recycled, repetitive materials. They were a sort of non-robotic, decorous cousin of Shi Chieh ... More » »
Some people we love got Pews!
Charles Burwell, Red Bio, 36×37 inches; We love the way the drips create a wavy edge at the bottom that then creates a ridged shadow. Last week, Pew announced its 2008 Fellows, recipients of the coveted $60,000 awards for artists in the 5-county Philadelphia area. These are the largest grants in the country that individual artists can apply for, according to Pew. This year 323 applied and 12 received the awards including 4 in painting and the three who we know who’ve been working in Philadelphia a long time we’re really excited about. Matthew Cox is a new name to ... More » »
Multiplication, Compression, Depression at Abington
Aggregate, by Lisa Murch, 2007, seed pods, steel, paper, feathers Sculptor Lisa Murch is easy on the eyes. Her sculptures of nature’s fertility and sexy abundance are great fun–realistic and Pop at the same time. Murch is one of four artists in the second series of solo shows at Abington Art Center. The others are Richard Ryan, Mauro Zamora and John Franklin. Murch, who showed a sculpture of reeds made of venetian blind slats in Abington’s sculpture garden, is ever inventful with her materials. A trail of ants made of seed pods bridge the corner of a room. A ladybug ... More » »
Weekly Update – Heat in the galleries
This week’s Weekly has my essay dealing with emotional heat in some local art. Below is the copy and here’s the link to the art page. For more pictures of these shows check my flickr sites for Saving Faces, for Caleb Weintraub and Mauro Zamora, and the ICA. Libby has some good shots of the ICA show here. Heat and Why It MattersTaking posterity head on. Kara Walker’s cut paper and projected light piece in Fables at ICA. In today’s global art scene—where a Malaysian artist making abstract paintings in Brooklyn can show work in a Philadelphia gallery—it’s hard to ... More » »
Weekly Update – Pay to Play at Black Floor Gallery
This week’s Weekly has my review of Pay to Play, the guest-curated show at Black Floor Gallery. Below is the copy and here’s the link to the art page. Here Comes the BribeBlack Floor’s “Pay to Play” show is topical but shallow. Albo Jeavons’ “corporate” takeover of the Black Floor website. Beware of going to the website because it may freeze your computer. I got in and out on my mac but others have had trouble. The basic requirement to get into the “Pay to Play” show at Black Floor was the artists had to offer creative bribes to the ... More » »
Shadows, light and a lot of glass
DSCN0851.jpgOriginally uploaded by sokref1.Image is one of Doina Adam’s glass pieces, this one, I believe wrapped in thread, at Vox. Before going for ice cream at Space 1026 Friday night (see post), my friend, curator Andrea Kirsch and I stopped at Vox Populi to see the new members’ show. Stefan Abrams, Doina Adam and Mauro Zamora (and Zamora’s collaborators Carolyn Hesse, Gabriel Boyce and Brooklyn-based artist Paul Loughney) all had new work of a satisfying nature. Doina Adam’s crocheted monofilament “blanket” on the wall casts great shadows. Adam’s glass and mixed pieces conjure metaphorical landscapes of the mind. Her works ... More » »
