Tag Archive "michael-grothusen"
Ceci n’est pas un review
Michael Grothusen channeling Anish Kapoor and Quentin Morris. The show Paper Jam at My House Gallery includes not only us but some great surprises as well. Above is a piece by the wonderful Michael Grothusen, a piece with enough gravitas to hold the entire wall. Jonathan Berger also has a piece in this show. My own Eoin Burke. I got to take home a piece by Eoin Burke. I’m always a sucker for giveaways, this one available from a small carton pinned to the wall. Burke was one of the contributors to the collaboration between Peter Rose and Mark Campbell ... More » »
Soft Epic redux and Grothusen’s memory house
Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib’s Soft Epic (detail) at the Icebox. I caught Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib‘s Soft Epic video projection at the Icebox on the last day of its run and want to add my appreciation here to what Andrea wrote previously. Deep into a seemingly endless war and at a time of severe ecological peril, The Soft Epic rides both those waves of anxiety and yet, with its sweep of imagery and magical sound, the work has beauty as well. The post-apocalyptic panorama, with fires consuming the urban landscape and animal-headed avatars watching, had a kind of ... More » »
Machine, man and life: Michael Grothusen’s Life’s Joys, Life’s Disappointments
Michael Grothusen, Life’s Joys, Life’s Disappointments, detail, at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery. The two structures look like duplicates of one another but because they’re each hand-make they of course have their idiosyncracies and are not exactly alike. Michael Grothusen‘s welded metal structures Life’s Joys and Life’s Disappointments are as far from today’s anti-matter assemblage art as Gustave Eiffel‘s Tower was foreign to the streets around it when it debuted in 1889. Eiffel’s Tower , which took 2 years, 2 months and 5 days to complete and is composed of 18,038 pieces fastened with 2,500,000 rivets is of course a completely different ... More » »
A whole lot of artists at Woodmere
Alexis Granwell’s Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart There’s enough critical mass at the Woodmere Art Museum to pull a devoted sidewalk stomper to the almost-burbs of Chestnut Hill. What got me out there first of all was the Emerging Artists Series show, in conjunction with the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, with works from Christopher Hartshorne and Hiro Sakaguchi. But the surprise for me was the excellence of the 67th Annual Juried Exhibition, with 68 pieces in the show (67 plus one for good luck?). Juried by installation artist Polly Apfelbaum, the show skews contemporary, and the quality is ... More » »
