Tag Archive "miguel-luciano"
Global Warming heats up the Ice Box
Ben Pinder, detail, Return to Symzonia The Ice Box at the Crane Art Center has warmed up since its days as a giant food freezer. Now it’s the venue for something warmer yet–a show about the planet’s impending meltdown. I suppose to Sarah Palin that’s still a gray area, but appropriately enough, the show also spills into the Gray Area next to the Ice Box! Enough with the word games! That the show, Global Warming, even happened is surely a sign that maybe we can work our way out of the disaster. Ben Pinder, detail, Return to Symzonia, real estate ... More » »
Miguel Luciano’s Piragua Cart at the Icebox!
Yesterday, a bright and sunny Sunday, was the opening of Global Warming, the Philadelphia Sculptor’s show at the Icebox. Miguel Luciano is in the show and one of his pieces, “Pimp my Piragua,” a shaved ice cart, was perfect for the day, the event, and the slowly melting world. Luciano’s vehicle — which he made himself– is outfitted with stereo, DVD player and the traditional ice and syrups. He sells the ices for $1-$2 dollars he told me. Here he’s making an ice (grape flavored) and talking with Pepon Osorio, (mostly in the wings). Read more about Luciano’s project at ... More » »
Weekly Update – Miguel Luciano at Taller Puertorriqueno
This week’s Weekly has my review of Miguel Luciano’s solo show at Taller Puertorriqueno. Below is the copy with pictures. More photos at flickr. And look for an artblog exclusive — an interview between Curator Anabelle Rodriguez and Miguel Luciano — coming soon. Miguel Luciano’s interactive piece, Cuando Las Gallinas Mean (When Hens Pee), about speaking up for yourself. Miguel Luciano’s impulse to educate is as strong as his need to make art. The young artist’s wonderful exhibition at Taller Puertorriqueño is a treatise on Puerto Rican empowerment delivered through paintings, interactive sculptures, prints and drawings that are wry and ... More » »
Weekly Update 1- Summer Roundup
This week’s Weekly has my summer art roundup. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr. Philadelphia’s art scene doesn’t take summer vacation anymore. Miguel Luciano, interactive piece based on Puerto Rican saying that (loosely translated) means that children can be heard when hens pee (which they never do). Miguel Luciano’s identity-fueled works at Taller Puertorriqueño use exaggerated stereotypes to poke fun at bromides about Puerto Rican identity. Luciano, a New York-based artist, turns Taller’s galleries into an interactive playroom with sculptures (including a slot machine) that let people “play” with their own identities. Luciano’s work is ... More » »
Critical Consumption: Talking back to Ronald McDonald
Post by Andrea Kirsh The highest paid writers and artists in our society work for advertising agencies. Their production is ubiquitous, and effective. It sells. That makes New York artist Miguel Luciano mad, and he does something about it. Luciano taught a class for high school students on “Critical Consumption” as part of Fleisher Art Memorial’s Artists and Communities Residency Program and the results are on view at the Suzanne Fleisher and Ralph Roberts Gallery, 705 Christian St. through Feb. 24 (call 215 922-3456 first, for hours). Luciano taught the students that they could read commercial messages critically and, more ... More » »
New York, too
A few short out-takes from our trip last Thursday. Tracey Moffatt at Stux Tracey Moffatt, disaster sequence from Doomed. Tracey Moffatt’s “Doomed” at Stux Gallery is a video loop that’s keep-it-simple-stupid terrific. The Australian artist (Colette told you about her Scorpio project, also on view at the gallery culled disaster sequences from Hollywood blockbusters and merged them into a melange of murder and mayhem, of bodies falling, cars careening off buildings, fireballs everywhere. Doomed disaster There’s a musical score that accompanies that’s right out of the chase scenes of a movie. The piece, projected large in the gallery’s balcony space ... More » »
