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Weekly Update – Tower Gallery’s Cool Heat

This week’s Weekly includes my review of the group show at Tower Gallery in Northern Liberties. Below is the copy with some pictures and here’s the link to the art page.“Bright Lights,” Pink CityThree young artists confront violence and disaster with pastels. Tower Gallery, the high-ceiling, cement-floor space in the Tower Investments Building at 969 N. Second St., has been showing art for a couple years now. But until last summer—when Jenny Jaskey approached Bart Blatstein, president and CEO of Tower Investments, about running an exhibition program—there wasn’t a gallery director, and shows stayed under the radar. Orlando Soria’s I’m ... More » »

Penn MFA exhibit at the Icebox: Big is bigger but small may be better

Nathan WasserbauerOriginally uploaded by sokref1. I’ve done a few studio visits with young artists and usually at some point they say, apologetically, pointing at their easel- or pedestal-sized pieces, “These are small works. What I really want to do is something big. “ John Prull, Untitled (new totems). Big bird and chicks. made of cardboard, latex paint, screws, twine. $1,000. (a steal!) Small, I reply. Small is the way to go. The Penn MFA exhibit at the Icebox Project Space is full of really big works. Of course when you’re in graduate school is probably when you exercise your need ... More » »

Penn MFAs hold the space