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Weekly Update – Emerging artist shows highlight sculpture

This week’s Weekly has my review of two emerging artist shows — Street Button and Isskustvo Transmagica Provinces Animamina. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flicker (street button, isskustvo ). And here are Libby’s street button post and Libby’s Isskustvo post. Happy Happy Joy ToyNew sculpture emphasizes friendliness. Jesse Greenberg’s installation at Pageant sprawls across the gallery. That’s Kate Norton’s piece to the right of the doorway. Two great sculptural installations push the emerging artist shows at Pageant and Fleisher-Ollman into the desirable (but often unachievable) zone of art as serious fun. It’s too soon to ... More » »

Brave new world emerges at Pageant

Jesse Greenberg unloaded a bunch of these all over every horizontal surface in the gallery Isskustvo Transmagica Provinces Animanina may be a bewildering title for an art exhibit, but the objects in the show at Pageant Soloveev Gallery are equally bewildering–and wonderful. I felt like I was walking into a space filled with gifts. Pageant once again proves to be a gallery you can’t pin down, putting together a juried show of four emerging young artists that sparkles with alternative universes and alternative life forms that are the opposite of the plodding online parallel universe of Second Life. Instead these ... More » »

We dig Dig!

Roberta’s installation shot with Zoe Strauss’s photos, Jen Packer’s paintings, Nick Lenker’s Elephant in the Room and Kip Deeds’ scroll and small painting. Roberta’s photo of Jayson Scott Musson’s posters, with JT Kirkland and Jen Packer (well, half of her) on the left. Libby’s photo of Thom Lessner and Nick Lenker’s works Libby’s photo of Barbara Bullock and Candy Depew’s works. Thought we’d share some pictures of Dig, the show of Philly artists we curated at H and F Fine Arts in Mt. Rainier, MD. The show looks great — we think! And we hope you can get there! More ... More » »

Afterword on Nick Lenker’s chutes and ladders

A detail of Nick Lenker’s Window on Broad installation Somehow, we didn’t say enough about Nick Lenker’s ceramic window installation in the Window on Broad, 333 S. Broad St. in the most recent Look! It’s Libby and Roberta. The ceramic shelves and figures that comprise the installation succeed because they draw you in with the charming/scary details of their Grimm’s fairy tale narratives. But the stacked worlds also serve as levels of a video game, with chutes and ladders linking them. In another age, of course, it’s the levels of Hell or any other system of multiple realities. A view ... More » »

Look! It’s Libby and Roberta, episode 2

Videographer: David Kessler In the order seen:–Jon Poblador is at Larry Becker Contemporary Art. –Nick Lenker is at the Window on Broad Street, 333 S. Broad Street, for the month of February. –Jina Valentine is at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery.

Nick Lenker’s family bestiary

Portrait of my Mother, by Nick Lenker; it’s not a pretty portrait Family portraits merge love and horror, in Nick Lenker’s new exhibit, “Beautiful Amnesia,” at Padlock Gallery. The exhibit of eight or so computer-generated drawings, two large ceramic sculptures and two series of small ceramic sculptures are fierce, the people portrayed as animals. The drawings of beasts, with ravening teeth and blood dripping from their maws, have cartoon and stuffed animal and toy qualities that barely ameliorate the gore. It’s that unsentimental tenderness, the willingness to face the dark side that consistently distinguishes Lenker’s work–the acknowledgment of how fiercely ... More » »