Tag Archive "pafa-student-show"

Student post, Part 2

Here are some pictures of work we liked in the graduating student shows. We spent some time with and interviewed some of these graduates but mostly our observations are from seeing the works in the shows. Look for some of these artists to pop up around town because we know some of them are staying around and for sure they’re going to hook up with some alternative spaces and get themselves shown.

Student explosion of navel-gazing, survivalism and home sweet home

As in every year, we have seen most of the graduating student shows at the major institutions.  We’re going to distill this down to some broad impressions in this post and run a stream of photos with a comment or two in the next post. There was low energy everywhere, almost.

Figuring out the future — student shows from Tyler, PAFA, Penn

It’s that time of year. The graduates of local art colleges — and even some who are not yet grads — are putting up public shows of their art. Public exhibitions of student work were scarce 10 years ago but more recently with the market all crazy for newer, younger art and with art schools opening themselves up to the possibility now you can’t turn around in the Spring for all the senior shows and MFA shows. That’s not a complaint–far from. I’m just saying. As with everything there’s an exception — PAFA‘s student show. That’s been a very public ... More » »

Philadelphia art schools–some of the exhibits

The art schools spring a passel of students on the world every April, May and June. I’ve seen a lot of stuff. But here are a few things and moments that stood out in my mind– The Penn MFA thesis show at the Crane, curated by Fleisher-Ollman’s William Pym, had its share of work that stuck to where it was hanging on the walls, but a few things caught my attention: Damon Reaves, Entertaining, video, TV I got lucky when I arrived. The gallery sitters that day was Damon Reaves. I stopped to talk to him. Turns out Reaves, who ... More » »