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Nick Lenker’s destruction and creation myths at Pageant

Nick Lenker transforms himself into a sacrificial druid at Pageant Gallery. In his exhibit The Destruction and Creation of Man, he stirs up a voodoo brew of digital and handmade, ceramic and video, fire and vomit and water. The mix might give the witches of Macbeth a case of envy.

Weekly Update – Matthew Osborn’s world and Candida Hofer’s Philadelphia

 This week’s Weekly has my review of Matthew Osborn at Pageant and Candida Hofer at Arcadia.  Below is the copy with some pictures. Matthew Osborn’s “My Bones – Your Skin” at Pageant and “Candida Hofer – Philadelphia” at Arcadia University are two shows that take you to the limits of 2-D art being shown locally.  Osborn’s drawings and Hofer’s color photographs represent some of the best of what’s being done here — from hip musings in ink on paper by a young local talent to majestic architectural photographs by an internationally-acclaimed artist at the top of her game.

Free art-customized recycling bins at Pageant

I had to post this blast from Pageant, so sue me. Who wouldn’t want a free city recycling bins decorated by Chris Kline and Jason Hsu? Here’s what the press release said: PAPER CRYSTALS’CHRIS KLINE AND JASON HSUWANT YOU TO GET YOUR RECYCLE ON ALREADY CHRIS AND JASON put together this event in conjunction with Aryon Hoselton, who rounded up (legally, indeed with their blessing) 100 City of Philadelphia recycling bins. On Sunday February 22nd they will be giving them away here at Pageant:Soloveev Gallery and Chris, Jason and friends will be on hand customizing them with stencils, paint and ... More » »

Paper Crystals at Pageant–Jason Hsu and Chris Kline

Jason Hsu and Chris Kline We were standing in Pageant Gallery Saturday afternoon and a steady stream of lookers came by to get up close and personal with what lured them in from outside the window. Chris Kline and Jason Hsu‘s exuberant, gargantuan installation knocked us and all the other visitors out with its boyish comic charm and high key color brushwork. Amazing what you can do with a little house paint on cardboard and some hard work…..ok some talent too. Phillies Fan The bold patterning and psychedelic charms immediately reminded us of the Hairy Who and Chicago Imagists–who also ... More » »

Weekly Update — Pageant’s Rag and Bone men and ladies

Bon Jour from Paris!!! This week’s Weekly has my review of Rag and Bnne at Pageant Gallery. Matthew Osborn, untitled drawing at Pageant’s Rag and Bone. Rag and Bone, Pageant Gallery’s Winter Invitational, brings together 26 artists, some of them familiar names and some gallery newcomers.  The exhibition continues Pageant’s shaggy-around-the-edges aesthetic – drawings pinned to the walls; tv monitors sitting on the floor;  sculpture in the gallery’s odd nooks and crannies.  It’s a sprawling show and treasures abound. Matthew Osborn, Financial Oblivion Matthew Osborn‘s wall of cartoon drawings kept me engaged for quite a while.  “Tools are weapons and weapons ... More » »

Slice, dice and fold–Art Alliance, Pageant and Fleisher-Ollman

Natasha Bowdoin, I am the sun in the morning, I am a dog at night, 2006; cut cards and gouache on paper, 36 x 54 x 9 inches.image courtesy the artist And now for the medium of the season, cut paper!! Three exhibits exploring the limits of paper as a medium are ripping up the town– Paper[space] at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Thanks to Mom and Dad/The Chain of the Worlds at Pageant Gallery, and a cleaner heart a do it at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, which dips into paper along with some other work. All three shows are worth the effort ... 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 » »

Another episode of the wonderfulness of too much good stuff!

The stars are in alignment and lots of wonderful things are opening and happening all at once this weekend. I hope to make it to some of these …see you out there! FRIDAY, DEC. 14, 2007 Street Button–5th annual emerging artist showFLEISHER/OLLMAN GALLERY, 1616 WALNUT STREET, SUITE 1006-9pm Jacob Hellman photo collage at White Lodge Gallery (in School of Rock building) Jacob HellmanPhotographs and InstallationsWhite Lodge Gallery1508 Brandywine Street5:30pm-8:30pmSATURDAY, DEC. 15, 2007 Oliver HerringFLUXspace3000 N. Hope St.6-10 pm See slide show below for more HausWerk imagesTyler student working on installation at the soon to be demolished house in Paoli. More ... More » »

Weekly Update – East Coast/West Coast at Pageant

This week’s Weekly has my review of East Coast/West Coast at Pageant Gallery. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr.Polar ExplorersAn exhibition at Pageant Gallery examines opposites and innuendos. “East Coast/West Coast” at Pageant: Soloveev Gallery has little to do with geography. What the group show seems to have on its mind is polarity and supposed opposites. The ideas are subtly handled, with art full of double meanings, innuendos and punch lines. Like The Sarah Silverman Program, the subtext is mightier than the surface. Mikey Wild, detail, Demons and Angels, 30 acrylic paintings, at Pageant. Mikey ... More » »

Special Look! It’s Libby and Roberta, Episode 8

This episode takes us to Pageant Gallery for a behind-the-scenes look at Belted Bronze, Terry Adkins’ homage to blues singer Bessie Smith who lived many years in Philadelphia but whose life here is not noted nor memorialized in the Cater St. neighborhood where she lived. For more photos of the show, see Roberta’s flickr and Libby’s flickr. Thanks to the great David Kessler who films, produces and edits our video series! Click the image for the FLASH VERSION:Flash version. Click picture. QUICKTIME VERSION:Quicktime version. Click picture.