Tag Archive "pepon-osorio"
News – Joan Mitchell grants, Whitney Biennial list, Helen Frankenthaler and more…
News Joan Mitchell Foundation grants The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced its 2011 Painters and Sculptors Grant Program recipients — 25 artists who will each receive $25,000. Among the winners are Philadelphians Virgil Marti, Jackie Tileston, and former Philly artist Anabeth Rosen. Congratulations! Here’s the full list: Diana Al-Hadid, Brooklyn, NY Nicole Awai, Brooklyn, NY Keith Benjamin, Cleves, OH William Cordova, Miami, FL Cicely Cottingham, West Orange, NJ Florine Demosthene, Brooklyn, NY Daniel Douke, Fallbrook, CA Julie Green, Corvallis, OR Tommy Hartung, Ridgewood, NY Janelle Iglesias, Provincetown, MA Gary Kachadourian, Baltimore, MD Simone Leigh, Brooklyn, NY Andrew Lenaghan, Brooklyn, NY Anne Lindberg, Kansas City, MO Virgil ... More » »
New York day trip – great show at Ronald Feldman, good show at Pace MacGill and great walk on the Highline
Cate and I took a leisurely downtown walk one day late last month and saw one interesting show and one fantastic show. And because we both love it so, we took another walk on the Highline.
Martha Wilson, Nick Cave and Pepon Osorio in New York City
Age was something that happened to Other People, so it was startling to walk into P.P.O.W. Gallery to see a huge, poster-sized photograph of Martha Wilson in her exhibition I have become my own worst fear (through Oct. 8, 2011). I hadn’t seen Wilson in twenty-five years and, turning to her dealer, Penny Pilkington (whom I’ve seen intermittently during the more than twenty years we’ve been aquainted, so we’ve aged slowly for each other) I said, I guess we’ve all gotten older.
Mourning: Osorio and Munoz at PAFA and PMA
Maybe because Murray’s mother died a month ago (see his Op Ed in today’s Inquirer), two works in the big Philagrafika 2010 exhibit have been gnawing about me. Pepon Osorio at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has printed a blow-up of an X-ray image of his mother’s skull atop a thick, black bed of confetti, laid on the floor like a fresh grave. The installation is to honor the memory of his mother, who died recently. And the memorial suggests all the medical interventions that fail and the way an individual, irreplaceable and unique and loved, is quantified in ... More » »
Pepón Osorio’s big heart
The artist with the biggest heart in town is Pepon Osorio. I am not even referring to his big paper-covered heart sculpture, My Beating Heart, one of three older pieces showcased right now at Taller Puertorriqueno. I am talking about Osorio himself.
Alternate Art and Spiritual Worlds
Radcliffe Bailey Storm at Sea (2006), piano keys, African sculpture, model boat, paper, acrylic, glitter, and gold leaf 212 x 213 inches Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York © Radcliffe BaileyI went out to P.S.1 Friday to see Neohoodoo: art for a forgotten faith, co-organized with the Menil Collection, Houston. According to the press release the exhibition challenges conceptions of insider and outsider art, as a number of the artists from North, Central and South America incorporated vernacular religious forms and practices in works that address contemporary ritual and spirituality. Vernacular expressions of faith were much ... More » »
From Taboo to Icon–to one global art world
Pepon Osorio, Mangual, 2007, video a short video loop of a dark-skinned man vigorously, but unsuccessfully rubbing off white-face makeup–referencing identity and culture and art history all at once. There’s some terrific work included in the exhibit From Taboo to Icon: Africanist Turnabout, an exhibit currently at the Ice Box, a group show of about 70 works that grew out of a series of symposia at Temple University last year. The symposia, African Impressions/Contemporary Art, explored African influences in modern and contemporary art. They pondered the meanings behind the experiences of artists of color, especially when they used Africanist imagery. ... More » »
Weekly Update – Bulletin Boards as art
[This week's Weekly has my essay on bulletin boards as art. Below is the copy with a picture. I'll put another picture in later. And if you have a picture of your bulletin board/refrigerator art, why not send it in and we'll run a little photo post about your art statements.] Pin-up ArtistsCubicles are installations by and for the people. Somewhere in your personal space—the kitchen, office, bedroom, hallway—there’s a bulletin board holding notes, postcards, photos, a calendar or other miscellanea that help organize and define you. Whether you’re conscious of it or not, you’ve designed and authored personal installation ... More » »
Weekly Update – Pepon Osorio’s Badge of Honor
This week’s Weekly has my piece on Pepon Osorio’s Badge of Honor at the Lighthouse. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr.Insider ArtPepón Osorio’s work is interventionist and activist. Tucked into the second-floor meeting room at the Lighthouse community center is a strange installation. Two small chambers—one a prison cell, the other a teenager’s bedroom—have become focal points in the large room usually used for Narcotics Anonymous meetings and City Year teen sleepovers. Pepon Osorio, Badge of Honor. 1995. Having its debut in Philadelphia. Pepón Osorio’s installation Badge of Honor, which includes video projections of a ... More » »
Art guard Linda Harris—She oughtta write for artblog
Post by Edward M. Epstein Linda Harris guarding the art at the ICA If you’ve gone to Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art, chances are you’ve seen museum guard Linda Harris on patrol. The first time I met her she was chastising a couple of visitors for using a camera—yet I could tell that she didn’t have the usual museum guard’s relish for wielding power. She preferred to talk about the work. “Have you seen the one with the shopping bags?” Linda asked. She explained that as part of the group show Make Your Own Light: Artists In and Out of ... More » »
