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Derek Frech’s virtual Sublime at Rebekah Templeton

The virtual molten rock slips out from under my feet at that jewelbox of a gallery, Rebekah Templeton. I haven’t got a safe piece of ground to stand on there.

Belknapʼs bizarro world at Rebekah Templeton

by Dennis D’Alesandro Ordnance, Timothy Belknapʼs solo show at Rebekah Templeton, is a humorous and fun explosion of colors, textures, and forms. in this comment on the dangers in the American dream, Belknap deploys a surrealist and almost cartoonish eye to mash up the everyday benign with a suggestion of real physical harm or deformity. Some of the unexpected occurrences in this strange world include plastic skeletons coming to life, a lawn mower squirting its engine into the air, and a display of succulent fancy cakes concocted out of multi-colored fireworks.

Templeton Spotlights 9 emerging artists

In the small open-call show Spotlights at Rebekah Templeton, the nine artists in the exhibit do a great job of making fresh work from the old tactic of making silk purses out of sows ears.

Weekly Update – Jessica Gath, Secretary to the World

Want to send a letter but don’t have the stamp? Jessica Gath wants to help you out with that. In fact, she’ll even type it for you.

Artists wanted: Rebekah Templeton, Septa, Inliquid

We don’t have a community bulletin board page but maybe some day!  Meanwhile, three worthy open calls came in via email recently and seem like good opportunities. Open call from Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art Juried contemporary art show, May 12-June 18, 2011 Juror – Jon Lutz, independent curator in New York. More about Luzt at his project site, the daily operation. Open to artists from Philadelphia or elsewhere.  All applying artists will be considered for future solo exhibition opportunities. Entry Fee: $20

Kensington ramble to Crane Arts, Little Berlin, Rebekah Templeton

It’s remarkable how much territory you can cover and art you can see in an afternoon, on foot, in Kensington. Here’s a sample of some offerings from my walk last Saturday afternoon.  I started at Little Berlin, where Landscape Techne, the group show curated by LB member Kristen Neville, suggests that no matter how electronically-or technologically-sophisticated we are as a society, artists will always have a need to create landscape imagery of some sort.

Video Served Three Ways – Little Berlin, Great and Terrible Collective and Rebekah Templeton

I am sometimes impatient with video art. I complain about the seating (or lack thereof) the tiny screens, weird sounds conflicting as you move from one display to the next, but I am here to sing the joys of three shows where video is a pivotal element. This weekend is your last chance to see the shows at Little Berlin and Great and Terrible Collective, while the wonderful live!infili! at Rebekah Templeton has already finished. These shows include sculpture, drawing, animation, installation, and sound and light displays, but each showcases video in a unique or adventurous way.

NoLibs First Friday: Adventures (Mostly) in Clay

Several shows this month in NoLibs above Spring Garden step outside the norms of a medium, bringing new life to photos, prints and clay. At PPAC through May 15, .matrix includes work by artists interested in “pushing the limits of the printed image and how it is created, used and disseminated.” This isn’t your grandmother’s printmaking. Much of it purposefully challenges our perception of the single matrix, or surface onto which one unique print is impressed.

Hot stuff this month at Sweatshop, Templeton, Grizzly and elsewhere

It’s a blizzard out there — with shows dropping like snowflakes on the Philly art scene.  Here’s some pictures and a few comments from our travels around town this past month.  All these venues have serious monthly (or bi-monthly) programs and with First Friday around the corner it’s time to get out and see some more. Things We’ve Made Since September at Sweatshop

Weekly Update — Smokey spirituality at Rebekah Templeton

This week’s Weekly has my review of Dechemia at Rebekah Templeton.  Below’s the copy with pictures. More photos at my flickr. You may not know Bardo Pond members John Gibbons and Isobel Sollenberger as visual artists, but the couple has been making and exhibiting their shamanistic and mandalalike poured plaster art for years.