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News: New ICA curator, video art history @ PAFA, opportunities, and more!
News (Inaccurate information has been removed from this post). ICA appoints new curator The Institute of Contemporary Art has appointed Anthony Elms as a new Associate Curator. Elms has worked as an independent curator and writer, and he was Assistant Director of Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago for six years. He replaces Jenelle Porter who has taken a position at ICA Boston.
Old City – visual puns, earth focus and free form at LaPelle, Bodega and Knapp
I like to consider myself a pretty “punny” guy – I adore both visual puns and wordplay of all kinds – so upon entering LaPelle Gallery’s show by Roxborough artist Nick D’Angelo, I was very pleasantly surprised. The first piece I noticed had a realistically rendered standup bass lying beside a bottle of Bass Pale Ale, entitled Double Bass. Highly amused, I continued into the room, soon to discover that this piece would pale (ale) in comparison to the rest.
First Friday in Old City
The other night I found myself in Old City for First Friday where I stopped by the 3rd Street Gallery, the Clay Studio, and the Rodger La Pelle Galleries. There were plenty of paintings, photographs, ceramics, and more to see, but here are some of the artists that caught my attention.
Keith Newhouse’s demons cackle at LaPelle
Keith Newhouse, Tornado, 27 x 21 inches The “jittery gibberisher” who yacks in pen and ink all over Keith Newhouse’s collaged drawings at Rodger LaPelle Galleries is part artist and part demon, living in a world of terrors, large and small. The phrase, which appears more than once in Newhouse’s drawings, seems to be a self-description of an artist who cannot stop writing words, which serve as decorative elements contained in outlined spaces or wander all around the page. I haven’t been in LaPelle for a long time, but these drawings–there are 59 of them!!!–chock full of semi-readable prose, demons, ... More » »
What we want to see Friday
First Friday’s coming up Dec. 7, 2007. Here’s some of what we’re excited about. For gallery times and locations, check the links to the gallery websites. David Kessler‘s Shadow World videos and Candace Karch’s black and white photographs at Bambi. At Vox Pop, members Josh Rickards (image above), Max Lawrence and Micah Danges, plus more in the 4th room, the video lounge and in Screening!! Jane Irish, Room with Blue Vases/VVAW San Francisco, 2006. oil on Tyvec with raised letters and modeling paste, 5 x 8 feetIrish is at Locks Gallery along with etchings by Lucien Freud and work by ... More » »
November’s First Friday
Well! November’s First Friday was an exciting time to visit the galleries down in Old City (certainly better than the rainy First Friday of October) – lots of people out, lots of live music, and lots of awesome art. I went to some seven or eight galleries in total, and here will highlight six artists featured in four of these galleries whose art I found to be especially interesting. To start, it seemed that 2nd Street was the place to be on First Friday – and more specifically at Artist’s House. Viewers spilled out onto the street and waited in ... More » »
