Tag Archive "space-1026"

Erin Riley next week on artblog radio

Erin M. Riley’s conceptual narratives seem easy to understand. But the moral tales have a way of posing thorny questions that linger in the mind. Her work is in a Space 1026 fiber exhibit of work by five artists in March 2012, part of Fiber Philadelphia, and she had a prestigious Fleisher Challenge this past fall.  Here’s a sample from next week’s podcast: Erin Riley 49-second sample

Tar or chocolate? Jay Hardman’s alternate universe at Space 1026

The aroma of cake wafts through the gallery at Space 1026 this month. New member of Vox Populi, Jay Hardman, gets his first one man show, Unsustainable, showcasing his love affair with buildings and building materials, while attempting to comment on the relationship between the materials, textures, and the societal contexts implicit in their use.

Miss Rockaway Armada – experience the dream at the Art Alliance

Miss Rockaway Armada shines once more upon a shipwrecked shore. On view at The Art Alliance, her rambling installation takes over the Wetherill Rittenhouse mansion until December 30. The original videos for the two magical flotilla nights along the Schuylkill greet you in the foyer. Look down to notice you are stepping on a blue and green bubble wrap river of dreams, which sails into the first room to the left. The converted armada brings you to your knees this time to completely transform the experience of the fruit crate cave—formerly the flotilla’s walk through wave.

Clash of Alternate Universes at Space 1026

Post by Dennis D’Alesandro This month when you pull the homemade doorbell at Space 1026, you get buzzed up into Alternate Universes, a two person show featuring large installations that play off of each other, attempting to warp you far away from the hustle and bustle of Chinatown outside.

Becky Suss’s Cold, Cold Ground at Space 1026

By Diana Jih Becky Suss embraces remembrance and her artistic seasonal affective disorder through a series of multi-textured oil landscapes at her first solo exhibition in Philadelphia, Cold Cold Ground, on display at Space 1026. Her wintry mix of iced-over hidden streams and snowed-in backyard gardens calls to mind the past season and the missing places of spring. Those places exist once again in these recreated memories. During her First Friday opening, “Green River” and “wish you were here” twinged my nostalgia for pockets of rural New England I’ve happened upon in previous years.

Desert Island – a desert in name only, at Space 1026

By Daniel Hoffman Desert Island, the exhibition at Space 1026, is full of artists who have played a role in Desert Island, the Brooklyn comics store owned by Gabe Fowler. The exhibition, curated by Fowler and up through the end of the month, gives us a little glimpse into the lives of these prolific artists. Art seems to permeate their lives and manifests itself in multiple expressions. Pieces on the wall serve as finished ideas, while zines act as receptacles for the numerous thoughts and ideas of the individual artists.

Amze Emmons’ shaky cityscapes–on artblog radio

Our series sponsor is Fleisher Art Memorial. Artist Amze Emmons’ forlorn cityscapes of shaky, provisional dwellings seem ever more pertinent as we view on the news the tent cities in the center of Cairo. We talked to Emmons about his name, his art, and about his Refugee Reading Room exhibit at Space 1026. For the show, now in its last week, he invited about 50 artists to contribute prints and zines, all is free for the taking. Emmons is prolific and networked. He showed in 13 shows last year, from Philadelphia to Seattle to Osaka, Japan. And Emmons, who teaches ...

Refugee Reading Room at Space 1026 – Amze Emmons

“Library” is one of those rare words that held different connotations for me as I made the mystical transition from childhood into maturity. As a child, the small branch of the public library just a few blocks away from my home offered the promise of Reading Rainbow-style journeys into other worlds, bright picture books splattered with enough colors to rival the appeal of a candy store window, and the chance to make friends in any of a number of after-school programs. Once I entered high school, however, “library” quickly became associated with term papers, the echoing halls of silence and ...

First Friday at Space 1026

I had the opportunity to stop into some gallery openings in Chinatown this past First Friday, one of which was Space 1026, a nice open space that was displaying photographs by Sandy Kim and Logan White. Both artists use 35 millimeter film to capture images that are reminiscent of documentary style photography, attempting to capture subjects that are often inaccessible or private, photographs that are meant to be objective and honest. While their styles differ, both Kim and Logan show photos with a bit of grit and grunge. Their use of 35 millimeter film gives each of their photos a ...

First Friday at 1026, Vox and Tiger

The show Yesterday Today is Tomorrow at Space 1026, if described in one word, is quaint. This is not necessarily an unfavorable assessment. The artists are certainly intentional in a way which is playful and aloof, and I find that quaint.