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Westcott prints available now

This just in from Spector Projects (Shelley Spector’s freelance curatorial and products division), a new line of digital prints of paintings by the late Rebecca Westcott is available for purchase at the project’s website. The four, poster-sized works (largest is 49 1/2 x 34″) are based on four paintings by the Pew-winning Westcott, killed in a road-side accident in 2004 shortly after winning the fellowship.  The paintings on which the new digital prints are based are currently in the National Portrait Gallery as part of the show Communities — on view through July 10. (Andrea told you about that show ... More » »

Annals of dealing–Shelleyware

Matt Fisher, Ghost Rider Imagine my pleasure in seeing former Spector Gallery gal, Shelley Spector, in Philadelphia Magazine. There she is, the feature creature in the Good Life section, which (like most of the magazine) pitches consumer goods. She looks great, but not at all like her bouncy, energetic herself (although there’s a more characteristic little image in the table of contents). The photo is a marketing image, by gum, Spector in a black preppy top, representing the new Spector Projects. She looks poised and posed to sell you her art products in your own livingroom–or someone else’s. It’s the ... More » »

Weekly Update – Jim Houser’s world at the Bride

This week’s Weekly has my review of Jim Houser‘s show at Painted Bride. Below is the copy with some pictures. More at flickr.Back to BlackJim Houser spills his NPR-addled subconscious. Black Lurker with arrow in heart greets you in Jim Houser’s Painted Bride installation. Black has never been the anchor color in Jim Houser’s mostly pastel installations, but it’s all over his new two-floor piece at the Painted Bride. From boulder-headed characters called lurkers to small candles, shells and rocks on the memorial-like shelves that dot the walls, the preponderance of black changes the tenor of Houser’s universe from eggs ... More » »