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Intimacy and dynamism in PAFA’s Urbanism

By Mary Murphy This show at the Academy is notable for the way its title is embodied in the jostling relationships among the works displayed. Like city residents, they bump into each other in various contexts, defining the urban environment as a place of anonymous intimacy, dynamic energy, and jarring juxtaposition. Four local emerging artists use a variety of means – scale, color, gesture, and context – to state these themes, but each connects them differently toward social ends.

Weekly Update – Seriously Pleasurable at Slought

The big news about Solitary Pleasures at Slought is not the graphic content showing masturbation, although there is plenty of that.  The news is that two powerful works by 70s era feminist artists Carolee Schneemann and VALIE EXPORT create a zone of inquiry about taboos that is well beyond the titter and haha stage usually reached when the subject of onanism comes up.

Steven Dufala and James Ulmer–They Climbed the Mountains

Steven Dufala, Shark, digital print My luck was with me! They Climbed the Mountains, a two-man show at Honeymilk Gallery, was extended an extra month. The two artists in the exhibit, Steven Dufala and James Ulmer, have sold a lot of the work, all of which are small, limited-edition digital prints. Steven Dufala, Kill Yourself/Fall in Love, digital print Dufala’s are fabulous and unexpected. Harking to Asian mountain imagery, fabric prints and old maps with monsters of the deep, Dufala creates a moody, somewhat threatening group of small landscapes, and seascapes (sort of) some peopled, some not. A shark lurks ... More » »

Dolls, dolls, dolls

Voodoo paper dolls by Steven Dufala and Joslyn Newman Sometimes the narratives we tell about ourselves slip out unbidden. I’m thinking here of Barbie and Transformers. Do we really see ourselves as clotheshorses with those strange male-fantasy proportions, sometimes naked, riding poles and ponies in strip clubs advertising girls, girls, girls? Do we really see ourselves as cyborgs that become full-fledged machines (how else to explain the six-pack abs phenomenon)? I think the answer is, yes, that is how we see ourselves, some of the time. The dolls made by 15 artists for a show at a clothing store (is ... More » »