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Deathsheads revisited–Antonio Martorell at Taller
Thoughts of death vs. breath abound in internationally renowned artist Antonio Martorell’s installation of woodcut prints at Taller Puertorriqueno. The exhibit, La Plena Inmortal, embraces celebration and mourning, beauty and horror, the past and the present, humor and seriousness, vanity and all-is-vanity in a most Latino way.
Pepón Osorio’s big heart
The artist with the biggest heart in town is Pepon Osorio. I am not even referring to his big paper-covered heart sculpture, My Beating Heart, one of three older pieces showcased right now at Taller Puertorriqueno. I am talking about Osorio himself.
Weekly Update – Miguel Luciano at Taller Puertorriqueno
This week’s Weekly has my review of Miguel Luciano’s solo show at Taller Puertorriqueno. Below is the copy with pictures. More photos at flickr. And look for an artblog exclusive — an interview between Curator Anabelle Rodriguez and Miguel Luciano — coming soon. Miguel Luciano’s interactive piece, Cuando Las Gallinas Mean (When Hens Pee), about speaking up for yourself. Miguel Luciano’s impulse to educate is as strong as his need to make art. The young artist’s wonderful exhibition at Taller Puertorriqueño is a treatise on Puerto Rican empowerment delivered through paintings, interactive sculptures, prints and drawings that are wry and ... More » »
Leonora Carrington in Dallas and Joshua Mosley in Ft. Worth
Leonora Carrington in her studio in 1956 While in Dallas for the College Art Association annual meeting I managed to slip away to see some art. At the Dallas Museum of Art was a small exhibition, Leonora Carrington; What She Might Be, containing twenty-five works by an artist some ten years younger than Lee Miller and Frida Kahlo, both of whom she knew ( both currently have exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), see post and post). The English-born Carrington, who is celebrating her ninetieth birthday, is another woman who used her beauty as entree into the artworld. ... More » »
Art along Lehigh
Post by Andrea Kirsh Gilberto Gonzalez paintings on walls by Dan “One” There’s lots to see along Lehigh Avenue at the moment. If you’re going to the Lighthouse before it closes tomorrow to see Pepon Ossorio’s extraordinary and moving installation (see post), you might want to stop at Taller Puertorriqueno to see stylistically-diverse work by several other artists active in Philadelphia’s Latino community: “Three Conversations; recent works by Gilberto Gonzalez, Domingo Negron and Jose Ali Paz” is actually work by four artists. Gonzalez, the prize-winning Senior Graphic Designer at the Community College of Philadelphia, is showing cityscapes of the barrio ... More » »
Exhibits offer bilingual treasures for the eye–and palate
Post by Andrea Kirsh First, Tesoros at the Art Museum Asiel Timor Dei, Artist/maker unknown (Bolivian), c. 1680. Oil on canvas, 160.5 x 110.5 cm. Museo Nacional De Arte La Paz, Bolivia. (Museum publicity shot) Tesoros, the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s survey of the merging of Spanish and indigenous visual traditions in the art of colonial Latin America is big and splashy and expensive (free for museum members but $20 for others, $17 for seniors and students; on Phillyfunguide.org you can find half-price tickets for selected times). Paintings of archangels carrying muskets (the seventeenth-century equivalent of semiautomatics) are only some ... More » »
