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Temple Philagrafika talk 2-5 today

I’m dashing toff to Temple Gallery for the artist’s talk inconjunction with the Philagrafika show there. The talk, featuring artists Carl Pope, Frencesc Ruiz, Barthelemy Toguo and YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, plus Curators Sheryl Conkelton and Jose Roca, sounds pretty interesting.

Sheryl Conkelton leaves Tyler!

Tyler School of Art’s gallery director, Sheryl Conkelton, is leaving! Oh, horrors.

This week’s cornucopia of wonderful things to do

Hello artblog readers. This week’s overload of fabulous activities has even us flummoxed. We wish we could do it all! With three talks at Penn in two days, we want to give Penn the Yakkity Yak Award. TUESDAY MARCH 17 Gary Hill–NOTE:  AS OF 2 PM MONDAY, MAR. 16, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Hill has been working with video and sound since 1973. His intermedia use of text, speech and image explore the physicality of language and our thought processes. Winner of a MacArthur Foundation Genius award in 1998, and winner of the Leone díOro Prize for Sculpture at ... More » »

Make Room for Books

Installation view of Volume Attempts; the space of books at Tyler Gallery The premise of the extraordinary exhibition, Volume Attempts: The Space of Books at Tyler School of Art’s Temple Gallery in Old City (through October 25, 2008) is that books are more than passive containers for ideas. Rather they are malleable objects with which we have intimate relationships, usually conducted in private and involving our touch as well as our gaze. It’s the only book exhibition I’ve ever seen that acknowledges that books must be held and perused page-by-page in order to be appreciated. If you love books, don’t ... More » »

Tyler joins the mothership–bigger, better, beautiful

Photo by Hillel Hoffman. Roberta; Greg Murphy, assistant dean for development; John Coll, project superintendent; and Libby, looking up at the soaring atrium ceiling. Tyler School of Art has been Temple University‘s best kept secret division for years. But now that the scrappy little art school–arguably the best incubator for new artists in a region filled with great art schools–has been forced by the mothership to give up its bucolic Elkins Park campus and move to 12th and Norris, the connection will be clearer. It’s a good move!!! Tyler’s $75 million new building, still under construction, is space-age spectacular.  Even ... More » »

Banana twins–Nick Paparone and Andria Bibiloni

Nick Paparone, 400 Horsepower #1, airbrushed, laminated Cindy Crawford poster, poster hangers Andria Bibiloni’s self-portrait as banana-weilding muchacha My favorite coincidence this month is a pair of images by two very different artists with very different intents, both of them playing off the same kind of pop culture imagery. On the top we have Nick Paparone‘s rejiggering of a Cindy Crawford poster, merging Carmen Miranda as Chiquita Banana, Cindy Crawford as Cindy Crawford selling Cindy Crawford, her swim suit and her look, and phallic symbols turned rasta hair in case you missed the message. The image under Nick’s is Andria ... More » »

Damian Moppett: Look! It’s Libby and Roberta struggling

Click To Play Look at Libby and Roberta struggle to understand work by Canadian artist Damian Moppett at Temple Gallery, the latest episode from our ongoing series of gallery visits on video. Check it out, and check out the show, which is definitely worth the time to grapple with unfamiliar, but excellent work. Our video guru David Kessler captured it all and makes the magic happen. Hey, there’s still time to catch his work up at Bambi Gallery until Jan. 20. We didn’t review it because we love him to death and it’s hard to give the show a credible ... More » »

Real life vs. intervention art–Manybody at Temple Gallery

Post by Emily Regier You are Beautiful project intervention along Second Street First, it was my roommate’s ironing board, which buckled under the strain of the vigorous pressing I exacted upon my first-day-of-work-suit. Next, one of my underwires mysteriously loosed itself in our washer, arresting the machine at mid-cycle for days. And then there was the curiously shaped behemoth of a sculpture I collided with in our living room, which, as it turns out, was welded by her mother… As I troll Craigslist for a new place to live, I’m thinking the sculpture was the breaking point, so to speak. ... More » »

The First Friday — we find some edges

Joy Feasley, Last Picnic, vinyl paint on board, 20 x 25.5″, the conceit of a boy and girl having picnic way up in a tree, looking out on all of nature hits a lot of emotional notes–humor, wonder, love. Roberta told you about the carousel-like spectacle that closed our First Friday (post here), an event that included the two of us plus Andrea, too, who is fast becoming our regular ff companion. The evening not only ended with a bang, it started out with a bang–Philadelphia artist Joy Feasley and former Philadelphia artist Clare Rojas in Locks Gallery!! Now that’s ... More » »

Look! It’s Libby and Roberta, Episode 6

We’ve posted the video for Episode 6 of Look! It’s Libby and Roberta in the column at the LEFT. In case you’ve missed it, Look! It’s Libby and Roberta is our video project with the great David Kessler, who also made the documentary film on Zoe Strauss, If You Break the Skin You Must Come In, screened recently at ICA. To watch EPISODE 6 of Look! click the picture in the LEFT column. Or Watch EPISODE 6 here. All clicks get you there. EPISODE 6 covers Asuka Goto‘s MFA show at Temple Gallery and Guariglia and Chen‘s exhibit at Gallery ... More » »