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Weekly Update – Naked Paper at Tower Gallery
This week’s Weekly has my review of Naked Paper at Tower Gallery. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr.Border PatrolFrames are so last century. Until recently, buying a print or drawing meant also buying a frame that might cost as much as or more than the artwork. Today, thanks to a confluence of technology, taste and economics, frames are out. Randall Sellers, Exeunt Omnes, 2007. graphite and conte on paper 8 1/2 x 11, a work at Tower Gallery’s Naked paper show. Nowadays galleries, museums and collectors—seeking the authentic experience of living with art up close ... More » »
Incoming Thursday: Naked Paper and Imagine
More than 75 works on paper by 22 artists — all unframed and hung salon-style — in a show called Naked Paper at Tower Gallery. Includes cut paper installations, hand-made book, prints and lots of ink and pencil on paper. Sounds great! Opens Thursday, July 12 and runs to Aug. 24 with an opening reception Thursday, July 12, 6-9 pm. Here’s the list:Corey AntisStephanie BeckKellyann BurnsMichael CiervoChristopher DavisonKip DeedsAlexis GranwellJackie HovingTasja KeetmanMatt NeffJohn OlivieriNorm ParisKeary RosenHiro SakaguchiCaroline SantaRandall SellersNancy SophyHunter StablerJina ValentineChristopher van AukenEva WylieMauro Zamora Christopher DavisonSummer Book20 x 11 inchesInk, gouache, crayon, micron, acrylic, collage on various papers, ... More » »
Look! It’s Episode 3!!!
Huddle: Norm Paris and Cara Erskine at Tower Gallery to March 31. Finish/Line Borowsky Gallery, Gershman Y to April 13. Works by Matt Curtius and Gina Triplett, John Gibbons and Isobel Sollenberger, Anne Krinsky and Rebecca Rutstein. See all three episodes of Look! It’s Libby and Roberta here. Produced by the awesome David Kessler.
Weekly Update – Tower Gallery Sports
This week’s Weekly has my Editor’s Pick preview of Cara Erskine and Norm Paris’s “Huddle” at Tower Gallery. Below is the copy with some pictures. Norm Paris, Son of Arnold, mortar, foam, papier mache, paint. approximately 11 ft high. In 2005 at his Fleisher Challenge exhibit Norm Paris presented a small army of cast-plaster Michael Jordans with tongues hanging out attempting to catch falling bombs. In this new two-person exhibit, Paris and his Yale classmate Cara Erskine present a dialogue of works in paint, sculpture and prints in which the sports metaphor again presents issues of hero-worship and hope—and the ... More » »
Tower Gallery: Jacobs and Granwell
I stopped in at Tower Gallery on Friday to see Alexis Granwell and Hedwige Jacobs‘ works. Granwell’s big installation piece, Navigating the Ecstasy I and II was leaving for Delaware on Saturday so I wanted to catch it before it left to be in the DCCA’s Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition, opening jan. 26 and juried by PAFA’s Alex Baker. Another Granwell sculpture will be installed at Tower for the duration of that show Tower Gallerist Jenney Jaskey told me. Alexis Granwell, Navigating the Ecstasy, I and II Navigating the Ecstasy, two small walls each made of foam, wood, wire, fabric ... More » »
Weekly Update – Tower Gallery’s Cool Heat
This week’s Weekly includes my review of the group show at Tower Gallery in Northern Liberties. Below is the copy with some pictures and here’s the link to the art page.“Bright Lights,” Pink CityThree young artists confront violence and disaster with pastels. Tower Gallery, the high-ceiling, cement-floor space in the Tower Investments Building at 969 N. Second St., has been showing art for a couple years now. But until last summer—when Jenny Jaskey approached Bart Blatstein, president and CEO of Tower Investments, about running an exhibition program—there wasn’t a gallery director, and shows stayed under the radar. Orlando Soria’s I’m ... More » »
