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Office Hours – Zoe Strauss at the PMA
“What the hell?” sums up Zoe Strauss’s rationale for choosing one of three paintings from the archives of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to hang in her temporary office at the museum. This could easily also be the reaction of unsuspecting passers by to one of Strauss’s billboard photos. Countless people must by now have stumbled on the citywide series of billboard prints while dozing off on SEPTA, crossing Gray’s Ferry Ave., or looking up from their iPhones. As the familiar city landscape reveals a less familiar face or empty storefront pictured where an advertisement once was, viewers have been ... More » »
Report from under I-95: Wet but wild
For the first time, I came home empty-handed from Zoe Strauss’ Under I-95 photo exhibit today, her spring bouquet to South Philadelphia in South Philadelphia, now in its ninth year, with one more year to go. What a crowd!!! They beat me to the punch on all the pictures I was trying to snag. It was a sure sign of success. Maybe Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Karen Heller brought more folks out–nothing like mainstream media. Here’s the link but it will be gone in six months. Or maybe it was the rain. Can’t work in the garden or paint the house; ... More » »
Art of the people, by the people, for the people–Zoe Strauss under I-95
The biggest art event this weekend is Sunday, May 3: Zoe Strauss will exhibit a huge number of photographs–231 of them– under I-95, in South Philadelphia.
Filming Zoe Strauss’s Under I 95
Photo by Chris Pacquette. Scene Under I 95 Sunday, May 4, with people looking at Zoe Strauss’s photos installed on the pillars that hold up the highway. If you were out Sunday to see Zoe Strauss‘s 7th Under I 95 exhibition you may have noted the film crew hanging out and shooting footage. Who were they? A crew from City Projects in Los Angeles working with US Artists, the group that gave a $50,000 grant to Strauss (and a bunch of other artists) last year. City Projects is documenting the artists who received the grants and putting the videos up ... More » »
Zoe Strauss’ Sunday, Sunday, super Sunday
Spring is here and that means the 7th annual Zoe Strauss Under I-95 show and sale. Of the people, by the people and for the people. 231 photographs, 67 of them new, for the rock bottom price of $5 each. The color photos digitally reproduced are displayed on the pillars that hold up the mighty super speedway I-95 in South Philadelphia near Target. Those become lagniappe for the cognoscenti at the end of the day. Grab one of the images off a pillar, absolutely free, with Zoe’s blessing. Please only one to a customer. Since she exploded on the scene ... More » »
Under I-95 2007 Photo Post
Sales were brisk and the turnout was good at Zoe Strauss‘s Under I-95 show and sale last Sunday. This was the 7th annual show and sale of works from Strauss’s ten-year Philadelphia Art Project. Libby and I were there. Brent Burket came over from New York, Silverstein Photography (Chelsea gallery where the artist’s solo show opens May 17) turned out. Elyse Gonzalez and Johanna Plummer of ICA were there; Pepon Osorio was there. Paula Marincola was there. We met photographer Isaac Schell which was a treat. David Kessler was filming for the documentary on Strauss that he’s making. Ditta Baron ... More » »
