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Weekly Update – Rage and quietude of Ashley Flynn and Ben Will
This week’s Weekly has my review of Ben Will’s solo show at the Arts League and Ashley Flynn’s solo show at Knapp Gallery. More pictures at flickr – Ben and Ashley. Ben Will’s paintings and sculptures in “The Beast From the Belly of a Boeing” at the University City Arts League feel very familiar. The show is sparse, consisting of only four paintings and three sculptures. Collectively, the work taps into the unconscious and never coalesces into a narrative, although a story is implied.
Totems! fabrics! bodies! at University City Arts League
The shamanistic power of totems is transformed in the art of three women exhibiting this month at the University City Arts League. Drawing on methods and materials that belong to women’s craft practices and exploring the relationship of bodies to clothing, the three have created armor and stand-ins for the female body that are imbued with magical forces to be reckoned with.
Got books?
This is a picture of artists’ books, zines and other art-related publications available as a temporary reading library, now on display at the ICA’s exhibit Ramp Project: Beyond Kiosk, A Selection of the Kiosk Archive, drawn from the Kiosk archive in Berlin; wouldn’t it be nice for a permanent reading library at the University City Arts League? You can help. The University City Arts League is creating an arts library for the thousands who take classes from pottery to poetry, painting to salsa dancing. The West Philly non-profit gallery and educational institution would like build an arts book collection that ... More » »
Water world at the Arts League
Post by Ryan Menezes Cell phone photographs. Not exactly what you would expect to find on display in a professional art exhibition. Yet there they were, framed on the back wall: Ten Days at the Pool, by Eric Russell, seven columns and eight rows of colorful cell-phone-sized photographs, images depicting the many colors and textures of a pool’s surface. The work is part of the group exhibition entitled, The Secret Life of Water, a group exhibition featuring work by 16 members of Brandywine Photo Collective at The University City Arts League. Sarah Barr, Playing Out Back (2007) a chromogenic print ... More » »
Walt Goettman’s photogravure layers of urban life
by Walt Goettman, one of his copperplate photogravure printed images; once again, my own images are foiled by glass reflections, adding still another layer to Goettman’s own photos of reflections in glass. Sorry. The old technique that photographer Walt Goettman plies makes the ordinary modern world into a layered magic. In an exhibit of more than two dozen 9×9 photograph-based images at the University City Arts League until Feb. 3, Goettman uses an inky printing process to bring out the layered experience of walking down a city street, taking in the reflections and what’s behind the reflections and capturing the ... More » »
