Tag Archive "video"

Artists’ Projects in France

During a week spent visiting buildings of Le Corbusier in France, one of the happiest surprises was the number of artists who have been invited to produce work in French monuments and sites. We began at the Villa Savoye in Poissy,  just outside Paris.  As we circumnavigated the building to reach the entrance (designed for visitors who arrive by car, the ‘front’ door is 180 degrees from the façade that’s visible on entering the grounds), we saw a large, open structure on the grounds, made of rough logs and thatch, that looked to me like an extravagant version of chickees, ... More » »

CONSTRUCT, from CFEVA, at the Ice Box

Big is what the Ice Box exhibition space requires. CONSTRUCT, CFEVA‘s show there, delivers the goods.

Kari Altmann’s Core Samples at Extra Extra Gallery

by Dennis D’Alesandro Core Samples, a one-person show featuring internet and new media artist Kari Altmann at Extra Extra Gallery, attempts to uncover the common denominators that exist between people, the exterior environment, and all of the images, products, and information that populate our existence. (The show can be seen at Extra Extra until the end of the month.)

Jennifer Levonian at the Library Company

Murray thinks about history and I think about art. I think we might have similar motives–trying to figure out the meaning of life and what is real–but just come at it in different ways. So when video artist Jennifer Levonian, a 2009 Pew Fellow in the Arts, gave a talk at the Library Company to introduce her new work on exhibit there alongside Civil War-era printed materials, we happily joined hands and caught a trolley to Center City.

Jennie Thwing on artblog radio – a new podcast

Locks Gallery sponsors this episode. Jennie Thwing‘s whimsical stop-action animations have tickled our visual funnybone for years — at the same time that they’ve made us think about issues like the environment and our culture of waste.  The artist and educator (she teaches at Rowan University in New Jersey) is also a member of Nexus, one of Philly’s oldest alternative membership spaces.  Thwing, who was born in Alberta, Canada, tells us about her religious upbringing and about starting out as a painter but never being satisfied with her paintings. Her videos — elliptical narritives in which she and others perform ... More » »

Chelsea star – Mika Rottenberg’s Squeeze at Mary Boone

We always hope to find a surprise in Chelsea–something we didn’t expect and that knocked our socks off.  We don’t always find it.  But this time we found a star — Mika Rottenberg’s video installation Squeeze at Mary Boone. (Thanks to Diane Burko and Lenore Malen for suggesting this was one not to miss).

“Landscape Techne” at Little Berlin: Artists Explore Landscape to Contribute to Contemporary Art

Eteam’s “Prim Limit,” one of the pieces in the “Landscape Techne” exhibition at Little Berlin through November 27th, is a half-hour film that takes place in the “Second Life” virtual world, an online computer game that allows users to design their own avatar world.

More than Meets the Eye?

How do you make ordinary art into Black art? Surface Politics, [Salon Joose, October 8-November 20, 2010] asks that question by juxtaposing a series of works in the context of a black-owned gallery. Organizer Theodore Harris, who is well-known for his overt statements about war, religion, and politics, has invited artists of varied ages and media to participate. Harris collaborated with aesthetic philosopher Sharon Chestnut on this show; Chestnut and Harris will lead a dialogue on November 5th, 6-9 pm at the gallery, under the aegis of the Institute for Advanced Study in Black Aesthetics.

Not the Brady Bunch

Kara Crombie’s video Mother’s Birthday [Vox Populi, October 1-31, 2010] offers a new take on the cobbled-together American family. A rag-tag collection of characters from different races and centuries offer a play-within-a-play in honor of their drunken plantation-belle of a mom. Basking in the unreal glow of computer-generated twilight, they remind us how we as Americans have come to know each other through the shallow representations of popular culture. Crombie’s ability to piece together high and low, new and old is compelling, and likely a factor that helped win her a 2010 Pew Fellowship.  Along with the other artists featured ... More » »

Next week on artblog radio –video and installation artist Diedra Krieger

Next week on artblog radio, Episode 6 features artist Diedra Krieger. This week, you will be able to see some of her work. She and seven other artists will be projecting video onto the walls of the subway concourse the evenings of Oct. 8 to 11 for The Philadelphia Underground (see Roberta’s post on Design Philadelphia for more details). When we interviewed Krieger during the summer, two of her videos, starring herself, were up at the Vox VI show. To whet your appetite we offer the sample (below), in which Krieger talks about shooting wedding videos–a formative experience. 25-second sample–Diedra ... More » »