Tag Archive "vox-populi-gallery"

Words, words, noise and a melon on First Friday

First Friday was full of goodies. We started at the Fab. Here’s some pictures and a short video and some gossip at the bottom so be sure to scroll down. Ed Ruscha at the Fabric Workshop last Friday night Ed Ruscha was looking like a little leprachaun in front of a packed audience at the Fabric Workshop’s new space last Friday.  The 2nd floor gallery space — which makes a great lecture hall — was certified for only 200 people with a live feed downstairs for the big spillover crowd.   Ruscha and his slide of the Barnyard Rembrandt According ... More » »

Flash art show–PDF here and PDF there

Detail of a repeating swimmer from an internet-distributed digital art project It’s a wonder no one thought of this before–art that’s shown simultaneously around the world, based on the idea that technology can circulate digi art works faster than a speeding bullet. The show, PDF, which will be held simultaneously in 14 cities, from Tokyo to Oslo, and in each of the 5 boroughs of New York City, also has a Philly venue–Vox Populi, for the one-night-only event–Saturday, July 19, 6 to 8 p.m. The art, commissioned work from Fia Backström, Bozidar Brazda, Brian Clifton, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Rachel Mason, ... More » »

Two great opportunities: FLUXspace and Vox Populi need you!

From the department of charitable giving, two notices worthy of your consideration: Oliver Herring task night at FLUXspace last year. This is a shot from the blue room in the elevator. There was a video camera trained on the room and a live feed to a monitor downstairs where you saw the people merged with a background image previous taken on the streets of the neighborhood. FLUXspace, that wild and wooly place in the northern reaches of Kensington is planning its second project with New York-based artist Oliver Herring. The first task project last Dec. 15 included a screening of ... More » »

Weekly Update – Solid Gold winners at Vox Populi

This week’s Weekly has my review of Solid Gold at Vox Populi. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr. Vox Populi’s fourth annual emerging artist show is a lovely human-centric affair full of narrative art with many stories that attempt, each in its own way, to explain the vulnerable place humankind is at right now. We’re bodies and minds threatened by the collision of man-made and natural worlds and by disease, excess, hatred and war. But while the show channels some dark thoughts, the 24-artist show doesn’t whine or nag, and remains energetic if not optimistic. ... More » »

Wandering and wondering at Vox Populi–Paparone, Abrams and Wylie

Nick Paparone, The Wonder Wander, torchiere lamp, polystyrene, alumnium foil, paint, motor The cheerful boyishness that permeates Nick Paparone‘s work is always a little slippery. He is one of the trio of Vox Populi artists up for the month of May, plus a couple of guest artists, and he almost steals the show with one of his pieces–The Wonder Wander. The piece, a sort of portable den, consists of a globe spinning slowly on the axis of a lamp pole. The gizmo on the wall that turns the globe is a small motor that spins a small rubber cylinder. The ... 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 » »

Video Vox

This month’s Vox exhibit is nearly all video and really all pretty great! It looks like more and more video artists are part of the Vox membership, and this show reflects the shift. The only non-video in the show, a sculpture installation, is by Brent Wahl, who also makes videos. Here’s who and what: Black Hole, a video by Matthew Suib and Nadia Hironaka; I had to play with the image to show anything other than a pure black rectangle, so I’m afraid it’s a bit misleading.The first ever collaboration between married video-makers Matthew Suib and Nadia Hironaka is a ... More » »

American Dream noir at Vox

James Johnson, Some Rooms-Part I (Yours), installation detail Darkness is my pillow at Vox Populi this month. Almost everything is noir, and the American Dream has turned into something lost, exploded, longed for and gone. At least that’s what I got over almost everything I saw there. The most ambitious work on the subject is James Johnson‘s photo installation, Some Rooms-Part I (Yours). Corey Antis‘ smallish formalist paintings also refer to spaces and memory and feelings; and the video by Deborah Stratman at Screening Gallery, just inside Vox, also refers to these ideas. (Sarah Zwerling‘s Window, in the video lounge, ... More » »

Weekly Update – Vox Populi’s December shows–cool

This week’s Weekly has my review of the current shows at Vox Populi. Below is the copy with some pictures. More images at flickr. Crazy Like a VoxFirst Friday has moved out of Old City. Old City is becoming a hard sell on First Fridays. Chinatown North galleries Vox Populi, Copy, Screening, Space 1026 and (coming soon) the Fabric Workshop and Museum constitute a critical mass of openings that are far more exciting than what’s on display in the old art neighborhood. Max Lawrence’s electronic installation (detail) from 2006 at Vox Populi. The coming together of Vox, Copy and Screening ... More » »

What we want to see Friday

First Friday’s coming up Dec. 7, 2007. Here’s some of what we’re excited about. For gallery times and locations, check the links to the gallery websites. David Kessler‘s Shadow World videos and Candace Karch’s black and white photographs at Bambi. At Vox Pop, members Josh Rickards (image above), Max Lawrence and Micah Danges, plus more in the 4th room, the video lounge and in Screening!! Jane Irish, Room with Blue Vases/VVAW San Francisco, 2006. oil on Tyvec with raised letters and modeling paste, 5 x 8 feetIrish is at Locks Gallery along with etchings by Lucien Freud and work by ... More » »