Tag Archive "you-are-beautiful"
Beautiful on Arch Street
Anyone know about this? ”You are Beautiful” is in the window of the old Quaker Photo, right across from Space 1026. I can believe the sign is part of the You Are Beautiful project, which did a guerilla piece in Philadelphia a few years back.
Real life vs. intervention art–Manybody at Temple Gallery
Post by Emily Regier You are Beautiful project intervention along Second Street First, it was my roommate’s ironing board, which buckled under the strain of the vigorous pressing I exacted upon my first-day-of-work-suit. Next, one of my underwires mysteriously loosed itself in our washer, arresting the machine at mid-cycle for days. And then there was the curiously shaped behemoth of a sculpture I collided with in our living room, which, as it turns out, was welded by her mother… As I troll Craigslist for a new place to live, I’m thinking the sculpture was the breaking point, so to speak. ... More » »
Weekly Update 2 – Manybody at Temple
The Weekly has my Editor’s Choice quick hit of Temple Gallery’s Manybody, curated by Jesse Goldstein of Space 1026. “Manybody”Through July 21. Free. Temple Gallery, 259 N. Third St. 215.925.7379. You Are Beautiful sign at Second and Spring Garden (not my photo) “YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL,” reads the huge sign at Second and Spring Garden. Ever wondered what that’s about? Find out at “Manybody,” Temple Gallery’s paean to art activism. It’s a big documentary show that chronicles a number of socially/politically activist projects by the groups (deep breath) A/WAY, Celebrate People’s History: Poster Project, Project Hello, Tit Pin, the West Philadelphia ... More » »
The First Friday — we find some edges
Joy Feasley, Last Picnic, vinyl paint on board, 20 x 25.5″, the conceit of a boy and girl having picnic way up in a tree, looking out on all of nature hits a lot of emotional notes–humor, wonder, love. Roberta told you about the carousel-like spectacle that closed our First Friday (post here), an event that included the two of us plus Andrea, too, who is fast becoming our regular ff companion. The evening not only ended with a bang, it started out with a bang–Philadelphia artist Joy Feasley and former Philadelphia artist Clare Rojas in Locks Gallery!! Now that’s ... More » »
