Vriddhi Vinay sees curator and writer Aubrié Costello’s The Erotic Project at the Asian Arts Initiative.
Read MoreLogan Cryer sees Jermaine Ollivierre’s exhibit at Automat and writes that “Ollivierre relies on the power of the art object as a miniature site for focused enlightenment.“
Read MoreAlex Smith reviews the kaleidoscopic visions of Terence Nance’s SWARM, in the heart of Philadelphia, at UPENN’s ICA, through July 9, 2023.
Read MoreLane Speidel reviews Let’s Get Free: The Transformative Art and Activism of the People’s Paper Co-op at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College. The show ended April 21, 2023.
Read MoreCorey Qureshi examines how Nancy Agati, Alden Cole, Anna Guarneri, Ana Mosquera, and Maria Ah Hyun Stracke address sustainability and creativity in the exhibition An Assembled Trace at DVAA. The show ended on April 23, 2023.
Read MoreKate Brock reviews the exhibition “The Highwaymen: Fast Painting the American Dream.” The exhibition includes works made by a group of 26 Black painters who came together to form the collective called The Highwaymen in the Jim Crow Florida.
Read MoreAlex Smith experiences Carolyn Lazard’s Long Take, an immersion in sound, poetry and dance in a darkened ICA with black screens alive with white words of poetry and the sounds of bodies moving but unseen.
Read MoreSusan Isaacs reviews three of the 10 installations that make up Nourish, an exploration of the sustenance that we all need at the Delaware Contemporary. The works and installation Isaacs focuses on offer up critiques of the role of women, in More Than a Woman, Adrian L. Burrell’s film and installation titled The Saints in Kongo Time, and the fantastical work of Miami based artists Federico Uribe. Each offers a different context for nourishment: the female body, the family and its history and the need to repair the plant.
Read MoreAlex Smith reviews the sculptural installations of “Henry Taylor: Nothing Change, Nothing Strange.” The 3-D work is a departure from the artist’s more well-known, humanist portrait paintings, and he scavenged materials for the installation with the help of Philadelphia’s RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residency) program.
Read MoreSharon Garbe connects with the video works of Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib and delights in the artists’ whimsical play with scale and appreciates the narrative of Hironaka’s family history told in one of the videos.
Read MoreCorey Qureshi visits Rowan University Art Gallery for ‘SuperCellular,’ billed as an immersive experience. Corey grapples with whether he felt immersed, but said ultimately he enjoyed the installation by Carolyn Healy and John Phillips, commenting, “There are open-ended, wordless notions to be explored.”
Read MoreOur reviewer Kate Brock says Carlisle Bell’s paintings in “Memory Be Green” showcase “a deft use of material from modernist painting within a practice of impressive range.”
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