Reviews

April 3, 2020 by Kinaya Hassane

A new exhibition captures the beautiful intimacy of Black hair rituals on canvas

Kinaya Hassane shares the experience of witnessing Patricia Renee’ Thomas’s solo gallery show, “Grapejuice,” at Kapp Kapp Gallery, which will be extended once the lockdown is lifted.

March 27, 2020 by Logan Cryer

The melody of the movement, Asian Arts Initiative’s ‘The Beat of Resistance’

March 23, 2020 by Alex Smith

Of monumental proportions, Karyn Olivier’s ‘Everything That’s Alive Moves’

Alex Smith reviews Karyn Olivier’s newest exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. The display of monuments by Olivier explores the significance and felt impact of these memorial structures.

March 16, 2020 by Susan Isaacs

Wading into water quality, Stacy Levy’s Collected Watershed at Towson University

Susan Isaacs reviews Stavy Levy’s exhibition Collected Watershed, which is currently installed at the Center for the Arts Gallery at Towson University. Though the gallery is currently closed due to COVID-19, the show’s end date has been extended to April 25, 2020, and the show is presumed to re-open before then.

March 11, 2020 by Michael Lieberman

Dreamscapes burning with organic memory, Michele Kishita’s ‘Absent Futures’ at Central Tattoo

Micheal Liberman reviews Michele Kishita’s “Absent Futures,” a show of landscape paintings made with a traditional wood burning technique, on view at Central Tattoo Studio and Gallery until March 29, 2020.

March 2, 2020 by Kinaya Hassane

Sculpting narratives in Black History, Acori Honzo’s ‘This is Our Story’

Kinaya Hassane reviews Acori Honzo’s latest exhibition at Cherry Street Pier: This is Our Story, closing Saturday, March 7th.

February 28, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

A three-book starter pack to contemporary indigenous art, Part 2

Andrea Kirsh reviews three books about indigenous art. Part two of two reviews Kate Morris’s “Shifting Grounds; Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art” and Katya García-Antón “Sovereign Words; Indigenous Art, Curation and Criticism”

February 25, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

A three-book starter pack to contemporary indigenous art, Part 1

Andrea Kirsh reviews three books about indigenous art. Part one of two reviews Philip J. Deloria’s “Becoming Mary Sully; Toward an American Indian abstract.”

February 24, 2020 by Levi Bentley

The metal ballet of ‘Ballast & Barricades’ at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art

Levi Bentley visits the Institute of Contemporary Art in University City to review Michelle Lopez’s new exhibition, Ballast & Barricades, which closes on May 10, 2020.

February 21, 2020 by Natalie Sandstrom

Two worlds beautifully co-existing, Bermudez and Marcuse dual shows at List Gallery

Natalie Sandstrom visits the List Gallery at Swarthmore College and analyzes the two exhibitions on display: Henry Bermudez’s Tattooed Nature and Michelle Marcuse’s Holding Absence, which both close tomorrow, February 23, 2020.

February 15, 2020 by Ray Simon

An artful climax, Simcoe’s ‘getting off’ at the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Center

Artblog contributor, Ray Simon, pays a visit to the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown, PA to catch their latest exhibition: getting off, which closes on Friday, February 21st.

January 22, 2020 by Natalie Sandstrom

The artifice and the unnatural, CAMP Philly at Automat Gallery

Natalie Sandstrom reviews the latest exhibition at Automat Gallery, CAMP Philly. A group show of works by Kelly Dzioba, Zach Hill, and Natasha Le Sourd, it explores the wackiness and superficiality of camp within the arts. Catch the show before it comes down on February 1st.

January 8, 2020 by Artblog

The Human Scale of Recycling in India

In this “From the Vault” post, K-Fai reviews artist Enrico Fabian’s photo series about the relationship between poverty and waste recycling industry in India.

January 4, 2020 by Susan Isaacs

A review in two cities, Betye Saar at MoMA and Melvin Edwards at BMA

Artblog contributor Susan Isaacs reviews two exhibitions: “The Legends of Black Girl’s Window” at Museum of Modern Art in New York City, closing January 4, 2020, and “Crossroads” at Baltimore Museum of Art, closing January 12, 2020.