“Truss” is a full-scale replica of a timber roof support from the Traction building, a former trolley-manufacturing warehouse now serving as studio space for Traction’s collective of 12 artists, all PAFA alumni.
Read MorePost-war Japanese photography has enjoyed a reputation for being provocative and alien to the Western eye–a boiling concoction of a reeling political environment and shifting cultural landscapes.
Read MoreWith hints of Margaret Keane’s “Big Eyes” paintings, Dr. Seuss-ian colors and creatures, Adventure Time illustration, and few dashes of Tim Burton’s influence and Gustav Klimt-esque patterns, …the better to hold you with, my dear… comes to fruition.
Read MoreThe Internet exists somewhere between the real and the theoretical: a new digital plane of existence. Now on view at Fjord Gallery, Interface presents a spectrum of art that reflects and considers the role of the technology user.
Read MoreThe unity and divide between man and nature is and has long been a prevailing theme of many artists and curators. Open Field at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA) draws on the functions, failures, and artifices created between nature and culture to explore aspects of the great man/nature divide.
Read MoreThe group’s music manages to segue from classically informed post-bop (a genre of small-combo jazz that broke out in the early to mid-1960s) to folk rock. I noticed that, like his newest album, Bennett’s tunes had some noticeably quirky titles, from the delicate “Strange Gym and the Zebra” and the mysteriously optimistic “The Spinning Top Stood Still” to the fluid “John Lizard Comes Home”.
Read MoreThe current Philadelphia weather could not be more apropos for Automat’s light-hearted collective show titled, It’s the Humidity that will Kill You. Curated by Scott Schultheis and C.J Stahl, the exhibition brings together works that attempt to capture the heavy and almost tactile weight of late-summer heat.
Read MoreWhether you know his name or not, you have absolutely seen the work of Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920-1991). His depictions of thick, muscled bodies with their bulging thighs and arms; high pectorals and bubble butts; and sweet Teutonic faces playing the role of every desirable type of macho man under the sun have exaggerated the male ideal to comical proportions.
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