Susan Isaacs interviews artist Nanette Carter, whose journey includes years as an art educator, as well as 17 years as a full time professional artist sustaining herself through sales of her work. An amazing story. Nanette Carter is featured in a 2-person exhibit at Towson University now through April 23. Be sure to catch it is you’re in the Baltimore area.
Read MoreMiles Orvell writes an essay diving deep into photographer Laurence Salzmann’s photo essays about humans and their relationships to animals– shepherds and sheep; dogs and their owners– select photographs from which are currently on view in “Creatures Real and Imagined” at Art on the Avenue, thru on April 30, 2022. The exhibit also features etchings by celebrated artist and friend of Salzmann, Holley Coulter Chirot.
Read MoreKate Brock reviews “House and Travels,” paintings by Dona Nelson, Emily Davidson and Zachary Rawe. Though each artist’s painting style and subject matter is distinct, their handling of color and paint reveals their connection: Davidson and Rawe both studied under Nelson at Tyler School of Art, and they all share an interest in breaking down the hidebound categories of “abstraction” and “representation.” Organized by the artists themselves, Kate Brock says this is a “stubborn, delightful group of paintings,” on view at Atelier Art Gallery through April 15th.
Read MoreArtblog is excited to let you know about The Velocity Fund’s 2022 open call for projects in and with communities in Philadelphia. We love this direct-to-artist funding source! We believe that art belongs in the community, and projects belong in the hands of artists, and The Velocity Fund helps make that happen. Read on and be sure to consider applying for your innovative project.
Read More“Trouble” magazine is a “surreal adventure in page turning,” says Roberta, about the publication started by Matthew Rose. Also rounded up in this News edition, a talk online or in person with one of Artblog’s favorite artists, Gabe Martinez; information about the Pan-Philadelphia festival “Rehearsing Philadelphia, a musical cornucopia inclusive of all styles and players. Finally, there are some good opportunities for funding!
Read MoreKate Brock says this rich and complex tpairing of shows at Arcadia invites “dialogue around intergenerational, artistic exchange.” Polly Apfelbaum- maybe best known for her hand-dyed, velvet “fallen paintings”- is is an artist who shows widely; David Ellinger, who was born 42 years before Apfelbaum, was a painter of some renown, of Dutch-German-influenced scenes. He was also an antiquarian and a ‘female impersonator.’ The show, and its documentary materials about Ellinger’s life, explores the intersection of two artists of different generations who never met but whose work seems to be in dialogue.
Read MoreSyd Carpenter’s Farm Bowls are mini-portraits of the farms and people she met on trips through the South. Named after these family farms, the Farm Bowls are “remarkable variations on the same, simple form” says reviewer Andrea Kirsh, who also comments about the “Mother Pins” that “they have stunning ranges of textures, coloring, and forms.” The exhibit is at Rowan University Art Gallery until March 26, 2022.
Read MoreAndrea sees works on paper that she first saw in the late 1960s by Anne Ryan, and notes that the highly controlled collages stood apart from the time’s big gestures by abstract expressionists. Andrea says Ryan’s collages are “important reminders… that first-rate art comes in many forms and needn’t follow the common path.” See it at Washburn Gallery, NYC, thru April 2, 2022.
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