Galleries

January 10, 2022 by Deborah Krieger

Kelsey Halliday Johnson leads and advocates for the arts and social justice at SPACE in Portland, ME

Deborah Krieger interviews Kelsey Halliday Johnson, artist and current Executive Director of Portland, Maine’s SPACE (plus former Philly resident/ arts worker/ member of Philly’s DIY-alternative community). Kelsey is enthusiastically dedicated to her role at SPACE, a multi-disciplinary independent maker hub; in particular their grantmaking program, the Kindling Fund.

November 19, 2021 by Corey Qureshi

When the body and mind are as fragile as glass, Scout Cartagena’s “You Have Their Eyes” at DaVinci Art Alliance

An installation that resembles the interior of a house frames the multidimensional art of Scout Cartagena. The Afro-Latinx artist’s subjects are the fragility of the body and the slipperiness of identity and memory. There are prints, furniture and an eye-catching tree stump with red-colored glass flames coming out of the top. Corey appreciates the intimate look into the artist’s identity. Go see the show before it closes Nov. 24.

November 2, 2021 by Andrea Kirsh

Sophisticated, exquisitely executed, and provocative, Linda Bond at Leonard Pearlstein Gallery

Linda Bond uses text and imagery to capture her decades-long obsessive and close readings of the US government’s pursuit of war. Andrea Kirsh calls Bond’s multi-media pieces, focused on the resulting impact on humans from the organized weapons of destruction, compelling. The show is on view until Feb. 20, 2022, at Drexel University’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery.

September 28, 2021 by Logan Cryer

Mike Cloud’s direct assault on painting in a stunning show at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

Calling some works startling and unnerving, Logan Cryer makes the case for the importance of Mike Cloud’s provocative, Afro-pessimistic multi-layered non-painting paintings. This is a show you should see, Logan says.

July 20, 2021 by Corey Qureshi

Insects and critters pose in PEEP Projects’ mostly people-free painting show

Corey Qureshi reviews ‘Strange Nature,’ a two-person exhibition of lockdown-inspired paintings by Nancy Mladenoff and Karen Heagle. The show– which Corey says elicits eerie memories of early-pandemic times– is on view (by appointment) through July 29th, at PEEP Projects.

July 8, 2021 by Corey Qureshi

Making art at Cherry Street Pier and showing it at Atelier Art Gallery, ‘Unfolding’ the process

Corey Qureshi visits ‘Unfolding,’ a group show of 22 artists, at Atelier Art Gallery. Corey says you’re sure to find something that captures your interest- so check it out before the show closes on July 23, 2021!

July 1, 2021 by L Autumn Gnadinger

Between cheeky and mournful, a look at violence, masculinity, anxiety, at Vox Populi

L Autumn Gnadinger reviews ‘Comedy of Errors: Shay Arick, Maggie Hazen, Zach Hill’ a darkly humorous group exhibition tackling themes of state and patriarchal violence. The show, curated by Meyken Barreto, is on view through July 18, 2021, at Vox Populi.

June 7, 2021 by Michael Lieberman

Women figurative painters in ‘Rising Voices’ at Studio Incamminati, 2019 Bennett Prize finalists

Artblog contributor Michael Lieberman reviews “Rising Voices,” an (now closed) exhibition of ten finalists of the Bennett Prize- a $50,000 prize for women figurative realist painters, awarded biennially.

April 26, 2021 by Corey Qureshi

Lily Wong’s bulbous and fantastical figures in “I Wasn’t There,” at Kapp Kapp Gallery

Corey Qureshi reviews Lily Wong’s “I Wasn’t There” currently on view at Kapp Kapp Gallery. Corey highly recommends the dreamy exhibition, which they say provides an excellent prompt for reflection.

April 15, 2021 by Logan Cryer

Allow Vox Populi to re-introduce themself, the scoop on Director Danny Orendorff and Vox’s future

Artblog Radio host Logan Cryer, sits down with Danny Orendorff, Executive Director of Vox Populi since May of 2018. This podcast gives the under-known inside scoop on Danny’s career prior to Vox, the values he brings to the collective, and the slow but important changes that have been occurring within Vox since his appointment as Executive Director.

March 9, 2021 by Morgan Nitz

Opportunities from CFEVA and the Rail Park, News from Anula Shetty and Alex Paik and much more!

March continues to be an exciting month for Philly arts & culture, and today we’ve rounded up a curated list even more opportunities, events, news, and some Artblog announcements that weren’t included in last week’s news post!

March 5, 2021 by Corey Qureshi

Magical and visceral, 12 Gates Arts embraces ‘A Space for Monsters’

Artblog contributor Corey Qureshi visits 12 Gates Arts’s “A Space for Monsters,” inspired by the hybrid poetry-novel “Incubation: A Space For Monsters” by Bhanu Kapil.

March 2, 2021 by Logan Cryer

The solitude of queer safe havens in ‘Sanctuary’ at Da Vinci Art Alliance

Logan Cryer pens an insightful reflection and description of “Sanctuary: An Exploration of Queer Safe Havens,” a group exhibition of queer artists of color at Da Vinci Art Alliance. Visit DVAA before the show closes on March 7th, 2021!

January 12, 2021 by Susan Isaacs

Contemporary art mingles with vintage party dresses at Towson University’s ‘All Night Party’

Co-curators J. Susan Isaacs and Erin Lehman write an essay about their exhibition “All Night Party,” which places contemporary works in conversation with 20th century party dresses, drawing similarities between America’s political climate then and now.