Galleries

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.

December 15, 2020 by Michael Lieberman

Slought archives thoughts on our quarantine lives in a collection of poetry and art

Michael Lieberman reviews Slought’s exhibition ‘Atlas of Affects,’ an open-call archive project about personal experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic.

December 4, 2020 by Morgan Nitz

Posts in the Pipeline – Covid Winter

f you’re a spoiler-lover, indulge in this sneak peak– here’s a list of Artblog ‘Posts in the Pipeline’ this Covid winter.

October 20, 2020 by Patrick Coué

Gilbert Lewis’s empathetic gay male gaze at Woodmere Art Museum, Kapp Kapp Gallery and William Way Center

Patrick Coue visits the Gilbert Lewis exhibitions at Woodmere Art Museum, Kapp Kapp, and William Way (virtual). Having posed for Gilbert Lewis himself, he has personal insight on what it feels like to be in the shoes of Lewis’s many subjects.

May 27, 2020 by Michael Lieberman

Three of Philadelphia’s finest join in ‘Tracing Origins’ at Rowan University

Michael Lieberman virtually tours Rowan University Art Gallery’s “Tracing Origins,” artwork by Colette Fu, Claes Gabriel, and Hiro Sakaguchi.

May 22, 2020 by Michael Lieberman

Galleries in the time of Coronavirus, going virtual and facing future challenges

Artblog contributor Michael Lieberman reached out to a selection of Philadelphia galleries and collectives to check in during Coronavirus.

April 20, 2020 by Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz

What’s next? Visual Arts on the downside of the Covid-19 curve

Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz co-author an essay about the aftermath of the Covid-19 closures on the arts community, and speculate on possible alternative models.

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 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.

February 26, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Ambitious and fine, ‘Invisible City’ illuminates, recovers Philadelphia’s experimental art of 1950-80

Andrea Kirsh reviews “Invisible City” a multi-venue exhibition that educates and illuminates the radical, experimental, and non-traditional art scene in Philadelphia during 1956-1976, which closes April 4, 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.

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.