With sadness but with fingers crossed for the future, we share the announcement we received from Andrew Jeffrey Wright and the members of Space 1026. As you probably know, the building at 1026 Arch — prime real estate in a busily gentrifying neighborhood — has been sold, and now, after talking with the landlord, who has plans for the building that don’t include the member space, Space 1026 is moving out and moving on, hopefully to a new place with new print facilities and gallery. We’ve loved and championed Space 1026 since even before Artblog began in 2003. We wish the members well in this big undertaking. And we hope to see them soon in new digs.
Read MoreLogan Cryer visits Sloppy Seconds, the 2-person show at Space 1026 featuring work by Wit López and Heather Raquel Phillips. It’s a whimsical affair and both artists draw heavily from craft aesthetics to celebrate brown, queer desire. NOTE: The closing reception is Tuesday, July 24, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM with a performance by Kol-Kez. The exhibit closes July 28.
Read MoreA nice idea — rounding up the rejects from other juried exhibits — produces a show with mixed results and some good moments, says our reviewer, Deborah Krieger. The 40-work salon-style show at Practice Gallery is worth a visit.
Read MoreDeb Krieger visits the Clay Studio’s biannual juried show of American ceramic art, “The Clay Studio National,” open May 26th – July 15th. She reports back on the wide range of practices in contemporary clay, from the abstract to the figurative and from the formal to the political.
Read MoreDeb Krieger is back with a review of Grizzly Grizzly’s current two-person show, “Two Spiders,” featuring work by Jesse Harrod and Chris Bogia. On view through May 27th, “Two Spiders” explores queerness through a variety of media and in relation to a playful mix of bodily and cultural references.
Read MoreMichael visits Stanek Gallery to review People, Places & Things, the Old City fixture‘s first exhibit of photography. Comprised of works from the past 60 years by ten photographers, including several notable locals, this show is as engaging as it is stylistically varied. Be sure to catch it before it closes on March 26th!
Read MoreMore than a year after closing its doors, CRUXspace, Philadelphia’s first art gallery dedicated to new media, is back on the map. Now operating out of the Piazza’s bustling WeWork Northern Liberties coworking hub, founder Andrew Cameron Zahn and lead curator Kim Brickley have creatively sidestepped many of the pitfalls inherent to operating a DIY art space in this city. Contributor Chip Schwartz reports on where CRUxspace has been and where they’re going, with a brief nod to their current exhibition, “One Minute Auras” — the first of several multi-month shows planned for this year.
Read MoreArtists James Bouche, Jared Rush Jackson and Devin N. Morris explore individual experience through the prism of mass culture in Punctual Reality, a group show currently at High Tide gallery. Contributor Olivia Jia praises all three artists for handling the subject of identity with the subtlety it so urgently requires. Punctual Reality is on view through March 17th.
Read MoreMichael visits “How Wide is the Gulf?”, a timely group exhibition now at Gravy Studio + Gallery. Presenting a thematically-tight cluster of three artists who address North America’s migratory past and present, curator Rebekah Flake highlights the power differentials that exists between nations and the (brown) bodies that navigate them. Not to be missed, “How Wide is the Gulf?” is on view through March 13th.
Read MoreAndrea reviews an exhibit by Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen that critiques the Stockholm Ethnography Museum and its “collecting” of non-Western, cultural artifacts and stories. Many museum goers are already aware of moral and ethical problems underlying ethnographic collections. For those not aware, this exhibit will be valuable, Andrea says.
Read MoreNew Art Writing Challenge winner Huewayne Watson is back with his reflections on Ten Days Before Freedom, A Hymnal, Kara Springer’s current show at The Galleries at Moore. This evocative photo-installation looks to the remote Bahamian community of Fox Hill, and its annual celebration commemorating the news of emancipation from slavery arriving some ten days after its decree. Ten Days Before Freedom, A Hymnal will be on view through March 17th, 2018.
Read MoreThe Cuban-American artist Anthony Goicolea presents a photo, drawing and prints exhibition that is a moving reverie on the rupture of displacement and migration on families and abandoned homelands. Michael reviews.
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