This year saw leadership changes announced at several Philadelphia arts organizations – Brandywine Workshop and Archives (BWA), Association for Public Art (aPA), Fabric Workshop and Museum. After extensive searches, BWA and aPA have announced their new leaders. Read on for more. Also, a great opportunity at iMPeRFeCT gallery. I hope you’re enjoying the recent change in weather. Enjoy the news!
Read MoreBlaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz visit the Art on Paper Fair in New York and report on good booth presentations by Philadelphia Galleries like Stanek, Commonweal and Bertrand Productions — and by Billy Dufala’s project curated by Nato Thompson and presented by Fleisher Ollman Gallery. Commonweal’s booth showcases drawings by Anne Minich, and the booth was a hit with Hyperallergic and the Art Newspaper. Take a little trip into the art fair with the photos and fresh commentary. You will enjoy it!
Read MoreLauren Whearty interviews members of the artist run space, Fjord, now celebrating their 10th year in operation. Members have changed through the years and so have their rented gallery space — in separate locations in the Kensington/Frenkford area.
Read MoreKatie Dillon Low has an encounter with many ideas about technology at the show ‘echo broadcast’ at Practice Gallery. The group show spans work that deals with the eco-concerns of the plastics and heavy metals in electronic devices; to our technologically addicted society’s isolation behind our screens.
Read MoreMiles Orvell says the show at Cherry Street Pier with works by Laurence Salzmann reveal a wide-ranging body of works, from ethnographic and documentary photographs from the artist’s anthropological visits in Romania, Peru and elsewhere, to his more abstract photographs that weave together landscape and suggestions of the human presence.
Read MoreKate Brock interviews artist Jane Irish days before new exhibition Eureka: New Works by Jane Irish opening at Locks Gallery. They speak about Vietnam War Veterans Against War, Edgar Allen Poe, and Artist’s roles for the future. Read the interview then see the exhibition and share what you think with us!
Read MoreHi, a few weeks ago I visited the Magic Gardens to pursue seeing George Rodriguez’s work after having seen it in the Tyler School of Art Ceramics department. The solemn stares of the figures carry over into all that George makes and his work always packs a punch making the viewer bring down their guards and engage. The show In Unison: Ceramic Sculptures by George Rodriguez is up until September 10, 2023 go see it if you have a chance! And if not be on the look out for George Rodriguez.
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