Artblog | Lauren Whearty

March 8, 2024 by Lauren Whearty

Documenting lives and housing of the vulnerable, Amy Ritter’s Mobile Home Archive

Lauren Whearty pens a heartfelt introduction to the work of Amy Ritter, part of a photographic archive recently on view at Grizzly Grizzly.

February 13, 2024 by Lauren Whearty

Libby Rosa starts Peep Projects in 2020, with a peep hole in the door to see in. Why, you ask?

Lauren Whearty interviews artist Libby Rosa, who moved to Philadelphia in 2019, opened Peep Projects in 2020 and moved Peep to Crane Arts recently. Lauren finds out more about the gallery’s whimsical name and about the artist, who has a solo exhibition of her works at Bertrand Productions as part of the (re)FOCUS festival.

October 23, 2023 by Lauren Whearty

An interview with Marilyn Holsing on the power of narrative and landscape

September 19, 2023 by Lauren Whearty

Talking with FJORD on their ten year anniversary

Lauren 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.

March 24, 2023 by Lauren Whearty

Molly Burt-Westvig on ‘the reveal’ in her multi-media paintings

Lauren Whearty interviews Temple University graduate student Teaching Assistant Molly Burt-Westvig to discuss her abstract paintings and works on paper, which merge digital and real materials and are enhanced with surprising additions like chalk, steel, ground glass and LED’s.

December 12, 2022 by Lauren Whearty

Eleanor Conover, elusive abstractions with bold materiality, in ‘Side Angle Tide’ at List Gallery, Swarthmore

Our new contributor Lauren Whearty writes that Eleanor Conover’s paintings are body-referencing in size, and the abstractions on shaped canvases, while slippery in meaning, have rich and dense materiality including in some cases a saw blade and wooden blocks.