Artblog | Pete Sparber

April 10, 2024 by Pete Sparber

Reggie Browne, finance leader, art collector and patron, thinks globally and locally about supporting the arts

Pete Sparber has a sit down with finance ‘market maker,’ Reggie Browne, and finds that the PAFA Trustee and Board Chair of Creative Capital has opinions on many global issues relating to art and humanity. and suggestions for the art scene. What fuels him is to make an impact.

March 19, 2024 by Pete Sparber

‘The Cost of Sleep,’ Elizabeth Johnson’s swirling dreamscapes defy narration

Pete Sparber talks with Elizabeth Johnson about her solo exhibit at Gross McCleaf Gallery. Titled ‘The Cost of Sleep,’ the show presents large and small oil paintings that are dreamscapes of tornado-like swirlings, very beautiful, energetic, and a little terrifying.

March 5, 2024 by Pete Sparber

Da Vinci Art Alliance at 93, connected to community, retooling and reaching out

Pete Sparber sits down with Samantha (Sam) Connors, the Executive Director of Da Vinci Art Alliance to talk about the organization’s roots in the community, its history (93 years strong) and the future.

February 2, 2024 by Pete Sparber

Megan Galardi, founder and director of Blah Blah, a commercial gallery in the 319 Building

Pete Sparber interviews Blah Blah founder and director, Megan Galardi, about creating a women and non-binary artist commercial gallery and situating it in the 319 Building, known as a hotbed of the city’s alternative gallery scene.

January 8, 2024 by Pete Sparber

The Dark Light in Joe Boruchow’s ‘Monster Storm’ at Space 1026

Pete Sparber sees Joe Boruchow’s solo exhibit at Space 1026 and comments that there is “something beautiful and sublime in Joe’s very particular black and white graphic signature.” The show is up through Jan. 26, so make your way up North Broad St. to see it before it closes.

December 4, 2023 by Pete Sparber

Gifts that keep giving, small works at The Plastic Club, Sketch Club, Vox Populi and Gross McCleaf

Our contributor Pete Sparber sees a number of small works exhibitions, which abound each year at this time of holiday giving.

November 15, 2023 by Pete Sparber

Exceptional Artists of Los Angeles and Philadelphia, Henry Taylor, Branche Coverdale and O’Neil Scott

Our new contributor, Pete Sparber sees work by three Black artists, whose works resonate with him. The artists, Henry Taylor, whose current show is at the Whitney Museum of Art until Jan. 28, 2024; Branche Coverdale, recently at Paradigm Gallery and Studio; and O’Neil Scott, recently at Corridor Contemporary, have kinship with each other in their creation of Black universes that are present as witnesses and celebrants of their culture.