Syd Carpenter’s Farm Bowls are mini-portraits of the farms and people she met on trips through the South. Named after these family farms, the Farm Bowls are “remarkable variations on the same, simple form” says reviewer Andrea Kirsh, who also comments about the “Mother Pins” that “they have stunning ranges of textures, coloring, and forms.” The exhibit is at Rowan University Art Gallery until March 26, 2022.
Read More“Emma Amos: Color Odyssey” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a revelation for those who want to know the art of Emma Amos, who came up during Abstract Expressionism’s heyday and fought against abstraction in works that are complex, inventive and in several cases, stunning.
Read MoreArtblog contributor Michael Lieberman reviews “Rising Voices,” an (now closed) exhibition of ten finalists of the Bennett Prize- a $50,000 prize for women figurative realist painters, awarded biennially.
Read MoreArtblog contributor reek bell rounds up four films for the month of August. This month’s theme is community, in all of its complexity. As reek says below, “Community can break your heart, community can feed you, clothe you, house you, love you, and leave you.”
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