Kate 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 MoreSharon Garbe visits the Woodmere 81st Annual Juried Show and finds many connections between artists and a wealth of materials and methods used to produce works, from painted canvases to upcycled material constructions to 3D printed sculptural objects and hand made ceramics.
Read MoreSee Libby Rosa’s solo-exhibition at Blah Blah before it closes June 30th! Corey explores the strange mythology that Rosa creates in Vox Populi’s newest exhibition space focused on uplifting non-binary and female artists. See how Rosa sees red through a fresh and softened approach to the inherently violent term.
Read MoreKate Brock reviews the exhibition “The Highwaymen: Fast Painting the American Dream.” The exhibition includes works made by a group of 26 Black painters who came together to form the collective called The Highwaymen in the Jim Crow Florida.
Read MoreLauren 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.
Read MoreAlex Smith reviews the sculptural installations of “Henry Taylor: Nothing Change, Nothing Strange.” The 3-D work is a departure from the artist’s more well-known, humanist portrait paintings, and he scavenged materials for the installation with the help of Philadelphia’s RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residency) program.
Read MoreOur reviewer Kate Brock says Carlisle Bell’s paintings in “Memory Be Green” showcase “a deft use of material from modernist painting within a practice of impressive range.”
Read MoreOur new contributor Sharon Garbe visits the Matisse exhibit at the PMA and finds the show inspiring, “exhilarating and full of insights and surprises.”
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Read MoreKate Brock has a close encounter with Sarah Gamble’s paintings and drawings, works that Brock says are in the lineage of the “spiritual-abstract” of Hilma af Klint and the surrealism of Leonora Carrington. She also brings up the exoticism of Elvis! “I see Gamble’s kaleidoscopic worlds as an effort toward a speculative realm, wherein the spiritual, the creaturely, astronomical, atomic, and Elvis all bump into each other, and new poetry is formed.” Enjoy this great review, and catch the exhibit at Fleisher-Ollman, up until March 12, 2022.
Read MoreCalling some works startling and unnerving, Logan Cryer makes the case for the importance of Mike Cloud’s provocative, Afro-pessimistic multi-layered non-painting paintings. This is a show you should see, Logan says.
Read MoreCorey Qureshi visits ‘Molly Metz: Close Closer’ at Fleisher/Ollman gallery, where multi-layered paintings flow into amorphous and cavernous sculptures. Check it out before it closes on August 13, 2021!
Read MoreCorey Qureshi reviews ‘Strange Nature,’ a two-person exhibition of lockdown-inspired paintings by Nancy Mladenoff and Karen Heagle. The show– which Corey says elicits eerie memories of early-pandemic times– is on view (by appointment) through July 29th, at PEEP Projects.
Read MoreCorey Qureshi reviews Lily Wong’s “I Wasn’t There” currently on view at Kapp Kapp Gallery. Corey highly recommends the dreamy exhibition, which they say provides an excellent prompt for reflection.
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