To arms, citizens of the video, audio, music, noise, and performance world! Fleisher/Ollman Gallery wants your non-linear imagery–and your linear imagery — and your sounds with all the bells and whistles–which they will screen/play/project en masse in one glorious video-audio happening called Your Swimming Brain, Sept. 9 in the gallery. If you want to participate, apply to the gallery by tomorrow, Sept. 3. Instructions on the jump page.
Stan Vanderbeek's Movie-Drome, Stony Point, NY 1962
The current show at Famous Accountants, a dimly lit, but glowing white basement gallery in a Bushwick home, is a disorienting mix of media and technology. The exhibition, Tunneling, is a 13-person group show which covers the theme of tunneling in both its physical/spatial associations and its psychological—“confining, degenerating, myopic” (press release).
Jen Schwarting, "double dip (black)". Sewn nylon.
Vox Populi kicks off its season with a savory mix of drawings, video, photos and outsider art. While the press release about Jamie Dillon’s solo show is obfuscatory, it appears the artist will once again mine his inner bad boy. Smoke (or at least pictures of smoke) and fire (or at least pictures of fire) make an appearance along with Stuzky, the hermaphrodite, who will do… what? and look like… what? The artist’s lips are sealed.
Jamie Dillon, Smoke, at his solo show at Vox Populi
Chestnut Hill Arts Initiative’s premiere show, ‘Summer Phase’, proved to be a thoughtfully curated blend of conceptual installations in a variety of mediums, featuring the work of ten different artists.This was a particularly contemporary and progressive show in an otherwise conservative area.
Tom Judd, The World is Flat, mixed media on corrugated boxes
The most sensational aspect of the attribution of paintings as far as the general public is concerned is the subject of fakes, despite the fact that few art historians ever encounter them. What, exactly, is a fake? A painting that appears to be something other than what it is? Not always. Traditional academic training involved copying, and a copy of one work by a student, no matter how close to the model, is not a fake. If a later owner offers the copy as the work of the master, one might use the term fake, providing the owner is aware of the deception. The exhibition Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes, Discoveries at the National Gallery, London (June 30-September 12, 2010) included a small painting on board, considered a variant by Courbet of a larger self-portrait painted in 1845-6; it was identified as a copy because the manufacturer’s mark on the reverse indicates a date at least three years after the artist’s death.
after Gustave Courbet 'Self Portrait' (after 1880)
If you tried to hear the radio podcast of Sande Webster this morning and it wasn’t working, you can now hear it in its entirety. Sorry, all!
Center City gallery owner Sande Webster has some yarns to tell. She shares some personal history as she talks to us about art prices, selling (and refusing to sell) art, and how she makes the gallery business work for her. Below is the 30-second sample clip. And below that is the full 14-minute interview.
Sande Webster in her gallery.
Janet Fleisher, the woman who founded the gallery now called Fleisher/Ollman, died last week. The obit is worth reading, especially if you’re not familiar with the story behind Fleisher/Ollman or with the original Janet Fleisher Gallery. Here’s the obituary in the Philadelphia Inquirer. (This link will expire in a few months, so if you are reading this after 2010, …). Here’s the top of the story.
Janet Fleisher in younger days
The Clay Studio‘s current exhibition, MADE AT THE CLAY STUDIO: WORK BY GUEST ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, 2009-2010s features traditional clay works and also work of artists pushing the medium to new places.
a clay pile of J.J. McCracken's fruits and veggies
Amid the parking lots and barely passable maze of streets just west of Chinatown, Jolie Laide, the gallery that opened in July, has lots of big plans. The plans are short term and long term.
Parking lot land, where Jolie Laide makes its home
