It’s a happening at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery – Join in!
By roberta | September 2, 2010 | 0 Comments
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, [...]
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Weekly Update – Vox Populi’s First Friday and Jolie Laide’s Saturday night
By roberta | September 1, 2010 | 0 Comments
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) [...]
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Weekly Update – Gold Mountain Redux
By roberta | August 25, 2010 | 8 Comments
With an American flag at its heart and a jaunty colored brick road on the floor, Abigail DeVille’s Gold Mountain should be upbeat. But the dark, cave-like installation at Marginal Utility is a sorrowful piece, a shrine almost. And the flag and crazy brick road are degraded symbols. Gold Mountain is a hell on earth.
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The sporting life – Daniel D’Ottavio’s RUGBY creates monuments of flesh and blood
By roberta | August 20, 2010 | 3 Comments
Athletes make superb photography subjects. In motion, their bodies perform seemingly superhuman tasks that are a thrill to see. At rest, either before or after their feats, athletes’ faces are studies in concentration — or pain. Photos of teams remind us of our pack-ness; our ability to bond with others — or fight. RUGBY, Daniel [...]
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The sporting life – Bryan Brown’s First Fight 2, an autobiographical comic
By roberta | August 18, 2010 | 3 Comments
Bryan Brown‘s First Fight 2 — the follow up to his debut comic about his experience in the world of mixed martial arts — shows our hero, a successful Philadelphia artist/illustrator (no superpowers here, but lots of heart), continuing his fascination with the sport as he goes about his life.
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Morning eye and brain insult @Philly.com
By roberta | August 13, 2010 | 12 Comments
I’m sorry Philly.com but this is unacceptable–an ad that will not go away and that covers up content. This page always hurts the eye but this new move is an insult. Talk about putting up fences for your content!
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Taxonomies In Review at Gallery 339
By roberta | August 10, 2010 | 0 Comments
In Review’s 10 photographers seem deeply immersed in thoughts about the fragility of the human condition and the slipperiness of reality. The photographers are also into taxonomies – groups of barns, humans, animals, buildings, teenagers and more. The show, at Gallery 339, is full of quirky and sometimes hallucinatory imagery.
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New York summer – beach balls and Greater New York at PS1
By roberta | August 7, 2010 | 0 Comments
The concrete beach was empty — not too many beachballs in play — when Cate, Steve and I arrived in Queens to see Greater New York at PS1. But an hour and a half later when we left, the place was packed for one of the museum’s summer WarmUp concerts. With the music [...]
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New York summer, Part 1 – rooftop tiki bar and bells
By roberta | August 6, 2010 | 0 Comments
Last Friday night Steve, Cate and I ran in to the Whitney Museum to see the Christian Marclay Festival — part exhibition, part performance space and part graffitti-friendly hangout (well, chalk-on-blackboard grafitti anyway). We missed the 7 pm performance but the place was still pretty packed till closing at 9 pm. The museum’s pay what [...]
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Weekly Update – Photo Redux at Third St. Gallery
By roberta | August 4, 2010 | 4 Comments
No longer a Deadman’s Gulch for photography, Philadelphia is now photo heaven. Since 2005 we’ve spawned four dedicated silver gelatin or C-print venues including the blue chip Gallery 339 and three membership cooperatives, Project Basho, Philadelphia Photo Art Center and recent arrival the Lightroom.
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