Bonne Année : Rick Tulka
By matthew rose | December 31, 2009 | 1 Comment
Rick Tulka, Paris-based artist and illustrator best known for his on-the-spot sketches of flâneurs burning daylight and washing back kirs at Le Select, the famed café on Boulevard Montparnasse, offers a self-portrait greeting for 2010. Yes, that was him, penciling in your double chin last Tuesday! Only kidding. Bonne Année…
See his site here: [...]
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Wally Gilbert – Crossing Lines
By guest writer | December 13, 2009 | 1 Comment
Post by Corey Armpriester
Delicate dark chocolate squares and tiny ceramic cups half-filled with espresso slowly consumed in a small studio kitchen; flying high on my caffeine buzz (and feeling over confident) I start a modest conversation about art, science, robots and genetically modified foods with the artist that helped map the Human Genome Project, 1980 [...]
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Weekly Update – Talking with Barkley Hendricks
By roberta | November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
This week’s Weekly has my article on Barkley Hendricks’ Birth of the Cool at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Below is an expanded version with more of the interview I did with the artist.
Bashir, Jules, Tuff Tony and Angie wouldn’t stand out in a crowd. But in Barkley Hendricks’ “Birth of the Cool” [...]
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Talking with Steven Daiber, part 2
By roberta | November 15, 2009 | 0 Comments
Steven Daiber is an artist who runs Red Trillium Press. He recently published a book, El Muro, with Cuban artist Eduardo Hernandez Santos. Before the book was published, the prints were shown at the Havana Biennial. This is part two of my interview with Daiber.
The Red Trillium website says you met Cuban photographer Eduardo [...]
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Talking with Steven Daiber about art, Cuba and El Muro
By roberta | | 2 Comments
Last June I attended the Hybrid Book Conference at University of the Arts where I was a respondent (along with Anabelle Rodriguez). The conference was a mix of sessions about teaching book arts today and musings about cyberbooks and the future of the mostly real world paper practice. It was a great conference — [...]
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Disclosure–bad boy photographer Tony Ward reveals all
By guest writer | November 10, 2009 | 2 Comments
Post by Corey Armpriester
With art, cigarettes and sex on my mind, I sit down with Philadelphia’s very own agent provocateur, photographer Tony Ward, for a little talk, revealing a man with drive and ambitions fueled by art and costing him his marriage. Art as home wrecker–I’m sure spouses of artists can understand such a thing.
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Interview with Marianne Bernstein: Shelter, Tatted, and so much more
By libby | November 6, 2009 | 2 Comments
Curator and artist Marianne Bernstein last month created the Welcome House in LOVE Park, and tonight she brings you Shelter at the Painted Bride. (The m.o. is similar–invite some terrific artists to work within the constraints of a show while giving them considerable freedom to interpret those constraints.) A book of her photographs, Tatted, is [...]
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Pew goes MacArthur on us
By libby and roberta | November 5, 2009 | 20 Comments
After 18 years of handing out the biggest regional prize in the arts, Pew Fellowships in the Arts has changed its m-o. Well, they’re still handing out prizes– the coveted 12 grants of $60,000. But the process is changing in 2010 in two significant ways. First, and probably most importantly, Pew has [...]
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Interview with Sarah Amos–the printer’s territories
By guest writer | November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
Post by Judith Stein
Sarah Amos is an artist with a consummate mastery of printmaking. In this new body of work, her third show at Cynthia Reeves Gallery in Chelsea, she pits macro against micro, playing bold, dramatic shapes against delicate forms and textures. In her handsome, large-format prints, shapes that resemble beaded curtains or louvered [...]
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Studio visit with Tiago Carneiro da Cunha
By libby | November 2, 2009 | 0 Comments
Brazilian artist Tiago Carneiro da Cunha is working in a small studio at University of the Arts, near the end of a fall-semester artist’s residency. He is creating a new version of Mudman, one of his stock characters the appear and reappear in his work. This version, a clay figure, is about 2 feet tall, [...]
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