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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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Tunneling in Bushwick: Group Show at Famous Accountants

By emmy thelander | September 1, 2010 | 1 Comment

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).

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Weekly Update – Vox Populi’s First Friday and Jolie Laide’s Saturday night

By roberta | | 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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CAi’s “Summer Phase” in Chestnut Hill windows

By guest writer | August 31, 2010 | 6 Comments

by Clarissa Shanahan 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.

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Radio post repaired

By libby | August 30, 2010 | 0 Comments

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!

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Sande Webster on artblog radio

By libby and roberta | | 0 Comments

This episode sponsored by Proximity Gallery 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 [...]

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Gallery owner Janet Fleisher died

By libby and roberta | August 29, 2010 | 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Made at the Clay Studio

By cari gadamus | | 0 Comments

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.

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First Friday dilemmas grow bigger

By libby | August 27, 2010 | 11 Comments

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.

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Blacklight Dinner at Smile Gallery

By catherine sirizzotti | | 0 Comments

After savoring some of the best Thai food I have had in a long time in Smile’s downstairs café, I headed upstairs to their gallery.  The small but well utilized space is currently hosting Bangkok and Blacklight.  The show combines urban, graffiti style artists from the Trenton area with a well renowned contemporary artist from [...]

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