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Shibata’s roads, Modica’s boys of summer at 339

By libby | May 14, 2010

The pairing of photographic works by Toshio Shibata and Andrea Modica at Gallery 339 is inspired. From the sublime breadth of Shibata’s unpeopled highway landscapes to Modica’s specific, humanistic portraits of farm-league baseball players, the two excellent stand-alone exhibits reach across the gallery spaces in conversation with each other.

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Philly portraits at Gallery 339 and PAFA

By libby | October 27, 2009

Portraits are everywhere, right now, major portraits. I had a nice conversation with myself after seeing two terrific shows of Philadelphia portraits in the same week–the show Personal Views: Contemporary Photographic Portraiture in Philadelphia, at Gallery 339;  and the paintings in Barkley L. Hendricks’ Birth of the Blues at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

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Photography off the grid at Basho

By libby | January 14, 2008

Installation shot at Project Basho Something old, something new, something borrowed and cyanotype are mixing things up at Project Basho. My first visit there ever was Thursday, and I drove by the place twice, on a street where there were no other options. Finally I asked a rare passerby for help and he directed me [...]

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