Art Gallery at City Hall The new 700 square ft. Art Gallery at City Hall — with high ceilings, fixed walls, and lots of natural light – brings art into the seat of power like never before. The brainchild of Gary Steuer, head of the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, Art Gallery at [...]
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The only image I’ve ever seen of a woman shaving her armpits is in an ad or commercial for shaving products. But Jennifer Levonian’s stop-action animation Her Slip is Showing begins with just that. It’s a dead-on metaphor of a woman trying to make herself acceptable and beat back her natural self as she dresses [...]
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 switched from an [...]
Thanks to our video guru, artiste extraordinaire David Kessler for this magical trip (if we do say so ourselves) through Joshua Mosley‘s and Anthony Campuzano‘s shows at ICA and through the micro-film sets of the Quay Brothers at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery. You can see these shows at ICA until March 29; and at Rosenwald-Wolf until April [...]
This week’s Weekly has my review of Joshua Mosley and Anthony Campuzano’s shows at ICA. Below is my copy with pictures. Joshua Mosley‘s “dread” and Anthony Campuzano‘s “touch sensitive,” in ICA‘s upstairs galleries, are sophisticated narrative disquisitions on the world and mankind’s place in it. The pieces are in other respects nothing alike.
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Howard FinsterDrawing for PC, 1981colored pencil and ink on paper A marvel of a drawing Howard Finster made for Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) graces the entrance of the exhibit Drawing in the World at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at UArts. The drawing made in 1981 for an outsider art exhibit in [...]
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By libby | February 5, 2009
Anthony Campuzano, Bicycle Bomb, 2008, ink on board, 20 x 30 inches Two Philadelphia galleries are showing art with lots of words–both shows with tie-ins to current exhibitions at the ICA. The galleries are the blue-chip Locks and Fleisher/Ollman, and the shows they have mounted are tip-top. At Fleisher/Ollman, the group exhibit Rich Text is [...]
Post by Anthony Campuzano [Hanging by your nails to read the the rest of Anthony Campuzano's encounter on Philadelphia's mean streets? Here it is. And just in case you missed it, Part 1 is here.] I turned thinking maybe one of my drawings had fallen from my portfolio. Instead it was just a cruel joke. [...]
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Post by Anthony Campuzano Anthony Campuzano’s Warpath. Campuzano refers to his work, based on news articles, as “Abstract Journalism” It was midway through March of this year when I talked to Libby and Roberta about writing a travelogue about my family vacation to visit my sister in Portland, OR, and stops through the Pacific Northwest. [...]
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By libby | April 17, 2008
Here are a few of the Philly artists who you can see in places far and wide: Nick Lenker at Artspace/Stonefox Nick Lenker’s disturbing photocollages of hybrid man-beasts open at a hybrid New York gallery Artspace/Stonefox, Opening April 22 to July 1. New work by Anthony Campuzano at White Columns The fabulous words-as-art guy, Anthony [...]
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