Back when royal courts were major art purchasers, painters like Francois Boucher, Rubens and many others got to exercise their sexy muscle on behalf of their royal employers, painting titillating works based on mythology. Many of these erotic paintings (some specifically for the boudoir) now sit in major art museums around the world, a [...]
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Blogpix is closing Mar. 28! Yikes, that’s like Saturday. It’s a show with lots of worthwhile paintings (see them on the website but see them in person, too)!!! The show has one piece of sculpture — a huge wonderful “sock monkey” by Christopher Davison that people either love or hate. (We love it!) [...]
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We don’t want you to be the last to know. We’ve helped co-curate a show in Chelsea!! blogpix at Platform Project Space at Denise Bibro Fine Art coincides with the art fairs and was co-curated by two other terrific bloggers, Joanne Mattera and Hrag Vartanian. Are we hot or what!
If you’re in New [...]
Christopher Davison, Girl with Yellow Legs, 2008, Micron, Pitt pen, gouache, acrylic, ink wash, colored pencil and collage on paper, 50 x 30 inches
Philly artists are all over the place lately, and we’re having trouble getting out all the news of who is showing where. We missed the deadlines on getting a lot of the [...]
This week’s Weekly has my review of Christopher Davison’s Had at Jaskey/Tower and Hunter Stabler’s Thanks to Mom and Dad/The Chain of the Worlds at Pageant. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr — Stabler and Davison.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s heirs are alive and well and working hard in Philadelphia. Artists [...]
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Christopher Davison
Reclining Figure (Untitled)
30 x 40 in
acrylic, gouache, micron, graphite, cut paper on Rives
2007
Erratic at 817 Gallery at UArts is a show that roams the territory of the id and dreams and asks you to wander with it. Get on over there because it’s great, and the show’s only up another little while. Animals, birds [...]
By libby | October 23, 2007
As luck and life would have it, we totally missed mentioning that the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours of nearly 300 artists around town, began last weekend and will continue into next weekend. When Roberta and I looked through the who’s who in the artists directory, it seemed to us this is POST’s best year yet.
Fortunately, [...]
This week’s Weekly has my review of Naked Paper at Tower Gallery. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr.Border PatrolFrames are so last century.
Until recently, buying a print or drawing meant also buying a frame that might cost as much as or more than the artwork. Today, thanks to [...]
More than 75 works on paper by 22 artists — all unframed and hung salon-style — in a show called Naked Paper at Tower Gallery. Includes cut paper installations, hand-made book, prints and lots of ink and pencil on paper. Sounds great! Opens Thursday, July 12 and runs to Aug. 24 with [...]
