By libby | January 14, 2010
Traditionally when we talk about fiber, we talk about not just its drape but also about its hand. Fiber is mostly meant to be touched. And if you come from a long line of Jews, from a people who have historically long been in the rag and clothing trades, when you see a piece of [...]
By libby | November 6, 2009
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 [...]
This week’s Weekly has my first Friday roundup. Below is the copy with pictures.
Big news this First Friday: A new gallery, Marginal Utility , is opening in the Vox building. The six-story former factory building already houses Vox Populi , Copy , AHN/VHS , Progressive Sharing , Jeffrey Stockbridge Fine Art and Tiger Strikes Asteroid [...]
Patricia Hills, David Curtis, Daniel Heyman, Peter Saul, Jane Irish at the Symposium at PAFA, Nov. 1.
Peter Saul’s exhibit at PAFA was the excuse for an all-day symnposium there on political art earlier this month. But Saul wasn’t the only headliner participating. We also fell for Art Spiegelman‘s bon mots, Laylah Ali’s sometimes veiled wait-wait-don’t-tell [...]
Portrait of Gregory Taylor, April 24, 2008, by Daniel Heyman
[This just in from Daniel Heyman, whose portraits of Iraqi torture victims you may remember. Here's news about a related project from closer to home. We admire how Daniel has successfully found a way to revivify portraiture and do it with a political edge:]
Dear Roberta and [...]
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By libby | March 28, 2007
Disco Mosul, Amman series, drypoint, 22x 27
Two exhibits at the Print Center are not the sort of thing you can glance at and breeze through. They are work by two artists intent on telling stories, so you need to slow down and listen.
Daniel Heyman’s stories are notable for their grip on reality, for their [...]
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Well, our friends at Philebrity are catching up with our prodigious video output! Episodes 2 and 3 are now on Philebrity TV’s front page.
There’s also a Vince Romaniello video with Daniel Heyman about Daniel’s journey to Jordan to draw the Iraqi prisoners of war who were being interviewed for a human rights [...]
Daniel Heyman, a master printmaker, working at last year’s Big Block printing event at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
I met Daniel Heyman June 23 at the Last Drop coffee shop then we walked to the Doubletree Hotel where there was space for him to lay out his large prints on the floor in the lobby [...]
[This week's Weekly includes my story about Daniel Heyman's trip to Amman Jordan to interview victims of torture in the Iraqi prisons and draw their pictures in order to spread the message. Here's the link to the art pageand below is the copy with some additional pictures.]
The Art of WarA Philadelphia printmaker travels to Jordan [...]
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[Ed. note: We got an email from Daniel Heyman that shocked us out of our chairs. Heyman, a Philadelphia artist and teacher is in Jordan doing drawings of Iraqi torture victims who are being interviewed by a group of lawyers and journalists for a human rights project. Heyman had a Fleisher Challenge exhibit last [...]
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