Philadelphia artist Jordan Griska’s ambitious solo show, Nowhere Fast—his first since winning the 2008 International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Award—showcases his ability to turn an understanding of industrial fabrication into seriously high-impact sculpture. Unfortunately, whether due to the particularities of the University Science Center’s Breadboard space—more of a corporate lobby than an art gallery—or attempting [...]
A big shift at the University City Science Center’s Esther Klein Gallery (EKG) begins tomorrow. The shift from an art and science (emphasis on art) space to an art and technology (emphasis on technology) space has been in the works for some time. Tomorrow, EKG shows off it’s new, techie big brother–Breadboard. The art at [...]
Marisa Olson, Some Nice Looking Sound Files, I think this is #8, Iris Print, 32 inches x 42 inches Artist Marisa Olson takes on one of the building blocks of the Internet and the computer–background imagery–with wit and verve, stealing the familiar wallpapers and animated gifs, reimagining them in gigantic proportions–from bits to bytes to [...]
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By libby | March 14, 2008
We are shameless about letting you know about our contributer Annette Monnier‘s latest curatorial adventure. That’s because we believe it’s going to be great. Her show Given Enough Eyeballs includes art that hacks open source computer software for art’s sake–for example Super Mario Brothers visuals put to very different purposes. The exhibit opens tonight at [...]
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This week’s Weekly has my review of The Great Society at Klein Art Gallery. Below is the copy with a picture and more at flickr (I’ll put more in the post later). Here’s Libby’s flickr setIrony Rich“The Great Society” invites you to drop out. Newsreader in the faux news program in Joulia Strauss’s video in [...]
By libby | January 23, 2007
Someone heard my prayer and provided seats for the long videos The seating is glorious–three sweet little high-tech stools in front of each of the longer videos at Esther Klein Gallery. Each of those two videos is in its own little cubicle, one nearly a black box, the other more open, but both doing the [...]
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