It’s a blizzard out there — with shows dropping like snowflakes on the Philly art scene. Here’s some pictures and a few comments from our travels around town this past month. All these venues have serious monthly (or bi-monthly) programs and with First Friday around the corner it’s time to get out and see some more.
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This week’s Weekly has my review of Fleisher-Ollman’s emerging artist invitational. Below’s the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr.
The world is a diminished place in “I Don’t Watch the Internet,” Fleisher-Ollman Gallery’s seventh annual emerging artist survey. A non-themed invitational that’s big on miniatures and works that whir and clack, the show rounds [...]
John Baldessari that bastard, the late Jimmie Byers, the late Nancy Spero, august Louise Bourgeois, Claes the great Oldenburg, and Alighero e (and) Boetti are International School artists sharing space with Third World or “marginal” or “vernacular” or “outsider” artists in Back to the Earth: Revisiting Magiciens de la Terre at Fleisher/Ollman through December 5.
The standout piece at Fleisher/Ollman’s Frenz exhibit is more than a standout. It’s outta heeeere.
The exhibit includes work by 11 artists selected by singer-songwriter Will Oldham, aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. The work in the show is a suprising mix of homey and slick, the result of what I imagine is one guy’s personal taste [...]
The timing couldn’t have been better. The day after the Dufala brothers won the West Prize grand prize (cash purse of $25,000) on Feb. 26, their first solo show at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery opened (Feb 27). So of course what did the brothers do after winning the West prize? They went back to their studios to [...]
This week’s Weekly has my review of the winter invitational show at Fleisher-Ollman. Below is the copy with some pictures and a few changes.
Shawn Thornton, one of five paintings in the show, oil on panel, 11×11″
Sly and serpentine works turn Fleisher-Ollman’s sixth annual emerging artist show into an Eden with bite. F-O is [...]
Natasha Bowdoin, I am the sun in the morning, I am a dog at night, 2006; cut cards and gouache on paper, 36 x 54 x 9 inches.image courtesy the artist
And now for the medium of the season, cut paper!! Three exhibits exploring the limits of paper as a medium are ripping up the town– [...]
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Installation shot of Alex Da Corte and Jack Sloss’s Love Explosion at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery.
The party is over and everyone must go. There’s a morning-after feeling to the Jack Sloss and Alex Da Corte show on view at the Fleisher Ollman Gallery. Piled-up presents are partially opened, colored globe lights on [...]
The stars are in alignment and lots of wonderful things are opening and happening all at once this weekend. I hope to make it to some of these …see you out there!
FRIDAY, DEC. 14, 2007
Street Button–5th annual emerging artist showFLEISHER/OLLMAN GALLERY, 1616 WALNUT STREET, SUITE 1006-9pm
Jacob Hellman photo collage at White Lodge Gallery (in School [...]
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In episode 14, we visit PAFA’s Morris Gallery to see the installation by Senga Nengudi that was made in collaboration with the Fabric Workshop and Museum. We [...]
