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 [...]
By libby | November 22, 2009
This is part 2 of a 2 part post. Part 1 is about the talk delivered by show juror Joao Ribas.
Ribas’ choices for the Arcadia Works on Paper exhibit raise issues of sharing, reproducibility and loss of copyright control. They raise disturbing questions about the value of all art at a time when works on [...]
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By libby | November 22, 2009
The prestigious Works on Paper show at Arcadia, which opened Wednesday, raises worthy questions about the value of art objects in the year 2009.
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a real sucker for hijacking idioms. That is, moving into a certain idiom— like Airport Retail, Las Vegas, Ancient Persia, Higher Education— and adopting its forms and format for parody, analysis, or even as a straightforward medium. It was this weakness that first grabbed me when I [...]
detail from Kristin Reynolds’ installation
So there was so much going on last month I didn’t get some things up that I wanted to let people know about, especially the April show at Vox Populi.
Actually, the Kristin Reynolds is still up in the back room, and tonight Voxumenta opens, which looks like it should be worth [...]
DSCN0851.jpgOriginally uploaded by sokref1.Image is one of Doina Adam’s glass pieces, this one, I believe wrapped in thread, at Vox.
Before going for ice cream at Space 1026 Friday night (see post), my friend, curator Andrea Kirsch and I stopped at Vox Populi to see the new members’ show. Stefan Abrams, Doina Adam and Mauro [...]
