In Review’s 10 photographers seem deeply immersed in thoughts about the fragility of the human condition and the slipperiness of reality. The photographers are also into taxonomies – groups of barns, humans, animals, buildings, teenagers and more. The show, at Gallery 339, is full of quirky and sometimes hallucinatory imagery.
The pairing of photographic works by Toshio Shibata and Andrea Modica at Gallery 339 is inspired. From the sublime breadth of Shibata’s unpeopled highway landscapes to Modica’s specific, humanistic portraits of farm-league baseball players, the two excellent stand-alone exhibits reach across the gallery spaces in conversation with each other.
This week’s Weekly has my review of shows at Gallery 339 and Gallery Joe. More photos at flickr drawings and photos. “8×10 and Under” at Gallery 339 proves that bigger isn’t always better when it comes to art. While large photos may enfold you in their world and give you a quick hit of satisfaction, [...]
By libby | October 27, 2009
Portraits are everywhere, right now, major portraits. I had a nice conversation with myself after seeing two terrific shows of Philadelphia portraits in the same week–the show Personal Views: Contemporary Photographic Portraiture in Philadelphia, at Gallery 339; and the paintings in Barkley L. Hendricks’ Birth of the Blues at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
David GrahamGoodyear, Arizona, 2006photographic c-print, ed. 2520×24″30×40″ David Graham‘s Almost Paradise at Gallery 339 shows the Philadelphia photographer’s recent road trips all over the US. Almost Hell is more like it. Touching down everywhere from the post-Katrina south of New Orleans and Gulfport to places like Goodyear, Az, Omaha, NE, and Studio City CA, Graham trains his [...]
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This week’s Weekly has my review of the Yale MFA photo show at Gallery 339. Below is the copy with some photos. Also in this week’s print version of the paper is last week’s story about the Robot 250 project in Pittsburgh. Suyeon YunCrabmeat, Boulder CO, 2007Archival Pigment Print Yale’s M.F.A. program in photography is known [...]
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By libby | October 2, 2007
James Johnson, When I was a Kid I thought Mr. Rogers Could See Me Too2006, detail,inkjet prints; on the monitor to the right is a video by Kara Crombie. Photography is all over town–and there’s more on the way. From L’Autre, a group show at University of the Arts, to Tina Barney at Gallery 339, [...]
We’ve posted the video for Episode 6 of Look! It’s Libby and Roberta in the column at the LEFT. In case you’ve missed it, Look! It’s Libby and Roberta is our video project with the great David Kessler, who also made the documentary film on Zoe Strauss, If You Break the Skin You Must Come [...]
Here’s my short review, appearing in the Editor’s Choice section of the paper, of Donald Camp’s Dust Shaped Hearts. It’s a great show. Installation shot at Gallery 339 of Donald Camp’s Dust Shaped Hearts. The large-scale photographs of artists, musicians, writers and others confront you with their humanity. Donald Camp’s photo portraits of contemporary writers, [...]
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By libby | April 18, 2006
Light Bulb 10, by Amanda Means The highlights Amanda Means’ photogram images at Gallery 339 are portraits of individual light bulbs. Their magic is partly in the structures within. They are delicate and intricate. In some cases they look like carousels or old-fashioned appliance parts, in others like little figures. And when they carry the [...]
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