Historic house museums all face considerable challenges. On the practical level, their fund-raising depends upon visitor numbers and these days there’s a lot of competition for visitors’ leisure time. Furthermore, historic houses have been premised on the idea of stepping back to a particular moment in time, an idea that has made historians increasingly uncomfortable. [...]
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If you’re on the road this summer, or hanging out far and wide, we have some tips here of Philadelphia artists who are all over the place. Italy to Cyprus by way of L.A.
Matthew Suib and Nadia Hironika, The Soft Epic or: Savages of the Pacific West, as seen at the Crane’s Ice Box space here in Philadelphia. It’s traveling to L.A. This from Matthew Suib and Nadia Hironaka: If you’re in LA or NYC in the next week, we hope you’ll be able to check out our [...]
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Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib’s Soft Epic (detail) at the Icebox. I caught Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib‘s Soft Epic video projection at the Icebox on the last day of its run and want to add my appreciation here to what Andrea wrote previously. Deep into a seemingly endless war and at a time of [...]
Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib The Soft Epic or: Savages of the Pacific West (2008) detail of multi-screen video projection; all photos by the author There’s lots of anxiety in art at the moment; we are living in dark times and it shows. Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib have occupied the entire Icebox space at [...]
By libby | March 24, 2008
This month’s Vox exhibit is nearly all video and really all pretty great! It looks like more and more video artists are part of the Vox membership, and this show reflects the shift. The only non-video in the show, a sculpture installation, is by Brent Wahl, who also makes videos. Here’s who and what: Black [...]
By libby | January 8, 2008
We learned from Andrea Kirsh that Matthew Suib shot the competition out of the water in the Dec. 24 & 31 New Yorker briefs (p. 30) for his video piece at Smack Mellon in DUMBO. Under “Infinitu et Contini” at Smack Mellon it said … Best of all is “Cocked,” Matthew Suib’s montage of closeups [...]
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This week’s Weekly has my review of Facts Fantasies and Fictions at the Galleries at Moore. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr.Paint MisbehavingMoore’s narrative art show is slippery and subversive. Sarah McEneaney, looking regal, in a new work at Moore College’s Facts, Fantasies and Fictions. Narrative art takes a well [...]
By libby | November 18, 2007
Matthew Suib Cocked for action in BrooklynVideographer Matthew Suib, just opened Saturday in Brooklyn at Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth St., 718.834.8761. His video Cocked is included in the exhibition Infinitu et Contini, curated by Denise Carvahlo. The show runs through Dec. 30. The exhibit is supported by a huge bunch of grants, included money from [...]
A lot of openings in the last two weekends. I didn’t make them all but I’m going to run some pictures here with some links and say get out there and look around. So much to see so little time. PAFA, Oct. 19, 2006 Libby and I made it to the opening of Steven Power‘s [...]
