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.
By libby | April 10, 2009
There’s a fabulous piece of public art–a video projected on a window on Vine Street–good enough to make you slow down your car and forget to drive it.
Another crazy week, art campers. We’ll start with First Friday and work our way forwards and backwards all at once. It seemed logical to us.
FRIDAY, April 3
Man’s best art opening
This week’s Weekly has my Spring Roundup article. Below is the copy with some pictures.
Openings are de rigueur in the art world. But this spring grand openings trump all as Tyler School of Art launches its flagship space, Temple Gallery, in the school’s new building at 12th and Norris streets in North Philadelphia.
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 most recent [...]
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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 Hole, [...]
First Friday was swell, and apparently, it was a good thing we went at 5, because we heard reports later that the galleries and streets of Old City were brimming with art lovers. Here are some pix from what we saw.
Joseph Hu used his own hair for the bristles in his replica of his grandfather’s [...]
from Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y by Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez, screening at the new SCREENING gallery.Look for Philadelphia’s newest gallery, opening Friday. It’s called SCREENING, run by Matthew Suib and Nadia Hironaka, who say it’s the only gallery dedicated to the exhibition of innovative and challenging works of art on film and video.
For its inaugural exhibition, Screening [...]
