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Weekly Update – Matthew Osborn’s world and Candida Hofer’s Philadelphia

 This week’s Weekly has my review of Matthew Osborn at Pageant and Candida Hofer at Arcadia.  Below is the copy with some pictures.
Matthew Osborn’s “My Bones – Your Skin” at Pageant and “Candida Hofer – Philadelphia” at Arcadia University are two shows that take you to the limits of 2-D art being shown locally.  Osborn’s [...]

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Free art-customized recycling bins at Pageant

I had to post this blast from Pageant, so sue me. Who wouldn’t want a free city recycling bins decorated by Chris Kline and Jason Hsu?
Here’s what the press release said:
PAPER CRYSTALS’CHRIS KLINE AND JASON HSUWANT YOU TO GET YOUR RECYCLE ON ALREADY
CHRIS AND JASON put together this event in conjunction with Aryon Hoselton, who [...]

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Paper Crystals at Pageant–Jason Hsu and Chris Kline

Jason Hsu and Chris Kline
We were standing in Pageant Gallery Saturday afternoon and a steady stream of lookers came by to get up close and personal with what lured them in from outside the window. Chris Kline and Jason Hsu’s exuberant, gargantuan installation knocked us and all the other visitors out with its boyish [...]

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Weekly Update — Pageant’s Rag and Bone men and ladies

Bon Jour from Paris!!! This week’s Weekly has my review of Rag and Bnne at Pageant Gallery.
Matthew Osborn, untitled drawing at Pageant’s Rag and Bone.
Rag and Bone, Pageant Gallery’s Winter Invitational, brings together 26 artists, some of them familiar names and some gallery newcomers.  The exhibition continues Pageant’s shaggy-around-the-edges aesthetic – drawings pinned [...]

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Slice, dice and fold–Art Alliance, Pageant and Fleisher-Ollman

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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Brave new world emerges at Pageant

Jesse Greenberg unloaded a bunch of these all over every horizontal surface in the gallery
Isskustvo Transmagica Provinces Animanina may be a bewildering title for an art exhibit, but the objects in the show at Pageant Soloveev Gallery are equally bewildering–and wonderful. I felt like I was walking into a space filled with gifts.
Pageant once again [...]

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Another episode of the wonderfulness of too much good stuff!

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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Weekly Update – East Coast/West Coast at Pageant

This week’s Weekly has my review of East Coast/West Coast at Pageant Gallery. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr.Polar ExplorersAn exhibition at Pageant Gallery examines opposites and innuendos.
“East Coast/West Coast” at Pageant: Soloveev Gallery has little to do with geography. What the group show seems to have on [...]

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Special Look! It’s Libby and Roberta, Episode 8

This episode takes us to Pageant Gallery for a behind-the-scenes look at Belted Bronze, Terry Adkins’ homage to blues singer Bessie Smith who lived many years in Philadelphia but whose life here is not noted nor memorialized in the Cater St. neighborhood where she lived. For more photos of the show, see Roberta’s flickr [...]

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Sarah Gamble’s Gothic at Pageant

Tempera on paper, drawing by Sarah Gamble from her show at Pageant Gallery.
Sarah Gamble paints a particular type of girl-goth. I’ve been intrigued with Gamble’s work for some time partly because I don’t really “get” it but I want to. (You can see her work now in a solo show at Pageant Gallery through [...]

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