By libby | April 23, 2010
Nick Lenker transforms himself into a sacrificial druid at Pageant Gallery. In his exhibit The Destruction and Creation of Man, he stirs up a voodoo brew of digital and handmade, ceramic and video, fire and vomit and water. The mix might give the witches of Macbeth a case of envy.
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. [...]
By libby | February 20, 2009
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By libby | December 26, 2007
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 its [...]
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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 and [...]
