Old City brought the crowds on first Friday. The five o’clock crawl gave way to 6 o’clock jams, and by 7, the 20 and 30 somethings outnumbered the slightly older early-birds. So what’s the draw? The Clay Studio’s flagship exhibit for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts annual conference has a ponderous [...]
Posted in tags a-z | Also tagged adelaide paul, bruk dunbar, claire curneen, clay studio, dalet, first friday, julie york, nceca 2010, old city, viviane rombaldi, wexler gallery |
We ran into a lot of folks at the art fairs last week. Some we knew, others were artists and gallerists we were meeting for the first time. Either way, the art fairs are chat fests with conversations about art, sales and the exhilaration of being at the fair. Talk is the glue that holds [...]
Posted in art fairs/biennials, tags a-z | Also tagged andreas brandstrom fine art, armory ny 2010, brodsky center, charif benhelima, crown gallery, daniel firman, daniel gonzalez, dewar & gicquel, diana lowenstein fine arts, dona nelson, emanuel perotin, galerie loevenbruck, gallery joe, gigi scaria, goodman gallery, hosfelt gallery, jan halfstrom, jeremy dean, johanna unzueta, liliana porter, matthew cox, miki taira, new york art fairs, nick cave, pulse ny 2010, rj fine arts, tamara kostianovsky, thomas erben gallery, tokyo gallery + btap, trenton doyle hancock, videospace gallery, virgil de voldere, volta ny 2010, william kentridge, y gallery |
By libby | February 13, 2010
Two solo shows at Pentimenti are worth wading through piles of snow for–Joseph Hu’s exhibit “Noticed and Unnoticed” and Hunter Stabler’s exhibit “Center of the Cyclone”.
Here’s my post on Pentimenti. Here it is in this week’s Weekly. Working with six local artists new to her gallery, Pentimenti’s Christine Pfister organized Think Global, Go Local as a show about relationships. It’s an exhibit of clean, sleek, beautiful work consistent with the gallery’s aesthetic and has two surprises — an architectural piece [...]
By libby | November 11, 2008
Kim Beck, my favorite detail from Buoys installation. Most of us live in urban and suburban streetscapes. Yet so much art focuses on more romantic notions of nature, neglecting what the familiar paved zones offer in subject matter and imagery. Work now on exhibit at Pentimenti is grappling with its own take on what these [...]
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By libby | August 15, 2008
Aurora Robson’s plastic sculptures are made from recycled materials, this one from plastic bottles. In a final hiccup before the onslought of September shows, Pentimenti has reopened its sweet summer group show, Summer Journeys, Summer Dreams for a couple of weeks. There’s some terrific and surprising work here. The artists in the show are a [...]
By libby | December 2, 2007
One of Adam Wallacavage’s octopus chandelier; picture courtesy the artist Sun, sand, warm weather and art. It’s a marriage made in magic-land, aka Miami, coming up later this week. And Philadelphia galleries will be there, as well as some Philly-connected artists showing work at other galleries. Here’s what we know about: Two Philly artists to [...]
Posted in art fairs/biennials, national | Also tagged adam wallacavage, amze emmons, art basel miami, diane ashley, gallery joe, lizabeth rossof, oht gallery, projects gallery, schmidt dean gallery, signe vad |
This week’s Weekly has my review of Pentimenti’s summer show. Below is the copy with some added pictures. More photos at flickr. Breezy Does ItPentimenti’s group show offers loveliness and edge. “In Summer the Song Sings Itself”Through Sept. 15 (gallery closed July 24-Aug. 28). Pentimenti Gallery, 145 N. Second St. 215.625.9990. Thomas Doyle’s miniature environments [...]
This week’s Weekly has my piece on radically-forlorn art, something that’s in the air and on the walls everywhere. Below is the copy with some pictures. I have sets from the TODT exhibit here, from Pentimenti here and from Karen Kilimnik’s ICA exhibit here. Libby’s post on TODT is here. Licensed to NilIn a world [...]
By admin | April 14, 2007
Spring has sprung in Philadelphia – although the First Friday of April was rather chilly. After visiting some fifteen, twenty galleries in the span of four hours, here are some of my favorites. The highlight of First Friday down in Old City was, as Roberta and Libby pointed out in their post last week, Jackie [...]
