Joe Boruchow, in his studio, with his graphic novel in a binder on the desk and a study for Abundance on the easel. Cut paper artist Joe Boruchow‘s solo show at Bean Cafe (it closes today), is the second show of his we’ve seen there. Bean loves Joe and Joe loves Bean and he’s shown [...]
Bruce Wilhelm and his painting machine, a device he invented to simplify painting large background fields of stripy washes. We visited Bruce Wilhelm at his South Philly house/studio on Halloween morning before going to the Phillies parade. Wilhelm is a recent transplant to town from Richmond, VA. The young artist, 27, a Richmond native, is [...]
By libby | October 17, 2008
Celestine Wilson Hughes Celestine Wilson Hughes drives a school bus. She gets up at 4 a.m. to get to the job on time. And while on the break between driving the students to and from school, she wraps the edges of her bits of glass in foil to prepare them for use in her work. [...]
Works in progress by Miriam Singer As works on paper go, Philly artist Miriam Singer‘s work–talismanic cityscape-maps that record time and place and daily life in layers–is not so much on paper as of paper. And that makes these combination prints/drawings a good fit with all the paper cutting and 3-D paper work that’s been [...]
This is part 2 of a two-part article about our studio visit with artist Judith Schaechter. Read Part 1. Judith Schaechter’s computer, with files in Photoshop that store her drawings of heads and bodies for her figures. While at the computer Judith was demonstrating to us how she mixed and matched heads and bodies on [...]
[This is part 1 of a two part story.] Judith Schaechter with one of her five cats in her South Philly house. We had lunch with one of contemporary art’s heavy hitters the other day and she made us quiche. Judith Schaechter had just come home from a driving lesson during which her driving instructor [...]
