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Weekly Update – Solid Gold winners at Vox Populi

This week’s Weekly has my review of Solid Gold at Vox Populi. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr.
Vox Populi’s fourth annual emerging artist show is a lovely human-centric affair full of narrative art with many stories that attempt, each in its own way, to explain the vulnerable place [...]

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Wandering and wondering at Vox Populi–Paparone, Abrams and Wylie

Nick Paparone, The Wonder Wander, torchiere lamp, polystyrene, alumnium foil, paint, motor
The cheerful boyishness that permeates Nick Paparone’s work is always a little slippery. He is one of the trio of Vox Populi artists up for the month of May, plus a couple of guest artists, and he almost steals the show with one of [...]

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Banana twins–Nick Paparone and Andria Bibiloni

Nick Paparone, 400 Horsepower #1, airbrushed, laminated Cindy Crawford poster, poster hangers
Andria Bibiloni’s self-portrait as banana-weilding muchacha
My favorite coincidence this month is a pair of images by two very different artists with very different intents, both of them playing off the same kind of pop culture imagery.
On the top we have Nick Paparone’s rejiggering of [...]

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Video Vox

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, [...]

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American Dream noir at Vox

James Johnson, Some Rooms-Part I (Yours), installation detail
Darkness is my pillow at Vox Populi this month. Almost everything is noir, and the American Dream has turned into something lost, exploded, longed for and gone. At least that’s what I got over almost everything I saw there.
The most ambitious work on the subject is James Johnson’s [...]

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Weekly Update – Vox Populi’s December shows–cool

This week’s Weekly has my review of the current shows at Vox Populi. Below is the copy with some pictures. More images at flickr.
Crazy Like a VoxFirst Friday has moved out of Old City.
Old City is becoming a hard sell on First Fridays. Chinatown North galleries Vox Populi, Copy, Screening, Space 1026 and [...]

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What we want to see Friday

First Friday’s coming up Dec. 7, 2007.
Here’s some of what we’re excited about. For gallery times and locations, check the links to the gallery websites.
David Kessler’s Shadow World videos and Candace Karch’s black and white photographs at Bambi.
At Vox Pop, members Josh Rickards (image above), Max Lawrence and Micah Danges, plus more in the 4th [...]

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artblog focus group

(left to right) Roberta, Nadia, Anita, Andrew (behind column), Leah, Juliana (behind Leah), Josh, and Roxana
artblog loves Art 21 so we invited artists from Vox Populi to screen some of Art 21’s episodes with us–a sort of focus group for the newest iteration of the show, which is scheduled to air on PBS beginning Oct. [...]

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First Friday with limits

Adam Cooper on guitar in the one-night performance/installation Breakfast at Tiffany’s, at Copy Gallery
Hey, First Friday was great–at least all that we saw of it, which wasn’t much given Roberta has the sniffles and I was plain old tired.
Here’s what we saw:Copy Gallery had a pretty funny one-night performance. Adam Cooper, tented in a hilarious [...]

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What we want to see Friday–that’s TODAY!!

Sorry we didn’t get this up earlier, y’ll but we hope to see you out and about tonight! love, libby and roberta
SPACE 1026Spaceman, a print by Drive By Press
Space 1026 tops our agenda with a print extravaganza that includes printing “in the gutter” according to the press release. We don’t know what that means, [...]

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