First Friday was full of goodies. We started at the Fab. Here’s some pictures and a short video and some gossip at the bottom so be sure to scroll down. Ed Ruscha at the Fabric Workshop last Friday night Ed Ruscha was looking like a little leprachaun in front of a packed audience at the [...]
By libby | March 19, 2008
This is the second of two posts on some fiber exhibits I saw. Here’s the first one. 6th International Fiber BiennialSnyderman/Works Galleries About 100 artists from far and wide were selected for this exhibit, now in its 6th year, curated by Snyderman Gallery director/exhibition curator, Bruce Hoffman. This show is the seed from which the [...]
By libby | November 2, 2007
One of Xiang Yang’s embroideries from his series Relationship–Bushism and Sadamism. In this piece, which was at the Painted Bride a year ago, the embroidery links portraits of Kim Il Jung and Mao Tse Tung A year ago, the folks at Snyderman stopped in the Painted Bride and were as blown away as we are [...]
By libby | January 4, 2007
Relationship:Buddhism-Saddamism. This one shows Saddam. Bush is on the far side. The execution by hanging of Saddam Hussein served as a nice reminder that I wanted to bring up Xiang Yang’s exhibit, Beyond the Duplicated Voice at the Painted Bride. Even though Roberta wrote a great post on it, I wanted to add my two [...]
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This week’s Weekly is the Holiday Guide issue including my holiday art round-up. Below is the copy with extra pictures. Holiday DiversityArt with a global sauce. As we celebrate Thanksgiving with ritual turkey and pumpkin pie feasting, there are a few exhibitions like the salsas, chutneys and rice dishes that also grace some American tables [...]
Beautiful backyard scene in Nadia Hironaka’s Crack. Note the satellite dish, air conditioner, tv antenna (?). The mix of old and new, the voyeuristic view through the window, the snapshot of a time and place that tells nothing. Space — internal, external, fairy tale and architected — is on the table at Vox Populi this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged corey antis, diana al-hadid, nadia hironaka |
Hunter StablerOriginally uploaded by sokref1. Sonic Pretzel Mastadon, virtuoso cut paper, (detail) by Hunter Stabler. Click to see it bigger. Cut paper to die for and thread used in un-thread-like ways — that’s the big news from Pageant Gallery this month in Everything is Lightpour, a two person show pairing Penn MFA candidate Hunter Stabler [...]
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By libby | December 1, 2004
Guilt I: I’m posting this because I’ve been worrying about how I didn’t say anything about the excellent piece by Xiang Yang at Spector Gallery Great (re)Masters exhibit, partly because his work is an outlier. But that doesn’t make it any less worthy of mention. Xiang is the person who did the terrific crewel-in-a-lunch-container pieces [...]
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By libby | September 20, 2004
I was wondering about a thing or two after I wrote the previous post on Xiang Yang, so I talked to gallerist Shelley Spector. The show included 72 pieces, and the images come out of popular magazines and other pop culture sources. If the tension on the threads is uneven, they will sag or pull, [...]
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By libby | September 19, 2004
If you’re not familiar with the portraits of Rebecca Westcott, you can see them this month at Spector Gallery. Westcott’s portraits of young adults–her crowd–against fairly blank backgrounds capture their earnestness, their tentativeness, and their everyday clothes. Unlike Elizabeth Peyton, who’s working the same age group and paints only the cool, flattened stares of languid [...]
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