From the wilds of Brooklyn, to the Texas Wild West to the wilderness reconstructed in Chelsea, Philadelphia art is on the move. Here’s what we got:
Michelle Wilson at X-Initiative, Saturday afternoon
Michelle Wilson will turn herself into a scapegoat, Sat., Sept. 19 to take on the burdens of the audience’s worries, guilt, pressures and tensions. The interactive performance “Modern Day Scapegoat Services” involves written confessions that will become part of a book to be delivered into the wilderness.
All of this takes place in Fritz Haeg’s Literary Dome, installed in the old Dia Foundation space that is now X-Initiative.
Wilson also has shows soon at Chashama in New York and Kunst Vault Space in Sliver Spring, MD.
Yahoo, Texas!
Gallery Joe owner Becky Kerlin is giving a talk, Trends in Paper Works, at Texas State University on September 21st. She is totally an expert in the field, as we here in Philadelphia all know, and if you heard her talk about drawing at the late lamented Jenny Jaskey Gallery, you know she’s got a lot of really great stuff to say.
The talk is in conjunction with a group exhibit there that includes a number of Gallery Joe artists, including Astrid Bowlby, Annabel Daou and Charles Ritchie. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, so check it all out here. The exhibit, On, Of or About, runs from Sept. 22 to Oct. 22.
Sarah Eberle collaborates where the wild things are in Brooklyn
Sarah Eberle, who is half of Rebekah Templeton Gallery, is showing some of her own art in Brooklyn at Live with Animals. The exhibit, Fit for Habitation, is a collaboration by Sara Gates, Eberle, Cecilia Elguero, and Domestic Construction that hits on themes of habitation and design, to name a few ideas. The exhibit opened Sept. 4.
