Tasso Hartzog interviews Nate Garcia, who has been drawing and making comic zines since the first grade. Nate tells Tasso about moving to West Philly after graduating high school in Allentown to pursue his dream of being a comic book artist, working as a caricature artist to pay the bills, and his self-published anthologies and comic books!
Read MoreOur new contributor, Tasso Hartzog, interviews his long-time radio favorite, Bob Perkins, whose velvety voice on WRTI has graced Philadelphia’s airwaves since 1997.
Read MoreArtblog returning contributor, Elizabeth Johnson, reviews a New York exhibit inspired by pandemic isolation and its impact on the human need to connect.
Read MoreOn a trip to the to see “Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas,” Logan Cryer is disappointed by the lack of context provided about the artist, whose “work has a bit of a reputation as not being as well-liked as some major art institutions would advertise,” Logan says. Wanting to better understand the abstract artist’s popularity, Logan felt alienated when they found no clear or compelling defense of the work, neither in the wall text, nor through the (lack of) display of documents from the artist himself. What does unimaginative curation mean for the legacy of the artist? Read the review to find out what Logan thinks!
Read MoreCalling it Faith Ringgold’s “moment to shine,” Janyce Denise Glasper writes about the experience of spending an entire day immersing herself in Faith Ringgold’s detailed expressive works at The New Museum and ACA Galleries. She comments that Ringgold “invested so much in her brave, revolutionary practice. The audience must perform that same duty to her.” Both shows are up until early or mid-June, 2022. Links and more information at the bottom of this post.
Read MoreSusan Isaacs interviews artist Nanette Carter, whose journey includes years as an art educator, as well as 17 years as a full time professional artist sustaining herself through sales of her work. An amazing story. Nanette Carter is featured in a 2-person exhibit at Towson University now through April 23. Be sure to catch it is you’re in the Baltimore area.
Read MoreMiles Orvell writes an essay diving deep into photographer Laurence Salzmann’s photo essays about humans and their relationships to animals– shepherds and sheep; dogs and their owners– select photographs from which are currently on view in “Creatures Real and Imagined” at Art on the Avenue, thru on April 30, 2022. The exhibit also features etchings by celebrated artist and friend of Salzmann, Holley Coulter Chirot.
Read MoreKate Brock reviews “House and Travels,” paintings by Dona Nelson, Emily Davidson and Zachary Rawe. Though each artist’s painting style and subject matter is distinct, their handling of color and paint reveals their connection: Davidson and Rawe both studied under Nelson at Tyler School of Art, and they all share an interest in breaking down the hidebound categories of “abstraction” and “representation.” Organized by the artists themselves, Kate Brock says this is a “stubborn, delightful group of paintings,” on view at Atelier Art Gallery through April 15th.
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