In this sprawling and wonderful interview, Susan Isaacs talks with Michael C. Thorpe about his varied art practice that includes quilting that uses fabrics as a palette of choices like a painter uses paints.
Read MoreCorey Qureshi visits Big Ramp in North Philadelphia for ‘Death Card,’ the inaugural exhibit. The gallery is a project of Jacob (Chris) Hammes and others, following the “death” of Pilot Projects, Hammes’s former and beloved experimental space.
Read MoreMaxwell Van Cooper sees the six-person group exhibit ‘minor details’ at TILT Institute. An exhibition that takes off from the idea of an archive, the show is in part a collaboration or, even more-so, a response to curator Rami George’s archival work, “Untitled (minor details).”
Read MoreMiles Orvell goes to New Jersey to see Ellen Harvey’s ‘The Disappointed Tourist’ and cant get it out of his mind. Miles salutes Harvey’s crowd sourced project for the “universality of her major theme — precarity and loss.
Read MoreKatie Dillon Low sees an exhibit of her friend Pierre Trombert and talks about the artist’s many loves: “Trombert’s life has been a series of love affairs, which he has been writing about in a series of memoir manuscripts for several years now. One of the affairs was with the magnificent house that he bought for a song at 5th and Spring Garden Street in the early eighties.” Katie calls Trombert’s cohort of drawings at Butchie Alley “a love affair with line.”
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