A.M. Weaver takes you through the darkened space of the gallery, where video projections, some accompanied by installations, buzz, coo, and talk with you about issues that have been with us forever, involving bodies of color in a world not of their control. It’s a good read and a great show, up through Sept. 8, 2017. Catch it soon!
Read MoreElizabeth Osborne has been a major presence in the Philadelphia art scene since the 1960s, when she began teaching at PAFA. She’s been showing her work at Locks Gallery since the 1970s, and A.M. Weaver says the latest show of her paintings there shows the artist at her best.
Read MoreA. M. Weaver finds the group exhibit at the new Rush Arts Philadelphia (RAP) a treat and suggests we all get up there and see it. Danny Simmons is the primary curator of the exhibit and he began curating the show when he first conceived of opening RAP. The theme show involves artists working in the Southern black folk magic tradition of Hoodoo, and the show’s title references an herb called High John the Conqueror to which is ascribed magical powers.
Read MoreSulkowicz is essentially in the business of collecting other people’s stories, which done well could propel the level of her knowledge, based on twenty something years, beyond the norm. We will have to stay tuned to this young woman’s development as an artist and her strategies for healing through art.
Read MoreQuietly building steam over the last four years, the community project, Philadelphia Assembled, will burst into the world this April, with actions, workshops, performances and art, in places all across the city, and will manifest itself in a big installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Perelman Building this fall. Starting with a series of conversations with regular Philadelphians, the Dutch artist, Jeanne van Heeswijk, made connections and reached out to more and more people, in what sounds like a revolutionary movement to empower people and make their lives better.
Read MoreSherman Fleming is a performance artist, who began performing in the 1970s after being introduced to “Happenings.” In graduate school he created a character, “RODFORCE,” that he performed as. He tells A.M. Weaver about the difficulty of finding performance role models since there were few black male performers. His art is public, and about issues of race and masculinity and is intentionally provocative.
Read MoreThe works of emerging/mid career artists, Amber Johnston, Brian Richmond and Michelle Marcuse in the current Fleisher Wind Challenge Exhibition represent a small sampling by these notable Philadelphia artists. But a sense of their chosen direction is evident.
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