Logan Cryer reports back from Jacolby Satterwhite’s latest exhibition at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Room for Living.
Read MoreLogan Cryer visits the current exhibition on North Coral St. and writes about a show she calls impressive for delivering art on divisive and difficult topics.
Read MoreIn their review of the exhibition “Soy Cuba/I am Cuba” at Arthur Ross Gallery, Logan Cryer says the Cuban artist Roger Toledo delivers a complex portrait of his homeland in art that is complex and conceptual.
Read MoreIn this commissioned essay, Logan Cryer expresses their thoughts about the future of Philadelphia’s art world and about how artists can seize the opportunity to expand and set boundaries in their practice. Thank you to The Common Field for providing the opportunity for Logan and Artblog to contribute to important discussions about the future.
Read MoreLogan Cryer writes an insightful appreciation of the Women’s Mobile Museum culminating exhibition. The group photography show by — and depicting — women involved in the year-long project at PPAC, has some great self-representation, and Logan concludes that photography is the best medium with which to examine issues of who is normally represented in art works and who is normally excluded. The exhibition is up at PPAC through March 30.
Read MoreLogan Cryer visits “Quality of Life,” Jennifer Packer’s current show at Sikkema Jenkins in Chelsea. Packer, who Artblog founders Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof first met as a student in their senior painting class at Tyler School of Art, composes lush, figurative paintings from an economy of strokes and suggestive erasures. Her show closes January 19, so check it out for yourself while you still can!
Read MoreTo break bread with someone is to forge an intimate bond. Here Logan Cryer interviews local artist and 2018 Leeway grantee, Shreshth Khilani about their participatory performance “Immigrant Kitchen,” which runs through Monday, December 3rd. Part dinner, part coming-out party, this project uses Hindu mythology and South Asian foods to create communion around tradition while opening up the possibility of change. See below for ticket details!
Read MoreLogan Cryer walks us through Lane Speidel’s elaborate and deeply personal show, “Don’t Miss Me.” Get some nonlinear healing and some treasure-trash before it closes on October 20th.
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