I took a road-trip across the country this month and as a result I wasn’t able to take in many art exhibitions. Instead of a review I opted to try and expand some thoughts I had as the landscape of the United States rolled by the window of my rented Kia Spectra. The subject of the following essay was brought on by the recent closing of Copy Gallery, a space I have been involved with for the past three or so years, which held it’s last opening when I was somewhere in Nevada.
SHOWS SEEN
December 2010:
Shows seen weren’t posted this month as this was a “best and worst”.
November 2010:
Philadelphia:
1. “Wind Challenge 1: paintings by Arden Bendler Browning, and photographs by Matthew Thomas Cianfrani and Amy Stevens.” at Fleisher Art Memorial
2. “Four Decades” at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery
3. “Landscape Techne” at Little Berlin
4. “Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956-1974“
October 2010:
Philadelphia:
1.“Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums” at Temple Gallery
2. “Philadelphia Underground” at the Broad Street Underground Concourse in Dilworth Plaza
3. “Virtual Public Art Project” at various locations
4. “Philly Works” at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design: Meyerson Hall
September 2010:
Philadelphia:
1.“Adam Blumberg: Punctum(s)” at Tiger Strikes Asteroid
2. “Your Swimming Brain” at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery
3. “One of Us: Isaac Tin Wei Lin” at The Print Center
4. “Set Pieces” Curated by Virgil Marti from the Collection of the Philadelphia museum of Art
5. “Ground Play” A Nexus All-Member Show
6.“True Fiction” at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
August 2010:
Philadelphia:
1.“Thomas Vance: Plan” at Tiger Strikes Asteroid
2. “Centro Neuva Creacion” at Nexus Foundation for Today’s Arts
3. “Abigail D. DeVille: Gold Mountain” at Marginal Utility
4. “Going Green: Taiwan’s New Environmental Art” at Asian Arts Initiative
July 2010:
Philadelphia:
1.“Kat Culchur” at Flux Space
2. “VOX VI” at Vox Populi
New York:
3. “Julie Mehretu: Grey Area” at the Guggenheim
4. “Rudy Shepard” at Mixed Greens
5. Yevgeniy Fiks, “Ayn Rand Illustrations” at Winkleman Gallery
6. Jennifer Dalton, “Making Sense” at The Flag Art Foundation
7. “Philadelphia Painters” at The Painting Center
June 2010:
I took a road-trip across the country this month and as a result I wasn’t able to take in many art exhibitions. Instead of a review I opted to try and expand some thoughts I had as the landscape of the United States rolled by the window of my rented Kia Spectra. The subject of the following essay was brought on by the recent closing of Copy Gallery, a space I have been involved with for the past three or so years, which held it’s last opening when I was somewhere in Nevada.
May 2010:
Philadelphia:
1.“Challenge 3: Hyakutake, Scott Kip, and Brenna K. Murphy” at The Fleisher Art Memorial
2. “Cermaic Interactions” at Eastern State Penitentiary
3. “Caroline Lathan-Stiefel: Hinterland” at Tiger Strikes Asteroid
4.Jamie Dillon at Copy Gallery
5. “Soft Focus” at extra extra
6. “Anthony Campuzano: All Right—Still! and Jennifer Levonian:
Her Slip is Showing” at Fleisher-Ollman
7. “Young Artists Citywide Art Exhibition” at The School District Building
8. “1968″ and “New Light” at Locks Gallery
April 2010:
Philadelphia:
1.“Dead Flowers” at Vox Populi
2.“Of This Century” at The Clay Studio
3. “Anne Schaefer: In Step” at Tiger Strikes Asteroid
4.“The Candy Shop” at Copy Gallery
5. “Con . Nect (Kuh . Nekt)” at Grizzly Grizzly
6. “Annabeth Rosen, Contingency” at Fleisher-Ollman
7. “Adelaide Paul, The Peaceable Queendom” and “The Hermaphrodites:Living in Two Worlds” at Wexler Gallery
8. “The Travel Show” at Dalet Gallery
March 2010:
Philadelphia:
1.Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE – 2010 CE)” at Arcadia University
2. “Medium Resistance” at the IceBox
3. “Supposedly” at Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art
4. “Who But” at The Sweatshop
5. “CG Haiti live with stage production by Humalode LLC” at Copy Gallery
6. The Tract House//Darwin Addition
7. Luis Romero:Nameless and Reverberating at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery
New York:
8. The Armory Show
The Lost Months:
I got really lazy in January and February and did not add the links. Perhaps I will soon. So it goes.
December 2009:
Philadelphia:
1.“I Don’t Watch the Internet” at Fleisher Ollman Gallery
2.“Ethnographic Terminalia” at The Ice Box, Crane Arts
3. Vox Populi Exhibibitions
4. “Material Impact” at UD Space
New York:
5. “Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity” at MOMA
6. “Gabriel Orozco” at MOMA
7. “Tim Burton” at MOMA
November 2009:
Philadelphia:
1. “Back to Earth, Revisiting Magiciens de la Terre” at Fleisher Ollman Gallery
2. “Joanie Turbek: Minor Malfunction” at The Clay Studio
3. Vox Populi Exhibibitions
4. “Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 2009:
Philadelphia:
1. half of “Breaking News” at Little Berlin
2. The Clay Studio Exhibitions
3. Vox Populi Exhibitions
4. Jan Kaneko at Locks Gallery
5. Dennis McNett at Space1026
6. AHN/VHS
7. Tiger Strikes Asteroid
8. “Far In/Far Out” at the F.U.E.L Collection
9. Copy Gallery
10. Inaugural Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts
At the Tyler School of Art, Temple University
11. Barkley Hendricks at PAFA
12. “Dechemia; vessel full” at Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art
September 2009:
Philadelphia:
1. Three Artists and Their Collectives, York College Galleries
2. The Clay Studio Exhibitions
3. Bad Luck Rainbow, Copy Gallery
4. Vox Populi Exhibitions
5. Come Wander With Me, Stockbridge Fine Art Print
6. Playground Counterpoint, Tiger Strikes Asteroid
7. On Place, AHN/VHS
8. Five Dudes, 2424 Studios
9. ICA Exhibitions
New York:
10. Franklin Evans, Sue Scott Gallery
11. Spaced Out/On Time, Canada Gallery
12. Abstract Abstract, Foxy Production
13. Janine Antoni, Up Against, Luhring Augustine Gallery
14. White Columns Exhibitions
15. Scott Hug, John Connelly Presents
16. A Tribute to Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery
17. Anselm Reyle, Gagosian Gallery
18. Textual Landscapes, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery