Brenda Goodman, “Self Portrait 4” (1994), diptych, oil on wood |
So many good shows coming in February! I really hope there isn't snow like we just had next Friday, February 5th when so many of these are opening. To start with, in Philly here are a few. (pictured above)
Tiger Strikes Asteroid
319A North 11th Street #2H
Trembling Halves
Brenda Goodman and Kate Gilmore
Curated by Lauren Britton and Zachary Keeting
February 5 – February 28, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 6 --10pm
"PHILADELPHIA, PA–Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to present a multi-generational show of video and paintings curated by Lauren Britton and Zachary Keeting. Please join us for our February exhibition Trembling Halves featuring the work of Brenda Goodman and Kate Gilmore..."
Great curators, one of my favorite contemporary painters. Can not believe her paintings which were just on view in a living retrospective in Detroit will be here in what's likely to be a really interesting juxtaposition with Kate Gilmore's video work. I love when artists continue to take on projects that are different and not just about a bigger venue.
Sarah Gamble: Vibraspace Jennifer Levonian: Shake Out Your Cloth |
Another really interesting still painter/animated video combination will be at Fleisher-Ollman. Two of my favorite Philadelphia makers are showing together:
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery
1216 Arch Street, 5A
Sarah Gamble and Jennifer Levonian
February 5 – March 26, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 6–8pm
"Fleisher/Ollman is pleased to announce two solo exhibitions featuring new work by Sarah Gamble and Jennifer Levonian. While different conceptually and in their chosen media, the artists make for an interesting pairing as they each explore the bookends of the human psyche. If Gamble plumbs the unconscious realm of dreams and self-created mythological worlds occupied by a range of strange characters and foreboding landscapes, Levonian delves into the quotidian where the mundane is transformed into the fantastical, or at the very least, the hilarious..."
A friend and good painter in her own right, Leigh Werrell, is now using her discerning eye to curate what looks like a dream of a show of 11 artists:
Snyderman-Works Galleries
303 Cherry Street
Personal Space
February 5 - February 26, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 5:30 - 9pm
"The space that we find most consistently present is that which we
carry with us, serving as a buffer between ourselves and other spaces,
people and objects. This bubble changes in size, shape, and texture
depending on how we relate to what is around us. Our perception of our
surroundings depends on how we view ourselves and correspondingly, we
alter the locations we occupy in a similar manner. Through their
individual understanding of place, the artists in this exhibit have
created introspective self-portraits by considering personally important
locations, interpretations of their own place in an environment, and
how the memory, cultural significance, or content of a space can change
its meaning."
Philippa Beardsley
Amanda Bush
Matt Colaizzo
Virginia Fleming
Julian Kreimer
SaraNoa Mark
Erin Murray
Matt R. Phillips
Giordanne Salley
Stuart Shils
Tiffany Tate
Ken Kewley, Bouquet I, acrylic on panel, 24 x 18 inches |
127 S 16th Street
Ken Kewley
New Paintings
February 3 - February 26, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 5 - 7 pm
Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 5 - 7 pm
And in Brooklyn...
Ginny Casey, Droopy Vase, oil on canvas, 2016 |
What's likely to be a really revelatory solo show of painter Ginny Casey, is happening at 106 Green, a gallery founded by really unbelievably excellent painters Holly Coulis and Ridley Howard. A show I must figure out how/when to get to see in person. Her work is so beautiful in the flesh.
104 Green St, Brooklyn
Ginny Casey
Ghost Maker
January 24 - February 22, 2016
Opening: Saturday, January 30, 6-8pm
"Ginny Casey’s paintings play with space, color, and
the idea of making. In her staged scenes, floating, disembodied hands
hide under vessels, shape and tickle clay, break things, hang around.
They blend in, taking on hues from their environment. The shifting,
soft-edged vessels they interact with are as alive as the hands. We are
invited into a curious world of clay, formed/unformed, broken, painted.
This malleable material might even be
responsible for the creation of its own surroundings. The paintings are a
compelling puzzle, sometimes funny and sometimes sad."
Installation shot of The Swerve, Ortega y Gasset Projects (Sarah Peters, foreground, Caroline Chandler, right) |
Finally, a group show that has so many interesting and favorite contemporary makers of mine. I love the work of co-curator Jennifer Coates and the 3-dimensional work selected feels so strong and related to painting. I really like when painters curate shows with multiple mediums.
363 3rd Avenue, Ground Fl
The Swerve
January 24 -- February 21, 2016
January 24 -- February 21, 2016
Opening Reception: Sunday, January 24, 4-6pm
"The title for the exhibition is based upon a book of the same name by
Stephen Greenblatt, which touches on ancient atomistic theory, wherein
atoms normally falling straight through a void are sometimes subject to a
clinamen — a slight, unpredictable change. It is in this interruption
of regularity where the action lies. According to Lucretius, if atoms
were not in the habit of swerving, “nature would never have produced
anything.” Taking this as a point of departure, The Swerve presents
contemporary paintings and sculptures that explore the haptic and
conceptual approaches to pattern: how pattern and its rupture are
employed in service of meaning."
On view in the main gallery, Lauren Frances Adams and Jennifer Coates
co-curate The Swerve, featuring works by:
Julia Bland
Caroline Wells Chandler
Glenn Goldberg
Bill Komoski
Joyce Kozloff
Bruce Pearson
Sarah Peters
James Siena
Barbara Takenaga
Julia Bland
Caroline Wells Chandler
Glenn Goldberg
Bill Komoski
Joyce Kozloff
Bruce Pearson
Sarah Peters
James Siena
Barbara Takenaga
Gonna brave the cold and literally climb over mountains of snow in the street (which may be cars? unsure at this point) to get to these upcoming shows which are sure to be worth it.