Vagabond Boutique presents From Me To You: A Gifted Collection Made With Love

This month's Vagabond Boutique exhibition, entitled From Me To You: A Gifted Collection Made With Love opens February 5th, and features mixed media artists working in illustration, fibers and jewelry.

The first Friday reception will be held from 6-9 pm at 37 N. 3rd St.

Exhibitions at InLiquid

Drawing Machine, an installation by Tyler Ceramics professor Chad Curtis opens today at the Hall (Crane Arts Building) and will be on view until April 4th. Second Thursday receptions will occur on February 11th and March 11th, from 6-9pm.
1400 N. American St. Philadelphia, PA

Additionally, InLiquid presents Homeland, a group show featuring international video artists at the I-House, 3701 Chestnut St., first floor, which runs until March 5th.

American Pastime, by Katherine Kesselring, is on view at the Painted Bride until March 14th, at 230 Vine St., with opening receptions February 5th and March 5th, 5-7pm.

BUYING PAINT?? try GAPKA

Very good quality oil paint from a new company, I highly recommend it and have samples in my studio if you are interested- 300H upstairs, or email me if you have questions. THANKS!

Congratulations Strauss!

Congratulations to our very own Strauss Bourque-LaFrance for being part of the current exhibition at the Sculpture Center in Queens, New York

Leopards of the Temple,
January 10- March 30, 2010




http://sculpture-center.org/exhibitionsExhibition.htm?id=63345

DCCA Open Call for 2010 Members' Juried Exhibition.

Mark your calendar Apply today! Postmark deadline: January 22, 2010 Eligibility: Open to all DCCA artist members April 9 - July 25, 2010 The theme for the 2010 Members' Juried exhibition examines the possibilities of, experimentations on, and flirtations with what is NEW. What is NEW can be about testing the limits of known concepts and ideas or about works-in-progress that are still being tested. It can be about subverting conventions. It can be about expanding, mutating, or challenging the premise of what exists or engendering the existence of something that has yet to be. In flexing one's instincts to respond to all else that is new out there in the world, new form or language can also be created. Guest Juror Roberta Fallon writes, "The NEW signals something that is fresh and risk-taking, perhaps not completely worked out yet but forward-moving." In an art age rife with appropriation, references, as well as exploded and satirized notions of what is novel, the NEW is about fresh courage, bold analysis, burning curiosity, and stubborn will to chart new territory.

JUROR Roberta Fallon is an art reviewer for the Philadelphia Weekly and writes a weekly column of reviews and features about art and artists in Philadelphia. Fallon has published articles in numerous publications including Art on Paper, Artreview, Art and Auction, Artnet, and The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine. In 2003, she and Libby Rosof launched the online art review publication, artblog(http://theartblog.org), twice hailed as one of the best art blogs by Art in America. Fallon and Rosof were each conferred an honorary doctorate of fine arts by the Moore College of Art and Design last year for their accomplishments and committed championing of contemporary art in Philadelphia. Click here for a printable PDF Application. For questions, please contact Samantha Fruchtman, Curatorial Coordinator, at sfruchtman@thedcca.org 302-656-6466 x 7112 Join or renew your DCCA membership Now!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS
EVERYONE

and

CONGRATS
ON BEING DONE WITH REVIEWS


SEE YOU IN 2010!

Collaborative Book Project

Category: Calls For Papers
Posted by: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Deadline: 01/30/10

Visual Studies Reader

An international, collaborate anthology of art history, art theory, visual studies, visual communication, visual anthropology, and other fields, written entire by graduate students around the world.

All grad students are eligible.

The book is international and collaborative: at the moment it includes about thirty students from 20 institutions around the world.
Have a look at our Table of Contents to see how the book is developing:
http://visualreader.pbworks.com/Table-of-Contents

We are gathering a group of about 100 authors. The book will be published by Routledge, and advertised internationally. To apply, visit the wiki:

http://visualreader.pbworks.com

and then send us a two-page proposal. It will be read by the grad-student authors who are in the project (the editor, Jim Elkins, doesn't vote). Full instructions are on the wiki:

http://visualreader.pbworks.com/How-to-submit-a-proposal

Last Critical Dialogues of the Semester

GABRIEL MARTINEZ
11 AM, Auditorium B04
Monday, December 7th

be there or be square.


Untitled (Self-Portraits)
Part 1, installation of 50 solarized silver gelatin prints
54” x 89”, each- 10” x 8”
face-front plexiglass-mounted and framed, 2007


Gabriel Martinez, a Cuban-American native of Miami, Florida, works largely with photography, performance and installation. His conceptual concerns flow from one project to the next, while the methods and materials he employs constantly vary, and often fuse together. Martinez started out exclusively working in photography and gradually ventured into a more interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary mode and tends to be attracted to the potential & power of performance-oriented, site-specific installation. Although his work has been greatly motivated by the themes of loss, celebration, memorial, and cultural identity for many of his projects, the subject that is usually central to his exploration has been that of masculinity and its various intricacies, contradictions and complexities. Much of Martinez’s artistic career has been devoted to various topics related to maleness and to the further understanding his own queer identity and community, as well as an exploration of male heterosexuality. Martinez’s practice is primarily based in Philadelphia, PA, as well as Miami and New York.

Lectures are free and open to the public.

Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Critical Dialogues Lecture Series

CRITICAL DIALOGUES presents:

LISA SIGAL
tomorrow November 30th
11 am, Auditorium B04


Born 1962 in Philadelphia/ lives and works in Brooklyn. Lisa Sigal's work lies at the intersection of painting, sculpture and architecture. Her constructions insinuate themselves into the fabric of the built environment.She will take a Sheetrock wall, cut into it, pull back sections, poke a sightline through to a false or a found wall on which she has exposed or composed a painted surface. Sigal's work frames a view which often blurs the distinction between what is found and what is made and ultimately what is real. The core of her work questions the formal and philosophical stability of structure. Recent exhibitions include: "Make Room," Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (2009), "Six Degrees," The New Museum, The Whitney Biennial (2008), "Tent Paintings," Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York (2007), "The Orpheus Selection," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (2007), "Make It Now," Sculpture Center, Long Island City, (2005) "A House of Many Mansions," The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Conneticut (2005). Upcoming solo shows at LAX Art in Los Angelos, CA and Norma Gallery, San Francisco, CA.


“The Day Before Yesterday and The Day After Tomorrow,”
114” x 210,” paint, silk screen, joint compound, pencil on wood
panel, Whitney Biennial, 2008


Lectures are free and open to the public.

Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

new moon day- kind of a bummer

comments? questions? GO TEAM JACOB!

The One Book, One Philadelphia Graphic Art Contest is a juried art competition designed around this year’s One Book, One Philadelphia selection, The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, for students at Philadelphia’s art schools. This event gives students a chance to share their story as a narrative or memoir art piece. All winning submissions will be announced on February 12, 2010, during a reception at Moore College of Art & Design. They will be on display in a gallery at Moore through March 19.
Any questions please contact Cara Scudner at cscudner@moore.edu
For more information please visit onebookgraphicarts.blogspot.com
For more information about One Book, One Philadelphia visit freelibrary.org/onebook

Critical Dialogues 11/23

Critical Dialogues Lecture Series Presents:

Rashid Johnson
Monday, November 23rd
11am, Auditorium B04


http://www.moniquemeloche.com/html/artists/johnson/johnson.html




Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 N. 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Lectures are free and open to the public.


Samuel the Escapist, 2009