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Tyler Wilkinson & Claes Gabriel
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Ilana Napoli reviews Images and Notes from the Floating World, works by Tyler Wilkinson & Claes Gabriel recently on view at University City Arts League, Philadelphia. Napoli writes that “both [artists] describe their relationships with painting as a physical experience. For Claes, painting is a fight. He refers to his sculptural paintings, which evoke totems […]
Louise Belcourt @ Locks Gallery
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Rachel Sitkin reviews paintings by Louise Belcourt at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, on view through February 4, 2017. Sitkin writes: “Blocky shapes pile upwards from the horizon line at the bottom edge of each canvas and coalesce into abstracted vistas. Belcourt utilizes an organic approach to perspective and sophisticated shifts in color to render depth, space, […]
Cubism & War @ the Museo Picasso
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Justin O. Walker reviews Cubism and War: The Crystal and the Flame at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, on view through January 29th 2017. Walker writes: “The exhibit reveals the cubists in Paris were never far from the external specter of ruin, and evidently leery of the internal one. The war to end all wars was […]
Sarah McEneaney @ Locks Gallery
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Michael Lieberman reviews Sarah McEneaney: When You Wish at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, on view through October 8, 2016. Lieberman writes that McEneaney’s work presents “an extremely appealing and artistically unique glimpse into a consciousness of the moment that potentially could be shared by any seeing person in his or her own particular time and place.”
Filming Bruegel
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Andrea Kirsh reviews Lech Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross, a new biogrphical film about the artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Kirsh writes that “Majewski captures Bruegel’s truth that great events occur amidst the shapeless narrative of everyday life. Just as remarkable is the effect he creates of taking us into the actual space of […]