Endangered City 12/10/10

This First Friday...Dec 2010

Adam Smith

I'm in.

Come check out some prints of mine and 30 other Philadelphia based artists and designers.

Ooo, sponsored by Vitamin Water - Yum!

All works priced under $150. Time to do your last minute holiday shopping. That's right - last minute, it is getting to be that time.

Part Time Studios

2031 Frankford Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19125

Small Jawns

Opening Reception:  First Friday, December 3, 2010,  6 – 10 pm

Sponsored by:  McJawn, Pirate’s Booty, Muller Inc., Tony Luke’s, and Vitamin Water

(215) 948-2242
info@parttimestudios.com

GALLERY HOURS
Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 3 pm
(or by appointment)

olyH

the fourth wall of your strongest muscle

shape and structure

Miroslav Tichy

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If you haven't heard of him yet, you are sure to soon: homemade camera maker, stalker of all women in his small hometown in Kyjov, Czech, mysterious picture maker, photographer extrodinare: Miroslav Tichy. Pictured above & below, you can see many examples of Tichy's home studio & homemade cameras, as well as examples of those many images he made in his years walking around Kyjov over and over again.

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And while all of this is interesting, it isn't the work neccessarily, or even the cameras he made, that interest me so much about Miroslav Tichy, but the converstaions they have started. Does his work merit recognition?

In an essay about Tichy from the Tichy Exhibition Catalog at the ICP, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev writes:

“One of the main problems of a society of communication is the simplifications and the quest for the definition/clarity of the messages. Thus it is the ‘high resolution’ and the HD nature of visual culture today that itself creates a problem of visibility; overvisuality, too much detail, destroys visibility. Tichy’s images look more alive because you are very aware of their materiality.

Low definition, the fact of being somewhat obscured in one’s vision, allows you to see better because there is more space for the viewer’s projections and the activity of interpretation. To see a crowd as a crowd is more open and relaxed than seeing exactly where each member of the crowd is going and what each of them is doing. A certain purposelessness of vision, a lack of intent and of factual information, allows a space to the viewer.”

Miroslav Tichy: with texts by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Roman Bauxbaum, Nick Cave, Richard Prince, and Brian Wallis. Co-Published by International Center of Photography, NY & Steild Publishers, Germany. 2010.

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Christov-Bakargiev's understanding of Tichy's work gives me hope.

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To see more of Miroslav Tichy's work & learn more about his approach, you can visit his website, here.

Or more about his exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York this past Spring, follow this link, here.

we are xHEREx : Exhibition Installation @ Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA

with more to follow

we are xHEREx

we are xHEREx

new work by

Tamsen Wojtanowski

@ GrizzlyGrizzly

319 N. 11th St.

Philadelphia, PA 19107

2nd Floor

Sept 1st - 30th; OPENING: First Friday, September 3rd, 2010, 6pm-9pm.

fanfare

three crowns and gold lamay

Getting ready for exhibition.

It seems I have been travelling.

Now I need a period to end my ramblings.

Would like to make an image comparable to a song like Regina Spektor's "Folding Chair", or Feist's "Tout Doucement".  -- Yes, I am in a good mood I guess. I have never made from this place before.

Oh, so sensitive, so emotional!

City Livin' and...

one off

triangulate

Mondays that made me better.

jenny lewis jesus

tips for training bras

i believe in futbol.

faux flawed monuments, #2 & #3

fell in love with shawty when i saw her on the floor.

See more of this new series, here.

Artist's Book Preview: and this is where i'll live

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to see more, follow the link to my website, here:

http://tamsenwj.com/section/162594_and_this_is_where_i_ll_live_2010.html

You. Must. Try. It.

http://www.playdamage.org/market-o-matic/


Automatic Artist's Statement Generator/ Art Review Generator

go to this site.

http://www.dianascherer.nl/#/home

Diana Scherer

Click on the picture,
then click on the picture,
then click on THAT picture.

Really quite wonderful. ...

yes., Roger Ballen

http://www.rogerballen.com/

and this is where I'll live

winter

 

  

 

Paper In Particular, February 2010 @ Columbia College, Columbia, MO.

Columbia College
Columbia, MO
Larson Gallery
February 2nd - March 4th, 2010

PAPER IN PARTICULAR 2010

The 31st annual Paper in Particular Exhibition will display the very best in art which incorporates paper as a primary element; the exhibition will include: prints, drawings, photographs, digital images, paintings, and sculpture.

****If you're in the area, check out my piece in the show!

DEVOTION - Feb 2010 @ Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

DEVOTION

HIGHWIRE GALLERY
FEBRUARY 5 - 28, 2010

Highwire Gallery’s February exhibit offers up a mix of fiber, photography, painting and sculpture in response to the theme of Devotion; ardent, often selfless, affection and dedication. This exhibit is the response to an open call opportunity for artists, with submissions received from PA, NJ, DE, and NY, and was juried by Colin Keefe and Andrea Wohl Keefe, co-directors of Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space. Mount Airy Contemporary is an artist-run exhibition space in the northwest corner of Philadelphia.

Artists included in the exhibition are photographers Tamsen Wojtanowski and Julia Lehamn-McTigue, painters Kirsten Fischler and Debs Bleicher, mixed media artists Susan Moloney and Susan Wallack, and fiber artists Stephane Rowley and Rachel Blythe Udell, among others. A handful of Highwire Gallery members are also participating in this show, including our newest member, Harry Stormes, a recent graduate of Tyler School of Art at Temple University.

Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, February 5, 2010 from 5-9pm. The show will run through February 28, 2010. Winter gallery hours are Fridays from 12-4, Saturdasys and Sundays from 12-5.

Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19125

highwiregallery@gmail.com

http://www.highwiregallery.com/