Monthly Archives: September 2009

It’s a PARTY @ The ICA – POST 10th Season

POST 10 @ ICA - Amy Stevens

Amy Stevens cakes @ POST 10 party at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

POST 10 @ ICA - Amy Stevens

Amy Stevens – CFEVA 2008 Alumni – made the art cakes for the POST 10th Anniversary party in University City.

POST 10 @ ICA

Art Party People – Ed Bronstein (a POST founder), photographer Danny Reilly (who’s having a one-person show @ Bonte’s on 17th this October), Ron (we studied together @ Fleisher with James Dupree), Andrew Pirie (former CFEVA rep)…Shoshka, Alden & DoN ate cake & sipped wine with Margaret Anderson of heavybubble.com, Brooke Hine, CFEVA director Holly LentzGenevieve Coutroubis (with her pretty baby), Tremain Smith (encaustic artist), and so many more.  Hopefully the tradition of having the kickoff parties for future POST events at the ICA continues since it’s the epitome of contemporary art spaces in Philly.

POST 10 @ ICA - Kathry Pannepacker

Textile artist & muralist, Kathryn Pannepacker arrives via moped at the POST 10th Anniversary party @ the ICA.

 

 

Kim Martin & Karl Olsen – Make me Crazy, Make me Think @ The Plastic Club

Kim Martin & Karl Olsen - Make me Crazy, Make me Dance @ The Plastic Club

Collaborative paintings by Kim Martin & Karl Olsen in the upstairs gallery/studio of the venerable Plastic Club allowing the large scale unmounted paintings pride of place.  Many visitors to the club remarked how the space looked so chic, like an atelier in Paris.

Kim Martin & Karl Olsen - Make me Crazy, Make me Dance @ The Plastic Club

Kim & Karl worked together for eleven months to produce the fantastical installation of paintings; the first floor gallery is dedicated to works created by the artists as individuals with the room split right down the middle.

Kim Martin & Karl Olsen - Make me Crazy, Make me Dance @ The Plastic Club

 Al Gury said he liked this collabo the best because of the composition.  Even though the distinct styles are visible, the two halves work together as a cohesive whole.  The simple materials, limited palette, fast hand and apparent mind-meld produced this trippy drawing.

Kim Martin & Karl Olsen - Make me Crazy, Make me Dance @ The Plastic Club

This painting was one of the duo’s latest collaborations with no restraint, no bumping elbows, no hard feelings even if one painted out the others favorite patch, it’s also one of the first collaborations they started.

Kim Martin & Karl Olsen - Make me Crazy, Make me Dance @ The Plastic Club

Karl Olsen’s self portrait is reminiscent of Ralph Stedman, Hans Bellmer and Thomas Hart Benton’s prediliction to distortion, confusing perspectives and introspective investigation.