Su Tomesen‘s extraordinary video installation, 40,000 Feet, in the Ice Box Gallery @ The Crane Arts Center has been extended through 11/29/09. The multi-screen movie is a visual and sensory exploration of the sky as viewed from above, take time to visit the show which originally was to close yesterday due to the upcoming holiday. Photos courtesy of Su Tomesen.
Ashley Pigford & Troy Richards, Vanishing Point combines computer graphics, motion sensors and robotics in the Information Translated exhibit in the University of Delaware‘s art department adjunct gallery in the Crane Arts Center curated by Anthony Vega.
Troy Richards, The Hoarders II – Information Translated @ Crane Arts Center.
The University of Delaware faculty exhibit, Information Translated, is a futuristic trip into an art world where video projectors follow the actors around the room on a robotic platform (a movie called Knock by Lance Winn & Toronto artist Simone Jones), Legos and computers work in conjunction with movement and sound to create an experience design and normal appearing prints reveal underlying messages as if a computer memory kernel has exploded. The show restores DoN‘s appreciation of how video can be incorporated into an art show without seeming like a knock-off of Warhol. By utilizing off-the-shelf components combined into innovative new forms, the UD faculty have created an inspirational, aspirational show that is sure to trigger new neural pathways for UD art students. The space is an adjunct gallery for University of Delaware artists to display their work away from campus in the heart of one of Philly’s vibrant, emerging art centers. The downstairs space is especially exciting with several video/robot installations that excite the eye and confuse the senses. Check out the UD website for a statement about the show, but really, this show has to be seen to be believed.
More than 150 small artworks in many different media are arrayed around the historic gallery space of the Philadelphia Sketch Club on the Avenue of the Artists, Camac Street. Miniatures represents the work of more than 60 area artists from Betsy Alexander of Ravenswing Studio, Dumpster Diver extraordinaire Alden Cole and Da Vinci Art Alliance board member Lilliana Didovic to esteemed club members such as Karen McDonnell & Tony Cortosi, Dr. Doris Peltzman and first prize winner Michael Kuncevich, one of the club’s elders. Second prize was awarded to Susan J. Donmoyer for an extraordinary drawing. Even though DoN was a co-chair of the show, he has to say – the show is extraordinary with really exciting work by great Philly artists. Thanks to everyone who helped pull it off – if you’ve ever organized a show, you know what a time suck it is. A special thank you to Laura Guzzo, 3nd prize winner, for acting as docent & sales associate.
Laura Guzzo @ Miniatures in PSC Gallery.
Stephan Iwanczuk, silver print. Steve is chair of Miniatures.
Clockwise – Lilliana Didovic, Deborah Horsting, Parimalasri Vairapandi & Vincent Docktor. Vince is part of the the three-person show in the PSC Stewart Room.
Betsy Alexander‘s Alaska paintings capture the expansiveness of the great wilderness in tiny squares. Bold color choice, graphic decisions and simplicity transport the viewer to a foreign landscape at once welcoming and strange. Betsy is also an original Dumpster Diver and was recently featured on the Today show with her famous piano playing cat, Nora.
Monique Lazard, oil @ PSC Miniatures.
Dr. Doris Peltzman, Giovanni’s Table, oil. Doris has had several one-person show’s in Wilmington’s prestigious Carspecken Scott Gallery, has sold out shows at Artist House, consistently wins top awards and today is gallery sitting at the club – stop in and visit her and Reta Sweeney.
Alden Cole, Dancing with the Stars, drawing @ PSC Miniatures.
Clockwise – Linda Hibbs, Elizabeth Breakell, Elizabeth MacDonald, Marlene Craig, Dorothy Roschen & Lucy Roehm.
DoN entered a digital picture frame with 20 views of Paris roof tops – the prospectus said any medium!