Category Archives: Mixed Media Art

Mixed media art by Philadelphia artists.

Don Miller @ Nexus – uniNtended uses

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The Pulsewave ROM invitations are an ongoing series of artistic collaboration created each month to promote Pulsewave, a New York City chip music event. Each month a uniquely designed and coded NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) or Commodore 64 program is released. These invitations can be played back on the classic consoles or viewed on modern computers via emulation. They serve as distinctive promotional material while paying homage to the classic invites created by demoscene programmers of the 1980s and 1990s. 

The ROM invitations are the very essence of unintended use: commercial gaming and computer hardware subverted for DIY promotion of underground music events. The punk scene has its photocopied flyers attached to telephone poles–and the chip music scene has its electronic flyers plastered on TV screens and computer monitors.
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DoN lifted this info from the Nexus website which features an excellent survey of the exhibit. 

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Installation view of uniNtended Uses @ Nexus Gallery. 

LOVE-ARMOR in the Icebox @ Crane Arts Center

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The LOVE- Armor project is a collaborative work describing the empathy felt for those existing in war torn Afghanistan and Iraq.  The Icebox is in the Crane Art Center @ 1400 North American Street. Read the whole story here.

Sho & DoN were both drawn into the craftsmanship and thought utilized in the Hummer cozy including J. Crew style pockets, buttons and closures; the pictures of an actual Hummer covered in the crocheted cover reads like putting a daisy in the barrel of a gun.  The space is divided in two with cloth banners separating the movie area documenting the creative process and collaboration involved in producing the huge piece and is an experience design in itself; the movie is heartening and hopeful considering the dire situation.  No more War.

UD MFA @ Crane Arts Center

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The lower gallery in the University of Delaware gallery in the Crane Arts building has work by recently accepted artists into the MFA program.  The room always is a great space to show work, DoN found the current show of emerging talent to be rich, diverse and solid, the cement walls and floor offer a post-post neo-modernism vibe letting the art provide all necessary context.

uD MFA @ Crane Arts Center

Claudia Torres-Guillemand, Untitled, plaster and balloons.  Futurism is what DoN thinks of observing these objects like each piece is communicating the moment of it’s creation as in Umberto Boccioni’s, “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”, 1913.

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Kenny Delio, Extinction, brown stoneware and wire.  DoN LoVeS the mixed metaphors in the crafty sculpture with shades of Barney (the dinosaur), Alien, natural history, Metamorphosis – the reclining gesture implying a sleeping dragon or a turtle unable to right itself.  Deep.

Gus V. Sermas @ Blue Streak

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“Disappearance – Remembrance”  The Myth of Persephone works on paper.

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 Gus V. Sermas @ Blue Streak Gallery.

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 Art party for Gus Sermas @ The Blue Streak Art Gallery, Wilmington.

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 The myth of Persephone was the closest the Greeks came to resurrection.   Sermas chooses to tell the tale with bold mixed media drawings, combining natural shapes with machine overtones.  Demeter, goddess of the Earth, was Persephone’ mother; Persephone’s father was Zues.  Gus told DoN, “Persephone went to the Underworld, everything dies so she can come back.”

Blue Streak Gallery is @ 1721 Delaware Ave, owner Ellen Bartholomaus is an old freind of DoN’s, it was wonderful re-connecting with an influential art person from the past.  

 

 

Footsteps – Alumnae Exhibit @ Moore College of Art & Design

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Ladies, DoN knows you will LoVe, lOvE, LoVe this show.  Shoes, nothing but shoes – hundreds of them.  This little number, “In Bloom“, is by Kathryn Myers Gilbert.  Moore College of Art & Design is on the Parkway @ 20th Street.