Category Archives: Paintings Philadelphia

oils, acrylics, watercolor, mixed media, ink, philadelphia

Kim Martin & Karl Olsen @ The Plastic Club

“MAKE ME CRAZY MAKE ME THINK”
Location: Plastic Club, 247 S. Camac St., Philadelphia
Opening Reception: Saturday Sept 26th 6pm – 8pm
Reception and Presentation: Sunday September 27th 1pm – 4pm
The “Make Me Crazy Make Me Think” exhibition is the culmination of ten months of collaborative work by Karl Olsen and Kim Martin. The concept was to paint our individual self portraits together, side by side at the same time, on the same canvas. The process of painting “ourselves” in this relative setting, the work reflects those dynamics in subtle and sometimes dramatic ways. How we worked, discussed, and managed the totality of each painting was tense, thought provoking, stimulating and included continual compromise with individual and collective interpretation.The result was 11 highly differing pieces averaging 6′ x 6′.

Images courtesy of www.coldnose.org – Kim Martin’s website.

In conversation with the Oracle

Leave a reply

Paul Rider, Chance 1 – 20, photographic prints each 16″ square.

Keiko Miyamori, Birdcage, mixed media installation.

Cecelia Rembert, Given, oil on canvas.

Paul Rider, Primitive 1 – 3, photographic prints.

Art shows don’t hang around long enough but DoN got to see In conversation with the Oracle at the Center for Emerging Visual Artist‘s gallery twice. Both times spending time alone with the art was engrossing and thought provoking: Paul Rider‘s photographs of blades of grass read like charcoal mark-making, Keiko Miyamori‘s birdcage installation bring mythological stories to mind of caged beauties or harpies, Cecelia Rembert‘s paintings are bold reminders of how much fun paintings can be.

The cul-de-sac seems to be a particular spot of inspiration for artist’s, Miyamori’s sculptures speak with each other adding color to the myths hidden in the art – the use of found material is particularly romantic, not the lovey dovey kind of romance but the romance of danger and fear as if an adventurer returned with a giant strange bird which has escaped it’s confines.

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

Leave a reply

Karl Olsen & Kim Martin having been doing daily self portraits for 30 days.

Heroines and Harlots: Women in History Annual Juried Exhibition 9-27 September 2009 – Da Vinci Art Alliance

Leave a reply

Foxy Brown, Karen McDonnell & Tony Cortosi @ Heroines and Harlots: Women in History Annual Juried Exhibition 9-27 September 2009.

Alden Cole, The Charge of the Goddess, drawing. Cole won honorable mention for this enigmatic mixed media drawing; drawing is the root of all design and communication.

Da Vinci Art Alliance member artists Liz Nicklus & Regina Barthmaier with their entries to Heroines & Harlots. DoN LoVeS Regina’s Industrial Barbie print with hand-pressed type collaged onto the frame – really beautiful, decorative and slyly subversive. Liz’s Pandora’s Box is such a fantastic meme – DoN really wants to know what’s inside?

Liz Nicklus, Pandora’s Box, mixed media.

Heroines and Harlots: Women in History Annual Juried Exhibition 9-27 September 2009 – Da Vinci Art Alliance

First Prize, Jason Scuilla, Pallazzo with Spirits, Dance of Salome, etching. As Dr. Deb Miller and H & H judge Kathryn McFadden of Fleisher Art Memorial pointed out, there are no women in the image, only the results of decisions made by women are portrayed in the etching. DoN heard a statistic the other day that highlighted if more women were in positions of power there would be less conflict in the world.