Unusual Timeline
Motion Pictures05.14 2009
Space 1026 in Asbury Park NJ
check out space 1026 & tiffany crisci at the tri city arts festival in asbury park new jersey!!!
this saturday may 16th from 12-10pm! we will be located in front of the Parlor Gallery – 717 cookman avenue!!! two tables and a full clothing rack of merch!!! thanks to parlor gallery for making this happen!!!
parlor-gallery.com
obscura13.etsy.com
05.13 2009
MAN MAN, CURSIVE AND ME!
I just got back from an awesome tour with Man Man and Cursive. I was the opening act. I told my art jokes in 14 different cities. It was so much fun. I want to do it again tomorrow!
05.09 2009
TONIGHT
Opening TONIGHT (Saturday, May 9th) at Seraphin Gallery (11th and Pine)
My Dog Speaks
a group show featuring animal narrative in contemporary artwork- with your friends Caitlin Emma Perkins, Bonnie Brenda Scott and others!
Early
6-8pm
1108 Pine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-923-7000
05.05 2009
Derek Weisberg and Matt Rebholz
We have some photos from The Moth, The Flame, The Returning Comet, & The Golem on our Flickr.
05.03 2009
The Moth, The Flame The Returning Comet, & The Golem,
Today in Philly,
philly.com
Gallery Open: 12:00 PM to 11:59 PM
05.03 2009
Music & Potluck @ Padlock Gallery::::TODAY!!!!
Come on out…good music…good food….good god.
05.01 2009
TONIGHT AT SPACE 1026
The Moth, The Flame, The Returning Comet, & The Golem,
Derek Weisberg and Matt Rebholz,
Opening TONIGHT, Friday, May 1, 7-10pm,
1026 Arch St.
04.30 2009
TOMORROW NIGHT AT 1026
The Moth, the Flame, the Returning Comet, & the Golem,
Derek Weisberg and Matt Rebholz,
Opening this Friday, May 1, 7-10pm,
1026 Arch St.
04.29 2009
The Moth, the Flame the Returning Comet, & the Golem
The Moth, the Flame the Returning Comet, & the Golem, a new exhibition featuring the work of Derek Weisberg and Matt Rebholz, opens at Space 1026 on First Friday, May 1, 7-10pm, at 1026 Arch Street in Philadelphia.
Through clay and ink Derek Weisberg and Matt Rebholz reflect on mortality and ethics, both artists pulling from traditional Jewish themes.
Matt Rebholz’s series of etchings are a loose reimaginging of the Gustav Meyrink novel Der Golem. The novel’s title character, based upon the clay automaton of Jewish folklore, wanders the streets of a corrupt and ruined city, blissfully unaware that he is a malfunctioning robot and not truly a man.
Similarly, Rebholz’s works are grotesque tableaux populated by a cast of damaged characters occupying a polluted and uneasy dreamscape – a fairytale in which deranged actors struggle to find their role in a stage play they do not quite understand.These elements conspire to form a series of intimate, allegorical vignettes pregnant with obscenity and metaphor. Within this environment, the Golem serves as a metaphor for humanity adrift in an absurdly dystopian world. The progression of the etchings reflects the artist’s evolving beliefs about contemporary society and the manifestations of consumption, ingestion, greed and expulsion within it.
Derek Weisberg creates emotional and psychological self-portraits attempting to reconcile a secular worldview with religious tradition. The artists explores themes of death and spirituality as a means to overcome personal loss.
Weisberg finds parallels between the act of making art to prolong the memory or metaphysical existence of lost loved ones, and the traditional Jewish belief that the actions of the living affect the voyage the departed soul takes through the afterlife.
Weisberg seeks a greater understanding of himself by using the creative process to explore ideas that can be uncomfortable and unfamiliar, and hopes to provoke similar self-discovery in his viewers. At its core, Weisberg’s works reflect a humanist ideology: searching for truth and universal morality based on the commonality of death as part the human condition.