CRACK OPEN THE SPACE EGG: a little 16 person show
THE DAY, TODAY, TO DATE: Moments Scrapped by Thomas Joseph05.03 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.
04.29 2009
THIS FRIDAY
The Moth, the Flame the Returning Comet, & the Golem,
Derek Weisberg and Matt Rebholz,
Opening this Friday, May 1, 7-10pm,
1026 Arch St.
04.24 2009
Bill Daniel Last Chance
For those of you who are not aware, there are photos and books available online for Bill Daniel’s show.
Order soon because the show is coming down next week!
04.24 2009
FRIDAY @ PADLOCK
This Friday, April 24 join us for 4000 Flavors Volume 3 Zine Release Party from 8 – midnight.
4000 Flavors is a monthly-bi/monthly collection of short fiction compiled from independent writers around the world. Music and sound by Color Is Luxury (Charles Cohen + Tyler SNOWSTORM), Holy Ghost, and Swiveling Hooks. Browse and purchase zines in the gallery – music in the basement. Also on display in the gallery – ‘Momentaneousness’ – Snapshots by Emily Kovach. Donations will be collected for groups playing.
Padlock
1409 Ellsworth
04.22 2009
THE GRAY SKIES OF MORNING, COPENHAGEN
So I am in Copenhagen working on an exhibition of new works on paper that opens this Friday, the 24th, at the AMAZING gallery/’zine shop/artists collective TTC. For this show I also curated a slection of Philadelphia-made ‘zines that will be available throughout the month, including books by Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Dan Murphy, Bill McRight, Jason Hsu, Bonnie Brenda Scott, Chris Kline and many, many more. The second issue of my zine Maylay is also going to be available. AND, I’m giving a presentation at the Danish Small Publishing fair Kunstpublikationer 2009, this Saturday at 2pm. There are some preview images of the show here. If anyone is in Copenhagen, stop by and say hello. TTC GALLERY
04.20 2009
MAN MAN AND ME ME ON TOUR!
I am opening up for Man Man on their current tour. Totally real nutz! I’ll be performing my art jokes and they will be performing their music art. Here are the dates:
Wed 22-Apr Knoxville, TN The Square Room
Thu 23-Apr Little Rock AR The Rev Room
Fri 24-Apr Dallas, TX Lounge on Elm St
Sun 26-Apr Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge
Mon 27-Apr Birmingham, AL Bottletree
Tue 28-Apr Pensacola, FL Sluggo’s
Wed 29-Apr Orlando, FL Social
Thu 30-Apr Orlando, FL Social
Fri 1-May Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
Sat 2-May Carrboro, NC Cat’ s Cradle
Sun 3-May Washington, DC Black Cat
Mon 4-May State College, PA The State Theater
Tue 5-May Pittsburgh, PA Diesel
Wed 6-May Detroit, MI Magic Stick
For more info go to Man Man’s website. See you there at every show!
Love
Andrew Jeffrey Wright