Highwire Gallery Art Blog
Sunday, December 12, 2004
Sunday, April 18, 2004
Well, we've made the physical transition...
Thanks to all the members for establishing our new outpost on the Avenue of the Arts.
I'd like to congratulate Marge Peterson for an amazing show that has been warmly received by all of the Gallery visitors so far this month. Hope you are feeling better Marge!
I invite everyone to join the blog whenever they can.
Just had a great evening of music with Brian Westohoeff and friends, Charles Cohen and Shot x Shot, three very innovative and original performances.
Looking forward to Ben Schachter's performance on Monday night.
Saturday, February 07, 2004
I would Like to Congratulate Bette Johnson and George for a Wonderfully Successful Show.
There was quite an impressive turnout even though it rained for most of the day.
The work is so Full of Fun ! Humor and Art are a Match made in Heaven !
My Favorite Piece of Bette's is Ode to Dryer Lint ( I think I emembered the title corectly, if not I appologize)
My Favorite Piece of George's is Quick turn around but dont stare
( again I appologize if I did'nt remeber the title correctly)
I should probably make a proper notation of the Titles to avoid misquoting....I will next time....
I did'nt want to wait to write to the blog, I was so excited....
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Hey Ted,
I'm thinking we might want to schedule specific blog discussion topics on specific days, ie. Mondays, Barbara could discuss committee issues, Tuesdays, you could discuss overall gallery topics, Wednesdays, I could review the Monday night Jazz show and talk about upcoming shows, Thursdays, Jeff Waring could discuss video topics, Fridays, Peter could discuss other openings and comment on our own current exhibits, Saturdays, Ben could discuss class offerings and projects at the gallery, etc...
Or,
I could set up specific blogs to address specific topics, or better yet, each moderator could maintain their own blog.
Email discussion groups have worked well, but we need to share certain perspectives with the public and other artists and collaborators. Anyone have any other suggestions?
Friday, January 23, 2004
Yeah John, I am a lamb lost in the wilds of blog...
I tried to get the URLs to show up as links--but it didn't seem to take. So, I've edited the post to include the web addresses. I'm afraid you'll have to cut and past.
To provide some backgound on the circus clown thing for any casual readers out there--the reference is a discussion Highwire is having regarding life drawing--here is the relevant passage from an e-mail I sent earlier this week:
"I would want to discuss how Highwire's identity can inform the life drawing. There are at least three other premier outlets in Philadelphia for life drawing-Sketch Club, Fleischer, and the Academy. What could differentiate us? Well--what about using all of our space for some motion studies? We could invite (modern) dancers in (or even the other type of dancers...Burlesque at Highwire!) Or bring in animals--I used to bring greyhounds into the UCAL life sessions to substitute for the human models. What if Jeff got one of his miniature donkeys up the freight elevator? Could we do mural size drawings? How about a session of tableau poses with a nude model and a circus clown? That could get us some publicity, no doubt..."
Jeff's Minature Donkeys---didn't they used to play at the Khyber?
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Lisa, I have extensive training as a natural clown, but could easily make my nose big and red and smell like a circus tent.
Well Ted, I guess we all have a little Internet Savviness to bone up on! Your links didn't come through on the blog.
We'll work on it. I'll try one later.
I've had an excellent day at the convention center as a guest of Philly Culture Files. I'm attending a seminar on Internet marketing for Arts Organizations and have learned a lot and networked with some excellent people.
Good news to report at the meeting!
Also, an update on the music, Jen Rearick had a wonderful group of friends and bands into the gallery last friday night. a little bit of West Philly was in Old City. Lively music and lively communication about the artwork! One of the bands was from New York called Denver in Dallas. They expressed their joy at playing to an audience that was very focused upon their performance and would love to come back at the new space.
On Saturday, my friend John Esposito brought some peaceful Reggae vibes, that led to an open jam session between myself, and 9 other musicians, at one point. And again ther were visitors from New York, as well as, Brazil!
Joa Kau and his friends played their original Brazilian music and brought a great feeling of inspiration and sharing between the musicians. So, I'm still on a musical rush from the weekend.
This weekend's show looks very promising as well!
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Great Ideas in store for the Future...
I am looking forward to Nude Models and Circus clowns...
Who's gonna be the clown?
Hello everybody! Here are links to a couple of articles touching on themes found in art shown at Highwire. The first is a nice piece on a recent find of aboriginal art in Australia. It’s good to see that the world's socialists still have time for the finer things in life, like aboriginal art. I really like the straight-faced explanation of aboriginal art’s nature and origin, courtesy the nineteenth century Russian Marxist Georgi Plekhanov. Nice piccys as well. Here it is: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/aug2003/rock-a05.shtml
Also—when the Europeans invaded the New World, they set up a great dilemma for their descendents who create art. How can you deal with the universe of myth when you are a transplant? Jove and Diana never roamed the Appalachians; and for Anglo artist to appropriate the coyote and corn-god as their own seems, well, I guess you could say presumptuous, or naïve, or feckless. Anyway—here is a good article tracing how the poet Wallace Stevens worked with this issue: http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak4/fr43/connotations/rosu523.htm (Note--you will have to bear with this one until the literary jargon subsides.)
If you haven’t read Sunday Morning (or reread it in the last calendar year)—let me grab you by the elbow and implore you—here it is: http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem2017.html
That's all for now. Anybody gotta reaction?
