Zoe Strauss

I recently did a presentation about Zoe Strauss. She's bad ass, check out this video that the ICA did about her.

Lots of Things!

This past Thursday, April 14'th my friend Ana Thomas had a show at the Bahdeebahdu Galleryin Fishtown. Due to lack of money I could not make my way up there for the opening of the show which is titled "Fresh Blood". The show included work from Rebecca Pulver, James Hughes, and Ashley Goldfinger. I suggest you all try to make it out there to see the show, I know the first free second I get I will! The show runs until May 7, 2011 and check website for their hours! http://www.bahdeebahdu.com

What I did do this Thursday was go to one of the Philadelphia Art Alliance's Commonwealth lectures. This past year they have been offering a wide variety of artist lectures (free to students) which have so far all been amazing. This past artist was Adelaide Paul. Adelaide is currently a ceramics professor at MICA, but does not limit her work to only clay. She uses taxidermy forms and a wide variety of fabrics stretched over the form. Her work is not limited to clay or fiber materials, she brings in found objects which help bring the point of her work across. She owns seven dogs studying them closely, which she then bases her work off of. My opinion of her work is in one word AWESOME. She made me think of how the idea of perfection in the body and how it can be distorted.

This is Adelaide with one of her many dogs!

This is a piece she did titled "Bitch". This was made in 2008 using porcelain and pink leather

On the first and second floor of the Art Alliance Tania Mouraud, an artist from Paris, France has a solo show currently being displayed. The show titled "j'entends les trains depuis toujours / I keep hearing the trains for ever" is a video installation. In each room their is a new video being played. I thought it was particularly interesting to see her work along side Adelaide's due to it's content. In many of the videos it shows vicious dogs with others showing clapping hands and fish. I've been very attracted to film and video art lately. Hopefully I will one day be able to explore it!

This is a video of Tania Mouraud. I could not find any from the present exhibit. If you can, I recommend you go and seethe show! It is up until May 8, 2011. The Art Alliance is opened Tuesday-Sunday from 11am until 5pm.