Embracing the Inundating Wash of Excess: Amy Boone-McCreesh’s “I Come in Peace” at NAPOLEON: An Essay by Evan Laudenslager
Embracing the Inundating Wash of Excess: Amy Boone-McCreesh’s “I Come in Peace” at NAPOLEON An Essay by Evan Laudenslager Imagery, like memories at their most crisp, is familiar to us and yet still always divergent from its potent inspirators. Slowly slipping into the abyss of time, through reproduction and retelling, the imagery that we create … Continue reading
Inside and Outside: An Essay on Leslie Friedman’s Go Home by Deborah Krieger
Inside and Outside An essay on Leslie Friedman’s Go Home By Deborah Krieger What does it mean to feel at home? For home to be a place that doesn’t seem to particularly want you? For home to be transitory and impermanent? To be an outsider? I ponder these questions as I meet Leslie Friedman for … Continue reading
‘Good Neighbors’ Review in the Phoenixville News
Congratulations to NAPOLEON members Christina P. Day and Lewis Colburn, their works are both mentioned in the Phoenixville New’s review of the group exhibition “Good Neighbors” at the Berman Museum of Art . The exhibition runs from October 14, 2014 through January 11, 2015, so there’s still plenty of time to catch the show! You can read the … Continue reading
Panel Discussion at the Art Alliance with NAPOLEON member Christina P. Day
Please join NAPOLEON member Christina P. Day this Thursday, October 30th at 7pm for a panel discussion at the Philadelphia Art Alliance. Titled Observation and Making: A Conversation Across Disciplines, the panel features Christina P. Day, Sarah Stolfa of the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, and artist and writer Courtney Mandryk. Full info on the event … Continue reading
Fifth Wall: NAPOLEON member Christina P. Day at the Art Alliance
NAPOLEON member Christina P. Day’s solo show, Fifth Wall, opens at the Philadelphia Art Alliance this week. The phrase fifth wall references a marketing campaign created by the interiors industry to encourage the addition of wallpaper to the ceiling in a home. It is the concealment of an overhead floor, a seal of interior facing walls- … Continue reading
Maggie Casey: Breaker
Breaker A collection of recent sculpture and installation work by Philadelphia native Maggie Casey, curated by NAPOLEON member Christina P. Day Working at the scale of the body, Breaker explores methods that take materials out of a familiar context by enhancing innate characteristics. Casey approaches her work with a hand that tests the capacities of a material, allowing outcomes to reroute … Continue reading
Kris Strawser: Switch @ Napoleon: a recap by Marianne Dages
Currently on view at Napoleon, Kris Strawser’s installation “Switch,” accompanied by a thoughtful essay by Nancy Mahl that addresses the social history of the tie. White silk ties stand suspended in motion, paper fragments and bristles emerge from cut-like slits in the wall, like a living surface. Pencil scrawls of diagrams, arrows, and equations suggest a draftsman’s hand … Continue reading
Title Magazine’s Review of “Inside Voices”
A quote from Title Magazine’s Deborah Krieger, Inside Voices, at first glance, might seem to be made up of rather disparate media: black and white photography by Tamsen Wojtanowski and textiles by C. Pazia Mannella. Yet the closer I looked, the more I was able to see visual cues and connections between such different types … Continue reading
Leslie Friedman on WHYY – “TASTIER”
Leslie Friedman is on the radio! Peter Crimmins from Philadelphia’s NPR station stopped by Tastier, Leslie Friedman’s exhibition currently on view at Space 1026, to talk about diet sodas and the male perspective. In particular, the WHYY team was interested in making a connection between the show and a recent study released by Purdue University that shows sugar … Continue reading
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