The Mind Made Material: An essay on Marianne Dages’s Into the Valley by Anne Cross
The Mind Made Material An essay on Marianne Dages’s Into the Valley by Anne Cross The subject of Marianne Dages’s latest work is words and the spaces between them. With an artistic practice that manifests itself variously as image, text, sculpture, and sound, Dages engages language as both form and content, pressing upon and pulling apart … Continue reading
Kay Healy: What is Real
What is Real NAPOLEON member Alexis Nutini hosts Philadelphia Artist Kay Healy What is Real is an exhibition of stuffed, screen printed, painted and sewn representational and appropriated objects. Fabric figures combined with still life objects illustrate specific stories and create surreal narratives. In this recent series Healy utilizes templates of hands, legs, busts, and … 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
Fleisher Wind Challenge 2
FLEISHER WIND CHALLENGE 2 Opening Reception is Thursday December 3rd from 6-8pm “Established in 1978, the Wind Challenge Exhibition Series is an annual juried competition that is committed to enriching and expanding people’s lives through art. Three Wind Challenge Exhibitions are held from September through May, featuring the work of exceptional artists living in the Philadelphia region.” NAPOLEON … Continue reading
a cyclic year
Gallery sitting today for Cyclic, a collaborative show organized by Alexis Nutini, and featuring the work of Alexis, Mike Gamble, Sean Goldinger, and Bonnie Kissinger, I realized it’s been a year since I’ve been a member of Napoleon. A year! And the first exhibition I gallery sat for was Alexis’s exhibition, Chrysalis. Cyclic indeed… The … Continue reading
Distant Operator reviewed in Geist Magazine
New member Marianne Dages‘ show Distant Operator was reviewed in Geist Magazine. Writing for the magazine, Evan Paul Laudenslager explains: Marianne Dages has achieved something decidedly difficult in Distant Operator at Napoleon–a body of work that is highly theoretical and still manages to be aesthetically pleasing with little effort. Translation is the central point of the … Continue reading
Marianne Dages, Philadelphia Open Studio Tour 10/25 & 10/26
NAPOLEON member Marianne Dages will be opening the doors to her letterpress studio at Globe Dye Works in Port Richmond this weekend, Saturday 10/25 and Sunday 10/26 from 12-6 as part of the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours. Stop by and say hello, print a letterpress keepsake, and see an exhibition of recent works in the space. :: For … Continue reading
NAPOLEON Member Marianne Dages at the Free Library
NAPOLEON member Marianne Dages is a in a two-person show with Emily Cucalon at the Free Library’s Central Branch this September. The show is on the 2nd floor of the Print and Picture Collection, and runs September 1st through October 12th. Stop by the opening reception on Thursday, September 4th from 5:30-7:30! More info on the show … Continue reading
NAPOLEON Member Marianne Dages in IPCNY New Prints 2014
NAPOLEON member Marianne Dages has work at the International Print Center New York, as part of their New Prints 2014/Summer exhibition (that’s her work on the top left in the photo). For more info, please visit ipcny.org, and an illustrated exhibition checklist is available here. The exhibition runs through July 1st.
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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