30 Hours from Now

Our MARY LIZ MEMORIAL MASTERS EXHIBITION (MLMME18) always marks a high tide in the annual calendar of OFF THE WALL shows. This year is no exception, as we raise the curtain on this year’s renewal with an OPENING RECEPTION on THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 7-10 PM. CHARLES EMLEN returns from an electrifying debut in our space in PROCESSES INTERSECTING SPACES, with eight major sculptures that deftly marry the conceptual with the traditional. SERGE KRUPNOV shows a range of theme and a depth of talent with 23 paintings, ranging from riveting portraiture to lucid moments of transcendent, sometimes fleeting beauty. And with 16 works, KAREN STABENOW puts the emphasis on “fleeting” with Arctic paintings that signal our planet in crisis, paired with Philly-centric bridgescapes. We cordially invite you to join us tomorrow to celebrate a phenomenal show and to meet the artists. Other luminaries on hand will include curator JODY SWEITZER and bartender ROSE COSSABONE, pouring your favorite drinks. But the true stars, as always, are on the Wall and in our 3D case. We look forward to seeing you soon!

New Math

As our boffo OPENING RECEPTION draws to a close — though we intend to keep the party going until the end of the night! — we need to bring into the fold of today’s posts one more artist. We first called out CHARLES EMLEN’s phenomenal installation in our 3D space last Saturday with a video post, but it's worth spotlighting again...plus the artist points out the calculus of his two-screen multimedia work, which suggests that PROCESSES INTERSECTING SPACES is by far our most prolific show in terms of numbers of pieces included at once. “In this installation, there are two monitors. One displays a 10-minute looping composite video. The second shows a random slideshow with roughly 110 unique images,” explains Charlie. “Assuming the video changes every 5 seconds, that alone provides approximately 120 individual scenes. Combining those scenes with the slideshow images yields well over 10,000 unique scene/image pairings! A veritable cornucopia of iterative design.” Simply WOW.

CHARLES EMLEN
“Contemplo Armamento”
composite video animation
video screens and hard drive
3000.