Douglas Witmer
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Sunday, December 07, 2008
new green line art projects
I'm excited about these two new exhibitions at my cafes:John Tallman--Contemporary Two-Dimensional Art Objects for Home or Office"
Through December 2008
Green Line | Powelton Village 3649 Lancaster Avenue
John Tallman has created a new set of colored cast resin objects created specifically for this exhibition.
Tallman's idiosyncratic art exists somewhere in between painting and sculpture, however they all explore vibrant color riding the vehicle of a wide range of materiality. All the work in this show are untitled, though the artist casually calls them "sponges, washcloths, and cotton balls." This underscores the way Tallman simultaneously embraces and pokes serious fun at the high-minded ideals of late modern “purist” approaches to art making.
His work was last exhibited in Philadelphia in 2006 at the Abington Art Center. Since then his work has been included in exhibitions at The Drawing Center (NYC), IS Projects (The Netherlands), and Sydney Non-Objective (Australia).
A native of the Philadelphia area, Tallman now lives and works near Chattanooga, TN.
Read a cafe customer's response to this work: "Toxic, Boring, Inhumane"
Visit the artist's website:
www.johntallman.com
Kathryn Van Steenhuyse--New Paintings
Through January 2009
Green Line Cafe, 4239 Baltimore Avenue
Interested in the process of "making sense" of an experience, Kathryn Van Steenhuyse uses painting as a way to be continuously suspended in a state of not-knowing and discovery. Each encounter with her paintings is somewhat baffling and that uncertainty is exciting.
Van Steenhuyse was born in Vinton, Iowa in 1979. She received her MFA in Fine Arts in 2008 from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and a BFA in Painting, 2001, from Washington University in St. Louis, Magna Cum Laude. She has participated in exhibitions at the Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Berlin Office, Berlin; Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA; Queen's Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA; Playspace Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco; Crucible Steele Gallery at CELLspace, San Francisco, CA; HEREart Center, New York; The Department of Photography & Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU; the Moore College of Art + Design, Philadelphia, PA. She was also a Fellow of The Career Development Program at The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, 2006 – 2008, Philadelphia, PA.
Van Steenhuyse currently lives and works in Bolton Landing, NY.
Visit: www.kvansteenhuyse.com
Labels: artists, Green Line Art Projects
7.12.08 
1 Comments:
when i was there late december, and admired the Tallman work, I enjoyed it, but didn't have much time to mull it over. but now, they stick in my mind as some type of candy; a sheet of taffy, or some other sweet. And like candy, they were (to me) a fairly simple pleasure, not needing too much thought or rationalization. Though, thought would be rewarded I'm sure. A good holiday choice, Douglas.
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1/06/2009