ARTS AGENDA

Last Chance

Catch it or Regret It

by Tami Fertig

Published: Aug 12, 2008

Decor/Decorum: Joelle Jensen and Jedediah Morfit
Through Aug. 21, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, 237 S. 18th St., The Barclay, Suite 3A, 215-546-7775, cfeva.org

Why do Joelle Jensen's photographs of her parents' retirement house — sans parents — look so eerie? Is it the spare, all-white furnishings? The too-good-to-be-true spotlessness, as though nobody lives there at all? Family portraits hanging here and there warm the place up only a notch. Also on display: Jedediah Morfit's plaster dinner plates carved with eye-catching images like a bird flying out of a man's mouth. 

Paper[space]
Through Aug. 17, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St., 215-545-4302, philartalliance.org

Eight artists craft paper into intricate landscapes, creatures and patterns. Dawn Gavin cuts whole countries out of maps, the missing bits and pieces forming a Rorschach test. Jin Lee makes beautiful, cut-paper installations that look like delicate white cobwebs, little horses and angels hidden in their layers, seeming to float in midair.

Transcending the Literal: Photographs by Ansel Adams from the Collection
Through Aug. 17, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Perelman Building, Fairmount and Pennsylvania avenues, 215-763-8100, philamuseum.org

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There's something otherworldly about Ansel Adams' jaw-dropping photographs of the American West, presented here in a small but substantial exhibit including roughly 40 lesser-known works. Early-morning sunlight turns his California sand dunes into dark, dramatic ripples (pictured), while the foam of his ocean seems to sparkle like a sky full of stars.

Comments

Collection of flowers.

The right rose
appears in my mind,
and everywhere
shines when the
soft wind remains
in the light of
a flower; the cold
leaf is dead
and here there's
a shadow, the
delicate dark and
a loving profile.

Francesco Sinibaldi
by Francesco Sinibaldi on August 17th 2008 10:11 AM



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