Last Chance

Catch it or Regret It

by Molly Eichel

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Published: Oct 22, 2008

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University City Arts League drawing, painting and mixed media instructor Rodney Thoms uses all the techniques he teaches in his solo exhibit of small, postcard-size art. Whispered shows a faceless boxer, drawn with markers on a cushion mailer canvas. Like George Bellows' Stag at Sharkey's, the anonymity of the fighter highlights the lines and tension in his body.

Ed Ruscha, who gained fame initially as a pop artist in the early '60s, has worked in a variety of media throughout his career, but his pieces at the Fabric Workshop mark a new foray into fiber. The centerpiece is a tapestry version of Ruscha's Industrial Strength Sleep(pictured). The painting was brought over from Paris' famed Centre Georges Pompidou — think MoMa but way more French — to be displayed with the 9-by-23-foot tapestry.

With the financial shitstorm that's gripped the country, "Posters for the People" could not have come at a more apt time. Celebrating the 75th anniversary of FDR's presidency (he of the New Deal and the whole saving-the-country-from-complete-economic-disparity thing), the show looks at artwork created in the Poster Division of the Works Progress Administration.

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