The City Suburban News ran a little article about the Professional Artist Member Exhibition at the Main Line Art Center. With a nice big colored featured image on the front page, Dime stood out. To read the article, look at the JPEG below or click the link to the PDF of the entire issue. The article starts at the bottom of the front page and continues on page six.
Professional Artist Members Exhibition Dates: Jan 15, 2015 – Feb 11, 2015 Opening Reception: Friday, January 16, 5:30 – 7:30 pm image credit: Leslie Friedman, Dime, 2014. Main Line Art Center is proud to present the work of a selection of Professional Artist Members in our award-winning galleries. Juried by esteemed artist James Sherman Brantley, internationally recognized contemporary artist and Philadelphia native, the exhibition features painters, photographers, sculptors, and mixed media artists from the Greater Philadelphia area. The Professional Artist Membership Program provides a select group of artists with a variety of exhibition, educational, and networking opportunities that enrich and…
2014 Benefit Exhibition for BalletX On view: September 5 – October 4, 2014 Bridgette Mayer Gallery presents: 2014 Benefit Exhibition for BalletX On view: September 5 – October 4, 2014 Opening Reception: September 5, 2014 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. The exhibition will feature work by over 250 artists! For more information click For a preview of available works, please contact: rsvp@bridgettemayergallery.com Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m & by appointment. For pricing, images or additional exhibition information please contact t: 215 413 8893 e: bmayer@bridgettemayergallery.com Bridgette Mayer Gallery Holds Benefit Exhibition Supporting Philadelphia Dance…
Chip Schwartz of KnightArts reviews the third in the series of this year’s Fleisher Wind Challenges. In the review, he writes this about Leslie Friedman’s installation ‘Yenta’: Leslie Friedman fills a huge portion of the gallery space with large, structural installations, which are interestingly as much a product of printmaking as they are modular assembly. Her sensibilities are strongly informed by the strategies of Pop Art, full of bright colors, repetition, text and recognizable images of celebrities (in this case a scientific one: Albert Einstein). Although Friedman in many ways seeks to oversaturate, the pieces are quite entertaining, encouraging viewers…
Join artist Leslie Friedman at the Fleisher Art Memorial to see her installation ‘Yenta,’ and come meet some interesting people! This is a great opportunity to see the show if you missed the opening. All are welcome. Even if you’re not single, come on by, but invite your single friends, too! Beer, wine, and snacks. Fleisher Art Memorial 719 Catharine Street Philadelphia, PA 19147 6pm – 8pm Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
2014 Wind Challenge 3 Exhibition Maggie MIlls, Leslie Friedman, & Katie Parry Fleisher Art Memorial 719 Catharine Street, Philadelphia, PA March 28 – May 10 Opening Reception March 28 6 – 8 pm http://www.fleisher.org 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. This year’s nine Wind Challenge artists were chosen from a field of 239 applicants to exhibit their work in one of…
Don Brewer transcribes the artists talks from the opening of ‘The Path and the Strucure’ at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists. At the opening, Leslie Friedman said of her work and the way she began thinking of some of her recent installations, Jewish identity, and stereotypes in general: I started to think, ‘What would cool Jewish art look like?’ ‘What would it look like if Jewish art were being sold?’ And that’s been an under-current of a lot of my work. I showed my work at Napoleon in a show called ‘Gay, Jewish or Both?’ But, something that I…
Posing Questions of Art, Taste, and Censorship A Panel Discussion with artists Leslie Friedman and Amze Emmons, Washington College Provost and Dean Emily Chamlee-Wright, and two members of the Art Department faculty, Benjamin Bellas and Alex Castro From the Washington College website: A panel discussion Tuesday Feb. 25 will explore questions raised by the current Kohl Gallery exhibition, artNOW: Philadelphia. CHESTERTOWN, MD—The provocative exhibition ArtNOW: Philadelphia currently on display in Kohl Gallery on the Washington College campus has raised some interesting questions about the purpose and parameters of art. A panel of artists and educators will explore those questions on…
artNOW: Philadelphia exhibition rocks the Eastern Shore of Maryland Talbot Spy thinks “Leslie Friedman’s neo-Pop Art installation is purposefully crass and annoying.” In a review which compares the survey of contemporary Philadelphia art with the feature film “The Monuments Men,” critic Mary McCoy write this of Leslie Friedman’s pieces: As if Andy Warhol was still alive and well, its row of silkscreened green nudes line up across from a pile of oversized multi-colored Coke cans and sugar substitute wrappers where an endlessly repeating video loop shows a masturbating woman. Like the other artists in this show, Friedman is less concerned…
Kent County News reporter covers the opening of artNOW: Philadelphia In the review, writer Lena Ellwanger reports that the pieces by Leslie Friedman have been controversial: The work of Leslie Friedman greets visitors as they enter the gallery. With its adult content, it may take some onlookers aback. During the show’s opening reception Feb. 7, Bellas was told that some guests left when they saw Friedman’s work – without giving the rest of the exhibition a glance or a chance. To read the whole review, click here.
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