Merry Christmakkah! Happy new year! I skipped a year, so it’s been 2 since I posted my surprisingly popular Tops of 2008: A Different Kind of Year in Review. Here, I go with four different Top 5 lists: The Top 5 people I newly met in 2010, The Top 5 people I’d like to meet [...]
Good friend and great artist Colleen Alborough exhibits a new solo of fantastic work in downtown Joburg, downstairs at the Standard Bank Gallery. I’m sad to miss it (in Wisconsin), but if you’re in town, it’s a must see. This opens alongside a Louis Khehla Maqhubela retrospective, the latter in the upstairs gallery. Opening, Tuesday [...]
Night Journey (installation at KZNSA) The Premises Gallery at The Johannesburg Civic Theatre presents Colleen Alborough @ the premises 26 May – 9 June Opening Saturday 26 May 5-7pm An exhibition including the interactive video installation, Night Journey. Each day we retreat to our bed, to the place that is so private, so familiar, [...]
Before the Time (2007) is a limited edition, concertina artist book. It is an exploration of a solitary journey along a melancholic yet painterly stretch of road. The images search into the distance, trying to see beyond the isolation and apparent silence of the passing veld. The work attempts to capture traces of life in [...]
The SAarts opening, walkabout and panels went extremely well – the former attended by at least 150 people through the course of the evening. There are walkabouts every weekend (see schedule) for the next three weeks, and the show and catalogue look great, so I highly recommend your chaecking it out. Below are some photos [...]
The Bag Factory presents SAartsEmerging 2006, an exhibition and series of events based on the website www.saartsemerging.org, Since January 2006 the website has featured a new artist every third Friday of each month. In celebration of our first year we will be holding an exhibition and a series of related events revolving around the state [...]
am down in the mother city again, i have given up on hassling and flowing and have to sit my ass down. oh yes before i forget i will become a Joburg later this month, please people bring me a cake and red wine to make me feel welcomed. so to the dudes in Jozi, [...]
