Category Archives: Visual art

Diane Burko: Eagle Glacier, Juneau, 1982-2005, from Landsat Series, oil on canvas, 2015

Talking with Diane Burko on art and climate change

My conversation with climate artist Diane Burko has just been posted on Creative Disturbance, a podcasting platform for dialogue among artists and scientists on sustainability ...
Elegy for Tesla, installation by Jeanne Jaffe at Rowan University Art Gallery, detail

An elegy for Tesla

Jeanne Jaffe’s ambitious Elegy for Tesla is a high-tech, dreamlike and heartfelt meditation on Nikola Tesla, the legendary scientist and inventor. Jaffe’s multimedia installation fills ...
Phillips & Healy's 'Splendor in the Glass' at Wheaton

Phillips & Healy, sparkling

Carolyn Healy and John Phillips have done it again: they’ve created an art installation piece that both transforms the space it’s housed in, and crystallizes ...
Burchfield's "Early Spring," 1966-67

Burchfield and synesthesia

In the paintings of Charles Burchfield, the trees vibrate, the air pulses with rhythmic patterns, and birdsong takes on shape and color. Everything is alive, ...
A view of the Chestnut Hill Skyspace

Seeing Turrell’s Skyspace

My friend and I arrived at James Turrell’s Skyspace, at Philadelphia’s Chestnut Hill Friends Meetinghouse, just before sundown. When I asked another visitor if we ...
James Turrell and sacred architecture

James Turrell and sacred architecture

James Turrell’s installations at the Guggenheim left me in an altered state.  Using light as his primary medium, Turrell’s art requires slow looking and an ...
The Barefoot Artist

The Barefoot Artist

Next Wednesday, The Barefoot Artist—a documentary about the unusual career of Lily Yeh—will have a special preview screening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Go ...
Isaiah Zagar landscape painting

From the Ground Up

  "Like embedded journalists, Peter Kinney, Isaiah Zagar and Jeff Waring have made the work in this show as ‘embedded’ artists, burrowing deep into the ...