Last Saturday morning I found Bill Fellenz in front of his architectural salvage business at 439 N. Euclid standing alongside stacks of old doors—one with a partially torn green nameplate “Jesu”— bound for New Orleans. Most had been removed from buildings that were demolished not far from the Central West End. While I’ve known Fellenz…
Category: Art & Architecture
Josh Rowan trains his lens on the border
Skirmish at the Border, one of many photographs in Josh Rowan’s arresting Borderlands exhibition at TechArtista, 4818 Washington, is a powerful example that nature knows no boundaries. Rowan’s description reads: “Free to pass back and forth over the border, I watched this flock of birds land in the foreground crops and seconds later retreat over…
Stepping into “Fashioning the Black Body” at projects+gallery
Whenever I attend an opening at projects+gallery, I find myself as fascinated by what the crowd is wearing as much as by the art on the walls. Fashioning the Black Body, which opened Friday March 15, and the artists talk the following day, led me down the same delightful path. The exhibition is Dario Calmese’s,…