Her First Time
By F. Lennox Campello
Monday, March 17, 2008
Celebrity sighting
One of the formerly best-kept dining secrets of Media, Pennsylvania is a terrific Indian restaurant called Shere-E-Punjab. My wife lived in India and is a good arbiter of Indian food, and when we first moved here, she actually wrote a note to the local paper about this modest but most excellent restaurant (the paper had done a Media restaurant issue and skipped the small Indian place).
The paper's food critic then visited Shere-E-Punjab and was so impressed that she wrote a whole article/review on them.
And then earlier this year the Philly Inky wrote a favorable review of it.
Shere-E-Punjab has really good, authentic Indian food at excellent prices.
And yesterday we had lunch there (excellent as usual) and as we were leaving, noticed that several of the key cast members of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," one of my favorite TV shows, came in to have lunch. This is one of the funniest, oddest and most innovative TV shows on cable.
And no... Louie wasn't one of them.
Artists' Websites
"Virgie" by Christopher Goodwin
Former DC area artist Christopher Goodwin is also the creator of the innovative Trashball! art project.
Visit his website here.
Curatorialism
So far this year I've curated/juried a couple of shows (Color Invitations at R Street Gallery in DC and currently "Five Senses" at Target Street in Alexandria, VA).
Loads more efforts to come in 2008.
Next I'm helping to select the artists for the Johns Hopkins book and two city exhibition of the Innovators Combatting Substance Abuse Program next month in Baltimore.
In April I am curating the grand opening show for the new Mayer Fine Arts gallery in Norfolk, Virginia. Titled "Common Ocean: From Havana to Norfolk," the exhibition will showcase the work of four leading contemporary Cuban women: Sandra Ramos, Aimee Garcia Marrero, Marta Maria Perez Bravo and Cirenaica Moreira.
Also in April I am jurying Derivative Composition for VSA arts.
In June I will be curating Early Look, a student show for DC's Longview Gallery.
In September I am doing the jurying for the Maryland Federation of Artists' (MFA) annual Landscape Show in Annapolis.
In November I will be curating "Aqui Estamos" (Here We Are): Contemporary Cuban Art" for Mt. Rainier, Maryland's H&F Fine Arts, showing some very well-known as well as some new and emerging Cuban artists.
And in between all that I am fitting in six art fairs, a boatload of art panels and two solo shows (more on those later).
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Mellema on Moser
Kevin Mellema writes an interesting review of the current Lida Moser show at Fraser Gallery.
Moser's work often depicts motion and displays an unusually strong depth of field. Some of her best works include foreground objects that go hopelessly out of focus yet retain all the information we really need. A photo of two Tennessee girls standing beside the road includes the interior car door and window frame. Another shot out the front window of a bus shows a motion blurred man crossing the street before the bus. Both photos would be greatly diminished were they shot in a more typical fashion.Read it here.
Likely to her detriment, Moser never shot fashion work, but was asked to shoot a fashion portfolio for a young head strong aspiring model named Judy. Moser agreed, as long as she could shoot it on a truck loading dock. During the shoot the two ladies encountered a band of irrepressible, and equally headstrong boys. Not quite being able to shake them off, Moser used them to her advantage and made a wonderful series of shots with Judy posing while the boys mocked her poses. No doubt it wasn't exactly what Judy had in mind, but since Moser was doing the work as a favor she didn't have much choice but to go along with it. Moser recalls that images from the series sold to several magazines, and Judy went on to model ... then setting her sights on marrying a millionaire, did that as well.
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