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If
Pop Art is your bag, then check out Mixed Company, 60 North Third
Street, a joint that's always got the goods. The roster of artists here
ranges from Philly to Manhattan and they always guarantee everyone an
eyeful.
Jenie Moore
turns out the bomb. That said, she slaps together paintings that grab
a little bit from the bright, eye-catching graphics of candy bar wrappers,
cute chickadees that reference Japanese animation, covers from cheesy,
sleazy tough pulp novels form decades ago and her own take on funky
logos of products that don't exist.
The first time I saw John
Pompetti's work, I swore it was silkscreen art--only to be proven
wrong. Blinding bright primary colors are slathered on canvas to create
paintings that run their own con through sheer technique and tight precision.
Here, form and palette superceded all else through images that are downright
radioactive.
The future is now, though mushed into a mess with the past, thanks to
the medium that Jeff
Schaller uses is in work, which is encaustic, a process where
molten wax is mixed with pigment. The finished work, images superimposed
atop images, leaves a sensory overload arrayed to assault all five senses--and
beyond!
Chances are good that all of you have run across John
Stango's paintings somewhere since next to Philly's murals and
public sculpture, Stango's work can be found everywhere else. From Madonna
to Al Capone, Lady Liberty to Muhammad Ali, Stango's portraits are letter
perfect excursions that meld exact form with a piercing palette.
This place has also got furniture for the jetsetter on the go, plus other
items to suit anyone's fancy.
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