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Plan B is Five, Hooray Hooray

April16, 2010 

David and Paula toast to fiveGallery Plan B is 5 years old and in honor of that milestone – nothing to sneeze at these days of vanishing art venues – Paula Amt, David Kalamar and crew mounted a show of figurative art by the gallery artists. I caught it just before closing, alas, so you can't actually see the show any more, but the artists have a long-term association with the gallery.

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the Widerkehr wall
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Chad States' work
My favorites were the little wall of Melissa Widerkehr’s  women, more or less floating in space and asserting their right to be ethereal and superior, and Chad States’s photographs. States, a Philadelphia artist, asked people to classify themselves according to their degree of masculinity and then photographed them in what appear to be their own habitats, looking at the camera straight on, without overt expression. Two of the “masculine” portraits are in the gallery, the irony being, of course, that one is a biological woman. I was drawn to the photographs even before learning about the context because of the quality of the images and the in-your-face aspect of the subjects. (note to self: you MUST start wearing your glasses in galleries so you can read the wall text.) While I don’t always react well to art that requires lots of explanation, this time the experience requires it and enhances it.

 
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