Thursday, December 4, 2008

the "censored" photo at Starbucks in Chestnut Hill.

Kate Hate
maybe this one would have been better.

in the world of Scranton today.


Electric City Paper 12.o4.o8

You young hipsters might find this hard to believe, but there was a time before art began to appear on what has become The Bog Art Wall. Urban legend has it that Jonathan K. Slingluff was the first artist to exhibit at the Scranton bar. Back then, we called him Skip. Ah, but that was when we knew what to call everyone who walked in or out of The Bog. Before Test Pattern came and went and well before Skip moved to Philadelphia and got married and opened his own gallery, Studio 2728.

OK, so maybe we're getting a little carried away here. It's only been two years this month that Skip skipped town. And yes, he did have a show at Vida Tapas Bar and Grill last year. But this winter will be the first time in four years since he's shown at The Bog and, by golly, it warms our guts.

Situated six blocks from the zoo and two blocks from "gang banger heaven," Studio 2728 is technically located in Philly's art museum section, Slingluff informed. It has hosted six exhibit openings in the past seven months, picking up where the influential Lineage Gallery left off by showing primarily West Coast artists. Shows are currently booked through December 2010.

Slingluff's most recent photography has focused largely on a series of hopeful porn actresses/models. It's his paintings that will hang at The Bog this month, however.

"I've been creating painting for a wall, in that there is an argyle pattern, almost a wallpaper pattern with a piece of artwork placed on that pattern. That's what I've been trying to mimic," he said.