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Megan Galardi, founder and director of Blah Blah, a commercial gallery in the 319 Building
February 2, 2024
Reflecting the values of its founder, Blah Blah, is a gallery with a clear aesthetic vision, as well as a vision of how to treat and interact with artists. Megan describes that aesthetic vision as having two layers: “I really enjoy work that is having a conversation about something while having a light-hearted aesthetic. All of our artists fit that description one way or another.” The gallery’s title embodies a similar duality. Blah Blah conveys “…both silliness and light-heartnedesness. While we’re being playful we are talking about something of substance.” Read full article >
O Fluxo
Superterrestrial Garden, Alaina Kalbfell and carrie R, Blah Blah Gallery, Philadelphia, 2023
December 5, 2023
Alaina Kalbfell’s paintings conjure surreal and otherworldly figures, faces, and spaces. Her canvas becomes a portal into the depths of identity, emotion, mental health, dreams, and the subconscious. Alaina’s unique process involves staining raw canvas, employing a wet-on-wet technique to create ethereal, emotive figures that hover on the cusp between abstraction and figuration. The result is a series of beings both hauntingly unfamiliar and strangely recognizable, offering a glimpse into the profound emotive mysteries that lie within each of us. Read full article >
Whitewall
The 11th SPRING/BREAK Art Show is a Wild Card
September 6, 2023
On September 6, the fall edition of SPRING/BREAK Art Show returns to New York for its 11th year, on view through September 11 at 625 Madison Avenue. Celebrating in 11 consecutive years, and 11 dynamic themes, this season’s fair, founded by Ambre Kelly and Andrew Gori, invited curators to infuse a past focus with cutting-edge artists. Invoking the spirit of tarot card methodology, the presentation offers more than 110 exhibits from over 150 inspired curators, producing a star-crossed exhibition for avid art collectors and newcomers alike. Read full article >
Two Coats of Paint
Selected Paintings from SPRING/BREAK NYC 2023
September 9, 2023
In a shift befitting this year’s theme, !WILD CARD!, the Spring/Break Art Show departs from its past trajectory of more-and-bigger spectacle, year after year. Building on the “Secret Show” of this past spring, which returned to the Old School where the fair began, the organizers asked artists for this year’s show at 625 Madison to revisit past themes with a mix of nostalgia, homage, and cheekiness. Though the artists and curators again had to meet the challenges of defunct office space, inconsistent lighting, and black-and-white checkered floors, every year their strategies seem to serve the work better, with less and less selfie-encouraging frustration. Read full article >
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Corey Qureshi is Seeing Red at Libby Rosa’s Blah Blah Gallery Solo Exhibition
June 14, 2023
When I think of “Seeing Red”, I think of the inherent rage that comes conjured up from the phrase. I think of the Minor Threat song with its unrelenting pace and alienated lyrics. In the case of Seeing Red, Libby Rosa‘s solo show at Blah Blah Gallery, I mainly found the opposite to be true. The immediate vibrance of her flashe/acrylic canvases soften the more barren or plausibly troubling imageries. In the case of “Fluttering”, a wet, purple night breathes with a range of delicate and hard raindrop patterings across the tops of many leaves of plants. Read full article >
White Hot Magazine
DESTINATION: Philly’s Far-Flung Venues
May 14, 2025
Found at the axis of Queen Village and South Philly–adjacent to that little bit of Naples in America, the Italian Market–in a neat minimalist storefront, reminiscent of the 80s East Village scene, Blah Blah Galleries’ current two-person exhibition, False Alarm, balances work by Lee Maxey and Libby Rosa; a painter and an artist who works on the edges of sculpture and installation, respectively. Besides high finish the overarching theme, embraced by these two, is captivation with an ardor for depicting danger as a satisfying artistic impulse. Flame is a recurring protagonist, as form and threat to be headed. Read full article >
34th Street
A New Curatorial Vision for Philly
March 2, 2025
That is exactly where Megan Galardi’s Blah Blah Gallery is stepping in—to bring a physical space to showcase those emerging artists. These artists otherwise might not have felt a home in Philly; instead, skipping us over for bigger art cities like New York or Los Angeles, where they feel like they have room to spread their wings. Galardi, instead, wants to establish a formidable bastion for these artists. A home where they can start showing their work in Philadelphia without feeling constrained by the city’s limitations. Galardi's work with Blah Blah might just change the narrative around art collecting in Philadelphia. Read full article >
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Roast Pork and Bondage - Paintings by Mack Brim at Blah Blah
February 21, 2025
'Playing House,' a charged feminist look at how cherished childhood dreams don't match grown up reality. Blah Blah Gallery hosts the exhibit, a gallery that supports women and non-binary artists, now located in the midst of a bustling non-arts corridor -- the Italian Market area. Joni talks about the neighborhood and the art, and comments, "The lovely real life quilt of South 9th Street accepts a feminist gallery as readily as it accepts a raunchy sandwich shop. That is a very beautiful, very Philly, very 2025 thing." Read full article >