PHILLIP BUEHLER SERIES, “MALLRAT TO SNAPCHAT”
Front Room Gallery is proud to present “Mallrat to Snapchat: The End of the Third Place,” recent work by photographer Phil Buehler documenting a dead mall in Wayne, New Jersey. This is Buehler’s second solo show at Front Room.
Malls all across America are closing, and along with them the culture they inspired. With Amazon, online music, digital books, streaming video, Facebook and Instagram, people have less and less reason to leave their homes and meet people face-to-face. Once a center of American culture, malls were so popular that they were even the setting for movies such as “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and “Dawn of the Dead” and more recently with the Netflix series, “Stranger Things.” CONTINUE READING >>>
SELECTED PRESS FOR PHIL BUEHLER EXHIBITION “MALLRAT TO SNAPCHAT”
ttps://www.pbs.org/video/mallrat-snapchat-photographs-phillip-buehler-9wxspu/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbsWR8U4RP8
https://www.allarts.org/2019/12/phillip-buehler-abandoned-shopping-mall-wayne-hills-mall-jersey/
https://video.vermontpublic.org/video/mallrat-snapchat-photographs-phillip-buehler-9wxspu/
https://www.artspace.com/phillip-buehler/samgoody-wayne-hills-mall-wayne-new-jersey
https://www.amny.com/news/the-death-of-wayne-hills-mall-in-photographs-at-less-front-room-gallery/
https://www.stateoftheartsnj.com/video/photographer-phillip-buehler/
https://bedfordandbowery.com/2019/11/art-this-week-avant-garde-retrospective-and-mall-memories/
https://museemagazine.com/features/2020/1/6/this-n-that-yesterday-today-tomorrow
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/editors-picks-november-25-2019-1701264
https://patch.com/new-jersey/wayne/wayne-hills-mall-santa-reprises-role-nyc-exhibit