Reception, Exhibition, Celebration : Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening is a group exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Lorraine Gessner, Linda Dubin Garfield, Mary Kane and Stella Untalan. Please join us for the reception honoring Ed Bronstein, who started art exhibitions at the Philadelphia Board of Ethics. Stella Untalan will be showing six drawings in her new Soundings Series. Sounding refers...
Anne Saint Peter photographs at the Cosmopolitan Club
Went over to The Cosmopolitan Club today to see photos by Anne Saint Peter. A wonderful exhibition of Philadelphia. Take a moment to stop in and see the show at a Philadelphia Landmark. Anne Saint Peter uses her camera to capture how the memory sees rather than what the camera sees. Looking at a vista, one sees...
Discovering the work of Catherine O’Connell.
Catherine O’Connell | What Alice Wanted | Cut rice paper, acrylic & colored pencil on rag paper | 12.5″ x 15″ | 2012 We liked her paintings when L G Tripp showed them last year. In this works on paper show Catherine O’Connell has only a few small and intriguing works. Go and see them. ...
Last days to see 30 Americans at the Corcoran
It’s the last days to get a chance to see this survey of African American Artists. from the website: 30 Americans is a wide-ranging survey of work by many of the most important African American artists of the last three decades. Selected from the Rubell Family Collection, the exhibition brings together seminal figures such as...
Street Chair, new photographs by Anne Saint Peter
ARTIST RECEPTION Friday, February 3, 2012 5 — 8 pm EXHIBITION Friday, January 6, 2012 Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Street Chairs. It doesn’t matter what city or country, or whether you’re walking or driving by. They indulge us for a respite. We oblige and pause to contemplate their scene. We become a part of it. And because they...
Community Reception: Anne Saint Peter, Wall of Women
It was an energizing reception at our alternative space at 1616 Walnut Street. David Rose at the club is interested in buildng community and this was certainly a community night. Many of the subjects of the photos were in attendance and many of them met each other for the first time. To get a look at...
Moving through Memory, Asian Arts Initiative
Presented in collaboration with the Center for Emerging Visual Arts October 7 - November 18, 2011 Philadelphia Open Studio Tours Weekend: Saturday & Sunday, October 15–16, 12 p.m. — 6 p.m. Moving through Memory explores the way our ever-changing contemporary reality is transcribed through individual and collective dreams, memory, and history. Featuring the abstract sculpture of Mami Kato, documentary-style photography by...
Installation shots, Jessica Hoffman: Forever and After
Consider the connection/disconnection between memory and discarded artifacts of communication. If old letters, photographs, or videos are connected to past events in our lives — what happens when they are discarded or lost? Hoffman uses obsessive or meditative actions to explore how we classify, organize, and recall the contexts and memories attached to these...
Isaiah Zagar and the Bike Part Art Show at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens
Recent Works by Isaiah Zagar Friday, September 9 - Sunday, October 9 The 2011 Bike Part Art Show October 12 — 22, 2011 Closing Reception and Auction Saturday October 22nd from 6-10pm. Open for the POST on October 15 and 16 from Noon to 6pm The Magic Gardens 1020 South Street Philadelphia PA 19147 www.phillymagicgardens.org Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens...
Seen and Liked : Out of Context at Grizzly Grizzly.
Out of Context Skye Gilkerson & Sarah Steinwachs We found a wonderfully curated show at Grizzly Grizzly. You’ve only a few more days to see it. The works of artists Skye Gilkerson and Sarah Steinwachs compliment each other in scale and in craft. Both artists embrace the absence of mass in delightfully different ways. Skye Gilkerson’s...
Seen and Liked : One Part Plaster, Shirley Thomas
One Part Plaster New Mixed-Media Sculpture August 31 — October 2, 2011 You wouldn’t even know this work was in the gallery from the street. A big surprise in small packages can be found in the back half of 3rd Street Gallery. Seemingly scattered the hidden gems are earthy hold-in-the-palms-of-your-hand sized sculptures. We love the...