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222 Gallery
Todd St. John. Opening reception November 7, 6pm-9pm. November 7- December 5.
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Art Star Gallery
Kathleen Lolley “Midnight Rendezvous” - Acrylic on wood.
Lost, Picking Flowers. Kathleen Lolley. Opening reception October 18, 5pm-9pm. Through November 23.
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AXD Gallery
Slippages. Paintings by Bart O’Reilly and Sheldon Drake. Opening reception November 14 5pm-8pm. Through December 6.
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Bambi Gallery
Pretty Pretty. Works by Anna Tas, Gail Cunningham, Jennifer Elia. Opening reception October 3, 6pm-9:30pm. Through November 16.
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BlinkArt Gallery
Robert Tuttle “Four Generations”
Expressions of Time A traveling photographic exhibition featuring the work of ten regional
artists, Jose Avila, Elizabeth Bar, Stephanie Krik, Felise Luchansky,
Roger Matsumoto, Dain Simons, Jeffery Smith, Heather Siple, Rob Tuttle &
R. Alexander Trejo. Begun as a challenge for nine very different photographers
to explore a common thread in their unique way, the show premiered at the
Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover Delaware earlier this year and is on
its way North with new work and a new artist to share its collective vision with
Philadelphia. Opening reception November 7, 6pm-9pm.
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Bridgette Mayer Gallery
Divide and Consider. Works by Dana Hargrove. Opening reception November 7, 6pm-8:30pm. Through November 29.
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B Square Gallery
Works by Bryant Willette. Opening reception November 8, 6pm-9pm. Through December 20.
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Cerulean Arts
Yuri Makoveychuk “Heaven’s Gate” - Oil on canvas.
Heaven’s Gate. Works by Yuri Makoveychuk. Opening reception October 24, 5pm-9pm. Through November 28.
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Clay Studio
Herculean: On Artistic Labor. Works by Ryan Kelly. Gifted: Annual Holiday Exhibition. New Work by Kevin Snipes. November 7-November 30.
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Copy Gallery
Collections. Copy is proud to present a gallery full of personal collections of objects, curated by Luren Jenison. On display are collections found in the woods, living in dirt, digital, audio, and gleaned from the darkest dustiest corners of artists from Philadelphia and New York. Stop by to explore the rarely-seen collections we all usually keep to ourselves, hoping to someday show to everyone. Collections by Anthony Campuzano, Phil Cote, Nick Payne, Alex Segreti, Colt Hausman, H. D. Notnert, Erica Prince, Leslie Rogers, Nick Paparone, Jamie Dillon, Callie Rickards, Constance Mensch, K-fai Steele, Joel Rose, Adam Wallcavage, Zoe Jet Ellis, Brendan Kellogg, Sarah Taylor, Andrew Jeffery Wright, Luren Jenison, and Ben Peterson. Opening reception November 7th, 6pm-11pm.
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Crane Arts Building
UD/ART Faculty Exhibition. Opening reception October 9 7pm-9pm. Through November 30.
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Da Vinci Art Alliance
New Work. Diane Keller. Opening reception November 2, 1pm-6pm. Through November 29.
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Deep Sleep
No current exhibition. Open Monday-Saturday 12pm-8pm, Sunday 1pm-6pm.
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Esther M Klein Gallery
Locating Memory. Wil Lindsay. Utilizes homemade, hacked GPS-based memory-locating apparatus to capture the experiences and memories of participating individuals. These moments are cataloged and represented in the gallery space as an interactive multi-media installation.Opening reception November 14, 5pm-8pm. Through December 28.
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Fleisher Ollman Gallery
James Castle: The work of the self-taught artist, along with related work from Forrest Bess, Marvin Bileck, Joseph Cornell, Emily Nelligan, Terry Winters, and others. October 6 - November 8.
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The Flux Space
Illuminated Structures. Works of Scott Kip. Opening reception November 8, 6pm-10pm. Through December 16.
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The Fuel Collection
Duck and Recover An exhibition examining the healing of violence and trauma through art.
Featuring works from Joseph Brugger, Scott Langley, Serena Saunders, and Samuel Trioli. Opening reception November 7. Through December 1.
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Gallery 339
Heart of the Matter: New and Selected Works Paul Cava; Almost Paradise David Graham. Opening Reception: September 26, 6-8 pm. September 19-November 8.
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Germ Books
International Group Art Show by Members of the Church of Satan featuring Reverend Jack Malebranche, Warlock Corvis Nocturnum, Warlock Daniel Byrd, Witch Laetitia Mantis, Priestess Stephanie Crabe, Melissa Byrd, Warlock Jason Leach. October 3rd-November 23rd.
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Highwire Gallery
New, Newish, and Renewed. Paintings by George Shin. Branches. New mixed media work by Ken B. Miller. Opening reception November 7, 5pm-9pm. Through November 30.
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Institute of Contemporary Art
Douglas Blau New work including features from the earlier work The Conversation Piece. Through December 7.
Also: Kate Gilmore. Kate Gilmore loves a challenge. For her performance-based video works, she sets up a difficult physical task—a precarious tower of strung-together furniture to climb, for instance—dons lipstick and a fancy dress, and documents herself making the attempt. She has jumped rope on a perforated wooden platform while wearing stilettos (Double Dutch, 2004), ascended a slippery ramp in rollerskates (Cake Walk, 2005), and forced her satin-clad body through a tiny tunnel (Main Squeeze, 2006). For the Project Space, Gilmore has constructed a new challenge and stars in a corresponding video, to be shown alongside several earlier video works. Through December 7.
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International House
InLiquid.com Video Installation Project presents Transplants Includes videos and animation by Nobutaka Aozaki, Belinda Haikes, Rene Marquez, Huong Ngo, Termite TV and more. Opening reception November 12, 6pm-8pm. November 7 through January 16.
Also: Penn Office of International Programs Student Photo Contest. The annual OIP photo contest is a showcase of Penn students’ interpretation of the host communities where they lived, studied and explored. These photos capture beautiful, often insightful images experienced outside of their home country. Join us in celebrating the creativity of these students. Opening reception November 12, 6pm-8pm. November 7 through December 26.
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James Oliver Gallery
No current exhibition.
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Jenny Jaskey Gallery
Work by Michael Edward Smith. Opening reception October 26, 4pm-6pm. Through November 29.
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Kelly & Weber Fine Art
Untitled. New exhibition from Gillian Pears. Opening reception November 13, 6pm-9pm.
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The Knapp Gallery
Kenneth E. Parris III “Hand Grasping Ankle” - Mixed media.
Pulling Focus Paintings by
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Locks Gallery
Private Collections. Ellen Harvey. Opening reception November 7. Through December 13.
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Mew Gallery
New work by Nikki Virbitsky and Isaac Bushkin. Through the month of November.
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Nexus
Catch My Legs and Hold Them There. A video, animation and photograph series by Jennie Thwing about a collective of women workers who harvest legs for a living. The work addresses gender roles in the current political state. The series includes ambiguous scenes of women working at night.
Also: Works on Paper New works by Sherif Habashi. These works stem from his increasing interest in the decorative arts and the various textiles and printed forms encountered in objects of antiques. Adopting some of those motifs is part of his effort to seek out new modes of associations and juxtapositions in constructing narratives for the work. Through the month of November.
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Padlock Gallery
The Philadelphia Institute For Advanced Study presents Sky Mall, featuring works and concepts from the faculty of the North Philadelphia / South Kensington based Institute. Opening November 1, through the rest of the month.
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Pageant : Soloveev
No current exhibition.
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The Print Center
Nakazora: space between sky and earth Masao Yamamoto; Foreclosed Group Photography Exhibition with Alejandra Laviada, Gillian Pears, Hirsch Perlman, Tommy Reynolds, Melanie Schiff and Ryan Widger. Talk with the curator at 5pm followed by the opening reception, September 10, 5:30pm-7:30pm. September 10 - November 26.
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Projects Gallery
Margery Amdur “Wisp No. 1″ - Mixed media.
Bloom Margery Amdur. Drawing from the perceived separation of art and craft, Amdur explores her interest in multi-dimensional structure. She draws upon a wealth of materials, including frosted Mylar, clear acetate, acrylic paint, transfer images, paint-by-number canvas boards, bees wax and resin. Through her skillful hands, the materials are recontextualized, as the artist enlarges and abstracts her deceptively familiar templates. Playing with transparent and translucent, the pre-existing image and the vision of the artist, Amdur takes the traditional form of painting and expands its definition to embrace greater issues within the contemporary dialogue. Through the veiling of layers, a tension is created between the abstract and representational; and the artist’s meditative working process emanates throughout. The resulting images are visually seductive moments frozen in time. Artist’s reception November 7, 6-9pm. October 3rd-November 15th.
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Space 1026
I Hope I Live This Way Until I Die. New work from the Dirtpalace, an all female art collective from Providence, presenting real and hypothetical furnishings from behind the trapdoor bookcases. Artifacts of histories as varied as the day and night, saturated in love, loss, explosion, boredom, useless junk, phantom fame, deception and loyalty. Opening reception November 7, 6pm-11pm. Through November 29.
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Vox Populi
Born In The Grave. Kara Crombie. The aesthetics of Kara Crombie’s video are often inspired by art outside the medium - contemporary German photography, or the paintings of Francis Bacon, for example. Meanwhile her narrative interests, inspired by mainstream film and popular music, lean toward dark comedy and human relationships. As a musician who produces her own soundtracks, her work is also particularly invested in sound design and music as a narrative strategy. In her most recent work, Born in the Grave, actors and real couples face off in psychedelic Baconian rooms floating in an urban outer space inhabited by party ghosts and late night loners. All struggle just to feel not alone in being alone.
Also: Land’s End. Micah Danges. Micah creates a collage of imaginary worlds, whose origins are inspired from everyday objects and spaces both found in natural and man-made environments. He examines concerns of desolation, mysticism, communication and psychedelia. These inspirations are based on both formal ideas and curiosity that define these fantasy narratives.
Also: MEME. Andrew Suggs. Suggs presents a series of new sculptural/installation works in which he creates framed mise-en-scenes that serve as metaphors for understanding past events and the ideas, behaviors, gestures, fashions, and practices associated with their reception. He continues to draw on imagery, sound, and moving images from the recent past and investigates how future generations draw on these cultural artifacts through snippets, quotes and scenes – continually reframing and creating new understandings of our historical and contemporary cultural fabric.
Opening reception November 7, 6pm-11pm. Through November 30.
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Wexler Gallery
New work by innovative furniture artist Matthias Pliessnig Pliessnig is a designer and builder questioning what is furniture and what is wood. An artist trying to stay “truer to the material, by utilizing the elastic possibilities of the material,” Pliessnig combines boat building techniques with furniture building techniques. Much of his work meditates on the thought that “for centuries we’ve been subverting wood to our will; lumber mills and furniture factories spit out rectilinear shapes that fit nicely onto trucks, but have little to do with the inherent properties of a tree.” Opening reception September 5, 5pm-8pm. September 5 - November 1.
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Works on Paper
Alan Schleifer Recent Work. Opening reception September 19, 6pm. September 19 - October 31.
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Yo Darkroom
Colleen Cunningham. Collage.
Invented Landscapes Work by Anna Druzcz, Colleen Cunningham, Katherine Kaminski, Chris Macan, Sam Oberter, Sasha Parker, Ben Schaeffer, Keith Sharp, John Woodin. Think Ansel Adams meets Alice in Wonderland and You’ll have an idea of what you’ll see at Yo darkroom’s next photography show. It is a peek at how traditional themes mixed with an amazing breadth of established and emerging artists rework an old artistic standard into a roller coaster ride that is as playful as it is poignant. Opening reception September 27th 6pm. September 27th through November 14th.
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