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Amble Gallery
Jaggy Nettles David Gallently. Opening reception May 8, 6pm-9pm. May 8 - June 8.
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Art Star Gallery
Kurt Halsey Opening reception with the artist June 7, 5pm-9pm, free & open to the public.
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AXD Gallery
Rock, Paper, Scissors This group exhibition features the sculpted marble spheres and free form pen & ink drawings of DC area artist Allen Linder, the cast-paper pulp sculptures of Philadelphia area artist and teacher James Stella, and the asian influenced abstract papercutting art of Philadelphia artist Chris Resko. Together the work of these three artists form a playful synergy at AxD Gallery. Opening reception June 6, 5pm-8pm. June 6 - July 12.
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Bambi Gallery
There Will Be Animals with Tory Franklin, Alan Prazniak and K-Fai Steele is the must see show of the year! These 3 artists were chosen from the recent juried Bambi Biennial show. You may recall, the ladies of art-magnifique, Libby Rosof and Roberta Fallon were the jurors. Opening reception April 4, 6pm-9:30pm. April 4 - May 18.
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BlinkArt Gallery
Group Sculpture Exhibit featuring Constructive Sculpture by Billy Dufala, Peter Frantz, John Greig, Vinson Huston, Tom McCloskey, Ituski Ogihara, Coleen Rudolf, Katarzyna Kalyta. Opening reception June 6, 6pm-9pm. June 6 - July 1.
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Bridgette Mayer Gallery
Kate Davis Caldwell Rapture. Kate Davis Caldwell ventures into a world of black, white and sepia tone. Inspired by vintage photographs, black and white photography and video footage, her new work abandons the usual color palette, and is created almost entirely in charcoal. Blending painting and drawing, she adds paint to the panels only as completion nears. Opening reception June 6. June 2 - July 19.
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B Square Gallery
What You See is What You Get featuring painting and sculpture by Patrick Lane and a Sunflower series by Sandra Webberking. Opening Reception May 3rd, 5pm-8pm. May 3 - July 26.
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Cerulean Arts
Portraits of Places Watercolors by Richard Estell. Opening reception June 6, 5pm-9pm. Meet the artist June 22, 1pm-4pm. June 6 - July 18.
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Clay Studio
Student / Member Exhibition, Reed Smith Gallery. Jenny Mendes New Work, Bonovitz Space. Opening reception June 6, 5pm-9pm. June 6 - June 29.
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Da Vinci Art Alliance
trans-gression artists’ collective, Multidisciplinary Arts Festival. trans-gression is an artists’ collective dedicated to creating “opportunities to examine, play with and break gender stereotypes”while building a safe space for artistic and personal exploration. Featuring artwork by Tally Brennan, Deborah Caiola, Justin DeForest, Justin Jain, Susan DiPronio, Cathleen Miller, Heather Marie, Davis-Jones, Kirsten Knoblauch, Laureen Griffin, Ellen Rosenberg, Martina Plag. Also there is a film night, performances and interviews. Opening Reception May 4th, 4pm-6pm. May 7 - May 30.
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Deep Sleep
Crucial Headache Art Show Opening reception June 6, 7pm.
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Esther M Klein Gallery
Odor Limits is an exhibition that explores the potential of smell in aesthetic experience. The works in this show employ natural, synthetic and imaginary scents to delve into pressing contemporary themes about cultural difference, personal identity, spirituality and the body. Using installation, video, performance and a visitor’s interactive project, smell is shown to be one of the senses that defies limits, transgresses boundaries, and exceeds expectations . Featuring Oswaldo Maciá, Jenny Marketou, Chrysanne Stathacos and Clara Ursitti. Opening Reception May 9th, 5pm-8pm. May 9 - June 28.
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Fleisher Ollman Gallery
A Cleaner Heart A Do It New work from Jennifer Levonian, Matthew Rich, Bill Walton and Casey Watson. Opening reception June 5, 6pm-8pm. June 5 - July 31.
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The Fuel Collection
Style of Consequence A look at Style and Fashion in Art. Also, Music To My Eyes Performance and Video Work Incorporating Music in Process or Concept. Opening reception June 6, 6pm-9pm. June 6 - June 28.
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The Flux Space
5 Into 1 + 1 Philadelphia Sculptors is proud to present 5 into 1 + 1, in cooperation with Moore College of Art and Design. This is the ninth year for the annual student exhibition that showcases sculpture by outstanding senior and graduate students from Philadelphia area colleges. May 31 - June 15.
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Gallery 339
Animalia Henry Horenstein. May 16 - July 5.
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Germ Books
Sound and Vision of Changes Robert N. Taylor and Nicholas Tesluk. From the coffee shops of the Process Church to their virtual creation of the apocalyptic folk genre, Robert N. Taylor and his cousin Nicholas Tesluk have always infused the music of Changes with an uncompromising world view that translates readily into their largely heretofore unseen catalog of work in the visual media: it’s a psychonaut’s guide to the end of the world… with a new world just around the corner. Opening reception June 6. June 6 - July 20.
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Highwire Gallery
Mud In Your Eye Peter Kinney, Ecological Disturbances Leslie Kaufman. Opening reception June 6, 5pm-9pm. June 6 - June 29.
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The Ice Box @ Crane Arts
University of Pennsylvania MFA Thesis Exhibition May 16 - June 6.
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International House
Style Tribes v6.0 Style Tribes v6.0 explores the tribal connection between fashion, music, media and specific social groups with a collection of works by Design & Merchandising students from Drexel University. Opening reception June 11, 6pm.
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James Oliver Gallery
The Effect!: A Pop Art Blast is a national show featuring twenty-nine artists’ contemporary interpretation of the 1960’s Pop Art Monement. Featuring B.C. Britton, Dave Tree, Anthony Zito, Jeff Schaller, Lauren Hawkins, Steven Mogck , SLINGER , Josh Opdenaker, Travis Lindquist, Colin Burns , Gregory Carafelli, Pete, Checchia, Brent Cowley, James Enders , Dominic Episcopo, Jonny Fenix , Steven Futej , A.J. Ford, George-Ann F. Greth, Ben Harvey, Ron Johnson, Nam Kim, Marion Mack, Sioux Zanne Messix , James Oliver, Nathan Purcell, Phil Vinson. April 25 - June 28.
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Kelly & Weber Fine Art
Collect. Consume. Rebuild. Sean O’Neill. O’Neil’s method of creating his works is similar to that of musicians sampling sounds to create their compositions. O’Neil appropriates images, often times using amateur photos or images from instruction manuals as sources. The reproduced image is then washed with new color to create monochrome layers juxtaposed with other images. O’Neil’s method is reflected in the title of his first solo exhibit at K&W, Collect. Consume. Rebuild. These colorful and emotional paintings have a storytelling quality that relates a narrative, yet still remain poetic, allowing the viewer to determine their interpretation. Opening reception May 8.
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The Knapp Gallery
Gigi Chen’s solo exhibition Wide Awake will feature drawings and paintings from her latest group of works, which embody her artistic frustrations through the use of animated characters and animals. Wide Awake features an array of drawings and paintings which all feature manifestations of Chen’s over-active imagination. Engaged in the frustration of the creative process, Chen finds release by depicting her interior artistic dialogue through the metaphor of the characters her mind creates. These characters, a series of animals, cartoon characters and ‘space kitties’ battle each other for supremacy within the fantastic episodes she depicts in each work. May 2 - June 22.
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Locks Gallery
Weaving Spiders Come Not Here Joy Feasley. For this exhibition, Feasley has continued to create the work for which she is known - paintings that integrate landscape, abstraction, pattern and decoration, folk art and figurative imagery. Feaseley uses a bold and flat color palate to help define her intimately-scaled paintings. Her paintings suggests the landscape experienced outide cities - remote forests and mountaintops. The works also retain a sense of place, at times referencing the Hudson River School, and on occasion reflecting actual locations such her home in Philadelphia, or scenic California, where she often takes residency to paint. Opening reception June 6, 10am-6pm.
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Mew Gallery
You Will Always Have Yourself Sarah Pohlman. Sarah Pohlman is an accomplished local artist and graduate of The University of the Arts. She was named the 2007 Library Fellows Award Winner by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) for her limited-edition book Everything and Everyone: In the End We All Are One. The book was supported by the NMWA Library Fellows, whose objective is to encourage and promote book arts. Sarah’s exhibit at Mew Gallery will feature current multi-media 2-D work. Opening reception June 14, 5pm-9pm. June 7 - July 18.
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Mural Arts Center at the Thomas Eakins House
Ωmega Warm Garden Sunrise a site-specific installation of works by Paul Santoleri. Artist Paul Santoleri will transform the entire gallery at the Lincoln Financial Mural Arts Center at the Thomas Eakins House into an organic industrial/mechanical orb. He will accomplish this through layered drawings, some painted, silk-screened, and some drawn directly onto the wall, continuing onto the floor (with acid-free black tape) and displayed in layers of translucent mylar (drafting film). The end result will be to somehow replicate his vision of the world around him. For the creation of this piece, he was particularly inspired by the lives and forms of the lichen that inhabit the earth, their iron-clad will of survival, how they change shape and form with the surrounding conditions and persist as two distinctly different life forms (fungus and algae), that can exist independently, yet together they become a new life form, a community that can live for hundreds of years, unabashedly attached to a fallen tree or roof tar. Opening reception April 9, 6pm-8pm. April 9 - June 22.
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Nexus
Two solo exhibitions by member artists Rebecca Gilbert and Virginia Batson. Process, craft, concept, and expression are all of equal importance in Rebecca Gilbert’s experimental print work. Virginia Batson works in a range of media including organic mixed media sculpture, installation, abstract works on paper, video, language-based works, and artist’s books. May 8 - June 6.
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Padlock Gallery
Total Totem: New Art by Greg Pizzoli & Chris Kline. Opening reception June 7, 8pm-12am.
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Pageant : Soloveev
Hunter Stabler Thanks To Mom And Dad / The Chain Of The Worlds. Opening reception June 13, 7pm. June 13 - August 3.
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The Print Center
The Triumph of Democracy: Inside the Studio: Benjamin Edwards. May 31 - August 2.
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Projects Gallery
For the summer season, Projects Gallery is pleased to announce a collaboration with curators Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof entitled ID. This exhibition will showcase emerging Philadelphia artists united in pushing the boundaries of myth and persona in contemporary art. Fresh from various Philadelphia-area art colleges and programs, these artists embrace the ethos of the MySpace generation. Utilizing video, performance, sculpture and photography, ID explores broad and self-focused concepts ranging from issues of applied identity to the id of the artist. As put succinctly by the curators, “the works are metaphorical in ways that come out of the core of who they are and what they see around them.” Opening reception June 6, 5pm-8pm. June 6 - July 26.
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Space 1026
Orbital Debris. A drawing installation by Leah Beeferman and Brooke Inman, allies from the Master of Fine Arts Department of Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Opening reception June 6, 6pm-10pm. Closing and artist talk June 28.
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Vox Populi
This month Vox Populi presents Solid Gold, a group exhibition juried by Adelina Vlas, Assistant Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Sarah McEneaney, Artist. Vox Populi is proud to announce the opening of its 4th Annual Juried Exhibition. This years exhibition brings together 24 emerging artists from Philadelphia area and from around the country. Since Vox’s inception in 1988, Vox Populi’s mission has been to support the work of new and emerging artists and to show new and emerging art forms. With this exhibition, the tradition continues. This year’s show includes work by: D. B. Stovall, Mike Smith, Daniel Payavis, Serena Perrone, Corrie Tice, Cara Erskine, Robert Goodman, Emily Denlinger, Nathan Prouty, Amy Lincoln, Rachel Frank, Jonathan Schoff, William Lohre, R. Nick Barbee. Mark Klassen, Daniel Gerwin, Hannah Smith Allen, Abby Donovan, Lee Arnold, Bang-Geul Han, Pamela Sunstrum, Edward Carey, Samuel Ekwurtzel, Zach Rockhill. Opening reception June 6, 6pm-11pm. June 6 - June 27.
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Wexler Gallery
(In)Between; a group show curated by Sienna Freeman, Associate Director of the Wexler Gallery. The exhibition is based loosely on the idea of Vanitas- 16th century Dutch still-life paintings that celebrate life’s pains and pleasures while meditating on their inevitable loss. Featured artists include Damien Hirst,Randall Sellers, Adelaide Paul, Tim Tate, Anne Siems, Dirk Staschke and Joe Boruchow. Opening Reception May 2nd, 5pm-8pm. May 2 - June 28.
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Yo Darkroom
The Pennsylvania Project Hinda Schuman & Linda Johnson . The Pennsylvania Project was started in August of 2000 as an outlet bearing witness to the diversity of Pennsylvania. The artists have been hard at work, traveling across the state on weekends, using vacation days and finding time between other obligations. Currently they have documented thirty of the sixty-seven state counties. For this exhibit, sixteen photographic pieces have been carefully selected from the artists’ larger body of work, to raise awareness through documentation. From bountiful farmland to crumbling row homes and tragic neon, Yo Darkroom encourages the viewer to acknowledge all that is beautiful and haunting about Pennsylvania. Opening reception April 12, 6pm-9pm. April 12 - June 15. More info about the project here.
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