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222 Gallery
Ellen Depoorter Lisca Bianca. Opening reception October 4, 7pm-10pm. October 4th-October 27th.
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Amble Gallery
These Colours Don’t Run by The Love Movement, new paintings and installation. Opening reception with a live performance by DJ Statik of the Illvibe Collective, September 13, 7pm-10pm. September 13 - October 5.
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Art Star Gallery
“Who’s Your Lover” Pencil on paper.
Paperland works by Camilla Engman, 15+ drawings and mixed media on paper. Opening reception September 6, 5pm-9pm. September 6th-October 12th.
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AXD Gallery
No current exhibition.
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Bambi Gallery
No current exhibition. Open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays 12pm-4pm.
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BlinkArt Gallery
Group Photography Exhibit a traveling photographic exhibition featuring the work of ten regional artists, including Jose Avila, Elisabeth Bard, Stephanie Kirk, Felise Luchansky, Roger Matsumoto, Dain Simons, Jeffery Smith, Heather Siple, Rob Tuttle and R. Alexander Trejo. Opening reception October 3rd, 6pm-9pm. October 3rd-October 30th.
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Bridgette Mayer Gallery
Extravagance Allen Bentley. Opening reception October 3rd, 6pm-8:30pm. September 30th - November 1.
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B Square Gallery
No current exhibition. Gallery open Thursdays 1:30pm-7pm, Friday 12pm-6pm, Saturday 12pm-6pm.
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Cerulean Arts
Cerulean Arts’ 2nd Anniversary Exhibition. Featuring the 16 artists from our first two years:
Jeffrey Tritt, Joshua Marsh, Binod Shrestha, Ron Wyffels, Ann Northrup, Jaime Treadwell, Lisa Hamilton, Tamar Miller, Sarah Steinwachs, Judith Jacobson, Anthony Ciambella, Richard Estell, Alexander Cheves, Sarah Roche, Kathranne, Michelle Soslau. Opening reception September 5, 5pm-9pm. Meet the artists September 20, 1pm-4pm. September 5 - October 17.
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Clay Studio
Cast Tableware; Cast Sculpture; New Work Sandi Pierantozzi. Opening reception October 3rd, 5-9pm. October 3rd-October 26th.
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Copy Gallery
No current exhibition.
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Crane Arts Building
No current exhibition.
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Da Vinci Art Alliance
Beneath the Din Collaborative exhibit by Michael Sweeney and Danielle Thierry. Opening reception October 4th 6pm-9pm. October 4th-26.
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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
The Interval Separating Caleb Larsen. An exhibition exploring what exists between the digital and physical realities. Opening reception September 12, 5pm-8pm. September 12 - November 1.
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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
Interstices: New Photographic Works Sherry Millner, Leslie Thornton, Carolien Stikker; Tom Zummer, curator. Interstices: New Photographic Works presents the recent work of three artists who brilliantly address the notion of the photographic ‘surface,’ playfully teasing and tampering, and rigorously pushing the limits of what we call photographic. Opening reception October 11th, 6pm-10pm. October 6-31.
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The Fuel Collection
FUEL presents 21 local and emerging Philadelphia artists! The Fall Collection artwork ranges in style from landscape to still life to abstract and figurative. Paintings in watercolor, acrylic, oil, collage and a unique technique called cissing is the variety of medium. Additionally, many genres of work are exhibited throughout the gallery. There are classical figurative works by Andrew Wrigley, surrealistic works by Jim and Lynn Lemyre, kitsch paintings by Erin Castellan, Libby Saylor and Kellianne McCarthy. Find landscape watercolors of China by Tang Hongxuan, minimal abstracts by Brian Richmond, and quirky urban landscapes by Amze Emmons and Erin Murray. FUEL is proud to present multiple works from all of the artists in this show. Opening reception September 5, 6pm-9pm. September 5 - October 26.
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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
“Ice Skating in Summer” Oil on Canvas
New Work Ted Mosher Opening October 3rd 5-9pm. October 3rd-November 2nd.
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Institute of Contemporary Art
Douglas Blau New work including features from the earlier work The Conversation Piece.
Also: R. Crumb’s Underground. This career-spanning survey is organized around specific themes and ideologies critical to Robert Crumb’s work. These include social satire, sex, blues and jazz music, mind-altering substances, autobiography, and biography. The show spotlights collaborations from Crumb’s early San Francisco days in the 1960s and 1970s, to recent work with his wife, cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb. Extending far beyond comics, this exhibit of over 100 works—including early comics, greeting cards, collaborations, and sketchbooks, as well as drawings and sculptures—is the most substantial portrait of Crumb to date in the United States.
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.
Also: Odili Donald Odita. Odili Donald Odita’s large-scale, abstract wall paintings operate at the intersection of Western modernism and African culture. Borrowing strategies of destabilized perception from Op art—a tradition condemned by formalist criticism—and adding narrative and multicultural inflection, Odita both embraces and critiques the modernist tradition. His vast, animated expanses of fractured, rhythmic planes, equally informed by television test band patterns, African textiles, post-colonial discourse, sensory overload, and digital technology, speak to a contemporary experience of dislocation and decenteredness. This is the 16th commission in ICA’s Ramp Project Series. For the Ramp, Odita has designed and executed a dynamic work that responds to the unique architecture of the space.
Opening reception September 4, 6pm-8pm. On display through the month of September.
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International House
InLiquid.com Video Installation Project ME9 Stephen Scott Smith. Project ME9 is an installation by Stephen Scott Smith and part of a concurrent three-site exhibition at International House, the Painted Bride Cafe Gallery and the Hall at the Crane Arts Building. In this installation of video art and Polaroid prints, Smith explores visual artist branding and art world marketing, combined with meditations on narcissism and modernity. September 17, 6pm-8pm. September 5 - October 31.
Also: MamaCita (Mothers’ Cooperative in the Arts) brings together female artists from Philadelphia and its suburbs to discuss and share their art, offer constructive critique and encouragement, find venues for the exhibition and sale of the group’s work and ultimately, to inspire and motivate. The group consists of both visual and crafts artists. Members are active and serious artists/artisans as well as mothers. MamaCita gives female artists working in isolation a voice. Opening reception September 17, 6pm-8pm. September 5 - October 31.
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James Oliver Gallery
A Beautiful Find Featuring works from nationally renowned and emerging Philadelphia artists, local exhibit shines a light on the beauty of everyday trash-turned-treasure. Opening reception September 6, 6pm-10pm. September 6 - October 6.
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Jenny Jaskey Gallery
WYSIWYG James Hyde, Summer Kemick, Sungmi Lee, Avery McCarthy, Colin Montgomery, Paul Salveson. Titled after the computing acronym for “what you see is what you get,” this exhibition examines abstract photography made through an interdisciplinary approach. It features six artists who are equally informed by music, sculpture, painting, graphic design and science as they are by the photography. Far from any notion of pure abstraction, the works in the exhibition are “dirtied” by other practices and disciplines, often making abstract what is found in the everyday. Opening reception September 13, 4pm-6pm. September 13 - October 18.
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Kelly & Weber Fine Art
Making It From Here To There Mike Stifel. September 11 - November 8.
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The Knapp Gallery
“The Arrival” Oil on papyrus framed with carved wood
The Yousri Scrolls Bassem Yousri. Primarily employing papyrus and fire treated wood; the artwork of Yousri evokes Ancient Egyptian tomb murals and painted coffins. The bright pigments he applies contrast with the faded, worn surfaces of his canvases creating an attention-grabbing juxtaposition. Yousri’s elegant rebuff of modern surface treatment and style promotes the ideas and messages of a modern individual reflecting upon the rich cultural and artistic past of his Native country, Egypt. September 5 - October 31.
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Locks Gallery
Mitigation Sarah McCoubery; Like the Flickering of a Candle Rob Wynne; Dangos: Roof of Garden Exhibition Jun Kanecko. October 3rd-November 1.
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Mew Gallery
The Heart is a Dagger Above All Else J.L. Schnabel. Opening reception July 26, 5pm-9pm. July 19 - August 29.
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Nexus
Chris Macan “Daniela”
Toyland Chris Macan, Mira Gohel, Mark Sink, Rita Bernstein, Andy Benson and Diana Bloomfield. Toyland showcases the photography of six artists working with simple whimsical toy cameras. The common bond of the artists in this show is the decision to work with cameras that are little more than toys. From these most modest of tools they have put forth a fascinating and varied collection of images. Opening reception October 9th 2008, 6pm. October 9th-November 7th.
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Padlock Gallery
No current exhibition.
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Pageant : Soloveev
The Levity of Lithium. September 5 & 6, for tickets click here.
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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
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. Opening reception October 3rd 6-9pm. October 3rd-November 15th.
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Space 1026
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Vox Populi
One Gray Grass in the Ball Field Work by Vox Populi alumni Clint Takeda, David Wickland, Joy Feasley, Jen Macdonald, Kait Midgett, Nancy Lewis, Nick Muellner, Paul Swenbeck, Richard Harrod, Shannon Bowser, and Tristin Lowe. Work by Leah Bailis, Brent Wahl, Xiang Yang, and guest net, performance and video artist Marisa Olson in the Video Lounge. Opening reception October 3rd 6-11pm. Through the month of October.
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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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