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2424 Studios

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Area 919

New and recent works from 6 artists and one collaborate that exhibited at AREA 919 during the last 13 months. TODT, John Rosser, Amie Potsic, Abby Schmidt, Luis Montoya, Anthony Angelicola, and Mark Khaisman will be represented in a variety of mediums and scale. Each artist will showcase multiple works creating new dialogues within the space that is AREA 919 and within the circle of artists whose work has come to define that space. Through December 12th, 2009.
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Art Star Gallery

Sea Party: January 9th – February 14th, 2010. Three person show featuring plush by Jenny Harada, My Paper Crane, & Spooky Daddy Opening Reception:Saturday, January 9th, 5-9pm
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AxD Gallery

Arabesque Expressionism: Adams & Stuelpnagel. A pairing of the works of Madeline Adams and Daniel Stuelpnagel opens the 2xl0 season at AxD. Daniel’s interwoven grids and Madeline’s jostling ovals, while quite formally different, both engage geometry as poetic structure – against which resonance and variations are framed. Their works often evoke both the textures of intricate Middle Eastern arabesques and free-form verse. Think of Persian textiles flirting with Jackson Pollack murals. Opens with meet-the-artists reception Friday, January 8, 2010, 5-8pm. Continues through February 6.
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Bambi Gallery

Sarah Steinwachs’s Between Spaces series of works is constructed primarily from intricatly hand cut paper layers that are superimposed on top, or in front of one another. The influence for this work comes from cities where she has lived over the last 19 years (Philadelphia, Rome, Tokyo, Boston, and New Haven). The urban landscape for her is an arena of non-stop visual information that is a physical extension of our selves both individually and as a society. Opening reception Friday, December 8th. Runs through January 31.
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Blink Art Gallery

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Bridgette Mayer Gallery

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Cerulean Arts

Group Exhibition: Plamen Veltchev, Kitty Caparella, Melisa Montiel, Nikolay Milushev. January 13 – February 19, 2010. Opening Reception: Friday, January 15, 5-9pm
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Clay Studio

Nathan Prouty: Piles and Countertops. Resident Artist Solo Exhibition. January 8 – January 31, 2010.
Steve Thurston: Origins of Allegories. Philagrafika 2010: Indpependent Project. January 8 – January 31, 2010.
Deborah Schwartzkopf: New Work. January 8 – January 31, 2010.
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Copy Gallery

Copy 2 is notions of space: body space, virtual and mnemonic space, and physical space. In reality, this has been conceived in such a way as to define and obscure the exhibition as a whole – forestalling and coloring the viewer’s experience of the rest of the exhibition, even whilst apparently doing nothing other than what it promised as a functioning ATM. Through an exacting process, the transformation it acquires a different relationship with the human body reminding one of other artifacts of common use such as a primordial weapon or a canoe paddle. COPY II: Opening First Friday, December 4th 7-11.
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Crane Arts Building

For this exhibition, Going from Nowhere the Internet becomes both a practical means of acquiring imagery as well as a conceptual strategy. The exhibition includes works from 8 artists from around the world shooting with any digital device (camera, phone, computer), who will then submit images electronically to PPAC each week. December 1, 2009 – February 28, 2010.
Reception: Thursday, December 10, 6-9pm.

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Da Vinci Art Alliance

During the month of January at the Da Vinci Art Alliance, the artist John Gwinn will be exhibiting his paintings in both a realist and abstract styles. Long know in the Delaware Valley arts community as a realist painter, Mr. Gwinn also will be displaying at the Da Vinci Art Alliance, his paintings in a vibrant abstract expressionist style. The retrospective exhibition of 50 Years of Realism and 5 Years of Abstraction testify to the wide range of artistic skill by Mr. Gwinn. Opening Reception: Sunday, January 3rd, from 4-8 pm. Exhibition runs January 3 – 31, 2010.
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Esther M Klein Gallery

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Fleisher Ollman Gallery

Fleisher/Ollman is pleased to present I Don’t Watch the Internet, a group exhibition featuring nine Philadelphia artists: Gabriel Boyce, Cari Freno, Jordan Griska, Jay Hardman, John Broderick Heron, James Johnson, Sarah Laina Koljonen, Sebastien Leclercq and Ashley John Pigford. Runs through January 16th.
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The Fuel Collection

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Gallery 339

Edward Dimsdale, Agulhas Series 2, No. 28, 2007, Photogravure on 20 x 27 paper
November 20, 2009 – January 23, 2010
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Germ Books

Slow Mo features the work of members of an underground art and warehouse scene in Philadelphia with artists from the Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Studies, Bobo’s on 9th, and the South Philadelphia Athenaeum.. Opening First Friday, December 4, 2009 and runs until January 24, 2010.
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Highwire Gallery

Highwire Gallery presents Side by Side: An Art Show of Highwire Artists and Invited Guests. Exhibit Dates: January 8 – 31, 2010
Opening Reception: January 8th, 5 – 9 pm.
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Institute of Contemporary Art

Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World). Show runs January 15—June 6, 2010. The ICA presents the first major museum survey of the work of Maira Kalman. An illustrator, author and designer, Kalman illuminates contemporary life with a profound sense of joy and unique sense of humor. Like a gift, her work appears to lift the spirits, no matter how ordinary or overwhelming circumstances may be. This exhibition features a selection spanning thirty years of original works on paper and design production, along with less widely seen aspects of Kalman’s work in photography, embroidery, textiles, and performance.
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International House

Radiologic Images. In conjunction with The Medical Film Symposium, Art @ International House features an exhibit of medical photography by InLiquid.com Executive Director Rachel Zimmerman and John Boyko.Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 20 at 6pm. Show runs January 15 – March 6.
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Jenny Jaskey Gallery

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The Knapp Gallery

The Knapp Gallery continues its tradition of First Friday openings and welcomes back Ashley Flynn In her second solo show: Expelled From Eden. Cathartic and intuitive paintings, Ashley Flynn’s artwork breathe new liberating perspective into our structured and otherwise pedantic rigid focus. Flynn, 24 years old, a 4th year student at Moore College of Art & Design, offers up a bold and provocative depiction of the human condition. Exhibition runs January 8th – January 31st 2010.

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Locks Gallery

Locks Gallery is pleased to present Microfibers, a three-person exhibition curated by Sue Spaid featuring Danielle Bursk, Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, and Laura Watt. Microfibers is on view December 4, 2009 through January 16, 2010. There will be a reception for the artists on Friday, December 4th, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
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Nexus

The Nexus Gallery Presents Supergirl!. The female superhero is elusive and constantly evolving. She battles her adversaries, her environment, her preconceptions as well as herself. She is not only super heroic but is an uber-woman, meca-warrior, and transformer. She uses physical transcendence, hypersensitive awareness and achievement of the impossible to revise, redefine and re-evaluate the constructions of both girlhood and heroism. Through her battles she exposes the irony of the world and proves that she can be – once and for all – the most powerful person in the universe. Runs December 10 through Febuary 5.
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The Ox

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Padlock Gallery

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Pageant: Soloveev

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Painted Bride Art Center

The Painted Bride presents American Pastime This installation explores American folkloric traditions and custom orientation through mixed media and theatrical costumes that play with ‘local’ traditions and infuse a lack of lore with new lore. Katherine Kesselring utilizes her Pennsylvania roots, local landscape, and area customs-like those of the Pennsylvania Dutch-to create her installations. She is interested in the regional uses of fabrics and color as personal and local identifiers. Kesselring is an installation artist making connections with communities on the east coast. She now lives and works in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Runs January 15, 2010 – March 05, 2010
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The Print Center

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Projects Gallery

Rick Bartow,Segyp Kas ket Suit Taup, 20”H x 30”W, Lithograph

The Brandywine Workshop, in cooperation with Projects Gallery, is pleased to present Print Out, a two-part, two-month exhibition of prints by culturally diverse artists. For the month of December the main gallery will display original prints by established artists such as Samella Lewis, Tomie Arai, Juan Sanchez, Yung Soon Min, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, and Paul F. Keene, Jr. In January focus will be on recent prints by African American artists such as Hank Willis Thomas, Deborah Willis, John E. Dowell, Jr., Allan L. Edmunds, Larry Walker, Maya Freelon Asante, and William T. Williams. For both months there will also be a special interactive installation of quality, affordable original prints from Brandywine Workshop artists featured in the rear gallery. Prints by national and international artists will be available at deep discounts to raise funds to benefit Brandywine’s capital campaign and gallery operations. There will also be a First Friday Opening Reception, December 4, 2009, from 6-9 PM, and a Third Friday Closing Reception, January 15, 2010, from 6-9 PM. Both receptions are free and open to the public. Projects Gallery will be CLOSED December 20th – January 5, 2010 for the holidays. The show concludes Saturday, January 30, 2010.
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Proximity

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S.A.G.E.

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Space 1026

James Kirkpatrick, Matt Furie, and Jon Bocksel present If I could shoot laser beams out of my eyes, I would (shoot laser beams out of my eyes). Space 1026 is excited to present an exhibition of paintings and drawings by James Kirkpatrick, Matt Furie and Jon Bocksel. While breaking traditional storytelling techniques, the exhibited works retain motifs of narrative picture-making, challenging the viewer to interpret their own version of truth. United by shared interests in printed ephemera, comic-inspired motifs and graphic compositions, these artists bring three unique visions rich in vibrant color and sophisticated humor to Space 1026 from January 8th through the 29th with an opening reception Friday, January 8th from 7 to 10pm.
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Vox Populi

Anna Neighbor, Is Was Will Be
Basic concerns about making, keeping and losing rematerialize through a lens of desire, mortality and image. Andrew Suggs, Comus, or Some Man I Once Knew
In his latest installation, Andrew Suggs considers the possibilities and limitations of transgressive action among a whirl of historic images of deviance. A one-time performance will coincide with the opening night of the exhibition, from 7 to 9pm, and a poetry reading by CA Conrad will commence at 9:30 pm. A series of performances, screenings, and readings by collaborators will unfold over the course of the month. Visit www.voxpopuligallery.org for an updated schedule.

Linda Yun, Lull)
Feeling the weight and historical significance of beautiful works hanging on pristine walls, and the overwhelming sense of confusion sifting through layers of objects, information, imagery, and ways of making, Yun makes do with what she can: a simple room and a desire to let a moment unfold and hover. Embracing the formal and visual, working with ephemeral materials such as light, space, and reflected color, Yun continues her exploration of memory, residue, loss, and impermanence. Emphasis is not placed on the physical but, more importantly, on the gesture of the moment. Lull is Yun’s fifth solo exhibition at Vox Populi.

Dragana Crnjak, Dust
Inspired by an idea of village as a metaphor for the unstructured, ever-changing, rhizome-like space in which hierarchy and dominance are questioned, Crnjak explores the process of drawing as a way of open-ended thinking, discovery and invention.

VIDEO LOUNGE:
Cecilia Dougherty, The Third Space
The Third Space is a video installation comprised of three pieces: The Third Space, Tetragrammaton, and Supertasking. This project began two years ago when Dougherty began posting her photos online in order to keep an archive of what she looks at and where she goes on a daily basis. The online photographs establish a different way to work in photography regarding notions of framing, location, subject, object, materiality and access, among other things.

These videos are low budget and low-tech, representing a relationship to movement and space that is based on portability, presence, and immediacy. Supertasking and The Third Space were shot using a consumer-grade digital still camera, and Tetragrammaton was shot with a cell phone.

AT SCREENING:
Valérie Mréjen, Ils Respirents
Ils Respirent (They Breathe) by French artist, writer and filmmaker Valérie Mréjen, employs elements of autobiography and a refined cinematic aesthetic. Mréjen continues her exploration of portraiture and human relationships. Eight characters are pictured individually, almost motionless, while their thoughts play out as a voice over, relating off-screen narratives that explore emotional distress through the most quotidian affairs. The work could be considered a formal inversion of popular cinema (where viewers more typically follow action and narrative while being left to conjecture a character’s thoughts and emotions) but retains a heightened sense of drama through production devices such as lighting, scripting, editing/pacing and deadpan performance, through which the characters convey a sense of anxiety, restlessness and dark humor.

Opening reception: Friday, January 8 from 6 – 11pm, e.xhibition runs January 8-31, 2010

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Wexler Gallery

Wexler Gallery presents a survey of contemporary studio furniture including works by Timothy S. Philbrick, Silas Kopf, Tom Huang, Wendy Stayman, John Dunnigan, and more. Historic pieces by master glass artists such as Howard Ben Tre, William Morris, Joel Philip Myers, and Frantisek Viznerwill also be on view. Exhibit will be on display January 4 – February 27.
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Works on Paper

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Yo Darkroom

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