Emerging Artists & Designers: Senior Show 2013

May 14, 2013
Emerging Artists & Designers: Senior Show 2013

Samantha Hurst, Graphic Design and Illustration, Emerging Artists & Designers: Senior Show 2013, Moore College of Art and Design, Best in Show “For my senior thesis I created a three children’s travel guidebooks. Each focuses on a single country: Japan, Italy, and Peru. To see the Martin’s Guides in person, please visit the Galleries at Moore College […]

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Creative Powers

May 8, 2013
Creative Powers, Art Ability

Creative Powers: Selections from Art Ability, Delaware Art Museum, stained glass by Rae Adelman “Art Ability is an annual juried exhibition held at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital in Malvern, PA, that showcases art created by people with a wide variety of disabilities. This wide-ranging Outlooks exhibition features over 40 works of art in a variety of media—drawing, painting, […]

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I Need A Real Job

May 1, 2013
Dan Eells, I Need A Real Job

Dan Eells, I Need A Real Job, Satan Lives in the Stars, collage, $150.00, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts “This show is titled, I Need a Real Job, this is prior to when I didn’t have a job. I was just like hustlin’ and bustlin’.On the grind. You know. I was trying to sell art, […]

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Robert Straight, Shadows and Reflections

April 27, 2013
Robert Straight

Robert Straight, P-501, 2012, 40″ x 36″, acrylic, mixed media, wood panel, Schmidt/Dean Gallery Robert Straight and DoN met at Schmidt/Dean Gallery to talk about his one-person art show called Shadows and Reflections. Up in the sunlit gallery at 17th and Chestnut Streets is a collection of astonishingly brilliant paintings in traditional rectangular shapes and shaped wood artworks with translucent surfaces. DoN asked the […]

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Exploring…

April 26, 2013
Dale Levy, Exploring..., Twenty-Two Gallery

Dale Levy, Exploring…, S-1. Aeolus, oil on canvas, 40 x 30″, $1500.00, Twenty-Two Gallery “I still love to see pigment merging into canvas and watching it spread. Then adding colors to it as I go along. With the shapes and colors I arrange I try and leave some empty canvas because that’s the background. So, that’s a separate […]

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April First Friday

April 17, 2013
April First Friday

Ideosyncrasy clay from Etta Winigrad, Switch, ceramic with birdcage, $1500.00 Muse Gallery First Friday in Old City Philadelphia has become an arts tradition among art lovers congregating to see the latest collections in the many fine galleries. There is so much to see and experience – the street fair vibe, the eclectic art, the interesting characters […]

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Little Rock Nine

April 15, 2013
Little Rock Nine

Little Rock Nine, Charly Palmer, Vivant Art Collection, The Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by ArkansasGovernorOrval  Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of PresidentEisenhower. – Wikipedia The giclee´print by Charly Palmer commemorates […]

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Urban Pop

April 7, 2013
Urban Pop, Main Line Art Center, DoNArTNeWs

DISTORT, Ascent to Cavalry, 45″ x 66″ x 20″, mixed media, $4500.00, Urban Pop, Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition, Main Line Art Center Ascent to Cavalry is based on the painting by Tintoretto, a Mannerist painter from 1565. Instead of a Christ figure with a Cross, DISTORT paints a woman pinned down by a street sign while extreme […]

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The Song of the Silken Mermaid

April 5, 2013
Song of the Silken Mermaid

The Song of the Silken Mermaid, Jason Hackenwerth, 2424 Studios, Curated by Eileen Tognini The Song of the Silken Mermaid, Jason Hackenwerth, 2424 Studios The cavernous space that is the Skybox is filled with an art installation that is ethereal, thought provoking and mysterious. Large domes, tunnels and pods of thin plastic sheeting is sealed with tape […]

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William Way LGBT 8th Annual Juried Community Art Show

April 3, 2013
William Way Community Center

 William Way LGBT Community Center 8th Annual Juried Community Art Show Thom Duffy, acrylic on paper, William Way LGBT 8th Annual Community Art Show The community art show at the William Way LGBT Community Center represents the outstanding level of quality, ideas and craft that Philadelphia artists have to offer. Thom Duffy won a prize to have a […]

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