365 #drawingaday : Stella Untalan, 110 Church Gallery

December 24, 2012
365 #drawingaday

365 #drawingaday : Stella Untalan Stella Untalan  publicly announced on her blog that she was going to do a drawing each day for a year. December First Friday, DoN visited 110 Church Gallery and asked her if she was able to stick to her plan? There were some empty spots on the walls, from sales, where drawings […]

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Small Works 2012 at Artists’ House

December 23, 2012
Small Works at Artists' House

Small Works 2012 at Artists’ House Doris Peltzman, Red, oil on plexiglass, Artists’ House Small Works 2012 December First Friday DoN made the art crawl to Old City and saw the new …gallery…, the Third Street Gallery on 2nd Street show, Vivant Art Collection where Florcy Morriset said to write about First Friday, just First […]

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Third Street Gallery on 2nd Street

December 19, 2012
Rex Sexton, 3rd Street Gallery

Third Street Gallery on 2nd Street, Karen Shaver and Rex Sexton Third Street Gallery is a member artist gallery, usually showing duo or small group show, the current exhibit is Kathleen Shaver, solo show and Rex Sexton, Paper Moon. The irony of a dual exhibit with half the show titled ‘solo’ is in name only because […]

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…gallery…

December 17, 2012
Butch Cordora, ...gallery..., Old City Philadelphia Photography

 …gallery…Butch Cordora Photography, (art is easy) Hot and Busted, a collection of mug shots gleaned by artist Butch Cordora of photogenic arrestees is the first thing you see entering …gallery…. DoN asked Butch why he decided to open a gallery now? Third Street, South of Market, has been under construction, like, forever, what the hell […]

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Inspiration

December 13, 2012
Inspirations, Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks

Lance Pawling, Be Free Franklin, embroidery won Best in Show: Mary-Rowe Memorial Jury Prize in the Interiors Eighth Annual Juried Exhibition. The multi-talented artist was still in art shock when DoN sat with him at the opening, he had found out ten minutes before he had won. The competition is fierce with more than thirty […]

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Philly Photo Day 2012

December 10, 2012
Philly Photo Day 2012

 Philly Photo Day 2012 Philly Photo Day 2012 at Crane Arts Center filled the entire Ice Box and Gray Area Galleries with 1800 images submitted to the Philadelphia Photo Art Center website. The plan is simple, in theory, determine a day for everyone in Philadelphia to take a picture and each one is printed out and […]

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Interiors – Spaces indoors and inside the mind

December 6, 2012
Interiors - Spaces indoors and inside the mind

 Interiors – Spaces indoors and inside the mind The Plastic Club on the Avenue of the Artists, Camac Street, has the knack of creating themed art events that are inclusive of all media yet broad enough to allow extraordinary creativity. The current exhibit, Interiors – Spaces indoors and inside the mind, is one of those […]

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Vivant Art Collection 5 Year Anniversary

November 29, 2012
Vivant Art Collection

Vivant Art Collection 5 Year Anniversary Vivant Art Collection celebrated their five year anniversary with a week of events culminating with a festive food and wine pairing and live jazz. Gallery owner Florcy Morisset is determined to keep the vibrant gallery relevant and alive through these difficult financial times by offering affordable, desirable artworks from around the […]

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Symphony in D Minor at Skybox

November 26, 2012
Symphony in D Minor

 Symphony in D Minor at Skybox On November 15th Eileen Tognini, curator of Skybox at 2424 York Street, and Joan Smith, Huffington Post blogger and Ken Kay, developer of the Camtango smart phone app, hosted a get together to meet the artists who created Symphony in D Minor, Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher. The installation consists […]

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Abstracts and Ornamentations, Rob Lybeck Photography

November 24, 2012
Rob Lybeck, Abstracts and Ornamentations

 Abstracts and Ornamentations, Rob Lybeck Photography   At a recent educational event at the Corzo Center for the Creative Economy at the University of the Arts about retail marketing for artists, DoN asked the panel about where artists should market their work since art galleries are few and far between. The answers from the expert panel included […]

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