Snowflake

January 6, 2015
Snowflake Salon

Snowflake Salon, Third Biennial Winter Group Show, Heavy Bubble Headquarters Artists: Rosalind Bloom, Sarah Bloom, Elena Bouvier, Keith R. Breitfeller, Gregory Brellochs, Kevin Broad, Bill Brookover, Jean Burdick, Danielle Bursk, Justin Bursk, Damini Celebre, Francesca Costanzo, Constance Culpepper, Amanda D’Amico, Pia De Girolamo, Lisa De Girolamo, Brian Dennis, Maryann Devine, John Dickerson, Carol Eddy, Marie Elcin, Terri Fridkin, caroline furr, Rebecca Gilbert, Marjorie Grigonis, Cynthia Groya, Naren Gupte, Marguerita Hagan, Jenna Hannum, Elfie Harris, Casey Heyen, Barbara Hocker, Lauren Litwa Holden, Mallary Johnson, Kim Knauer, Pamela Kogen, Gregg Krantz, John Krause, John Krynick, Melissa Maddonni […]

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Portraits

December 28, 2014
Portraits at The Plastic Club

Portraits at Plastic, The Plastic Club, Gene Renzi, Polairoid photograph. The Poloroid photo Gene Renzi took at The Plastic Club is emblematic of the spirit of the creative arts scene in Philly. The photograph was shot at the Photographic Society of Philadelphia holiday party and flea market, the society meets in the historic art space monthly, photographers were swapping tales and […]

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Leroy

December 19, 2014
Leroy Forney

Leroy Forney, Shelter, Row on Row, UPS Box and SEPTA forms, on the Grid, Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks October First Friday I caught the 17 bus home from 2nd and Market Streets and Leroy Forney was riding home, too, we were both beat after gallery hopping. Leroy, who I know as a painter, invited me to his […]

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Photography

December 16, 2014
on the grid

on the Grid, Alexandra Orgera, Tangram, digital photograph, Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks, Tenth Annual Juried Exhibition on the Grid, Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks, Tenth Annual Juried Exhibition The Tenth Annual Juried Exhibition is a collection of mixed media art with paintings, sculpture, and photography, a juried art competition based on the […]

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Top

December 13, 2014
Top

Published on Apr 27, 2014 Brooke Candy’s ‘Opulence EP’ Available Now iTunes: http://smarturl.it/OpulenceEP?IQid=yt Huffington Post published their Top 30 Videos of 2014 and one of my favorites was ranked #2! I watch YouTube more than I watch TV and I have probably watched Brooke Candy’s Opulence dozens of times. I’ve often fantasized curating a pop music […]

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Social Realism

November 25, 2014
Social Realism

Robert Bohné, Date Night, charcoal on paper, Artists’ House Gallery Social Realism, Works on Paper, Robert Bohné, Artists’ House Gallery Bob Bohné explained to me the process of creating mono-prints he has included in the show of drawings at Artists’ House Gallery. “The neat this is, all these things have an abstract quality. When you pull your representational […]

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Essence

November 21, 2014
Su Knoll Horty

Su Knoll Horty, Essence 6, oil, 36″ x 40″, Bluestone Fine Art Gallery Essence Landscape Perspective in the abstract, Su Knoll Horty, Bluestone Fine Art Gallery “’Just be so good that you cannot be ignored.’ Su Knoll Horty uses this quote from Steve Martin as daily inspiration when working on her paintings. Working primarily with oils, using a […]

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Wrapped

November 16, 2014
Carol Wisker

Wrapped & Unwrapped, Carol Wisker, 3rd Street Gallery   “Carol Wisker’s background in painting and drawing continues to inform her love of texture, line, repetition and excess in sculpture and installation, combining found wood and rubber dimensional forms with cotton fibers, silk cocoons and colored synthetic, silk and rayon cording that are wrapped and unwrapped, […]

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Exchange

November 12, 2014
Belinda Haikes

Belinda Haikes, Exchange, Philadelphia Sketch Club Belinda Haikes, Exchange, Philadelphia Sketch Club One thousand and one drawings lined the gallery walls of the Philadelphia Sketch Club. Belinda Haikes created an experience design with small artworks made over several months which she offered in exchange for something. The Flash Salon at the Sketch Club is experientially a short show, about […]

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Shelter

November 10, 2014
Tamsen Wojtanowski, Shelter, 110 Church Gallery

Tamsen Wojtanowski, Shelter, 110 Church Gallery “Her preferred mediums are photography, mixed media, and assemblage. In her personal research she is interested in the accessibility and malleability of the photographic medium. In her studio she works with a number of different materials and processes to create autobiographical images, with an interest in our natural human […]

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