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 three person art show in 2014, his acrylic paintings are stylistic in an impressionist bent but very balanced and strong. The artist works loosely to create a composition that is visually satisfying with clear color fields and deep contrasts. When you walk in the gallery his paintings pop from across the room.
Thom Duffy, William Way LGBT 8th Annual Community Art Show
Aaron Kalinay, Floating Pink Specimen, acrylic and watercolor on paper, 2012. $450.00,William Way LGBT 8th Annual Community Art Show
Coady Brown, Skating, oil on canvas, 2012, William Way LGBT 8th Annual Community Art Show
All DoN can say is the show ends Friday, 4/5/2013. This painting, Skating by Coady Brown is a masterful painting that speaks to all the modern art that has come before it; smears, scraped. scratched, dripped, pentimenti, biomorphism, color field explorations all packed into a single painting in a community art show. $1200.00.
Emily Smith Satis, I made a mistake, watercolor, $1200.00, William Way LGBT 8th Annual Community Art Show
DoN has been following Emily Smith Satis‘ painting since the beginning of DoNArTNeWs. The use of watercolors to convey a very unsetting and dramatic subject is thoughtful and spare. It takes a moment for the intrusion of brutality, self abuse and confusing silence to emerge from the paper but it’s sadly there to tell the story no one wants to talk about.
Jordan Artim, He’s got a good dick heart, oil on canvas, $300.00, William Way LGBT 8th Annual Community Art Show
The William Way LGBT 8th Annual Juried Community Art Show isn’t particularly gay in theme but there are certainly images that resonate with contemporary culture. The ideal of male beauty is focussed on the sexual anatomy more than ever. In Jordan Artim‘s painting, the VPL (visible penis line), becomes a major meme of maleness, a simple painted line signified with social concepts of ultimate masculinity. The VPL is a strong visual metaphor for emitting Gaydar waves and the artist uses the very blatant signal to tell the art world, He’s got a good dick heart.
8th Annual Community Juried Art Show
William Way LGBT Community Center
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