We liked her paintings when L G Tripp showed them last year. In this works on paper show Catherine O’Connell has only a few small and intriguing works. Go and see them.
image: Catherine O’Connell | What Alice Wanted | Cut rice paper, acrylic & colored pencil on rag paper | 12.5″ x 15″ | 2012
WORKS ON PAPER
March 2 – 31, 2012
Artist Reception, Saturday, March 3, 5 – 7 p.m.
First Friday, March 2, 6 – 8:30 pm
This exhibition is massive.
ARTIST RECEPTION Friday, February 3, 2012 5 — 8 pm
EXHIBITION Friday, January 6, 2012 Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Street Chairs. It doesn’t matter what city or country, or whether you’re walking or driving by. They indulge us for a respite. We oblige and pause to contemplate their scene. We become a part of it. And because they are different, they evoke a sense of fun in us.
Consider the connection/disconnection between memory and discarded artifacts of communication. If old letters, photographs, or videos are connected to past events in our lives — what happens when they are discarded or lost? Hoffman uses obsessive or meditative actions to explore how we classify, organize, and recall the contexts and memories attached to these orphaned objects.
This exhibition comprises three works of conceptual and performance art: Slideshow, Talent Show, and Dear Mad, I really like your hair today! Love, Johnny
Presented in collaboration with the Center for Emerging Visual Arts
October 7 - November 18, 2011
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours Weekend:
Saturday & Sunday, October 15–16, 12 p.m. — 6 p.m.
Out of Context Skye Gilkerson & Sarah Steinwachs We found a wonderfully curated show at Grizzly Grizzly. You’ve only a few more days to see it. The works of artists Skye Gilkerson and Sarah Steinwachs compliment each other in scale and in craft. Both artists embrace the absence of mass in delightfully different ways. Skye Gilkerson’s removes typography from it’s literary place, out of context, to create discrete marks that dance across space. Sarah Steinwachs adds mass to empty space with layer after layer of cut out nets.
One Part Plaster New Mixed-Media Sculpture August 31 – October 2, 2011 You wouldn’t even know this work was in the gallery from the street. A big surprise in small packages can be found in the back half of 3rd Street Gallery. Seemingly scattered the hidden gems are earthy hold-in-the-palms-of-your-hand sized sculptures. We love the simple stacked forms and an occasional foreign object attached to the stone, wood, or one part plaster. The work is delightful you’ll want to take at least one home with you.
Sarah R. Bloom is an artist, portrait & event photographer, and writer whose work has appeared in The Art of the State show at the Pennsylvania State Museum in both 2008 and 2010, and most recently had a piece in the Photography 30 exhibition at The Perkins Center for the Arts. She has been a member of the Da Vinci Art Alliance for 2 years, showing in several of their group shows.
Exhibition September 6 - October 13, 20
Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 2011 5:00 - 8:00 pm
In Opposites Attract sculptors are paired with artists working in other disciplines, or with practitioners of a completely different discipline, to create a new synergistic art form. Some artists are collaborating to create a new work of art together, while others are presenting two different works incorporating a unifying concept.
Begun in the fall of 2008, the project includes black and white analog portraits of over 100 artistic women, including the visual arts, poetics, music and dance. The intent is to showcase the many talented women in the arts – an often overlooked group.
“The project will go on forever,” says Saint Peter, “a kind of Judy Chicago ‘Dinner Party’ that just keeps evolving.”
