SECRETS & SHADOWS: Hidden Children of the Holocaust
Linda Dubin Garfield and Elsa Wachs
November 7-29, 2010 Artists’ Reception: November 9, 7 to 9 PM
Gratz College
7605 Old York Road
Melrose Park, PA 19027
Thank you so much to the Center for Emerging Visual Artists and Philadelphia Open Studio Tours for creating such a wonderful experience design, the catalog with maps is a keeper, the posters around town were divine especially when DoN spotted an artist he knows in the picture, the advertising and promotion was probably the best ever by a local arts organization with a terrific web resource, inviting all of the city to come out and support their local artists.
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours - 2010
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On Friday November 12th Tyme Gallery is proud to present the sensitive photography of Hari Hawkins and M. Elizabeth Tenerelli. Both have an eye for classic forms with Hawkins’ tender nudes and Tenerelli’s breathtaking florals. Hawkins will also present his masterful woodworkings.
Born in Jamaica Queens New York, Hari Hawkins now calls Trenton, New Jersey, his home. For 25 years, Hari Hawkins has shared his extraordinary photographic and woodworking talents with fellow art lovers across the United States and beyond. Hawkin’s desire to travel and develop his creative vision in his own individual way became clear very early in life. As his high school woodshop class nurtured new interest in creating beautiful woodwork and refurbishing quality antiques, Hari’s first camera purchase, a Pentax at age fifteen, helped open a new world of possibilities for a budding artist.
M. Elizabeth Tenerelli, a native of Springfield, Delaware County, began her photographic work over a decade ago. She started her professional photographic career as a photographer for the Tyler Arboretum in Media, Winterthur Estate and Gibraltar Gardens in Delaware. Tenerelli is a nationally published photographer, a member of the Garden Writers Association and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
Two Songs a collection of sensitive, mesmerizing florals, Nudes, photography and woodworkings. So come meet the photographers the night of the opening reception and hear their interesting journeys. The reception is Friday, November 12th, from 5:00 to 9:00 PM. The reception is catered with hors d’ oeuvres from Antonella’s Italian Kitchen in Rosemont and is free to the public. The artwork is on sale and exhibit from November 12th through December 7th. Tyme Gallery is located at 17 W. Eagle Road in Havertown. For additional information about the exhibition, or for directions, call 610-853-1215 or visit their website at www.tymegallery.com. The gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 10:00-6:00 and Saturdays 10:00 to 4:00.
The Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy revisits DesignPhiladelphia 2010 with City Sampler, an exhibition highlighting five projects supported by the City of Philadelphia: be like water by Aurora Robson and curated by Eileen Tognini at the Sky Box at 2424 Studio; Light Drift by J. Meejin Yoon, organized by The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program; the Esther Klein Gallery at Breadboard’s Virtual Public Art Project; Philadelphia Underground, curated by Marianne Bernstein; and Fablastic by Multicultural Youth eXchange and Minima.
The exhibition is located in the newly renovated Art Gallery At City Hall, Room 116 East Portal Market St. entrance. It runs thru November 19. A reception is scheduled for November 19, from 5-7 pm.
City of Philadelphia, Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy
116 City Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: 215-686-9912
www.phila.gov/artincityhall
Email: artincityhall@phila.gov
C3: Create. Connect. Collect.
Art Center Salon: Nov. 7, 2-4 pm, FREE
Main Line Art Center is holding a free salon on Sun., Nov. 7 from 2-4 pm to present C3: Create. Connect. Collect., an innovative project unique to the Philadelphia area, that brings together patrons of the arts and notable contemporary artists from our region to collaborate through the commissioning process. Through a series of salons hosted in individuals’ homes and at the Art Center, artists will be matched with patrons in the fall of 2010. Once paired, patrons will visit the artist’s studio and artists will visit their patron’s home. Artists will then work independently over a 3-5 month period to bring the commissioned piece to life and create something truly unique for the patron. The new work will be unveiled in the fall of 2011 at a feature exhibition curated by Mary Anne Dutt Justice, C3: Create. Connect. Collect. kicking off the Art Center’s 75th anniversary. C3: Create. Connect. Collect. continues the Art Center’s work to promote the careers of local artists while making art more accessible and approachable to a wider audience. The Nov. 7 salon is free and open to the public, however RSVPs are required. Email RSVP@mainlineart.org or call 610.525.0272. Main Line Art Center is located at 746 Panmure Road in Haverford.
Holiday Fine Craft Sale
Dec. 1-12, Admission Free
Members’ Preview: Nov. 30, 5-8 pm
Mark your calendars for the most anticipated sale of the season! The Holiday Fine Art Sale features an amazing assortment of unique, handmade jewelry, ceramics, glass, wood, fabric and more…all handcrafted by professional artists from the region. You’ll find something special for everyone on your shopping list! Visit www.mainlineart.org for artists and hours.
Main Line Art Center
746 Panmure Road
Haverford, PA 19041
610.525.0272
www.mainlineart.org
Ride the Baseball Playoff wave a bit longer and visit Twenty-Two Gallery to view the photographic artwork of “The Master” Philadelphia photographer, Bruce Murray,Sr. (1893-1969). Images of baseball greats such as Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Chuck Klein, and Connie Mack are a sampling of what this historic and entertaining exhibition has to offer.
For over four decades, Bruce Murray, Sr.’s work with The Ledger, and later The Evening Bulletin, earned him recognition as one of the best photojournalists in the business. The sports world, though, always had a certain fascination for Murray. He particularly loved baseball and enjoyed spending time at Philadelphia A’s Shibe Park or Phillies’ Baker Bowl. Several of Murray’s photographs are in the permanent collection of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
The photographer’s grandson, Shawn Murray, will be on hand to answer questions and give background information at the Opening Reception, “Second Friday”, November 12, 6 to 9 PM.
The images of the Legends of Baseball, historical figures and events, as well as everyday people, street scenes and children, are all printed from the archive of glass-plate large format negatives handed down for safe keeping from grandfather, to father to son. The images will range from years: 1911 to 1940.
Twenty-Two Gallery
236 S. 22nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
www.twenty-twogallery.com
215-772-1911
info@twenty-twogallery.com
New Works by Rochelle Dinkin, Joshua Gabriel, an Rachel Issac
exploring internal landscapes of the psyche through biographical and symbolic visual vcoabulary.
November 5-28, 2010
opening reception: Fri, Nov 5, 5-10pm
Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford Ave, Phila, PA 19125
www.highwiregallery.com
Projects Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition by Vivian Wolovitz – “Second Nature”. Ms. Wolovitz will present a grouping of recently completed large and small-scale abstract paintings.
“Second Nature” brings us into intimate contact with Vivian’s remarkable personal vision. The rich impastoed surfaces, repeatedly worked and rebuilt, immediately reveal the artist’s deep commitment to both painting and her connection to the landscape. As her brush crosses the surface creating pentimenti upon pentimenti and color field on color field, one is confronted by a rich sense of a “land space” fully felt and understood. As coined by Philadelphia art critic Edward Sozanski, this is “slow art.” When one looks upon the surface, they are drawn immediately to the color. Slowly, upon continued observation, the subsurface is revealed. A scraping here, a scratching there and throughout layers revealed in an almost hypnotic mantra.
Vivian leaves us few clues as to the initial impulse for each painting; yet, the presence of the landscape is complete and total. As one stands in the weathered and well-worn barn that is her studio, there are two things that captivate the visitor. The first, of course, are the paintings. The other is the enormous presence of the windows to the landscape just beyond the wall. These paintings have this light, this air, this authority. However, they also have something else – a sense of the purity of art. Art made from experience free from superficial reference. Art that is itself nature and just as complete.
These are not the works of someone new to the task. They reflect the master’s hand in every way. They are confident and bold, hard fought yet fresh. One loses oneself in the fluid juice of oil paint stayed just long enough to lock onto a fleeting sense of a moment now frozen in the viscous brew. In this show we see paintings of profound commitment and deep feeling. As one moves through the exhibition, each canvas is a first-time experience, leading the viewer through the artist’s eyes and senses. The vivid freshness of this work and the unmistakable feeling of the artist’s deep involvement in their making leads a viewer to believe that they are being made before their very eyes. It is exactly this that makes them art, expression realized in tranquility. The strong earthly connection, together with the nervous tangibility of their making, comes together to create a full and memorable experience in paint.
“Second Nature” will be on display November 5 – 27, 2010. There will also be an artist’s reception First Friday November 5th from 6 – 9 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. Projects Gallery is located at 629 N. 2nd St. in Philadelphia’s Northern Liberties section. Gallery hours are Wednesday – Friday 4 to 7 p.m. and Saturday noon to 7 p.m.
http://projectsgallery.com/
Nicole Eiland sculpture,
Nicole Eiland @ Smile Gallery. Nicole told DoN she likes the smell of burning paper and she is inspired by the wonder of nature. Eiland uses a lot of book forms symbolizing human symbiosis destroying and creating.
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