Visit us today 12-6pm at Paradigm Gallery + Studio to check out “Let Go, Control, Repeat” and enjoy some hot apple cider on us. ”Check In” on Facebook or Foursquare and receive a free holiday ornament. We’ll have ornaments next Saturday from 12-6pm as well for Christmas Eve.
Night Dreams, Mixed Media (gouache, charcoal, oil stick) Framed 38x44 $1,200
Catherine Hipple, “Vacillating between close up studies and far away images reflects a personal search for the relationship between micro and macro inherent to all things. My intuition leads me to believe that by breaking down and exposing the beauty of a place, there exits a truth about the outside and/or the inside of our dense, fractured, complicated world.”
Bluestone is a fairly new art gallery. We are located in Old City on the corner of 3rd and Vine. As you would expect we are trying to grow our business. Please feel free to contact me or stop in. We have a web pg, blog and are on FB and Twitter. I’m looking forward to getting to meet some of you! Best, Pam Regan Gallerist
Closing Reception THIS FRIDAY, November 18th • 6-10pm
Paradigm Gallery + Studio Presents: Height x Width x Depth
A Group Show of Artists Exploring Shadow Boxes, Dimension and Light
October 28th – November 19th
Closing Reception: Friday, November 18th • 6-10pm
Artists:
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Upcoming Exhibition:
Let Go, Control, Repeat
My work uses color, shape and pattern to generate different spatial planes, so that the viewer may wander in and out of its various layers. My recent paintings and drawings possess a clean, crisp feeling that explores the intricacies of forms clustering and growing across the surface of the piece. I like to play with figure/ground reversal and color relativity: devices that make the viewer look twice. I want my work to have a polished and powerful presence that pops off the wall.
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Paradigm Gallery is open every Saturday from 12 – 6pm.
The Gallery is also open by appointment. To schedule an appointment, please contact:
Jason by phone: (267) 266-0073 OR Sara by email: Sara@paradigm-gallery.com
For further info about “HxWxD”, “Let Go, Control, Repeat” and Paradigm Gallery
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This Friday 11/11/11:
Shie Moreno X Flying Pyramids. Wynwood 2011. from FLYING ▲ PYRAMIDS on Vimeo.
Shie Moreno
Miami, Florida 2011
Music: Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit (Dubstep Remix)
Video/Edit: George Echevarria
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Greetings again to all of my fellow Side Artists!
As mentioned in the previous post, I have been extremely busy over the past several weeks with life, family, buying a house and of course, painting! I wanted to take a moment and talk about good painting and bad painting and I thought I’d use the portrait as an example.
Firstly, there is such a thing as good painting and bad painting and both can be accomplished in a multitude of ways. Let’s take this portrait I painted dubbed “Portrait of Jessica.” Now by all means I do not consider myself in the ranks of other Philadelphia portraitists such as Lea Colie Wight, Stephen Early or even Nelson Shanks, but I do regard the notion that if you are going to do something then do it right! If you can’t do it, take your time and learn; make lots of studies; learn from your mistakes. This portrait is a classical portrait of specific layers intended to do specific things. I don’t mean to say that indirect painting is the only way to go, even for just figurative painting, but I do intend to say that the quality of such time honored traditional painting techniques goes a lot further in the overall intention of representing the figure.
Representing the figure is not necessarily the overall goal of most portrait or figurative artists these days outside of those at places like Studio Incamminati, but that doesn’t regard the difference between good and painting. Approach and desire are two parts of the equation and the other side is the execution. Now if I’m coming off a certain way that is understandable, because I think the most important part of any good or bad painting is what you get out of it and what you take away from it.
From painting this portrait I understand clearer that technique is key but more fundamental to that is my execution with the brush, and it seems to me that this is where so many of us fall short often. What I’d like to ask everyone is why we fall short of asking ourselves to be better than what we are? I always want to feel that my best work is somewhere on the distant horizon and what I’m doing now will help get me there. So do any of you feel the same way about what it is that you do?
Hello to all my fellow Side Artists!
My name is Jon Bandish. Well I have been incredibly busy with life throughout the past several weeks and finally I have been able to document and post some of the work! This piece is dubbed “Urban Landscape Natural Artificial Decay Color 06″ and is part of an on-going discussion I have been having regarding what I call, The Urban Landscape.
The Urban Landscape is the world that we humans have created within the natural world and I am interested in exploring how both of these two worlds interact and mix with one another. Words like decay, natural, and artificial find their way into the titles as a way to start thinking about the visual world. I find myself intrigued and often disgusted with the way that our city and region look at times and how that makes me feel about our role as the dominant species on this planet.
With that being said I find more and more that all things have a precious quality to them and even a sentimental quality when you regard the age and decay of the thing and that is where I start my paintings. I often want to stop painting and simply cut out a wall from an old abandoned factory up in Kensington somewhere and put in a gallery and say ‘here is what it means to be human in both worlds.’ I regard the aged graffiti as that poignant stepping stone to allow you the viewer to virtually step into the painting almost as if you yourself can make another mark and add to the layers and the story of the piece. I want very much for these to be easy to relate to so that you may find yourself asking similar questions about human beings and the planet Earth.
