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.

This Friday 11/11/11:

Paradigm Gallery + Studio Presents: Height x Width x Depth

A Group Show of Artists Exploring Shadow Boxes, Dimension and Light

October 28th – November 19th

Opening Reception: Friday, October 28th • 6-10pm

Closing Reception: Friday, November 18th • 6-10pm

Artists:

Courtney Brown

Jason Chen

Ian Foster

Stefanie Fuoco

Jennifer Gin

Ann Keech

Caitlin McCormack

Sara McCorriston

Casey Murphy

Edward Richards

Ellen Sall

Burnell Yow!

 

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Michael Diven recently won “Best in Show” award at the Phoenixville Art Center annual juried exhibition. As part of the award, he will be having a solo show at the gallery April, 2012.

Recently Flux Space hosted an open forum for those to read their responses to the proposed question from a text Where Art Belongs. With the words still echoing in my mind from that hot July night, I just read another blog post demarcating the moment that you become an artist: when you finally have Blue Chip gallery representation.

I’m troubled by this because it gives artists the false sense of security in their plans, wishes, hopes, dreams, and wants.  I find more and more that the ideas proposed by artists like Marcel Duchamp ring a truth that needs to be firmly planted in everyone’s minds.  If you exist in a society and you  go to a school that is given credit by approved members and groups of said society; further you are successful in completing all requirements demanded before being granted completion, then you are what you say you are.  Going even further if you simply state to yourself that you are whatever you want to become, then you are what you say you wish to be.  Clearly there are different levels of skill, ability, and knowledge that demarcate you as either good, bad, or passe, however we are not talking about that.

Very simply, I just wanted to start a dialogue by saying we all seek a certain type of success, and that dream is rarely tasted in the way that you want it to happen.  There is no substitute for hard work, patience, and failure.  In this current Depression, every art form has been relegated to oblivion by the economic purists.  Money is not, nor should it ever be, the motivating factor.  Personal success and growth can never be accounted for in a financial chart.  That being said, money is a part of our lives.

So let me ask you the reader, does it deflate your artistic ideas if you never achieve a high end gallery representation, or if you make art in your attic or basement?  Where does art belong if not in our hearts and minds?  I believe it exists wherever we want it to, and that is devoid of a gallery, swarms of passerby’s, and collectors with money.  We want all of that, but I don’t think we need it.  What we need is to live without the trappings of the normal life; rent/mortgages, utility bills, and car insurance.  What if someone offered us a live/work space for cheap that echoed our former college life?   Would you NEED anything else, or just want it? 

Process

A collections of artists who push their work to the brink.

Opening Friday, July 22, 6 – 10 PM

Ends AUG 21

A project of thefallstudios.com

Gallery hours, 2 to 8 PM, W through Sundays.

Philadelphia /Tri State Artists Equity 62nd Anniversary Members’ Juried Exhibition

OPENING RECEPTION: SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 3:00 – 5:00 PMCuratorial talk: 4:00 PMWayne Art CenterDavenport Gallery & Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Gallery

413 Maplewood Ave., Wayne, PA 19087

610-688-3553

Juried by Thora Jacobson, former Director of the Fleisher Art Memorial and current instructor of Visual Arts Management for the Drexel University graduate program in Arts Administration.

Show continues through May 14th.  Gallery hours are M-F, 9-5 and Sat., 10-4.

"This Glorious Earth" Annie Haslam

“Colors of Sound and Light,” the art of ANNIE HASLAM, the Voice of English Classical Rock  Band  RENAISSANCE.  Special limited exhibition, 3 days only… May 10 – 12, 2011.  Hours: noon to 9 PM daily.  Personal Appearances by Ms. Haslam during the show hours.  Call gallery for details.   The woman whose crystal clear, high-flying soprano vocals earned her worldwide attention as the lead singer of the English classical rock band ‘Renaissance’ has recently achieved an entirely new level of appreciation as an ‘Intuitive’ painter. Annie is able to ‘tune’ into people, animals, situations, emotions and places, and portray them in her own unique style. Annie also channels her art from deep within the earth and far off in the universe!  On canvas, Annie Haslam’s unmistakable world of sound is taken into unique vistas of color and vibration, not unlike the flow of her five-octave voice. Transporting the viewer to other worlds and through inner boundaries is her ultimate goal, bringing healing, serenity and peace through her work.   Nicholas J. Sands, director of Sands & Company Fine Art  in New York City, heralded Annie’s paintings as “magical, enigmatic  and wondrous for their ability to take us to a far-away place…  of fluid forms that are at once alien and familiar, primordial yet recognizable, which dance in an endless array of colors that are as rich and intense as molten lava.”

In 2009 Annie and bandmate Michael Dunford reformed ‘Renaissance’ and have been touring the world and recording ever since.  A fall concert tour is currently being planned.

www.twenty-twogallery.com       www.anniehaslam.com

The Journey
Sculpture and Installations at Gallery at B543
Urban Outfitters @ the Navy Yard
March 15 – April 15, 2011

Opening reception: Tuesday, March 15, 5 – 8 pm

Please join me, along with the Philadelphia Sculptors, for “The Journey.”

Using a wide range of materials and techniques, these 12 artists
portray life’s journeys as they offer glimpses of flying and walking,
transient experiences and deep memories, beginnings and endings.

Artists Tom Bendtsen, Edward Carey, Carol Cole, James Fuhrman, Melissa
Maddonni Haims, Daniel Hoffman, Kim Knauer, Tecu’Mish Munha’Ke, Joanna
Platt, Colleen Rudolf, Libbie Soffer, and Carol Wisker will exhibit
their works in the gallery space leading to the public restaurant.

Please RSVP to urbncommunity@urbn.com by March 14, 2011
Note: The Navy Yard entrance gate will be locked after 6:00 pm and
only people with their names on the list will be admitted.

Viewing hours for the exhibition are Monday – Friday, 7:00 am – 6:00 pm.
Gallery at B543 is located at 5000 South Broad Street, through the
gates into the Navy Yard. Urban Outfitters buildings are designated by
signs that read “URBN” and Building B543 is at the back of the campus,
closest to the river.

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