June 16, 2009 | DoNArTNeWs

Being able to show work in Newman Gallery is a major perk of membership in the Philadelphia Sketch Club, it’s difficult to express the feeling of honor of seeing one’s work shown in a real art gallery. The art party is wonderful social event with many of Philadelphia’s finest artists attending the afternoon receptionleaving a window of opportunity to see the Art on Rittenhouse Square and Church of the Holy Trinity shows. DoN was practically on art overload – such a wealth of riches to observe, absorb and consider.

Philadelphia Sketch Club Member Exhibition @ Newman Galleries.

Charles Cushing @ The Philadelphia Sketch Club at Newman Galleries (detail).

Clifton Anderson @ Newman Galleries Philadelphia Sketch Club exhibition.

Mixed media by Clif Anderson.

Piety Choi, “Mystical Encounters”, oil.

Photographs by DoN Brewer with

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The Hopkins House Gallery of Contemporary Art’s “Photo Op Op Op” presented their first all photography show with a collection of fine examples of how many ways photography can be utilized and interpreted from pin-hole camera to digital layering. The old stone house on the Cooper River consistently presents outstanding shows, this time taking the “op”portunity to “op”timize the”op”tical observation of reality as mediated through photographic technology. Melissa Panter created cyanotypes on wood by mixing emulsion with gesso, Ben Panter uses overlapping exposures to create unreal landscapes only visible if you swivel your head plus other creative takes on image-making by photographers Thomas Camp, Annette Defe, Ken Hohning, Christy Higgins, Emily Lash, Jeremy Niedt, Clarence j. Guienze and Sharon Harris.