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Lilliana Didovic, Of South 2, Smile Restaurant, Her Philadelphia Tales, The Art of Lilliana S. Didovic Book Signing Party, 2/25/2011, Instagram.

A brisk north wind bit into DoN’s face as he walked up 22th Street to Smile Restaurant on a Saturday night for his book signing party.  Lilliana and Joseph reserved the dining room upstairs and invited all of our friends to celebrate the publication of Her Philadelphia Tales, The Art of Lilliana S. Didovic.  The creation of the book was an adventure in itself, DoN is a blogger, publication in print is not a goal for DoNArTNeWs.  DoN is into page impressions, rankings and search engine optimization results and the effects of reporting on Philadelphia art in Google.  But Lilliana said DoN’s writing uses “nice words”.

Lilliana proposed collecting reviews from DoN’s blog posts with her art in book form, an art book to sell and use to further her career as a painter.  Writing a book and writing a blog are not the same thing, page layout in a column is very different from designing a book.  A blog you can always go back and fix, a book is a one shot deal.  No pressure.  The book is published by CreateSpace on Amazon.com.  The 98 page book is full color, 9.5 x 11″ glossy soft cover with beautiful prints, even now when DoN thumbs through it feels surreal that an actual, tangible product has emerged from his writing.

Beyond Lilliana and DoN’s wildest expectations, right at 6:00pm people emerged from the freezing Winter evening to crowd into the dining room made ready with a table full of beautiful Thai appetizers by chef Ken and Lilliana’s own famous Bosnian chicken salad.  The wine flowed and people actually lined up to buy books and sit with the Lilliana and DoN to have their copy autographed.  C. Todd Hestand the mastermind behind the Side Arts blog platform which enabled the bulk of the material used in the book was there chatting with artists, gallery owners and educators…Lola Z, Spike, Ted and Ona (the Ona-bomber), Carl and Liz, Regina, Steve, Chris Z, Rachel, Kathryn, Dr. & Mrs. Dunn, Gordan’s liver transplant doctor…OMG - it was so crowded and the roar of conversation was so loud that Chris Z yelled in DoN’s ear, “I think there are a lot of Bosnians here!”  The evening was wonderfully cosmopolitan, so many languages, so many people from all diverse backgrounds, artists and entrepreneurs, all together in the middle of down town Philadelphia for something as East Coast elite and snobbishly intellectual as a book signing party.  DoN LoVeD IT!!!  The night will always be one of DoN’s most memorable moments.

Thank you so much to Lilliana and Joseph for hosting a beautiful evening.  This fantastic team of husband and wife, who have been through so much, have shown hospitality towards DoN that has always been exceptional.  Telling  Lilliana’s amazing story with DoN’s writing and information design is an accomplishment DoN has only dreamed about until now.

Lilliana Didovic, The City, Smile Restaurant, Her Philadelphia Tales, The Art of Lilliana S. Didovic
Book Signing Party, 2/25/2012.

Her Philadelphia Tales, The Art of Lilliana S. Didovic, Lilliana S. Didovic book signing party, February 25th, 2012.

Other stories about Lilliana S. Didovic: Lilliana Didovic @ TRUST, Lilliana’s Tales, Her Philadelphia Tales, Structure and Gesture

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Leap Year!  DoNArTNeWs Philadelphia Art News Blog achieved a new milestone for page views topping 2000 unique visitors on one day, February has seen a consistent climb in page views achieving the highest rankings for the blog so far.  DoN is also a Contributing Writer to Side Arts Philadelphia art blog and is participating in a demonstration on how to write a blog post on the Side Arts platform at the Corzo Center for the Creative Economy at the University of the Arts, March 24th, 2012, 1 -3:00pm.

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This Is My Home, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Dance Macabre (Diptych), Jay Helfrich, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Ghost of a Broken Home, Carl B. Johnson, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, True Romance, Liz Nicklus, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Kater Street, Lilliana Didovic, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Skippy, Liz Nicklus, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Empty Nest, Yvonne Smith, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Blue House and Barn, Susan Hanna Rau, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

The Witt Gallery in the Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts created an art challenge and collaborative effort for artists to take a standard shape, an elongated pentagon of wood, and create their vision of home.

Millville celebrated the tenth anniversary of their monthly Third Friday art crawl, a community event that is a model for invigorating small town down-towns with art, culture and fun.  DoN is a born and raised South Jersey swamp-stomper, it feels real good to go back home and see art made by friends.

“I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.”
Andy Warhol

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Books by artists in This Is My Home at Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts

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Prince Twins Seven-Seven, Igarra, Nigeria, 1944 - 2011, Acrobatic Dancers, 2007, oil, acrylic, ink and pastel on plywood, Indigo Arts, Crane Arts Center

“Prince Twins Seven-Seven is an artist from Nigeria who actually passed away last June.”  Indigo Arts Gallery owner Tony Fisher explained to DoN, “He was probably the most prominent living Nigerian artist at the time and he spent quite a lot of time in Philadelphia.  The last fifteen years he spent a lot of his time in Philadelphia because he was in some degree in exile from Nigeria both political problems and personal financial problems.  He was in Philadelphia for quite a while, the last five years or so he was back in Nigeria before he passed away.  But, he was told since he has a Green Card he could come back and forth every six months.  He would stop in every six months, and in a lot of the cases, bring me new work.”

Prince Twins Seven-Seven, Monkey with Fish, 2007, oil, acrylic, ink and pastel on plywood, Indigo Arts, Crane Arts Center

“He was not born with the name Prince Twins Seven-Seven, he took that name on to commemorate the fact that according to his mother, according to him, he was the sole survivor of seven successive sets of twins.  Obviously the child death rate in a country like that is high, seven sets of twins in a row and they all died in childbirth or whatever, even his own twin died.  It’s not totally unbelievable in that Nigeria, the Yoruba people of Nigeria gave the highest rate of twins on Earth.  As a result of that, in their religion there is a special place for twins.  There’s a cult called the Ibedgi cult that honors twins with these little figures that are carved that represent when one or both twins die the figures represent them.  Either the surviving twin or the mother of the deceased twins will keep that figure and honor it, feed it, dance with it in ceremonies, things like that for the rest of her life.  There’s really a special place for twins in that culture.”

Prince Twins Seven-Seven, Indigo Arts, Crane Arts Center

“In his case I think he had a real flair for names, in general he had a flare for drama and I think he had the second Seven because it sounded better than Twin Seven.  This was in 1964, which was in kind of the era of 77 Sunset Strip so he didn’t credit it to that but Seven-Seven had a good sound to it.  So he emerged as in artist in 1964 when he first started painting and he was immediately very successful in Nigeria.  He appeared in shows all over the world, several museum shows in Europe, he was really a very big name.  In the period that he was in Philadelphia he was kind of in decline, I think he had kind of been forgotten and he was really, well it was in the last five years that he was really beginning to revive again.  There were several shows of his work, the Philadelphia Art Museum bought a major piece that they have there now, the Smithsonian has one of his pieces, so, he was picking up but he didn’t get to enjoy it for long.  Unfortunately, it’s like so many artists’ tale, I’m sure it won’t happen instantly but his reputation will rise again since we’re now looking back on him as a key figure of post independence African art.”

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Ellie Brown, InLiquid v.12 Benefit Auction 2012, ICE Box Gallery, Crane Center for the Arts

Brenna K. Murphy, InLiquid v.12 Benefit Auction 2012, ICE Box Gallery, Crane Center for the Arts

Clarissa Shanahan Schirmer, InLiquid v.12 Benefit Auction 2012, ICE Box Gallery, Crane Center for the Arts

Jim Houser, InLiquid v.12 Benefit Auction 2012, ICE Box Gallery, Crane Center for the Arts

Jung Wah Ahn, InLiquid v.12 Benefit Auction 2012, ICE Box Gallery, Crane Center for the Arts

InLiquid v.12 Benefit Auction 2012, ICE Box Gallery, Crane Center for the Arts

Jordan Griska, InLiquid v.12 Benefit Auction 2012, ICE Box Gallery, Crane Center for the Arts

LGTripp Gallery, InLiquid v.12 Benefit Auction 2012, ICE Box Gallery, Crane Center for the Arts

Donna Usher, LGTripp Gallery, InLiquid v.12 Benefit Auction 2012, ICE Box Gallery, Crane Center for the Arts

InLiquid v.12 Benefit Auction 2012, ICE Box Gallery, Crane Center for the Arts

Rachel Zimmerman, the mastermind behind the artist representation website InLiquid, sent DoN a FaceBook message asking if he had received his V.I.P. invitation to the  InLiquid v.12 Benefit Auction 2012?  DoN double checked his inbox and passes to the pre-opening Silent Auction cocktail party for the biggest art event in town unopened.  Cool!  4:00 - 6:30pm, Friday February 10th - DoN had copped the ultimate art party early-bird special!

The ICE Box Gallery in the Crane Center for the Arts is massive but the hall was filled with art of all kinds, tables brimming with collectibles throughout the room, even extra walls to accommodate the array of art and DoN had it all to himself, sort of, for about thirty minutes.  Wandering through the collection DoN spotted familiar artists from across Philadelphia and lots of new faves.  A cocktail bar was in the middle of the room and a bartender made DoN a drink with gin, aloe vera juice and muddled basil, in the Gray Area (the large gallery next to the ICE Box) tables with fantastic treats like a thin crustini with a smear of sun dried tomato paste topped with a dollop of pate’.  Displayed around the room were silent auction bidding sheets for dozens of desirable services and a group of prints selected by jurors from submissions.  So, even if you didn’t win your bid you can still buy a collectible art print.

Soon DoN had a good buzz going from the gin, wandered back in the hall to absorb the sights and ran into artist Amie Potsic.  Walking and talking we were struck by the high quality of the art: a bold red and black painting by Da Vinci Art Alliance Executive Director David Foss, massive abstract expressionist paintings by one of Amie’s faves, Jung Wah Ahn, Brenna K. Murphy’s hair art, Ellie Brown’s bag photographs (she photographs people and the contents of the bag they carry) and so much more by many great Philadelphia artists.

Amie Potsic is an artist, photographer, maven, Director of Career Development at CFEVA, and has been an InLiquid member artist since it’s inception in 1999 - that’s pre-Google.  Amie told DoN the more web presence she has the better.  InLiquid is a non-profit organization providing hundreds of artists not just portfolio web pages but real world opportunities to show their artwork, their website is information rich with artist images, bio’s, statements, events and news.  Some of the donated art is still for sale on the InLiquid website.  Support the efforts of InLiquid artists and businesses who gave so generously from their own inventory to help the artist community hub in Fishtown grow and thrive.

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Daniel Gerwin, Orpheus’ Mistake, acrylic on found framed mirror, 28″ x 17.5″, 2011, Center for Emerging Visual Artists at the Galleries at Moore (photo from the West Collects website - vote for Daniel Gerwin)

DoN met Daniel Gerwin at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists Introduction 2012 new Fellows reception at the Galleries at Moore.  “Title Magazine is the title of a new on-line, visual arts magazine based in Philadelphia.  We launched in August.”  DoN asked what platform the magazine is based on?  Tumblr?  “It’s on WordPress, I’m not the technical guy, I’m into the editing and all that side of it, getting writers and whatever.  We have someone else who’s a very good graphic designer and she does everything.  All the WordPress work.  I can’t, I don’t know anything about it.”, he said laughing.  DoN added a link to Title Magazine in the DoNArTNeWs blogroll.

Daniel’s work employs tromp l’oeil in a new way, painting on wood and mirrors, DoN is reminded of the painting style of Gerhard Richter the way the paint is smeared yet presents a naturalistic expression, “When you look at it, it’s immediately clear that it’s paint.  The other piece that I have is a shaped painting.”  DoN was mesmerized by the optical illusion of the painting, it switches back and forth from wood parquet to abstract painting.  “The tromp l’oeil, I’m interested in, the whole idea of an illusion, that is subverting itself and actually calling your attention back to what’s real about it, it’s reality of the actual paint in front of you.  But I’m also interested in the whole idea of, like the first thing you said about parquet flooring, the domestic space and the way we inhabit our space.  And then I sort of have the thought that the way, as we live in a space over time, we actually come to haunt that space ourselves.  And then it haunts us back.”

“It’s that integration between us and the place that we live.  My studio is in my own home, I work in my home so that idea of a presence is interesting to me.  The other thing that is on my mind with these mirrors is there’s a tradition in the Jewish religion, which is how I was raised, when somebody in your family dies you cover the mirrors.  My mother died in 2009, so there’s something of that that is still part of my work and there’s that aspect that I’m thinking about and it also has to do with when you, because there’s bits or mirror that you look between, you do catch glimpses of yourself.  There is both the sense of self-voyeurism and a further extension of the mystery of representation, you’re there but you’re sort of not quite there.  But that there is a division brought by the paint between our world and the other side.  So that connects back to me through those traditions.”

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA), in cooperation with Moore College of Art & Design, presents an exhibition by the new Career Development Program Fellows. A highly selective fellowship with only a 2% acceptance rate, these six artists represent some of the most promising talent among emerging artists in the region:  Leslie Friedman, Daniel Gerwin, Rebecca Gilbert, Kay Healy, Heechan Kim, and Johanna Inman.

Introduction 2012

February 1 – February 25, 2012

Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery

Johanna Inman

Leslie Friedman

Rebecca Gilbert

Kay Healy

Heechan Kim

Circumstantial Assembly / CFEVA at Moore 

Introduction 2011

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Photographs by DoN

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Johanna Inman, CFEVA Introduction 2012, The Galleries at Moore

Johanna Inman, CFEVA Introduction 2012, The Galleries at Moore

“I’m so excited about this group!”, said Amie Potsic, Director of Career Development at CFEVA, to DoN at the V.I.P. reception 2/1/12 for Introduction 2012 in The Galleries at Moore.  “I think they’re fantastic and they’re all really go getter, hard working artists.  Which you have to be these days.”

“We are absolutely thrilled, we have six new artists who begin this month and they’re beginning the two year fellowship with us and we have a really talented group.  A great variety of mediums, styles and backgrounds but everything really makes sense together.  I think quality somehow makes everything hang beautifully together.  That’s a defining quality of CFEVA artists is the level of craft is always really high, the level of intention in their work is really strong.”

“Johanna Inman has wonderful photographic work that she actually creates without a camera.  These are all created from flatbed scanners.  Her father has an antique book collection he’s had for years and years (which she scans) and that’s why you have this level of detail and why it’s so flat at the same time.  It’s just incredible how much detail she gets out of the image, the same with the book on the other side with a full page spread, those are all made on a flatbed scanners.  She has a number of bodies of work, where she takes real objects rather than photographing them she uses scanning technology.”

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA), in cooperation with Moore College of Art & Design, presents an exhibition by the new Career Development Program Fellows. A highly selective fellowship with only a 2% acceptance rate, these six artists represent some of the most promising talent among emerging artists in the region:  Leslie Friedman, Daniel Gerwin, Rebecca Gilbert, Kay Healy, Heechan Kim, and Johanna Inman.

Introduction 2012

February 1 – February 25, 2012

Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery

Leslie Friedman

Daniel Gerwin

Rebecca Gilbert

Kay Healy

Heechan Kim

Circumstantial Assembly / CFEVA at Moore 

DoNArTNeWs Philadelphia Art News Blog

Introduction 2011

Photographs by DoN

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Leslie Friedman, CFEVA Introduction 2012, Galleries at Moore, Cargo for Port Derby, 2010, serigraph on paper, 10 color print, edition of ten, Nasty Button, 2010, serigraph on paper, 9 color print, edition of eight, 3-2-1 Blast Off!, 2010, serigraph on paper, 7 color print, edition of twenty-eight.

DoN asked Leslie Friedman how she felt about being in the CFEVA Introduction 2012 exhibition in the Galleries at Moore?  “I feel really great!  I was really honored to get the fellowship.  When I was sitting in the room at the orientation they were saying that three hundred and fifty people applied.  And a lot of the people that applied, some of them are here tonight, have applied multiple times.  And, I just feel really great to be here.  The work looks amazing, especially Kay’s piece, I don’t know, it’s really exciting.  I had seen her work at the To Scale show and I’ve been a fan but I never met her.”

Dada? DoN asked.  “I think it does, I mean, there’s definitely any kind of work that’s on paper with the ephemera of paper is definitely going to make you think of Dada-ism.  Also, the fact that it’s collage.  The way that I collage is a 21st Century way of collage-ing.  It’s using the internet to get all my imagery, finding things and altering them.  So, I’m not cutting up magazines or photographs, my collage is all done on line…I feel like this young generation, whatever you want to call it, uses the internet so fluidly.  I think art is about the interchange of ideas, so none of what I’m doing with this is never making fun of, or debasing any of anyone else’s work.  I take something that may be forgotten and turn it into something memorable.”

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA), in cooperation with Moore College of Art & Design, presents an exhibition by the new Career Development Program Fellows. A highly selective fellowship with only a 2% acceptance rate, these six artists represent some of the most promising talent among emerging artists in the region:  Leslie Friedman, Daniel Gerwin, Rebecca Gilbert, Kay Healy, Heechan Kim, and Johanna Inman.

Introduction 2012

February 1 – February 25, 2012

Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery

Johanna Inman

Daniel Gerwin

Rebecca Gilbert

Kay Healy

Heechan Kim

Circumstantial Assembly / CFEVA at Moore 

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Introduction 2011

Photographs by DoN
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Theodore J. Amick, The Plastic Club, Downstairs Gallery

Theodore J. Amick, The Plastic Club, Downstairs Gallery

Theodore J. Amick, The Plastic Club, Downstairs Gallery

DoN talked with Erica Amick, artist Ted Amick’s daughter about her Dad’s memorial art show in the Downstairs Gallery of the Plastic Club.  “The memorial show for my dad, Ted Amick, is full of his life’s work.  He was always creative.  He was always happy.  He always had a good story to tell you and loved to be around people.  And loved a good time.  So, he would enjoy the show in the gallery, filled with people drinking and laughing and talking.”  So, what’s your favorite piece?  “I don’t have a favorite, it’s all different parts of his life and you can see the progression of his scientific alien stage to a more impressionist stage to just happy picture stage.  He did a portrait of me and my sister and I think that’s one of our favorites.”

DoN mentioned Ted in a blog he wrote back in 2009, the Red, White and Green show and Ted instantly became a buddy with lots of compliments and questions about photography at every Plastic Club reception.  At the awards ceremony February 5th for the current exhibition, Urban Observations, past president Mike Guinn said it best, “He was my brother.”

Ted Amick’s on-line Guestbook

Plastic Club on Facebook

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Rebecca Gilbert, CFEVA Introduction 2012, The Galleries at Moore

Lucky, reduction and multiple block woodcut and gold leaf, Rock Pile Fortune Vessel, reduction and multiple block woodcut Rebecca Gilbert.

Rebecca Gilbert, Building the Perfect Worm House, CFEVA Introduction 2012, The Galleries at Moore

Amie Potsic, Director of Career Development at The Center for Emerging Visual Artists says, “I love openings, it’s the only time artists get any feedback.  Because you’re never there except for receptions, usually.  Some people are shy and find it a little bit hard but I think that they’re really so key for not only exposing work but having artists get good at talking about their work and building relationships.  Most of the time we have artist’s talks at CFEVA and part of that is that if the artist has the experience of doing them more often they get better every time they do them.  If your not a teacher, there’s very few instances where you actually have the opportunity to have an artist talk.”

DoN listened in while artist Rebecca Gilbert talked to a mom and her young daughter about her print, Safe Keeping Place, “Well, there’s one story.  I have this bracelet that had a family heirloom heart locket on it and I had this opening in Old City years ago, and I was having this conversation and this little charm fell off of my bracelet and it was this freakish thing because it fell off and instead of just rolling, it fell, I swear, in a hole in the corner of the room that was just that big.  Exactly the size.  I went back the next day and the gallery owner said the hole led to the street and so my charm was unattainable.  It was like, oh no, my family heirloom!  It’s gone forever.  And my best friend said, ‘Don’t worry, it’s safe in that hole.  It’ll be there forever.”

DoN introduced himself.  Is that a Jackalope?  “That is a Jackalope…I’m trying to bring a positive energy to my work and to keep a positive outlook in life.  And I’m also very superstitious.  Some superstitions I I follow and some I make up on my own.  I included a lot of symbolism from that so I can add that positive energy.  Lucky, is the name of the Jackalope, but it’s up to the viewer to decide if he is actually lucky or not.  So you have all these good luck charms but for them, it’s subtle, but there’s extra feet and of course they chop off rabbit’s feet.  So, it you have extra, you’re lucky.  Another thing is I knew I wanted to do a Jackalope because I did an artist’s residency in Wyoming and I started researching Jackalopes and I knew that to me in my head that they’re mythical creatures who like to drink whiskey and sing songs.”

“But, in my research I saw that there actually have been rabbits found as early as the 17th Century, I found illustrations of rabbits with these knobs coming out of the top of their heads.  Not horns but knobs.  But, it’s actually a cancer.  In my research there are all of these rabbits with these things hanging off of them.  And, you know, one hypothesis is that that’s where it came from.  They were interpreted as horns, so, that questions ‘what is lucky?’. ‘Oh, you’re lucky you’re an imagined creature with horns on your head?’.  So, the whole reason I made the print was not to compare myself to other people because you never know the whole story.”

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA), in cooperation with Moore College of Art & Design, presents an exhibition by the new Career Development Program Fellows. A highly selective fellowship with only a 2% acceptance rate, these six artists represent some of the most promising talent among emerging artists in the region:  Leslie Friedman, Daniel Gerwin, Rebecca Gilbert, Kay Healy, Heechan Kim, and Johanna Inman.

Introduction 2012

February 1 – February 25, 2012

Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery

Johanna Inman

Daniel Gerwin

Leslie Friedman

Kay Healy

Heechan Kim

Circumstantial Assembly / CFEVA at Moore 

Introduction 2011

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Photographs by DoN
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Kay Healy, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, The Galleries at Moore

Kay Healy, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, The Galleries at Moore

How does it feel to be showing your artwork in the Galleries at Moore?  “Oh, it’s wonderful!  There’s a lot of really good work here right now, so, it’s exciting to be in such a professional space.  I was laughing because on Monday I had four people all helping me hang.  I’m used to, you know, doing it all by myself.”  Oh, yeah, DoN knows.  “I’ve been dragging my boyfriend around, making him hold things for me.  It’s really nice to have someone else with good opinions about how it should be hung.  I’m hoping to really get my work out there and be in more exhibitions and that I’ll be able to spend more time making work instead of applying for exhibitions.”  Holla!

DoN reminded Kay Healy about seeing her work at Art in City Hall.  “This is great because it was in the Window on Broad at UArts and from that I was able to get into the Dysfunctional Furniture show at City Hall.  And Leah Douglas from the Philadelphia International Airport saw it and she said, ‘Can I do a studio visit?’, I said, ‘Yeah!’, like, Oh Great!, real artists get studio visits!  So, she dropped by and said, ‘OK, well, I have a forty foot case that I would like you to do for Summer 2012.’  That was about a year ago, so now, that’s my major project doing a forty foot version of this featuring a bathroom, a kitchen, dining room and a living room.”

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA), in cooperation with Moore College of Art & Design, presents an exhibition by the new Career Development Program Fellows. A highly selective fellowship with only a 2% acceptance rate, these six artists represent some of the most promising talent among emerging artists in the region:  Leslie Friedman, Daniel Gerwin, Rebecca Gilbert, Kay Healy, Heechan Kim, and Johanna Inman.

Introduction 2012

February 1 – February 25, 2012

Widener Memorial Foundation Gallery

Johanna Inman

Daniel Gerwin

Leslie Friedman 

Rebecca Gilbert

Heechan Kim

Circumstantial Assembly / CFEVA at Moore

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Introduction 2011

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