Monthly Archives: February 2012

Heechan Kim

Heechan Kim, Introduction 2012 Center for Emerging Visual Artists, The Galleries at Moore.

Amie Potsic, Director of Career Development of Center for Emerging Visual Artists talked with DoN about the 2012 Fellows introduced at the The Galleries at Moore at a V.I.P cocktail reception 2/1/2012, “This is Heechan Kim, who is originally from Korea but lives in Brooklyn, his work is so elegant and beautiful and strong at the same time. He’s not here this evening because he’s at an artist residency on the West Coast. But, what is so striking about his work is that it’s so light and delicate yet so strong and powerful at the same time. I think the metal stitching on the thin strips of wood is, um, you can feel it. It’s palpable, it feels almost like skin being stitched in a really interesting way. Yet, they’re also completely floating and sort of weightless at the same time. I just think they’re beautiful.”

DoN agree’s with Amie, the bent wood has so many memes attached that the pieces literally sing little stories about tennis, weaving baskets or squeezing shut a suitcase with all your might.

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

Circumstantial Assembly / CFEVA at Moore

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Al Gury

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Al Gury, Long Evening, oil, F.A.N. Gallery, Old City, Philadelphia. Al Gury: New Paintings, February First Friday.

Al Gury, F.A.N. Gallery

Al Gury, Pennsylvania Hills II, oil, F.A.N. Gallery

Al Gury, F.A.N. Gallery

DoN heard through the Art Educators of South Jersey that Al Gury was teaching a painting workshop for teachers and asked the master about the upcoming seminar. “That is for educators in the South Jersey School systems and I will be there presenting a workshop on color, the history of color, how to use color, for educators. That will hopefully help them not only with their work but they can use it in the classroom as well.” Just South Jersey teachers? “The advertising goes all over but the focus is lower half of NJ public school teachers.”

DoN gets starstruck around Al Gury, he’s a really cool guy, very approachable, but, the show at F.A.N. Gallery feels like an historical moment. The art show is a big collection of impressionist landscapes by a painting master. DoN overheard collectors boasting to each other how many Al Gury‘s they own and DoN could tell they were really, truly happy with themselves. Another conversation eves-dropped on was students comparing the juicy brushwork and scratched away paint in the luminous canvasses, trying out the art terms and lingo PAFA is famous for teaching it’s students to speak. DoN racked his brain for a salient question to ask the painter who teaches painting teachers how to teach – Tell me about the sky holes in the paintings?

“Well, I look at many different times of day because I like to travel around and look at the landscape at different times of day; mornings, daytime, early dawn, evening, afternoon to see the different kind of atmospheric stages and color changes. And I particularly like the type of atmosphere where the silhouettes, the shapes and the colors all fit together, I enjoy that very much.”

F.A.N. Gallery

221 Arch Street
Philadelphia PA 19106

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Wednesday – Sunday (12pm – 6pm)

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Kyle Fisher

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Kyle Fisher at studio:christensen

Kyle Fisher at studio:christensen (detail)

Kyle Fisher at studio:christensen

The intersection of Delancey Place and 20th Street is arguably the best address in town. Down the block is the Rosenbach Museum and Library, up the street towards Rittenhouse Square are hip restaurants and at the center of it all is Jt Christensen‘s studio: christensen. The designer has transformed the storefront into a decorator’s delight, the window constantly changing with aspirational furniture, decor, objet and art. Jt Christensen makes a big deal out of art, the Kyle Fisher show of astounding wood panels transcribing nature into abstract art with extraordinary detail and level of craft mashed with a futuristic vibe of the design the artist extracts from the wood is just beautiful.

studio: christensen participates in the Center City Second Friday art crawl and has a Third Thursday fashion photography night, it’s so fun to watch from the street and see the photographers working with the models and a reminder of the natural sophistication of Philadelphia.

studio: christensen
333 south twentieth st
philadelphia pa 19103
Tuesday-Saturday 12-7
or by appointment
2673866036
jtdesigns2@mac.com

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Missing Krylon

Kodak Z981

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Urban Jungle, DoN Brewer at The Plastic Club, Urban Observations, February 2012.

DoN shoots all his photographs for DoNArTNeWs art blog and Side Arts art blog with a Kodak Easyshare Z981 14 MP Digital Camera with Schneider-Kreuznach Variogon 26xWide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom Lens and 3.0-Inch LCD Sreen, the third digital camera DoN has used since 2000. DoN‘s first digital camera was four megapixel resolution with a postage stamp sized screen, the current iteration with 14-megapixel resolution for stunning prints up to 30 x 40 inches. In January, DoNArTNeWs changed advertising strategy to affiliate marketing through Commission Junction and Amazon in order to provide links to products and resources little DoNsters would benefit from most. DoNArTNeWs now has improved ads on the side bar including an exciting advertising widget with DoN‘s favorite Amazon picks for Philadelphia artists and authors including DoN‘s new book Her Philadelphia Tales, The Art of Lilliana S. Didovic (Volume 1).

The reason DoN is promoting Kodak is because they are an American manufacturing company in Rochester, NY, USA, Planet Earth, Milky Way, they invented digital photography and they recently declared bankruptcy. Kodak has a long history, “Kodak has made it easy to enjoy your pictures. The expression ‘You Press the Button, We do the rest’ was a common advertising slogan in the 1890s. This familiar expression was also set to music. Visit our interactive history of Kodak products to listen and see some of today’s latest digital products and our early film and cameras from the 1880s.” Kodak website. DoN used a Kodak Brownie camera growing up and still relies on the reliable quality and customer support of Kodak for his Kodak Easyshare Z981 14 MP Digital Camera with Schneider-Kreuznach Variogon 26xWide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom Lens and 3.0-Inch LCD Sreen to create images for DoNArTNeWs Philadelphia art blog and Side Arts Philadelphia art blog. So, did DoN pick a loser in Kodak as an advertising affiliate? Coffee did shoot out DoN‘s nose as the news of Kodak‘s bankruptcy crawled across the bottom of Morning Joe brought to you by Starbucks.

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