Monthly Archives: April 2014

Brenna K. Murphy

Solo ExhibitionHome Imagined, Brenna K. MurphyOpening This Saturday at Metropolitan Gallery 250located at 250 S. 18th Street, Unit 102 (on Rittenhouse Square, across the street from the Art Alliance)

Brenna K. Murphy, Metropolitan Gallery 250Brenna K. MurphyDetail from “Home Imagined (Dollhouse),” 4×6 feet, 1,154 strands of the artist’s hair stitched into paper. Click the image for a larger view.

Please join Brenna K. Murphy for the Opening Reception of “Home Imagined” on May 3rd, from 3 – 6pm. Presented by The Center for Emerging Visual Artists and Metropolitan Gallery 250, this exhibition includes 24 new small hair embroideries and “Home Imagined (Dollhouse),” a 4 x 6 foot hair embroidery created over five-months at artists residencies in France last year.

Exhibition Dates: May 3 – June 1, 2014

Special Gallery Hours and Opening Reception on May 3rd: 11:00am-6:00pm (Opening Reception from 3:00 – 6:00pm)

Regular Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00am – 4:00pm and by appointment (contact jessie@metropolitanbakery.com)

Metropolitan Gallery 250 is located at 250 S. 18th Street, Unit 102 (on Rittenhouse Square, across the street from the Art Alliance)

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Robert Bohné

Robert Bohne, Church Street GalleryGRAND OPENING & ARTIST RECEPTION, ​Robert Bohné: Close to Home

Saturday, April 26, 2014, 1:00 – 6:00 pm, Church Street Gallery, 12 South Church Street, West Chester, PA 19382, 215-989-1449

Church Street Gallery‘s debut exhibit will feature the works of award winning, contemporary artist Robert Bohné, best known for his intimate still life and landscape paintings.

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Robert Bohne, Church Street Gallery

Church Street Gallery is a traditional gallery located in West Chester’s historic center presenting solo exhibitions by selected artists of the region.

12 South Church Street, West Chester PA 19382.

Open to the public beginning 26 April, 2014.

Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 11-5, Friday until 9pm, Sunday- 11-3

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Color Coordinates

Color Coordinates, smART Business Consulting

smARTbusinessconsulting.org is organizing a group art show and sale entitled Color Coordinates, May 7- 25, 2014 at Da Vinci Art Alliance, 704 Catharine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147 featuring the art of Lynne Berman, Linda Dubin Garfield, Diane Lachman, Joye Schwatrz and Nancy Freeman Tabas. There will be ceramics, watercolors, oils, works on paper and acrylics included in this show. The Opening Reception on May 7, 6:30 to 10 PM is open to the public.

Lynne Berman’s ceramics reflect her simplicity and interest in architecture. In the fall of 1994, she quit work at The Philadelphia Inquirer to join her husband on a year’s sabbatical. In Boston Miami and London, she took pottery courses. By the end of the year, she knew she was a potter. She loves the feel of the clay passing through her fingers. She love cities. Her work, mostly thrown on the wheel, focuses on the geometric simplicity of city buildings. “Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped to its nakedness.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), French aviator, writer.

Linda Dubin Garfield creates colorful works on paper that combine traditional printmaking, mixed media & digital technology based on her love of travel, the mystery of memory & the magic of place. Nature nurtures and inspires her. She combines elements of nature, texture and design along with the magic of the press. She is intrigued by memory and what remains in her mind’s eye. Her work reflects scenes from travel near and far. More than a report on how it was exactly, she is interested in her expressive and passionate response to the color and pattern of the landscape, experience or image. Rather than representing every detail, she evokes the hidden and reveal the atmosphere, creating personal visual memoirs that the viewer responds to, triggering a memory or experience .

Color is Diane Lachman’s  primary source of inspiration.  She is interested in how color defines our idea of form, and how color choice determines interpretation.  Her years of experience teaching color theory at the University of Pennsylvania complements her intuitive approach to painting.  Recent works explore the analogy between color-guided composition and musical expression.

Joye Schwartz loves interpreting the emotionality of a subject through brilliant color and simple shapes. For her painting involves a sensual journey using watercolor or oils, feeling the juiciness of the oil with her palette knife or playing with the watery color dripping down the paper. Her paintings evolve through the visual discovery of the landscape, figure or still life. Vivid color brings the scene alive and full of life and joy.

Nancy Freeman Tabas’ artwork is a projection of her personality; energetic, spontaneous full of life and passion.  Every painting, like every day, is new and exciting to Tabas. Her landscapes are realistic abstraction. They are an exploration of color, form and imagery.  She sees the world as bright and hopeful and tries to portray this through her work.

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Independent Rock

Independent Rock Grand OpeningIndependent Rock Grand Opening, 38 Jackson Street, suite 206, Philadelphia, PA, 19148

Open House: Saturday, April 26th, 11:00 an – 6:00 pm

Erica Harney, Independent RockErica Harney at Independent Rock, The Era of Distance or the Distance of an Era, oil, acrylic and mixed media on panel, 18″ x 14″, 2013

Artist Reception with Erica Harney, Saturday April 26th, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

Erica Harney (b. Westchester County, NY, 1984) holds a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Alfred University, Magna Cum Laude and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from The Pennsylvania State University. She has also studied at the Santa Reparata International
School of Art in Florence, Italy. She is currently based in Philadelphia.”

Erica Harney, Independent RockErica Harney at Independent Rock, You Should See Them, Lloyd , 2014, oil, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 48″ x 36″

“Solo exhibitions have taken place at The Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Harrisburg, VARGA Gallery (Woodstock, NY) and the Estate Yard Gallery in Castlecomer,County Kilkenny, Ireland. In 2011 she organized a massive solo exhibition called, Here Comes the Sun: Exhibition to Benefit the Killian Mansfield Foundation at the
Greenpoint Gallery in Brooklyn. Notable group exhibitions include several other New York City galleries, such as the Coleman Burke Gallery, Sara Meltzer Gallery,Kathleen Cullen Fine Art Gallery, and James Cohan Gallery. Currently, her work can be seen at JAG Modern (Philadelphia, PA), Beacon Art Shortwave Gallery (Stone Harbor, NJ), Hershey Medical Center (Hershey, PA) and Upstate Medical University (Syracuse, NY).” – Erica Harney

Open House Saturday, April 26th:

Erica Harney, Independent RockErica Harney, Nothing But Security as Far as the Eye Can See, 48″ x 48″, at Independent Rock

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Donate via safe and secure PayPal in the sidebar.Erica Harney at Independent RockErica Harney at Independent Rock, 38 Jackson Street, suite 206, Philadelphia, PA, 19148

Celebration of the Feminine

Celebration of the Feminine, The Art Gallery at Franklin CommonsCelebration of the FeminineThe Art Gallery at Franklin Commons

“Celebration of the Feminine” Art Exhibit

Saturday, May 3rd, 1:00 – 4:00pm

The Art Gallery at Franklin Commons, Phoenixville

Join us for a Celebration of all that is Feminine at The Art Gallery at Franklin Commons in Phoenixville! Our second exhibit will be held on May 3rd, from 1-4pm, a week before Mother’s Day weekend. As people have different views of what is “feminine,” we hope to push the typical thoughts on femininity and not only have portraits of women, but also art relating to: Women across cultures, empowerment, non-typical feminine qualities, feminine qualities in abstract forms, traditional vs contemporary femininity, mother nature, and other creative concepts.

Event is FREE!

If you did not get a chance to see the last exhibition, “New Perspectives,” the artwork will be on display until Thursday, April 24. Please come by to see the beautiful artwork created by 10 talented local artists.

Information also available at: www.franklincommons.net, Franklin Commons, 400 Franklin Avenue, Phoenixville, PA 19460, 610-983-4632

Entrance to The Art Gallery is from the Main LotCelebration of the Feminine, The Art Gallery at Franklin Commons

Celebration of the FeminineThe Art Gallery at Franklin CommonArtist: Catherine Carney, The Russian Princess, 25″ x  31″, pastel and gouache on Arches Cover paper, $400.

Celebration of the Feminine, The Art Gallery at Franklin Commons

Celebration of the FeminineThe Art Gallery at Franklin CommonsArtist: Patricia Strawbridge, Abstract Garden, 40″ x 30″, Acrylic, $500.

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