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Category Archives: Art Spaces Philadelphia
Dale Levy – Metaphors @ TwentyTwo Gallery
TwentyTwo Gallery is an artist collective, each member exhibits a semi-annual one-person show and is included in on-going group shows. Dale Levy’s colorful abstractions are currently energizing the space with splashy color, nature forms, cartological references, homages to Frankenthaler and Pollack, and metaphorical inferences drizzeled across the large canvases. Levy makes painting look like fun.
Dale Levy @ TwentyTwo Gallery. Levy cleverly titles each piece with her initials and a number, acrylic on canvas.
Dale Levy @ TwentyTwo Gallery, looking like a map from outer space, this painting actually does reference real locations. DoN thinks part of this image represents Sardinia with the orange dot a volcano.
Dale Levy hosted her opening @ TwentyTwo Gallery on a beautiful Spring evening. Shawn Murray and Diane Podolsky once again have installed a superior show; TwentyTwo has some of the best lighting and display of any gallery in the city.
Lilliana Didovic & Chinoros Roongsakul @ Smile Gallery
Sparkling City and Soft Abstractions – The Art of Lilliana Didovic and Chinoros Roongsakul curated by Dr. Debra Miller is a visual delight with vibrant color, unusual materials and fresh ideas. As a celebration of the second anniversary of Ken Tutjamnong’s restaurant and gallery, Smile, Dr. Deb has created a wonderland experience combining the abstract expressionist nature shapes of Roongsakul and the glamour, style and intensity of Didovic’s landscapes and logos. Ken considers both artists to be his best friends and brought them together from across the globe making Philly the nexus of this collision of art and love; Didovic is from Sarajevo and Roogsakul is an art professor from Bangkok.
Artist Lilliana Didiovic has incorporated, at the urging of Dr. Debbie, Swarovsky crystals into the skylines of famous Philly landmarks, applying hundreds and hundreds one at a time. The effect is luscious, drawing on a craving for bling, nostalgia and unique style.
The Spring evening was perfect for an art crawl, DoN brought Katy the ArT DoG and her pal Doofie, the St. Bernard/Chihuahua mix along for the walk. The dogs enjoyed hanging out on hip 22nd Street – with Smile, TwentyTwo, Good Karma and hip boutiques the broad avenue has lots to offer.
Lilliana Didovic @ Smile Gallery.
Lilliana LoVeS Philly!!!
Dr. Debra Miller and Chinoros Roongsakul @ Smile Gallery.
Philadelphia Night 1 by Chinoros Roongsakul @ Smile; Roongsakul created all the paintings here in town while visiting his friend Ken.
Chinoros Roongsakul @ Smile Gallery.
Bruce Garrity @ Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers Camden Campus.
Bruce Garrity took artist Scott Noel and DoN on a tour of the Paul Robeson Library on the Rutgers campus. When DoN saw the sign saying Paul Robeson he time-warped back to childhood when the famous actor and singer appeared at the Academy of Music. DoN told the guys he saw him as a child and they were duly impressed, but DoN worried about reporting false memories so DoN wiki’d Robeson and it’s the same guy my aunt took me to see.
The library is really expansive and comfortable and Garrity, a studio art lecturer in Rutgers Fine Arts department, has several nuanced paintings displayed throughout the building. Combining semiotic symbolism with modern painting techniques, the canvases resonate with liveness – birds, water, foliage, pottery, fish… Artist Scott Noel commented on the loveliness of the folds in the fabric lying on rocks and the references to Greek art. Garrity’s use of symbols for paintings displayed in a library is coded with signs and signatures of the room’s purpose: to learn. Yet the pleasant scenes are soothing and cool to gaze into to.
Garrity was one of the organizers of the “To Be or Not To Be: A Painters Dilemma” symposium recently held on the Rutgers campus and is the curator of the Hopkins House Gallery on Cooper River Park. Garrity’s eye for post modernism is focused and adventurous, his students like him a lot and his grasp of the language of art is sure.
Artist, Bruce Garrity in the Paul Robeson Library @ Rutgers.
Bruce Garrity @ Rutgers’ Paul Robeson Library.
Artist Scott Noel with painting by Bruce Garrity. During Noel’s talk at the symposium he spoke about the nexus of psychology and observation; there is a graphic iconography in painting that speaks it’s own language.
Public Sculpture @ UArts
UArts is hosting a series of sculpture “events” in the niches on the facade of the temple @ Broad & Pine Streets. A recent piece was made of string and actually stayed put.
A Drawing Marathon was recently held in the Great Hall @ UArts. DoN is featured in the UArts alumni news magazine Edge, there is a full page story with photos. Chris Garvin, the director of the Multimedia department @ UArts is also featured in the same issue. Pretty cool!