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Justin Duerr: Song-Story Images in Black and White @ St. Asaph’s

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Justin Duerr: Song-Story Images in Black and White  (and some Red) @ St. Asaph’s Gallery, presented by Coalition Ingenu is a tour de force in magic realistic drawings.  Duerr’s marker drawings, some huge and involving, some small and dream-like, fill the Gothic room with Bosch-ian imagery of bird-men, crawling words and psychedelic thought forms.  The presentation by Robert Bullock of Coalition Ingenu is pristine, with simple framing with glare-free plexiglass, permitting the viewer to delve into the mind of Justin Duerr.

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Cake decorated by Justin Duerr for his opening party at St. Asaph’s gallery.  One of Duerr’s first jobs was working in a bakery where he learned to work with frosting.

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Gallery view of the Justin Duerr installation @ St. Asaph’s Gallery, 27 Conshohocken/State Road, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.

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“Ghost Born Free From Cages and Jails”, drawing by Justin Duerr.

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Justin Duerr @ St. Asaph’s Gallery through April 5, 2009.

Moore College of Art & Design, 160 Years and Beyond, Art in City Hall

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Cathey White, Growth “Process”, spray paint and mixed media.  Boot designed and cast by Darla Jackson.  Art in City Hall currently has a show on 2 & 4 called the Fringe of Fiber curated by Kathryn Pennepacker, very cool show and PSoP on 5.

“PLASTIC AT THE PLASTIC” Women’s Caucus for Art, Members Exhibition

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 The Women’s Caucus for the Arts is exhibiting “Plastic at the Plastic” @ The Plastic Club on Camac Street, a mixed media show of beautiful objects and images.  Diana Riukas and Pam Flynn have special exhibits.  The Women’s Caucus for Art is a National Organization of women artists, art historians, curators, collectors, art educators and museum professionals – the show runs through 3/29/09.

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Virginia Maksymowicz, “Pane Trasparente“, installation of 30 small cast resin and photos. 

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Ponderings – Pam Flynn in the Tearoom @ The Plastic Club. 

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Art & artist.  Neurotica – Works by Diana Riukas in the Main room of The Plastic Club.

 

Dumpster Divers on South Street

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An incredible thing has happened.  The business community of South Street offered empty store fronts to artists rent free if they pay the utilities; DoN first heard of this from David Foss, director of the Da Vinci Art Alliance.  The Dumpster Divers jumped at the chance and have installed an exciting mixed media art show of museum quality – a lot of the work has been exhibited in actual museums and are scheduled to show in upcoming museum shows.  The Grand Opening is March 15th but there’s plenty to absorb now as the huge space at 723 South Street is transformed.

DoN says when the grid goes down the artists will become the tribal leaders: storytellers, image makers, re-purposers, builders, makers, artists, musicians and those able to carry the history forward and preserve culture.

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Dumpster Divers on South Street.

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Dumpster Diver outsider, couturier Shoshana Arons with Diver multimedia artist Alden Cole @ 723 South Street.

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Burnell Yow!‘s “52 Collages in 52 Weeks” @ The Dumpster Divers installation on South Street.

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Art of the Flower @ PSC

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DoN is delighted his inkjet print collage was selected to be included in the Art of the Flower show at The Philadelphia Sketch Club.  The annual show includes many of DoN‘s favorite Philadelphia painters and photographers as selected by juror James P. Repenning; helping install the show was especially fun knowing DoN’s “Ginkgo” is included along side exquisite works by Peltzman, Eckstein, Monaghan, Barnes, Tony Anthony, Roschen, Camera…  The reception and awards is Sunday @ 2:00.  Repenning’s work on the art card is lovely but in real life is an incredible mixed media piece with dimension, depth and high style design, executed with utmost craft – really stunning.

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