Category Archives: Fiber Art

Art using fiber abd fabric making as its basis.

Diane Keller @ Dumpster Divers on South Street

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Diane Keller @ Dumpster Divers on South Street

Diane Keller @ The Dumpster Divers Gallery on South Street near 7th; the gallery is temporary contemporary like some pop-up shop for art.   Keller’s paintings of little girl outfits is sweet yet disconcerting, looking back to a time when kids weren’t covered in logos.

Diane Keller @ Dumpster Divers on South Street

Diane Keller @ Dumpster Divers on South Street

Diane Keller created these pillows by combining digitally printed fabric she designed at Philadelphia University as the result of an award she won at Da Vinci Art Alliance.  The artist combined vintage fabrics she’s been saving with her own painterly pattern with a lush cushion meeting the demand of the art being created with recycled materials.  Diane told DoN she recently re-created her mural of The Rizz @ The Italian Market as the result of a building rehab, the muralist says with the new paint and techniques ol’ Frank looks better than ever.

 

Photos by DoNBrewerPhotography

Apocalypse Soon: 2012 @ Da Vinci Art Alliance

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DoN Brewer I Was Here Apocalypse Soon: 2012

 I Was Here, DoN Brewer, digital photograph @ Da Vinci Art Alliance‘s Apocalypse Soon: 2012.

With money bombs, pandemics, oil spills, World War III fresh in our consciousness and the 2nd Wave Depression looming, Apocalyse Soon: 2012 is prescient, nihilistic funk-a-rama drama.  Curator Dr Deb Miller and Juror & Awards Judge, Elin Danien, Consulting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology gleaned a strange harvest of occult dreamscapes, blob-a-zoid sculptures and paranoid visions of the end of the future.

“I know it’s the last day on earth
We’ll be together while the planet dies
I know it’s the last day on earth
We’ll never say goodbye”

Marilyn Manson – The Last Day on Earth

Curator’s Tour, Lecture, and Opening Awards Reception:  Sunday, August 8, 1pm-4 pm(doors open at 12:30)

Brujo de la Mancha, Mexican Identity in the XXIst Century
Debra Miller, PowerPoint lecture, Calendar Cycles of Creation and Destruction in Pre-Columbian Art
Debra Miller, Curator’s tour, Apocalypse Soon:  2012

 

Photo by DoN Brewer.

A Show of Hands @ Salon des Amis

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Robin Hotchkiss A Show of Hands @ Salon des Amis

Robin Hotchkiss, To The Opera, oil on wood @ A Show of Hands, Salon des Amis in Malvern.

A Show of Hands @ Salon des Amis

Robin Hotchkiss organized the theme show about hands, the quirky gallery near Valley Forge has a broad array of art by Philly regional artists.  Divine & To the Opera, oil on wood by Robin Hotchkiss – the sculpted ceramic hands are by Markels Roberts.

A Show of Hands @ Salon des Amis

Robin Hotchkiss, From the Past, oil over antique painting, Ellen Benson, Springtime Divas, mixed media and Ann Keech, found object assemblage @ Salon des Amis.

A Show of Hands @ Salon des Amis

Alden Cole, Magic Hans, oil on canvas @ A Show of Hands at Salon des Amis.

The Sunday afternoon opening drew Shoshka, Alden & DoN out to the tiny gallery on the hillside near Valley Forge to see A Show of Hands at Salon des Amis, a themed group art show of art focusing on hands – drawings, paintings, photos, sculptures, jewelry, hats…each artists’ unique approach expands and illuminates how important the image of hands are in popular culture.

 

Photos by DoNBrewerMultimedia.

The Plastic Club’s 2010 Members’ Medals Show

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Karl Olsen The Plastic Club Members’ Medals Show

Karl Richard Olsen took home the Gold Medal in the Plastic Club’s Members’ Medals Show for “Norge“, graphite & pastel.  Check out the perfect hoop earring, a simple shape created with confidant strokes, anchoring the image in a time, place, personality, style… it’s amazing how charcoal & pastel can look so liquidy & fluid. Olsen has a major installation for MCGOPA @ The Inquirer Building in Conshohocken.

Robert Bohne won the Dorothy Invernizzi Guinn Memorial Prize for his masterpiece, “Crustacean Feast“.  The award honors realist paintings because Dorothy didn’t get abstract art and this oil painting is a timeless example of atmospheric naturalism of the highest achievement.  As an artist, when viewing a painting which speaks of years of observation, practice, study, patience & wisdom, it leaves a sensation of living forever, feasting in the moment and leaving a mark on the world.

The Plastic Club Members’ Medals Show

DoN Brewer, Denmark, photograph, Marie Samohod, Night Still Life, acrylic, Morris Klein, Washington Square, photograph and Eileen Eckstein, Finger Painting, photograph.

The Plastic Club Members’ Medals Show

Tom McCobb, Adirondack Tea Party, oil.

The Plastic Club Members’ Medals Show

Burton Greenspan, Albert, oil.  Honorable Mention Award for The Plastic Club’s Members’ Medals Show.

The Members’ Medals Show presents 130 artworks throughout three gallery spaces, Alan Klawans explained that volunteers organize and hang the show; the organic mix of paintings, drawings, photos & mixed media often is brilliant with quirky juxtapositions, DoN is confused by the placement of Syd Torchio‘s Art Porn, Take 3, a fantastical painting with a grown up fun-house vibe that gets a bit lost in the dim hall, the best view is from the stairs.

 

 

Brenna K. Murphy @ Fleisher Art Memorial Wind Challenge #3

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Brenna K. Murphy @ Fleisher Art Memorial

Brenna K. Murphy @ Wind Challenge Exhibitions #3, Fleisher Art Memorial.

Brenna’s installation @ The Fleisher Art Memorial is part drawing, part conceptual art, part performance art, part photography & part crafting like a recipe for 21st Century modern art.  Murphy uses human hair to draw on the walls, sews hair into her photographs and over time will wash the hairs off the wall to put in the bowls on the floor, an idea she came up with when she was de-installing her last show.

Brenna K. Murphy @ Fleisher Art Memorial

Brenna K. Murphy draws onto the photograph by sewing hair into the paper, creating an illusion of a documentary photo, DoN thought she had installed huge drawings of furniture like the ones in the gallery.

Brenna K. Murphy @ Fleisher Art Memorial

Detail of hair drawing on the wall @ Fleisher Art Memorial by Brenna K. Murphy – DoN had to do some Photoshop magic to get the delicate lines to appear for the web, in real life the stray strands are poetic and serene.

Brenna K. Murphy @ Fleisher Art Memorial

Human hair wall drawing of a dresser with a small bowl on the floor, each Wednesday Brenna plans to wash off some of the hair and put it in the bowls.  Brenna Murphy’s drawings are loaded like meme bombs filled with memory, loss, dreams, beauty, ritual, divinity all playing out on long stands on hair.  Filaments of the imagination.