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Rich Harrington – Parked Cars @ The Philadelphia Sketch Club

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Rich Harrington, Parked Cars @ The Philadelphia Sketch Club.

Harrington’s paintings are totally cool – each painting features old cars, trucks or tractors with their rusting hulks rendered realistically but painterly in watercolors and acrylics.  Rich is a Philadelphia artist whose work is recognizable as a Harrington; brushwork, coloration, depth of field, composition, subject matter, information design, atmospheric naturalism and pop sensibilities are all thoroughly modern with a fond backward glance at the remnants of mid-century modernism.

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The collection of Rich Harrington paintings in the historic pool room of the Philadelphia Sketch Club is extemely accessible and enjoyable, his painting style is specific and strong with powerful images that tell stories yet are extremely decorative.  Harrington is the new Vice President of the Philadelphia Sketch Club and is also the chair of the upcoming Phillustration ’09 – download the prospectus.

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Detail of painting by Rich Harrington @ The Philadelphia Sketch Club.

Peter Prusinowski @ Fishtown Airways

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Peter Prusinowski @ Fishtown Airways

Peter Prusinowski @ Fishtown Airways, 200 East Girard Ave. Prusinowski is a Center for Emerging Visual Artists Fellow, a great honor bestowed on outstanding artists allowing them to exhibit works in group shows, receive publicity, opportunities and support from the Center. Peter is a photography purist who works in a wet dark room and is not interested in digital photography in the least. As he explained to DoN, Peter attempts to emulate masters such as Man Ray who was able to achieve solarization on film which appears like magic in the development process.

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Prusinowski’s show at Fishtown Airways focusses on the history of Fishtown and the Penn Treaty, combining historic documents and photographs alongside his own studies of the area. A story of community and it’s importance to the early development of the USA emerges with bucolic river views, charming residences and quirky scenes from the centuries old village inhabited by long time residents and young growing families.

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A group of historic documents including old newspaper articles, graphics and papers shed light on the Penn Treaty and the importance of this river town and it’s people.

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East Girard Avenue is on the east side of the Frankford El with restaurants, bars, shops and a lively street scene. Fishtown Airways corner is bright and sunny, the gallery painted a buttery yellow, the art pops off the wall against the restful color. Proprietor , Bob Murphy is planning to open an ice cream shop along the broad avenue making this section of Fishtown a family friendly destination as well as an art outpost along with Johnnie Brenda‘s, High Wire and Bambi. Shoshka and DoN had a blast talking with the locals and hanging out on the corner.

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Tim McFarlane @ Bridgette Mayer Gallery

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Tim McFarlane has been painting for a long time, along the way becoming a color specialist, conceptual context conneuseur and sure handed painter. Each panel displays the passage of time, speeded down and slowed up, sometimes painting wet into wet, other times letting the layers build creating a completely different temporal distortion.

Bridgette Mayer tells DoN, “I saw something in Tim’s work I really enjoyed and knew that he could develop further. He’s one of those artists that have natural spirit and intensity of purpose.” McFarlane’s one-person show is powerful and full of ideas to steal – like using the grainy wood panels on thin boxes and just painting with a joyous hand.

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Twist, acrylic on panel by Tim McFarlane @ Bridgette Mayer Gallery.

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Little Speaker Groove, acrylic on panel, Tim McFarlane.

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Gravity’s Architecture by Tim McFarlane @ Bridgette Mayer Gallery on beautiful Washington Square.

Justin Duerr @ St. Asaph’s

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Check it out – a wide angle shot of Justin Duerr’s incredible show at St. Asaph’s.  DoN can’t stop thinking about Justin’s story about his first job in a bakery.  The boss was mean – we’ve all had mean bosses but this jerk took the cake – but Justin learned to decorate cakes and design with frosting. Duerr decorated his own cake for the opening party with day-glo orange piping of a woman’s face. The framing by Robert Bullock of Coalition Ingenu is truly superior, some of Duerr’s drawings are five feet or more with thin plexiglass offering distortion free viewing.  Learn more about Coalition Ingenu and the fine work they do using art to improve people’s lives and our community, you’ll be inspired – Shoska & DoN LoVe this show and art space! justin Duerr: Song-Story Images in Black and White @ St. Asaph’s

Gus V. Sermas @ Blue Streak

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“Disappearance – Remembrance”  The Myth of Persephone works on paper.

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 Gus V. Sermas @ Blue Streak Gallery.

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 Art party for Gus Sermas @ The Blue Streak Art Gallery, Wilmington.

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 The myth of Persephone was the closest the Greeks came to resurrection.   Sermas chooses to tell the tale with bold mixed media drawings, combining natural shapes with machine overtones.  Demeter, goddess of the Earth, was Persephone’ mother; Persephone’s father was Zues.  Gus told DoN, “Persephone went to the Underworld, everything dies so she can come back.”

Blue Streak Gallery is @ 1721 Delaware Ave, owner Ellen Bartholomaus is an old freind of DoN’s, it was wonderful re-connecting with an influential art person from the past.