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Philadelphia Open Studio Tours – West of Broad, 10-2&3-2010

Paul DuSold

My studio will be open this weekend as part of the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours. I’m near the corner of Wayne & Carpenter Sts. in West Mt. Airy. Please come by! (10am to 6pm both days)

www.philaopenstudios.com

www.pauldusold.com

Paul DuSold

6903 Wayne ave.

Phila.Pa. 19119

215-438-3440

Amie Potsic…

Hope you can make it to my Open Studio this weekend: Saturday and Sunday from 12 – 6pm at The Lightroom Salon Gallery in Philadelphia.

Reception on Saturday from 4 – 6pm.

See below for press and details about the show. Take care, Amie

JOURNEYS

SEPTEMBER 1 OCTOBER 31, 2010

Amie Potsic, Julia Blaukopf, Genevieve Coutroubis & Jill Katz

PHILADELPHIA OPEN STUDIO TOURS (POST):

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2ND AND 3RD, 12 6 PM

POST RECEPTION: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2ND, 4 6 PM

The Light Room Salon Gallery

2024 Wallace Street, Philadelphia PA 19130

Viewing by appointment. 215.765-0262

www.lightroom.org

A M I E P O T S I C

Photography I Fine Art

http://www.amiepotsic.com

apotsic@yahoo.com

610-731-6312

George Apotsos

POST 2010 PHILADELPHIA OPEN STUDIO TOURS
GEORGE APOTSOS studio
2018 FAIRMOUNT AVENUE
With Guest Artistsw
MERCEDES CECILIA
JEANNIE MOBERLY
JOHN WILLIAMS
Saturday, Oct 2 & Sunday, Oct 3
NOON – 6:00 pm
Reception: Saturday, October 2, 4:00 pm
Join us for BOOK READINGS of, “KUSIKIY A Child from Taquille, Peru” by MERCEDES CECILIA
SATURDAY: 1:00 & 3:00 & SUNDAY: 1:00, 3:00, & 5:00
and ON GOING RESIST-PROCESS DEMONSTRATIONS by JEANNIE MOBERLY
Contact:
George Apotsos 215-763-2847
Ann Koivunen, Studio Tours and Exhibition Manager, 215-546-7775 x 13

Kim Martin & Karl Olsen

Opening: Make Me Crazy, Make Me Think

Time	Sunday, October 3 · 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Location	Pagus Gallery, Norristown Arts Building
Created By	Karl Richard Olsen
More Info	Kim Martin and Karl Olsen Collaborative and Individual Works with talk by Tim Hawkesworth and presentation by the artists’ Also in the lower gallery Back, In, Out, by Ronnie Jean Kalman, Lillian Coolidge, Suzan Liftschitz, + Artists’ in Residence Open Studios

P.S. – Karl & Kim are not part of POST but the show is Way West Of Broad!

Laura Demme and Tom Herbert

Thomas Sheeder, Jr.

PHILADELPHIA OPEN STUDIO TOUR (POST)

Thomas Sheeder Jr. invited you · Share · Public Event

Time	Saturday, October 2 · 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Location	1909 Wilcox, Philadelphia (Lab) & 2024 Wallace Street, Philadelphia (Gallery)
Created By	The Lightroom
More Info	Lab: Tours of the Darkroom / Lab & Group Show in Garage Gallery spaceIn the Gallery: Photographs by Amie Potsic, Jill Katz, Julia Blaukopf and Genevieve Coutroubis & John Karpinski

Philadelphia Sketch Club 150th Anniversary Members Exhibition @ Art in City Hall

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Pat Wilson-Schmid works at being an artist full time, a tireless volunteer, and art advocate; the Philadelphia Sketch Club relies on Pat because she always makes the extra effort to keep the team on task.

Edna Santiago told DoN the painting is an uncle who moved to Philly to raise his family, she said he would be proud to know his visage is being shown in City Hall. The acrylic on plastic painting is unique, confounding and bold, the narrative takes us to a time and place that is old Philadelphia yet very contemporary and urban, the passages of dark and light are deeply moving. Chicken Louis, acrylic on plexiglass, Edna Santiago.

Piety Choi, Manna, mixed media on canvas. The splashy painting paired with the intensely decorative tile work mixes time lines, metaphors and ideas on what is beautiful in contemporary culture. Choi continues to surprise, inspire and challenge the Philly art-erati to step up their game, her works continuously win awards and draw people together to talk.

P.J. Foster, Unexpected Journey, acrylic & egg shell @ The Philadelphia Sketch Club Member Exhibition @ Art in City Hall.

Art in City Hall featuring the Philadelphia Sketch Club’s 150 Anniversary members show is the oldest art club in America’s first show at the world famous City Hall and it’s 20 year old public art in City Hall program. The shown is immense with hundreds of art works by many of Philly’s best artists.

Photos by DoN.

Midsummer Invitational @ Off the Wall Gallery in Dirty Franks

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Rich Harrington, fine artist, illustration professor & Philadelphia Sketch Club board member is just one of the local art activists featured in Midsummer Invitational @ Off The Wall Gallery, 13th & Pine Streets. Harrington’s paintings of rusting hulks of old cars and trucks are indefineable: part landscape, part still life and part portrait, the paintings are loaded with secret narratives and unanswered questions. Harrington is a driving force@ PSC, always prepared to problem solve, take on projects and promote other artists – just ask his students, they love him.

Morris Klein is VP of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia and organizes ongoing art show at the Bonte Cafes in Center City, his style of photography is hyper-realistic with enhanced color and edges. Getting photographers to participate in ongoing events is like herding cats, Morris is always even keeled and fair without being condescending – guys like Morris make such clubs like PSoP last hundreds of years.

Michelle Anne Clements @ Off the Wall in Dirty Franks – curator & gallerist Jody told DoN that Clements is donating a portion of the proceeds of her drawings of coral to Gulf relief. The alien forms are wonderfully rendered drawings of different kinds of corals, the simple black and white drawings, beautifully presented, pay homage to the complexity of the simple and vital life form.

The Midsummer Invitational @ Off the Wall Gallery includes: Michelle Anne Clements, Rebecca Cross. Rich Harrington, Morris Klein, Kelly A. Kozma, Don McPartland, Karen Rodewald, Peter Smyth, Michael B. Tantaros & Lauren Westenhiser through October.

Casual Show & Salon @ The Plastic Club, Summer 2010

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Karl Olsen lights the subject of an impromptu critique of Yeoun Lee‘s paintings during the monthly Salon des Plastiques @ The Plastic Club on the Avenue of the Artists. Lee took up the challenge from a previous meeting to bring out a few paintings on the sweltering Summer evening to stand up to the observations of Anders Hanson, Bob Jackson, Mike Quinn, Alan Klawens – the guys behind the on-going series of exhibitions at one of Philly’s premier artist clubs. DoN couldn’t help to harken back to the days when air conditioning was a dream yet to be realized. Yeoun explained the cosmological influence on her current work with light being represented by a subtle rainbow of color.

Yeoun Lee @ The Plastic Club’s Salon.

The Casual Summer Show @ The Plastic Club showcases artist favorites.

Members of the Plastic Club are showing works not directed by a theme allowing for a salon like diversity of styles and medium; curators Alan Klawans and Bob Jackson filled the main galleries with a spectrum of light and color.

Marlise M. Tkaczuk, 3 Big Monkeys, silk screen in The Casual Show. The Plastic Club has long represented printmaking with a great print room and print shows; Marlise’s confrontational funky monkeys are part clever and engaging, jumping off the wall. Check the clubs website for info and links to events.

Seven @ Da Vinci Art Alliance

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Seven Dishsoaps, Peter Seidel @ Da Vinci Art Alliance, 7th & Catharine Streets in South Philly. Peter Seidel won the Da Vinci Art Alliance Gold Medal for his superb painting.

DoN Brewer, Heptagon, photoshop. DoN was honored to be on the jury committee to select the medal winners, which also freed him to produce whatever he wanted for the show. Seven will be shown at The Noyes Museum annex in Hammonton, NJ this Fall.

Lois Allen Charles, Seven Waterlillies and Lilliana Didovic, Seven Elephants @ Seven, the current member exhibition at Da Vinci Art Alliance has a wide interpretation of the symbolism of the number seven, yet the discussion around the sign went on long after the show was installed. The DVAA exhibitions committee really tapped into a concept the members could grok.

Anna Vosburgh, Hope 1 @ Da Vinci Art Alliance – Anna is not only a great painter, she’s a blogger!

Alden Cole , Burning Man, oil on canvas.

Photo courtesy of the artist.

Alden Cole completed his series of self portraits portraying the Seven Deadly Sins, the first three sins are included in a painting Cole produced for DVAA‘s Henry IV, Part 1 @ The Lantern Theater Company’s Black Box Gallery. These two panels, though, are more explosively emotional, brashly colorful and deeply introspective; Alden acts for the camera then paints the facial expressions with light, color fields and texture as if he’s looking deep into your being, reflecting back the many faces of sin.