Category Archives: Philadelphia Art Clubs

Art clubs are members only groups with a mission to promote the development of artists; DoN is a member of several Philadelphia area art clubs.

Sky Holes

Sky Holes, DoN Brewer, PHOTOgraphy 2013

Sky Holes, DoN Brewer, PHOTOgraphy 2013 at The Philadelphia Sketch Club

DoN‘s digital photograph, Sky Holes, is included in the juried photography exhibition held annually at The Philadelphia Sketch Club. The abstract landscape image of sunlight shining through trees onto an urban surface has a vibrating tension of shape and color. The black door on the left is very dark n the shady part and reads as black but the sunlit parts match the tones of the shadow part of the white door on the right.

The title Sky Holes refers to the shapes and special tones painters use to create the illusion of sun shining through gaps in trees. The colors of the holes are different that the color of the sky because the light refracts through the leaves changing the hue that the eye detects. In Sky Holes the shadows take on a 3D effect and the light is softened and refocused through the gaps in the trees. The door handle and glimpse of sidewalk grounds the image in reality while the amorphous pseudopodia of the sky holes flip to abstract shapes.

Sky Holes has been exhibited in Art Ability International Juried Art Exhibition at Bryn Mawr Rehab Center, Creative Powers: Selections from Art Ability at Delaware Art Museum, Photographic Society of Philadelphia group show, Shannondell at Valley Forge and now PHOTOgraphy 2013 at The Philadelphia Sketch Club.

Public Reception:
Sunday July 7th from 2 – 4 PM
Gallery Hours: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday; 1 – 5 PM

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Buy Sky Holes, archival digital inkjet print on glossy photo paper, double matted and framed in black metal at The Philadelphia Sketch Club or through Art Ability. Or you may purchase Sky Holes through PayPal on DoNArTNeWs (plus shipping). DoN will pay the appropriate commissions to those organizations from this transaction, their support and confidence in DoN‘s art is immeasurable.

Sky Holes, framed 11 x 14″ archival inkjet print of glossy photo paper, double matted and framed in 16 x 20″ black metal, $175.00 plus shipping if required. DoN will deliver within a  reasonable distance.


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PHOTOgraphy 2013

Philadelphia Sketch Club. PHOTOgraphy 2013

Philadelphia Sketch Club, PHOTOgraphy 2013

Delivery: Hand Delivery Friday and Saturday, June 28 and 29; 1-5 p.m. at the Club (see address below).

Entry Fees:

Active The Philadelphia Sketch Club members: $8 for each piece or $20 for three. All others: $10 for each piece or $25 for three.

Pickup:

Unaccepted work: Friday and Saturday, July 5 and 6; 1-5 p.m. at PSC Accepted work: Saturday July 20; 1 – 5pm at PSC.

Notification:

Available at www.sketchclub.org July 2nd

The Philadelphia Sketch Club

235 Camac Street (between 12th & 13th and Locust & Spruce) Philadelphia, PA 19107 Exhibition Chairs: Chair: Melvin Chappell: machappell@earthlink.net Co-Chair: Kenneth Weiner – note2kenweiner@verizon.net

Reception: Photographers and patrons are invited to the opening reception on Sunday, July 7; 2-4 p.m. Awards will be presented at 3 p.m.

Juror Tony Ward is an Internationally renowned award winning photographer, educator, and the author of several books on photography. His work has been published in magazines like Men’s Health and Cosmopolitan. His fine art prints are widely collected, exhibited and syndicated around the world. Tony’s photographic imagery unites his primary love, erotic art, with his perennial passions for fashion, art and current events. He has taught a course on “Introduction to Photography” and “Photography and Fashion” at the University of Pennsylvania.

Prizes: The Jurors will select works for exhibition & award prizes for both traditional and digital work. Works Eligible: Up to 3 pieces utilizing any photographic process, traditional or digital, black & white or color. All submitted work must be offered for sale during the exhibition. No transparencies will be accepted. Maximum framed size 30”x40”. All work must be framed with glass or Plexiglas, wired and ready for hanging. No clip frames. Improperly framed pieces will be rejected

Liability: All submitted work will be handled with care; however, The Philadelphia Sketch Club assumes no liability for loss or damage.

Sales: The gallery will be open on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. for the duration of the exhibition. A sales attendant will be on duty. The Philadelphia Sketch Club will assess a 25% commission on all sales.

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PHOTO prospectus 2013

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Code

Code, DoN Brewer, The Plastic Club

Code, QR codes, text, inkjet print, DoN Brewer, at The Plastic Club, Members Medals Show 2013, May 5th – May 23rd, reception 5/5/13, 2 – 5:00pm, 247 South Camac Street, Philadelphia.

*Hey DoN, this is Susan, I’m over at The Plastic Club and I’m calling to let you know you won The Zeigler Prize. She (Sharon Ewing, Director of Gross McCleaf Gallery) really thought your work was innovative and works on multiple levels. Meaning it’s attractive in itself and also leads to these other worlds of video and media.” – voice message from Susan Stromquist, Exhibitions Chair, 5/1/13

Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.

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Bob Jackson Gallery

Harriet D. Kilne, Bob Jackson Gallery, The Plastic Club

Harriet D. Kline, Leann’s Bottle Tree, watercolor on yupo. $200.00. Bob Jackson Gallery, The Plastic Club

The line-up of artist’s is chosen by lottery from the art club’s membership. April’s show includes Elisabeth Hughes, Harriet D. Kline, Carter Leidy, Richard C. Meyer and Catherine (Kit) Mitchell.

Harriet D. Kline‘s watercolor shines with color, the yupo paper resisting the pigment enough so as the water evaporates the residue leaves the illusion of liquidity. Leann’s Bottle Tree is one of six paintings in the group show. And as a backdrop to the club’s recent Rabbit party proved an apropos art backdrop to the music.

Catharine (Kit) Mitchell, The Plastic Club

Catherine (Kit) MitchellThe Plastic Club

“Painting, sculpture, music, dance – each is its own language, with its own non-verbal media, symbols and structures for expression of ideas and evocation of feeling. As such I am reluctant to comment further on my visual work or translate it into the world of words, but I do hope that it will pique fresh vision, interest, and pleasure.” – Catherine (Kit) Mitchell artist statement

Catharine (Kit) Mitchell, The Plastic Club

Catherine (Kit) Mitchell, Wire Face, wire, found objects, The Plastic Club Bob Jackson Gallery

Carter Leidy, Catherine (Kit) Mitchell, The Plastic Club

Carter Leidy,Tidal Flow, Tremont, Maine, oil, $305.00, Catherine (Kit) Mitchell, Red Hot Donut, mixed Media, $350.00, The Plastic Club, Bob Jackson Gallery

The intimate space on the lower/garden level of the club is a wonderfully reclaimed space that houses a print shop and a great kitchen from which the gallery’s namesake create delectable treats for special occasions like openings. The current Bob Jackson Gallery show is concurrent with the excellent Sketchbooks, Preliminary Drawings and Other Ephemera, through April 25th. Carter Leidy even includes some sketches hung with his finished gallery-ready paintings creating a great interactive vibe between the main exhibit and the small group show.

The Plastic Club 247 South Camac Street, Philadelphia

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Ken Jacobs at The Plastic Club

Ken Jacobs at The Plastic Club

Ken Jacobs at The Plastic Club

On Saturday, April 6, The Plastic Club will host a screening and discussion with award-winning, iconoclastic filmmaker Ken Jacobs as part of its monthly Salon series. The event is scheduled for 6:30-8:30 pm, at The Plastic Club, 247 South Camac St. in Center City Philadelphia. It’s open to the public, but reservations are required, and there is a $10.00 fee. To reserve a place(s) and for payment information e-mail The Plastic Club at plasticclub@att.net Ken Jacobs created and directed the Millennium Film Workshop in New York City (1966-68) and in 1969 started the Cinema Department at SUNY Binghamton, where he taught until 2003. He is the recipient of AFI’s Maya Deren Award, Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, and many other honors. His work has been admitted to the National Film Registry, included in art and film festivals and museums around the world, and featured in retrospectives at The Museum of Modern Art, The American Center, Paris, and The American Museum of the Moving Image.
Star Spangled to Death“, Jacobs’ epic history of the United States, premiered at the 2004 New York Film Festival and won the Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award at the 2004 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards.
At the Plastic Club, Ken Jacobs will be showing and discussing:
CAPITALISM: SLAVERY (2007, 3 1/2 minutes)
CAPITALISM: CHILD LABOR (2007, 15 minutes)
ANOTHER OCCUPATION (2011, 15 minutes)
SEEKING THE MONKEY KING (2011, 39 minutes)
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