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.

Da Vinci Art Alliance – Year in Review 2010

Roz Bloom Da Vinci Art Alliance - Year in Review 2010

Roz Bloom @ Da Vinci Art Alliance, Apocalypse Soon 2012.

Carol Wisker Da Vinci Art Alliance - Year in Review 2010

Carol Wisker, Through My Window, a Da Vinci Art Alliance event at Smile Gallery, Carol won First Prize; the exhibit went on to be shown at Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts in Millville, NJ and the Perkins Center for the Arts in Collingswood, NJ.

Lilliana Didovic Da Vinci Art Alliance - Year in Review 2010

Da Vinci Art Alliance –  Seven, a Da Vinci Art Alliance members exhibit went on tour to the Noyes Museum of Art in Hammonton, NJ.

Da Vinci Art Alliance - Year in Review 2010

Seven @ Da Vinci Art Alliance – Year in Review 2010.

Seven @ Da Vinci Art Alliance - Year in Review 2010

Seven  @ Da Vinci Art Alliance.

Seven - Da Vinci Art Alliance @ The Noyes Museum

Seven a Da Vinci Art Alliance event @ Noyes Museum of Art, Hammonton NJ.

Smile Gallery Da Vinci Art Alliance - Year in Review 2010

The Black Light show @ Smile Gallery, a  Da Vinci Art Alliance event – DoNArTNeWs Year in Review 2010

Rachel Citrino Decameron, Da Vinci Art Alliance @ Smile Gallery

Rachel Citrino, Picturing the Decameron, a Da Vinci Art Alliance event in collaboration with the International Opera Theater @ Smile Gallery.

Alden Cole Da Vinci Art Alliance - Year in Review 2010

Alden Cole @ Bartram’s Garden, What’s the Buzz? a Da Vinci Art Alliance event in collaboration with Bartram’s Garden Art Gallery in the oldest barn in Philadelphia. DoNArTNeWs – Year in Review 2010

DoN Brewer Da Vinci Art Alliance - Year in Review 2010

DoN Brewer, Shared Passion, @ Bartram’s Garden, What’s the Buzz?  A Da Vinci Art Alliance event – DoNArTNeWs Year in Review 2010

Lilliana Didovic Da Vinci Art Alliance - Year in Review 2010

Lilliana Didovic @ Bartram’s Garden, a Da Vinci Art Alliance event, What’s the Buzz? – DoNArTNeWs Year in Review 2010.

Ted Warchal Da Vinci Art Alliance - Year in Review 2010

Ted Warchal @ Bartram’s Garden, a Da Vinci Art Alliance event – DoNArTNeWs Year in Review 2010.

Through My Window Da Vinci Art Alliance - Year in Review 2010

Through My Window, a Da Vinci Art Alliance event @ Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts DoNArTNeWs Year in Review 2010

 Through My Window Da Vinci Art Alliance - Year in Review 2010

Through My Window, a Da Vinci Art Alliance event @ Perkins Center for the Arts – DoNArTNeWs Year in Review 2010.

Karen McDonnell & Anthony Cortosi @ Da Vinci Art Alliance

Karen McDonnell & Anthony Cortosi @ Da Vinci Art Alliance Tis the Season – Karen & Tony are such good friends and great artists, their collaborative spirit spills over into all areas of the Philly art scene, representing what is possible when people work together.

Tis the Season Da Vinci Art Alliance - Year in Review 2010

Tis the Season Da Vinci Art AllianceDoNArTNeWs Year in Review 2010.

Thank you so much to the Da Vinci Art Alliance for offering innovative, inspirational opportunities to create art, meet fellow artists, and stretch the imagination.  Being a part of the board of directors is an honor, DoN edits the Vitruvian newsletter, the talent and determination of the team is strong.  Thank you to Dr. Debra Miller, President, Lucrezia Minniti, Recording Secretary, Lilliana Didovic, Treasurer, Alden Cole, Sharri Jerue, Ona Kalstein and Ted Warchal, being included in decision-making of such an august and revered alliance is a lifetime achievement.

Happy New Year

LoVe

DoN


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Decameron, Da Vinci Art Alliance @ Smile Gallery

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Carla Lombardi, Gavaciolli, high fire stoneware, Shinoglaze, @ Decameron, Da Vinci Art Alliance @ Smile Gallery on 22nd Street.  Decameron is presented in conjunction with the world premier of Karen Saillant‘s new opera of the same name presented by the International Opera Theater and inspired by Il Decamerone by Giovanni Boccaccio.  The stories of the ten people who escaped the Black Plague to a country estate is operatic in scope with so much source material from the tens of tens of stories told while the world collapsed around them that the tales of love, lust, morality and sin still ring true and wise in the modern age.  The artists reached deep to connect the dots of our common deep past with our futuristic present through drawing, painting, sculpture, collage and photography.

Ona Kalstein Decameron, Da Vinci Art Alliance @ Smile Gallery

Ona Kalstein, Lisbetta Weeps, 4th day, 5th tale,  ink & colored pencil on vellum.

Rosalind Bloom Decameron, Da Vinci Art Alliance @ Smile Gallery

Rosalind Bloom, Danse Macabre – The Black Death, watercolor, acrylic, collage.

Ted Warchal Decameron, Da Vinci Art Alliance @ Smile Gallery

Ted Warchal, Tale 5 – 2, Gastanza Sails to Tunis, assemblage Decameron, Da Vinci Art Alliance @ Smile Gallery.

Ted Warchal Decameron, Da Vinci Art Alliance @ Smile Gallery

Ted Warchal @ Decameron, Da Vinci Art Alliance @ Smile Gallery.  Tale 6-1o – The Relic of Archangel Gabriel reminds us of a time when zealots professed to own bits of Saints which could be viewed at a price, Warchal’s magical assemblage holds a golden feather and a bone.

Rachel Citrino Decameron, Da Vinci Art Alliance @ Smile Gallery

Rachel Citrino @ Decameron, Da Vinci Art Alliance @ Smile Gallery.  Citrino created a 100 block grid of images relating to Italy and the hundred tales of the Decameron, printed on canvas, the digital collage pops with hits of color amidst the stark black and white memories of a distant world.

DoN Brewer Decameron, Da Vinci Art Alliance @ Smile Gallery

Rosalind Bloom, The Embrace..., oil & mixed media collage and DoN Brewer, Heliotrope, digital photograph, digital print.  Roz’s painting refers to the boils caused by the Black Plague called Caviciolli like some pasta, but when you got a boil you’re dead in 3 days. DoN‘s Heliotrope does not refer to the color but the magic stone offering the power of invisibility.

Alden Cole Decameron, Da Vinci Art Alliance @ Smile Gallery

Alden Cole‘s painting depicts the rise of humanism and the lesson of living in the moment filled with love.

Sadly, this is the last Da Vinci Art Alliance show at Smile Gallery, Ken Tutjamnong‘s restaurant has become so popular that he needs the room for diners he has been turning away and he can show his own outstanding artwork as he does in the dining room at street level.  Admittedly the art drew people to the restaurant and the gallery offered DVAA space outside the club’s gallery to do theme show’s like Decameron.

 

Photos by DoN.

Fibers and Textiles @ The Plastic Club

Fibers and Textiles @ The Plastic Club

Caroline Biel, Untitled, Latex/silicon/Monofilament @ Fibers and Textiles @ The Plastic Club.

Fibers and Textiles @ The Plastic Club

Caroline Biel, Untitled, Wine/ToolDip/Thread.

Fibers and Textiles @ The Plastic Club

Caitria Gunter, Untitled, thread/cotton.

Fibers and Textiles @ The Plastic Club

Fibers and Textiles @ The Plastic Club on Camac StreetThe main floor and the studio gallery have an amazing selection of fiber art which is so creative with trippy felting, witty quilts, OCD handiwork, lush textures and a freedom of design which is deeply satisfying.

Fibers and Textiles @ The Plastic Club

Kate Graves Fibers and Textiles @ The Plastic Club

Kate Graves, Camels and Elephants, cotton & silk @ Fibers and Textiles @ The Plastic Club.  Kate Graves’ quilt is like being with Grandma reading little Donnie Arabian Nights, the cold Winter wind blowing outside, inside cuddled under the colorful crazy quilt with marching rows of exotic desert animals.

The Fiber and Textile Show @ The Plastic Club has an amazing sixty-six art works which are sure to bend your mind and stir the imagination.  Through November 28th, 2010.

 

 

Photos by DoN.

Philly Photo Day, 10/28/2010 @ Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Gray Area, The Crane Arts Center, Fishtown

Philly Photo Day, 10/28/2010 @ Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

Philly Photo Day, 10/28/2010 @ Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

Philly Photo Day, 10/28/2010 @ Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

Philly Photo Day, 10/28/2010 @ Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

Philadelphia Photo Arts Society presents Philly Photo Day, 10/28/2010 – the concept is shoot & upload one image shot that day to their site, they then printed out groups of submissions on huge sheets of photo paper in alphabetical order.  Sarah Stolfa is a PR genius with the show in the fabu Gray Area @ the Crane Building, the raffle of great door prizes, the opportunity to meet other artists, the populist view that people in Philly have taste and can participate in grass roots projects with great results.  Martin McNamara of Gallery 339 told DoN he hopes next year’s project will be even bigger; the current show has over 300 submissions.  Read about the unique purchasing opportunity @ Philadelphia Photo Arts Center‘s website – $20. for an 8 x 10″!!!

DoN Brewer Philly Photo Day, 10/28/2010 @ Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

DoN Brewer, #28, Philly Photo Day, 10/28/2010.

Fred Wagner An American Painter 1860 – 1940 @ The Philadelphia Sketch Club

Fred Wagner An American Painter 1860 - 1940 @ The Philadelphia Sketch Club

Fred Wagner An American Painter 1860 – 1940 @ The Philadelphia Sketch Club.

Fred Wagner An American Painter 1860 - 1940 @ The Philadelphia Sketch Club

Fred Wagner An American Painter is curated by the artist’s great-grand nieces Cyndy Drue and Susan Brendlinger-Smith, who also co-authored a biography of the Philadelphia artist (available for sale at the Philadelphia Sketch Club), filling both the main gallery and the pool room with exquisite paintings of Philadelphia scenes, portraits, equine compositions and water scenes.  The Philadelphia Sketch Club looks beautiful with the incredible collection of historic paintings gathered together in a space where the artist actually worked with his friends.  An artist can only wish that their work will be preserved but Fred Wagner is cherished by his family, collectors and the art community of Philadelphia.

Fred Wagner An American Painter 1860 - 1940 @ The Philadelphia Sketch Club

Fred Wagner, The River Harbor, watercolor study, 8 x 9 ” collection of Cyndy Drue Smith @ The Philadelphia Sketch Club.

Fred Wagner An American Painter 1860 - 1940 @ The Philadelphia Sketch Club

Fred Wagner, Downtown Toms River, oil on canvas.

Fred Wagner An American Painter 1860 - 1940 @ The Philadelphia Sketch Club

Visit the galleries at The Philadelphia Sketch Club on the Avenue of the Artists and take a step back in time to when Thomas Eakins and Thomas Anshutz encouraged artists to get out and paint, some of the original easels are still there.  This year is the club’s 150th anniversary, the oldest art club in America, the Fred Wagner show wasn’t there long but the upcoming Legacy Show offers an opportunity for collectors to buy art by Philadelphia’s current and future masters.

 

Photos by DoN.