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Through My Window @ Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts

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Through My Window @ Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts

Through My Window, Da Vinci Art Alliance Members Traveling Art Show now in Millville, NJ Arts District in the Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts through 7 – 10 -2010

Through My Window @ Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts

Carol Wisker - Through My Window @ Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts

Carol Wisker with her award winning mixed media creation, Machine: War Games Series, when the show first opened at Smile Gallery, Carol won Best in Show.  The huge gallery space at RRCA is a wonderful opportunity to see most of the original show hanging together again.  3rd Friday in Millville was really fun with live entertainment tucked into every park, alley and plaza including a glee club performance!!!  The creative vibe of the monthly event with art shows, restaurants and shops welcome visitors warmly with small town ambiance and upscale art.

Ona Kalstein - Through My Window @ Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts

Ona Kalstein, Through My Window @ Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts.

Ted Warchal - Through My Window @ Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts

Ted Warchal @ Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts special exhibit, Through My Window, A Da Vinci Art Alliance Members Exhibit.  Ted, Ona & DoN are members of the Board of Directors of Da Vinci, thanks to all the artists & volunteers who arranged for the art to show up on time and to Dr. Debra Miller & David Foss for the expert installation, the RRCA is a wonderful exhibition space.

David Foss & Nicole Koenitzer

David Foss & Nicole Koenitzer.

Through My Window @ Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Art

 Betsy Alexander - Through My Window @ Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts

Betsy Alexander - Through My Window @ Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts

Betsy Alexander‘s Sci-Fi homage drew some teenage geeks into the gallery who seemed mesmerized at the depth of knowledge in the obscure references.  Burnell Yow! told DoN he was hesitant when Betsy voiced her encyclopedic idea – but beam me up!

DoN Brewer & Lilliana Didovic - Through My Window @ Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts

DoN Brewer‘s drawing of Paris rooftops is paired perfectly with Lilliana Didovic‘s Boathouse Row painting.

The concept pf Through My Window is that more than 20 artists were offered a window to do whatever they wanted with, the result is a uniquely Philadelphian art perspective: Bobbie Adams, Betsy Alexander, Jesse Best, DoN Brewer, Rachel Citrino. Alden Cole. Lilliana Didovic, Jerry di Falco, David Foss, Carl Johnson, Ona Kalstein, Nicole Koenitzer, Gail Kotel, Rikard Larma, Lee Muslin, Liz Nicklus, Kathryn Pannepacker, Michael Shane Simmons, Mike Sweeney, Ted Warchal, Carol Wisker & Burnell Yow!

 

 

Photos by DoNBrewerPhotography.

Seven @ Da Vinci Art Alliance – 2010 Annual Fundraiser

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DoN Brewer - Seven - Da Vinci Art Alliance

DoN Brewer, Seven, Photoshop.

Seven Prospectus

Seven, a Da Vinci Art Alliance Members Exhibition @ Da Vinci Art Alliance opens 7/10/10, the annual fundraiser is 7/17/10

Seven @ Da Vinci Art Alliance – 2010 Annual Fundraiser

Da Vinci Art Alliance presents 79th Anniversary Fundraiser, July 17th, 2010.

215-829-0466

 

REMINDER TO ALL DA VINCI ARTISTS:

Our annual members show in July is on the theme of Seven; there is no entry fee for submissions, all work will be included, per rules on attached prospectus.  The exhibition will travel to The Noyes Museum of Art in October!

CALENDAR FOR JULY MEMBERS SHOW:

Delivery of labeled art work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 27, 2010, 5-7 pm & July 7, 6-8pm

Installation of show. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 8, beginning at 11 am  

Opening Reception and Awards Presentation . . . . . . . . . July 10, 6-9pm

Lecture* and Closing Reception. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 25, 1-4 pm

Pick-up of unsold art work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 25, 4-6 pm & July 26, 5-7 pm

*The PPT lecture on “Depictions of the 7 Deadly Sins in Northern European Art of the 15th-17th Centuries” will be presented by Da Vinci President Deb Miller, supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. 

All events are free and open to the public.  Please plan to attend, and to invite guests!

 


 

 

 

 


B&W@TPC

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Black & White @ The Plastic Club

While Alan Klawans, the Exhibitions Chair of The Plastic Club, awarded honors for the excellent Black & White show, DoN observed sunlight creeping across Vetiado # 48, a mixed media painting by Louisa Velben.  The painting glittered as if diamonds are embedded in the surface but the illusion was shiny paint bubbles in the thickly painted and swirled liquid.

 Black & White @ The Plastic Club

Pulled From The Darkness, Erik Melendez, charcoal.

Karl Olsen Black & White @ The Plastic Club

Karl Richard Olsen, Portrait, graphite. Bill Meyers, of PSoP, volunteer posed at the Plastic Club, the likeness is striking yet loose and free.

Black & White @ The Plastic Club

Rebecca Miller, Overrripe: Compost 3, graphite.  Miller is completing the Master program @ PAFA, studying with the extraordinary Scott Noel; this piece was created by drawing on gessoed board, draw with graphite, layer watered gesso over the drawing, let dry, draw some more…the result is an award winning drawing.  Miller also took home a prize the same day from The Philadelphia Sketch Club for an oil painting.  Seeing young new talent emerging from local art schools with the skill of masters participating in the grass roots arts movement in Philly is extremely satisfying.

Black & White @ The Plastic Club

Alden Cole, Dancing in the Dark, pencil and Leroy Fornoy, Night Bus, oil.  Pairing these two graphic pieces is genius – Cole’s trippy Starlings dance ecstatically and Fornoy’s painting has a Manga skate-punk nihilist vibe.

One of the great aspects of this show is the variety of media displayed, now that photography is accepted in  the art circles as a legitimate art form, many Photographic Society of Philadelphia members have the opportunity to show with their work along side traditional media – some photographers even entered paintings!

Black & White @ The Plastic Club

Arthur Ostroff, Floreal Ancienne, ink jet print.

Black & White @ The Plastic Club

Riikka Salo, Windows to Spruce, photograph.

Lois Schlachter & Alan Klawans

Lois Schlachter, Exhibitions Chair of The Philadelphia Sketch Club, and Alan Klawans, Exhibitions Chair of The Plastic Club, at the Black & White Show.  The Philadelphia Sketch Club opened their 147th Annual Exhibitions of Small Oil Paintings the same afternoon – between the two art clubs there are over 300 new art works by contemporary Philadelphia area artists to see.  The juxtaposition of two strong theme shows is visually and psychologically invigorating, one show is limited to size and medium, the other limited to no color, the problem-solving and creativity of the artists is inspiring, entertaining and lucid.

 

Photography by DoNBrewerPhotography.

2010 Philadelphia Open Studio Tours

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2010 Philadelphia Open Studio Tours

 

2010 Philadelphia Open Studio Tours –  pdf

Register @ http://www.philaopenstudios.com/Opportunities.aspx

 

 

Off the Wall Gallery @ Dirty Franks – An Offering on Camac

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Karen McDonnell & Anthony Cortosi

Dog by Karen McDonnell & Anthony Cortosi perfectly encapsulates the theme of this groundbreaking, historic art show curated by Jody Schweitzer of Off the Wall Gallery @ Dirty Franks Bar on the corner of 13th & Pine Streets, bringing together artists from the dual art clubs, The Plastic Club & The Philadelphia Sketch Club on the historic Avenue of the Artists – a painting of a three-legged dog created in collaboration by an opposite sex couple.  The formally all female Plastic Club and the formally all male Philadelphia Sketch Club have been co-existing on the same block for decades – the Sketch Club is celebrating it’s 150th anniversary this year with a stunning array of historic art shows & the Plastic Club is nearly 100 – both clubs integrated sexes in 1991, since then Camac Street has become a fantastic haven for artists to work and learn side by side, the competition raising the bar for quality, prestige and creativity for everyone.  Alan Klawans, the exhibitions chair @ The Plastic Club, told DoN participation in art shows is up 300%; the current Small Oils Show @ PSC has 170 paintings, you couldn’t squeeze another piece in if you wanted to.

Karen & Anthony, create all of their art together: drawing, cutting, spraying, dumpster-diving, brain-storming…resulting in iconic imagery resonating with vibrant contemporary urban life.  Their work is proof men & women can work together in partnership, even if the result is like walking on three legs to get there.

Off the Wall Gallery @ Dirty Franks - On Offering on Camac

The showcase @ Off the Wall Gallery with Dorothy Roschen, Cara Kendric and more, many of the artists are members of both clubs.

Mina Smith-Segal

Mina Smith-Segal @ An Offering on Camac.  Mina won an award Saturday for a painting she created for the Lantern Theater Company‘s Henry IV, Part 1 production, another art collaboration between the Da Vinci Art Alliance of South Philly and the St. Steven’s Theater in Center City – it’s art synergy, baby!

Off the Wall Gallery @ Dirty Franks - On Offering on Camac

Sibylle-Maria Pfaffenbichler is getting terrific buzz for her jazzy paintings of couples dancing; every show they’re in is instantly energized by the bold color and confidant brushwork, capturing the attention of the viewer like watching a really good-looking couple dancing deep in the groove of the music in a smokey dive with a great juke-box.

 Off the Wall Gallery @ Dirty Franks - On Offering on Camac

An Offering on Camac @ Dirty Franks is the perfect third leg for an art crawl; after trying to absorb over 300 fantastic new art works on view between the two clubs current shows, a stiff drink is in order.  What do you call a one-eyed, three-legged dog?  Lucky.