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Large Format Art, Philadelphia Sketch Club

The Large Format Art show at the Philadelphia Sketch Club may not have as many paintings as a regular group art show but there is certainly a whole lot more paint. The walls are covered with large works of art that have at least one length be a minimum of forty inches, the largest painting by RJ Haas is 60″ x 60″, the size limit that could fit up the stairs to the historic gallery. The juried exhibition offers the opportunity to show large artworks that often exceed size constraints for group shows.

“The Philadelphia Sketch Club “support[s] and nurture[s] working visual artists ” by providing studio space through our workshops program as well as by providing exhibition and networking opportunities; we support “ the appreciation of the visual arts ” by providing free public access to our exhibitions; we support “ visual arts education ” through our low cost, open enrollment workshop program; and lastly, we promote “ the historical value of the visual arts to the community ” by providing free public access to our historic collections and facility.”

Large Format Art, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Thomas Del Porte, Poseurs, 48″ x 60″. oil on canvas.

“Thomas Del Porte intends to tell a visual story within each stroke of paint. His paintings are made with thousands of little jeweled, thorn like curls, each stroke acting as an individual painting. He paints from direct observation in the attempt to capture a unique portion of the infinite qualities of light, line, color and spaces that nature provides. His goal is to communicate a visual quality that reveals something new within the movement and drama of the images he translates.” – Thomas Del Porte

Large Format Art, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Reagan Lake, Big Iris 2, 48″ x 30″, acrylic mixed media, Third Prize.

Exhibitions at the Philadelphia Sketch Club attracts artists from the region, the USA and the world. To exhibit your work in the gallery is resume worthy but to win a prize is a valued award with bragging rights. I especially liked the medallions with the club’s iconic logo, a wonderful keepsake and an elegant addition to the awards ceremony.

“The Archives of the Philadelphia Sketch Club contain information on individual artists and also on how they interacted in an organization that possesses a unique camaraderie. A key part of the archives is Seventy-Five Years of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the club history of over 1,000 pages that was compiled in 1936 by Sidney Lomas. Another key part of the archives are the individual artists files that contain information and documents gathered over the years.” – Philadelphia Sketch Club

Large Format Art, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Ruslan Khais, Last Sorcery of Autumn, Red and Yellow, oil/acrylic on canvas, 30″ x 50″, First Prize Winner.

Ruslan Khais studied at PAFA and Republican College of Fine Arts – Chişinău, his brilliant canvas, Last Sorcery of Autumn, Red and Yellow, stood out from the glorious fields of color, texture and composition of the surrounding artworks by being at once abstract yet naturalistic. When the artist was awarded his medallion and certificate he was absolutely thrilled saying to the assembled crowd, “I love Philadelphia!”

Ruslan Khais – First Place Award
Deborah Riccardi– Second Place Award
Reagan Lake – Third Place Award
Bill Jersey – Honorable Mention
Susan Uccelletti – Honorable Mention
Anne Kantor Kellett – Honorable Mention

Large Format Art, Philadelphia Sketch Club through October 18th, 2014, 235 South Camac Street, The Avenue of the Artists, Philadelphia PA, 19107. Hours: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 1:00 – 5:00pm.

Also on view in the Stewart Room Gallery will be a joint exhibition by two of our members:

Janet Cooke : New and Old works
Bill Patterson : PSC Legacy Auction works and some of Bill Patterson’s art collections
Reception: Sunday Oct. 12, 2014, 2-4 PM at PSC

Written and photographed by DoN Brewer except where noted.

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Marshes, Meadows and Reflections

light being (Kurt)

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light being (Kurt), digital photograph, archival inkjet print on glossy paper, 11 x 14″, 16 x 20″ framed, $300.00, DoN Brewer, Absolutely Abstract 2013, Philadelphia Sketch Club

When the sole juror for Absolutely Abstract 2013 at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, appreciates your work enough to select it to be in an art show the sense of accomplishment is extraordinarily gratifying. The digital photograph of an acid green wall combines several contemporary styles like color field, minimalism, performance, street art and computer art and even though it is a representative image the bold color takes over the narrative. The light becomes the environmental paint, the reflections on the surface interact softly with the hard grid of the cinder block. To know that someone else gets it, another artist, understands the underlying concept, and recognizes the inspiration reinforces my determination to continue the exploration of the abstract landscape theme.

How can a photograph be abstract? Because photography doesn’t really represent reality, it is a simulacra of a moment in time and therefore can be whatever the artist wants. An inkjet print is so different from darkroom photography, it’s more like painting with dots of ink than the chemical reactions of film development in the lab.

Thank you Philadelphia Sketch Club for the opportunity to be part of this exciting exhibit of contemporary abstract art by regional and international artists.

An Artists’ Reception will be held on Sunday, August 11, from 2 to 4 PM. Gallery hours are Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 5 PM. Admission is free.

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My Every Day

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Kenny Deprez, My Every Day, Philadelphia Sketch Club

“In July I am exhibiting in the Stewart Room, at The Philadelphia Sketch Club. My work explores time and place through photography and painting. I am interested in image making that reveals my experience in the everyday, and extends the process of making to the everyday. I will be showing for the first time a body of work that consists of a gridded arrangement of 12 x 12” photo-based paintings of my daily travels around Philadelphia. I will also debut an ongoing photo-journalistic project of my wife’s family farm (The Hayford Farm, of Pittston, Maine).” – Kenny Deprez

Kenny Deprez, My Every Day, Philadelphia Sketch Club

Kenny Deprez‘ solo art show, My Every Day, in the Stewart Room of The Philadelphia Sketch Club is cool hybrid photography, blatantly manipulated, enlivening the historic game room gallery with a modern sensibility. Kenny and DoN chatted at the opening reception held in concert with PHOTOgraphy 2013, the juried photography show, about the logistics of putting on a big solo show.

“Some of the work here goes as far back as 2008, that is where this whole series started. The painting on my photographs. Before that I was primarily a sculptor, video artist slash performance artist. And then this work, photography, sort of presented a way to continue somehow video-graphy or perform in my work. Like, I’m still in charge of the camera and the viewpoint.”

Kenny Deprez, My Every Day, Philadelphia Sketch Club

So you think of photography as performance?

“In some ways it’s performance based but it allows me to just make the work everyday. First, it allows me to move my work to the studio or to a gallery space where it becomes more isolated. Here I can work on the ideas every day. The photographs I take, where I’m taking the photographs and then going into painting and painting them, it becomes more of the hand being at work.”

Kenny Deprez, My Every Day, Philadelphia Sketch Club

The collection of photographs arranged formally on the gallery wall reads cinematically like a story board. Each photograph contains a separate narrative of time and place but together the images read like a graphic novel.

“I guess I was thinking, sort of, about the microcosm of this space that I’ve gone to a lot over the last eight years, I keep returning to that space and watch how it changes. It’s the Hayford Family Farm, my wife’s family farm, and some of the shots are really formal and some are more playful, some of them show the changes of a site that’s been re-visited over and over again. Some are just happenstance like the cat who runs into the photo. The arrangement reflects the microcosm aspect of it. It’s like a circle, like the whole world can exist there.”

Kenny Deprez, My Every Day, Philadelphia Sketch Club

What inspires you to paint on the photographs?

“I guess I’ve never really felt comfortable as a photographer. So this was a way to continue to engage with the photo and figure out the next level. Traditionally I’m a sculptor, so this is a way to think of them as an object, a way to put my hands on it.

The show is called My Every Day and that has a lot to do with the things I see every day of my life. It’s personal in that way but I hope that somehow it’s not just about me. It’s more about like that art doesn’t have to be totally removed from our every day experience.” – Kenny Deprez

Kenny Deprez, My Every Day, Philadelphia Sketch Club throughout July, Gallery hours: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 1 PM to 5 PM.

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Absolutely Abstract 2013

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Gary Bolton, Clearing, acrylic on canvas, Best in Show Absolutely Abstract 2012, Philadelphia Sketch Club

“The Philadelphia Sketch Club presents ABSOLUTELY ABSTRACT 2013, an exhibition to be held at its historic center city gallery from August 9 through August 24, 2013. This show will present a variety of visual sensations through non-representational and suggestive subject matter in various two dimensional mediums. The diversity of the works produces an explosion of color and form that intrigues even the casual viewer. An Artists’ Reception will be held on Sunday, August 11, from 2 to 4 PM. Gallery hours are Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 5 PM. Admission is free.

The Philadelphia Sketch Club is located at 235 S. Camac St., between 12th & 13th and Locust and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, PA. For information call (215) 545-9298 or visit www.sketchclub.org. The Juror for this exhibition is Bill Scott, an abstract painter and printmaker who is recognized internationally for his work.” – Philadelphia Sketch Club

Juror: Bill Scott is an abstract painter and printmaker. He is represented by Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, where he has had five solo exhibitions. His work has been included in numerous group shows. His works are in a number of public collections, including the British Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Woodmere Art Museum. Since 1999 he has made intaglio prints with the C. R. Ettinger Studio, and has made commissioned etchings for the Print Club of Cleveland as well as the Print Center and Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. Bill Scott is a critic at PAFA in both the Certificate/BFA and Continuing Education Programs.

ABSOLUTELY ABSTRACT 2013 is an open juried art show – click here for the prospectus,

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