Abstract artists Carol Wisker and Howard Brunner will present new paintings and new digital prints at the Smile Gallery.
This show is the couple’s first exhibition together as well as Brunner’s return to creating images generated from his inner vision.  Howard, who is well known for his abstract urban photography, says of his latest work: ”In my photography work I go looking for pertinent visual experiences while in this new body of work I can build internal experiences that are hopefully moving and emotionally engaging”.

The six mesmerizing images in Circumspections pulsate with richly saturated color and are exciting explorations of color perception.
Brunner’s many solo shows include a Challenge Exhibition at the Fleisher Art Memorial and an exhibition in the Morris Gallery at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.  His photographs are included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Michener Museum and the Allentown Museum of Art and are widely collected.

In Carol Wisker’s Scape paintings and collages the artist responds to the architecture and intense density of the urban landscape, a theme she has passionately explored in her painting for almost a decade.  This series of intimate works capture the excitement of the city including the grit, rhythms and sounds in multiple layers of expressive marks, lines and shapes. Each “scape” is a journey where one can experience shifting glints of a myriad of intersecting spans of connectors and structures.  Several of the “scapes” reflect more specific events on the urban environment such as the chaos and destruction of recent earthquakes.

Carol has shown her painting and sculpture throughout the region and has had many one-person exhibitions and is in many private collections. She has an MA from the University of the Arts and is a retired educator from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Smile Gallery
105 S 22nd Street 2nd floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103