artLIFE at heavybubble

Welcome to artlife where we post a curated selection of events, exhibitions, workshops, and doings by heavybubble and artists that use our services. Check out the  artist opportunities and events that catch our eye.

exhibitions
Discovering the work of Catherine O’Connell.

We liked her paintings when L G Tripp showed them last year. In this works on paper show Catherine O’Connell has only a few small and intriguing works. Go and see them.

image: Catherine O’Connell | What Alice Wanted | Cut rice paper, acrylic & colored pencil on rag paper | 12.5″ x 15″ | 2012

 

WORKS ON PAPER

March 2 – 31, 2012
Artist Reception, Saturday, March 3, 5 – 7 p.m.
First Friday, March 2, 6 – 8:30 pm

  

LGTripp Gallery >
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Logan Circle by Anne Saint Peter
our tribe
Panoramic Philadelphia : Anne Saint Peter
exhibition
March 1 – February 26, 2012

Panoramic images of Philadelphia

Reception
Friday March 2, 5-7 PM

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Brown Zen _ Francesca Costanzo
our tribe
Ladies of Leonardo : Francesca Costanzo and Carol Wisker
exhibition
February 17 – March 13, 2012

HERSTORY IV: Fourth Annual Celebration of Female Artists curated by Rachel Citrino & Liz Nicklus. Featuring the multimedia art works of 13 women members of the Da Vinci Art Alliance,a Philadelphia cooperative.

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artist opportunity
Create Change Public Artist Residency, The Laundromat Project

The Laundromat Project (The LP), in collaboration with Leeway Foundation and in partnership with The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Asian Arts Initiative, and PhillyCAM, has announced a call for proposals from Philadelphia based artists of color interested in mount

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artist opportunity
Call for entries : Meta-Fiber

Deadline: February 20, 2012 by 4:00 p.m. 

Meta-Fiber, part of FiberPhiladelphia2012 is open to artists working in non-traditional ways and with non-traditional materials that utilize fiber and textile art making techniques such as weaving, sewing, applique‘, quilting…Non traditional materials may include: recyclables, post-industrial, organic, or repurposed products.

Meta-Fiber
Art In City Hall &
FiberPhiladelphia2012
Philadelphia, PA

March 12 — May 11, 2012

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artist opportunity
Humble: Photography Small Works Exhibition Open Call

Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2012, 11:59 PM

This June, Humble Arts Foundation, in conjunction with Magenta Foundation, will present Small Works, an exhibition of 50, 8 x 10 inch photographic prints curated by Jon Feinstein and Amani Olu. Feinstein and Olu will select works from an international open call to exhibit at the Flash Forward Festival in Boston.

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exhibitions
Drawing Sol Lewitt at MoCA

 

This exhibition is massive.

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artist opportunity
Eastern State Penitentiary, Call for Proposals

Proposal Deadline (for all funding and approvals)
Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 4:00 pm
At Eastern State Penitentiary
Art Proposals — 2013 Season

Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site
2027 Fairmount Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19130

Eastern State Penitentiary
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artist opportunity
Call for Entries: Take a Seat!

Adirondack Chairs reinterpreted.

The Morris Arboretum and Woodmere Art Museum, located in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, are collaborating to organize an outdoor exhibition during the summer of 2012.

 

Call for Artists

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newsy
Last days to see 30 Americans at the Corcoran

It’s the last days to get a chance to see this survey of African American Artists.

from the website:
30 Americans is a wide-ranging survey of work by many of the most important African American artists of the last three decades. Selected from the Rubell Family Collection, the exhibition brings together seminal figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Hammons with younger and emerging artists such as Kehinde Wiley and Shinique Smith.

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work by Caroline Furr
our tribe
Caroline Furr in American Impressions 2012
exhibition
January 30 – March 9, 2012

Juried printmaking & Book Art Exhibition : All Traditional and Digital Print Media
American Impressions 2012, a national juried exhibition of traditional and digital print media and book art by 28 professional artists from across the United States, will be on view at the William Paterson University Galleries

Reception Date
Sunday, February 5, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

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video
Artist conversation: Rebecca Gilbert

We wanted to share this video of Rebecca Gilbert who has one of our sites.

A nice conversation about her work.  (sorry video no longer available)

from her website:

Rebecca Gilbert website >
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