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.

Density by Carol Wisker
our tribe
Carol Wisker, Strings + Things
exhibition
April 4 – April 29, 2012

New works by Carol Wisker and Melissa Maddonni Haims.

Carol Wisker is a member of the 3rd Street Gallery, a co-operative artists space in Old City. Wisker's abstract sculptures and paintings explore the use of line in the fluidity of paint and in the combination of fiber with a variety of diverse materials, including silk cocoons, hand-cast paper, wood, bamboo and metal.

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exhibitions
Anne Saint Peter photographs at the Cosmopolitan Club

Went over to The Cosmopolitan Club today to see photos by Anne Saint Peter. A wonderful exhibition of Philadelphia. Take a moment to stop in and see the show at a Philadelphia Landmark.

The Cosmopolitan Club of Philadelphia >
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Soundings #1 by Stella Untalan
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Stella Untalan new drawings in Spring Awakening
exhibition
April 2 – May 22, 2012

Spring Awakening is a group exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Lorraine Gessner, Linda Dubin Garfield, Mary Kane and Stella Untalan. Please join us for the reception honoring Ed Bronstein, who started art exhibitions at the Philadelphia Board of Ethics.

Stella Untalan will be showing six drawings in her new Soundings Series.

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exhibitions {110 CHURCH}
BLACKWHITEANDINBETWEEN, Tom Hlas, Trish Thompson, Wendy Wolf
exhibition
April 6 – May 19, 2012

Instinctual connections pull us toward conclusions. The work in this exhibition involves curiosity, reaction, and natural repetition. It is an abstract conversation in the absence of color. 

Paintings by Tom Hlas, drawings by Trish Thompson, and an installation by Wendy Wolf. 

 

About Tom Hlas

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video
Artist talk. Ke Sook Lee, Sense of Place

FiberPhiladelphia is an international biennial and regional festival for innovative fiber/textile art. Exhibitions are planned for 40 locations including major institutions and independent venues. They include work by renowned international artists and a new generation of artists breaking into the field.

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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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