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.

Seen and Liked : Max Cole, Light and Line
Max Cole Sandspit, 2009 Just around the corner from us on Second street is Larry Becker Contemporary Art. The gallery is currently showing Max Cole: Light and Line. The exhibition includes 13 works. From outside the gallery you wonder: are these weavings? Linen fabric? The art feels like landscapes I have experienced on cross [...]
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Art-o-mat, vending art in a location near you.
What is an Art-o-mat? Art-o-mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art. There are 82 active machines in various locations throughout the country. Are you interested in being an Art-o-mat artist? Here’s the submission guidelines: http://www.artomat.org/guidelines.html
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Heavybubble at Artist Fellowship Chester County Art Center
On Thursday, May 13th at 7:00 pm the Chester County Art Center will be hosting it’s Artist Fellowship, a community of artists who gather for the purpose of networking, support, and sharing information. Heavy Bubble will be there to talk to artists about our services and answer general questions. There will be a pot of coffee [...]
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video : Jackson Pollock, 1951
Jackson Pollock 51, 1951 (excerpt) Hans Namuth and Paul Falkenberg (directors) Morton Feldman (composer) A peek into Pollock.
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new space : old city, heavybubble @ 110 church street
Heavybubble is happy to announce our new exhibition space. Visit us in Old City, Philadelphia. We’ll have the doors open for First Friday in May 2010 stop by and say hello. We’ve signed a multi-year lease and are working on an extended calendar. We are looking forward to showing site spacific works and unseen work [...]
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Talking about art : Louis Kahn
The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it. – Louis Kahn
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Wassily Kandinsky: the soul vibrating
Colour is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically. Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)
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Artists talk : Ida Applebroog
A snippit of an interview. See more about Ida Applebroog at her website : www.idaapplebroog.com An interesting article about her show in January of this year can be found here.
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Tyler School of Art : summer painting intensive
The Tyler School of Art Summer Painting Intensive is a 6-week immersion program for artists interested in developing their work in a challenging and supportive environment. The SPI is a non-credit, post-baccalaureate-style residency program suitable for BA and BFA seniors and recent graduates aiming to hone their artistic and intellectual skills, for students building a [...]
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a snippit of beauty, barisnikov/laguna
Just a reminder that as we get older we learn new ways to express our creativity. We use all that we’ve learned.
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critique quote of the week
I find this work menacing/playful because of the way the sublime beauty of the mental signifier endangers the devious simplicity of a participation in the critical dialogue of the 90s.
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To Die For : Ceramic Works, juried show
PROJECTS GALLERY announces its April 2010 juried art exhibition entitled To Die For.  In conjunction with the NCECA, the exhibition is co-curated by Judith Schwartz and Jack Thompson and will be on display from March 31 through May 1, 2010 at Projects Gallery in Philadelphia. To Die For Theme: Whether in effigy pots, vase paintings, or [...]
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