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.

cWOW's annual Metro Show is one of the oldest and most respected juried small works exhibitions in the metro region. "Metro" originally referred to our tradition of moving the show by rail to its many host cities. Today, we use all forms of transportation, while maintaining our original commitment to bring challenging contemporary art into people's everyday lives.

Metro 29 | OPEN CALL

Eligibility | OPEN TO ALL ARTISTS

Any media, style or subject. Unselected entries from previous Metro Shows are eligible for re-entry

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From Seneca Falls to Philadelphia: Fourth of July 1876 and the Women of the Centennial. As part of Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts 2013, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Center for the Book are seeking artists, through the medium of the book, to explore and respond to prints and books in the Athenaeum's extensive collection regarding the Centennial, Susan B. Anthony, Women's Suffrage, and the 1876 4th of July.

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Don’t want people to see your work that isn’t your best? Well then don’t put it out there.

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SMALL WORKS NYC
A Juried Exhibition   Sept 23 - Nov 3, 2012

Submission Deadline: Sept 3, 2012
Opening Reception: Sept 23, 2012...5-7pm

Small work allows the experience of getting up close and personal with the artwork. The size of the artwork forces one to go in and really look. "Smaller beckons: get close, touch, relate - they inspire a reduction of the psychic distance between one thing and another; between people and things"
- from the book and philosophy: "Wabi Sabi"

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Heavybubble websites for artists is thrilled to announce that we will be presenting our Snowflake Salon again this year. Instead of making it an annual event it will be a biennial. Take a look at the catalog of the wonderful show we had back in 2010.

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Paul Behnke: Like Giants

an illustrated catalog will be available with an essay by John Yau

Opening Reception
Sunday, September 9, 12 - 5 PM

Exhibition
September 9 - 30, 2012

The Rosenfeld Gallery
113 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106

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Deadline:  August 20, 2012
Exhibition Dates:  October 5-27, 2012

Projects Gallery and Philadelphia's Brandywine Wokshop are partnering to present a juried exhibition that will draw attention to the breadth and depth of printmaking utilizing innovative, new approaches. Artists are invited to submit examples of contemporary printmaking for review by an expert jury.

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Space
 1026
 Studios 
& 
Gallery
 is
 holding
 an
 open 
video 
call
 for
 the
 upcoming 
screening
 series 
Traps. 
Work
 submitted
 will 
be
 shown
 on 
one
 of
 three
 screening 
dates (August 8th, 15th, 22nd) 
and
 should 
address 
themes 
related
 to
 physical
 or 
psychological
 entrapment:
 the
 notion 
of 
being
 hemmed‐in 
or 
tied
 down; 
issues
 of
 deception 
and
 struggle; 
the
 nature
 of 
control
 as 
it 
relates 
to 
capture
 and
 possession;
 getting
 stuck
 and
 becoming
 unstuck.
Guidelines

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exhibition
December 7 January 18, 2013

365 is the result of a drawing-a-day project — a daily constancy in drawing. Experimenting with a foreign surface and unfamiliar tools, Stella drew with sketch software on her iPhone. A step outside the studio and away from the comfort of familiar, analog tools. 

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University of the Arts MFA Program in Studio Art's 18th Annual Summer Lecture Series

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Precisely nowhere by Edith Newhall (Philadelphia Inquirer June 17, 2012)


Josette Urso's oil paintings on panels conjure things and places in her real life quickly and democratically jotted down, but without a there there. The mutable areas between her gestures, lines, and scaffolding-like shapes suggest the time, as much as the physical space, that lies in between each observance.

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Density by Carol Wisker
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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