Ana Vizcarra Rankin's Starlights are night-lights featuring celestial maps. They incorporate works on paper, celestial cartography, sculptural and technological elements, with an emphasis on environmental sustainability. For Art in the Open, Ana will create a new generation of solar-powered indoor/outdoor starlights specific to the 2014 Philadelphia night sky.
Opening Reception: Friday January 10, 2014, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
The void that Binds refers to the origin of the map drawings and talismans in the form of sketches on paper and small bits of fabric as well as collected natural geometries and textures such as coral, stones and bones. The trajectory of the gaze across the plane upon which las tapas are displayed, as well as the lines of sight created by the viewfinder objects among the large map drawings, becomes the void that binds.
This exhibition features work by two contemporary printmakers who seamlessly blend deep connections to the history of the medium while pushing its boundaries into the new and experimental.
Reception: January 8, 5-7 pm
Artists and designers today are finding innovative and surprising ways to combine the fields of fashion, environmentalism, ecology, and art. For this exhibition, creatives were invited to submit works that address the issues of sustainability and eco-consciousness in the context of fashion and wearable art. Artwork, garments, and designs could be created from sustainable materials, address sustainability as a practice, challenge our definition of fashion itself, and/or present wearable eco-friendly works.
Main Line Art Center presents the Professional Artist Members Exhibition, featuring works by a selection of its 2014 Professional Artist Members.
Juried by Sharon Ewing, Director of Gross McCleaf Gallery and Shawn Murray, Owner of Twenty-Two Gallery, the exhibition includes a variety of media and styles.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Friday, January 10 from 6 to 8 pm to mingle with the artists and purchase unique works of art.
Featuring work by Crane Arts Artists:
Kelton Bumgarner, Danielle Bursk, Justin Bursk, Bailey Chick, Dianne Hricko, Richard Hricko, Jennifer Johnson, Nick Kripal, Jude Lang, Kyle Lopinto, Susan Moore, John Roebas, Rebecca Rutstein, Rebecca Saylor Sack, Kristin Schatterfield-Rein, Tim Schwartz, Colleen McCubbin Stephanic, Ian White Williams, and Dganit Zauberman
We're happy to announce that artist TJ Walsh. has launched the portfolio website. Check out his integrated art journal.
TJ received his BFA Graphic Design/Painting, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Happy to have him as one of the tribe.
Opening Reception Sunday, January 5, 2014
Donna Quinn exhibits her latest group of abstract paintings. This recent body of work builds upon her materials-driven process to create layers of paint and mixed media that develop highly textured fields of color etched with organic lines, intuitive marks, and repetitive shapes.
Susan McKee is the proprietor of Old City Flowers in the historic district of Philadelphia where her paintings are continually displayed.
Susan is a contemporary artist working in The Mills Artist Studios in Manayunk and a proud member of The Muse Gallery.
A working artist, Susan shows her work primarily in the tri -state region. Because of the diverse and international audience that frequent Old City - An American Art place" her clients include those in the Philadelphia area, as close as New York and as far as Chile.
In my paintings and works on paper, elements of nature are magnified, overlapped and obscured, reflecting the continual growth and change, which is the touchstone of the natural world. By altering the scale of the forms and elements, the work suggests shared origins: cellular structures, earth and landscape formations.
