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Marjorie Grigonis pieces selected for Máscara (Mask)

exhibition mask postcard
exhibition
Friday, September 2, 2011
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Máscara (Mask), is a juried exhibition exploring the contemporary use of the mask. More than 25 artists will be featured, with works in a variety of media, including drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, print, sculpture and video. Everyone wears a mask, whether literally or figurative. What are we trying to hide or reveal? Ancient man used the altered human form to represent the mysteries of his world. Shaman or medicine men wear body paint or crafted objects to transform themselves into forms from the spirit world.

EXHIBITION: BLACK & WHITE The Art of Dana Ingham and Len Cowgill

25 third graders1956 by Len Cowgill
Artist Reception
Friday, July 22, 2011

Be part of the event: wear black and/or white!

Len Cowgill places his drawings in boxes and bottles and surrounds them with writing and found objects. “My work is about containment. I explore some facet of the human condition in a drawing and box it up or put it in a bottle. I create a stage for the drawings and invite the audience to get close, look at and touch it. It becomes an experience shared, a story that’s been told; perhaps not the story I had in mind.”

Reception: Friday, July 22, 2011
5 to 8 pm

Carol Philips participates in Art in the Open

Book of the Heart by Carol Phillips
exhibition
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011

Art in the Open (AiO) is a citywide event that celebrates artists, their inspirations for creating art, and their relationships with the urban environment. Inspired by, but re-framing, the tradition of painting en plein air, a juried selection of artists working in a variety of media will create art outside, on-site over the four-day period of June 9-12, 2011 along the banks of the tidal Schuylkill River - from the historic Fairmont Park Water Works and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, south to landmark Bartram's Garden.

Lesley Mitchell at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia

A La Milonga / At The Milonga an artist book by Leslie Mitchell
exhibition
Friday, June 3, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Philadelphia Artists’ Books Travel to Venice
Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers Members’ Exhibition

 

Lesley Mitchell’s At the Milonga unfolds in myriad ways to reveal a Buenos Aires dance hall with musicians and dancers, and as the wings of the book open and the folds simultaneously tumble towards the viewer, the perspective brings the heads of joyful or serious participants right up to my face. Surely, I am the dancer next to the couple in front. I feel their breath. I hear the music...

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