Friday, September 5, 2014

First Friday openings


Via Kathleen Greco:

First Friday Gallery Openings
Every first Friday of the month art galleries are open to the public in Philadelphia. It’s a free must-see cultural art experience for students to engage with the contemporary art scene. Here’s a listing of some  recommendations for current First Friday galleries for Friday, September 5th. 


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Pentimenti Gallery145 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106  
ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday, September 5, 6:30 - 8:30 PM 
Logical Thinking; Illogical Thoughts 
Simeen Farhat - Sculptures & Installation 




Words borrowed from poetry in English, expressing logic and philosophy, and about life, Farhat’s sculptures are constructed with urethane cast-resin, which are intertwined into forms with undeniable rhythmic and directional force. In her own words, Farhat explains, “My objective in choosing those words is to show the essence of their message through abstraction;  by using overlapping shapes and lines which create tension and movement and stir up emotions”. 


Transferable Views 
Franco Mueller - Paintings, Works on Paper & Installation 


There is a dialogue that exists within the works of Franco Mueller. It is a quiet conversation between shape and space. These paintings and works on paper depict how space holds a shape and how shape holds the space. A partially illuminated background is silent. Mueller builds his paintings with layer upon layer of thin acrylic paint and his works on paper with layers of charcoal and acrylic paint. As each layer permeates on another, a “disturbed surface structure” begins to evolve.  

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Vox Populi319 North 11th Street
3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107  

ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday, September 5, 6:00 – 11:00 PM 
Vox Populi is an artist collective that works to support the challenging and experimental work of under-represented artists with monthly exhibitions, gallery talks, performances, lectures, and related programming.  


Room for the Whole Wide World Elisa Gabor, Sanaz Mazinani, Anna Neighbor, Sarah Palmer, Elisabeth Tonnard 


Room for the Whole Wide World offers five artists’ findings from the field of abstraction, using ideas rooted in photography as a starting point. Within these artworks abstraction is a viable method for discovering larger truths and mapping our desires.



Still Wearing Each Other When AloneJordan Artim, Anthony Cudahy, Aimee Goguen, Matt Morris, Mathew Parkin


Be my Jordan, and I’ll be your Pippen. Be my Mulder, and I’ll be your Scully. Be my Jenko, and I’ll be your Schmidt. Be my Bill, and I’ll be your Ted. Be my residue, and I’ll be your mirror.
“…we shall find out when the light returns what the new season means / when others’ interpretations have gotten back up onto the pedestals we gave them / so long as we are still wearing each other when alone”
                                                                                                                                      
-Frank O’Hara




Between a rock and a hard place.
Laura Bernstein, Lydia Hardwick, Rachel Rotenberg


Between a rock and a hard place. offers a sculptural conversation between three female artists. Their works operate as the remnants from an otherworldly archaeological dig, marked with the indelible imprint and purposeful grace of their three makers. At their core, these are non-functional yet social objects: acknowledging or denying the body, embodying complex human relationships, and birthed through intuition and memory.


Errata
Micah Danges, Luke Stettner


Errata is a two-person show. Stettner’s work for this exhibition includes small photographs, fruit pits, drawings on blackboard surfaces, graphite-rubbed wood frames, and paintings that reference an enigmatic and nearly recognizable grammatical language. Each is a study in essentialism. Danges’ work for this exhibition includes several photo-based collages that explore surface, texture and placement, and are each derived from one of two single images of a greenhouse.


Fourth WallFourth Wall at Vox Populi presents new works chosen by a group of professionals from various locations and backgrounds. Each month, one of these curators will present the work of an experimental artist working in video, film, animation, or new media in the Vox Populi Project Space.


Harvest
Chaja Hertog, Nir Nadler - Video
An abnormal phenomenon occurs in an olive grove as one of the trees evokes an uprising. Inspired by the ancient olive harvesting methods in which aggression and cultivation come together, the film portrays the absurdity of enforced ideologies and the impossibility of taming the wild.



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NAPOLEON 
319 North 11th Street
2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107  
ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday, September 5, 6:00 – 10:00 PM  

devynn emory’s Personal Public: On Gender Variance in Performance Art






September’s exhibition examines the importance of asserting gender identification in art, particularly in performance art where the body is a fundamental part of the work and the artist invites the viewer into this personal, physical space. In conversation with and through investigation of the work of devynn emory, a dancer and choreographer based in New York, the exhibition considers queer performance and its influence on social structures.


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Marginal Utility



319 North 11th Street
2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107  

ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday, September 5, 6:00 – 10:00 PM 

Le Horla
Wenxing Ding, Virginia Fleming, Mariel Herring, Adam Lovitz, Scott Schultheis and C.J. Stahl


The title of the exhibition references Guy de Maupassant’s short story in which the protagonist witnesses the passing of a strange ship along a familiar waterway, and begins to experience haunting hallucinations. Written in diary form, Le Horla chronicles the anxiety of an individual whose perception of reality has become ungrounded. With an inability to control his most intimate settings, familiar objects and spaces become actors in discorporate narratives.

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Practice319 North 11th Street
2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107  

ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday, September 5, 6:30 – 8:30 PM 


HominineAndrew Brehm





Hominine takes viewers cave-deep into a prehistoric lovers-stalemate through sculptures and live audio works.Hominine is installation as a sitcom of objects, each part humorously lampooning the eternal struggle of long-term relationships, investment strategies, and modernization. Join the artist for two live-reading performances on opening night or enjoy the sculpture as a recording throughout the month of August.    

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Grizzly Grizzly319 North 11th Street
2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107  

ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday, September 5, 6:00 – 10:00 PM 

‘Cut & Paste’Jenny McGee Dougherty, Selena Kimball, Tyler Starr 



McGee Dougherty's subtle works transcend the parameters of both fiber and paper by collecting marks, scruffs and textures.  She then translates these impressions into a visual narrative of her surroundings. “I read the paper every morning but never finish it.” admits Selena Kimball.  Instead she reworks the pages’ images, texts, crinkles and stains to fashion new histories from the recent past. Tyler Starr's mixed media works investigate the history of geographical sites where an unsolved tragedy has occurred. Basing his collages in research gathered from sensationalized journalism.

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Locks Gallery
600 Washington Square South

Philadelphia, PA 19106  

ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday, September 5, 5:30 – 7:30 PM 
Locks gallery exhibition program presents new works by mid-career artists while introducing the work of emerging artists to a national audience. Survey and thematic exhibitions of work by essential artists of the 20th-century including Louise Bourgeois, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson and George Segal, are regular highlights of the gallery exhibition program.

Forest Park Virgil Marti 




Marti will bring together new works with other recontextualized projects, highlighting his own investigation of the sublime and romanticism throughout history. Marti’s art merges his passion for Americana with his distinctive explorations of the world of domestic interiors.

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Philadelphia Galleries/Spaces to know 2014

ARTIST ORGANIZATIONS//COLLECTIVES
**this is an open post-Please feel free to add for your Peers**

VOX POPULI319 North 11th Street, Philadelphia (3rd floor)http://www.voxpopuligallery.org/Founded in 1988, Vox Populi is an artist collective that works to support the challenging and experimental work of under-represented artists with monthly exhibitions, gallery talks, performances, lectures, and related programming. For over 20 years, Vox has played a unique role in the cultural life of Philadelphia by bringing our audience a diverse range of programming and providing a supportive environment in which artists can take risks and gain valuable professional experience.

***Also Check outTiger Strikes Asteroid (http://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com/), Progressive Sharing (http://progressivesharing.com/) Marginal Utility (http://www.marginalutility.org/) Napoleon (http://napoleonnapoleon.com/), GrizzlyGrizzly (http://www.grizzlygrizzly.com/), Practice (http://www.practicegallery.org/)… all at 319 North 11th Street

SPACE 1026
1026 Arch Street 2nd Floor Philadelphia
http://space1026.com/
Space 1026 has been a 7 year experiment. It has developed from a handful of founders to dozens of co-conspirators. Together we are becoming Space 1026. Space 1026 is a common excitement for making, producing and creating, not for some outside world of aficionados, but for each other, for our own kind. Space 1026 is two floors of a building at 11th and Arch. That‘s in Philadelphia. It is a network of dozens of artists who‘ve had studios at the Space, past and present. It is dozens of artists who‘ve had shows at the Space over the last 7 years. It is dozens of artists who come to our events, and participate in our community. Space 1026 is a community - a creative community - not an institution.
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Print Center
1400 N. American St., Philadelphia
**The Crane Arts building is home to other galleries including the giant Ice Box (http://www.cranearts.com/)
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Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia
http://www.fabricworkshop.org/
The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) is the only non-profit arts organization in the United States devoted to creating new work in new materials and new media in collaboration with emerging, nationally, and internationally recognized artists.
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Crane Arts Building
2419 Frankford Ave.
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Philadelphia Institute of Advanced Study
1712 North Second Street, Philadelphia
http://www.pifas.net
Don't be fooled by their 90's-esque website. Click the About tab and watch the magic.
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GALLERIES
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Locks Gallery
600 Washington Square South
http://www.locksgallery.com/

Fleisher Ollman Gallery
1616 Walnut, Suite 100
http://fleisher-ollmangallery.com

Larry Becker Contemporary Art
43 N. Second Street Philadelphia 19106
http://www.artnet.com/lbecker.html

Bridgette Mayer Gallery

LGTripp Gallery
47-49 N. 2nd Street
http://www.lgtrippgallery.com

Pentimenti Gallery
Seraphin Gallery
1108 Pine Street
http://seraphin.squarespace.com

My House Gallery
2534 S. 8th street, Philadelphia
http://myhousegallery.wordpress.com

PAGEANT SOLOVEEV
607 Bainbridge Street, Philadelphia
http://www.pageantsoloveev.com

Little Berlin
119 West Montgomery, Philadelphia
http://littleberlin.org/

Rebeckah Templeton
173 West Girard Ave., Philadelphia
http://www.rebekahtempleton.com/

Part Time Studios
2031 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia
http://parttimestudios.com

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