PLUG HOLE

2011-09-23T18:15:00.000-04:00

POST YOUR THANG HERE...
SEND INFO TO likesomebodycares@gmail.com

2011-09-23T18:14:00.000-04:00

Hello. We are thirdbird.

Thirdbird is the not-entirely-new-but-newly-named wing of Ladybird and Bowerbird. (remember blindspot?) Lately we've been spending a lot of time listening to dances and watching talking bodies. It seems that performers have some 'splainin to do...there is a synergy about wanting to say things and show things at the same time--and that time is two weeks from now.

A New Series

Seen & Heard is a series that asks questions about the intersections between dance & music & text. These are sad, funny, manic, structured performances and improvisations, full of ideas and concerned with the conceptual. We are positive that you will mostly like some of them.

BLIND DATE

October 7

Five chances at relating-to another field and to one another. Dance and music duos with:

Nichole Canuso & Toshi Makihara; Raphael Xavier & Bobby Zankel; Annie Wilson & Kyle Press;

Levi Gonzalez & Jesse Sparhawk; Beau Hancock & Rosie Langabeer.

INTIMACY, ABUN/DANCE, AND PERMIT

October 8 and 9

Dances about the magic of being a human being and attempts at understanding from:

Levi Gonzalez, Christina Zani and Headlong Dance Theater

Tickets and more information here

2011-09-06T10:20:00.000-04:00

G.T. PELLIZZI

TRANSITIONAL

September 7th - October 16th, 2011

Opening Reception: Sunday September 11th, 4 to 7 pm

Y Gallery is pleased to announce G.T. Pellizzi’s first New York solo exhibition. Transitional examines changes within the geometries of our physical and social environment and the impact these changes have on our formal and cultural vocabularies. The show marks a shift in Pellizzi’s artistic trajectory after years working collectively.

New York is both the stage and the subject for G. T Pellizzi’s new body of work. The city has been a source of inspiration for many artists, such as in Piet Mondrian’s consecutive series, spanning from New York City to Broadway Boogie Woogie. Barnett Newman’s seminal work, Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue and Flavin’s Primary Picture, both reflect how Mondrian’s vision shifts though one generation to the next. As a foundational ground for many artistic movements and innovations, New York City is a stage for these constant cultural transitions. Like a theatre set the very physicality of the city and its real estate developments are constantly in shift as well.

As a center of the global economy, New York is also living a moment of uncertainty. After the economic crisis, largely instigated by the real estate market, and as we come to the ten-year anniversary of the collapse of the twin towers, New York finds itself rebuilding at ground zero, looking to the future, and reconstructing its psyche.

By assimilating the vocabulary of construction sites, Pellizzi’s exhibition makes New York’s ever shifting nature one of its main themes. He appropriates, almost in an objet trouvé style, some of the most ubiquitous visual vocabularies and objects that inflect our daily navigation of the city. The temporary structures and surfaces of solid color (yellow and blue) that frame and mask real estate developments and city projects, inevitably become signifiers of obstruction, struggle, power, profit, and progress. These structures are what Pellizzi describes as “transitional geometries”-- geometries that conceal the content and protect the viewer/public from what lies behind their surfaces.

Continuing his interest in pedagogy, Pellizzi playfully interlaces the histories of the Dadaist readymade, Neo Plasticism, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, even touching on “dematerialization” by hinting that the real work is hidden behind the objects on display. The work also brings forth playful relationships between figure and ground, by literally separating the two and putting the latter on the floor; turning one into a volume and the other into a plane. Light and color are ubiquitously present, as are conduits and channels, reflecting structures of the everyday while also creatively sampling some of our biggest preoccupations within artistic practices of our time. (Sue Leponte, NYC 2011)

Giandomenico Tonatiuh Pellizzi (G.T. Pellizzi) was born in 1978 in the state of Morelos, Mexico. He studied philosophy at St Johns College and is a graduate from The Channin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union. From 2001-2011, Pellizzi co-founded and has been involved in various art collectives, with whom he has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, PS1 Moma, Centre Pompidou, PAC Murcia, and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and various art galleries in New York, Zurich, Berlin and London. Currently he collaborates with several characters of his own making in the guise of different personalities, of which G.T. Pellizzi is one. Pellizzi lives between New York and Mexico. He is currently in transition.

Y Gallery

165 Orchard Street

at Stanton (F, M, J, Z trains)

info@ygallerynewyork.com / 917 721 4539

www.ygallerynewyork.com

2011-09-04T21:00:00.003-04:00

Opportunity for Artists

Deadline: Saturday, October 1, 2011

Internationally known Projects Gallery announces a call to artists for “Square Foot Art Basel Miami.” During this year’s world-acclaimed Art Basel Miami, Projects Gallery will create a mosaic-style wall in its trendy Wynwood Lofts gallery in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami.

A minimum of 100 artists will be selected on a first-come basis (except for PEW winnhers, wink wink). Creating a grid comprised of 12”x12” individual spaces with works of all styles and media, Projects Gallery will provide artists an opportunity to be part of the Art Basel Miami art fairs events. This remarkable gathering of international art fairs and renown emerging venues, such as Aqua, Art Miami, Art Now, NADA, Pulse, Red Dot, Scope and numerous others, creates an arts-conscious concentration uniquely found in Miami every year in early December. It attracts collectors, curators and artists worldwide in a variety of settings with a level of enthusiasm and energy that is fitting for this international destination.

Eligibility: Open to all artists (except yous insideturds). All works must conform to a dimension of 12”H x 12”W, inclusive of any framing. Works may be smaller in size, but framing must bring the measurement to 12”x12”. For example, a painting measuring 5x7 must have framing that increases the edges to meet the 12”x12” requirement. A video must be shown on a hanging apparatus that makes the player 12”x12”. Sculpture must be wall mounted either by a hanging device or a shelf measuring 12”W. There is no limitation on depth dimension.

Jurors: Projects Gallery Director, Helen Meyrick, and international artist, Frank Hyder. The first 100 artists to apply are guaranteed at least one space on the grid. Once the first 100 entries are received, any subsequent submissions will be considered according to space availability. As entries are submitted, each artist will be notified immediately of their entry placement number. Selected artists will receive photographic proof of their placement on the grid.

Works for consideration may be of any media and any style, including painting, drawing, mixed media, print, photography, video, sculpture, etc. Weight may not exceed 50 lbs. All works must be original, for sale and available for the duration of the exhibition. Gallery commission on net sales is 50%, and gallery reserves the right to discount 10% off retail. Artist is responsible for transportation of work to and from the Miami gallery. Projects Gallery will not be responsible for loss or damage of any work while on the premises or during transit to or from the gallery. All works must be exhibition ready, including wire, hooks, etc. Video artists must supply viewing equipment. Selected artists must permit use of their work images for publicity purposes, including but not limited to print and web.

To Enter: Entries may be submitted via email, snail mail or hand delivery to the Philadelphia gallery. There is a non-refundable entry fee of $60.00 (U.S.) per artist for up to two artwork entries with two additional detail images. Multiple entries are permissible. Each entry is guaranteed a space until the first 100 entries are received, i.e. make one entry application receive at least one space; make two applications received at least two spaces.

Documents required:

Artist contact information: Including name as it should appear in print, email address, mailing address, phone number(s).
List of entries: Include the following information - artist name, titles of images, media, date and retail price of work submitted (Smith, Joe / Image 1 – Untitled / mixed media / 2011 / $xxx).
Resume or bio
Artist statement

Image submissions: Must be digital 300 dpi and at least 600 pixels but no greater than 1200 pixels in either direction. Jpg, gif or tif format. Each image file should be labeled as follows: LastName_FirstName_TheEntryNumber.jpg (Smith_Joe_1.jpg). Do not send original artwork. No slides.

All documents should be in .doc or .pdf format. Entry material will not be returned unless a self-addressed, stamped envelope is provided. All entries for this exhibition must be received no later than Saturday, October 1st. Entry fee may be made by credit card or check/money order payable to: Projects Gallery and mailed to the Philadelphia gallery (address below). Entry fee may also be paid via PayPal. If any of the above requirements are not met, the submission will be deemed ineligible.

Mail or drop off submissions and entry fee to:
ProjectsGallery Attn: Square Foot Art Basel Miami
629 N. 2nd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19123

PayPal payments to either: info@projectsgallery.com or 267-303-9652
Indicate payment for Square Foot ABM

Calendar for Square Foot Art Basel Miami

Entry deadline: Saturday, October 1, 2011
Final notification: Saturday, October 15, 2011
Selected work(s) to Miami gallery: November 14-19, 2011 – no works accepted after November 19th
Exhibition opens: Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Exhibition closes: Saturday, December 10, 2011
Reception: Second Saturday, December 10, 2011 7 – 11 PM
Work pick up or return shipping: December 11-12, 2011 pick-up work or prepaid shipping returned

All shipped works must arrive in reusable packaging (with complete installation instructions where applicable) and include a prepaid, return-shipping label. An appointment must be made for hand-delivered works to the Miami gallery. DO NOT send works to the Philadelphia gallery. Any works not picked up by December 12, 2011 will be charged a $5 per day storage fee.

In addition to the exhibition, postcards and e-announcements will be produced, press releases and images will be sent out and the exhibition will be highlighted on the gallery’s website.

Questions? Contact info@projectsgallery.com or call 267-303-9652.

Dissedclaimer: Projects Gallery will in actualtitty accept the work of even stinky PEW winnhers. Artblahg was just having fun witz yous to make an important point that being exclusive is wrong, hurtfool and just plain BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2011-08-22T10:09:00.000-04:00

Rising to the Stratosphere

New work by Piety Choi at Highwire Gallery
September 2 - 25, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday September 2, 5-9pm

Highwire’s September exhibit Rising to the Stratosphere is an exhibit of paintings by artist Piety Choi. Piety’s work interprets the human spirit, rising from the depths of the sea to the extreme outreaches of the stratosphere; an expression of freedom and hope that resides in all of us.

Choi, a Korean-born American artist and graduate of the Pennsylania Academy of Fine Arts, brings an Eastern influence to her Western education, painting gritty and sublime abstractions, often incorporating sand as a key medium. Her art is meditative and contemplative, engaging the viewer in a search for eternal meaning. In her artist statement, Piety writes that she seeks “to see movements in stillness; purpose in chaos; hope in hopelessness; divinity in the ordinary.” Rising to the Stratosphere is an invitation to reflect on inner freedom, unbound possibilities, and unyielding hope. Preview her work at www.flickr.com/interiorcastle.

Highwire Gallery also presents Looking for Order by guest artist Karen Steen, in the Annex of the Gallery.

Artist Statement by Karen Steen, September, 2011

Thanks to science, we can see, what according to nature’s design, is invisible to us. There in the microscopic realm, just beneath the surface, it is possible to observe a myriad of intricate forms and systems, interconnected in a sort of glorious dance. We can watch as cells and organisms reach out, touch, separate, cluster, and spread. For me, this small-scale world represents that which is omnipresent, yet overlooked. The feeling that civilization is bearing down and damaging the balance of nature’s elaborate systems, fuels my continued interest in organic forms and their relationships.

My work consists of drawings, collages and relief sculptures. These approaches blend precise drawing or cutting with random changes to papers produced by drips, contact with rust, or immersion in liquid. I play with both repetition and endless variety, features from the world of biology. The small drawings are delicate and meticulously rendered, and call for close examination by the viewer. The collages and reliefs involve the creation and arrangement of shapes in response to my study of all sorts of microscopic and botanical forms. These works are larger, abstract, and more playful than the drawings. I integrate numerous materials into the collages and reliefs, including string, colored mesh, fiberglass screen, wood, and plexiglass. Several pieces in this exhibition are a result of my exploration into black and white.

Hours: Friday, Saturday and Sunday 12-4 pm
For more info email highwiregallery@gmail.com or piety.choi@gmail.com

Events at Highwire for September

9/8/2011 - Mary Halvorson/Weasel Water/Peter Evans Trio (Brooklyn), Archer Spade & Helena Espvall 7:30pm $6
free jazz/improv

9/19/2011 - Barn Owl (San Francisco), Comoros & Moral Crayfish 7:30pm $6 psychedelic/drone/experimental

9/21/2011 - Ezramo (Berlin), Rinus Van Albeek (Berlin) & Mar8ram 7:30pm $6 avant vocal & electronic/electro-acoustic

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Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19125
www.highwiregallery.com

2011-08-01T19:34:00.003-04:00

For the art kiddies whom we lovvveeeeeeeee!!!!!!
use this link for information

2011-05-11T16:35:00.000-04:00

Morton Feldman:
American Sublime

Bowerbird is proud to present AMERICAN SUBLIME, the first major festival in Philadelphia devoted to the singular music of Morton Feldman (1926-87), Saturday, June 4 - Sunday, June 12. The festival is includes seven concerts at venues throughout the city, with performances by some of the leading Feldman interpreters of our time. AMERICAN SUBLIME focuses on music from the last years of Feldman's life, all of it heard for the first time in Philadelphia. The centerpiece is an extremely rare performance of his monumental, six-hour String Quartet No. 2, which concludes the festival at the Philadelphia Cathedral on June 12.

Music critic Kyle Gann remarks that "in the current Babel of musical styles, Feldman is almost the only composer whose music appeals across stylistic boundaries, among minimalists, postserialists, 12-tone holdouts, electronic composers, academics, Downtowners, MAX programmers, DJ artists, and other miscellaneous wastrels." Feldman's utterly unique musical language, abstract yet deeply personal, leaves an indelible impression.

AMERICAN SUBLIME takes its name from the title of an essay by critic/author Alex Ross on Feldman's music, capturing two essential qualities of Feldman's music: the vital place it occupies in the American experimental tradition, and the numinous, otherworldly quality of the music itself, akin to the paintings of the composer's close friend, Mark Rothko.

More information is available at:

http://www.americansublime.org

Tickets are now on sale:

http://www.eventbrite.com/org/1129087673

Bowerbird, Inc.
2226 Locust Street
Philadelphia , PA 19103

To find out more about how you can get involved, visit our support page by clicking here.

2011-04-19T19:19:00.000-04:00

May Exhibit at Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

MORE MOON, MORE STORM
Paintings by Peter Kinney

Digging deeper, artist Peter Kinney has returned to ponder the mystery of night and the power of Nature. Recent travels and hermitages have been captured on paper with sultry silt and inky indulgence. In the introduction to Kinney’s self-published book Sand and Sky, Philadelphia Sculptors president, Leslie Kaufman, wrote the following about Kinney’s craft;

Ambiguous shapes emerge from the swirls of paint and mud and become inhabitants of magical landscapes. The physical becomes the metaphysical as an effusion of light and color uplifts the weight and darkness of matter. The spirit of the earth becomes visible as Kinney the painter transforms into Kinney the alchemist.

Kinney commands the main gallery of Highwire with his range of subtle and bold expression, while the back gallery is inhabited by the work of guest artist Joyce Chan.

Solace in Reverie by Chan is comprised of works inspired by the remnants of impressed imagery—remembered, dreamt or imagined—which commingle with everyday snapshots of our urban environment. Her compositions create the allusion of narratives, pieced from the perennial fragments of recollection.

May 6 - May 29, 2011

First Friday Opening Reception: May 6, 5- 9 PM
2040 Frankford Ave, Phila, PA 19125

For more information please email us at highwiregallery@gmail.com

Music Events at Highwire

5/5/2011 – Rapoon (ex – Zoviet France from UK), Promute (Raleigh, NC) & Creation Boom Squad 7:30pm $6
ambient/experimental electronic music

5/10/2011 - Horaflora (San Francisco), Jesse Kudler, Moral Crayfish & Chrome Genie 7:30PM $5
environmental/acousmatic electronic music

5/17/2011 - Janina Angel Bath (Oakland, Ca), A Stick and A Stone & Dan Malloy 7:30PM $5
psychedelic/world music influenced folk

5/21/2011 - Highwire Music Fest II (outdoors - day of Trenton Ave Arts Fest) 12-8pm free. Heavy psychedelic rock, no wave and experimental sounds with Birds of Maya, Bad News Bats, Split Red, Chris Forsyth, Jesse Sparhawk & Eric Carbonara, Kohoutek, The Sea Around Us, Comoros, Acid Kicks, Magnetic Dog & Eliot Klein

5/22/2011 - Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa (Olympia), Jooklo Trio (italy), & Hermit Thrushes 7:30pm $6
trance punk, free jazz & experimental pop rock

5/27/2011 - D. Charles Speer & the Helix(Brooklyn), Boogie Witch & Zachary Cale 8pm $7
Americana with a psychedelic & rembetika twist

5/30/2011 - J. Graf (Baltimore) & Childe Bride (Baltimore) 7:30pm $5
noise & drone from ex- Metalux member

more info and links at http://www.museumfire.com/events

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Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19125
www.highwiregallery.com

2011-04-03T20:32:00.000-04:00

xtranormal film festival and blog

2011-03-20T11:48:00.000-04:00

HERE and THERE NOW and THEN
Curator: Jeff Thomas

Opening Reception: Friday, April 1st, 2011 5-9 PM
with performance to follow 9-11 PM, featuring Piano and Cocktail Murderess, Lisa Sunshine and Special Guests.

Artist Reception: Friday, April 15th 5-8 PM
with spoken word performance to follow 8-11 PM.

Closing Reception: Saturday, April 30, 12-5 PM

Performances throughout the month
Fri. April 1st, 9-11 PM
Piano and Cocktail Murderess Lisa Sunshine

Sat. April 2nd, 7-11 PM
Performance Cabaret hosted by Natalie Felix of Community Cultural Exchange

Sat. April 15th. 8-11 PM
Spoken Word Performances
Big Bill - Pronouncements Of The Latter Day Indians,
Bonnie MacAllister - Deconstructed Breath Verse Multimedia Performance Art
Lora Bloom – Reading from the Late Robert Jackson’s Manuscripts

Sat. April 23rd, 7-11 PM
Sexcop and Friends
Josh McIlvain and the Generals of Sexcop
Christopher Munden and the Return of the Bad Poetry Slam
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Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19125
www.highwiregallery.com

2011-03-16T10:13:00.000-04:00

Enduring Japan

With the tragic events continuing to unfold in Japan, it's been extraordinarily difficult to find the right words to introduce our two upcoming concerts. We send our deepest sympathies to all those affected, including our friends and colleagues and their families who live and work in Japan.

On Monday, March 21st, the 22-member Kyoto-based Kashu-Juku Noh Theater brings to life centuries-old theatrical traditions, once performed at temples, shrines, and festivals, and combines elements of dance, drama, music, and poetry into highly-stylized stage art. This is an exceptional rare opportunity to see Noh theater outside of Japan.

In a related, free event, this Friday, March 18th, Gene Coleman and Ensemble N_JP will perform a live original score to the 1964 Japanese film "Onibaba". Onibaba (which translates to "demon women") uses features a Kyōgen mask and a story telling style similar to that used in Noh theater.

Please join us for these special events, as we celebrate the enduring nature of Japanese culture and the profound influence it has had on our culture.

ONIBABA (1964)

screened with a live score by Gene Coleman and Ensemble N_JP

Friday, March 18th, 2011

@ The Rotunda

4014 Walnut Street

8pm; FREE ADMISSION

Ensemble N_JP
Gene Coleman: bass clarinet
Evan Lipson: double bass
Joo Wan Park: electronics
Kenta Nagai: shamisen

Bowerbird Presents GATE

Using a combination of western and traditional Japanese instruments, Ensemble N_JP will perform a live original score by composer Gene Coleman to the visually stunning Japanese horror film "Onibaba" (1964). Onibaba is set within the wind-swept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, where an impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence.

For more information:

http://www.bowerbird.org/newsite/events/110318/

KASHU-JUKU NOH THEATER

traditional Japanese theater with live music

Monday, March 21st, 2011

@ Perelman Theater

Kimmel Center

7:30pm; $25-$40

About the event

Encounter Japan's theater form developed and preserved since the 14th century. Kyoto's Kashu-juku Noh Theater, led by Katayama Shingo of the prestigious Katayama Noh family, is joined by kyogen actors from the Shigeyama family in providing this rare opportunity for American audiences to experience the 600-year-old tradition of noh and kyogen performed back-to-back, accompanied by live music.

FREE Pre-Show Lecture by Professor Linda Chance
6pm | Merck Arts Education Center
Join us for a free pre-show lecture given by Linda Chance, Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. As part of Penn's faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Professor Chance teaches classical Japanese language and literature, while assisting in promotion of and instruction in modern Japanese language. Professor Chance will give audiences a chance to hear more about Japanese culture and the history of Noh theater.

For more information:

http://www.bowerbird.org/newsite/events/110321/

2011-02-23T12:00:00.002-05:00

South of Yonder

Paintings and Animations by Tracy Lisk

March 4 - 27, 2011

Highwire Gallery

2040 Frankford Ave, Philadelphia, PA

Reception: First Friday, March 4, 5-9 PM

215-426-2685

highwiregallery@gmail.com

Highwire Music Events for March

3/1 - Astma w/ Violet, Blue Sausage Infant, Pilesar & Heart Land 7:30PM $5 Experimental Music from Moscow & DC

3/4 - Berangere Maximin 9PM free Live electronic music from France for the 1st Friday Festivities

3/6 - Rafael Toral, C. Spencer Yeh, Andy Hayleck, Stephan Moore & Carver Audain 7:30PM $8

noted Portuguese experimentalist on tour with some of Brooklyn's finest

3/11 - Jozef Van Wissem, Heresy of the Free Spirit & Oubliette Ensemble 8PM $6

Master of the avant lute meets West Philly's Ren-Faire wrecking crew

3/25 - Normal Love & Planet Y (Charles Cohen & Yanni Papadopoulos) 8:30 PM $6 a fusion noise, jazz, skronk, live electronics and new music

3/30 - Augmented Fourthet, Broadcloth Trio & Dan Blacksberg/Julius Masri Duo 8PM $5 * post-bop free bop a no bop improv

* this show in exile at Vwvoffka - 2311 Frankford Ave

more info at http://www.museumfire.com/events

2011-01-04T12:08:00.003-05:00

January at Highwire Gallery

Koenigin #1(Titanic), by D.Szteliga

January Exhibit
Eastern Exposure:
Selected works from East Kensington's Viking Mills Studios

January 7 - 30
Opening reception: January 7, 5-9pm

Featuring art by Michael Murry, Matthew Brett, Emily Royer, Clifford Bailey, Phil Vinson, Derek Sztiliga, Paul Santoleri, Sarah Pater, Julian Hasiuk, Tracy Lisk, Nathaniel Gertner, Jenna Wilchinsky, Nyx

January Music

1/8 - Lau Nau, Anahita (Tara of Fursaxa & Helena of Espers) & A Stick and A Stone 8pm $6 Finnish psych folk and psych ambient soundscapes

1/13 - Blevin Blectum, Ric Royer, Nonhorse & Pile of Girls 7:30pm $6 Experimental Electronic music meets performance art

1/22 - Noveller, Chris Forsyth & Sontag Shogun w/ Tom Carter 8pm $6 - Guitar summit with extremely diverse approaches to the instrument

1/28 - Rat Bastard Experience (w/ Marc Edwards & Weasel Walter), Bubonik Stupefaktion, Curanderos (members of Bardo Pond & Kohoutek) & Fun (DJ Set) 8pm $7 - noise night with a drummer from Cecil Taylor's ensemble and others.

more info and links at http://www.museumfire.com/events

Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19125
www.highwiregallery.com

2010-09-22T11:46:00.001-04:00

Emerging artists present humorous critique of modern life at The Great
and Terrible Collective

I Got Rosacea Just For This Party
October 1, 2010
6:00-10:30 PM
The Great and Terrible Collective
172 West Montgomery Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19122

PHILADELPHIA, PA: For their third exhibition in their Kensington
space, The Great and Terrible Collective presents "I Got Rosacea Just
For This Party," animations and works on paper by local artists Angel
O, Sarah Mooney and Kristina Centore. A public reception will be held
on First Friday from 6:00-10:30 PM.

Curated by collective member, Dana M. Osburn, the works exhibited
employ humor in order to comment on the troubles of modern life in a
way that is neither angry nor whiny, but is instead effortless,
direct, playful, poignant, unapologetic and at times over the top. The
artists invite the viewer into constructed worlds that, through
representation and humor mirror and amplify reality and what happens
to us when the social interactions that structure our lives don’t go
according to plan.

Angel O is currently a graduate student at Acadamy of Art University
and has exhibited her drawings, prints and videos in venues throughout
Philadelphia including Compound Warehaus, The Midwives Collective and
The Galleries at Moore. Sarah Mooney is a senior in the art education
program at Moore College of Art & Design. Kristina Centore studied
sculpture at Rutgers University and received her degree in 2010.
Curator, Dana M. Osburn is a founding member of The Great and Terrible
Collective and a recent graduate of Moore College of Art & Design.

The Great and Terrible Collective was founded in January, 2010 by 6
emerging Philadelphia artists to promote other young artists in the
region by providing exhibition and event space to work that pushes the
limits of the art and technology relationship without abandoning what
traditional practices have to offer. In their Kensington row house,
Great and Terrible houses studio space for its members, exhibitions
for members and guest artists, and community events. More information
about Great and Terrible can be found on their facebook page,
http://www.facebook.com/greatandterrible.

The exhibition will be on view from October 1st through 29th. Gallery
hours are Saturdays from 12-5 and by appointment. Contact
greatandterriblecollective@gmail.com for more information.

2010-09-19T15:41:00.003-04:00

Highwire Gallery presents
Exploring Invisible
an exhibit by artists Piety Choi, Maria DiMauro, and Karen Steen

October 1-31, 2010
hours: Thurs and Fri 12-4, Sat and Sun 12-5
reception: Fri Oct 1, 5-9 pm

2040 Frankford Ave, Phila, PA 19125

Image: A Pasture in a Valley, 30" x 30", Mixed Media on Panel, 2007 by Piety Choi.

highwire.com

2010-09-01T07:31:00.000-04:00

September at Highwire Gallery

Notebooks by Lydia Hamilton Brown
Sept 3 - 26, 2010

First Friday reception, Sept 3rd, 5-9pm

Highwire Gallery

2040 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19125

www.highwiregallery.com

2010-09-01T07:26:00.007-04:00

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36 N Third St 2nd Floor Front Philadelphia Pa 19106 P) 267 516 5034 www.jsfcontemporary.com

Please join us for the Opening Reception
Saturday September 11th 6-9pm
Memphis Flats 1714 Memphis St. Fishtown

To RSVP for this event click HERE.

Labold, 30, uses found objects as his preferred media. He composes sculptures using religious statues, trophies, taxidermy, plastic animals, cherubs, and other strange objects. Society's discarded items are re-contextualized to create contemporary relics, strange time capsules disguised as ancient artifacts and reliquaries. "I need to glorify the waste of our culture as a testament to... well, something?" Labold’s work was recently selected for the New Glass Review, published by The Corning Museum of Glass, an annual survey of glass in contemporary art, architecture, craft, and design.

James Labold: James Labold will be on view Saturday September 11th through Sunday October 31st at the Memphis Flats (1714 Memphis St), in Fishtown. A private artist’s reception will take place on Saturday September 11th from 6-9pm. Gallery hours by appointment only.

To view the entire press release click HERE.

For more information, or to schedule an appointment with Jeffrey Frederick,
please call 267-516-5034 or e-mail jfrederick@jsfcontemporary.com

2010-06-24T11:50:00.001-04:00

July Exhibit at Highwire Gallery
Summer Selections
An exhibit by members of the Highwire Co-operative Gallery

July 2 - Aug 15th
First Friday reception July 2nd, 5-9 pm

Please make note of new summer hours
Fridays 3 -7 pm, Saturdays 12-5, and by appointment.

image by Peter Kinney

Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19125
www.highwiregallery.com

2010-06-02T14:25:00.000-04:00

We hope you will join us this Friday, June 4, from 6-11 pm for the opening of the following exhibitions, on view through June 27.

Yes, Yes I am happy, aber glücklich bin ich nicht.

The best art is like an iceberg. Cold and impenetrable, diffident and austere-inhuman, an immense glass-eye whose dull and lifeless gaze contemplates the abyss. The work's vacant stare forms a frigid surface that's illegible, resistant and indifferent to its imminent destruction as well as the currents that buoy and shape its silent migration toward doom. Dreaming of wreckage, corroded by external forces, and wracked by hidden fissures and internal weaknesses, the immensity of its form is inseparable from the process of its dissolution. If society thinks in gold, as M. Teste once remarked, art thinks in ice-a currency that melts in your hands and proves rather useful in chilling a glass of whisky. The exhibition includes work by Ludwig Fischer, James Johnson, Jacque Liu, Kirk Loubier, and Dustin Sparks.

Ray Studios Presents...

The second gallery features the collaborative effort of several New York and Philadelphia based artists whose work revolves around the fictional artist Ray. Ray's work addresses issues of transition and conflict between the "primitive" and "cultured" self. Ray Studios' objective is to act as a platform for thought and reflection on these matters. Ray Studios Presents... is an interactive installation within which the viewer has the opportunity to participate in a simulated personal drama and be applauded for his or her efforts. Included in this piece are an instructional video; a small-scale theatre with stage, curtain, and seating for up to a dozen visitors; custom moist towelettes; golf pencils; sheet music; and more. Complimentary coffee will be served.

Meredith Nickie, This is Going Down

The fourth gallery will feature Meredith Nickie's This Is Going Down, a new series of works that explore scenes of subjugation-full of unrest, yet alarmingly still. Works titled after anthems of protest, Strange Fruit andWaltzing Matildaallude to lynched and drowned figures through entangled forms of race and class struggle where the marked body is laid bare. In Nickie's exhibition, the figure is made absent and represented by elements from the domestic interior and the public sphere in sculptural constructions.

VIDEO LOUNGE
Moira Teirney, American Dreams #4

Tierney's work is engaged with post-colonial means of expression-as the Haitian poet Rene Depestre put it, the profession of hybridization-by which ex-colonized societies fuse their different historical influences to create their own voice. As well as an experimental documentary filmmaker, Tierney is a founding member of SOLUS, an independent film collective and platform for film-makers working in Super-8mm/16mm and DV. The group was formed in Dublin in 1998 with the dual aim of showing Irish short and avant-garde films abroad and international short and avant-garde films in Ireland.

AT SCREENING
Joan Jonas, Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy

After three years of exhibitions in our Chinatown gallery, Screening is proud to present its final exhibition: Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy, by groundbreaking multi-media artist Joan Jonas. Known for uncompromising experiments that fuse her knowledge of art history, modern theater, dance, sculpture and performance art, as well as Kabuki and Noh theater, Jonas has produced a singular body of work. These influences are on display in her 1972 videotape Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy, all filtered through what was, at the time, the newly accessible technology of video production. Jonas' performance-for-camera is part ritual, part magic show, exploring the possibilities of the female image through alter egos and technological transformation. More information at www.screeningvideo.org.

Founded in 1988, Vox Populi is a nonprofit artist collective that supports the work of under-represented artists with exhibitions, gallery talks, peformances, and lectures. Gallery hours are Wednesday - Sunday from 12-6 pm.

2010-05-27T08:41:00.001-04:00

Highwire Gallery Exhibit
June 4-27

image by Susan Moloney

Off The Cuff

art by Eric Frantz, Susan Moloney, Melanie Piekema, and Nicole Tymowczak

Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford Ave

reception June 4, 5 - 9 pm

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Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19125
www.highwiregallery.com

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2010-05-16T20:00:00.005-04:00

damali abrams,

Autobiography Of A Year

May 26 – June 20, 2010

Reception: Thursday, May 27th from 6pm to 8pm

A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Autobiography of A Year, an exhibition of new work by 2009-2010 A.I.R. Fellowship Artist, damali abrams.

damali abrams’ recent video work is the culmination of a year of footage recorded every day of 2009, the year of abrams’ 30th birthday. Autobiography of a Year will be exhibited as a four-channel video installation that takes abrams’ personal history as a point of departure. In the spirit of artists such as Sophie Calle, Annie Sprinkle, and Linda Montano, the events in abrams’ life became the medium for her art. This year-long project has served as a D.I.Y. rite of passage and as an opportunity for deep and prolonged self-examination.

damali abrams is a Guyanese-American video-performance artist who lives and works in NYC. She received her BA at New York University and her MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts. abrams is a 2009-10 A.I.R. fellowship recipient. Her ongoing video-performance project, Self-Help TV, has been screened in New York, Philadelphia, Vermont, New Mexico, and Miami. This is her first solo show in New York.

For a full PRESS RELEASE, please click HERE<http://www.airgallery.org/images/abramsPR.pdf>

A.I.R. Gallery is located at 111 Front Street, #228 in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn. Gallery hours: Wed. – Sun., 11am to 6pm. For directions please visit www.airgallery.org. For more information please contact Gallery Director, Kat Griefen at 212-255-6651 or kgriefen@airgallery.org.

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damali abrams, MFA
damaliabrams.com

2010-05-11T07:39:00.000-04:00

BOOK BOMBS INVADES BALTIMORE!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Philadelphia-based collaboration, BOOK BOMBS, has recently invaded Baltimore, MD. Fresh off of their recent successes during Philagrafika 2010, Mary Tasillo and Michelle Wilson continue their collaboration as part of Axis Alley 2010. Axis Alley is the brainchild of Maryland Institute College of Art faculty member Sarah Doherty, and uses the alleys and abandoned houses of Baltimore as matrices for artistic transformation and revitalization. Free and open to the public, the Alley will officially open May 23 (with a rain date of May 22). Visitors are welcome to stroll along the Alley and see, among other artworks, Fibrile. Fibrile consists of paper hand-cut into the shapes of endangered Chesapeake area plants, wheat-pasted and cast onto the abandoned property of 2212 North Calvert Street in Baltimore. Images of the installation can be seen on the project blog, bookbombing.blogspot.com. For more about Axis Alley, please visit axisalley.wordpress.com .

As a way of evoking Baltimore’s blue-collar history, BOOK BOMBS made all the paper for Fibrile from donated blue jeans. After the paper was made, the artists hand cut the sheets into the shapes of endangered plants native to the region, such as Virginia mallow and striped gentian. The installation title also suggests not only the fibers of the denim paper, but also those of muscle tissue, and that the heart of the neighborhood still beats despite vacant buildings and potential demolition. Fibrileenvisions the potential for nature to restore balance to the landscape, and aims to raise awareness of environmental concerns in the Baltimore area.

Fibrile and other Axis Alley projects will be on view for free twenty-four hours a day, seven days of week, from the alley behind North Calvert Street in Baltimore, MD.

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Suggested listing: FIBRILE, the latest installation by BOOK BOMBS, part of Axis Alley 2010. Viewable 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from the alley behind 2212 North Calvert Street in Baltimore, MD.

Rocinante Press:
rocinantepress.blogspot.com
Michelle Wilson on Inliquid
www.inliquid.com/artist/wilson_michelle/wilson.php

2010-04-10T12:55:00.007-04:00

Please join us Saturday, May 8 at 2pm for
Tom Paine's Pigeons
A free performance by poets Thomas Devaney and Sparrow
in conjunction with the exhibition
Post-Revolutionary Selections
from the Powel House Moving Image Archive, 1888-2089
by Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib

Powel House Museum
244 S. 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA

Tom Paine's Pigeons
Evoking the spirit of American revolutionary fervor - it has been said that every signer of the Declaration of Independence walked through the doors of the Powel House - Tom Paine's Pigeons asks "How can we make a modern revolution?" Reclaiming the mantle of revolutionary spirit from the modern Tea Party Movement through story, invective, song, minimalist dance, and poetry this afternoon event asks the audience to imagine the true and historical spirit of revolt.

The event is FREE, but reservations are encouraged via email atlcp@philalandmarks.org. Admission without reservations is first-come first-served.

Sparrow is a poet and essayist who lives in a Victorian house in Teaneck, New Jersey. He writes a hoax-gossip column for the Phoenicia Times (of Phoenicia, New York) and plays ocarina in the calorie-counting pop group Foamola. Soft Skull Press has published
three of his books, including America: A Prophecy -- The Sparrow Reader. Sparrow has run for President of the United States in every election since 1992.
http://www.chronogram.com/blogs/show/Quarter-to-Three
http://sparrowforprez.com/category/blog/
http://www.groundreport.com/sparrow

Thomas Devaney is a Philadelphia poet. He is the editor of the website ONandOnScreen, and the author of A Series of Small Boxes and Letters to Ernesto Neto. Recent projects include poems written for "Common Ground: Eight Philadelphia Photographers in the 1960s and 1970s" with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Devaney teaches writing at the University of Pennsylvania and Haverford College. See his website:
http://www.thomasdevaney.net/

Post-Revolutionary Selections
from the Powel House Moving Image Archive, 1888-2089
A new video installation by Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib
April 9-May 9, 2010
(Please note: Museum closed Thursday, April 15)
Powel House Museum
244 S. 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA
Thurs-Sat 12-5, Sun 1-5
Pay-what-you-wish admission

The Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks is excited to present the newest site-specific commission in its program of contemporary art in historic sites, Landmarks Exhibitions: Contemporary Projects. At the Powel House from April 9-May 9, Post-Revolutionary Selections from the Powel House Moving Image Archive, 1888-2089 by Philadelphia-based artistsNadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, is a museum-wide video installation resulting from a long-term residency. The exhibition opens with a free public celebration at the Powel House on Friday, April 9 from 5pm-9pm. Special programming during the exhibition includes a performance at the museum on Saturday May 8 at 2pm by poets Thomas Devaney and Sparrow.

Post-Revolutionary Selections engages with the transitory nature of architecture and our evolving conceptions of the role of museums. It is based on a long-term contemplation of the Powel House as a site of restoration and preservation, and was largely filmed onsite at the museum. Hironaka and Suib also filmed a portion of the work in the Powel House period room at the Philadelphia Museum of Art - a room that contains all the original architectural details of the Powel House ballroom. Combining video of the sites with special effects and other found footage, Hironaka and Suib provide a window into alternative histories, possible futures, imagined scenarios and conversations with uninvited guests.

The Powel House was the home of the Mayor of Philadelphia just before and after the Revolution. Presented as a quasi-futuristic meta-museum, the exhibition repositions the structure as a site of multiple possibilities, and both plausible and implausible visions. The exhibition takes as its ostensible starting point 1888, the year in which inventor Louis Le Prince created Roundhay Garden Scene - the oldest surviving motion picture. Beginning with a touchstone moment in cinematic history and extrapolating into the unknown future of 2089, the four videos in the exhibition - each in a different room - act as skewed mirrors of the products of historical interpretation. This destabilized view ruptures open the museological process, calling into question the subjectivities of historical preservation and representation.

Post-Revolutionary Selections provides a way for viewers to engage with what cultural critic and urban and media historian Norman M. Klein has called scripted spaces. From Renaissance and Baroque churches, to shopping malls, amusement parks, computer games and even historic house museums, scripted spaces are those sites in which a narrative has been decided upon and constructed prior to the visitor's arrival. The Powel House - which had entered into a dilapidated state by the 1930s (see photo below) - is for Hironaka and Suib an ideal laboratory for examining the reconstruction of a site and its accompanying stories. In moving from a space of elite privilege, to disheveled industrial site and finally to interpretive restoration, what is gained and what is lost?

As a part of the exhibition, a performance art piece by poets Thomas Devaney and Sparrow will occur on Saturday, May 8th at 2pm. Evoking the spirit of American revolutionary fervor - it has been said that every signer of the Declaration of Independence walked through the doors of the Powel House - their event Tom Paine's Pigeons asks "How can we make a modern revolution?" Reclaiming the mantle of revolutionary spirit from the modern Tea Party Movement through story, invective, song, minimalist dance, and poetry this afternoon event asks the audience to imagine the true and historical spirit of revolt.

About the artists
Nadia Hironaka's films and video installations have been exhibited internationally at venues such as Rencontres Internationals, Paris; The Center for Contemporary Arts, Kitakyushu, Japan; Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Morris Gallery, Philadelphia; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe. Solo projects by Matthew Suib have been exhibited at Philadelphia Museum of Art; Kunstwerke Berlin; Mercer Union, Toronto; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, D.C.; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; and the 2007 Moscow Biennale. Their recent collaboration Right Here, Out There (Nowhere) was presented by Kim Light/Lightbox at ARCO Madrid and is on view through April 18 at Kunsthalle Galapagos (NYC).

Images:
Top and middle: Video still for Post-Revolutionary Selections
Bottom: Archival photograph of Powel House dining room prior to restoration, early 2oth century.

This project has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through a Pew Fellowships in the Arts Professional Development Grant.

The project is also supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through its regional partnership, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA). State government funding for the arts depends upon an annual appropriation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. Additional support of the PPA Partnership in Southeastern Pennsylvania is provided by PECO.

Production site access provided by The Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Partial opening reception sponsorship by The Downtown Club.

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Becoming and Unbecoming

current stages of ongoing process by Jeff Waring

May 7-30, 2010

Highwire Gallery

2040 Frankford Ave, Phila, PA 19125

Weathered work which has ripened, in the open elements, over the course of days, months and years.

Exhibit dates: May 7-30, 2010
First Friday reception: May 7, 5-9 pm
Artist talk and reception: Sat May 22nd, 2-5 pm in conjunction with the Trenton Ave Arts Festival and Kinetic Sculpture Derby.

gallery Hours: Thur, Fri 12-4pm, Sat, Sun 12-5pm

Becoming and Unbecoming describes both the process and product of artist Jeff Waring. Plein air meets plain dirt, with cardboard and acorns mixed in. Waring's open field recipes include buckets of house paint and tar, handfuls of pollen and berries, and generous splashes of acrylics and inks, sun-dried and rain-soaked. Waring's work is relational, contextual, and evolving. Two steps forward are followed by at least one step back, as semi-dry layers are washed away to expose underlying elements. Serpentine lines and undulating forms vie for space within layers of imperfect formality. This is a visceral and chthonic offering of homegrown authenticity, inspired first and foremost by the visual potential of the material world at hand. Waring's small works celebrate the regenerative tenacity of Nature, while larger works grapple with the smallmindedness of our lifestyles and politics. Through his work, Waring posits an acceptance of the sensuous complexity of life in all places, within people, parking lots and plateaus, and sprouting from urban gutters and mountain passes. Becoming and Unbecoming is an acceptance of continuous change, and a call for humility and wonder to transplant greed and ego.

Gaia Lies Down

Lunar Loops

Wet Weaving

2010-04-05T14:54:00.003-04:00

LANDMARKS EXHIBITIONS:
CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS
The Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks

Post-Revolutionary Selections
from the Powel House Moving Image Archive, 1888-2089
A new video installation by Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib
Curated by Robert Wuilfe

April 9-May 9, 2010
Powel House Museum
244 S. 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA
Pay-what-you-wish admission
Free opening reception Friday, April 9, 5pm-9pm

Post-Revolutionary Selections engages with the transitory nature of architecture and our evolving conceptions of the role of museums. The Powel House was the home of the Mayor of Philadelphia just before and after the Revolution. Presented as a quasi-futuristic meta-museum, Post-Revolutionary Selections repositions the structure as a site of multiple possibilities, and both plausible and implausible visions.

The exhibition takes as its ostensible starting point 1888, the year in which inventor Louis Le Prince created Roundhay Garden Scene - the oldest surviving motion picture. Beginning with a touchstone moment in cinematic history and extrapolating into the unknown future of 2089, the four videos in the exhibition - each in a different room - act as skewed mirrors of the products of historical interpretation. This destabilized view ruptures open the museological process, calling into question the subjectivities of historical preservation and representation.

Please visit our website to read more.

This project has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through a Pew Fellowships in the Arts Professional Development Grant. The project is also supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through its regional partnership, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA). Production site access provided by The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Partial reception sponsorship by The Downtown Club.

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Josephine Foster
Victor Herrero
Joshua Marcus
A bowerbird@LANDMARKS event
Curated by Dustin Hurt

Sunday, April 18, 8pm
@ The Physick House Museum
321 S. Fourth Street
$12, $9 in advance

Join Landmarks and Bowerbird for a rare appearance by modern folk singer-songwriter Josephine Foster in the beautifully intimate setting of the historic Physick House. Josephine will be joined by Spanish guitarist Victor Herrero and Philadelphia's own Joshua Marcus.

Over the course of just a few years, Colorado native Josephine Foster has captivated audiences & critics alike through a magnetic patchwork of recordings ranging from broken spirited balladry as one half of Born Heller, fiery psych rock gestalt with her rock outfit The Supposed (All the Leaves Are Gone) to the voice of an outsider folk siren (Hazel Eyes, I will Lead You) and her latest collection, A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. The one constant is the utterly overwhelming strength and seductive unease of her voice & the bravery of an iconoclastic spirit. "You might call Ms. Foster's eerie warbling old-fashioned, except that is evokes a scrambled past that exists only in her own vision: mountain songs that never were, spaced-out hybrids that never will be." (New York Times) "She's a Grace Slick for the 21st Century-and that's all grace, no slick. An amazing combination of God-given ability and formal skill. You can hear Jefferson Airplane in her music, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Joan Baez... She's also the one, out of that whole scene that has embraced the electric guitar, while at the same time being the most classical of them all." (Arthur Magazine).

Please visit our website to read more.
Click here to buy tickets directly.

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Landmarks Exhibitions: Contemporary Projects is a program of exhibitions, residencies, screenings, lectures, performances and educational strategies that is re-inventing historic sites through new and experimental contemporary culture from Philadelphia and beyond.

For more information, please contact:
Robert Wuilfe, Curator of Contemporary Projects
rwuilfe@philalandmarks.org

To learn more about bowerbird, our curatorial partner for experimental performance, please visit their website.

2010-03-26T07:18:00.002-04:00

Vox Populi is accepting applications for its Project Space
through April 30, 2010. Please forward widely.

The Vox Populi Project Space (VPPS) serves as a versatile rent-free incubation space within Vox Populi, in the active arts building at 319 North 11th Street. The space is open to artists, curators, gallerists, designers, and others seeking to pilot a project. The Project Space aims to mitigate risks involved in these upstarts by providing administrative support and the physical space needed to realize discrete projects which have as a primary focus an interest in fostering contemporary visual art, dialogue, and debate in Philadelphia.

The VPPS for the past two years has been occupied by Screening, a video/film exhibition space programmed by artists Matthew Suib and Nadia Hironaka. The space will become available for the next tenants as early as July 2010. The VPPS is 144 square feet and will be provided to the chosen applicants for a duration of one to two years.

Public Programs: VPPS should have a significant degree of public accessibility, in the form of performances, open exhibition hours, or other public programs.
Marketing/Communications/Visibility: Current VPPS projects will be posted on Vox's website and on exhibition announcements, press releases, and email communication.
Duration: Projects are one to two years in length with a potential for extension and/or re-application.
Eligibility and Requirements: Applications are open to anyone for whom access to space and supports is crucial to realizing a discrete project. Travel and material costs are the responsibility of participants, and Vox Populi does not provide or arrange living space.

Awarded applicants will be selected based on the quality of the work/idea being proposed, the availability of the necessary tools and skills to support the work, and in consideration of the overarching goals and themes as identified by the membership of Vox Populi.

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF SUBMISSION: April 30, 2010.

Submissions should include:

Description of project concept, including timeline and activities
Statement of objectives
Supporting materials such as writings, images, publications, etc.
Current resume(s)
Brief statement describing project needs and why using space at Vox is important to your project
Names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and addresses of three professional references who can comment on your recent work and artistic development

Applications will be reviewed by the artist-membership of Vox Populi and must be received by the above dates. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. Emailed submissions will not be reviewed. Please only submit requested materials as submissions will not be returned.

Submit materials to:
Vox Populi
Project Space
319 North 11th Street
3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
T: 215-238-1236

Questions? Contact: director@voxpopuligallery.org

2010-03-17T10:55:00.002-04:00

Elizabeth J. Smith
Barefoot Doctor Community Acupuncture Clinic
618 E. Girard Ave Fishtown, PA 19125
March 13 - April 30,2010
RECEPTION: Friday, March 26th, 6-9pm

Upcoming Events @ Midwives
"Recognition" - a show featuring the Mexican tradition of printmaking, as part of the Philagrafika 2010 city-wide print celebration!
February - March, 2010

2010-03-17T10:51:00.002-04:00

Highwire Gallery is pleased to present "Puneeta Mittal: Of the Earth" from
Wednesday, March 31 - Sunday, May 2, 2010. The exhibition will take place at Highwire Gallery, 2040 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. An Opening Reception will be held on Friday, April 2, 3:00pm - 9:00pm. The public is cordially invited to attend.

Details and information here.

2010-02-25T23:38:00.003-05:00

Paloma and Raúl in San Serriffe

A new film installation by J. Makary
A Philagrafika 2010 Independent Project
Curated by Robert Wuilfe

March 12-April 4, 2010
Powel House Museum
244 S. 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA

Opening Reception Friday, March 12, 5pm-9pm
Musical performance 6pm

Paloma and Raúl in San Serriffe is a site-specific film installation by artist/choreographer J. Makary, created with collaborating composer Michael McDermott (Mikronesia) and Brooklyn-based contemporary trio janus. Paloma and Raúl in San Serriffe is an Independent Project of Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia's international festival celebrating print in contemporary art.

A stylish and slyly humorous piece shot largely on 16mm film and accompanied by strategic sculptural interventions throughout the historic museum space, Paloma and Raúl in San Serriffe is a meditation on history, intrigue, experimental narrative and the biggest typography-based hoax ever. The project is influenced by both the aesthetics of 1960s/1970s filmmaking and an expanded definition of the artistic model of dance-for-camera. The result of a year-long residency at Landmarks, Makary's work was filmed on-site in the 1765 Georgian-style Powel House Museum.

Please visit our website to read more.

Refreshments Provided

Paloma and Raúl in San Serriffe
A film installation by J. Makary
A Philagrafika 2010 Independent Project

March 12-April 4, 2010
Opening reception Friday, March 12, 5pm-9pm

Powel House Museum
244 S. 3rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-627-0364
www.philalandmarks.org

Thursday-Saturday 12-5; Sunday 1-5
Pay-what-you-wish-admission during special exhibitions

2010-02-19T13:59:00.007-05:00

TARYN SIMON AT THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA

The Section on Medicine and the Arts at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia welcomes Taryn Simon on MARCH 3 at 6:30pm.

Taryn will be presenting a slide show of "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar". This work has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum in NYC, as well as the Centre Pompidou in Paris; Taryn has been a guest of Charlie Rose as well as TEDTalks. More on Taryn at www.tarynsimon.com

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

19 South 22nd Street, Philadelphia, PA

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, SO PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE/EMAIL THE ATTACHED FLYER. ALL ARE WELCOME, BUT PLEASE REGISTER at www.eventbrite.com/event/562666952

Curatorial Conversations, co-organized by The Galleries and Moore's BFA in Curatorial Studies major, discuss the creative nexus between curating and a variety of other societal mandates such as education and activism.

Curating and Risk: A Day of Conversations

March 13, 2010, 10 am - 5 pm

Curating and Risk: A Day of Conversations is the fifth in a series of public conversations about issues and ideas in contemporary curatorial practice. Through a series of grouped conversations with a roster of distinguished panelists, we will examine multiple ways in which curatorial activities can interrogate and engage risk. In this time of insecurities, rather than turning toward safety, what is a risky project/idea—financial, political, artistic, intellectual, aesthetic, moral, organizational, conceptual, administrative—for curators and artists? Is there creative release in the pleasure of ideas when risk is embraced rather than avoided? How do you access the successes and failures of risky projects? Or has risk become simply trendy? What is really at stake? And for whom?

Featured panelists:

Featuring Sheryl Conkelton, Philadelphia-based curator, formerly at MoMA and LACMA; David Dempewolf, co-founder of Marginal Utility gallery and the zine Machete, Philadelphia, PA; Homer Jackson, community-based interdisciplinary artist, Philadelphia, PA; Ruby Lerner, the CEO of Creative Capital, New York, NY; Aaron Levy, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA; Lana Lin and Lan Thao Lam, New York City-based interdisciplinary collaborative artist team (LIN + LAM); Radhika Subramaniam, Director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY; Nato Thompson, Chief Curator at Creative Time, New York, NY; Richard Torchia, artist and Director, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

Video interludes previewing Project 35, an international video exhibition of historic and contemporary works selected by 35 curators from around the globe. Project 35 is produced and circulated by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York.

Moderators:

Janet Kaplan, Professor of Art History and Director of Curatorial Studies, Moore; Lorie Mertes, Director and Chief Curator, The Galleries at Moore

This symposium is supported by Moore College of Art & Design through support from Frances and Bayard Storey for the BFA in Curatorial Studies. Additional support provided by Moore’s MFA in Studio Art, The Galleries at Moore and the Liberal Arts Department at Moore.

Admission FREE and open to the public. Pre-registration via email is requested. For more information and to RSVP: 215-965-4027; jkaplan@moore.edu; galleries@moore.edu

For information on Moore College of Art & Design visit www.moore.edu

2010-01-26T21:11:00.004-05:00

Highwire Gallery’s February exhibit offers up a mix of fiber, photography, painting and sculpture in response to the theme of Devotion; ardent, often selfless, affection and dedication. This exhibit is the response to an open call opportunity for artists, with submissions received from PA, NJ, DE, and NY, and was juried by Colin Keefe and Andrea Wohl Keefe, co-directors of Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space. Mount Airy Contemporary is an artist-run exhibition space in the northwest corner of Philadelphia.

Artists included in the exhibition are photographers Tamsen Wojtanowski and Julia Lehamn-McTigue, painters Kirsten Fischler and Debs Bleicher, mixed media artists Susan Moloney and Susan Wallack, and fiber artists Stephane Rowley and Rachel Blythe Udell, among others. A handful of Highwire Gallery members are also participating in this show, including our newest member, Harry Stormes, a recent graduate of Tyler School of Art at Temple University.

Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, February 5, 2010 from 5-9pm. The show will run through February 28, 2010. Winter gallery hours are Fridays from 12-4, Saturdasys and Sundays from 12-5.

Please be sure to visit our website for more information on membership, gallery rentals and music events presented by Fire Museum Productions.

Highwire Gallery is a non-profit co-op arts venue in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia, featuring monthly visual art exhibits as well as live music, video and performance art. We strive to provide the community with artistic variety and interactive shows to explore the creative process, free of restrictions often found in commercial galleries.

Highwire Gallery

2040 Frankford Avenue

Philadelphia, PA 19125

highwiregallery@gmail.com

www.highwiregallery.com

2010-01-09T13:54:00.001-05:00

Anono wrote:

you should check out the Blick Art Materials store on Chestnut. Hands down better than Pearl and blows the socks off of Utrecht.

2009-12-30T17:53:00.003-05:00

straight white guys can make art too. said...

This guy is a dude:

http://citypaper.net/blogs/criticalmass/2009/12/17/perspective-supergirl-at-nexus-gallery/

...as are these fellas:
http://www.marginalutility.org/machete/

Dude power!

2009-12-20T15:33:00.003-05:00

Side by Side Exhibit at Highwire Gallery
January 8 - 31, 2010

Member artists of the Highwire Gallery Co-op have invited guests to hang with them at 2040 Frankford Ave in Fishtown during the month of January. Encaustic abstractions by Erica Brown, poetic landscapes by Joseph Sang, and Dadadolls by Ken Maag are some of the works to be featured by invitees, complementing a mystic mix by members such as Piety Choi, Lydia Hamilton, and Joe Plageman. Please note... due to First Friday falling on Jan 1st, we're moving our opening reception to the Second Friday of the month, Jan 8th, 5-9 pm.

Highwire Gallery

2040 Frankford Ave.
(Corner of E. Susquehanna Ave. in Fishtown)
Philadelphia, PA 19125
Berks Stop on the L Train

215-426-2685

highwiregallery@gmail.com

2009-12-08T18:32:00.004-05:00

U P D A T E
Call for Entries
The theme of this show is similar to the famed 1863 exhibit, "Salon Des Rufuses". Little Berlin will be accepting artwork for the “Works On Paper Rejects” starting Sunday, January 31, 2010 12-6PM, Monday, February 1st 6-9PM, Tuesday, February 2nd 6-9PM. To be accepted into the exhibit you must have your receipt from Arcadia University or your label used to identify your piece. I am curating this exhibit in an effort to give a voice to artists who paid/submitted to a juried show with 1,256 entries that only had one curator. All are welcome with the exception of the 22 artists selected for Arcadia’s 2009 “Works on Paper” exhibit.

Show runs from February 5 through 27th. There is talk of a panel discussion, more on that as it comes in.

http://littleberlin.org/works-on-paper-rejects/
For more information email:bethheinly@gmail.com

2009-12-01T22:23:00.002-05:00

Art for the Urban Collector

Highwire Gallery will present the responses to our second annual Open Call to Artists this month in Fishtown, at 4020 Frankford Ave. Since our inception in 1988, Highwire has celebrated a wide range of artists, from the untrained to the obsessively schooled. Here we continue to invite the impulse to create, this time free from juried rejection. It's our little gesture of inclusivity, in a city proud of it's DIY attitude, but often burdened by a lack of resources and support in the arts. This exhibit limited the scale of work to 24", but otherwise allowed local artists to hang what they wanted to hang. Be sure to check it out. Opening on Fri, Dec 4, 5-9pm, and the show runs through Dec 27th (we'll be closed Dec 24-25). Hours: Thursday 12-4 pm, Friday 3-7 pm, Saturday & Sunday 12-5 pm

Our First Friday in Fishtown should prove to be a great event this month, with local artists and crafters set up all around Frankford Ave. Start here with us at the corner of Frankford and Susquehanna, and we'll have maps so you can visit the rest. Stop back at 9pm for the kick-off of our new music series hosted by Steven Tobin. We'll have 3 acts for you...Tiny Concept, Cash Slave Clique, & Two Years on Welfare, all for a modest donation.

Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19125
www.highwiregallery.com

2009-11-27T14:59:00.007-05:00

Hello friends of New Asshole

Perhaps you saw this on the blog, New RSShole, but in case not: Issue 1.3 is in development stages right now. After a lot of deliberation with the board, we came up with the idea of having issue 3 be the 'interview issue'. Like Interview magazine, but fewer glossy pages. The reason we're doing this is primarily because we are publishing it before January 2010. Seeing as that is only a scant 6 weeks to accomplish everything, and those 6 weeks are already busy with pumpkin pie eating contests and tinsel purchasing, it is perhaps a bit presumptuous of us to expect 3,000 word musings on the warehouse as womb. But interviews are so easy, and everyone loves interviews! So, we said, let's make a really good interview issue! Like, reallygood. Like, actually. This is where you come in.

I'm writing to you because you are one of 2 kinds of people:
1.Past contributor, and I am hoping you will forward this email/these sentiments to friends
1a. Of course, if you've written in the past you can always write again. No worries.
2. Someone that I would like to contribute to issue 3.

Here are some guidelines/points of business regarding issue 3:
-Hey, just because it's interviews doesn't mean New Asshole is any less serious. We are serious. We just don't have a lot of time. We are still 100% committed to a rigorous academic approach and fostering dialogue about various issues in contemporary DIY art and culture.
-That said, of course, the possibilities are limitless. Who wants to take on the New Museum? Anyone?

Please send submission ideas/proposals/questions to this email address. OR if you want an excuse to use your google wave invite, go with manyascheps@googlewave.com. ALSO if you yourself want to be interviewed (hey! we are all celebrities!), why not? Let me (or Damon, John Heron, or Sharif) know what you're thinking, and we can help you out.

Of course there's a deadline. I think your potential submissions are like presents, so let's make the deadline DECEMBER 18TH, my 23rd bday. Then it will debut at First Friday in January!

One final note: Issue 4 is around the corner and is going to be good. Really, really, really good. If you are less interested in writing for this issue and more interested in putting together some notes and taking your time on a really phenomenal piece for the winter issue, I fully support that endeavor. I know this is finals & family time, so piecing something together may be at the bottom of your tareas list. That's okay.

Okay keep me posted. We've already got some good submissions for the third issue, and I can't wait to see some more.

Sincerely,
Manya Scheps
anewasshole@excite.com

2009-11-16T15:36:00.001-05:00

(VIDEO) Philthy Blog goes to F1RST FRIDAY in Philadelphia!! With a look at the new exhibitions at VOX POPULI. An interview with tyvek artist Tory Franklin at BAMBI GALLERY. And your first peek inside of Fishtown’s newest artist-run space EXTRA EXTRA and a chat with two (of the four) owners, Derek Frech and Joseph Lacina. We also have reviews and commentary by Andrea McGinty… CHECK IT OUT…http://blog.philthy.us/?p=504