Friday, December 6: Thomas Vance

Artspace Liberti is proud to present its December exhibition, a series of works by Thomas Vance. The reception for Mr. Vance will be on Friday, December 6 from 6-9pm.

Thomas Vance makes paintings, drawings, and sculpture that explore the visual and structural relationships between architecture and the natural world. This preoccupation has been a constant through various bodies of his work, previously addressing this theme abstractly, but more recently applying overt references to historical Japanese architectural spaces.  He is fascinated by the interplay between interior and exterior space found in the Japanese design aesthetic, offering sensitively organized geometries with unifying textures and rhythms to create  nuanced experiences of clarity and order. Key features gleaned from these sites play a prominent role in his studio research: the flow of wood grain patterns, the raked gravel of the adjoining rock gardens, the asymmetrical layout of the footprint of a building, the decorative flourish of a wall painting or recessed space adorned with a hanging scroll, the framing of a garden space.  Combining and reordering the dynamics of these references allows Vance to synthesize and formalize what he finds so intriguing in these spaces, making concrete through material and image these ideas in a multitude of ways. The integration of text inserts names of places or people associated with specific sites.

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While the gallery does not maintain regular viewing hours, visits can be scheduled by appointment. Please e-mail us at artspaceliberti@gmail.com to arrange a visit. Viewing is also possible during Sunday church services between 10:00AM-12:30PM.

Artspace Liberti is a multi-discipline arts venue organized and maintained by liberti church east located at 2424 E York St. in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia.
http://artspaceliberti.blogspot.com/

         

 

Friday, September 6: Will DiBello - Screen Dreams

Artspace Liberti is proud to present its September-October exhibition, Screen Dreams, a series of paintings by Will DiBello. This exhibition runs from September 6 - October 20, 2013. The reception for Mr. DiBello will be held on Friday, September 6, from 6:00-9:00pm.

Screen Dreams, DiBello's first solo exhibition in Philadelphia, is the culmination of a two year project inspired by his experiences in the hospital with his son in the early months after his birth. The project consists of nine large paintings that are ruminations on the flickering light, color and organizing structures of the electronic screens which DiBello was compelled to observe in the course of his child's treatment and their parallels to the matrixes, points, lines and shapes that comprise the basic elements of painting. The nine pieces fluctuate between grid based structures and irregular, fluid structures creating a phenomena of contrasting static and dynamic energies. These fluctuations are intended to convey to the viewer the highs and lows that are a common part of life in the ICU and to bring to mind the oscillations of electrical forces which sustain living things and technology alike. 

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While the gallery does not maintain regular viewing hours, visits can be scheduled by appointment. Please e-mail us at artspaceliberti@gmail.com to arrange a visit. Viewing is also possible during Sunday church services between 10:00AM-12:30PM.

Artspace Liberti is a multi-discipline arts venue organized and maintained by liberti church east located at 2424 E York St. in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia.
http://artspaceliberti.blogspot.com/

         

 

August 2 - CHARACTER EFFECT: A Teen Arts Collaborative

What if the first thing people think of when they hear your name is not what you look like, but who you are as a person?  What if your portrait is not merely a snapshot of your smiling face in an old frame?  And what if your character is not an isolated factor, but instead causes a ripple effect on those around you?  These are the questions that teenagers from the Fishtown-Kensington-Port Richmond neighborhoods have pondered over the month of July at Liberti Church's Teen Arts Camp.  "Character Effect", the artistic result of this exploration, will be on display through the month of August in the Artspace Liberti gallery space at 2424 E. York Street.  Join us for First Friday on August 2nd from 6:30-9:30pm for the show's opening reception. The artwork will remain up for public viewing before and after Sunday services through August, 10am - 12pm.  Private viewings available by appointment.  Contact artspaceliberti@gmail.com  

Friday, May 3: Michelle Oosterbaan- Margins of Midnight

Artspace Liberti is proud to present its May-June exhibition, Margins of Midnight, a wall installation by Michelle Oosterbaan. This exhibition runs from May 3 – June 30, 2013. The reception for Ms. Oosterbaan will be held on Friday, May 3, from 6:30-9:30PM.

Margins of Midnight is a site-specific wall painting experiment. The installation on the 45’ wall Artspace Liberti is a hybrid of paper paintings and hand-mixed industrial color geared to investigate signs and symbols emblematic of transition. The piece is based off Oosterbaan’s memories of Icelandic skies that triggered her interest in its conflicting concepts of stillness and motion, glowing light versus dense darkness and shifts in scale and space.

Michelle Oosterbaan has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe as well as attending residencies in The Netherlands, France and Iceland. She has had solo shows at Gallery Joe in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis. She has also exhibited work at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC and the Drawing Center in New York.
More information about Oosterbaan’s accomplished career can be found athttp://www.michelleoosterbaan.com/

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While the gallery does not maintain regular viewing hours, visits can be scheduled by appointment. Please e-mail us at artspaceliberti@gmail.com to arrange a visit. Viewing is also possible during Sunday church services between 9:00AM-1:00PM.

Artspace Liberti is a multi-discipline arts venue organized and maintained by liberti church east located at 2424 E York St. in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia.
http://artspaceliberti.blogspot.com/

March 2013: Mark Dixon- Acropodium

Artspace Liberti is proud to present its March exhibition, Acropodium, paintings by Mark Dixon.  This exhibition runs from March 1 – March 30, 2013. The reception for Mr. Dixon will be held on Friday, March 1, from 6:30-9:30PM.

Dixon’s paintings explore individual and group memory. His current body of work incorporates public monuments and their attempt to memorialize an event or person in the larger public consciousness.  Dixon embraces both the figurative elements of monuments as well as the modernist, minimal elements of post-World War II memorials. Translated into the medium of paint, this dialogue between the figurative and the minimal takes on a different set of questions related to painting in contemporary art practice.                                                                

“The goal of these kinds of public works is to provide a meditative space with little pictorial distraction, allowing viewers to project their own versions of the event onto the space and/or unto the sculptural objects present. These new strategies derived from a minimalistic aesthetic, have found a place in my paintings. By employing and recalling public historical works in this way my intention is to invite inquiry into the meaning and function of our monuments and memorials as well as reflect on the relationship between private and collective memory.”

Mark Dixon was born in Greensboro, NC and grew up in Northern Delaware.  He received a BFA in Painting from the University of Delaware in 2001 and an MFA in Studio Art from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2012. He currently teaches art at Lakeside School located in Horsham, PA and lives in Glenside, Pa. 

http://markjdixonart.blogspot.com/

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While the gallery does not maintain regular viewing hours, visits can be scheduled by appointment. Please e-mail us at artspaceliberti@gmail.com to arrange a visit. Viewing is also possible during Sunday church services between 9:00AM-1:00PM.

Artspace Liberti is a multi-discipline arts venue organized and maintained by liberti church east located at 2424 E York St. in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia.

http://artspaceliberti.blogspot.com/

Friday, February 1: Lynne Ghenov

Please join us on Friday, February 1 from 6:30-9:30PM for Lynne Ghenov's Multigenerational Live/Work Program.

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Artspace Liberti is proud to present its January/February exhibition, Multigenerational Live/Work Program, works on paper by Lynne Ghenov.  This exhibition runs from January 18 – February 24, 2013. The reception for Ms. Ghenov will be held on Friday, February 1, from 6:30-9:30PM.

Ghenov's focus has been primarily in site specific installation and sculpture, interested in the materiality of light, fabric, found domestic stationery and immersing the viewer in recreated templates of her own memory.

For the past four years her work has been collage, drawings and a repurposed printmaking practice via the usage of a Xerox printer as a tool of choice. The printer has not only become an object of living and working experience, it has grown iconic in her practice. 

Ghenov currently lives in the house she grew up in, which she left at the age of 17. The room which currently houses her studio has passed through assorted incarnations during her life, all of which hold specific memories that concoct new experiences and obfuscate recollections, drawing a melange of old and new; felt and unexplained.

Lynne Ghenov graduated from Tyler School of Art receiving a BFA in sculpture in 1998. She studied in Rome, Italy in 1996. She currently lives and works in Medford, NJ.

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While the gallery does not maintain regular viewing hours, visits can be scheduled by appointment. Please e-mail us at artspaceliberti@gmail.com to arrange a visit. Viewing is also possible during Sunday church services between 9:00AM-1:00PM.

Artspace Liberti is a multi-discipline arts venue organized and maintained by liberti church east located at 2424 E York St. in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia.

http://artspaceliberti.blogspot.com/