DRAWING NOW PHILADELPHIA

                       

Sabina Tichindeleanu, curator

Emilie Keim Viss, assistant curator

Artspace Liberti, 2424 E. York St.

Opening: September 5, 2014, 6:30pm

Alexis Granwell, And So Forth (upward fold), 2013

Drypoint and Monotype on Kozo Paper

50" x 67"

Artspace Liberti is proud to host DRAWING NOW PHILADELPHIA, a curated exhibition highlighting leading local artists who exemplify the versatility of drawing by stretching the traditional boundaries of the genre. DRAWING NOW PHILADELPHIA will feature 14 Philadelphia-based artists whose work is at the forefront of the medium: Ruth Scott Blackson, Astrid Bowlby, Amze Emmons, Alexis Granwell, Daniel Heyman, Sharka Hyland, Colin Keefe, Erin Murray, Michelle Oosterbaan, Serena Perrone, Mia Rosenthal, Hiro Sakaguchi, Caroline Santa, and Samantha Simpson. By exhibiting a well-rounded variety of artistic practices, concepts and visions related to drawing, DRAWING NOW PHILADELPHIA offers a glimpse into the latest directions and developments in drawing and works on paper.

Drawing is a process of investigation, of testing, and questioning, a meditation on the medium itself. It is not and never has been a simplistic or subordinate medium. It is a wordless language, and an image-extension of the artist. It functions as notation, as a means of transposing streams of consciousness, or as experimentation with ideas and processes. Shirking grandeur, ostentation, and effect, the flexibility of drawing as well as its economy of means allows for a sincere revelation of the artist’s mark and purest aesthetic gestures.

Gone are the days when drawing or working on paper were viewed as merely preparatory, novice or journalistic. While many other genres have come in and out of fashion and fallen victim to perpetual self-re-invention, drawing has quietly maintained its purity, and, unimpressed by the short life span of popular, cutting edge approaches of other media, it has persisted and preserved the simplicity of basic forms, of the mark, of concepts, and principles of aesthetics. Yet drawing still doesn’t get the attention it should. Nor do the artists. DRAWING NOW PHILADELPHIA hopes to bring to light the work of some of the region’s leading artists and to bring well deserved attention to the Philadelphia art scene.

DRAWING NOW PHILADELPHIA opens on September 5, 2014 and will run through October 26, 2014. Join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 5, from 6:30 to 9:30pm.

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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.

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. 

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Jay Walker Show This Friday from 6-9

Please join us this Friday evening at Artspace Liberti.  We will be showing a new installation from local Philadelphia artist, Jay Walker.

Jay Walker is a Philadelphia based multi-disciplinary artist- creating tape installations, mixed media painting/drawings, and carved sculptures. He has a BFA from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and a MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Walker regularly exhibits in both group exhibits and solo exhibits.  He has been Solo exhibits at the Abingtion Art Center (Abington, PA), James Oliver Gallery (Philadelphia), Gordon College (Wenham, MA) and the Crane Hall (Philadelphia). He has also been in group exhibits at Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia), DCCA (Wilmington, DE), Space 38|39 (New York, NY) and Baden-Wuerttemberg Arts & Cultural Center (Heidelberg, Germany). Walker also regularly curates exhibits and happenings.

Please check out his website here - www.jaywalkerstudio.com

Drinks and refreshments provided.

"Above Reason", Abstract Paintings by Philadelphia Artist Richard Gabriele

On View: March 7, 2014, 6-9pm

Location: Artspace Liberti, 2424 East York Street, Philadelphia, PA 19125

 Artspace Liberti is proud to present its March/April exhibition "Above Reason".

 Above Reason, a new collection of oil paintings by Philadelphia-born artist Richard Gabriele is on view at Artspace Liberti, 2424 East York Street. The artist will host a reception on March 7 from 6-9pm to celebrate his first solo show in his hometown.

Gabriele combines bold brushwork and ethereal atmospheres to form a unique, abstract style. His paintings shimmer with dozens of color glazes that build up into brilliant eruptions of energy and light. Each monochromatic image is a different color and consists of intricate lines that are woven into a larger T-shape. Grouped together, the serial pattern creates a powerful display. 

“Each painting is a different solution to the same problem,” Gabriele said, “I wanted to make paintings about painting. I tried to visualize what inspiration feels like and thought if I could give the feeling form, what shape might it take? The images are like maps of my creative experience.”

Gabriele was featured at Phillips de Pury in 2012 and first noticed for his flying robot installation at the IMC Lab, which included quadrotors from the University of Pennsylvania. Receiving various awards, his paintings have been exhibited in numerous museums, including a solo show at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in California in 2013. 

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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.

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. 

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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/