Sarah Roche: Of The Sea- Friday, September 7

Artspace Liberti is proud to present its September/October exhibition, Of The Sea, paintings by Sarah Roche. This exhibition runs from September 7 – October 21, 2012. The reception for Ms. Roche will be held on Friday, September 7, from 6:30-9:30PM.

The paintings on view consist of both plein air and studio works using the ocean as their subject.   The sea has long served as inspiration for artists ranging from Casper Friedrich to Anselm Kiefer to Walt Whitman.  Roche’s works observe the shifting elements of ocean, sky and sand.  As Roche states, “The resulting work is a bid for reckoning with nature’s cyclical patterns, repetition and endless variety through flowing washes and drips. The paintings are a direct observational response to nature as well as something more subjective. The sea presents a singular expanse that sweeps the mind clean.  Painting fast and loose as the light changes is an exhilarating race to a possible object of contemplation.”

Sarah Roche lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.  She holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Pennsylvania.   Ms. Roche has both curated exhibitions and exhibited her own work in Philadelphia and the greater Mid-Atlantic region at such institutions as the Woodmere Art Museum, the University of the Arts, Seraphin Gallery and Cerulean Art.

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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.

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Friday, August 3rd: Stories (Reclaimed)

We at Artspace Liberti hope that you can join us on Friday, August 3rd from 6:00-9:00 for the reception for Stories (Reclaimed), a reception for the first Liberti Teen Art Camp. 

For the month of July, Liberti has been working with teens in the Fishtown, Port Richmond and Kensington neighborhoods on a collaborative installation.  The teens have been sharing parts of their own lives, delving into the art-making process through that narrative starting point and then combining their works together to tell a story that is larger than any of the individual participants.  

The students have also been expanding that idea of reinterpreting their own personal story conceptually into their use of materials.  The majority of surfaces and media used in the creative process are repurposed.  The Liberti community donated remnants from their own projects, either from their work sites or from their homes.  The students have then learned that they can create something new from something previously given up for disposal.

The reception for this work will be held Friday, August 3rd from 6:00-9:00PM.

Artspace Liberti is located at 2424 E York St.  Directions can be found on the right side of this blog.

Artspace was honored to be included in The Art Blog's Art Safari video series.  Watch the video below to get a look at Fabian Lopez's Sleepwalkin' show and to see an interview with him as well.  Thanks to everyone at The Art Blog for making us a part of your series:

May 4: Fabian Lopez- Sleepwalkin'

Fabian Lopez- Sleeping Pills, 48x36", oil on canvas

Artspace Liberti is proud to present its May/June exhibition, Sleepwalkin’, paintings and drawings by Fabian Lopez. This exhibition runs from May 4 – June 16, 2012. The reception for Mr. Lopez will be held on Friday, May 4, from 6:30-9:30PM.

Lopez connects his work to storytelling and how the fallibility of memory can benefit the individual.  He approaches his work in a manner similar to that of a writer creating a memoir or in the way his family tells stories to recount their personal history.  The failure to recall fact or specific detail can free the artist to construct something that is new, indebted to the past but not shackled by it.  As Lopez states:

“… my paintings and drawings are not complete stories, rather the interest in creating semi fictional narratives through vignettes and documentations of stories and places within my work is to recount, compare, and then contrast my experiences within multiple locations and destinations which have similarities to one another.”

An essay by Jeffrey Ryan will accompany this exhibition.

Fabian Lopez lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.  He holds an MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art.   Mr. Lopez has both curated exhibitions and exhibited in his own work in the Los Angeles and Philadelphia areas.  He has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Algarden Artist Residency in Sweden.

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.

Fabian Lopez:  http://www.fabianlopez.com/

Artspace Liberti is a multi-discipline arts venue organized and maintained by liberti church east.

http://artspaceliberti.blogspot.com/

Friday April 13 reception- Cindy Stockton Moore

Artspace Liberti is proud to present its April exhibition, Toward Futility, a site-specific watercolor installation by Cindy Stockton Moore. This exhibition runs from April 1-28, 2012. The reception for Ms. Stockton Moore will be held on Friday, April 13, from 6:30-9:30PM.

For over a month, Stockton Moore has worked on this installation (approximately 12 x 40’) with the knowledge that it would have a short public life. The piece is consciously rooted in impermanence. Borrowing from the artist’s statement:

“The short-lived nature of this mural subverts its assumed function and imbues the time-intensive work with a sense of fleetingness. Watercolor is encouraged to bleed and drip at the mercy of gravity, highlighting its relative fragility as a medium. Knowledge of the fate of the painting suspends the youthful narrative in an impending sense of loss; the process of painting itself is steeped in equal parts confidence and doubt. Like most of my recent work, this project ultimately explores a distinction between value and worth in painting. “

Also at issue is the role of art installed on the wall of a church.

“No longer considered simply ‘books for the illiterate,’ early examples of ecclesiastical paintings were ‘seeable signs’ of shared information that may have been largely unreadable outside of the context of their community. By creating a narrative painting devoid of a known back-story or doctrine, I encourage multiple readings and personal projections, while drawing on the wall painting’s tradition of communal exchange.”

Cindy Stockton Moore lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. She holds an MFA in Painting from Syracuse University. Her works has been exhibited throughout the United States in spaces including The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, NJ; The Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, FL; Tompkins Project, Brooklyn, NY; and the Sandy Carson Gallery in Denver, CO.

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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-2:00PM.

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Artspace Liberti is a multi-discipline arts venue organized and maintained by liberti church east.

http://artspaceliberti.blogspot.com/

First Friday, February 3: Karla Siegel

Karla Siegel: Paintings

January 13-February 26, 2012

Reception: Friday, February 3, 6:30-9:30PM

Artspace Liberti is proud to present its first exhibition of 2012, Karla Siegel: Paintings. This exhibition runs from January 13- February 26. The reception for Ms. Siegel will be held on February 3, on the First Friday of the month, from 6:30-9:30PM.

Siegel’s paintings on view at Artspace Liberti take their cues from the tradition of portraiture and still life in art history. She arranges these compositions in her home or observes them in places found in her daily life. Working from photographic sources made from these arrangements, she takes an objective view of them, choosing to focus on formal elements such as color, light and form. The paintings record these images but they are captured as if only registered as brief glimpses captured in motion. Movement blurs the subject sometimes to the point of pure abstraction, capturing the speed in which we experience a space, sometimes barely registering it as a well-defined memory. Foreground and background flatten into a narrow space. There is no hierarchy created by the illusion of depth or scale. Equal attention is demanded across the surface of the painting. Supporting and disparate information sometimes are cut into the composition, building meaning through association, creating a fuller account of an experience that in some ways cannot be captured by a single space or arrangement.

Karla Siegel is a Philadelphia painter, trained at Tyler, obtaining her BFA in 2004. Her work has been widely exhibited in the Philadelphia region as well as New York. In addition to her career as a painter, Ms. Siegel has worked at a number of Philadelphia art institutions including the Mural Arts Program, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Main Line Art Center.

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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.

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Artspace Liberti is a multi-discipline arts venue organized and maintained by liberti church east.

http://artspaceliberti.blogspot.com

November/December- Bonnie Kaye Whitfield

Time To Work by Bonnie Kaye Whitfield
November 4th - December 11th
Artspace Liberti
2424 E. York St.
Philadelphia, PA 19125

Contact: Rob Matthews - artspaceliberti@gmail.com

Artspace Liberti is pleased to announce its November/December exhibition: Time To Work- a works on paper and printmaking installation by Bonnie Kaye Whitfield. An opening reception will be held on Friday, November 4th from 6:30-9:30PM.

Whitfield’s current work revolves around that of work, organization and how these are woven into everyday life, in both seen and unseen ways. The methods incorporated in this body of work involve the accumulation of materials from her life as well as those of others along with printmaking and drawing. Time To Work focuses on three ever-growing pieces. In their own individual ways, these works touch on our need for work, organization, accounting for how our time is spent and how we calculate the value of our lives as a result. The work uses “seemingly insignificant objects …to illustrate how the everyday influences behavior.”

To-Do is composed of a massive amount of to-do lists collected by Whitfield both of her own creation and that of people that have donated them as well. Visitors to the exhibition will be encouraged to add their own lists to the collection.

In & Out is a collection of three handmade, printed books documenting the beginnings and endings of multiple work periods. Rather than being presented in a traditional, bound book format, the books of In & Out become tangled with one another weave their way across the wall.

Cover Letters is a growing collection of collected cover letters that have been printed, drawn and collaged on top of. Similar to To-Do this is a growing collection and visitors are encouraged to add to the piece.

Bonnie Kaye Whitfield is Philadelphia-based printmaker, designer, & conceptual artist. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland to Americans living abroad, she grew up in suburban Georgia. She holds a BFA from The University of Georgia in Art Education and an MFA in Printmaking from Pratt Institute. She has shown work throughout the United States, including the Art Students League and Flux Factory in NYC, the Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton, NJ, and the Center for Contemporary Art in Sacramento, CA. In 2009, she started a screen-print & home textile design studio, Kaye Rachelle Designs.

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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-2:00PM.
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attached image: detail from In & Out, dimensions variable.
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Artspace Liberti is a multi-discipline arts venue organized and maintained by liberti church east.
http://artspaceliberti.blogspot.com/