WISH YOU WERE THERE
Philadelphia artists thinking about the natural world...
WORK BY:
Rebecca Miller, Samantha Dylan Mitchell, Matthew Colaizzo, Sarah Finestone,
Michael Branca, Paul Richardson, Andrew Defrance, Kaitlin Kylie Pomerantz
CURATED BY:
Kaitlin Kylie Pomerantz
GREEN LINE CAFE
3649 Lancaster Ave.
(Near the intersection of 38th St., Lancaster Ave. and Powelton Ave.)
AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2011
Wish You Were There presents the work of eight Philadelphia-based artists grappling with ideas about the natural world. Featured works draw from a range of references-- from traditional landscape and still-life painting, to pop culture postcards and technicolor photographs, to scientific illustration and visual taxonomies, to more idiosyncratic, obsessive and personal visions. This grouping of work reveals the complexity of the urban dweller's relationship to real or imagined ideas of a geographical, ecological "other". Beyond mere escapist fantasy, Wish You Were There highlights the variety of ways that we experience, interpret, project ourselves onto and lose ourselves in "nature" or an amorphous, and often greener "beyond".
OPENING RECEPTION:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 4th, 6-8pm
Light drinks/BYO!
Refreshing beet kvass by Powelton Village's own Food and Ferments!
Edible tidbits from Philadelphia's only sustainable grocery delivery service, Harvest Local Foods!
