The 2014 PSC Annual Domenic DiStefano Memorial Works on Paper Juried Exhibition

Please join me for the opening of the Philadelphia Sketch Club 2014 works on paper exhibition on Sunday, January 5th. Reception from 2-4pm. My drawing, Rose Tangle, will be included. See other work here. 

Book Review for the Brooklyn Rail

I reviewed photographer Simon Menner's new book, Top Secret, for the December/January edition of the Brooklyn Rail. Check it out here. The book is a fascinating collection of photographs taken from the Stasi archives.

Menner is a wonderful photographer, and I encourage you to take a look at his website, which has many years worth of projects exploring the theme of surveillance and threat.

ME AND EARTH at Pile of Bricks opening this Friday, 6pm

I have a couple of landscape paintings in this show at the amazing Pile of Bricks in Kensington. Come enjoy the space before it begins renovations! join us for the Opening Reception of a group show , ME AND EARTH works in this exhibition depict a relationship; to the land we stand on , the water which surrounds + the sky above work by jen brown, ross brubeck, lindsay carone, linda cope, suzanne delaney, laura finestone, sarah finestone, jessica gatlin, jesse gorham engard, melodie greenblatt, jay haon, mike landers, zya levy, hannah miller, rebecca miller, samantha mitchell, kaitlin pomerantz, gideon rettich, dewey saunders, amalia wilson stoke the fire. drink in botanical cocktails from The Philadelphia Investigative Institute of the Wild. arrive early // stay late *** SOULFUL PLANETARY music ****** by SNKPAK and JMANG --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- and on **SUNDAY NOV 17 at 2 PM** join WE THE WEEDS botanist Zya S. Levy and artist Kaitlin Pomerantz for an ethnobotanical plant tour of Kensington/Fishtown's spontaneous urban plants as they make their way into winter. Tour includes plant identification and introduction to plant biology, and highlights the uses, histories and cultural significances of these resilient and various Philadelphia weeds. Tour begins and ends at Pile of Bricks. www.wetheweeds.tumblr.com 2537 FRANKFORD AVE ENTRANCE ON SERGEANT ST www.pileofbricks.org

Faculty Show, Delaware County Community College (November 13 - December 13)

I'll be exhibiting a collection of prints in this faculty exhibit for professors at Delaware County Community College.

Faculty Art Exhibition

The Faculty Art Exhibition features work in a variety of media from all of the current art faculty at Delaware County Community College. Teaching students in the A.F.A. degree program, faculty have an opportunity to showcase the artwork they create when they step outside the classroom. An eye-opening experience for both their students and colleagues, this exhibition is free and open to the public, and is on view until December 13.

• Opening ReceptionWednesday, November 13  |  3 - 7 p.m.
• Marple Campus, 901 Media Line Road, Media, PA Art Gallery | Room 2305

• Featured ArtistsBarbara Augusta, Marc Blumthal, Lynn Denton, Randy Gilmore, Bertha Gutman, Richard Johnson, Sharon Koelblinger, Jay McClellan, Jeremy McGirl, Samantha Mitchell, Joe Ovelman, Jaime Treadwell, and Lisa Learner-Wagner.

AQUACHROME and FRESH PAINT at Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

http://www.manifestgallery.org/about/schedule.html

This show opened last Friday, but will be up for another month! My piece, Old Wood Butte, is on view there.

AQUACHROME
Contemporary Watercolor

With watercolor, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.  – David Hockney

-on painting a watercolor...
Make the best of an emergency.  – John Singer Sargent

Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.   – Willem de Kooning

Quite possibly the oldest form of painting, watercolor persists today, defying narrow categorization and broad stereotype. Practiced for centuries in concept development preliminary to 'finished' paintings made in oil or other scale-worthy durable media, watercolor also found favor with botanists, illustrators, and portraitists, and was applied to varied and countless surfaces.

The nature of the media itself represents a delicate and dictatorial transparency, fluidity, and a potential for expressive spontaneity. This not only makes it an ideal vehicle for contemporary art, but also one of training, intensity, philosophy, and play for any who practice it. Where an artist can easily dominate other painting media, forcing a will through viscous layers into a work of art like taming a wild horse, with watercolor there is dialog, compromise, and undeniable forthrightness. In this way the artist practicing watercolor works with a tiger in the room.

Manifest's several-member blind jury process reviewed 335 works by 139 artists. Seventeen works by the following 14 artists from Alaska, California, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and the countries of Belgium and India were selected for exhibition.

Presenting works by:

Winnie Sidharta Ambron
Columbus, Ohio

Carrie Callihan
Cincinnati, Ohio

Dhiman Dam
Hyderabad, India

Richard Diedrich
Atlanta, Georgia

Alexandra Dooley
Cedar Falls, Iowa

Melissa Gwyn
San Francisco, California

Nathan Heuer
Indiana, Pennsylvania

Tim Kennedy
Bloomington, Indiana

Garry Mealor
Anchorage, Alaska

Samantha Mitchell
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Roberto Osti
Flemington, New Jersey

Christopher St. Leger
Lockhart, Texas

Diane Szczepaniak
Potomac, Maryland

Wouter van de Koot
Antwerp, Belgium