At James Oliver Gallery, artists Denise Fike, Melanie Miller and Aubrie Costello deck out the white walls with fabric, sketches and printmaking materials for the show “Illumination.” Each has a completely different take on the making process, and through their experimentation, a pensive and occasionally chaotic exhibit emerges from the assembled ideas and methods. Melanie […]

Once more, the lobby of Le Meridien Hotel in Center City Philadelphia is graced by the work of local artists. The group show organized by artist and curator Gaby Heit brings together four creators for a small but potent exhibit. Alex Halpin, Lori Evensen, Nicole Koenitzer and Jon Montenegro display their work in the already […]

Stop by Old City’s Rodger LaPelle Galleries to cool off with their “Summertime” 2013 group show. Consisting of work by two dozen artists, the heavily painting-based exhibit highlights Philadelphia talents from mid-career artists to well-established painters and even a couple tiny interior dioramas. Paul Kane, “Wine.” One of the most obviously impressive artists in the […]

The Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art (PhilaMOCA) – the epicenter for all things weird in Philadelphia – hosted a free night of VHS relics as part of curator Eric Bresler’s Video Pirates project on Monday, July 15. This first run of the new PhilaMOCA “Video Party” event takes a trip back into the forgotten footage […]

The Penn State School of Visual Arts (SoVA) is in the midst of a massive MFA exhibition at the Crane Arts Building in North Philly. The show in the Icebox is entitled “Novis Oculi” or ‘new eyes.’ This name is curator Kimberly Camp’s take on the insight that students and recent graduates bring the art […]

At the Center for Art in Wood, artist Susan Hagen captures the essence of what it means to be human in her solo show “Social Studies.” Here, Hagen painstakingly sculpts small (roughly a foot tall) figures out of wood and then burns, bleaches or paints their bodies into forms that come to life through their […]

At Pentimenti in Old City, six local artists display work that exhibits an understanding beyond the scope of Philadelphia – although that’s where the logical starting point is in “Global Conscious, Local Artists.” Shaina Craft, Tim Eads, Tim Portlock, Raul Romero, Emily Schnellbacher, and Jay Walker present a range of work from digital landscapes to […]

In the Archive Space of the Crane Arts Building, painter Mariel Capanna has a show, entitled “Recess,” that features canvases from up to five feet tall, to minute renderings on 3×5 inch index cards. This childhood outlet for recreation is one of the themes present in her tiny paintings, which capture the scene of lots, […]