Two artists at the 3rd Street Gallery approach their (mostly) fiber-based artworks with similarly heavy-handed topics that are poignant and at times quite emotionally charged. Carol Wisker and Melissa Maddonni Haims split the space and fill the interior with textile creations which, although loosely related, address concepts that are not so easily put into words. […]

Napoleon  just opened the month of May with a solo show by member artist Christina P. Day. Entitled “Solid State,” the objects in the exhibit are indeed physically solid, but contextually they are plastic and malleable in innumerable ways. Day places only four works within the confines of the space, but each one rests with […]

The semester-ending Emerging Artists & Designers: Senior Show 2013 is underway at Moore College of Art & Design. The exhibition fills every one of Moore’s galleries and bristles with work in an astounding number of areas by a huge group of individuals that together comprise the Class of 2013. Valerie Schaeffer, “No matter nor space […]

Artist Victoria Lucas steps into the Grizzly Grizzly space from England this month for her solo show, “Interruptions.” The focus of her camera’s lens are the many empty staircases in subways – areas typically viewed while brimming with travelers – which seem to lose something of themselves in the interludes between commutes. A pair of […]

On Friday April 19, the third annual Philly Tech Week kicked off with a celebration at the Philadelphia Museum of Art which included the world’s largest video game – a massive, playable LED version of the classic game Pong on the side of the Cira Centre. Tech week is presented by AT&T and generously sponsored […]

Breadboard‘s Esther Klein Gallery (EKG) in University City is thinking big by getting small. The worlds of the microscopic are the subject of the show “Cellular/Molecular,” curated by Gaby Heit, which just opened to the public on April 16. This exhibit also coincides with the 3d annual Philadelphia Science Festival, which takes places from April […]

In Philadelphia, Practice, the art space that opened not so long ago in 2012, focuses on performance, participation, and experimentation. Their current exhibit is entitled “Taken” and aims to analyze the processes which revolve around appropriation. Whether you call them rip-offs, artistic license, or anything else, in the 21st century, few themes are as relevant […]

Space 1026 is brimming with colorful characters and snippets of contemporary lifestyles in the show “Nothing Is Rather Do” by artists Keith Warren Greiman and Martha Rich. The two artists share a similar palette but diverge slightly in their themes, with Rich focusing somewhat more on language, while Greiman’s emphasis is entirely on wordless scenes. […]