Girard Avenue’s Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art is currently showcasing “Dechemia: Outside of Time,” a series of abstract, process-based works by John Gibbons and Isobel Sollenberger. The pair is collectively known at “Dechemia,” and the show at Rebekah Templeton is based in the concept of the end of time. Instead of a global apocalypse scenario, the […]

The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design are currently exhibiting a large solo show entitled “All Tomorrow’s Parties” by Los Angeles-based artist Shizu Saldamando in the Goldie Paley Gallery. This artist’s style is heavy in portraiture but fueled by a number of underlying concepts including her source photos, pop culture and ethnic identity. […]

In the Project Space at the Crane Arts Building, Megan Bogert is showing off a number of her recent works in a show entitled “Strands of Consciousness.” All of the compositions included in the space are assembled from sustainable or recycled materials, and the result is an environmentally conscious show whose process itself is organic […]

Located in West Fairmount Park is the Shofuso Japanese House and Garden. The grounds on which the house stands have been occupied by some manner of Japanese architecture or landscaping almost continuously since the 1876 Centennial Exhibition. Its current structure, Shofuso, was originally built in 1953 in Nagoya and presented to the Museum of Modern […]

Pentimenti Gallery in Old City has double the visual intensity throughout the month of November. On display right now is a two-person show by artists Francesca Pastine and Jackie Tileston that plays with colorful, fluid forms in both abstract painted manifestations and appropriated constructions made from physical art publications themselves. Francesca Pastine, “Unsolicited Collaboration with […]

On 2nd Street, just south of Arch in Old City, one can find the headquarters for the Philadelphia chapter of the American Institute for Graphic Arts (AIGA). Founded in 1981 by a group of Philadelphia area designers, the AIGA Space represents the first local manifestation of the organization. AIGA Philadelphia is currently comprised of more than 700 […]

Space 1026 has a show entitled “New Work and Then Some” that spans the globe from Tokyo to Los Angeles to Philadelphia. Three artists – Ako Castuera, Rob Sato and Ryohei Tanaka – grace the walls of the gallery with a glut of work from ceramics to paintings, graffiti-inspired works and cut paper. Rob Sato, […]

At Knight Arts grantee Vox Populi, October is divided amongst four artists of very different predilections. Becky Suss examines representational painting and its effect in recalling her deceased grandfather and his subsequently demolished home. Fellow Vox Populi member Piper Brett utilizes the idea of a ‘punctum’ or wounding and altering qualities than an image can […]