At the Rodger LaPelle Galleries in Old City, painter David Campbell Wilson’s solo show, “Last Day in Maya,” proves that this artist has a keen eye and a knack for working in a number of different styles, including photo-like representations of light, figurative studies, landscapes, still lifes and surreal perspectives. The exhibit is also a testament […]

The Painted Bride Art Center, along with Acción Colombia, is co-presenting the exhibition “Papeles” through October 21. The show deals with documents and signatures in terms of immigration, citizenship, national identity and our shared humanity. Acción Colombia’s mission is to promote leadership and empower the Latino community in and around the tri-state area:Pennsylvania, New Jersey […]

At the International House Philadelphia, there are two concurrent exhibits of extremely different timbre. First, there is “Faces of a New China,” a documentary photography excursion by Amanda Stevenson Lupke. Just down the hall is “The Woman Represented,” a series of works curated by Reza Ghanad which depicts images of women in a variety of […]

The West Philly collaborative workspace the Traction Company has been sprucing up its stretches of Haverford Avenueand 41st Streets with a revolving door – or rather revolving windows – of different artists’ large-scale work. Starting in early October, the windows will be home to the surreal, loosely narrative scrolls of Justin Duerr. The opening of […]

Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art reopens after its brief summer vacation to present a show about just that – the idea of getting away. In the exhibit entitled “Dropouts,” artist Dan Schank explores the contemporary ideas of escapism, travel and the search for utopia through the vessel of the cruise ship industry. Dan Schank, “Emergency Exit.” Schank’s […]

Rubens Ghenov has a solo painting exhibit at Tiger Strikes Asteroid right now, but his abstract forms, although the outward face of the show, are only a portion of the full concept at hand. Along with his sharp, textured paintings, Ghenov provides an essay by Ana Monique Abe and a short documentary film, which examine a […]

When entering Napoleon this month, one’s first reaction is to duck or run for cover. Perhaps this assessment is not entirely literal, but the space is occupied by a stampeding herd of beasts which appear to be passing through the walls of the gallery. Like Mustafa’s death scene in “The Lion King” or an illustration […]

At the future home of Oxford Mills, a repurposed warehouse space in Fishtown, the massive art and performance exhibit “Make It, Break It, Rebuild It” just wrapped up its second weekend of performances for the Knight Arts Grantee Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe. In a distinctly huge, individual warehouse room, more than 25 visual […]

Located in the middle of the Frankford Avenue Arts Corridor is the Gravy Studio and Gallery, a collaborative space that promotes the work of local photographers. On display right now is the “Penumbra Installation” by artist Krista Svalbonas, which straddles the line between photography and painting with a show that examines the forms in an […]