The Last Picture Show

In front of my three paintings in this last Artists' House exhibition, July 2013

This month brings the final exhibition at Artists' House Gallery. The directors, Lorraine and Marv Riesenbach are retiring after twenty-two wonderful and successful years. I have been with this fine gallery since it began, a stroke of luck for which I am immensely grateful.  How did it come about? It was my good fortune to meet Lorraine when we were both studying in the certificate program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Lorraine is one of the most wonderful people anyone could ever happen to meet, and we became good friends. When I got married a few months after graduation Lorraine supported me through the ceremony as one of my bridesmaids. Within the year,  she and Marv started Artists' House Gallery and I was honored to be part of the original Artists' House gang.  I know how lucky I was, and I still feel honored today...nobody could ask for a better gallery than Artists' House or a better friend than Lorraine Riesenbach. Thank you Artists' House folks, Lorraine, Marv, Leigh and Rita, a million times over for all that this wonderful gallery has done for me personally and also, more importantly, for the arts community at large! ~♡♡♡~

RETIREMENT EXHIBIT---ARTISTS' HOUSE GALLERY
July 5 to August 25
Reception: July 7, 1-4 pm.

Artists' House57 North Second Street  Philadelphia, PA 19106  (215) 923-8440    Wed - Sun 12-5 PM or by appointment
http://www.artistshouse.com/ 

My Latest Article: Susan Hagen

My latest article for Fine Art Connoisseur magazine just came out! It's a four page spread on Philadelphia wood carver Susan Hagen.  Click on the individual photos, then drag to your desktop to bring them up to readable size (or just go out and buy the issue!) 

 

I have been following Susan's career with great interest ever since we met about a dozen years ago. We had both been selected as participants in a program generously sponsored by the Main Line Art Center to assist local emerging artists in their career trajectory by connecting them with a nationally-known art critic, and I guess, also each other. It was an intriguing concept.  It was a selective program and I was honored to be chosen, and did very much enjoy talking at length with the art critic, Gerrit Henry, but unfortunately he died unexpectedly about six months after this endeavor, which was extremely sad and also pretty much stymied what was probably one of the art center's main goals for the project. But it was indeed beneficial to meet a bunch of other artists at a similar stage in their careers and see their work.  Susan's aesthetic spoke to me very strongly, so it's been a real pleasure to have this opportunity to interview her and examine her work more in depth.

Susan's show at The Center for Art in Wood  entitled "Social Studies" runs through July 20. Go take a look!

YOW Sunday Reception Invitation!

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YEAR OF THE WOMAN exhibit

I'm honored to be included in a group of twenty artists in the Year of the Woman exhibit opening tonight at Artists' House Gallery in Philadelphia. I have three new pieces in the show:

Painting Girl 

Young Painter

Hijab Me

 ...and also a piece from a few years back borrowed back for the show from the collectors who bought it (that's a first for me!)

Hazel and Katie

YEAR OF THE WOMAN
paintings and sculpture of women by women

April 3 to 28, 2013 

First Friday: April 5, 5 to 8:30 PM

Sunday Reception: April 7, 1 to 4 PM

Artists' House Gallery  

57 N. Second Street  

Philadelphia, PA 19106

(215) 923-8440 

Email: artistshouse@aol.com

Gallery hours: 

Wednesday to Sunday 12:00 Noon to 5:00 PM, 

or by appointment.

www.artistshouse.com

Click here to read a great review of the Year of the Woman show in Fine Art Today!

The Purr of Approval...

Sunny the Art Critic Approves of "Painting Girl"

I'm in my usual last minute mode of getting paintings ready to deliver to a show which opens next weekend. I took a piece outside to spray varnish, when I went out to bring it back in I found my cat sitting by it and purring lovingly...thanks dear little Sunny! Sometimes it's nice to get even just one purr of approval...♡

(Of course, maybe he was just getting high off the varnish fumes...LOL!)

Year of the Woman
April 3 to April 28, 2013
First Friday Reception: April 5,  5-8:30 pm
Artists' Reception: Sunday April 7,  1-4 pm

Artists' House Gallery
57 North Second Street Philadelphia PA 19106
215-923-8440
www.artistshouse.com
Wed-Sun 12-5 pm or by appointment

Article in Fine Art Connoisseur

December 2012 (pages 55-59)

I was privileged to speak with Linda Lee Alter a few months back about her incredible collection of art by women, which she recently gifted to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.  PAFA is celebrating this enormous and important donation with an exhibition (opening tonight!) which they call The Female Gaze: women artists making their world. I was thrilled that my editor at Fine Art Connoisseur allowed me to write on this topic which is so dear to my heart and even gave the piece what looks to me something like ☆star billing☆ in the magazine. Five pages, right in the middle! Aaah. Of course, Ms. Alter's genius was the spirit behind it, and the art speaks for itself, but here's what I wrote:

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Many thanks also to Robert Cozzolino, the senior curator at PAFA, for sharing his insights with me!

The Female Gaze:
Women Artists Making Their World

November 17, 2012 - April 7, 2013

PAFA

Hamilton Building

128 N. Broad Street

Philadelphia, PA 19102
215-972-7600

Alumni Spotlight interview

I am honored to be the subject of a really in-depth interview in the current issue of Preview Magazine, the publication of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. I was asked because of my position as the President of the PAFA Alumni Association Council. In this role I am relishing the challenge to get things done for my fellow alumni and am lucky to have the camaraderie, energy and mutual assistance of a wonderful council of PAFA alums and the strong support of many superb PAFA administrators and staff.

Preview Magazine, Fall 2012
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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