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03.29 2013
NOTHING IS RATHER DO! Keith Greiman/Marth Rich
Nothing is Rather Do featuring new work from Philadelphia artists Keith Warren Greiman and Martha Rich at Space 1026 on April 5th.
Greiman and Rich met in Philadelphia three years ago through mutual friends in the design and illustration world. After an introductory discussion of the effects of eating too many skittles, they discovered a shared love of the silly and the absurd and have now come together to create a show of mixed media works celebrating this common ground.
Greiman says, “For this new collection of work, I am memorializing objects and scenes that I blindly coast through day after day: a pile of clothes on the floor, a vacant lot down the street, a cardboard toilet paper roll on the bathroom floor.”
All Greiman’s paintings are of objects and things within arms reach and are injected with his humorous and quirky way of observing the everyday world. “I try to approach all subjects, no matter how macabre or heavy, with a good dose of humor. Tears of a clown.”
Since receiving her MFA, Rich has been eavesdropping and collecting words and using them in her paintings. “My art is about what cracks me up and what disturbs me or what is absurd or what is at hand. Social acceptance? No. Self-acceptance? Yes. It’s a lesson in the ridiculous.”
Rich work uses collaged People magazine parts, paints on rejected CMYK screen prints of a rejected painting done years ago, includes silhouettes of friends and strangers and many of the eavesdropped conversations she has collected over the years to create an absurd narrative of life in the modern city.
Keith Greiman Bio:
Keith Warren Greiman lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. His bright and animated images of real and supernatural beings depict life, captured in experience, being ascendant, melancholic and at all times wild. Keith is a graduate of Tyler School of Art.
Keith’s work has been shown in various galleries and publications from all over and everywhere. Some clients include LA Times, Village Voice, Newsweek, the Fader, Ace Hotels, Fantagraphics, the Utne Reader, and Willamete Week. His work has been recognized by American Illustration, the Society of Illustrators and Graphis.
Martha Rich Bio:
Martha Rich lived the typical, suburban life – until she followed her husband to Los Angeles where, just short of a picket fence and 2.5 children her average American life unraveled. To cope with divorce, fate lead her to a class taught by painters Rob and Christian Clayton. They persuaded her to quit the pantyhose, corporate world, leave her human resources job at Universal Studios behind and become an artist full-time. She graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Her commercial clients include Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Penguin UK, McSweeney’s, Portland Mercury, Y&R, Village Voice, Bon Appetit, San Francisco Chronicle, Henry Holt Publisher, and Country Music TV to name just a few. Her work has been featured in the Beck video “Girl” and on the television show “Girls.” A book, Sketchbook Expressionism, featuring artwork from her sketchbooks was published by Murphy Design and Rich’s artwork has been shown in galleries throughout the U.S. and internationally.
She is currently living in her hometown of Philadelphia and recently received her MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania. Rich also teaches at Tyler School of Art, Drexel University and FIT.
03.06 2013
Sam Friedman – “BEACH” on view now through March 30th
Photos of Sam Friedman’s “BEACH” show are available over at the Space 1026 Flickr. For a price list (which includes a few catalogued paintings that did not fit into the show) and for gallery appointments, please contact Rich McIsaac at: Gallery@space1026.com.
BEACH by Sam Friedman
March 1st – 30th, 2013
02.23 2013
BEACH by Sam Friedman
Space 1026 presents BEACH, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based painter Sam Friedman. In BEACH, Friedman invokes other worldly ocean side landscapes in grand scale with the first major exhibition of his beautiful and vibrant Beach Painting series. Inspired by his experience along a walk on the beach towards a sun setting into the ocean, Friedman began production of his Beach Paintings during the summer of 2008. Friedman’s paintings are a colorful synesthetic storm of memories and painterly vignettes formed from the tactile edge of the perceived world. The exhibition showcases several samples from his five year long exploration into the light, shape, color, and language of his 2008 experience and features two paintings that span ten feet high and reach nearly twenty feet long.
BEACH by Sam Friedman
March 1st – 30th, 2013
Opening Reception: First Friday, March 1st, 7 – 10 pm
02.11 2013
Bidding Ends February 22nd
VIEW AND BID ON ARTWORKS HERE to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in memory of our friend Justin Van Hoy.
02.06 2013
Random Tearoom Opening ~ this Thursday
On Thursday February 7th from 6-10:00p.m., The Random Tearoom will have the opening reception of “Interlocking Fields/ Unique Landmarks”, featuring the works of Philadelphia artist Mark Price.
The Random Tea Room is located at 713 N. 4th Street between Fairmount and Brown Street in Philadelphia.
Please visit www.therandomtearoom.comfor more information.
02.02 2013
BIDDING CONTINUES THROUGH FEBRUARY 22nd
Visit Space1026.tumblr.com to bid on artwork donated in memory of Justin Van Hoy. We added a few final items this morning. Procedes benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
01.31 2013
Friday night: Walking with the Dutch Giant
We’re having an opening tomorrow night for our show to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in honor of our friend Justin Van Hoy.
Come by Space 1026 from 7 -10 or view works on-line.
01.29 2013
View and bid on artwork to benefit The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
HERE.
And come to 1026 Friday to help celebrate the life of our good friend Justin Van Hoy!
Walking with The Dutch Giant!
01.28 2013
FRIDAY: Walking with The Dutch Giant
Walking with The Dutch Giant:
A Benefit for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Honoring Justin Van Hoy
February 1st – 23rd, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, February 1st, 7 – 10 pm
In November, our good friend Justin Van Hoy, a Los Angeles based artist, designer, author
(Milk and Honey: Contemporary Art in California, Ammo Books, 2012), curator and gallerist, passed away after a long fight with cancer.
In February of 2010, we exhibited Justin’s work here at Space 1026 and it is with great sadness that exactly two years later we host a show in his memory. We have asked his friends from Philadelphia and beyond to donate a piece of artwork to show. Proceeds will go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
We have received donations from Aaron Farley, Adam Wallacavage, Amanda D’Amico, Andres Guerrero, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Ben Venom, Ben Visser, Ben Woodward, Blake E. Marquis, Brent Owens, Caleb Neelon, Chris Bettig, Christopher Kline, Claire & Jeremy Weiss – Claire Weiss / Day19, Clint Woodside, Derrick McNew, Hershel Baltrotsky, James Ulmer, Jennifer Gilomen, Jeremy Shockley, Jim Houser, Joel Speasmaker, Joey Hays, John Hill, Jon Bocksel, Julia Koral, Justin Krietemeyer, Kevin Byrd, Kevin Earl Taylor, Kevin Morrisey, Leah Mackin, Matt Leines, Miriam Singer, Phuong Pham, Revok, Rich McIsaac, Richard Colman, Roger Gastman, Sage Vaughn, Sarah Christoph, Steven Harrington, Thom Lessner, UPSO, Will Hays and many more.
More, including information on bidding, HERE.
01.24 2013
Cars Will Burn ‘Dollar’
Cars WIll Burn ‘Dollar’
…a minimal psychedelic romp through horrid power 99 anthems hijacked with nothing but a pair of akai s20’s and a 2 octave midi keyboard painted all black…
Listen to it on Jewishnoise!