space 1026

12.04 2008

Mummer Pile: Clothing Swap & Fabric Printing

Nooner to 5pm

The Vaudevillain’s New Year’s Brigade will be sewing, printing, swapping clothing all afternoon. Bring unisex clothes for trading and altering.

Reuse in full effect.

12.02 2008

TENDER FOREVER+JEFF LEWIS+LOVERS+LRB

TENDER FOREVER (K-Records)
JEFFREY LEWIS (rough trade)
LOVERS (POPHeart)
LILLIE RUTH BUSSEY (philly/brooklyn)

SUNDAY December 7th
8:00pm
$8.00
@Space 1026
1026 Arch St.2nd floor
Philadelphia, PA

12.01 2008

Space 1026 Printing Party

Join Space 1026 for a printing party!

You bring your tshirts, bandanas, totes – we’ll freshen it up with new graphics. Images by Space 1026 artists and Mummers!

Be prepared to get inky.

Auction Preview: this is your chance to check out the fabulous auction items that will be available during the auction.

questions? caitlinemmaperkins at gmail

Other pre-auction fun:
Saturday 6th: Mummer Clothing Swap & Fabric Printing: Aryon & Mummers
Sunday 7th: Tender Forever Concert
Monday 8th: Printing party
Tuesday 9th: Lecture
Wednesday 10th: Draw Jamz
Thursday 11th: Movie night with 1026 docs and films
Friday 12th: Auction

check back often for updates.

12.01 2008

TENDER FOREVER+JEFFREY LEWIS+LOVERS+LILLIE RUTH BUSSEY

TENDER FOREVER (K-Records)
JEFFREY LEWIS (rough trade)
LOVERS (POPHeart)
LILLIE RUTH BUSSEY (philly/brooklyn)

SUNDAY December 7th
8:00pm
$8.00
@Space 1026
1026 Arch St. 2nd floor

11.22 2008

THE ANALOG STUPA

‘The Analog Stupa’
Featuring works from Bonnie Brenda Scott and Michael Gerkovich
Opening Reception December 6, 2008 – 8pm till Midnight
Showing through January 2, 2009 by appointment

Padlock Gallery
1409 Ellsworth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19143

Artists statement:“As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I take a look at my
skateboard and I draw a deep breath. As the Analog Stupa is hovering
there like a pie in the sky or a Checkers brand cheezy fry. You think
you’re safe in the house on the couch eating garbage with your dog and
your dawg and his dog and all. But let us tell you that we came here
from the future just to show a bunch of pictures of rainbows and
pyramids. We’re so impressed that your world is so colorful. It makes
us sad about the Robot Wars of the approaching days. We’re also here to
tell you about a place you can go to avoid the fires and famine and
general discontent of the future shock. Can you dig it?”

Scott and Gerkovich, “We’re married, but we’re Anarchists, so it’s whatever”,
present a collection of works exploring a “spiritual preparation for
the post-modern dust bowl”. Scott’s paintings and ink drawings are
meditatively obsessive and fit perfectly around Gerkovich’s watercolors
and paintings of culturally upset scenarios and personas. The duo will
be presenting together at Padlock, a South Philadelphia’s row
home-cum-gallery, solo works in addition to a collaborative stupa, the
mound like structure typically containing Buddhist relics.

Bonnie Brenda Scott, a member of NEXUS Foundation for
Today’s art and new member to the Chinatown based artist co-op Space
1026, graduated from the University of the Arts in 2006 with a BFA in
film and digital video. When she is not taking care of other people’s
dogs and cats she works relentlessly in her studio. She has shown her
video work, drawings, and prints at the Philadelphia Art Alliance,
Nexus Gallery, Painted Bride Arts Center and My House Gallery- as well
as other art spaces in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Houston, Austin, Palm
Springs and San Francisco. “The Wilderness Society”, Scotts first solo
show of work will be opening February 12th at the Nexus Foundation.
Bonnie lives in South Kensington.

Michael Gerkovich graduated from the University of the Arts
in 2006 with a BFA in film and digital video. Since graduating he has
worked on his family’s sustainable farm in the suburbs of DC while
teaching himself to paint. His paintings have been shown at the Metro
Gallery in Baltimore, the DC Arts Center in Washington DC, and The
Rocket Cat Café in Fishtown. In February, he will be showing work at
the Satellite Café in West Philly. Michael lives in South Kensington.

Padlock Gallery is an ex-living room gallery space housed in a
row home in South Philly. Holding monthly art shows for
Philly-based artists Padlock also hosts screenings, musical
performances, and food events. Started in 2004 over a hundred artists
have shown at Padlock including Alex DaCorte and Andrew Jeffery Wright.
Our landlord is named Frank Rizzo. Current curatorial members are Alina
Josan, Ted Passon, and Mark Price.

11.08 2008

MINI COMIC PILE UP!

A night of performance and mini comics at the ICA with Kites aka CF, American Sneakers, Andrew Jeffrey Wright – Art Jokes and Takeda. Wed. Nov. 12, 7pm-10pm FREE for memebers and Penn cardholders, $5 for everyone else. ICA, 118 S. 36th St., Philadelphia. www.icaphila.org

11.06 2008

New Ancient Structures, AJ FOSIK & ANDREW SCHOULTZ at Space 1026

NEW ANCIENT STRUCTURES
AJ Fosik and Andrew Schoultz
January 9th-30th, 2009.
Opening Reception: January 9th, 7-10pm
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AJ FOSIK AND ANDREW SCHOULTZ
NEW ANCIENT STRUCTURES

Space 1026 is pleased to present AJ Fosik and Andrew Schoultz New Ancient Structures an art exhibition, opening Second Friday January 9th from 7 to 10 pm at 1026 Arch Street in Philadelphia.

Showing for the first time in Philadelphia, San Francisco-based painter Andrew Schoultz joins Philadelphia-based sculptor AJ Fosik to present a collaborative installation at Space 1026. With drawings spilling off the wall and sculptures filling the floor, New Ancient Structures will fill the gallery with an explosion of color, pattern and potent imagery.

AJ FOSIK
Drawing inspiration from his background creating street art and signage, AJ FOSIK is a Philadelphia-based sculptor who creates animal abstractions, or as he calls them “existential fetishes.” Totemic apparitions of ursine beasts and delicately rendered paintings skirt American folk art and psychedelia. Cryptic symbols from overlapping sources, traditional and contemporary, create a dynamic mashup. Fosik has recently exhibited at the L.J. Beaubourg in Paris and White Walls in San Francisco.

ANDREW SCHOULTZ
With his distinctively ornate, intricately rendered imagery, ANDREW SCHOULTZ insinuates a greater state of global frenzy. Themes touching on environmental and social destruction allude to the artist’s awareness of both the environment he creates and the one in which he exists. Schoultz addresses confined space with unlimited possibility, based on his penchant for creating large-scale murals in public spaces. Schoultz has upcoming exhibitions at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark and Roberts and Tilton in Los Angeles and his work has recently been acquired by the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

11.06 2008

Leon Reid IV Lectures at Space 1026

Leon Reid IV will present over 150 images of street work as featured in his new book, “The Adventures Of Darius and Downey” As told to Ed Zipco. The lecture will follow his trajectory from graffiti to street artist and detail his current urban interventions.

Book signing and sale after lecture.

The Adventures Of Darius and Downey, As told to Ed Zipco, is street art’s first non-fiction novel. This as-told-to narrative explores the excitement, danger and tragedy of the urban art experience. Author Ed Zipco intimately details the creative relationship between Leon Reid IV (a.k.a Verbs, a.k.a, Darius Jones) and Brad Downey, two young artists coming of age in Brooklyn, New York City.

Published by Thames & Hudson, 2008.