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05.17 2024
Expanded Dimensions is on view through May 31st
Check out Store 1026 for a some of the available works from the show and stop by the gallery Wednesdays through Fridays from 5pm to 7pm.
Closing Reception
Friday, May 31 from 6pm to 10pm
844 North Broad Street
Philadelphia
About the Artists
Clyde Jurysta
I am an artist currently living in Philadelphia. Born to artist parents, I have been trained in various art forms from an early age, though I did not go to ‘art school’ for college. I consider the knowledge I have gained through working in the trades useful to my art making career. I enjoy putting various techniques to practice including welding, forging, wood working, electrical, printmaking, painting, casting and sculpting etc., and source my materials from the street, trash (wanna see my collection of salvaged motors?) construction sites, hardware stores, the scrap yard, and the woods.
Growing up in Manhattan in the 90’s, I was fascinated by all of the neon lights that were everywhere. All of the strip clubs and adult stores had such good signage. A colored light bulb isn’t just color, it’s color being pushed into your eyeball. Your eye isn’t receiving the color passively. The color waves are flowing into you. That’s also why I love fluorescent colors. They vibrate with light, almost as if the colors are emitting light themselves.
Lately I’ve been very intrigued by geometry. Geometry is in everything. It’s microscopic and infinite. Don’t get me started on fractals! Exploring these topics from a base level, using materials I know and enjoy such as wood, has been a great way to learn more about the math and science behind these forms. The geometric frame pieces have been a kind of challenge to myself to see if I can make some of the shapes I’ve been making, but well enough that I don’t need (much) filler. I love how the oiled mahogany highlights the beauty of the shape, and the brass detail highlights the beauty of the mahogany.
The optical illusion paintings have been a really exciting way for me to explore color. How colors interact with each other and how they interact with the senses. Exploring color, pattern and texture might be a never ending path of learning for me.
I derive inspiration from life. The human form, queerness, music, nature, science, folklore, old wisdom, communing with nature, and the unknown. My current themes include gateways to other worlds, optical illusions, and the supernatural. My queer identity influences my art and subject matter. In a grander sense, I want my art to bring light and joy to those who see it.
Free Palestine. End genocide everywhere. Land back. Destroy capitalism. Power to the people!
Yianni Kourmadas
Yianni Kourmadas is a tradesperson, trash-picker and tinkerer using raw materials to create Living Objects that blur the human/machine boundary. Inspired by the mechanical and sonic possibilities inherent in each physical scrap, Yianni designs and builds objects that wake up into existence, explore their desires, and talk or move with the aid of motors or hand-cranks. Creatures of irregularity, Living Objects, unlike their mechanical counterparts in the Crumbling World, do not do work.
11.01 2023
Community Embrace: The Story of the LindoYes Poetry Gumball Machines
This video is the official trailer for the documentary “Community Embrace: The Story of the LindoYes Poetry Gumball Machines.” This documentary follows LindoYes’s poetry gumball machine initiative from its inception and its impact on providing mental health resources to the community in the Philadelphia greater metropolitan area.
09.27 2023
Surf Community Responds to Dangerous Debris
In late July, the Delaware Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation was alerted to a hazardous situation at North Indian River Inlet beach by surfer, Surfrider Foundation volunteer, and community organizer Crystal Stokowski. Long buried road construction materials including concrete, asphalt and rebar, have been uncovered by the narrowing of the beach, leading to beach goer injuries.
Read more (Surfrider Foundation Deleware)
Read more (WMDT)
10.20 2022
Tom Bubul: Slowing Time
Nov. 4 – Nov. 25, 2022
Opening Reception: Nov. 4
6pm – 10pm
Space 1026
844 N. Broad St.
Phila., PA 19130
09.12 2022
In Loving Memory
Opening Reception October 7th from 6pm to 9pm
Space 1026
844 North Broad Street, Philadelphia
Featuring work by members of the Vox Populi Collective
Kirk McCarthy
Makeba Rainey
Emmanuela Soria Ruiz
Lea Devon Sorrentino
Lane Speidel
Jim Strong
Aaron Terry
Roopa Vasudevan
KT Pe Benito
James Britt
Gerald Brown
Stephanie Bursese
Maia Chao
Natalie Hijinx
Natalie Kuenzi
Chelsey Luster