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The PatchUp Mural Sessions
Earth Signs11.22 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.
11.22 2008
TONIGHT AT PADLOCK
One Night Only – installation with live music from Slavagoh, Scott Churchman, and The Lemon Treasures at The Padlock TONIGHT! – Saturday November 22 from 7 – 11. Donate! Early show – get there at 7 for warm soup and whiskey!
11.21 2008
‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,’ and Below That, the Basement
Adam Wallacavage in the NY Times.
> My Home, My Self: Photography as Art Project
11.19 2008
Auction Time!
First Friday in December, stop by the gallery and preview art auction items. Visitors in the gallery and online can place bids on our eBay auction that will run throughout the following week.
> Read the full bio of our Auction Time hosts
Rose Luardo: QVC Audition from Rose Luardo on Vimeo.
11.17 2008
Blog Bumps
“Over at Space 1026, there’s a girl-group art collective from Providence, RI, Dirt Palace, strutting its collaborative art-making and installation chops. As in all the collaborative installations that sweep through Space 1026, this one had its highlights. The best in this exhibit, Secret Rooms of the Dirtpalace – Volume 3, was a quilt draped on a sofa that lives in the exhibition space at 1026. The quilt was covered with sparkly breasts–or maybe the little mounds of Dots candy on a scroll of paper. Either way, they looked like you could actually sit on them without pain–kind of those funny, fashionable shoe insole bumps—for the whole body.”
11.16 2008
Paste-Ups!
Art Auction Poster by Bill McRight
Art Auction Poster by Chris Kline
Art Auction Poster by Alex Lukas
Art Auction Poster by Jason Hsu
Mini Comic Pile Up Poster by AJW
Peacock Print by Alex Purdy
11.14 2008
ZINE OF THE MONTH CLUB
ZINE OF THE MONTH CLUB
Available from MARK PRICE is a Factory
(Fall / Winter 2008)
11.13 2008
WAR IS OVER
November 12, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SPECIAL TIMES EDITION BLANKETS U.S. CITIES, PROCLAIMS END TO WAR
* PDF: http://www.nytimes-se.com/pdf
* For video updates: http://www.nytimes-se.com/video
* Contact: mailto:writers@nytimes-se.com
Early this morning, commuters nationwide were delighted to find out
that while they were sleeping, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had
come to an end.
If, that is, they happened to read a “special edition” of today’s New
York Times.
In an elaborate operation six months in the planning, 1.2 million
papers were printed at six different presses and driven to prearranged
pickup locations, where thousands of volunteers stood ready to pass
them out on the street.
Articles in the paper announce dozens of new initiatives including the
establishment of national health care, the abolition of corporate
lobbying, a maximum wage for C.E.O.s, and, of course, the end of the
war.
The paper, an exact replica of The New York Times, includes
International, National, New York, and Business sections, as well as
editorials, corrections, and a number of advertisements, including a
recall notice for all cars that run on gasoline. There is also a
timeline describing the gains brought about by eight months of
progressive support and pressure, culminating in President Obama’s “Yes
we REALLY can” speech. (The paper is post-dated July 4, 2009.)
“It’s all about how at this point, we need to push harder than ever,”
said Bertha Suttner, one of the newspaper’s writers. “We’ve got to make
sure Obama and all the other Democrats do what we elected them to do.
After eight, or maybe twenty-eight years of hell, we need to start
imagining heaven.”
Not all readers reacted favorably. “The thing I disagree with is how
they did it,” said Stuart Carlyle, who received a paper in Grand
Central Station while commuting to his Wall Street brokerage. “I’m all
for freedom of speech, but they should have started their own paper.”
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