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.
03.14 2013
BRENNA MURPHY / ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT / ALIEN WHALE
OUTPOST ARTIST RESOURCES presents a night of video, talk and music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VIDEO by BRENNA MURPHY (Portland, OR)
TALK /COMEDY by ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT (Philadelphia, PA)
MUSIC by ALIEN WHALE (Colin Langenus, Matt Mottel, Nick Lesley) ♫♫♫♫
Friday March 15th at 8pm, $6.
Outpost Artist Resources
1665 Norman St., Ridgewood, NY
Check out the facebook event page HERE!
03.13 2013
Printmaking Workshops at Fleisher Art Memorial
Space 1026 member Miriam Singer is teaching two fun printmaking workshops in the spring !
The first, Etching, will be on Wednesdays from 6:30-9:30pm, April 6-June 17 ( ten weeks). Come explore the basics of line etching techniques and learn how to achieve wide tonal range and detail in your images. Featuring demonstrations and hand-on practice in: rosin aquatint, soft ground etching, spit bite, mezzotint, and drypoint techniques.
The second workshop, Building a Cityscape with Collagraph, will be on Tuesdays from 6:30-9:30pm, May 14th – June 11 (five weeks). Create your own invented maps and cityscapes by recycling materials found on our city streets into printed artwork.
Registration: fleisher.org. Full workshop descriptions can be found on www.miriamsinger.com.
03.07 2013
DFW SCREEN PRINT NO.01 IS NOW FOR SALE!
DFW Screen Print No.01 is a 3 color screen print on white heavy stock paper. The print was created by Isaac Lin, Andrew Jeffrey Wright and Barry McGee. Edition of 150, printed in 2011.
You can buy it HERE!
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
03.03 2013
Where Now Comes From
March 4th-April 28th
“Underground roots” with artists: Mark Price, Josh Ruggeri, Joey Knuckles, RESP, POSE2, Terry Ribera, and Steve Martin.
Opening Friday March 8th from 6 – 9 with refreshments provided by Philadelphia’s own Dock Street Brewing Company, down on 701 S. 50th St.
Frame Works
2103 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19103
>>> Event page <<<
02.27 2013
Studio preview of Sam Friedman’s “BEACH”
“BEACH,” a solo exhibition by Sam Friedman, opens this Friday, March 1st. 7 – 10pm at Space 1026.
02.25 2013
BODY/HEAD and COLOR IS LUXURY at SPACE 1026
R5 Productions Presents:
Body/Head (Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth & Bill Nace)
Color Is Luxury
Friday, March 8th, 2013
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 8:30 pm
$12.00
02.25 2013
ARTS BEAT. WITH JESSE MILLER AND THE NEW DREAMZ
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