Just a few short weeks have blown by and here we are in Fall.  The leaves haven’t quite started to change, but the crisp air and the oaky smell of woodstoves being fired up can only mean that Autumn is well on its way.

No time for levity this month, just listings, pure and simple:

PositiveSpace
2550 Collins Street, PositiveSpace will open their POST show Friday night, with work by Tom Dura, Suzanne Francis, Simon Grigsby, Jay Haon, and Mike McJilton. With a performance at 7pm by the Lenny Seidman Tabla Choir. Open Studios show extends through Sunday.

Mendez Homes
2409 Frankford
The real estate office cum art gallery will host the work of Ron Pichardo.
215-427-9255

Atlantis: The Lost Bar
2442 Frankford Ave
The best little bar in East Kensington will have the art of Nicole Donnelly on their wall.  Donnelly is a local visual artist with an MFA from the University of Iowa.  Her show, “Small Wonders”, is a display of the metaphorical bridges that connect expectation and realization.
215-739-4929

Proximity Gallery
2434 East Dauphin, Proximity will be featuring a Dia de Los Muertos art show, showcasing art that celebrates the Mexican Day of the Dead.
267-825-2949

Angel Studios
2452 Frankford Ave, Keith and Elga will be featuring the work of Roman Blazic, a Frankford Ave First Friday vet, for their monthly party.
215-425-7900

Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford, Highwire’s latest show, entitled “Nature and Nurture: Three Women and the Art of Sustenance”, features painters Piety Choi, Maria DiMauro and Karen Steen.  Their collective art display will channel the feeling of personal satisfaction they gain through their art.
215-426-2685

F&N Gallery
2009 Frankford, The newly rehabbed frontend of the Circle of Hope building is up and running, graced this month by the divine paintings of Shanna Waddell and the photo artist Jon Olshefski.
215-739-4526

GERM Books and Gallery
2005 Frankford, New art show “The History of Love”, including works by Wesley Eisold, Boyd Rice, Henry Lee Lucas, Max, and others.  And, just for First Friday, a special musical performance featuring a surprise guest.
215-423-5002

Memphis Flats
1714 Memphis Street, Local bon vivant and Perpetua friend Brian Cote is debuting “The Fifth Street Series”, new paintings by a long-time neighborhood resident.  His extremely textural paintings are internationally known, but you can see them right in your back yard.
215-427-1100

Angler Movement Arts
1550 East Montgomery Avenue, Collage maker Danille Conkling will be showing her bizarre collection of reassembled images as the main event for Angler’s Open House.
215-922-0866

Bill Russell Studio
1215 Frankford Ave, The venerable woodsmith and furniture maker of Frankford Ave will be presenting a new cache of carved and painted “shields” and new furniture in his show, “Painted Objects: Useful and Useless”.
215-203-0068

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