Kyle Fisher's "Living Room" at Part Time Studios
Before you split for the shore, check out Frankford Avenue’s July 1st Friday! Held over at Proximity is “Self Portraits of People I dont Know”, check it out if you missed it last month. Also of note; Kyle Fisher’s “Living Room” at Part Time Studios (pictured at left), and SUSPECT DEVICE BY Lauren Brick, Sydney Conaway, Emilie Fosnocht & Ingrid Burrington at Extra Extra.
New this month: Heathen Salon, a house salon where first friday goers chat, listen to music, check out neighbor’s artwork, and generally comiserate.
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Angel Studios
2452 Frankford Avenue, Artists:
Dave Barnis - animation and design
Erik Melendez -Mostly pencil /charcoal / pastel work
Kenny White- photographer
Bob Gorchovemail -acrylics
IRA- artist/graphic designer
Music by Urbana and acoustic artist Bill McConney
( we also have open jams throughout the evening )
Proximity Gallery
2434 East Dauphin, JoKa’s “Self Portraits of People I Don’t Know” (held over by popular demand)
Reception: JULY 2ND 2010 6pm-9pm
Show runs until July 15
Are we ever really ourselves? More often than not, the way we act toward others is but a slight manifestation of the person we truly are in our hearts and heads; a projection of a person specially designed to meet another’s expectations. With this, who can you say you truly know? Your friends? Your family? Yourself? Even interactions between good friends, significant others and close family are no more than superficial surface scrapes.
In his new series of miniature portraits, all measuring under two inches, JoKa expresses this concept through his interpretation of family and close friends — people he is acquainted with, but whom he might not truly know. A pointillist, JoKa uses toothpicks as his sole form of paint application. Beyond giving him control and precision, this process gives him a level of intimacy with his subjects that conveys the subtleties and (in)sincerity in each expression, and in presenting each persona, as any artist does, he injects in each portrait elements of his own personality.
When not painting his familiar strangers, JoKa’s common subjects include charbroiled meat, sex, dissection, hypnosis, corruption of youth, morbid obesity, swashbuckling, insects, male-pattern baldness, bumps, self-loathing, ham, candy corn and clones. His work has been called nostalgic, though not by him. His art has been featured nationally and internationally, and in national art publications. He is a carnivore.
Artspace Liberti
2424 York, -closed for the holiday-
BellaSera Cafe
2146 East Susquehanna, skateboard/graffitti artist, Denny Smyth
live band playing outside and plenty of free beer and samples of vegan pastry
Part Time Studios
2031 Frankford, “Living Room” by Kyle Fisher
Johnny Brenda’s
1201 Frankford, Happy Hour with DJ Brian Sokel (5 to 10 pm)
Extra Extra
2221 Sepviva, SUSPECT DEVICE BY Lauren Brick, Sydney Conaway, Emilie Fosnocht & Ingrid Burrington
SUSPECT DEVICE is an exhibition of work from four artists, (Lauren Brick, Sydney Conaway, Emilie Fosnocht, Ingrid Burrington) curated by Ingrid Burrington. The exhibit employs sculpture, animation, and two-dimensional renderings to explore how the aesthetics of our environment act in tandem with its mechanization. Ingrid brings together hand-crafted objects with her self-described “slicker, cleaner” work and the 3-d animations of Lauren Brick to comment on the underlying design of our environment and it’s supposed utility.
“There is increasing discussion today of the application of design to life. Nations are branded, personal interests are data, above all objects have some function, and productivity generates both fiscal and cultural capital. Even the terms by which we describe art objects—as works—suggests that they are a mechanism for some productive use. These artworks reference useful objects and design strategies, and appear to be in “use”, but obscure or complicate the actual use; and in so doing emphasize the symbolic function of objects while implying a somewhat sinister, somewhat comical secret purpose that might be best left unknown.”
Liberty Vintage
2212 Sepviva, Woodworking and Metal work exhibition
+vintage bikes, as always
Perpetua
2039 Frankford
F&N Gallery @ Circle of Hope
2007 Frankford, -Closed for the holiday-
two percent to glory
1817 Frankford, Vintage clothing, accessories, plus wine and cheese
Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford, Fire Museum Presents: Fursaxa, Dora Bleu & Kuschty Rye Ergot
Friday, July 2nd 9PM – $5
Fursaxa:
”The most beautiful of these cuts is perhaps “Nawne Ye”, a modal vocal line looped over itself in round-like patterns, four or five iterations going on at a time, all of them in Burke’s lovely voice. There is no other instrument here but voice, yet the piece is almost unbearably complex; you lose yourself following one voice, as it loops over and under and around the others. “Rattling the Calabash,” is denser and more varied, pitting shaken percussion, drums and solitary organ lines against exotically pitched guitar plucking. A slow march’s rhythm pushes the piece forward, and Burke’s voice is earthier, more foreign. It sounds North African, then Middle Eastern, and then simply sublimely strange, yet tied to the world through its drums and tambourine rattles. “Of Tubal Gain” leans more towards rock, with its distorted electric guitar slashes under slow-blooming vocal notes; you can imagine Burke collaborating in this fashion with contemporaries like Bardo Pond and Jackie O Motherfucker. Burke finds unworldly beauty in many different places, in medieval chants and multivoiced rounds, in ethnic tinged improvisation and in electrified rock, and she makes her own weird kind of sense of it wherever it occurs. This is not folk or rock or anything but a waking dream, beautiful, mysterious and frightening.-Jennifer Kelly/Pop Matters (review of Alone in the Dark Wood)
Dora Bleu:
Dora Bleu is Dorothy Geller, formerly of From Quagmire (VHF Records) and Laconic Chamber (Camera Obscura). “Frail and delicate are the voice and acoustic guitar of Dorothy Geller, The music moves furtively like her shy voice. Adhering to a song structure. The instruments play out slowly as they are unhurried by any percussion, save the cymbals which seem to accent more than set a pace. The playing does get unconventional enough to perhaps fall into that foggy area called “freak folk”, whatever that might mean. However, there is enough of an angelic, calm quality to this album to make it worth speaking of on its own. Even in those few places where the ensemble fly off into crazier free playing it fits into the whole as they match the peculiar character of this personality.”-Eric Lanzillotta/Bixobal (review of Clones of Eros)
Kuschty Rye Ergot(members of Kohoutek):
Kuschty Rye Ergot is the new project from long-time DC area multi-instrumentalist/vocalist John Stanton. A collective as opposed to a fixed lineup, performances range from drifty slowburn Popol Vuh-ish watercolor solo guitar/synth constructs to full blown ensemble sonic exhaust blasts, along with occasional stripped down acoustic folk musings. Elements of many of Stanton’s wide-ranging previous efforts (Redeemers, Cash Slave Clique, Nik Turner/Harvey Bainbridge of Hawkwind, Spaceseed, Promise Breakers, Cotton & Billawtm) are in evidence, refracted via a prism of spatial folk, electronics, and whatever else the lineup du jour shakes loose from their collective tree. A universe where Ronnie Lane and COB channel Dome and Peter Hammill? You decide. In addition, John sometimes performs as a member of the improv-psych band Kouhotek, playing guitar, synth, electric piano, and other instruments.
links at http://www.museumfire.com
Philadelphia Argentine Tango School
2030 Frankford, Wine, cheese and free mini-tango lessons!
Heathen Salon
2021 Frankford Ave, A House Salon – All are Welcomed
730 pm, free, music but not in a traditional house show way -more with food, conversation, and the display of music as one would display art
this months music: des ark, a stick and a stone, and resin hits
GERM Books and Gallery
2005 Frankford, Jonathan Canady’s Cases and Composites 2.0
THE ART OF CHAOS, PASSION AND DISTORTED FLESH COME TO PHILADELPHIA’S GERM BOOKS
Germ is pleased to present Jonathan Canady’s “Cases and Composites 2.0,” the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Imagine the blurred images that populate the dark corners of every human mind projected onto canvas. This is Canady’s art.
Canady’s work has been exhibited in galleries and published in the underground press across the United States and in Europe. With “Cases and Composites 2.0,” the well known underground experimental musician who turned to painting in 2007 shares the latest examples of his terrible vision with the world — both the physical as well as the virtual.
All work will be simultaneously exhibited on the internet in addition to the gallery.
To see examples of the artist’s work please go to http://www.art.malsonus.com/
For more information and high resolution visuals, e-mail the artist at malsonus@yahoo.com
NKCDC Garden Center
1825 Frankford
Memphis Flats
1714 Memphis Street
BookSpace
1113 Frankford browse the vast selection of printed materials!
Atlantis the lost Bar
Frankford & Hagert, “It came from across the street”- the Poster Art of Devilfish Ink Hi-Fidelity Graphic Arts & Printing.
Brian Potash owner and operator of Devilfish Ink Hi-Fideltiy Graphic Arts and Printing will be having his first solo art show in over 14 years, July 2, 2010. The show titled “It came from across the street” – The poster art of Devilfish Ink will feature over 16 silk screen and digital gig poster prints from the past 10 years. Art work will be framed by Blue Velvet Custom Framing as well as multiple backlight frames.
As the lead singer of local punk-rawk-rhythm-n-blooze band, the Sideshow Prophets, Potash has found his creative outlet through the need for promotional posters. Gig poster art has been in circluation since the 1800’s, with a resurgence in the 1960’s, but in the past few years a modern movement has flourished and brodened it scope by creating not only stunning 2-D prints and paintings, but even sculptural posters. Potash’s work will feature a wide range of posters from the Sideshow Prophets, but also theater and dance posters as well. Medias include acrylic paint, watercolor, colored pencil, pen/brush & ink as well as digital illustrations and photo manipulation.
Hand silk screened and digital prints will be available for purchase of each poster for $15.00 unframed.
Samples of various work can be viewed here.
VWVOFFKA
2037 Frankford, OLFACTICS
a post Neolithic performative sculpture, brought to you by aspiring Neuro-abstractionists Finazzo, Molholt & Chadwick. A physical olfactogram specifically designed to sharpen one’s senses & subvert the ritual anosmia perpetuated by modern society,OLFACTICS is a multivariate analysis of odourant induced neural activity. Prepare to experience the full spectrum of scent through a pungent array of odour specimen, running the gamut of imaginable smells. Opens Friday July 2nd from 7:00 – 11:00 PM at VWVOFFKA, located at 2037 Frankford Avenue. Bring your nostrils.
O’Reilly’s Pub
Frankford & Lehigh, local music: “The Nines”
starts at 8pm
Philadelphia Art Hotel
2010 Huntingdon
Rocket Cat
2001 Frankford, “Plexus” fiber art by Rachel Blythe Udell
Slingluff Gallery
11 W Girard,
Saturday July 10th, 6-9p. The Slingluff Gallery Presents Mike Egan. Meet and Mingle with the artist.
Mike Egan’s paintings are created using acrylic paint, shellac and sandpaper and are made on wood panels and stretched canvases. He likes to think that each painting is in some way a good bye to somebody who passed away. A funeral portrait.
“The subject matter in my work tends to deal with life, death and religion. I’ve been working in funeral homes for the last five years and I’ve become quite familiar with all three subjects. Through funerals we tend to celebrate not only someone dying but we also celebrate that persons life. Through religion we hope that our loved ones are in a better place, that they are not suffering anymore.” – Egan
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I am an ARTIST, called “FEW”, or “the blue wizard”, by close art friends. Nice going “FAAC”, it’s cool to see this is really happening along the street I grew up on, in Fishtown. From 1957 to 1967, I lived at 1863 Frankford Ave. I was a foster kid, born in 1953 at Philadelphia General Hospital, and was living with a Polish Foster Family who sent me to St. Laurentius Catholic Grade School. So I was there from KG – 8th grade ( Graduation class – 1967). I always wanted to be an artist, because of growing up in Fishtown was so cool, and inspiring. I thought as a kid, someday it would become an Art Meca because, I dreamt it would as a kid. I moved to Wissinoming, in 1967, and have been here ever since. With a two year enlistment as a U.S.Marine, ( 1971-1973). But, later in life when I was rasing my Family, I always would ride through the old neighborhood to see what had changed. Recently, I was just blown away with your Web Page. And realized I got my wish !!! An Arts Corridor, WOW !!! I have to connect with this somehow, ’cause life is flying by !!! It’s now or never. So if anyone can help this old time “Fishtown Geezer” named “FEW”, let me know !!! I would apprecaiate any help I can get. I’m on Social Security, so I have the time, and I have my work, just collecting dust. There is much more to my life story, but I’m ranbling on enough already ! So “Happy Trails” to you, until we E-mail again !!! …Yours Truly, FEW