Liberty Vintage will host a vintage cycle show, live music, and negative image screen printing this month
August is shaping up to be a great month for Frankford Avenue. With new artists in the ‘hood, some brand new sidewalks, and the possibility of a week below 90 degrees, I think its safe to say were all excited…
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Angel Studios
2452 Frankford Avenue
A Summer collective of artist musicians including Pearl Street Jazz Trio and Urbana
Proximity Gallery
2434 East Dauphin -on vacation til September-
Coral Street Arts House
2446-68 Coral,
A display of work made by the residents of Coral Street Arts House inluding the works of; Nathan Smith, Kamilah Long, Dustin Sparks, Yvonne Lung, Joann Hulme, Aja De Groff, Kelsey Harro, Nashay Pendleton, Barbara Kellam, Michael Ellyson, Wendell Christie, Christine Baran, Christine Blai, Jeremy Wagner, and Audrey Taylor
Artspace Liberti
2424 York
Craft Foundry
701 Belgrade
handbound books and jewelry
Part Time Studios
2031 Frankford
“We All Screen for Ice Cream”. Local screen printers show off their summer flavor with limited edition T-shirts inspired by ice cream.
Johnny Brenda’s
1201 Frankford
Leotah’s Place
2033 E York
Sculptures by Meg Lemieur with Paper Stampede
& paintings by Brujo de la Mancha
we will also be enjoying the tunes of a drum jam down. bring a drum if you would like to participate! 
Hours: 6:30-9:30
Extra Extra
2221 Sepviva
This August extra extra presents works by Artie Vierkant and Constant Dullaart. As part of the show number of writers have been invited to contribute a (p)review the exhibit. Ceci Moss of Rhizome at the New Museum, Gene McHugh of Post Internet, and Nicholas O’Brien of Bad At Sports, among others, will have their writing available at www.artievierkantconstantdullaart.com and in print at the opening Friday August 6th.
http://www.artievierkant.com/ , http://constantdullaart.com/
Liberty Vintage
2212 Sepviva, vintage cycle show, live music, and negative image screen printing
BYO Studios
2212 Sepviva
BYO Birthday Celebration + Printing Demonstration
http://byo-studio.blogspot.com/
Perpetua
2039 Frankford
F&N Gallery @ Circle of Hope
2007 Frankford
A collection of Mixed Media Work & Animation featuring Tegan Brozyna, Katy Matich, Erin Filson, Yvonne Valenza, Kiersten Wildermuth
“Idioms is a group show sampling artwork from local and emerging female artists as they explore their own unique artistic voice. The audience is invited to view an array of works in various media from painting to printmaking to animation and mixed media.”
two percent to glory
1817 Frankford, Vintage clothing, accessories, plus wine and cheese
Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford
Fire Museum Presents:
An outdoor screening (indoors if it rains) of Burmese Daze (2010) by Mats Stromberg
Friday, August 6th 9:00PM
Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford Ave.
Philadelphia, PA free
“Burmese Daze” is a film consisting of randomly selected clips taken during a short jaunt through Burma (Myanmar) in early 2010. Traveling by Bus, Train or Boat I just focused the camera on everyday aspects of Burmese Life. The Temples and religious processions, the marketplace, street and festivals etc… There’s no message, just a series of sequences arranged in some sort of self directional rhythm.” – Mats Stromberg
Philadelphia Argentine Tango School
2030 Frankford, Wine, cheese and free mini-tango lessons!
Heathen Salon
2021 Frankford Ave, A House Salon – All are Welcomed
GERM Books and Gallery
2005 Frankford
“Curious Creatures and Archons of Alternate Dimensions”
A selection of artwork by Lynnette Shelley and Brandon Lord Ross
Friday, August 6, 2010, through Saturday, September 18, 2010
***OPENING RECEPTION: FIRST FRIDAY ON FRANKFORD AVENUE, AUGUST 6, 5PM-9PM***
Lynnette Shelley
Deeply influenced by Celtic, Eastern, Asian and aboriginal / native works; art nouveau, abstract expressionism, and medieval artworks; fantasy and science fiction; as well as zoomorphism, therianthropy, cryptozoology and mythological stories and legends; Lynnette fuses these styles into her strikingly unique illustrations.
“I am a fan of a multitude of artists – from the various pen-and-ink artists such as Aubrey Beardsley and Edward Gorey to medieval illuminated manuscripts created by Celtic monks to Russian iconic artists to Japanese scroll painters and native artisans. I also appreciate artists who portray the world around them with a unique eye and a colorful imagination – Vincent Van Gogh, William Blake, Frida Kahlo, Marc Chagall, Gustav Klimt, Henri Rousseau, Edvard Munch, Susan Seddon Bouletand Walton Ford, to name but a few.”
Lynnette’s artwork strikes a primal chord in many viewers, with almost Jungian associations to the colors and shapes. Her animal art and creature illustrations are both primitive and sophisticated, and have been likened to images from an undiscovered ancient civilization or culture.
Lynnette is a Delaware native who moved to Philadelphia in 1999. Her artwork has been displayed at various venues across the Philadelphia and surrounding metropolitan areas, including the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST), the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, Three Ravens Gallery in Ardmore, the Manayunk-Roxborough Art Center, both the Highwire Gallery and Art Machine Productions in Fishtown, and the Wilmington Grand Opera House. Some of her creature drawings were featured in the animated short “The Spider Is the Web” shown at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival, while more of her artwork was featured as part of an on-screen art show at the 2008 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon. She also exhibited at the juried art show at Dragon Con in Atlanta, GA, one of the largest fantasy / sci fi-themed conventions in the world.
In addition to her fine art pursuits, Lynnette is also the co-founder of The Red Masque, an original avant rock band which has played numerous shows and festivals since 2001. The Red Masque is currently signed to an experimental / avant label based out of Colorado.
Info & Contact: www.lynnetteshelley.com | redeye@designbyredeye.com
Brandon Lord Ross
“Always having an interest in art, metaphysics, and creating intuitively, I began doing several drawings, and then paintings, and oil pastels, and noticed a repeating theme-mostly strange figures surrounded by or connecting to geometric shapes, stryations, and patterns that seem to part of each other. These pictures invoke something deep in the psyche, and are eerily familiar in many ways. I believe what is depicted is a truer more pure reality and that we may be in the “canvas” of these beings.
I think the ultimate goal for a person should be to achieve personal and spiritual freedom and live life on your own terms and if somehow “drawing” things out can go towards achieving these ends, then intuitive art — especially what exists on the ‘outside’ — is a highly valuable resource.”
Brandon Lord Ross is a Philadelphia area musician and outsider artist. He is a founding member/bass guitarist of the avant/progressive rock band the Red Masque and has composed two rune tone songs for the website of Inventor Karl Welz. He as been creating numerous artworks on and off since 2000 and has had original artwork featured in a juried exhibition at the Manayunk Art Center as well as at Art Machine Productions and the Highwire Gallery in Fishtown.
Redbubble Site: http://www.redbubble.com/people/lordmasque
Band website: www.theredmasque.com
Blog:http://lordmasque.blogspot.com/
NKCDC Garden Center
1825 Frankford
Walking Fish Theater
2509 Frankford
Pilot Light Theatre Company, in its maiden production, presents: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee!
About the BEE:
In the musical comedy, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser.
The hilarious tale of overachievers’ angst chronicles the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. A quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time
Friday, August 6 @ 8pm!
(Other dates as well)
Memphis Flats
1714 Memphis Street
BookSpace
1113 Frankford browse the vast selection of printed materials!
Atlantis the lost Bar
Frankford & Hagert,
VWVOFFKA
2037 Frankford
This month at VWVOFFKA the exhibition is Speculative Ecology
participating artists are Jesse Beamesderfer, Tyler Kline, Sarah Everton and Alyssa Maucere.
The show is made up of a series of installations that are over-growing and cascading into each other and into space. Each artist portrays their personal visions of an environment and a balance between worlds within it- they are the man made world, the natural world and the metaphysical world. Opens Friday August 6th at 7PM
O’Reilly’s Pub
Frankford & Lehigh,
Rocket Cat
2001 Frankford,
Slingluff Gallery
11 W Girard,
Saturday
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