Vaughn Bell, Personal Portable Biosphere

Opening Reception: Friday, September 17, 5:30-7:30 pm.

Following the Reception: Friday, September 17, 8 pm
Screening of The Red Shoes (1948), by directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger at International House.

Paulette Bensignor, Bear

About the Project
The Esther Klein Art Gallery’s Art & Community Exhibition: The Color Project, is an interdisciplinary experiment surveying the artistic productions of those using color as a primary source for exploration. The series will focus on color as the umbrella under which contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and performers reflect upon a wide range of topics.

Rebecca Chamberlain, Buddha

The Klein Gallery’s initiative includes concurrent projects by organizations focusing on conceptual explorations of color, including projects by the Community Education Center in conjunction with Spiral Q Puppet Theatre, Center for Community Partnerships, International House Primary Cinema, The Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, The Rotunda, and University City District. Local businesses and restaurants will also be participating in this University City-wide project by coordinating window displays and menu items with the theme of color throughout the two-month schedule.

John Dilg, Little Sister

Juliana Forero, What’s Your Nature

About the Exhibition
The Klein Gallery exhibition, Green, presents the work of eleven artists who utilize the color green as a catalyst to explore such topics as nature and ecology, the symbolic quality of money, and the temporality of life.

Participating artists include Vaughn Bell, Paulette Bensignor, Colin Brant, Rebecca Elbridge Chamberlain, John Dilg, Juliana Forero, Hedwige Jacobs, Keiko Miyamori, Lisa Murch, Nancy Simonds and Karen Stone.

Hedwige Jacobs, Uniform

Keiko Miyamori, Night Becomes Day

The Color Project is part of The Esther M. Klein Art Gallery’s Art & Community Exhibition Series. This exhibition series promotes the work of artists and organizations that use art and the creative process as a vehicle to enhance the lives of individuals in the spirit of community interaction.

The Esther M. Klein Art Gallery at the Science Center is located at 3600 Market Street in University City, Philadelphia. For directions to the gallery click here (http://www.kleinartgallery.org/directions.htm)

Lisa Murch, Flora & Fauna (Detail)

Nancy Simonds, Untitled

For additional Information about the Green exhibition and the events by other organizations visit www.kleinartgallery.org

Karen Stone, Imprint