Exhibition and event guide
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January 2010
Upcoming visual arts events happening in Philadelphia, NYC, and elsewhere
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First Friday, January 1, 5 - 8:30 pm at Muse Gallery: Opening reception for Steve Messenger solo exhibition. 52 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.

First Friday, January 1, 6 - 10 pm at Rodger LaPelle Gallery: Opening reception for The Art Gang is Here! group exhibition. 122 N. Third Street, Philadelphia.

Sunday, January 3, 4 - 8 pm at DaVinci Art Alliance: 50 Years of Realism to 5 Years of Abstraction, paintings by John Gwinn. 704 Catharine Street, Philadelphia.

Sunday, January 3, 1 - 4 pm at Proximity Gallery: Opening reception for 2nd Annual Neighborhood Group Show. 2434 E. Dauphin Street, Philadelphia.

Sunday, January 3, 1 - 5 pm at Rodger LaPelle Gallery: Reception for The Art Gang is Here! group exhibition. 122 N. Third Street, Philadelphia.

Thursday, January 7, 5 -7 pm at CFEVA: Opening reception and artist talks for Alumni Travel Grant Exhibition, featuring Katie Baldwin, Lillian Bayley Hoover, Ben Johnson, and Brian Zegeer. Through January 22. 1521 Locust Street, lower level, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 8, 5 - 9 pm at 3rd Street Gallery: Opening reception for Conny Parsons and Nina Rake. Through January 31. 58 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 8, 5 - 8 pm at AxD Gallery: Opening reception for Arabesque Expressionism: Adams & Stuelpnagel. Through February 6. 265 S. 10th Street , Philadelphia.

Friday, January 8, 6 - 10 pm at Bambi: Opening reception for Sarah Steinwachs' BetweenSpaces. Through January 31. The Piazza, 1001 N. Second Street, #7, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 8, 6 - 8 pm at Sande Webster Gallery: Opening reception for Keith R. Breitfeller, Continuum, & Brian David Dennis, New Works in the main gallery; and Merle Spandorfer, Transitions, in the salon gallery. Through February 2. 2006 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 8, at Smile Gallery: Opening reception for Another Man's Treasure, an exhibition of work by Carol Wisker, Carl B. Johnson, and Burnell Yow!. Through February 9. 105 S. 22nd Street, 2nd floor, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 8, 6 - 9 pm at Twenty Two Gallery: Opening reception for Twenty Two Squared. Through February 7. 236 S. 22nd Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 8, 5:30 - 7:30 pm at University City Arts League: Opening reception for Ben Will's The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing. Through February 7. 4226 Spruce Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 8, 6 - 11 pm at Vox Populi: Opening reception for Anna Neighbor, Is Was Will Be; Andrew Suggs, Comus, or Some Man I Once Knew; Linda Yun, Lull; Dragana Crnjak, Dust; Cecilia Dougherty, The Third Space; and Valérie Mréjen, Ils Respirents in At Screening. Through January 31. 319 N. 11th Street, Philadelphia.

Saturday, January 9, 5 - 9 pm at Art Star: Opening reception for Sea Party, three person show featuring plush by Jenny Harada, My Paper Crane, and Spooky Daddy. Through February 14. 623 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.

Saturday, January 9, 5 - 8:30 pm at Muse Gallery: Artist reception for Steve Messenger solo exhibition. 52 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.

Saturday, January 9, 6 - 9 pm at Slingluff Gallery: Opening reception for Mindy Kober, Works on Paper. 11 W. Girard Avenue, Philadelphia.

Sunday, January 10, 2 - 5 pm at The Plastic Club: Opening reception for New Members Show. Through January 31. 247 S. Camac Street, Philadelphia.

Second Thursday, January 14, 6 - 9 pm at Bahdeebahdu: Encore reception for Step Right Up, featuring installations by by Ryan Wilson Kelly, Melissa Stern, and Ricky Boscarino. 1522 N. American Street, Philadelphia.

Second Thursday, January 14, 6 - 9 pm at The Hall, Crane Arts Building: InLiquid presents a site-specific installation by Rebecca Jacoby, What You See Is. Through January 23. Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American Street, first floor, Philadelphia.

Second Thursday, January 14, 6 - 9 pm at Nexus Foundation for Today's Art: Reception for SUPERGIRL!, an exhibition of female video artists. Through February 5, 2010. Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American Street, first floor, Philadelphia.

Second Thursday, January 14, 6 - 9 pm at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center: Second Thursday reception for Going from Nowhere: Accumulated Images. Crane Arts Building,1400 N. American Street, 1st floor, Philadelphia.

Second Thursday, January 14, 6 - 9 pm at Rebekah Templeton Gallery: Second Thursday opening reception for Sean Stoops, Interstellar Medium. Through February 20. 173 W. Girard Avenue, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 15, 6 - 9 pm at Projects Gallery: Closing reception for Print Out, a two-part, two-month exhibition of prints by culturally diverse artists presented in partnership with The Brandywine Workshop. Through January 16. 629 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.

Wednesday, January 20, 6 - 8 pm at International House Video Lounge: InLiquid at I-House presents Homeland, a program of videos curated by Colette Copeland. Through March 5. 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

Thursday, January 21, 6 - 9 pm at Fleisher / Ollman Gallery: Opening reception for Isaac Tin Wei Lin's solo exhibition, A Place Near Here, and Cascade, a window installation by Don Colley. Music by DJ Face Man. 1616 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 22, 6 - 9 pm at Allens Lane Art Center: Opening reception for Double Visions: James Rosenthal and Hiro Sakaguchi. Through February 19. 601 W. Allens Lane, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 22, 5 - 9 pm at Esther Klein Gallery: Opening reception for Brower Propulsion Laboratory: BPL-003, Moranic Mission To Montana. Through March 21. 3600 Market Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 22, 5 - 8 pm at Open Lens Gallery: Opening reception and book signing for John Woodin's City of Memory. Through April 11. Gershman Y, Broad and Pine Streets, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 22, 5 - 8 pm at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery: Opening reception for Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958 - 1968. Through March 15. 333 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia (additional works being hosted at Hamilton Hall Galleries, 320 S. Broad Street, and the Borowsky Gallery, 401 S. Broad Street).

Saturday, January 23, 3 - 5 pm at Pentimenti Gallery: Opening reception for Joseph Hu, Noticed and Unnoticed and Hunter Stabler, Center of the Cyclone. Through February 27. 145 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.

Saturday, January 23, 6:30 - 8:30 pm at Slought Foundation: Opening reception for Strictly Death: Selected Works from the Richard Harris Collection. Through March 8.

Saturday, January 23, 5 - 7 pm at the Woodmere Art Museum: Opening reception for Contemporary Voices: 70th Annual Juried Exhibition. 9201 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia.

Thursday, January 28, 4:30 - 7:30 pm at the Art Institute of Philadelphia: Opening reception for Vernacular: Three Philadelphia Artists Print, featuring work by Katie Baldwin, Christopher Hartshorne, and Eric McDade. Through February 26. 1622 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

Thursday, January 28, 5 - 7 pm at Rowan University Art Gallery: Opening reception and gallery talk for Crossroads: Determining the Authentic Visual Voice, featuring the work of Philadelphia Sculptors members Maria Anasazi, Tom Bendtsen, Catherine Martens Betz, Brent Crothers, Ted Prescott, and Warren Holzman. Through March 12. Lower level of Westby Hall, Rowan University campus, Route 322, Glassboro, NJ.

Thursday, January 28, 5 - 7 pm at University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology: Opening reception for Pablo Helguera's What in the World, presented as part of the "Out of Print" program of Philagrafika 2010. Admission is pay-what-you-want, cash bar. 3260 South Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 29, 5:30 - 7:30 pm at Haverford College: Opening reception for Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers. Through March 5. Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Whitehead Campus Center, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA.

Friday, January 29, 6 - 8 pm at St. Joseph's University Gallery: Reception for Elephant Ear Series, photography by Lynn Rosenthal. Through February 12. Boland Hall, St. Joseph's University, Lapsley Lane at City Avenue, Lower Merion Township, PA.

Friday, January 29, 6 - 8 pm at Seraphin Gallery: Opening reception for Printable, group exhibition presented as an independent project of Philagrafika 2010. Through March 9. 1108 Pine Street, Philadelphia.

Opening to the public Friday, January 29 at The Tract House: The American Philosophical Society Museum presents The Tract House: A Darwin Addition, a temporary art installation that accompanies the museum's Dialogues with Darwin exhibition. Through April 11. 231 N. Third Street, Philadelphia.

Saturday, January 30, 6 - 9 pm at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Public opening reception for Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious. Through April 11. Fisher Brooks Gallery, Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building, 128 N. Broad Street; and Morris Gallery, Historic Landmark Building, 118 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia.

Saturday, January 30, 2 - 5 pm at The Print Center: Open house and workshop with Space 1026 artists, presented as part of the opening for Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious. Exhibition on view through April 11. 1614 Latimer Street, Philadelphia.

Sunday, January 31, 1 - 4 pm at Perkins Center for the Arts: Opening reception for Photography 29, annual juried photo competition. Through March 7. 395 Kings Highway Moorestown, NJ.

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Sunday, January 3, 3 pm at Vox Populi: Gallery talk by Lucy Gallun, Whitney Lauder Curatorial Fellow at ICA Philadelphia. 319 N. 11th Street, 3rd floor, Philadelphia.

Thursday, January 7, 1 pm at the Gershman Y: Lunchtime gallery tour with Miriam Seidel, curator of the Borowsky and Open Lens galleries, of the current exhibitions Vitaly Komar: Three Day Weekend and Lost Futures: Journeys Into The Jewish Diaspora. Free and open to the public. 401 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia.

Tuesday, January 12, noon at the Painted Bride Art Center: Scribe Video Center's "The Vision of Julie Dash" series (see also Screenings, below) presents a luncheon and discussion featuring guest panelists Jacquie Jones, Ursula Rucker, Dr. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, and Dyana Williams. Admission $50. For more information or to RSVP, call 215-222-4201 or e-mail inquiry@scribe.org. 230 Vine Street, Philadelphia.

Thursday, January 14, 6 - 8 pm at The Clay Studio: Resident Artist Nathan Proudy, whose exhibition Piles and Countertops is currently on view, will discuss his work, influences, and technique. Wine, beer and light hors d'oeuvres will be served. Admission $5; free for Clay Studio members. 139 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 22, 6:30 pm at Moore College of Art and Design: Moore and Nexus/foundation for today's art present a panel discussion with scholars and artists, held in conjunction with Nexus' SUPERGIRL video exhibition. Including Julie D. O'Reilly, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Communication and Women's and Gender Studies, Heidelberg University; Saya Woolfalk, artist and filmmaker; Jennifer Camper, cartoonist (Juicy Mother); Dr. Kevin Richards, Ph.D., History of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; and moderated by Astria Suparak, Curator, Miller Gallery Pittsburgh. 20th Street and the Parkway, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 29, 10 am - 1 pm at Moore College of Art and Design: Informal gallery talk and tour with curator Lorie Mertes and artists Gunilla Klingberg, Virgil Marti, and Regina Silviera, whose work is on view in Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious. Coffee, juice and light breakfast fare will be served. Free and open to the public; no RSVP required. 20th Street and the Parkway, Philadelphia.

Sunday, January 31, 3 pm at Vox Populi: Gallery talk with Michael Wang, art and architecture critic / designer. 319 N. 11th Street, third floor, Philadelphia.

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Tuesday, January 5, 7 pm at International House: The Foundation for Self-Taught American Artists presents Between Madness and Art: The Prinzhorn Collection (Christian Beetz, U.S., 2008). Introduced by David Sachs, MD. Admission $8 general; $6 students and seniors; $5 for members at Internationalist level; free for members above Internationalist level. 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

Wednesday, January 6 - Saturday, January 9 at International House: The New Latin Discoveries series presents a three-night survey of contemporary Latin cinema, with tilms from Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, and Chile. Click here to view the schedule. 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

Monday, January 11, 7 pm at the Gershman Y: The Jewish Film Festival's Documentary and Dialogue series presents the Philadelphia premiere of The Fire Within: Jews in the Amazonian Rainforest (Lorry Salcedo Mitrani, 2008, in Spanish with English subtitles). With special guest speaker Rabbi Marcelo Bronstein of B’Nai Jeshurun in New York City. Tickets $8 in advance, $10 at door. 401 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia.

Tuesday, January 12, 7 pm at Bryn Mawr Film Institute: A screening of the award-winning documentary Concrete, Steel and Paint (Cindy Burstein and Tony Heriza, 2009), followed by a discussion about community arts and criminal justice with the filmmakers and Jane Golden, Director of Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program. $10 suggested donation; proceeds will benefit Bryn Mawr Film Institute and the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. 824 W. Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA.

Tuesday, January 12, 5:30 pm at International House: Scribe Video Center's "The Vision of Julie Dash" program presents director Julie Dash in person for a screening of three of her films: Funny Valentines (1999); Illusions (1983); and Daughters of the Dust (1992). Admission $10 general; $8 students + seniors; $5 Scribe and I-House members. 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadephia.

Wednesday, January 13, 7 pm at Scribe Video Center: "The Vision of Julie Dash" retrospective program continues with screenings of Diary of an African Nun (1977); Praise House (1991); Sax Cantor Riff from SUBWAY Stories: Tales from the Underground (1997); and Love Song (2000). Admission $10 general; $8 students + seniors; $5 Scribe members. 4212 Chestnut Street, 3rd floor, Philadelphia.

Saturday, January 23, 7 pm at International House: The Janus Collection series presents Tunes of Glory (Ronald Neame, UK, 1960). Admission $8 general; $6 students and seniors; $5 for members at Internationalist level; free for members above Internationalist level. 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

Saturday, January 23, 7 pm at Nexus: 48 Hour Video Competition Screenings and Awards. Free admission. 1400 N. American Street, first floor, Philadelphia.

Saturday, January 23, 8 pm at Moore College of Art and Design: Secret Cinema presents "A Medical Film Cabinet of Curiosities," a program of short medical films dating from the 1920s to the late 1980s. Admission $7. 20th and the Parkway, Philadelphia.

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Workshops
 

Saturday, January 30, 2 - 5 pm at The Print Center: Print Origami Workshop with Space 1026, presented in conjunction with the opening of Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious. Free and open to the public; RSVP to Eli VandenBerg at evandenberg@printcenter.org or 215-735-6090 x1.

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Friday, January 22, 6 - 8 pm at Next Fab Studios: Open house reception for this new membership-based technology workshop and prototyping center. 3711 Market Street, Philadelphia.

Thursday, January 28, 6 - 8 pm at Moore College of Art and Design: Patron preview reception with the artists for Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious. Tickets begin at $150 per person; click here for more information. 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia.

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Thursday, January 7, 6 - 8 pm at Mixed Greens: Opening reception for Squonk's Tears, new paintings and drawings by Howard Street, NYC.

Thursday, January 7, 6 - 8 pm at George Billis Gallery: Opening reception for work by Salvatore Federico, Randall Mooers, and James Oliver. Through February 6. 511 W. 25th Street, ground floor, NYC.

Friday, January 8, 6 - 9 pm at Parker's Box: One-night screening of David Rothenberg's Covered Tracks. 193 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Saturday, January 9, 6 - 9 pm at Joshua Liner Gallery: Opening reception for Further Group Show and in Gallery II Robert Hardgrave, Momentous. Through February 6. 548 W. 28th Street, NYC.

Friday, January 15, 6 - 9 pm at Parker's Box: Opening reception for How the Other Half Lives, work by Chloe Salembier, Jean-Christophe Couet, and David Rothenberg. Through March 14. 193 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Friday, January 28, 7 pm at Barnes & Noble: New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) presents a reading and booksigning of New York Magazine’s Senior Art Critic Jerry Saltz's Seeing Out Louder: Art Criticism 2003-2009. 150 E. 86th Street (at Lexington), NYC.

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