Angela McQuillan: Internal Parts 4, 2017, oil and acrylic on canvas, 48" x 24" x 15"

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Despite the massive amounts of information readily available to us, humans are still surrounded by mystery. Our perception of the world is quite limited as there is much that remains undiscovered. I am drawn to the lure of the unknown, and the quest for more knowledge. I am interested in the processes that happen inside of a living entity that are invisible to the eye yet essential to life. Through my scientific background I have gained a deep appreciation for biological forms, anatomical subjects and bodily functions. I am fascinated by the way that nature evolves and adapts, and the way that humans can manipulate the outcome. I believe in the interconnectedness of all things, and that nothing ever occurs as an isolated event. I am interested in the ability of science to solve problems while ultimately creating new ones, and I think that art is important in this equation because it allows us to reflect on the power of our own knowledge and take a closer look at the implications of how it can alter our society and our environment. Science and art are both tools of exploration, allowing us to gain more insight into ourselves and the world around us. We will never see everything there is to see, but catching tiny glimpses here and there make the quest worthwhile.

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Angela McQuillan is a Philadelphia-based Artist and Curator working at the intersection of art and science. Angela holds degrees in both Biology and Painting, and has ten years of experience working as a scientist in various roles including academic research and pharmaceuticals. She is a former member of the Little Berlin curatorial/artist collective in Philadelphia, where she received a Knight Foundation grant in 2013 for the Little Berlin Fairgrounds Project. For two years, she directed this project to convert a vacant lot into a public art and garden space. To this date, Angela has curated over 40 art exhibitions relating to science and technology, including exhibitions by internationally recognized artists working with biological media. Angela currently works as both the Curator at the Esther Klein Gallery, and the Director of the University City Science Center's BioArt Residency which she founded in 2017. This residency program recently won the 2019 Art + Business Partnership Award by the Philadelphia Arts & Business Council. Angela is also a current member of the Grizzly Grizzly artist collective based in Philadelphia. Her work has been featured in prominent publications such as The New York Times, Forbes and SciArt in America

Michele C. Kishita: Under Grand Firmament, 2014, latex on birch panel, 46" x 40" x 2"

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My work is an investigation of the dialogue between the wooden surfaces on which I paint and the trees from which those panels were built. I address man's relationship with nature while also highlighting the impermanence and transience of all things. The straight lines and angles of industry attempt to control nature, transforming a tree's rounded mass into flat rectangular sheets; yet, the undulations of wood grain marking the tree's growth and annual water intake emerge despite its new boxy confines. The life of the tree is written indelibly on its interior and at the same time is a historical account of the landscape itself. In my paintings, I strive to conjure the landscape that no longer exists but is inherently contained in each panel while expressing the visual contrast and harmony where man-made structures and nature intersect.

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Michele Kishita is a Philadelphia-based artist who focuses on landscape as her primary subject. Kishita's paintings are strongly influenced by the graphic stylizations and compressed spaces of Japanese ukiyo-e prints. Her paintings are in a number of private/corporate collections, including Toyota, Capital One, and Kaiser Permanente, and her work is featured in Create Magazine, on the Poetry Foundation blog and Studio Break podcast, as well as in several literary journals. She has participated in artist residencies in New Mexico, Russia, and Iceland and exhibited at the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates and the Museum of Non-Conformist Art in St. Petersburg, Russia. Kishita received both her BFA and MFA in painting from the University of the Arts and is represented by Edgewater Gallery, James Oliver Gallery, The Drawing Room Gallery, and Carrie Coleman Fine Art.

Orlando Saverino-Loeb: The Cheerleader, 2019, acrylic and gesso on canvas, 18" x 15" x 1"

Courtesy of James Oliver Gallery

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Could you live in a space devoid of life and intrigue? The interaction of the individual in, and with their environment is one of constant flux and change. It could be chaotic and pointed with directives given by others, where the individuals lose their souls like in a painting by Hieronymus Bosch. It could be explorative, tranquil and grand with intimate interactions like a work by Hubert Robert or Thomas Cole. Some of us see the world differently, strangely even, and find joy in the imagined quasi-plausibilities and may see things like Salvador Dali or Joan Miro. They may also find dynamic power in that strangeness that hinges on political messages like David Siqueros. All of these have a place and are true. Perception is something that is reality to most and, all of these lenses exist. I try to let a little of each shine through in my work through plausible, and fantastical landscapes and characters using symbols and visual metaphors to place relate-ability and the tools to create unique new ideas and insights into the eyes, hands, and minds of my viewers.

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Orlando Saverino-Loeb is a Philadelphia born artist who works primarily in paint. His work is a constantly evolving process of
exploration that spawned from the desire to find a visual primary source. His process is dependent on the speed and freedom involved in making the pieces. The colors and sense of light that he uses in the paintings are highly influenced by his extended stays throughout Italy. Using acrylic paint, an airbrush, and other mixed media he slowly builds out an environment that is bursting with textures and varied techniques to be explored for hours on end. He has shown his work multiple times at the Infusion lounge in Philadelphia, along with select appearances with the Philadelphia Art Collective, the Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery, Vintage Wine Bar, the Inliquid Gallery, Fleisher Art Memorial and the Davinci Art Alliance. He is a resident artist at Hot-Bed Gallery in Philadelphia, and has representation through James Oliver Gallery. He has also done murals around Temple University's Campus and was a part of the 2018 BecomeBecome residency in Sardinia, Italy during which he presented in their first symposium talk at the Stazione Dell'Arte - Museo d'arte contemporanea in Ulassai. He is currently the Technical Director at HOTBED.

Pia De Girolamo: True North, 2015, acrylic, 31.75" x 41.75" x 2.25"

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In this painting, abstracted forms and a cool palette echo the vast landscape of the far north with its forested mountain chains and glacial lakes.

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Pia De Girolamo is an accomplished painter living and working in the Greater Philadelphia area whose recent exhibitions featured large-scale paintings based on abstracted mountain landscapes, as well as a series evoking the urban landscapes of Rome and Italy. She has had thirteen solo exhibitions, most recently at the Museo Mastroianni, within the Musei di San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome and the Cerulean Arts Gallery in Philadelphia. She has also shown extensively in group exhibitions regionally. De Girolamo has a BA in Art History from Barnard College, Columbia University and an MD degree from the University of Rochester. She lectures on the relationship between art and medicine as well as the connections between art, nature, and health. Her awarded work has been acquired for collections by the Museo Mastroianni, Rome, PNC Bank, Pittsburgh, and Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA and has been highlighted in Hollywood feature films.

Stephen D'Onofrio: Still Life, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 36" x 36"

Courtesy of Galleri Urbane

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My work explores the relationship between physical spaces and the objects we fill them with. Often focusing on typical domestic decor and household ornaments, the work makes these inherently empty objects into simplified symbols and patterns that can then be rearranged and compressed to carry a formal sensibility. Currently, my work has concerned the idea of the painting as ornament, with stock subjects of landscape, still life, and portraiture becoming knickknacks. I distill, consolidate, and appropriate the overwhelming amount of generic design aesthetic in the commercial decor market when working. Rather than fight the inherent kitschiness of this visual language, I embrace the imagery so the work can, in turn, become a critique of the subject it is representing.

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Stephen D'Onofrio is a contemporary visual artist focused in painting. His work is characterized by an interest in the home decor market, the mass commodification of art, and the generic visual language that accompanies commercial design. He received his MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and his work has been placed in numerous private nationwide and public collections such as Estee Lauder and Fidelity to name a few. D'Onofrio has lived and worked in Philadelphia since being awarded an artist residency in the city at Jasper Studios in 2017

Daniel Oliva: Bernhard Goetz and C.P., 2009, 2011, oil on canvas, 12" x 16" x 0.5"

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I explore the dynamics of power, class, and social identity through a psychological lens. Social characters interact in a field of culture, vying for status and prestige within intersecting groups. I am interested in how we identify with characters, particularly the fifteen-minute celebrities that are so prevalent in contemporary America. I choose figures whose stories exemplify my interest in identity and friction between groups, and after extensive preliminary research I will often paint them in a purposefully simple way. The portraits of subway shooter Bernie Goetz and boxer Mike Tyson holding animals suggest multiple readings: are these paintings tender, sadistic, humorous? Their tight cropping creates an intimacy of scale that overwrites our assumptions about who or what constitutes their identity, and places us nearly in their point of view. We are in a psychic space both outside and inside them. The inclusion of animals is accurate to the subject's personal story or, in works with only animals, often a way for me to extend of my study of social dynamics through animal imagery.

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I am a Philadelphia-based artist who holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Philadelphia and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. I am a member of the NAPOLEON collective. I have exhibited at The Galleries at Moore, Goggleworks Art Center, Pentimenti Gallery, NAPOLEON, Marginal Utility, and Bridgette Mayer Gallery. Exhibitions that I have co-curated include Immigration Now at Penn State Abington and Exquisite Form: A Fiber Invitational, at Allens Lane Art Center in Philadelphia. I am an adjunct Professor at Penn State University, Abington and Drexel University, Philadelphia, and was an undergraduate instructor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.

Deborah Caiola: The Artist, 2019, mixed media painting, 24" x 18"

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Deborah Caiola is a working artist and teacher living in Philadelphia PA. She has shown in Philadelphia and New York City, and her work is collected worldwide. A teacher at both the college and high school levels, Deborah is currently the chair of the Visual Arts Department at the Friends Select School in center city Philadelphia. She holds a BA in cultural anthropology from Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame Indiana and a certificate in painting from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Look for her exhibition, Muses, Guardians, and Saints, in the Inliquid Gallery in the Crane Arts Building in March 2020.

John Howell White: Shower, 2009, watercolor, 17" x 13" x 0.75"

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Paintings inhabit the world in ways, through time, reference, and ambience, that are distinct from the workings of film and photography. Even realistic paintings hover about unattached to their referents. Paintings then, like ghosts, confront viewers through their impact and haunt them through excluded information, they conjure an absence, which ferments attachments and invites future visitations.

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John Howell White has been a practicing artist for over 40 years. His work, in oil, acrylics, egg tempera, and watercolor, has generated paintings that grapple with the interplay of cognition, sensation, and affect. He has recently shown at: The Works Gallery (2019), NYC; Archer Law Gallery 35 (2019), Philadelphia, PA; Provincetown Art Association and Museum (2018), Provincetown, MA; In-Liquid (2017), Philadelphia, PA; Jefferson Hospital (2017), Philadelphia, PA; , The Cotuit Center for the Arts (2016), Cotuit, MA; and Maryland Hall (2014), Annapolis, MD. His studio is currently based in Philadelphia.

Barbara Straussberg: Dots/Orange Burst, 2011, mixed media acrylic on paper, 32" x 31" x 1"

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As an artist, my materials and how I use them, are the essence of my art. I am always looking for new ways to apply the paint. Painting and drawing work in unison to form a complete and truthful painting. The act of painting is a personal journey to find out how I can more fully express my response to my surroundings. Subconsciously, I draw from nature and the world around me to record in a personal language what I see and feel through paint. Color is my primary form of expression, but I also rely on line, form, surface texture, pattern and collage.

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Barbara Straussberg is an abstract painter and paper artist. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in galleries and museums including the Delaware Art Museum, Woodmere Art Museum, the Lawrence Gallery at Rosemont College, and Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers. Her acrylic paintings and works on paper are included in many private, corporate and museum collections such as the Biggs Museum of American Art, Fox Rothschild, and Brandywine Realty Company. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Pennsylvania with a Distinction in Art History, and graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with a concentration in painting and printmaking. Her studio is located in the Norristown Arts Building, a vibrant collective of artists' studios and galleries.

Stephen Haigh: invite, 2016, mixed media on denim, 24" x 48" x 2"

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The city environment around us is alive and each piece of it has its own unique story to share, if we look, if we listen. My current painting work explores the seemingly chaotic nature of these occurrences, while trying to contain, mask and organize its energy. I seek a balance of organic gesture, contrasted against what has been designed. Like the city around me, my pieces move in similar stride, collecting, sharing, and reveling layers of stories while somehow finding a comfort in the uncertainty of where and how it ends.

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A Philadelphia born artist, whose paintings pull influence from the textures, personalities, designs and stories gathered by urban design and weathered walls from the surrounding city landscape. Stephen has long been attracted to the rusted, decayed and worn surfaces that wear the marks of life. The stories they collect and the personalities they share are authentic. The walls, he believes are the diaries of the city.
As a kid growing up in Philadelphia in the 1980's and through the 1990's, drawing and airbrushing were of primary interests. Stephen was also drawn to the expressive mark making and energy of graffiti and the murals that colored city surfaces in those years. A commercial art major, at a city vocational and technical high school brought the practice of poster design, sign lettering and advertisement layout to his artistic interests.
While studying design in his early years at college, Stephen explored different ways of using script and text in his work, while maintaining an interest in traditional mediums of collage and assemblage. Stephen started exploring these mediums more and started painting as a departure from the intensive computer work that comes with studying graphic arts. The collage, assemblage and paintings weren't as rigid, as the hours spent designing at the computer. An idea to combine the formal and geometric aspects with the raw emotion and energy in painting and graffiti started to take shape. Layering with discarded items, advertisements papers and paint transparencies, brought an elated feeling that better expressed his interest as well as the desire for the intimate and visceral aspects that came with the development of each piece.
Concepts dealing with time, decay, construction, change, and reflection, as well as the commentaries about them followed in the work. An obvious attention was closely given to the "living" environment and the design of such as the inspiration in his work. Stephen now lives in Bala Cynwyd with his wife, son, dog and cat. He works as a cement mason while painting and illustrating out of his studio in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia.

Diane Pieri: Sunday in Varanasi, 2015, painting, 23" x 33" x 2"

Courtesy of Cerulean Arts

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I consider myself a Symbolic Abstractionist, incorporating meaningful symbols into fields of abstraction. For over 25 years, I have been deeply immersed in the almost unearthly beauty of Indian miniatures. I was solely inspired through books until I was awarded a 2012 Independence Foundation Grant to travel to Northern India, the wellspring of my desire to create beauty in the everyday world.
My paintings are translations of and reactions to gorgeous marble inlays, breathtaking landmarks, delightful Indian folk images and intensely colorful experiences from this pivotal trip. Being in India took me way beyond printed images. Intimacies of India, Phases of the Sun, Still Life Gardens and Intimate Whispers weave meaning, symbol, color and purposeful design into my need to offer beauty in the everyday.

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Diane Pieri is a Visual Artist who received a BFA from Temple University's Tyler School of Art in 1969. She has had 31 solo exhibitions and been included in 210 national and international group exhibitions since 1969. She has been the recipient of two Pollock-Krasner Grants (1999/1992), two Independence Foundation Fellowships in the Arts (2001/2011), a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant (1992). She was included in the 2005 Philadelphia Invitational Portfolio, Philagrafika. She has been a fellow at Yaddo (1991) and The MacDowell Colony (1990). In 1990 Pieri was also an Artist-in-Residence at Mark diSuvero's Socrates Sculpture Park where she created a 15 ft. sculpture made of rusted and gold leafed can lids. In 2006 Pieri's public art project, Manayunk Stoops: Heart and Home, a series of 9 seating elements fabricated in Italian tesserae, was installed along the Manayunk towpath through the Association for Public Art's New Land Marks Program. Since 2001 Pieri has completed 12 murals working with Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program. Since 2008 she has completed 7 murals in an elementary school in College Station, Texas. In 2005 Pieri founded the Cooke Museum of Art, modeled after the Philadelphia Museum of Art, at the Jay Cooke Elementary School in North Philadelphia.
Pieri has been a Teaching Artist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for 21 years. She also taught for 4 years for The Barnes Foundation.

Tremain Smith: We Are Here, 2019, oil, wax & graphite on paper, 30" x 22"

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My artistic concerns center on portraying physical and spiritual beauty through the elements of painting. The lines, shapes and colors are mappings of the unseen as I visually explore internal landscapes.

"If you live by inspiration then you do what comes to you." This quote from artist Agnes Martin has led me my entire career. I let the process take over, guiding and absorbing me. I take risks by expressing emotion and freedom in mark-making while simultaneously finding wisdom in structure and restraint. Both convey my concern for exploration, discovery, and healing through the language of painting.

I have recently made public my practice of responding to my paintings with writing, thus my creative process now combines both languages. The writing spontaneously explores what is mined in the painting.

We Are Here

We communicate in this place
this space
No words
just presence
silent
intense
hidden
We are here
all swirls around us
through us
in us
The never ending play of space
Full + thick
strange + confusing
it doesn't matter
We are here

that's what matters

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Tremain Smith has four works in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her work is in corporate and private collections across the country. She has had dozens of solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Scottsdale, Maine, Delaware, Florida and Hawaii. Group exhibitions include SOFA Chicago, Art Miami, the Painted Bride, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and the USArtists American Fine Art Show.

Henry Bermudez: Nocturne, 2019, acrylic paint, paper, 12.5" x 27" x 5"

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I am an American contemporary artist born in Venezuela in 1951. Emerged from the Caribbean tropics, my artistic life has been an unexpected hybrid of ideas informed by an acute sensitivity to the past, stenciled as part of a personal inventory onto different foreign places that throughout my life have become my home and my artistic working territory.
My paintings are steeped in mythical dream imagery within an otherworldliness of carefully constructed creature and plant forms. Further defined by my identity as a Latino, my visual itinerary combines symbols and myth from ancient pre-Hispanic cultures charged with powerful influences from Judeo-Christian and Afro-Caribbean religions, and further melds these with the iconography of western contemporary art. This blend of cultural diversities is my autobiographical vision that further defines itself through immersion into societies other that the one I was born into. It is my hope that my art can transcend timelines and national boundaries as I join magical dimensions of symbols with supposed western rationality.

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Henry Bermudez's interest in the visual representations of cultures and mythologies have appeared in his work in varying forms during his career. A journey of geographical, artistic and human observation has taken him from educational experiences in small isolated communities in the Caribbean up to representing Venezuela in the Venice Biennial. His artistic work transcends timeline and national boundaries.

In the Venezuelan coastal Afro-Caribbean community of Borbures, religious and social syncretism provided a unique vision of the African Diaspora in the Americas with its symbolism and iconography. These were his first impacts in the process of breaking from the formalities of mainstream styles learned in school. With these early experiences came the desire for new forms of expression.

Mr. Bermudez attended the National Schools of Art in Venezuela and was awarded a scholarship to the National School of Art "La Esmeralda" in Mexico City. He also studied at New York City's Art Student's League, as well as in Rome. He was selected to be the Venezuelan representative for the 1986 Venice Biennale. His work has been included in many exhibition catalogs such as the X International Print and Drawing Exhibition of China as well as in books on the subject of Venezuelan art.

Alexandria Nazar: Almost Matching, 2019, oil on canvas, 17" x 16"

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My work deals with meditations on the space between gestures. How can painting capture an imprint of something that happened without notice? These actions are linked to both the mundane and the urgent, both making a meal you've made a hundred times before and a physical violation. Using the nebulous space of memory and repetitive motion I reverse the role of the object and use it as a proxy to implicate the body. I aim to understand ideas of agency and infliction through these intentionally complicated relationships. Through an examination of the personal and the corporeal I can explore simultaneous ways of understanding.

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Alexandria Nazar is an artist based in Philadelphia, PA. She is a MFA candidate in the Painting department at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture and has shown her work at Information Space in Philadelphia, PA, the Dorchester Art Project in Boston, MA, the Kathryn Schultz Gallery in Cambridge, MA, Gallery 263 in Somerville, MA and Onkel Olga's Atelier Odense, Denmark. She has also attended artists residencies at MASS MoCA, the Chautauqua School of Art and Gæsteatelier Hollufgård.

Charles Browning: New Frontier, 2017, oil on canvas, 30" x 26" x 1.5"

Courtesy of Schroeder Romero

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I paint in oils, playing with art-historical styles. In my paintings there is an interplay of Art and History, humor and brutality, sincerity and irony, narrative and allegory. My work aims to puncture the propaganda of American frontier mythology and comment on race, gender and power in American history.

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Charles Browning received his BFA from The California College of the Arts and his MFA from New York University. He is represented by Schroeder Romero gallery, NYC. His work has been included in shows and art fairs nationally. He is Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Ara Zeibarian: Love & Peace (or else), 2019, pastels, glue, 2 canvases, 11" x 11" x 2"

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In this body of work the artist explores his relation to northern European art and ties it in to his American life and Armenian heritage to bring it closer to him and his interests. Love and Peace (or else) is a U2 song that he sees as relating to the middle east and all the nonsense of life there today. Hoping to draw European solidarity to the region the artist made the work on two canvases with it being top heavy ( hence Northern Europe) also representing the mind over the body.

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Ara Zeibarian was at Tyler school of art when Neo-Expressionism was all the rage, his work matured in 1997 after witnessing the Mondrian retrospective at the MoMA in 1995. He lives and works in Upper Darby and is looking for gallery representation.

Steven Baris: Nested Form #8, 2011, acrylic on plexiglass, 13" x 13" x 1"

Courtesy of Pentimenti Gallery

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I am drawn to spaces that are engineered to be placeless-from interiors to landscapes-spaces that are highly disorienting and are precisely designed to be passed through as quickly and efficiently as possible. Think airports, expressways, and lobbies. Lately I've been frequenting similar kinds of spaces, no less enigmatic and no less banal: those sprawling tracts dotted about the edges of cities and suburbs, characterized by the clotted networks of expressways and county roads and, most importantly to me, those massive, horizontal structures variously called distribution centers or logistics centers.

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Steven Baris received his MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. He studied at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and at Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. Baris has exhibited widely in the US and internationally, in museums and institutions. He is represented by Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia.

Sandra Benhaim: Frozen Cascade, 2017, oil, pigment stick and oil pastel on wood, 30" x 34"

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Sandra Benhaim is a Philadelphia based painter, working in oil, mixed media, and collages. After working representationally for many years, "little pieces of landscapes" began to mix in her artwork with pure abstractions of color and texture. Lately, she has created mainly abstract images, expressing in unabashed and exuberant color her passion for nature. Sandra, born and raised in Philadelphia, attended Tyler School of Art (of Temple University) on a full-paid four year scholarship, earning a Masters as well as a B.F.A. from Tyler. She additionally studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Fleisher Art Memorial. During the 20 years following her Tyler education, Sandra was an art specialist teacher in Philadelphia's public schools and other places. During that time and through the present, she has explored her creative side and applied her passion for art by participating in dozens of local and national juried exhibitions.

Her artwork has been exhibited locally in the Philadelphia area, and nationally from as far as Washington State to New York to Florida. Sandra's expressive and colorful paintings are in private collections and in public collections, such as the PNC Headquarters Tower in Pittsburgh, PA; Mondrian Investments (Philadelphia office); Bryn Mawr Dermatology offices in Villanova, PA; Corporate Offices in Conshohocken, PA. She is a member of Cerulean Gallery's Cerulean Arts Collective in Philadelphia, PA.

Tyler Kline: Hearts of Glass, 2020, Sumi ink, colored pencil, gouache on board, 9.5" x 11.5" x 2"

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My work is concentrated on carving out forms that to define the Chthulucene, this new epoch we have entered, post-Anthropocene, tentacular, multi-optic, and multi-specied.

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Tyler Kline is an interdisciplinary artist working in Philadelphia

Paul Romano: Careless Whisper, 2016, oil and paper on wood, artist-made frame, 24" x 24" x 2"

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My work is representational, created in a wide variety of media; painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and video. It is a result of personal experience, art history, music, myth and narrative, filtered through allegory, archetype and symbolism. While choosing realistic form, I am not as interested in reality as I am in the ideas of imagination; evocation over accuracy. The audience is left with abstract narratives that ask more questions than give answers. Despite jumping mediums through bodies of work, my methodologies and sensibilities are consistent. Subject matter and formal concerns are strongly linked throughout my oeuvre, giving it a distinct voice.

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Paul Romano is a fine artist and designer living and working in Philadelphia. Romano studied at the University of the Arts and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His work became known
to a wider audience when he began working in the music industry, where he was able to combine brand design and fine art. He has designed artwork for over 300 albums and has received two Grammy nominations.

Romano's work is part of private collections around the world and has been shown extensively in galleries across the US, including Last Rites Gallery in New York, NY, Arch Enemy Arts and Paradigm Gallery, both in Philadelphia, PA, Thinkspace Gallery in Culver City, CA, and The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, CA. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Juxtapoz, and Decibel Magazine. Romano has also lectured at venues including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, and Brick and Mortar Gallery.

Lee Lippman: Armageddon, 2008, oil encaustic on canvas, 35" x 23"

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Lee Lippman has lived and worked in Philadelphia most of his life, except for twelve years in Mexico with his artist wife, Arlene Love. In his youth, he studied in Mexico with the famous muralists, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. He also experimented with new media at the Instituto Polytecnico Nacional. Lippman worked on a mural crew with Siqueiros before returning to school at the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), where he was awarded the senior prize for painting. His work is in collections in various places in the United States, including (among others), The Phillip Morris collection, many Pennsylvania universities and colleges, the Hollis and Generalis collections in Philadelphia, the Nelson collection in Denver, and collections in Mexico. For many years he worked as an art director and graphic designer and began painting full-time in 1975 to today. Lippman also plays the clarinet and tenor saxophone and continues to perform with small bands in Philadelphia.

Lee Lippman: Schuylkill Fog, 2002, oil and encaustic on canvas, 30" x 24"

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Lee Lippman has lived and worked in Philadelphia most of his life, except for twelve years in Mexico with his artist wife, Arlene Love. In his youth, he studied in Mexico with the famous muralists, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. He also experimented with new media at the Instituto Polytecnico Nacional. Lippman worked on a mural crew with Siqueiros before returning to school at the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), where he was awarded the senior prize for painting. His work is in collections in various places in the United States, including (among others), The Phillip Morris collection, many Pennsylvania universities and colleges, the Hollis and Generalis collections in Philadelphia, the Nelson collection in Denver, and collections in Mexico. For many years he worked as an art director and graphic designer and began painting full-time in 1975 to today. Lippman also plays the clarinet and tenor saxophone and continues to perform with small bands in Philadelphia.

Howard Silberthau: Copy of Sarah's Quilt, 2019, oil, 42" x 42" x 1"

Courtesy of Seraphin Gallery

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This painting from a new series continues to utilize the grid but also reintroduces color (in a muted form) and a more noticeable brushstroke.

Bio:

Received an undergraduate degree from Vassar College and a law degree from New York University School of Law.
Continued to study at New York Art Student's League and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Practiced corporate law in New York City and Boston before turning to painting full time.
Participated in several solo shows and numerous group shows.

Lee Lippman: Untitled #9, 2014, encaustic and oil and crayon on 300 lb paper, 30" x 20"

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Lee Lippman has lived and worked in Philadelphia most of his life, except for twelve years in Mexico with his artist wife, Arlene Love. In his youth, he studied in Mexico with the famous muralists, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. He also experimented with new media at the Instituto Polytecnico Nacional. Lippman worked on a mural crew with Siqueiros before returning to school at the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), where he was awarded the senior prize for painting. His work is in collections in various places in the United States, including (among others), The Phillip Morris collection, many Pennsylvania universities and colleges, the Hollis and Generalis collections in Philadelphia, the Nelson collection in Denver, and collections in Mexico. For many years he worked as an art director and graphic designer and began painting full-time in 1975 to today. Lippman also plays the clarinet and tenor saxophone and continues to perform with small bands in Philadelphia.

Favi Dubo: Summer, Equinox, 2019, oil on heavy corrugated cardboard

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Lee Lippman: Untitled #4, 2014, drawing, encaustic, oil, and crayon on 300 lb paper, 30" x 20"

Bio:

Lee Lippman has lived and worked in Philadelphia most of his life, except for twelve years in Mexico with his artist wife, Arlene Love. In his youth, he studied in Mexico with the famous muralists, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. He also experimented with new media at the Instituto Polytecnico Nacional. Lippman worked on a mural crew with Siqueiros before returning to school at the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), where he was awarded the senior prize for painting. His work is in collections in various places in the United States, including (among others), The Phillip Morris collection, many Pennsylvania universities and colleges, the Hollis and Generalis collections in Philadelphia, the Nelson collection in Denver, and collections in Mexico. For many years he worked as an art director and graphic designer and began painting full-time in 1975 to today. Lippman also plays the clarinet and tenor saxophone and continues to perform with small bands in Philadelphia.

TJ Walsh: The summer of my wasted youth, 2015, crayons and paint pens, acrylic, 14" x 11"

About:

TJ Walsh explores the inner realm of the subconscious through abstract paintings. As he states, "This work focuses on the hidden conversations that course through the undercurrent of our minds, unconsciously giving form to who we are as human beings. I work fast letting my emotion and intuition drive the painting. It is through this process that I hope beauty reveals itself.

Bio:

TJ Walsh, BFA, MA, LPC is a psychotherapist and painter with a private practice and studio in Philadelphia. Prior to receiving his M.A. in Clinical Counseling Psychology from Eastern University in Saint Davids, PA, TJ received his BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

TJ's work as a painter has garnered acclaim at home in the Philadelphia region as well as across the country and overseas.

Ian White Williams: Sophomore Effort, 2014, oil on linen, 16" x 13"

Tremain Smith: Levitation, 2012, watercolor on paper, 12" x 6"

Bio:

Tremain Smith has four works in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her work is in corporate and private collections across the country. She has had dozens of solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Scottsdale, Maine, Delaware, Florida and Hawaii. Group exhibitions include SOFA Chicago, Art Miami, the Painted Bride, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and the USArtists American Fine Art Show.

Tremain Smith: Line Color Study, 2011, watercolor on paper, 14.5" x 11"

Bio:

Tremain Smith has four works in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her work is in corporate and private collections across the country. She has had dozens of solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Scottsdale, Maine, Delaware, Florida and Hawaii. Group exhibitions include SOFA Chicago, Art Miami, the Painted Bride, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and the USArtists American Fine Art Show.