Jessica Jane Julius: Droplet, 2019, blown glass, crystals, glass bead, and gold leaf paint, 20" x 11" x 11"

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Droplet is part of a series of work that is a mediation on the function of seduction and curiosity alternating between a scientific and artistic nature.

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Jessica Jane Julius is an artist, educator, collaborator and performer who creates glass installations, objects and imagery that examine how fear is infiltrating the ways in which we navigate the world and presents a look at the anxieties and complexities of our current "culture of fear."

Julius is currently an Assistant Professor and Program Head of glass at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She is the co-founder of the artists' collective and performance group, The Burnt Asphalt Family, who produces collaborative, participatory and edible works. Together they have performed at prestigious venues including the Corning Museum of Glass, the Chrysler Museum and Urban Glass. Her mixed media works have been exhibited nationally at venues including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Museum of American Glass, New Jersey and MarketView Arts, Pennsylvania. She has been awarded a York Cultural Alliance grant and residencies at The Creative Glass Center of America in Millville, New Jersey and The Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington. Currently, Julius serves as the Vice President of the International Glass Arts Society.

Roger Wing: Cherry Twist, 2018, cherry on black walnut base, 27" x 12" x 12"

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Cherry Twist is the result of direct carving, without models or drawings. The figure emerged through a collaboration of the artist, the shape of the wood, and its natural patterns of growth and decay, giving new life to this old tree.

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Direct carving in wood has been Wing's primary function for over 30 years. He has been featured in film and television and travelled extensively around the world for ice, snow, and sand projects. Wing's large scale tree carvings can be seen in Old City and throughout the Philadelphia suburbs. Recently he relocated his studio to 40th and Westminster in West Philly.

Diane Richards: Double Vision, 2019, silk, dye and cedar, 66" x 50" x 8"

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I am intensely attuned to the patterns in nature. In the land, I see form and energy. In my work, I try to capture these patterns, which I see as profoundly moving. I have developed a way of working that speaks to these patterns and the process is unique since the elements of nature, are creating the work.

I am a land artist. The process is site-specific: silk is laid onto the land while powder dye is introduced to create a monoprint from the land. With time and a bit of patience, I watch and wait for the right moment to blow the powder dye onto the wet silk. The results combine nature's elements: sun, water, wind, and earth. Nature has created the design, and I am taking the imprint. Once the print is made, the silk is displayed to move freely, so that the viewer can feel the energy of the work. For a moment, I wish to harness that energy- and then share it. This work is created with the same gentleness of spirit and kindness that nature gives to all of us when we slow down, sense, listen and watch.

There is a sense of tranquility and impermanence as one interacts with the work. The shapes and materials used are minimal-They create both a balanced complexity and a calming effect.

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Diane Richards (b. 1971) lives in Pottstown, PA. She is a land artist whose work brings a sense of tranquility and impermanence to our ever-changing world. Her work has a curious and pleasing balance. The process of the painted silk and sculptural elements provides equal strength and fragility, which creates a tension. This tension melds into a flowing symbiosis that creates a pattern that seems woven directly into the landscape. The ensuing result of merging subject and materials in this way is pure harmony.

Jocelyn Gabrynowicz Hill: Kesington Tracks, 2017, assemblage, 36" x 12" x 1"

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The drama of Kensington. Set against the backdrop of the railroad. The railroad that informs and shapes the landscape.

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Jocelyn lives and works in Philadelphia.

Anna Boothe: Chalice, 2019, lead crystal, 15.5" x 3" x 3"

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"Chalice" is from a series of small sculptures that are inspired by the talisman-like objects that people collect. I'm interested in iconic forms that are culture specific and also those that transcend societal borders.

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With degrees in sculpture from Rhode Island Scool of Design and glass from Tyler School of Art, Boothe has worked with glass since 1980. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, Racine Art Museum (WI) and Tacoma Museum of Art and has been shown internationally at numerous galleries and at museums in Taiwan, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Wisconsin, and Wyoming,

Recently, Boothe has exhibited in Albuquerque, Chicago, Nashville, New York City, Princeton, Stamford, Toledo, Washington DC and Vicenza (Italy) as well as in Philadelphia at the PHL Airport, Art Alliance, City Hall, InLiquid and Wayne Art Center, with future exhibits scheduled at the Racine Art and Fuller Craft Museums (MA).

When exhibiting for the first time in each the Smithsonian, Philadelphia Museum of Art and American Craft Council's Baltimore craft shows, she received "Best of" awards.

Boothe taught at Tyler for 16 years, helped develop Salem Community College's (NJ) glass art program and has lectured at many schools and universities, some that include the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Urban Glass, Pilchuck Glass School, Illinois State, RISD, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of WI, Virginia Commonwealth University and venues in Belgium, Israel, Japan, Switzerland and Turkey.

Boothe served as President of the Glass Art Society and is a former Director of Glass at Philadelphia's National Liberty Museum.

Lauren Mabry: Composition of Enclosed Cylinders 20.01, 2020, red earthenware, slips, glaze, 15" x 21" x 5.5"

Courtesy of Pentimenti Gallery

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Originally from Madison, Wisconsin, Lauren Mabry lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her ceramic work is internationally known for its bold, expressive glazes. In 2015, she was chosen as a Pew Fellow in the Visual Arts, a national-level award, in recognition of artistic achievement and excellence. In recent years, she has been included in exhibitions in museums and established galleries in including Daum Museum of Contemporary Art (Sedalia, MO), Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA), Nelson Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City), Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia), Ferrin Contemporary (North Adams, MA), and Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami). Further, she has completed residencies at Jingdezhen International Studio in China and Gaya Ceramic Art Center in Bali, among others

Marianne Lovink: Pattern Play, 2019, wood, pigment, 5" x 7.5" x 1.25"

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With this newest series of work I have been exploring the relationship between sculptural form and its embellishment. This is not unusual for me, but in the past I have resisted the urge to fully explore this interest. I have always been fascinated with the visual language of mark-making throughout millennia - and its complexity, variety, and pervasiveness across all cultures.

This timeless preoccupation with the endless expressive possibilities of repetitive motifs - and the subsequent effect of positive and negative space has had a growing influence on my work. I am particularly interested in how a specific motif can conform but also resist the underlying sculptural form, creating a visual tension that enlivens the eye.

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Marianne Lovink is a Philadelphia-based sculptor, born in North Carolina and raised in Canada. She has an extensive exhibition history in both public and commercial galleries and has participated in Art Fairs in Canada, the United States and Europe. A recipient of numerous arts council grants, she has recently completed several large-scale site-specific Public Art projects in both Philadelphia and Toronto. Her works can be found in both public and private art collections. She is a past member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, a current member of Philadelphia Sculptors, and is represented by Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto, ON and Jennifer Kostuik Gallery in Vancouver, BC.

Summer Yates: Mirror Mobiles, 2019, found mirror (sanded), mirror mastic, steel fishing wire, 12" x 12"

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My work is about my experience as a woman…. the intimacy of light and emanating color within, and my eagerness to expose it. I crave versatility in objects and I'm attracted to materials that are strong yet flexible like myself. How far can I push until it unravels, what's the breaking point? A physical approach to creating feeds my rhythmic appetite and results in the appearance of a visual dance, a romp between myself and my work. My muse, often inaccesible, inspires my use of colors, objects or symbols that warrant caution while also inviting you in. I allow a sense of interpretative mobility in my work, a door left ajar.... just enough visual information to recognize an image or a mood and experience it in your own memory. In a dream-like fashion, not only do seemingly incompatible parts fit together, but their potency relies on their close proximity to one another. Every work tells a story, but doesn't resonate as just one thing. Both familiar and enigmatic, each time you look, you see something new.

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Summer expresses her personal history visually through a prolific body of work that includes painting, sculpture, and installation. She spent her childhood drawing all over her bedroom walls, getting lost in nature, and passionately studying and performing classical ballet. Her love for "the stage" later influenced her decision to work as scenic/mural painter professionally while continuing her own artwork in the studio. Summer received her BFA while on scholarship at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. In 2005, she also received a scholarship from The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts to pursue her MFA. During this time she began her ongoing "mirror mobile" project which recalls her experiences of repetitive "perfecting" of her body in front of a mirror as a dancer. Summers paintings and installations have been exhibited at prominent institutions in the Philadelphia area including, The Independence Seaport Museum, Rowan University, and The Kimmel Center for The Performing Arts. In 2015 she was invited to exhibit her work in the UK as the only American artist to be part of a curated exhibition, "A Moving Identity" in response to the ongoing refugee crisis. Currently, Summer works as a full time artist and lives in Bucks County with her husband, who is a pianist, and her children Viola and Indigo. She is deeply influenced by the nature and music that surround her. Summers most recent work reflects her journey as a mother, and her inquiry into female identity.

Brent Crothers: Two Into One, 2009, wood, 18" x 10" x 10"

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Don't we all want to express something about this world we find ourselves living in? I'm not a writer, so what I do to voice my concerns, my dreams, and my questions is to wrestle, rip, stack, bend, wrap, tie, bind, burn, hang, pile, cut, chisel, nail, solder, weave, bolt, drill, beat, and grind materials in such ways to create sculptural forms that have their own stories to tell. These pieces are part of a searching dialogue between me and the world. At the root of this work is a respect for nature and all the materials that surround us. More and more I'm incorporating unappreciated and discarded materials, transforming them into small communities to create forms and giving the materials new life.

In my art I've come to believe that there can be no separation between humanitarian, social, political, and environmental issues. We need creative thinking in every aspect of our lives today more than ever.

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Sculptor Brent Crothers has been working professionally for over 30 years from Stoney Forest in Harford County, Maryland where he built his own home and studio. He earned his MFA and BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

Brent Crothers' sculpture is featured in many permanent collections including: The Corcoran Museum of Art, The Hechinger Collection, Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters and The Delaware Art Museum. He was selected as a semi-finalist for The Sondheim Prize in 2010 and 2012. Crothers has also received six Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards, most recently in 2017. He was awarded a Baker Artist Award b-grant in 2012 and the Mary Sawyer Baker Prize in 2014. In 2016, Crothers received a Franz and Virginia Bader grant to help finish a piece he has been working on for several years.

Harry Anderson: Cam, 2012, found objects, hand blown glass, 20" x 4" x 4"

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Harry Anderson's work has always involved the recycling and reuse of objects. They were used first in site specific installations then in the mid eighties the pieces became unified objects in the form of a lamp or light sculpture. Harry is a full time artist whose past teaching credits include Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, North Country Studio Conference, Bennington, VT, Pilchuck, Stanwood, WA and Haystack, Deer Isle, ME. Anderson received his BFA from the University of Illinois and MFA from the Pennsylvania State University. He has received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts among others. His light sculptures, installations, artist books, prints and photographs have been widely seen in both solo and group exhibitions. They are included in numerous private and public collections.

Eva E Glassworks: Floral Bouquet, 2019, lamp-worked brosilicate glass, 6" x 6" x 6"