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The Esther Klein Art Gallery is pleased to present Urban Life, an exhibition featuring the works of Philadelphia-based artists who deal with issues involving contemporary living. The exhibition will reflect on the act of living as we move through the urban environment of Philadelphia. It will present work in different media including Photography, Sculpture, Painting, and site-specific Installation.
Exhibiting artists include: Shannon Bowser, Jessica Demcsak, Paul Fabozzi, Albo Jeavons, Richard Ryan, Sarah Steinwachs, Ron Tarver, and Amy Walsh.
Artist Shannon Bowser casts and builds objects and installations inspired by architecture, landscape, nature and machinery. Suspended in air or protruding off the wall, her objects reflect isolated thoughts about traveling, urban life, childhood memories, camping and cosmos.
Inspired by the Victorian culture and its precious objects and decorative architecture, artist Jessica Demcsak paints on wooden boxes that protrude off the wall. These delicate paintings create a sense of nostalgia challenging our notions of modern living.
Alternatively, Paul Fabozzi’s paintings are inspired in maps of contemporary cities. They celebrate what for the artist constitutes the cornerstone of being - the simple act of breathing as he moves through space.
Since the late 1980s, artists and activist Albo Jeavons has attempted to use his art to help in the struggle for a better and more just world. Using stuffed and sewn clothing, Albo’s sculptural investigations personify the “corporation” and the ramifications that corporation-personhood has for our economy, environment, society.
Ron Tarver’s photography reveals and highlights the city’s architecture by removing his subjects from definable space, place and time in an attempt to provide each with the opportunity to tell their own story.
Photogrammetry, the science of measuring objects in photographs, informs Richard Ryan’s prints. Ryan projects a two-dimensional vectorized image onto a three-dimensional geometry and the result is a new mapped space.
Sarah Steinwachs creates elegant, large scale drawings and rubbings use the surface and structure of the city to investigate structures, patterns in the physical world around her. The resulting images exist somewhere between the world of abstraction and a representation of reality.
Amy Walsh uses images of abandoned, deteriorating buildings as a starting point for her largely invented, miniature facades and interiors that appear to be simultaneously in states of decay and reconstruction.
Gallery Hours
Monday-Saturday
9:00am - 5:00pm
Free to Public/Wheelchair Access |
