November 29 - December 31, 2017

First Friday: December 1, 5-9pm
Artist’s Reception:  December 3, 1-4pm

Jacque Ferretti is an abstract painter,  resident of Philadelphia and full member of 3rd StreetGallery.  Her work is inspired by the urban environment and by the city’s rich tapestry of history and diversity.  Images captured from the street are chosen due to an emotion, sense of  fragility, or remembrance deeply felt.  In her studio, she creates her understanding of whatever that connection may be and using oils and mixed-media, she allows a story to unfold. In her exhibition, Bella and Sharkey: Reflections of the Past she comes full-circle back to her Philadelphia roots, using oils, mixed media and found objects to create works that express her connection with her grandparents, Bella and Sharkey, whose tailor shop and home in the city were recently torn to the ground.  Her work is also available online at her website www.jacqueferretti.com.

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Curator Christine Stoughton says of De Girolamo's landscape series:

"She strips away the details to capture the vibration of colors, the geometric structure of the forms and the ambient space. While the viewer recognizes these abstracted works as a landscape we are given the opportunity to see this environment in a whole new way, which is what art is all about".  

Pia enjoys being out in nature, especially in the mountains. She finds that the key word in that sentence is "being". She states, "All the senses are engaged as I pocket smooth stones, sketch, smell the thyme and clover, taste the tartness of wild plants and listen to the sounds of nature as well as its silence. Then back in the studio, I explore what makes these landscapes beautiful and mysterious to me, letting the natural forms, the surrounding emptiness, and the sense of gravity influence how I use color and shape. As I work, the paintings evolve, and while some of them refer to real places, others spring from composite memories of shapes or vistas.  All are a record of what is for me of the essence in these landscapes, whether they are in Iceland, Hawaii, the Canadian Rockies, or the American Southwest".

In her artist talk, A Wild Peace: Nature, Art and Well-being De Girolamo will talk about her work and also link it to recently elucidated scientific thinking affirming the importance of exposure to nature and art to maintaining the individual's physical and psychological health.

Pia De Girolamo grew up in New York City and lives in the Philadelphia area. She has had sequential careers, first as an Infectious Diseases physician and since 2003, as a visual artist.  Recent exhibitions include the Professional Artist Members Exhibition at Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA and a solo show curated by Inliquid at the Courtyard Mariott at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 2017. Her work is in corporate and individual collections including those of PNC Bank Headquarters in Pittsburgh and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.  A full member of 3rd Street Gallery, she is also a member of the Cerulean Gallery Collective, Main Line Art Center, Inliquid.com. Her website is www.piadegirolamo.com 

Curator Christine Stoughton is an art educator, sculptor, printmaker and formerly a practicing psychologist. She is an Instructor in Art Aesthetics at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA and at West Chester University, West Chester, PA. She is also a printmaking instructor at Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA. She has exhibited her work, including public art installations, in Philadelphia and the surrounding region, in New York City, Toronto and in Washington, DC.

Highlights:

Artist Reception and Talks: Saturday November 11, 5-8PM.

Artist Talk by Pia De Girolamo: A Wild Peace: Art, Nature and Wellbeing. Saturday November 11, 6 PM

First Friday: November 3, 5-9PM

Long time 3SG member, Carol Wisker presents Accumulators, an exhibition of sculptural assemblages, selected by curator Barbara Bassett, the Constance Williams Curator of Education for School and Teacher Programs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In Wisker’s recent exhibition Left Behind, the Accumulators brought together textiles and findings from a variety of cultures left behind due to migration.  In this  new exhibition Wisker extends her definition of the Accumulators to also include aggregations of“created natural growth” in her fiber, wood and textile sculptures.

Highlights:

Artist Reception and Talks: Saturday November 11, 5-8PM.

Artist Talk by Carol Wisker: Accumulator...I Am! Saturday November 11, 6:30 PM

First Friday: November 3, 5-9PM

Autumn Salon: An Annual Members Exhibition Celebrating Philadelphia Studio Tours 2017

October 8-29, 2017 

The 3rd Street Gallery is pleased to present Autumn Salon: An Annual Members Exhibition featuring painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, collage, mixed media, ceramic and fiber art. This group exhibition coincides with the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours: POST 2017, a program of the Center for Emerging Visual Artists and one of the premier open studio tour events in the country. As a Community Partner with POST 2017, 3rd Street Gallery increases awareness of the arts in the wider community and strengthens bonds with fellow artists, local businesses, and neighborhood organizations.

First Friday, October 6, from 5-9 pm

POST 2017 weekend Saturday and Sunday, October 7 & 8, 12-6pm

Artist’s Reception will take place on Sunday, October 22, 1-4 pm.

Carol Albrecht, Colors: Vivid and Subdued 

First Friday: September 1, 5-9pm

Artist Reception: Sunday, September 10, 1-4 pm 

In her exhibition, Colors, Vivid and Subdued, Albrecht explores color and has narrowed her focus to still life and creating complexity with drapery and mirror reflections.  Her work is also clearly concerned with the passage of time. Carol explains, "In each subject/still life – there are two paintings to be completed - the fresh blooming, peaking of nature’s color that is first seen and put on canvas; and a second painting which renders the still life as it fades, droops, and withers with the passing of time.  Think of twenty year-olds and eighty year-olds – both groups are quite different yet still worthy of study." 

Carol Albrecht is a graduate of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' four-year program. She was the recipient of the PAFA Fellowship Prize and the Still Life Award. Prolific and highly visible on the Philadelphia scene, she has been a member of 3rd Street Gallery since 1994. Here, she has exhibited annually and was featured in three solo shows and four two-person shows. Her work has also been seen at twelve Baum School of Art exhibitions (Allentown, PA), the Montgomery County Guild of Professional Artists, and at Tyme Gallery, Havertown, PA. Her website is http://www.carolalbrecht.com.

Kristine Flannery: Life in My City.

Wednesday, August 30-Sunday October 1, 2017

First Friday: September 1, 5-9pm

Artist Reception: Sunday, September 24, 2-4 PM.

A Philadelphia artist, Kristine Flannery holds a Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is also a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In her exhibition, Life In My City, she presents agroup of oil paintings focused on large and small scale cityscapes, still lifes and abstractions. Kristine has been a member of 3rd Street Gallery since 1990. Her work can be seen and purchased online on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Kristineflanneryfineart/.

Opening Reception, Friday, August 4, 5 – 9 pm

Artists’ Reception / Talk, Sunday, August 6, 2 – 5 pm

Closing Reception, Sunday, August 27, 2 – 5 pm

This August the Light Room, one of Philadelphia’s select photography organizations, will return to 3rd Street Gallery on Second Street for the seventh in an annual series of summer group exhibitions. Nine local photographers will present new images in various media and over a range of subject matter.

“I am proud of the new work on display this year” says Al Wachlin, Jr., Co-Director of the Light Room and show organizer. “It’s always a pleasure to see the wide variety of presentations, since people in our group are working both with modern methods and also historic and alternate photographic processes. And it has been great returning to 3rd Street Gallery for another year, we are glad to continue this annual collaboration.”

The nine exhibiting photographers are: Richard Boutwell, G. A. Carafelli, Ronald Corbin, Sandra C. Davis, Annarita Gentile, Geoffrey Margo, Joshua Marowitz, Tony Rocco, and Al Wachlin, Jr.

In Memoriam

Marjorie Grigonis     1940-2017

Born in Baltimore, MD, Marjorie Grigonis lived and worked in her studio in Philadelphia for the past 30 years. She attended George Washington University and The Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC, receiving her MFA from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1965. Grigonis taught art for 14 years in the Fine Arts departments of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; Middlesex College in Edison, NJ; the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC; and for one year in the Art Department of The Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr.

Ms. Grigonis was one of the founders of the Amos Eno Gallery in NYC in 1973, and was a recent past director of the 3rd Street Gallery, a co-operative gallery in Old City, Philadelphia. In 1992 Grigonis was the recipient of a residency at the Vermont Studio School; in 1995 she was awarded first prize in painting in Art in Pennsylvania ‘95 at the State Museum in Harrisburg; in 2009 awarded the Van Sciver prize in the annual juried show at The Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia.

She spent part of every year for the last three decades on the rocky coast of Maine, and has visited other countries whenever possible. The varied environments and traveling itself influenced her work. She repeatedly visited Japan, France, Germany, Mexico, China and Italy. A trip to Morocco and the Sahara was the inspiration for a group of paintings. 

Ms. Grigonis’s solo exhibtions included The Knapp Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), 3rd Street Gallery (Philadelphia), the Newark (NJ) Museum, Maine Maritime Academy(Castine, ME), Amos Eno Gallery (NYC) and the inaugural show for the Monsanto Gallery at Lander College (SC). She has shown at the State Museums of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and South Carolina, Woodmere Art Museum, Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC) and various private galleries. Her paintingsand prints are in the collections of the University of NC, the Medical University of SC,  Pennsylvania Hospital, Wyeth Ayerst International, Inc., and in numerous private collections, in the US, France, England and Germany.  Her work, drawings, paintings, prints, has always been abstract, the styles varying over four decades.

Marjorie’s last solo exhibition at 3rd Street Gallery was in May of 2012, after which she exhibited in the Associate Member group show each year until 2016.

Magda Elias is presenting a series of"gobelins," or rug wall hangings, constructed ofwool and acrylic. She draws inspiration for these unique and often whimsical latch-hook rugs from her environment and from the masterpieces of art history. As an avid museum-goer, she likes to re-imagine paintings and sculptures to fit her aesthetic. In the well-known tradition of artists reinterpreting their predecessors' work, Elias takes well-known pieces and makes them her own. Elias says " For the artist, the practice of reconfiguration is fluid and emancipatory, always respectful of previous masters’ interpretive arrangements, yet incessantly in pursuit of a new one that is rebelliously “I”-centric.

Exhibition Highlights:

First Friday: June 2, 5-9 pm.

Artist Reception:  Sunday, June 11, 1-4

First Friday : June 2

Artist Reception: June 4,  1-4pm

Artist Talk: June 18,  3pm

Bruce Garrity’s  work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, most recently in the exhibitions ”Bruce Garrity: Recent Work” at 3rd Street Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “Bruce Garrity: Smaller Works” at the Rehoboth Art League in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, “Bruce Garrity: Paintings and Works in Progress” at The University of Delaware Department of Art Gallery in Newark, Delaware and “Into the Woods” at the Frank Guaracini Jr. Fine and Performing Art Center, in Vineland, New Jersey.

The artist’s work is in numerous private and public collections including The Stedman Art Gallery of Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey, The Hoyt Institute in New Castle, Pennsylvania, Cooper Medical Center, Camden, New Jersey, and Capital One Financial, Wilmington, Delaware.

He has taught at Rutgers University in Camden since 1997. He has also been an adjunct faculty member at the University of Delaware, Stockton College, Rowan University, Delaware College of Art and Design.

Garrity received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Drawing from the University of Delaware, and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He lives and works in Penns Grove, NJ.

www.brucegarrityart.com

First Friday, May 5, 5-9 pm

Artist Reception: Sunday May 7, 2-4 pm

In Drawing Wilfred Owen, Cone presents work based on the poems of Wilfred Owen, one of the British "Trench Poets" of World War I.  After a pause of several years, she returned to the poems and made a journey to the battlefields from Verdun, France to the Menin Gate, a monumental portal in Ypres, Belgium that honors the 54,395 missing Commonwealth war dead killed in the Ypres Salient.  It was through the original city gate at the site that British and American soldiers left for the front. Having come of age during the Vietnam War, Cone finds that the poetry of the Great War is incredibly powerful and resonates with her. She translates this feeling into her visual work.  Her show includes pastel drawings, photographs, and mixed media.

Cone has an MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.  Prior to that, she was a fine art photographer working in platinum and palladium.  Cone has exhibited extensively in Philadelphia, the Tri-State area and around the country including Maryland, Texas, New York City, and New Orleans. Her work is in collections in the Delaware Art Museum, and the art galleries of the University of Notre Dame and Vassar College, as well as in corporate collections.

Tassiou gaining inspiration from her past artwork and with her internal thoughts, ideas, and imaginative reconnections, she constructs new and in a way surrealistic environments of the external world. 

Abstract and elemental movement is at the center of her artistic process.

She is Incorporating shapes and lines that mimic the rhythms and the forms of organic materials from the nature by using a mixed media of acrylics, oils, pastels, embossing paper and digital prints. 

First Friday: April 7, 5-9PM

Artist Reception: Sunday April 9, 1-4PM

The 3rd Street Gallery is pleased to present We Persist, a group exhibition of artists who will show work in a variety of media including painting, video, photography, ceramic, sculpture, and fiber.

Howard Brunner is an MFA photographer whose most recent body of work was created during walks through the urban landscape of Philadelphia. His work is represented in collections in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Allentown Museum of Art, and the James A. Michener Museum of Art. Brunner is also a professor at Temple University's Architecture Program.

Peter Cunicelli is a ceramic artist whose work contrasts smooth fluid forms with the sharp lines that join them. Lately his work "walks the fine line between form and function" and includes pieces such as bowls, pitchers, and lamps in which functionality is as important as aesthetics. His work has been exhibited inPhiladelphia and surrounding areas.

Francesca Costanzo is a painter and videographer who will be presenting Complexion: Dark, a video on the current political climate surrounding immigration and immigrants. Costanzo honors the struggles and successes of all immigrants by focusing on the story of her maternal grandfather, Umberto Liberati, who emigrated from Italy in 1920.

Constance Culpepper's work is a study in domesticity and the commonalities of personal experience. In her paintings and collages she depicts heavily patterned interior scenes with vibrantly colored objects that she uses as a framework for conveying emotion. A featured artist at Select Fair Art Basel Miami 2013 and 2014, Culpepper's paintings were recently exhibited at the 2016 Democratic National Convention Headquarters.

Nancy E.F. Halbert is an artist, art educator and former dancer with MFA's in Art Education from the University of the Arts and in Dance from Temple University.  She was also a member of Muse Gallery in Philadelphia and its Executive Director for three years. An abstract figurative painter, her work is full of color and movement. Halbert exhibited in juried shows at the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, The Betsy Meyer Memorial Show at the Main Line Art Center, and the James Oliver Gallery.

Andrew Hart is an architect (B. Arch Temple University, M. Arch Cornell University) and educator, currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture at Philadelphia University. In this exhibition he is departing from his drawing practice in which he combines architectural images throughout history with contemporary cultural references to present a sculpture engraved in wood based on the etchings of the Baroque architect, Giovanni Piranesi.

Mary Beth Kazanicka, a corporate design and space planner for 25 years, is an expressionist painter who describes her process as "trusting and letting go". She proceeds intuitively, discovering images as she paints.  Kazanicka exhibits in and around Philadelphia. In 2013 she was awarded first prize in the Wayne Art Center Exhibition in the category of Abstract Art.

Katherine Kurtz, a longtime member of 3rd Street Gallery, is an abstract expressionist painter who loves to make large works in dense bold colors softened by translucent layers and delicate lines. She uses figures, objects and forms to create expressions of mood and states of being. Kurtz has exhibited extensively in and around Philadelphia and won First Prize at the Goggleworks exhibition in Reading in 2014.           

Ellen Silberlicht is a sculptor, ceramicist with an MA in ceramics and fiber artist who combines media to create unique works that marry Raku vessels with colorful felted wool sculpted in whimsical organic shapes. Her work has been sold in the US and internationally and has been recognized with awards, including honors at the Art of the State in Harrisburg, Pa, the Northeastern Biennial Show, and ArtPop.

James Stewart Following a forty-year career as an illustrator, art director and graphic designer Stewart has been painting full time since 2009. A colorist, Stewart paints lyrical landscapes that find their balance between the abstract and the representational. He starts with watercolor sketches on site from nature and then goes to the studio where, in a more abstract approach, he proceeds to add color until an image occurs. He aims to paint his response to a place at a moment in time.

Jacqueline Unanue is a native of Chile and received her art education there, including an MFA in Graphic Design as well as training in drawing, painting, art history and textile art. Her abstract paintings on canvas and paper employ gestural mark-making and colors that are influenced by the palette and forms of the Chilean landscape, the country's pre-historic rock art, and its classical music.  Unanue has exhibited extensively in the US, Chile, Spain and Ecuador.

Dan Evans is an artist and art educator. He has taught art history at the Community College of Philadelphia for over 40 years. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Evans is landscape painter, whose works reflect his moods about places he loves and his images "come from the borderline land between the conscious and the subconscious, the poetic world of imagination." Concerned with creating new color combinations in his work, he also explores the quirkiness of line and drawing, flat decorative patterns versus depth, and the illusions created by light.

First Friday, March 3, 5-9 pm.

Artist Reception: Sunday, March 5, 1-4 pm

Keith Sharp

Keith Sharp, a photographer, offers the following view on his recent work: "Perception is a multifaceted and complex subject. Being visual learners and creators, perception is something that all artists are familiar with. Yet, everyone sees the world differently as the understanding of any image is in the “eye of the beholder.” However, we also understand and comprehend differently due to our psychological, socio-cultural, political, or religious make-up. Therefore, something can be blocking or impeding our view visually and physically as well as impeding our understanding and stance on life mentally. Within this series, the focus is on perception in a variety of ways. In some images, I have blocked the view by having to look through something, almost like a veil. In other images, I show the same scene or concept in which the one scene has been transformed, morphed, or shifted from one picture to the next or within the same picture. It’s all a matter of how we look at life."

Bio

Keith Sharp is a photographer based in Media, PA. Solo exhibitions include: Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA; The Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC; The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE; Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA; US Botanical Gardens, Washington, DC; and FotoFest, Houston, TX. His work was included in various group shows, including: Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; and the Robin Rice Gallery, New York, NY. Collections include the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA; and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Radnor, PA

First Friday, March 3, 5-9 pm.

Artist Reception: Sunday, March 5, 1-4 pm

In this exhibition, Hall presents a body of work that has developed through the experience of adopting a new city, building a home, and what continues to resonate.  Rendered in Sumi and walnut inks on paper, these works are a meditation on how affinity builds attachment and the comfort derived from that sentimentality.  

Bio

Matthew Hall is a Philadelphia-based artist working with gestural drawing, books, text, and works on paper. He attained an MFA in printmaking from Penn State in 2013, and a BFA from Alfred University in Ceramics and Expanded Media in 2006. Between 2006 and 2011 he worked with several Salt Lake City stage arts groups as a graphic designer for Mills Publishing. In 2010 he co-founded Gray Wall Gallery and worked as a curator. His studio is based out of Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood where he also works with InLiquid.org as a graphic designer.  In October 2012, his work was named "Best in Show" by juror Brook Seidlemann in "Homage: Past Influences" at the Target Art Gallery in Alexandria VA. He participated in an artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in June of 2013 and has designed the season

First Friday February 3, 5-9 pm.

Artist Reception: Sunday, February 5, 1-4 pm.

Clearly interested in the relationship between abstraction and realism, Clowney's paintings collage together treasured elements from her home and reference drawings from her sketchbooks. She alters the scale and the sense of intimacy with familiar things and uses trompe l'oeil to rearrange space and objects into a new whole. In this exhibition, she also includes figurative work which is based on masculine and feminine archetypes, a recurrent theme for her over many years.

 Bettina Clowney is a painter based in Philadelphia. She is a graduate of  Tyler School of Art of Temple University. She has exhibited in local galleries and exhibitions, and her work has been collected nationally and internationally.

First Friday February 3, 5-9 pm.

Artist Reception: Sunday, February 5, 1-4 pm.

Artist Talk by Nicole Patrice Dul at 2pm.

Surges of remembered past emerge in Hauntings: Myths and Memories through the effects of layering, weathering and transforming media in Nicole Patrice Dul’s artwork. The convergence of abstraction and representational imagery, she creates intense, evocative moments of troubled atmosphere and suspense.  The results are deconstructed: meaning is shifted and interpretation becomes ambiguous.  The artist addresses the psychology of social and individual remembrance in which echoes of the past become foregrounded as the past imposes itself on the present.  Hauntings “ keep the past alive”. They are a distinctive kind of memory often tied directly to a physical space.  Places retain the memory of things that happen in them.  The liminal space suggested in Nicole’s expressive mixed media paintings, prints and artist books may take the form of haunted panoramas of institutional and domestic rooms, buildings or other edifices; spaces that retain boundaries yet command interactions between life and death, past and present.

Nicole Patrice Dul has been teaching art to adults and children for 11 years.  She holds a B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art and an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute. An active member of Third Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Orchard Artworks, Bryn Athyn, PA and Cheltenham Print Guild, Cheltenham, PA, she is currently a printmaking artist-in-residence at Cheltenham Center for the Arts.  Nicole is co-founder and co-director of Star Wheel Printers, a Philadelphia printmaking collective.

For the Month of January 3rd Street Gallery hosts Philadelphia Contemporary.

Philadelphia Contemporary presents the world premier of The Healing Touch Integral Wellness Center by New York artist Emma Sulkowicz, the performer behind Carry that Weight (Mattress Performance). From January 13th to 30th, at 3rd Street Gallery, the artist will install a wellness center which she describes as “a parafictional medical clinic that provides a revolutionary cure for human desire.” In her role as practitioner, “Dr.” Emma Sulkowicz MD, creator and leading expert of the patented Healing Method™, the artist empowers her clients —participants put in the place of patients— to satiate their desires in personalized, one-to-one sessions. Through this fully immersive experience, attendees will come away with a new perspective on the relationship between art and the viewer, between control and vulnerability.

Performances: Friday to Monday, January 13-30, 2017, 10AM-6:30PM (only by appointment)

Panel Discussion & Opening Celebration: Wednesday, January 11, 2017, 6-10PM                      (free and open to the public)

Artist in Dialogue: Monday, January 23, 2017, 7-8PM                                                         

(free and open to the public)

urther information at http://philadelphiacontemporary.org/