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

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.

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 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/