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JACQUE FERRETTI: BELLA AND SHARKEY, REFLECTIONS OF THE PAST, PAINTINGS AND MIXED MEDIA
Dec
8
to Dec 31

JACQUE FERRETTI: BELLA AND SHARKEY, REFLECTIONS OF THE PAST, PAINTINGS AND MIXED MEDIA

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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Pia De Girolamo: Mountain Series
Nov
1
to Nov 26

Pia De Girolamo: Mountain Series

 

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

 

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Autumn Salon: An Annual Members Exhibition Celebrating Philadelphia Studio Tours 2017
Oct
4
to Oct 29

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

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.

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Emma Sulkowicz: The Healing Touch Integral Wellness Center
Jan
13
to Jan 30

Emma Sulkowicz: The Healing Touch Integral Wellness Center

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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/

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