“Tea Cup & Saucer with Dancing Skeletons,” by Susie Ketchum/Photo courtesy: Allison Young
The Contemporary Ceramics exhibit at Stremmel Gallery is a survey of top-notch examples of some functional, some conceptual work that shows how ceramics, even though it “arrived” as a fine-art medium long ago, still has a self-conscious streak. Read More
Turkey Stremmel with Patti Warashina’s “Vaso dei Flori”/Photo Courtesy Tim Dunn/RGJ
Ceramic artists are getting their long overdue recognition at Stremmel Gallery.
Although the gallery has included a few ceramic artists in shows over the years, “Contemporary Ceramics,” an exhibition that opened Sept. 20, is the gallery’s first group show.
Turkey Stremmel, the gallery’s artistic director, said being invited to Helena, Mont., last year to lead the live auction for the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts was a revelation. Read More
To watch a short virtual tour of John Salminen, “In Urban Light”, click here. For detailed images of the work, click here.
To view a short virtual tour of “Open Space”, click here.
Ahren Hertel, featured in Stremmel Gallery’s “UNR Emerging Artists” show back in 2009, has developed a new body of work that visualizes the everyday damage we do to the environment in his latest exhibition “Sticks and Stones”. Read More
On Thursday, May 17, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Stremmel Gallery will host an opening reception for Open Space, an exhibition of new work by five contemporary landscape painters ranging from Nevada to Montana. This eclectic group of artists represents a dynamic and diverse approach to the tradition of American landscape paining. Open Space will run until June 16. Read More
Robert Brady, Bluff, wood, mixed media, 60 x 47 x 11 inches
Right when you think you’ve got Bob Brady pegged, he stops you in your tracks with unexpected inventions. His are not the sort some artists toss out to appease a fickle market or to convince themselves they’re still capable of reinvention. Brady’s incremental extrapolations spring from ideas that he has been working with for over 35 years. Read More
New Ground, Dec. 2 - Dec. 29, 2010
Throughout the history of art, and painting in particular, two subjects are omnipresent: the human figure and the landscape. The human figure attracts the eyes of artists for reasons that should be obvious: We’re a vain species , and we’re all attracted to human bodies for one reason or another. But what about the landscape? Why do landscape paintings continue to appeal to artists and art lovers after all these years? Read More
John Belingheri, ''Cyprus,'' 2010, mixed media on linen burlap, 60 x 60''
The Huffington Post recently reviewed the current top exhibitions in the Western United States. John Beligheri’s latest solo show was among the standouts.
The idea of art defining and being defined by its medium was one of the prime directives of the modernist credo that was superseded a generation ago by the aesthetic free-for-all that is postmodernism. Hybrid combinations of media that deal with multiple definitions of art? More like artists jumping from medium to medium as ideas dictate, as if from one dying warhorse to another? Fine. Immaterial art made of nothing more substantial than words? Tell us more!
Tom Judd. "The World is Flat" mixed media on reclaimed cardboard. 12 feet by 25 feet. 2010
“The World Is Flat” by Tom Judd – 8200 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia-based artist Tom Judd transforms the “old” Magarity Ford building in Chestnut Hill into a temporary studio – resulting in the creation of The World Is Flat, a large-scale site-specific installation.
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