Tryna buy some Ceramics?
The Clay Studio
139 N. 2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
p 215.925.3453
f 215.925.7774
e info@theclaystudio.org
http://www.theclaystudio.org
Philly's best (according to them)
many famous ceramic peeps filter through here w\during there getting started period.
John Andulis Gallery (JAG)
1538 Pine St.,
Philadelphia, PA 19102
JAndrulis@gmail.com
www.jagfineart.com
Some functional pottery and large decorative sculpture
Art Star
623 n. 2nd street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
215.238.1557
http://www.artstarphilly.com
functional kitschy decals fun younger flavor.
Philadelphia Art Alliance
251 South 18th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-6168
t. (215) 545-4302
f. (215) 545-0767
e. info@philartalliance.org
SOTA: Spirit of the Artist
1022 Pine Street
Philadlephia, PA 19107
eMail: info@sotagifts.com
Local: 215.627.8801
Fax: 215.627.8801
1.877.SOTA.123
artisan pottery - stoneware nature inspired mainly pottery
Show of Hands Gallery
1006 Pine Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19107
phone:(215) 592-4010
www.showofhands.com
contemp glass and cerams
Ten Thousand Villages(215) 574-2008
1122 Walnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19107
www.tenthousandvillages.com
Crafts sold from struggling countries- this place is a chain but sells quality stuff
American Pie/Abode Gallery
718 South St
Philadelphia, PA 19147
(215) 351-8100
www.americanpiecrafts.com
This is an interior design/decorative place.
Little Nook
(215) 247-1878
8005 Germantown Ave,
Philadelphia, PA 19118
Sweet Mabel Folk Art
41 N. Narberth Ave
Narberth, PA 19072
Hours:
Tues-Sat 11-6
Sunday 12-5
Phone: 610-667-3041
funky recyclable sculptures- where art doesn't have to be serious fun wall pieces
JMS Gallery
8236 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19118
Hours:
Wed - Sat:
12 PM to 6 PM.
Phone: 215.248.4649
Fax: 215.248.4670
E-mail: info@jmsgallery.com
Web: www.jmsgallery.com
Eyes Gallery
3510 Scotts Ln. Suite 3113
Phila, Pa 19129
Phone: 215.925.0193
E-mail: juliazagar@msn.com
Web: www.eyesgallery.com
latin american crafts
CerealArt Gallery
149 N 3rd Street
Philadelphia PA 19106
Phone: 215.627.5060
E-mail: info@cerealart.com
Web: www.cerealart.com
distrubtes 3d work thank can be mass produced.
Biello's
148 N. 3rd St.,
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215.923.8737
E-mail: michael@biellomartin.com
Web: www.biellomartin.com
all clay- all lightfixtures. fun and heavily crafted sculpture lights.
ArtJaz
53 N. 2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215.922.4800
Fax: 215.922.7212
E-mail: info@artjaz.com
Web: www.artjaz.com
Largest collection of African-American art
Tryna look:
The Crane Arts Building is located at:
400 n. american street
philadelphia, pa 19122
Hours:
Wed-Sun 12-6pm (please check our calendar for specific show dates)
Admission is Free
Crane Arts is located 2 blocks North of Girard and 2 blocks East of 2nd Street. We are 10 minutes from Old City and just a quick walk from Northern Liberties.
Phone: 215.232.3203
Phone: 215 232.3616
E-mail: info@cranearts.com
Web: www.cranearts.com
Wexler Gallery
205 N 3rd St
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Hours:
Tues– Sat: 10am – 6pm
or Mon by appointment
Phone: 215.923.7030
Fax: 215.923 .7031
sometimes....
Vox Populi Gallery
319 North 11th Street,
3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Hours:
Wed - Sun: 12 to 6 pm
Phone: 215.238.1236
Fax: 215.238.1253
Stratasphere Gallery
1854 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Hours:
Sat & Sun: 1-5 pm (during an exhibition's run)
Phone: 215.235.4726
Space 1026
1026 Arch Street 2nd Floor
Philadelphia PA, 19107
Hours: dont have official gallery hours, but don't hesitate to stop by and ring the bell. Someone is typically there to buzz you in to check out what's in the gallery.
Snyderman Gallery
Phone: 215.574.7630
303 Cherry St.
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Hours:
Tues - Sat: 10am - 6 pm
Phone: 215.922.7775
Fax: 215.238.9351
Works Gallery @ Snyderman –
The Works Gallery was founded by Ruth Snyderman in 1965. It is one of the oldest exhibiting galleries in the field of contemporary studio crafts.
Seraphin Gallery
1108 Pine Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Hours:
Tues - Sun: 11am - 6 pm
All other times by appointment only.
Phone: 215.923.7000
Fax: 215.923.7007
contemporary sculpture
Schmidt Dean Gallery
1710 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Hours:
Tues - Sat:
11:30 AM - 6 PM
Phone: 215.569.9433
Fax: 215.569.9434
E-mail: schmidtdean@netzero.com
Web: www.schmidtdean.com
Contemporary sculpture
Silicon Gallery
139 N 3rd Street,
Philadelphia –
between Arch and Race Streets on 3rd
Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, 9-5:30; Saturday 12-5
Closed Mondays and Holidays
Phone: 215.238.6062
Fax: 215.923 .7031
E-mail: sabrina@silicongallery.org
Web: www.silicongallery.org
craft gallery some sculpture
Silica Art Galleries
908 A North Third Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
Hours:
Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 12 - 6pm
Sunday 12 - 5pm
Phone: 215.627.3655
E-mail: silica@silicagalleries.com
Web: www.silicagalleries.com
ALL sculpturezz
Projects Gallery
629 N. 2nd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19123
Hours:
Tues - Thurs 12 - 5 p.m.
Fri & Sat 12 - 7 p.m.
Phone: 267.303.9652
E-mail: info@projectsgallery.com
Web: www.projectsgallery.com
figurative expressionism?
sculpted/altered pottery
Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space
25 West Mt. Airy Ave.
Philadelphia PA 19119
Phone: 215.764.5621
E-mail: info@mountairycontemporary.com
Web: www.mountairycontemporary.com/
All media- currently has a Jury Smith Piece (Tyler Grad!)
James Oliver Gallery (JOG)
723 Chestnut St. 4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Hours:
Wed-Fri: 5-8pm
Sat 12-8pm or by appointment
Phone: 267.918.7432
E-mail: jamesolivergallery@gmail.com
Web: www.jamesolivergallery.com
very mixed but had NCECA show and includes sculpture
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
118 S. 36th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3289
Hours:
Wed - Fri: 12pm - 8pm
Sat - Sun: 11am - 5pm
Mon -Tues: closed
Phone: 215.898.7108
Web: www.icaphila.org
large Installation/sculpture- UPenn’s art Gallery
Fleisher Ollman Gallery
1616 Walnut, Suite 100
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Hours:
Mon - Fri: 10:30 - 5:30
Sat: 12 - 5
Phone: 215.545.7562
E-mail: info@fleisher-ollmangallery.com
Web: www.fleisher-ollmangallery.com
sometimes some sculpture also dedicated to self-taught artists
Always by Design (AXD)
265 S. 10th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Hours:
During exhibitions:
Wed-Sat 12- 6pm. ta
All other times:
Appointment only
Phone: 215.627.6250
Web: www.a-x-d.com/gallery
sculpture
Abington Art Center
515 Meetinghouse Road
Jenkintown, PA 19046
Hours:
Tues-Fri 10am-5pm
Thurs to 7pm & Sat 10am-3pm
CLOSED Sunday & Monday
admission free - donations requested
Phone: 215.887.4882
E-mail: info@abingtonartcenter.org
Web: www.abingtonartcenter.org
pottery and sculpture
Friday, July 30, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Philadelphia: a good place for Ceramicists
Each year the Biennale chooses a country to showcase it's best current work along with it's own. Last year it was Sweden this year is The good ol' U.S. of A. The best part is three are philly based and a few more are definitely friends of Tyler (School of Art)/the Crane (Arts Building). WOO!
Fourteen American artists were invited to exhibit in the Vallauris Ceramic Biennial in Vallauris, France. The artists featured are Susan Beiner, Jeremy Brooks, Tsehai Johnson, Sarah Lindley, Tyler Lotz, Jeffery Mongrain, Adelaide Paul, Jeanne Quinn, Joyce Robins, Kathy Ruttenberg, Amy Santoferraro (work shown), Benjamin Schulman, Virginia Scotchie, and Arlene Shechet - a veritable powerhouse of contemporary ceramic sculptors and installation artists. Je l’aime!
The details...
Where:
Multiple galleries and museums including: Salle Eden, Vallauris, France
What:
Biennale Internationale de Vallauris Création Contemporaine et Céramique
When:
Through November 15, 2010
Web:
www.vallauris-golfe-juan.com
Thursday, July 22, 2010
RHAPSODY ON A WINDY NIGHT
by: T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
WELVE o'clock.
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Dissolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said, "Regard that woman
Who hesitates towards you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
You see the border of her dress
Is torn and stained with sand,
And you see the corner of her eye
Twists like a crooked pin."
The memory throws up high and dry
A crowd of twisted things;
A twisted branch upon the beach
Eaten smooth, and polished
As if the world gave up
The secret of its skeleton,
Stiff and white.
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the strength has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
Half-past two,
The street lamp said,
"Remark the cat which flattens itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter."
So the hand of a child, automatic,
Slipped out and pocketed a toy that was running along the quay.
I could see nothing behind that child's eye.
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp muttered in the dark.
The lamp hummed:
"Regard the moon,
La lune ne garde aucune rancune,
She winks a feeble eye,
She smiles into corners.
She smoothes the hair of the grass.
The moon has lost her memory.
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone
With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain."
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets,
And female smells in shuttered rooms,
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars."
The lamp said,
"Four o'clock,
Here is the number on the door.
Memory!
You have the key,
The little lamp spreads a ring on the stair,
Mount.
The bed is open; the tooth-brush hangs on the wall,
Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life."
The last twist of the knife.
by: T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
WELVE o'clock.
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Dissolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said, "Regard that woman
Who hesitates towards you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
You see the border of her dress
Is torn and stained with sand,
And you see the corner of her eye
Twists like a crooked pin."
The memory throws up high and dry
A crowd of twisted things;
A twisted branch upon the beach
Eaten smooth, and polished
As if the world gave up
The secret of its skeleton,
Stiff and white.
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the strength has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
Half-past two,
The street lamp said,
"Remark the cat which flattens itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter."
So the hand of a child, automatic,
Slipped out and pocketed a toy that was running along the quay.
I could see nothing behind that child's eye.
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp muttered in the dark.
The lamp hummed:
"Regard the moon,
La lune ne garde aucune rancune,
She winks a feeble eye,
She smiles into corners.
She smoothes the hair of the grass.
The moon has lost her memory.
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone
With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain."
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets,
And female smells in shuttered rooms,
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars."
The lamp said,
"Four o'clock,
Here is the number on the door.
Memory!
You have the key,
The little lamp spreads a ring on the stair,
Mount.
The bed is open; the tooth-brush hangs on the wall,
Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life."
The last twist of the knife.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Statement- rough draft.
What fuels my work is the seduction of the past. I am drawn as most individuals of present day to a bygone era, and filled with an indescribable nostalgia. It is an idealization of a simpler lifestyle and a certain peace of mind that we see in the past that now seems lost. I am homesick for a time that I never experienced, a time that never really existed. In memory, this time becomes a transformed period of it's own, only existing in the mind.
Since I was a little girl I had this wistfulness and saw objects that were (or appeared) battered and worn as wreckage from that time passing. I was and am fascinated by objects, particularly any object you can find at a flea market or yard sale that was a part of someone's life and that is unfamiliar to me because it is now obsolete or "dated". When I touch these objects I can feel the life they were apart of and can imagine their importance when they were created. I see these ordinary things from the past as relics, because they are my passage to the life I never experienced.
I strive to create art is the tangible form of the lust for the past but is also very present in today's reality. I choose to work with lace and paisley pattern because of it's prominence in history, it's delicate quality, and it's lasting popularity in the decorative world. By working with lace and creating forms that use the pattern or structure within my sculpture, I am able to capture it's delicate beauty and nostalgic quality and turn it into a permanent object. I am so passionate about creating objects that have a diologue of reminiscence because the longing for the past is strangely universal, not just within myself. I find it is a collective need to reverse in progress to move forward and maintain the balance of life. I hope the pieces I make can create the feeling of serenity that we search for in the past, and a comfort in the tangible form of it.
One finished pea pot
Here's one finished pea pot from the end of the semester- many more to follow:
Porcelain Cone 10 with an Amber glaze
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