ARTISTS’ HOUSE NEWS

SEPTEMBER 2010

This season marks the twentieth anniversary of Artists’ House Gallery.  Thanks to everyone associated with our gallery for their support and help during these years.  Thanks, too, to our many loyal customers, and to the excellent artists who bring outstanding work to our gallery.  We continue to be dedicated to providing art lovers the opportunity to purchase excellent works of art at affordable prices.

Artists exhibiting in September 2010:

LAURA RUTHERFORD RENNER’s paintings  capture reflections in her surroundings, defined by contrast, pattern, and perspective.  Her subjects reveal personal experiences, and display an introspective bent.

SAMUEL EVENSEN’s new paintings, all “veiled” in one way or another, employ representational methods as a concrete vehicle through which he expresses abstract ideas and emotions.

JULIA LEVITINA MC GEEHAN’s sculpture begins and ends with an insight in which the world’s simple, humble, ordinary beauty is revealed to the imagination.   She endeavors to capture moments of the everyday world that are at once transient and transcendent, that may easily go unnoticed but that turn out to have universal significance when perceived.

CHRISTINE DONAHOWER’s art career began with her studies and her graduation from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.  Her oil paintings, done on wood panels en plein air, allow her to excape into the local landscape, exploring and searching for beauty in the customary, sometimes overlooked world.

KEVIN CUMMINS’ subjects are landscapes and people of the Philadelphia area, from Chester County to the energy of Philadelphia and the serenity of a New Jersey beach. Most of his etchings are printed with black ink on white paper. The lack of color only strengthens the image. Texture and mass become very important.

CAROL MAGUIRE is in a constant search for the image that best reflects her voice, an image that matches her emotional and spiritual journey, always seeking the perfect balance of light and color. Painting is her creative voice, and an expression of her outlook on life.

SUSANNAH THOMER’s lovely watercolors demonstrate her close observation of a world in which she finds beauty, mystery, and complexity.  Her work consistently exceeds the boundaries of the ordinary.

Artists’ House Gallery’s fine artists are once again doing interesting things, and participating in activities beyond the Philadelphia art world.  A sampling of recent events:

BRETT EBERHARDT exhibited in two New York shows this summer:  the First Street Gallery in Chelsea, and the Bowery Gallery, also in Chelsea.  One of his paintings created during his time in Bulgaria last year, is in the Fort Wayne, Indiana, Contemporary Realism Exhibition.

SASKIA OZOLS EUBANKS has accepted a teaching position at Boston University. She will be teaching an Art / Art History based writing course.

BEN JOHNSON, recently transplanted to Tucson, AZ, is working as an assistant curator at a botanical garden and gallery, called Tohono Chul. In addition to his full-time duties there, he has been working on a tile mural for the courtyard of Casa Libre en la Solana, a non-profit writing center.

ELAINE LISLE  is one of only fifteen artists featured in a new coffee table book, “Philadelphia originals”, by Joseph Glantz.  Two of Elaine’s Philadelphia paintings are reproduced on the front cover of the book.

JOSEPH LOZANO exhibited some of his paintings in a “Philadelphia Painters” exhibition at the Painting Center in New York City, a non-profit exhibition space located  in Chelsea.

JULIA LEVITINA MC GEEHAN placed third in a National Competition for Figurative Sculpture that was held at the Brookgreen Center for American Sculpture in South Carolina.  This prestigious competition is held annually, and only twelve applicants are selected each year.

SYDNEY MC GINLEY has had three of her paintings installed in the new building of the Lehigh Valley Hospital system.  Her work will be featured on the cover of the October issue of the Pastel Journal, and in a classical drawing book by Aristidis, as well as in “Strokes of Genius #3”, best of drawings, in Northlight.

SUSAN O’REILLY has been selected to be part of an invitation-only fundraiser for the CFEVA-POST TOUR (Open Studios Self-Guided Tours.)    In addition, Susan participated in the Hudson Valley Art Association’s 79^th Annual Juried Exhibit at the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park, New York City.

ELENA PETEVA has accepted a teaching position in the Art Department of Dominican University in River Forest, IL.  She will begin her teaching there in September.

TONY ROSATI has been selected as a juror for the 81^st annual Phillips’ Mill Art Exhibition, which exhibits the work of Delaware Valley artists living within a twenty-five mile radius of Phillis’ Mill in Bucks County.

LAUREN TILDEN’S “Vanitas” has been included in the prestigious “Inspiring Figures:  American Women and Figurative Art” exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art, in Youngstown, Ohio.