Da Vinci Art Alliance

Past Exhibits

Holiday Art Sale
December 3-29, 2005

Please join us for our Da Vinci Art Alliance Member’s 2^nd Annual Holiday Art Sale. A great place to do your holiday shopping!! Reception and Holiday Party: December 3^th 6:00 to 9:00 pm

Pagus Gallery is pleased to present "Paintings from The Floating Realm" an exhibition of non-objective paintings by the Philadelphia artist, David Foss. The exhibition will run from November 6-December 28, 2005 at the Pagus Gallery in the Norristown Arts Building. Opening Reception will be held on Sunday, November 6^th from 1-4 pm.

The exhibit of artworks by 100 Da Vinci members is a cash and carry sale featuring small works of art and fine craft objects all priced under $300. A great opportunity to purchase unique holiday gifts.

Gallery Hours: Wed. 6-8, Sat. & Sun. 1-5 pm

For Further Information: davidfoss@verizon.net

METAPHOR
MIXED MEDIA WORK by
BOBBIE DIAMOND ADAMS
November 4-27 2005, Artist Reception Sunday Nov 6, 1-4pm
Gallry Hours: Thurs-Fri 6-8pm, Sat-Sun 12-5pm

During the month of November DaVinci Art Alliance, 704 Catherine Street in Philadelphia is presenting METAPHOR, an art show of mixed media works by local artist Bobbie Diamond Adams.

Adams, printmaker and papermaker, interweaves many layers of transparent ink using a variety of printing techniques, with pigmented paper that she makes. She often assembles these combinations and continues printing to complete the work. Her abstractions reference fundamental aspects of the natural world; it is both physical and other worldly. Adams’ work is uniquely exploratory and structural at the same time.

This exhibition is free and open to the public.

MIXED PARALLELS:
Quiltmen, Cover-ups, FigureFrags and Recalled Deities
- mixed media works by four South Jersey artists
Rachel Citrino, Jo-Anne Echevarria-Myers, Liz Nicklus, Jacqueline Sandro
September 1-28, 2005

During the month of September DaVinci Art Alliance, 704 Catherine Street in Philadelphia is presenting MIXED PARALLELS, an art show of two and three-dimensional mixed media works.

Four dynamically versatile mixed media artists who are living and working in Southern Jersey rural and coastal towns. The common thread that weaves through the works is the use of the human form to explore personal and public politics.

Citrino of Roadstown, New Jersey, comments overtly with "Cover-Ups" featuring familiar figurative themes shrouded in the symbolic pattern of the U.S. flag.

Echevarria-Myers from Cape May, New Jersey, is currently experiencing a "Quiltman" mania utilizing found pieces of quilting, a typically feminine craft to "draw" male silhouettes. Her work addresses ideas of self-obsession and the constancy of universal energy.

Nicklus, of Millville, New Jersey, incorporates family photos and found objects. "Recalled Deities" are inspired collages executed in paper, oil, tile, ceramic and metal as well as direct commentary on social and personal issues.

Sandro’s "FigureFrags" are comprised of a variety of textures and occasionally found objects. The torsos serve as a visual journey for biological and emotional experiences. She is involved in exploring surface quality, form and the narrative, working intuitively on visual impact.

Mediums are mixed for these four Southern New Jersey artists. The journey is parallel.

This exhibition is free and open to the public.

 

 

 

 

 

Also this September Da Vinci Fringe Festival guests this year will be UNCUT PAGES THEATER COMPANY. For more Fringe performance info call (215.413.9006)

New Jersey artist Ted Eron was a revolutionary graphic designer who greatly impacted the development of commercial art in the 20th century.  His package designs are in every household:  one may be in your pantry (Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups), on your desk (Elmer’s Glue All), or in your medicine cabinet (Ultra Ban 5000).  While his work is very familiar to the American consumer, the artist himself has remained largely unknown. 

The Da Vinci Art Alliance’s August exhibition, Ted Eron:  A Retrospective, showcases the artist’s life and career, from the commercial designs of his advertising agency (with offices in New Jersey, Manhattan, and London), to his anti-Nazi/pro-Allie propaganda posters for the U.S. government during his service in WWII, to the Impressionist-style paintings he created for his own pleasure after his retirement from the business world. 

Word
DaVinci members Theme Exhibition
July 10 to 30, 2005
Artist Reception: Sunday July 10^th, 1-5 pm
gallery hours: Sat & Sun 1-5, Wed evening 5-8

The Da Vinci Art Alliance’s annual members exhibition will feature artworks on the theme of the continued interest of language in the visual arts. The exhibition will showcase works in diverse media that deal with words, text, language as a material or content in the visual arts.

Reception for the artists and public will be held on Sunday, July 10^th from 1-5 pm.

The Da Vinci Art Alliance will be holding a
Summer Fundraising Event
on July 30^th, 6:00 to 9:00 pm.

Tickets are $25 per person. RSVP at 215-829-0466. Food provided by Cucina Forte Restaurant, Whole Foods, wine, beer. Silent auction of gift items, certificates. Performance by artist, Karey Maurice.

Word, Catharine Hazard

The Light Room
Group Photography Exhibit
June 2005

Friday, June 10^th from 6 PM to 10 PM, members of the Philadelphia Center for the Photographic Image (PCPI) will host an opening reception for their 3^rd Annual Member Show at Da Vinci Art Alliance and a closing reception on Sunday June 26^th from 1 PM to 5 PM. This is an opportunity to see photographs from 10 of Philadelphia’s finest emerging photographers, Mary Anne Broderick, Gregory Carafelli, Christopher Gatto, Steven Giarrocco, Eric Heidel, Josh Marowitz, Tony Rocco, Thomas Sheeder Jr., Kelly Thompson, and Al Wachlin Jr.

These photographers will be showcasing work from a variety of photographic mediums, including traditional gelatin silver prints, polaroid transfers, and digital photography. All of the work for this exhibition was created at the PCPI collaborative darkroom located in Northern Liberties. This modern darkroom is run and maintained by members and is a place where photographers not only create art, but also learn from each other and share ideas.

PCPI is the product of a recent merger between The Light Room and the Center for the Photographic Image, two groups dedicated to promoting the art of photography in Philadelphia. The result is Philadelphia’s largest organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the Art of photography with over 60 members (combination Light Room & CPI).

PCPI is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Among its many programs is EXPOSURE, an outreach program for inner city youth that teaches them to use photography as a means of self-expression.

The Da Vinci Gallery is located at 704 Catharine Street and is open on Wednesday from 6-8 PM and on weekends from 1-5 PM. The exhibition will run from June 4^th until June 26^th.

For more information contact Al Wachlin at (215) 828-1661 or awachlin@comcast.net.

Fran Gallun
New Work: Pastels on Paper
May 1- 31, 2005
Artist Reception Sunday, May 1, 3 – 6 pm

gallery hours: Sat & Sun 1-5
Wed evening 5-8
Or by appointment: 856-428-5551
www.frangallun.com

Sarah Myers
solo exhibition
of
monoprints and jewelry
April 3-30, 2005
Gallery Hours: Sat & Sun 1-5

In my current work I continue to explore the printmaking boundaries, incorporating photo etching, carborundum and matte medium in order for the plates to provide just enough information to stimulate some memory of the past. Overlays of color come from an innate organic feeling, colors that define form, adding rich harmony creating a mood in order to appreciate and cherish autumn's seasoned essence. By means of printmaking I forever remember the ebb and flow of changes, which the tongue can but clumsily define.

Jewelry designs, I combine sterling silver with freshwater pearls, mixing the organic with inorganic. Pearls are a legendary gem, dating back 2206 BC in China. They were treasured as a symbol of wealth, revered for their mystical powers and valued for their uniqueness. From ancient China and India to medieval Europe and Arabia and in almost every culture pearls have been used for medicinal purposes ranging from aphrodisiacs to cures for insanity. Interestingly enough, the pharmaceutical industry continues to use pearls in medicine. Pearls of inferior quality are ground into a fine powder and used to prepare high-quality pharmaceutical calcium. Silver dates back to old Egyptian civilization. Silver was very rare and therefore called "white gold." It was also called the "lunar metal" - cold and luminous like the moon's reflection on the water.

During the month of March at the Da Vinci Art Alliance will be contemporary prints by seventeen adult students from the Fleisher Art Memorial. Fleisher Art Memorial printmaking instructor, Charlotte Yudis, organizes the exhibition. The opening reception for Sympathy for the Bevel is Friday, March 4th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Gallery Hours are Wed. 6-9 pm, Sat. and Sun. 12-4 pm.

The artists in the exhibition include:

Im Chan
Megan Fentzloff
Jack Hinton
Reyna Howkins
Gloria Klaimans
Kara Kray
Laura Oppenheim
Laura Ramos
Veronica Rutter
Csilla Sadloch
Joe Speight
Anna Spraycar
Joanne Stafford
Meredith Stone
Ken Sutherland
Michelle Wilson
Robert Wuilfe

In February, Da Vinci Art Alliance hosts the third installment of LiQin Tan’s on-going series of exhibitions on the theme of “Digital-Primitive Art.” Tan, a native of China and current Assistant Professor of Art at Rutgers University, Camden, creates visual imagery based on ancient African, Asian, and Native American religio-philosophical belief systems, while employing the most contemporary digital processes of 3D-animation and -modeling. An award-winning, internationally-recognized pioneer in the field of computer art and technology, Tan presents a multifaceted, reciprocal interplay between age-old and post-modern, between digital and primitive.

The highly anticipated Da Vinci exhibition is called “Burl + 4.” A technical tour-de-force, the show consists of distinctive 3D-animation and -modeled images printed on natural wood shapes and surfaces with an inkjet printer, with hand-done modifications to the thickness, roughness, and hygroscopicity of the burl supports. In conjunction with the static prints on wood, Tan pairs flat-screen monitors with glowing, animated sequences of the same computer-generated images.

Past Shows 2004:

Please join us for our Member’s Only, Holiday Art Sale to be held in December. The exhibit is a cash-and-carry sale of small art and craft works under $200. A great place to do your holiday shopping!!