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"Fictive Homelands" a Spotlight Exhibition with Serena Perrone

"This time we have to get there," they had decided. Bags surrounded their feet, passports a quick draw from pocket to counter. A proposal to buy a map - the type of map that documents a wasteland between cartoons of historic and favorite sites - killed everything. Because no map existed for their favorite place, at least no map that could be purchased at an airport news stand. They would not dare say it but they had no idea where "there" existed. They just knew that it was the someplace that made them feel complete. Where ever it was.

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 30, 2009 from 5:30 - 7:30 PM

The Felicity R. (Bebe) Benoliel Gallery

The Center For Emerging Visual Artists

237 South 18th Street,

The Barclay, Suite 3A

Philadelphia, PA

"Fantastical Imaginings" Travels to Maryland Art Place

You can see a much larger, clearer version of the above image as well as many other clear and truly fantastic works at Maryland Art Place from February 19 until March 28, 2009.

It is a wonderful show. Don't take my word for it. Just read here (second review). For more information about Maryland Art Place, go here.

Genevieve Elizabeth 12/09/08 3:27 PM

Make Your Holidays Karpinski Days

Here are three ways you can transform your holidays into Karpinski Days:

1. Silicon Gallery: Small Works for the Holidays - December 5th - 30th with an Opening Reception on Friday, December 5th from 6:00 to 8:30 PM. Silicon Gallery is exhibiting and selling over 50 prints from various  Philadelphia artists. Each work is under $95, including this one.

2. The Center For Emerging Visual Artists: Perspectives at the Icebox Project Space. Current CFEVA Fellows (myself included) will be showing work at this fantastic space. The exhibit runs from December 3rd - 20th with an Opening Reception on Thursday, December 11th from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

3. ShopInliquid is featuring some of my prints on their super site. Search for the ideal holiday gift - they will have it.

DCCA INVASION 11/05/08 & 11/07/08

DCCA - Art Salad

Please join me on Wednesday, 11/05/08, from 12 to 1 PM as I discuss one of the few subjects I know - me.  Hiro Sakaguchi and I will share the hour to discuss current works being shown at the DCCA as well as artistic process, influences, and careers. All while eating large bowls of salad. A sight to behold. More information about the Art Salad program can be found here.

DCCA  - Fantastical Imaginings Opening Reception

If you could not get enough salad or art on Wednesday, please join me on Friday, 11/07/08, from 5:30 to 8 PM for the Opening Reception of Fantastical Imaginings, curated by J. Susan Isaacs Ph.D. More information about the show and participating artists can be located here.

The Delaware Center For The Contemporary Arts is located on 200 South Madison Street, Wilmington, DE. For more information about the DCCA and their programs, please visit their website.

Stuff Bunches

PHILADELPHIA OPEN STUDIO TOURS

Discovery! Join us on 10/04/08 & 10/05/08 and witness the creative process! Excitement! Eat snacks! Adventure! Drink beverages! Suspense! Ask questions that could be met by awkward silence! Romance! Fall in love with a print, painting, book, or drawing - get lucky and take one of them home with you! All this and more can be experienced at 608 S. 51st Street from 12 to 6 (both days).

More information about POST can be found here. Or here. Here. Yes, here. Or even here.

 

SNEAK PEEK: A PREVIEW OF CFEVA'S ARTISTS AND PROGRAMS

Ignore the burn. Run over to 1234 Market Street, get on the elevator, push the button for the 18th floor... and be met by security. To avoid the preceding scenario, contact Elizabeth Hubbard of the Philadelphia Foundation (ehubbard@philafound.org) to arrange an appointment to see works by James B. Abbott, Rita Bernstein, Arden Bendler Browning, Donald Camp, Andrea Cote, Kay Healy, John Karpinski (that's me), Sean O'Neil, Michelle Ortiz, Amie Potsic and Wendy Wolf.

The exhibit will be available to the public until 03/13/09. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM by appointment only.

More information about the program can be found here (under "Past Events", scroll down).

UNDERGROUND

Genevieve Coutroubis will be showing photographs in an exhibition curated by Lee Stoetzel (curator of the West Collection) at the Center For Emerging Visual Artists (237 South 18th Street, 3rd Floor). The show runs from October 2 through October 23rd with a closing reception on the 23rd from 5:30 to 7:30 PM.

Hit the link for more information about the exhibit.

Far Away From The Beginning: A Departure From Childhood Idealism, August 6th, 5:30 - 8:00 PM

"This exhibition examines the departure from the idealism of childhood. Once we assent from the comfort of our adolescence, we are exposed to the reality of the world. Our vision of childhood innocence becomes skewed; the serious issues and responsibilities that consume our lives blur the memories."                                                                                                   - Curator, Tara Caton

I will be participating in the show with fellow CFEVA artists Anne Canfield, Scott Pellnat, Cecilia Rembert, Joelle Jenson, Darla Jackson, Jed Morfit, Natalia Slinko, Caleb Nussear, Peter Prusinowski, Serena Perrone, and Matthew Neff

The exhibit opens on August 4th and ends on September 5th with an Opening Reception and Artist Talk on August 6th from 5:30 to 8:00 PM. To experience Far Away From The Beginning go to:

 Leonard Pearlstein Gallery

Drexel University, Nesbitt Hall
33rd & Market Streets

Go Home

No - please don't! Instead, come see Genevieve Coutroubis' installation at Surcle Gallery's "Go Home" exhibit. Genevieve (my wife) will be displaying work from her "Greece" series through a new installation that documents Greek life through some of the same methods utilized by generations of Greek families, creating an ongoing history on the gallery's walls.

Surcle Gallery is located on 110 Church Street (Old City). The exhibit will open on May 11 through June 6 with a First Friday closing reception on June 6, 5 to 8 PM

Live With It

Live With It Fundraiser Exhibition and Premier Party, Friday, May 9

Photo West Gallery, 3625 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

For a mere $25 you get to mingle with (or, at the very least, the art work of): James B. Abbott, Katie Baldwin, Julia Blaukopf, Donald E. Camp, Anne Canfield, Michael Froio, Rebecca Gilbert, Talia Greene, Brooke Hine, John Karpinski [that's me], Mark Khaisman, Jill Maio, Mike Mergen, Keiko Miyamori, Katie Murken, Brenna Murphy, Matthew Neff, Caleb Nussear, Tara O'Brien, Sean O'Neil, Daniel Oliva, Scott Pelinat, Melissa Potter, Peter Prusinowski, Lurence Salzmann, Marisha Simmons, Lindsay Sparagana, Amy Stevens, Julia Stratton, Elysa Voshell, Wendy Wolf.
There aren't that many places where you can rub so many elbows for so little.

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

Philadelphia Selections: Career Development Program Fellows from the Center for Emerging Visual Artists
"Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts will participate in their first exhibition exchange, during the 2008 Biennial, with the Center for Emerging Visual Artists based in Philadelphia. This exchange is the beginning of an ongoing collaboration."

I will be exhibiting work with the current CFEVA fellows at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

The exhibit will run from May 3 through August 24, 2008. For more information, visit PCA.