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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.

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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.

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.

Relics, Myths, and Yarn at the SCEE, 03/08/08

I am participating in an exhibit with my fellow CFEVA Fellows, Darla Jackson, Matthew Neff, Serena Perrone, and Tara O'Brien at The Schuylkill Center for Environmental  Education. The exhibit  was curated by Mary Salvante and it runs from February 11 to April 18.

An Opening Reception with an Artist Talk - Nature and  the Creative Process - is scheduled for Saturday, March 8, from 5:30 - 7:30 PM. So please, come out and enjoy some great work, a wonderful environment, and many, many laughs as you sit back and watch me attempt to explain why and how I do what I do.

Natural Selection at Maryland Art Place, 02/29/08

Forbes has declared Philadelphia to be the  nation's fifth most miserable city. Time to move? Get away? Where to go? Baltimore!  Charm City is only 100 miles away and it didn't crack the top 9 on Forbes' Most Miserable list. And they have crabs.

While in Baltimore, stop by Maryland Art Place and check out the new CFEVA show, Natural Selection. The exhibit opens on 02/19/08 and runs through 03/29/08. The opening reception with artist talk takes place on Friday, February 29 at 6:00 PM.

Directions to Maryland Art Place can be found here.

PHILADELPHIA OPEN STUDIO TOURS 2007

It's that time of year again. Time to open homes and studios to art aficionados, family, friends, and complete strangers. Enjoy wine, cheese, art, and the actual environments where creation itself transpires.  Where ideas illuminate rooms and materialize... sometimes. I invite you to partake in the following POST events:

POST Preview Freeman's Auction House

Thursday 10/11/07, 5:30 - 7:30 PM

1808 Chestnut Street, Upstairs Gallery

Come view the works of over 100 POST artists! 100 artists! In one room! That's a lot of sensitive ego. Consider the possibilities!

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Saturday, 10/27/07 & Sunday 10/28/07, 12:00 - 6:00 PM

608 South 51st Street

Come join us (Genevieve Coutroubis, Andrew Pirie, Elysa Voshell, and me, John Karpinski) as we show our work, eat cheese, and discuss process - simultaneously - with absolutely everyone who walks through the front door. Or with each other if no one happens to walk through the front door.

Posted on Wednesday, October 10 at 11:36 PM

23 DEGREES: CFEVA AT THE ICEBOX PROJECT SPACE - 07/11/07 TO 07/28/07

Summer temperatures burning you up? Chill to 23 Degrees at 1400 N. American Street (Crane Arts Building) where I and twenty-two other CFEVA fellows will be showing our work in a super-cool group exhibition. Gallery hours are noon to 6 PM, Wednesday through Sunday. Stay cool.

The Icebox Project Space at 1400 N. American Street, Philadelphia (Crane Arts Building).