Jeffro Kilpatrick was planning to propose to his sweetheart, Joannie, at his May 7 opening at Fishtown’s Proximity Gallery. But that seemed too public. “I don’t know if I want to put that much of myself out there,” he said during an interview at his studio last week. Besides, he suspected Joannie had caught a whiff of the plan. He thought if he moved it up to the morning, that would catch her by surprise.
This week’s Weekly has my first Friday roundup. Below is the copy with pictures. Big news this First Friday: A new gallery, Marginal Utility , is opening in the Vox building. The six-story former factory building already houses Vox Populi , Copy , AHN/VHS , Progressive Sharing , Jeffrey Stockbridge Fine Art and Tiger Strikes Asteroid . With the addition of Marginal Utility on the second floor, the alternative art scene truly has a new center of gravity.
OK, so maybe I’ve spent too long with my head under the White Couch, but I just got an announcement from Jeffro Kilpatrick of the Philadelphia Cartoonists Society that’s taking place at a gallery I never heard of–art@sophi, a building at 1241 Carpenter St. in South Philly. Turns out 1241 is a rabbit warren of creativity–with another gallery I never heard of, the above-mentioned White Couch, also in the building; plus there’s a gallery, Factory 1241, run by local clothes designer, Monika Turtle (I did here of her and that she had a gallery, but I didn’t know the location). ... More » »