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Studio visit: Jeffro in love

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.

Weekly Update – November First Friday on the mind

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.

More art spaces here

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 » »