Three notable events rounded up for your consideration!
Read MoreRoberta speaks with gallerist Bridgette Mayer about her gallery, her passion for working with and helping artists and about how joy is the focus for everything she does. The 32-minute interview is a lively conversation that covers some great material.
Read MoreCo-curators J. Susan Isaacs and Erin Lehman write an essay about their exhibition “All Night Party,” which places contemporary works in conversation with 20th century party dresses, drawing similarities between America’s political climate then and now.
Read MoreLooking at the titles, the show is undeniably an homage to love and how it reveals itself to people. Yet the show also is a metaphor for the artist’s love of interacting with paint.
Read More2015 was an especially eventful year for the artist, who shows her work at Bridgette Mayer Gallery. Rutstein, whose work is inspired by science and the natural world, spent 6 weeks last summer as an Artist at Sea, painting and working with scientists mapping the ocean floor on Robert Ballard’s ship, The Nautilus. This year, she also completed her first public art piece, “Sky Terrain,” at 11th and Montgomery on the Temple University Campus.
Read MoreEnter Bridgette Mayer Gallery–a space well known for its contemporary displays of landscape, photography, and the modern medium–and home to Experience of Place. The current exhibition highlights the works of Eileen Neff and Sharon Harper (Bridgette Mayer veterans), Jessica Backues, Michael Eastman, and Brea Souders, and creates a dialogue between five different artists translating their vision of place.
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