Juried Exhibition On View November 15, 2019 – January 2, 2020 Opening Reception: Friday, November 15, 6:00-8:00pm
This exhibition celebrates art in all its forms, showcasing submissions that have been hand-picked by our juror from the local community and beyond. We’ve welcomed submissions in any medium for display in our galleries this fall.
Alan Greenberg is a practicing artist based in Elkins Park. Alan has exhibited nationally and internationally, as well as at many local Philadelphia area institutions. Greenberg received a BFA from Tyler, an MFA from Purdue, and has held teaching positions at Tyler, UArts, and Drexel.
Awards:
This year we’ll be giving out three awards, each with a cash prize. These awards were generously funded by anonymous donors that have chosen to celebrate three different mediums. All mediums, however, will be accepted for exhibition. If there are qualifying entries, the juror will select one recipient for each of the following awards:
Tile and Mosaic Arts (TAMA) Award Ceramics Arts Award Paper Arts Award
This project links fine artists with families or friends of victims of gun violence. The artists meet with the victims’ loved ones to learn about the lives they lived. Our goal is to present diverse works that in some way relay graphically, or through narrative, the essence of the person being portrayed. Our mission is to bring attention to and memorialize the lives lost and tragically altered due to gun violence. Portraits have the unique ability to call out the souls and profoundly affect those who see them. We hope that this project will continue to bring some joy and peace to the families and friends of victims and, by bringing attention to the scourge of gun violence in this way, be a call to action to all who see them. We will continue with this project, expand its reach, and hopefully reach the blessed day it will no longer be needed.
Through large scale drawings, Heidi Jensen animates a series of traditionally feminine objects, tools, and adornments. Each vibrant object, many of which originate from the 18th century, highlights the passage of time and the notion of gendered objects.
Using the 19th century photography printing process, gum bichromate, Kelsey Dillow uses objects and organic materials such as herbs, blood, earth, and ash to examine the notions of and intersections between faith, ritual, symbol, and belief.
In his torn paper artworks, Christopher Houston draws parallels between marks made by natural elements, such as bodies of water, and those made by the artist’s hand.
Closing Reception: Friday, September 13, 6:00 – 8:00pm
An exhibition celebrating the work of our wonderful faculty members. Featuring artists that specialize in jewelry, painting, drawing, ceramics, mosaics, printmaking, papermaking and more, this year’s exhibition includes work by:
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 1, 6:00-9:00pm
This exhibition, which features art from our campers, teachers, and interns, is a celebration of summer at AAC! KidFest, now in its 20th year, showcases the talent of every one of Abington Art Center’s summer program participants.
Student’s artwork will be available to pick up after the show closes. Parents and guardians may stop by AAC and pick up their child’s artwork from August 19 – August 23, 9am – 5pm.
Transitions On View June 14 – July 26, 2019 Opening Reception: Friday, June 14, 6:00 – 8:00pm
A juried exhibition acknowledging the cyclical phase of transformation between the relinquished end & the revived beginning. By exploring energized peacefulness & embracing duality, we are able to find solace in the pieces of the present.
The works presented in this exhibition, showcase submissions from both emerging and professional artists from the local community and beyond; hand-selected by our juror, Shannon Rose Moriarty.
Juror Shannon Rose Moriarty
Shannon Rose Moriarty is a teaching artist who believes in the creative power of authenticity. She successfully motivates others to grow by encouraging self expression and curiosity through playful experimentation, creative problem solving, and artistic decision making. She serves at-risk youth at Philadelphia OIC Workforce Academy in Philadelphia, where she built a comprehensive arts & humanities curriculum intentionally focused on bringing the art of living into the classroom. At Abington Art Center, Moriarty energizes ceramics enthusiasts who each recognize and meet their personal creative goals; as well as adult artists with special abilities at the YWCA in Princeton, NJ; who together, prove to be the strongest example of a supportive artistic community. Shannon is also a founding member of the artist-run gallery space, Spillway Collective, where she joyfully curates inclusive and collaborative exhibitions.She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in ceramics, a minor in art education and, a Pennsylvania PK-12 art teaching certification from Arcadia University in 2015.
Krista Svalbonas work merges historical accounts of displacement with architectural photographs through a process of burning, which acts as an echo of the traumas of war that refugees have endured. The words of the refugees now form the complete image. Eventually made entirely of lace-like text, the buildings grow fragile, inseparable from the precarious lives they housed.
Matthew Borgen’s prints, paintings, and installations appropriate imagery from comic books published during the first half of the 20th century, removing it from the normal narrative constraints of sequential art and recombining them by utilizing alternative strategies of organization.
Kiki Gaffney’s work work juxtaposes animate shapes with design elements to explore the direct relationship between our natural and created ‘atmospheres,’ the analytical and sequential accuracy, and order in the mark making.
Rhea Dennis, Papermaking (in the Community Arts Gallery)
Rhea Dennis’s handmade paper paintings are made intuitively, as she finds meaning in the sometimes-random patterns made by manipulating the pulp. While she is inspired by nature, she chooses not to replicate it, creating instead a private language of personal line and color.
Opening Reception: Friday, January 11, 6:00-8:00pm
ARTISTS
Joseph Lozano, Painting
Joseph Lozano’s paintings juxtapose classical Greco-Roman statues and images of American Imperialism against mundane consumer goods and random cultural artifacts in an attempt to undercut and disregard the heroic and reflective motifs of high-culture.
Hee Sook Kim, Mixed Media
Hee Sook Kim’s work features feminine patterns printed on top of traditional Korean historical landscape paintings, resulting in a visual and cultural hybridity that speaks to her experiences living in both Korea and the United States.
Sara Prigodich, Sculpture
Sara Prigodich’s ceramic sculptures are physical representations of our psychological incongruities: the doubts, questions, and shifts in perspectives through which we view the memories of our lives.
Edward Dougert, Photography (in the Community Arts Gallery)
Edward Dougert’s photography series, The Black Land, is an interpretation of Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region and its history.
Juried Exhibition On View November 9, 2018 – January 4, 2019 Opening Reception: Friday, November 9, 6:00-8:00pm
This exhibition celebrates art in all its forms, showcasing submissions that have been hand-picked by our juror from the local community and beyond. We’ve welcomed submissions in any medium for display in our galleries this fall.
Juror Martha Gyllenhaal
Dr. Gyllenhaal, head of the Fine Arts Area, is an art historian and painter who integrates humanities and the fine arts in her teaching. She enjoys using the art collections in Glencairn Museum to enhance her classes. One of her courses, Topics in Twentieth-Century Architecture: Bryn Athyn’s National Historic Landmarks, meets on site and examines the process it took to build Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Glencairn Museum, and the Cairnwood and Cairncrest estates. She has lived and traveled extensively in Europe and encourages her students to plan their own grand tours. Her passion is 17th century Dutch art. Her research focuses on the studio practices and working methods of Rembrandt and the artists in his circle.
Falling Water, Donald Leong
Esperanza Spalding at the Keswick Theater, Emmanuel Ohemeng Jr
