On View May 12 – June 23, 2017
Opening Reception: May 12, 6:00-8:00pm

Artists: Maria G. Albornoz, Maggie Mills, Ron Klein

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Maggie Mills, Paintings

Climate change, sprawl, and the exploitation of natural resources are modern plagues that define our environment. Marks made by adults affect the places where children play, learn and develop into future architects of the environment. The fragmentation of time and space due to technology structures our digital spaces and affects how we perceive our literal spaces. Young people navigate these inherited spaces with little guidance. This narrative is articulated through the use of modern iconography, flattened spaces, gold line work, and decorative motifs. These methods reference the art of the Byzantine, an era similar to our own in its struggle to define morality and its feud between iconoclasts and iconolaters.

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Ron Klein, Sculpture

Ron Klein’s mixed media works are a result of years of traveling and collecting things in remote equatorial locations. Rainforest habitats, replete with complex repetitive patterns, offer an abundance of artifacts that both inspire and construct his sculpture. These organic materials are then combined with contemporary urban objects, situating both simultaneously in a world of chaos and order.

On View March 3 – May 6, 2017

Opening Reception: March 3, 6:00-8:00pm

Artists: Meghan Cox, Kimberly Stemler, Mary Pinto

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Meghan Cox

The conditions of light and color are used are used as a staging device to accentuate the subtle, passive nature or assertive action of the figure in Meghan Cox’s paintings. The attention to formalism and the organic development of design remains in the forefront while narrative is distanced in the background.

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Kimberly Stemler

These paintings are densely patterned, color focused, and nostalgic. The process is organic – borrowing memories from the natural world, the recognition of the subtleties of life and environment.

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Mary Pinto

Expanding on the language and use of photography, Mary Pinto’s photograms explore the natural world alongside the human relationship to it.

On View September 8 – December 10, 2016

Opening Reception: September 8th, 6-8pm

The Fall Solo series features three artists offering a unique perspective on life and art.

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Lara Cantu-Hertzler | Book Room Gallery

Lara Cantu-Hertzler attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and was awarded a residency at the prestigious Vermont Studio School in 2008. Cantu-Hertzler has exhibited her work at The Rosenfeld Gallery and The Philadelphia Sketch Club.

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Stuart Fineman | Kellner Gallery

Stuart Fineman‘s current paintings on view at Abington Art Center can best be described as an investigation into the narrow range of possibilities between blue, green and gray. They are quite reduced, pared down to an open field of diluted color that somehow feels endless. What they are during the process and what they look like as the final artifact are two different things, but, Fineman says, “my hope is that the paintings become a source of contemplation, that while they are open for interpretation they will be inspirational and evocative in some way.”

Stuart Fineman earned his B.F.A. at the Philadelphia College of Art and his M.F.A. at Mills College in Oakland, CA. He is an adjunct professor at Drexel University, and has exhibited his works in galleries all around the east and west coast.

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Jesse Harrod | Tile Room Gallery

With her suite of part-objects, appendages, and bodily forms, Jesse Harrod brings into close proximity human and non-human forms, unsettling these distinctions by highlighting the blur between the natural(ized) body, on the one hand, and queer body, on the other. It is her hope that the unconventional and overlapping shapes of the suspended and emergent forms suggest alternative ways of being – or hanging – in space.

Harrod has exhibited across the U.S including “Data/Transfer/Object” Cuchifritos Project Space, NYC; “The Stench of Rotting Flowers” La Esquina, KC; “The Neighbors” AU, DC; “Queer Threads” Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art, NYC. “A Tendency Towards Textiles” The Kohler Arts Center, WI. Harrod was interviewed by JD Sampson for “Queer Threads” the book designed by Todd Oldham published by Ammo Books. She has given lectures at Concordia University, MassArt, SAIC. She has held residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Oxbow, Sanskriti, India. She holds an MFA from SAIC and BFA from NSCAD.