Abington Art Center is proud to host this in-person artist talk featuring Heidi Brueckner and Andrew Gimblet.
Our Coffee Break series is a casual conversation with the artists featured in our exhibition programming. Learn more about the exhibiting artists’ process and technique through a talk and a Q&A. Coffee and bagels are provided for free.
Heidi Brueckner
Brueckner’s work focuses mostly on cultural allegories and norms conveyed through a collage-like juxtaposition of figurative imagery, symbolism, and elaborate patterning. Often the figures personify the precarious, dark, grotesque, and sleazy side of human nature, subjects by which she is continually fascinated.
These topics seem to require, and in fact dictate, frontal, discomforting, and intrusive compositions. Brueckner revels in playing with bright color and pattern, tilted and flattened space, and distorted form to achieve this needed psychological expression and visual activity, but also to create an element of humor and fun.
Andrew Gimblet
Andrew Gimblet is a fine art street photographer from Philadelphia USA.
“When I am in the streets it is my happy place. I am constantly people watching and looking for a scene, and tend to use atmosphere, light and shadow against the backdrop of my great city to tell whatever story I am conveying. I mainly shoot in color, though I see only the many shades of blacks, whites and grays as it brings the emotion for me that I would like to share with the world. I tend to shoot a lone figure, finding a connection to represent their feelings.” – Andrew Gimblet
For more information on a particular artist or piece please call 215.887.4882
This event is produced as part of our Winter Solo Series 2021, on view from February 25 – April 4.
Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkinstown Lyceum.
Abington Art Center is proud to host this in-person artist talk featuring Iva Fabrikant & Laura Petrovich-Cheney speaking in honor of Kristin Osgood Lamelas.
Our Coffee Break series is a casual conversation with the artists featured in our exhibition programming. Learn more about the exhibiting artists’ process and technique through a talk and a Q&A. Coffee and bagels are provided for free.
Iva Fabrikant
Fabrikant works with recycled materials, with which she explores fluid, natural forms balanced with rigid and geometric features. She is inspired by the curved volumes of the human body and by the twisting and mysterious shapes she sees in plants and rock formations. She observes and sketch these objects, and later uses them as a jumping off point in her studio to make fleshy, alien beings that feel at once curious, familiar, absurd, and enticing.
Kristen Osgood Lamelas
Laura Petrovich-Cheney will be speaking in honor of the artist.
Kristin Osgood Lamelas was a Philadelphia born artist. She received both her BFA and MFA at Moore College of Art and Design. She donated a kidney to her father in 2011. Since then, her mixed-media paintings reference aerial views of specific landscapes and images of cells from her own body. In her most recent work, she explored the issue of how environmental toxins and climate change affect her body and the earth. This exhibition was installed posthumously on her behalf by Laura Petrovich-Cheney.
“Kristen was such a bright light in this world and her light shines on in her beautiful daughter, and in all the memories that her husband, mother, sisters, and friends hold close. She was a high school photography teacher at West Deptford, NJ. She and I had gone to graduate school at Moore College of Art & Design together and her dream was to have a solo exhibit at Abington Art Center like I had done in 2013.” -Laura Petrovich-Cheney
For more information on a particular artist or piece please call 215.887.4882
This event is produced as part of our Winter Solo Series 2021, on view from February 25 – April 4.
Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkinstown Lyceum.
Seeing Is Believing, 2020 | Oil on Paper Bags and Foil, on Canvas
Squatters Club, Cuba, 2021 | Oil on Recycled Bubble Paper
Brueckner’s work focuses mostly on cultural allegories and norms conveyed through a collage-like juxtaposition of figurative imagery, symbolism, and elaborate patterning. Often the figures personify the precarious, dark, grotesque, and sleazy side of human nature, subjects by which she is continually fascinated.
These topics seem to require, and in fact dictate, frontal, discomforting, and intrusive compositions. Brueckner revels in playing with bright color and pattern, tilted and flattened space, and distorted form to achieve this needed psychological expression and visual activity, but also to create an element of humor and fun.
Iva Fabrikant, Sculpture
Book Room Gallery
Red Triflower, 2020 | Paper pulp, ink
Horned Curl, 2015 | Paper pulp
Fabrikant works with recycled materials, with which she explores fluid, natural forms balanced with rigid and geometric features. She is inspired by the curved volumes of the human body and by the twisting and mysterious shapes she sees in plants and rock formations. She observes and sketch these objects, and later uses them as a jumping off point in her studio to make fleshy, alien beings that feel at once curious, familiar, absurd, and enticing.
Andrew Gimblet, Photography
Tile Room Gallery
Crawl, 2019 | Photography
Eternal Darkness, 2020 | Photography
No Service, 2019 | Photography
Andrew Gimblet is a fine art street photographer from Philadelphia USA.
“When I am in the streets it is my happy place. I am constantly people watching and looking for a scene, and tend to use atmosphere, light and shadow against the backdrop of my great city to tell whatever story I am conveying. I mainly shoot in color, though I see only the many shades of blacks, whites and grays as it brings the emotion for me that I would like to share with the world. I tend to shoot a lone figure, finding a connection to represent their feelings.” – Andrew Gimblet
Kristin Osgood Lamelas was a Philadelphia born artist. She received both her BFA and MFA at Moore College of Art and Design. She donated a kidney to her father in 2011. Since then, her mixed-media paintings reference aerial views of specific landscapes and images of cells from her own body. In her most recent work, she explored the issue of how environmental toxins and climate change affect her body and the earth. This exhibition was installed posthumously on her behalf by Laura Petrovich-Cheney.
“Kristen was such a bright light in this world and her light shines on in her beautiful daughter, and in all the memories that her husband, mother, sisters, and friends hold close. She was a high school photography teacher at West Deptford, NJ. She and I had gone to graduate school at Moore College of Art & Design together and her dream was to have a solo exhibit at Abington Art Center like I had done in 2013.” -Laura Petrovich-Cheney
Abington Art Center is proud to host this in-person artist talk featuring our juror Riley Strong.
Our Coffee Break series is a casual conversation with the artists featured in our exhibition programming. Learn more about the exhibiting artists’ process and technique through a talk and a Q&A. Coffee and bagels are provided for free.
This exhibition celebrates art in all its forms, showcasing submissions that have been hand-picked by our juror from the community. We welcome any medium for display in our galleries this winter.
Abington Art Center’s kiln technician and a ceramics instructor. After being awarded summer assistantships with Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in both 2017 and 2018, Riley graduated with a BFA in Sculpture from Union University in 2019. In the Fall, she began her 2019-2020 Residency at Worcester Center for Craft in the Ceramics Department, where she has explored clay as a sculptural medium as well as teaching in the adult and youth programs offered at the craft center. Through the circumstances of COVID-19, Riley was able to continue producing work after being awarded a grant from the Worcester Cultural Coalition.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Lexi Arrietta Kristina Bickford Barbara Bix Amy Block Reena Brooks Justin Bursk Danielle Cartier Louise Clooney Cara Croke L. A. Feldstein David Ferro Terri Fridkin
Elizabeth Hamilton Karen Hunter McLaughlin Sheryl Kessler Mark Kobasz Rochelle Leibowitz Kate McCammon Heather Michel Riddle Jane Mihalick Florence Moonan Jennifer Moszczynski Doris Nogueira-Rogers Karen O’Lone-Hahn
Emmanuel Ohemeng Jr Amanda Penecale Judy Pfeiffer Jean Plough Cara Roberts Ginger Rohlfing Maxine Schwartz Jessi Stead Sean Sweeney Katherine Wang Yolanda Ward
For more information on a particular artist or piece please call 215.887.4882
This event is produced as part of our Annual Juried Show 2022.
Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkinstown Lyceum.
Monopoly and the Metabolic Rift, 2019 | Oil on Linen
Sand in the Gears, or Prey for our Fears, 2020 | Oil on Linen
Craig believes that architectural structures acting as both repositories and as vehicles for memory profoundly influence culture and identity by providing a tangible framework through which facets of a society can be expressed. Consequently, he has been inspired to build a body of work dealing with how identity is influenced by the types of architectural edifices present in a given landscape. His work is not merely a method of documentation, but a sociopolitical/socioeconomic commentary on the effects of hubris, avarice, free trade, outsourcing, deregulation, deterritorialization, neoliberalism, obsolescence, and international-finance-capital upon communities throughout the world. Within the realm of Jacques Derrida’s theory of Hauntology, the paintings speak of the slow disintegration of the future, and the abysmal fragmentation of the past.
Untitled (Self Portrait with Flashbang), 2020 | Oil on Canvas
Untitled (Computer Screen with Flashbang), 2020 | Oil on Canvas
Jester paints what is around him. The daily intake of virtual experiences, his personal attachment to mass produced media and objects; living rooms set alight by projections of television and film; figures lit by the blinding digital light of computer screens. Careful studies of shoes, figurines, or coffee cups hint at moments of prolonged solitary observation.
The work portrays a life mediated through screens and consumption of manufactured goods.
Lady Liberty Leaning, 2018 | Oil and Pastel on Canvas
Wissahickon 3, 2020 | Mixed Media on Canvas
Halbert learned to draw and paint after a successful career as a choreographer, modern dancer and arts administrator. It is the balance between energy and stillness that she focuses on in her art. She reflects this discord in a gestural, painterly, and contemporary style. She develops paintings of motion to evoke emotion. She enjoys working in dry and wet media and experiments with mixing materials, fabrics and color to create painted collages of varying surfaces as she draws into paint. She paints as she would when choreographing a dance, one element moving into the next. A line begins, takes shape into mass, which will deepen with color, and then culminates into an expressionistic, impressionistic, visual experience.
Ralston’s work conjures up mass in a real and implied way. The works are all very heavy and the arrangements within are all tightly stacked and economic in composition and their texture produces an overwhelming craving to be touched. When the density and surface are combined they draw the viewer into a desire to handle the works in a way not typical to the inspection of art. They want to be held up, or viewed flat on a table, or flipped upside down to stare into the punctures and splits that mar their surface. The most consistent element is the craquelure that marks the evacuation of water from deep within their structure. This transformation takes place in all of them and marks an end to malleability and an evolution into a raw product waiting to be shifted t o another form.
This exhibition celebrates art in all its forms, showcasing submissions that have been hand-picked by our juror from the community. We welcome any medium for display in our galleries this summer.
Reisman received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in Printmaking from Yale University. She is represented by Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia, Paul Thiebaud Gallery in San Francisco and Big Town Gallery in Rochester, Vermont. She received a Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Fund Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition and had a Fifteen year survey mounted at the Michener Museum in 2001. Over her career, she has exhibited in galleries and group exhibitions throughout the United States. Her teaching experience includes positions at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Swarthmore College, Dartmouth College and other academic institutions.
Marisa Boyd Danielle Cartier John Charles Cella Ruth Herman Cohen Rick Cole Shannon Cronin Wilfrid Dantis Kathy Davis Anna Devonshire Terri Fridkin Gary Grissom
Elizabeth Hamilton Barbara Handler Elizabeth Heller Elizabeth Johnson Heidi Kapusta Gerald Klein Virginia Lockman Barbara Martin Alex McGady Peggy Merves Bettina Nelson
Daniel Paquet Carrie R James Rapone Kathryn Robinson Matthew Schley Teresa Shields Michael Shum Jennifer Small Marilyn Stubblebine Jeff Thomsen Louise Vinueza
RECEPTION DETAILS AND REGULATIONS | PLEASE READ
This year our Summer Juried Show reception will be held outdoors on AAC’s back lawn and pavilion. There will be individually packaged drinks and snacks for attendees.
To help everyone enjoy this event, please closely follow the following safety protocols:
Socially distance from others at least 6 feet apart at all times whenever possible.
Come prepared with a mask and wear it when socially distancing is not possible outdoors. Masks must be wore to enter the building and view the galleries.
Wash you hands frequently and whenever contacting high touch surfaces.
Do not come to this event if you feel unwell and have COVID-like symptoms such as cough and high fever. Also, please stay at home if you have been in contact with someone who is diagnosed with COVID within the past 14 days.
VIEWING THE EXHIBITION
In order to view the exhibition, we will be letting a maximum amount of 25 people in the gallery at a time. To do this, a greeter will cycle visitors through the pavilion entrance into the galleries.
Please come with a mask, as you will be required to wear a mask while inside the galleries. Please maintain a distance of 6 feet apart from others while inside the galleries.
Please consider making a donation for attending this event.
Abington Art Center is proud to host this online artist talk via Zoom featuring our three Spring 2021 Solo Series artists, Hanna Vogel, Mashiul Chowdhury & John Greig Jr.
Our Coffee Break Online series is a casual conversation with the artists featured in our exhibition programming. Learn more about the exhibiting artists’ process and technique through a talk and a Q&A online. Feel free to bring your own coffee and bagels.
Vogel creates imaginary landscapes and growths to investigate the effects of entropy on our environments. She transforms the commonplace materials of porcelain, paper, and wire into unfamiliar forms and textures that evoke growth, decay, and the tenuousness of our surroundings. By referencing craft traditions and natural processes of dissolution, her work addresses aspects of existence on the edge of potential destruction. The physical and connotative properties of her materials speak of the possibility of their demise—porcelain lattices defy their structural improbability to reflect their fragility back on the viewer; a wrinkled, skin-like coating of paper is stained and slowly decayed by its rusting steel wire skeleton. Her work asserts the craft-based primacy of the handmade, grounding itself in the physical world on which we all, ultimately, rely.
Chowdhury is constantly inspired, perplexed, curious, amused, and awed by the elements and stories of things most of us see – and ignore – every day. The activities of human life leave traces on various surfaces sometimes intentionally, sometimes inadvertently – but rarely does anyone realize that such markings contain within them an abstract language that can be rich and compelling. They are remnants of love, of pain, of disgust, of disorder or social or political tensions. His experiences living in crowded but vibrant cities have enabled his consciousness to a greater sensitivity of feelings. An artist must see and feel and understand as opposed to those who merely glimpse but do not really see.
This body of work of Greig’s work is rooted in architecture, formalism, geology, global warming and a future archeology. There is a balanced conversation between the two materials. One material is cut and built, while the other is poured in and around it. The layered castings bring to mind the slowly formed striations, intombing forgotten cities wave by wave. Fabricated wooden components imply long hidden pieces of modern architecture, a buried future. The organically deposited layers of processed gypsum are joined to the shaped wood pieces, both parts naturally formed and simultaneously manipulated by the human hand. These idealized figures suggest a tale of an upside down world, a place of curious harmony, where the earth and ocean live upon our cities.
This event is produced as part of our Spring Solo Series 2021, on view from March 26 – May 8.
Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkinstown Lyceum
We highly suggest you add this event to your calendar immediately using the links in this confirmation email or keep the Zoom link somewhere safe such as in a note taking app. Meeting links will be resent the night before the Artist Talk. Our staff will be preparing for the meeting the morning of the Artist Talk, so there is no guarantee they will have time to resend your link.
If you happen to misplace your meeting link please email joshell@abingtonartcenter.org immediately with your first and last name. Please do not wait until the day of the talk to ask for a link resend.
CHECK IN PROCESS
Please login 5-10 minutes early, as arriving late may disrupt the Artist Talk. This event is created with a waiting room so we can check in guests once the host is ready to start. Your name will appear as your reservation when you enter the waiting room. This link is unique to you, so please do not share your Zoom link with anyone. We will be admitting only one device per reservation, so sharing your Zoom link may result in missing the presentation
ARTIST TALK STRUCTURE
Guests will be muted for the entire presentation. If you have a question in the middle of the lecture, you may ask in the chat. Questions are moderated and asked selectively as to not slow down the presentation. If your question has not been answered, there will be time at the end to ask questions. You may use the “raise hand” feature and a monitor will unmute you briefly to ask your question.
DEVICE SHARING
Sharing devices to watch the Artist Talk is allowed, however we will be asking all device sharers to identify themselves.
DROPPING OUT OF MEETINGS
Occasionally while using Zoom for events and classes, meeting participants will get dropped from the meeting. If this should happen, please do not be alarmed. Simply locate your meeting link, wait two minutes and click the meeting link to rejoin. A host will readmit you shortly.
RECORDING ONLINE EVENTS
All virtual events are recorded for Abington Art Center’s use to better optimize our programming. Class and Event recordings may also be uploaded publicly by Abington Art Center to Youtube or other video platforms. You may mute your microphone or turn off your camera if you do not wish to be recorded
Please consider making a donation for attending this online event:
Vogel creates imaginary landscapes and growths to investigate the effects of entropy on our environments. She transforms the commonplace materials of porcelain, paper, and wire into unfamiliar forms and textures that evoke growth, decay, and the tenuousness of our surroundings. By referencing craft traditions and natural processes of dissolution, her work addresses aspects of existence on the edge of potential destruction. The physical and connotative properties of her materials speak of the possibility of their demise—porcelain lattices defy their structural improbability to reflect their fragility back on the viewer; a wrinkled, skin-like coating of paper is stained and slowly decayed by its rusting steel wire skeleton. Her work asserts the craft-based primacy of the handmade, grounding itself in the physical world on which we all, ultimately, rely.
Camden
Figure
Mashiul Chowdhury, Drawing & Painting
Tile Room Gallery
Chowdhury is constantly inspired, perplexed, curious, amused, and awed by the elements and stories of things most of us see – and ignore – every day. The activities of human life leave traces on various surfaces sometimes intentionally, sometimes inadvertently – but rarely does anyone realize that such markings contain within them an abstract language that can be rich and compelling. They are remnants of love, of pain, of disgust, of disorder or social or political tensions. His experiences living in crowded but vibrant cities have enabled his consciousness to a greater sensitivity of feelings. An artist must see and feel and understand as opposed to those who merely glimpse but do not really see.
A Slow Apocalypse 2
A Slow Apocalypse 2
John Greig Jr., Sculpture & Drawing
Book Room Gallery
This body of work of Greig’s work is rooted in architecture, formalism, geology, global warming and a future archeology. There is a balanced conversation between the two materials. One material is cut and built, while the other is poured in and around it. The layered castings bring to mind the slowly formed striations, intombing forgotten cities wave by wave. Fabricated wooden components imply long hidden pieces of modern architecture, a buried future. The organically deposited layers of processed gypsum are joined to the shaped wood pieces, both parts naturally formed and simultaneously manipulated by the human hand. These idealized figures suggest a tale of an upside down world, a place of curious harmony, where the earth and ocean live upon our cities.
Abington Art Center is proud to host this online artist talk via Zoom featuring two of our Winter 2021 Solo Series artists, Giulia Livi and Andrew Chalfen.
Our Coffee Break Online series is a casual conversation with the artists featured in our exhibition programming. Learn more about the exhibiting artists’ process and technique through a talk and a Q&A online. Feel free to bring your own coffee and bagels.
Livi’s work interposes objects of the everyday to distort the viewer’s sense of space, explore our ability to inhabit rooms, and merge the dreamlike with the rigid. Her geometric objects and paintings focus on materiality to investigate light, form, and the weirdly functional. She thinks of paintings as they exist in the home, decorating our lives, using us to give them purpose. And inversely, objects become paintings to question abstraction and reality. Her work focuses on the acute and the polite, the domestic and the utilitarian.
Chalfen’s work shows a sheer joy in precise, dense pattern-making. The viewer may not know what to focus on first, becoming overwhelmed and subsequently absorbed in the details, is akin to the experience of mediation or a divine/psychedelic experience. More recent abstract geometric pieces, including painted sculptures, explore themes of nostalgia, climate change, play, topography, allusions to scientific data and musical expression and notation, and deconstructions reflective of, and perhaps counter to, accelerating social and psychic instability in the world.
This event is produced as part of our Winter Solo Series 2021, on view from January 29 – March 13.
Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkinstown Lyceum
We highly suggest you add this event to your calendar immediately using the links in this confirmation email or keep the Zoom link somewhere safe such as in a note taking app. Meeting links will be resent the night before the Artist Talk. Our staff will be preparing for the meeting the morning of the Artist Talk, so there is no guarantee they will have time to resend your link.
If you happen to misplace your meeting link please email joshell@abingtonartcenter.org immediately with your first and last name. Please do not wait until the day of the talk to ask for a link resend.
CHECK IN PROCESS
Please login 5-10 minutes early, as arriving late may disrupt the Artist Talk. This event is created with a waiting room so we can check in guests once the host is ready to start. Your name will appear as your reservation when you enter the waiting room. This link is unique to you, so please do not share your Zoom link with anyone. We will be admitting only one device per reservation, so sharing your Zoom link may result in missing the presentation
ARTIST TALK STRUCTURE
Guests will be muted for the entire presentation. If you have a question in the middle of the lecture, you may ask in the chat. Questions are moderated and asked selectively as to not slow down the presentation. If your question has not been answered, there will be time at the end to ask questions. You may use the “raise hand” feature and a monitor will unmute you briefly to ask your question.
DEVICE SHARING
Sharing devices to watch the Artist Talk is allowed, however we will be asking all device sharers to identify themselves.
DROPPING OUT OF MEETINGS
Occasionally while using Zoom for events and classes, meeting participants will get dropped from the meeting. If this should happen, please do not be alarmed. Simply locate your meeting link, wait two minutes and click the meeting link to rejoin. A host will readmit you shortly.
RECORDING ONLINE EVENTS
All virtual events are recorded for Abington Art Center’s use to better optimize our programming. Class and Event recordings may also be uploaded publicly by Abington Art Center to Youtube or other video platforms. You may mute your microphone or turn off your camera if you do not wish to be recorded
Please consider making a donation for attending this online event:
Abington Art Center is proud to host this online artist talk via Zoom featuring one of our Winter 2021 Solo Series artists, Rebecca Schultz.
Our Coffee Break Online series is a casual conversation with the artists featured in our exhibition programming. Learn more about the exhibiting artists’ process and technique through a talk and a Q&A online. Feel free to bring your own coffee and bagels.
Schultz’s paintings express and help process her love of, and fear for, the natural world. The degradation of the environment evokes both an existential sadness and a reminder to deeply see the beauty that is around and accept that it is constantly changing. The imagery of her work sits in the liminal space between the abstract and representational, offering an indication of natural form without explicitly depicting it. There is protean ambiguity that mirrors the mystery of nature.
This event is produced as part of our Winter Solo Series 2021, on view from January 29 – March 13.
Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkinstown Lyceum
We highly suggest you add this event to your calendar immediately using the links in this confirmation email or keep the Zoom link somewhere safe such as in a note taking app. Meeting links will be resent the night before the Artist Talk. Our staff will be preparing for the meeting the morning of the Artist Talk, so there is no guarantee they will have time to resend your link.
If you happen to misplace your meeting link please email joshell@abingtonartcenter.org immediately with your first and last name. Please do not wait until the day of the talk to ask for a link resend.
CHECK IN PROCESS
Please login 5-10 minutes early, as arriving late may disrupt the Artist Talk. This event is created with a waiting room so we can check in guests once the host is ready to start. Your name will appear as your reservation when you enter the waiting room. This link is unique to you, so please do not share your Zoom link with anyone. We will be admitting only one device per reservation, so sharing your Zoom link may result in missing the presentation
ARTIST TALK STRUCTURE
Guests will be muted for the entire presentation. If you have a question in the middle of the lecture, you may ask in the chat. Questions are moderated and asked selectively as to not slow down the presentation. If your question has not been answered, there will be time at the end to ask questions. You may use the “raise hand” feature and a monitor will unmute you briefly to ask your question.
DEVICE SHARING
Sharing devices to watch the Artist Talk is allowed, however we will be asking all device sharers to identify themselves.
DROPPING OUT OF MEETINGS
Occasionally while using Zoom for events and classes, meeting participants will get dropped from the meeting. If this should happen, please do not be alarmed. Simply locate your meeting link, wait two minutes and click the meeting link to rejoin. A host will readmit you shortly.
RECORDING ONLINE EVENTS
All virtual events are recorded for Abington Art Center’s use to better optimize our programming. Class and Event recordings may also be uploaded publicly by Abington Art Center to Youtube or other video platforms. You may mute your microphone or turn off your camera if you do not wish to be recorded
Please consider making a donation for attending this online event:
