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.
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Giulia Livi, Installation
Tile Room Gallery
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.
Abington Art Center is proud to host this online artist talk via Zoom featuring two of our Fall 2020 Solo Series artists, Chris Cox and Adele Kubel.
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.
Chris Cox is an abstract artist, represented by Bluestone Fine Art Gallery in Old City Philadelphia. She finds inspiration in old, stone walls and has created many paintings based on what she sees in them. While traveling through Egypt, she was taken with the imagery that she saw on the walls of locks as she traveled on the Nile. The haunting figures that the river’s water had stained on to the walls were mysterious, yet had a certain spirituality and peacefulness. Her current body of paintings tell a story of peacefulness, spirituality, community, togetherness and individuality.
Adele Kubel grew up in Cheltenham and has lived in the Abington area her whole life. She did both my undergraduate and graduate work at Tyler School of Art. Presently, she teaches art in the city of Philadelphia. I have been an art teacher for almost 33 years.
“My paintings are about my love for luscious, rich surfaces and arrangements. My paintings are about the physical and the spiritual. My paintings are compulsive and obsessive”
– Adele Kubel
This event is produced as part of our Fall Solo Series 2020, on view from October 6 – November 14.
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 Fall 2020 Solo Series artists, Jenna Lucente.
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.
Jenna Lucente was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Staten Island. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art from Syracuse University and her Master of Fine Art from CUNY Queens College, both with a concentration in painting. Lucente’s work combines stylized imagery with a muted and monotone color palette. Her current series of drawings on mylar and oil paintings are centered around a flooded landscape populated by flora, fauna and a recurring figure of an adolescent girl. These repeated images help form Lucente’s visual language and the series elicits feelings of vulnerability, protection and fragility.
This event is produced as part of our Fall Solo Series 2020, on view from October 6 – November 14.
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:
The Abington Art Center Solo Series gives 9-12 artists annually an opportunity to show a body of work they created in one of Alverthorpe Manor’s historic galleries.
Chris Cox is an abstract artist, represented by Bluestone Fine Art Gallery in Old City Philadelphia. She finds inspiration in old, stone walls and has created many paintings based on what she sees in them. While traveling through Egypt, she was taken with the imagery that she saw on the walls of locks as she traveled on the Nile. The haunting figures that the river’s water had stained on to the walls were mysterious, yet had a certain spirituality and peacefulness. Her current body of paintings tell a story of peacefulness, spirituality, community, togetherness and individuality.
Adele Kubel grew up in Cheltenham and has lived in the Abington area her whole life. She did both my undergraduate and graduate work at Tyler School of Art. Presently, she teaches art in the city of Philadelphia. I have been an art teacher for almost 33 years.
“My paintings are about my love for luscious, rich surfaces and arrangements. My paintings are about the physical and the spiritual. My paintings are compulsive and obsessive”
Jenna Lucente was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Staten Island. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art from Syracuse University and her Master of Fine Art from CUNY Queens College, both with a concentration in painting. Lucente’s work combines stylized imagery with a muted and monotone color palette. Her current series of drawings on mylar and oil paintings are centered around a flooded landscape populated by flora, fauna and a recurring figure of an adolescent girl. These repeated images help form Lucente’s visual language and the series elicits feelings of vulnerability, protection and fragility.
RECEPTION DETAILS AND REGULATIONS | PLEASE READ
This year our Solo Series Opening reception will be held outdoors to comply with CDC guidelines and PA State regulations. This outdoor reception will allow up to 120 people on the lawn and under the pavilion. There will be individually packaged drinks and snacks, and perhaps a surprise musical guest.
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 20 people in the gallery at a time. To do this, a greeter will ask you to sign up for one of six time slots when you arrive:
6:00 – 6:20
6:20 – 6:40
6:40 – 7:00
7:00 – 7:20
7:20 – 7:40
7:40 – 8:00
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.
Chris Cox is an abstract artist, represented by Bluestone Fine Art Gallery in Old City Philadelphia. She finds inspiration in old, stone walls and has created many paintings based on what she sees in them. While traveling through Egypt, she was taken with the imagery that she saw on the walls of locks as she traveled on the Nile. The haunting figures that the river’s water had stained on to the walls were mysterious, yet had a certain spirituality and peacefulness. Her current body of paintings tell a story of peacefulness, spirituality, community, togetherness and individuality.
Adele Kubel grew up in Cheltenham and has lived in the Abington area her whole life. She did both my undergraduate and graduate work at Tyler School of Art. Presently, she teaches art in the city of Philadelphia. I have been an art teacher for almost 33 years.
“My paintings are about my love for luscious, rich surfaces and arrangements. My paintings are about the physical and the spiritual. My paintings are compulsive and obsessive”
Jenna Lucente was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Staten Island. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art from Syracuse University and her Master of Fine Art from CUNY Queens College, both with a concentration in painting. Lucente’s work combines stylized imagery with a muted and monotone color palette. Her current series of drawings on mylar and oil paintings are centered around a flooded landscape populated by flora, fauna and a recurring figure of an adolescent girl. These repeated images help form Lucente’s visual language and the series elicits feelings of vulnerability, protection and fragility.
In her research-based site-specific installations, Margaret Pezalla-Granlund employs work tables, bulletin boards, and other forms of infrastructure to explore concepts relating to physical and dimensional space. In this installation, Pezalla-Granlund has created a series of prints, drawings, photographic ink-jet images & hand-constructed paper models that draw from Lessing Rosenwald’s collection, formerly housed in Alverthorpe Manor. Displayed on custom-made furniture designed to echo the original tables & window desks that once populated the estate, this project invites viewers to participate and reflect on the legacy of Lessing Rosenwald.
Patrick Coughlin’s work examines the ubiquitous, and inconspicuous aspects of our material culture and the spaces that define it. Our Homes and shared spaces along with the objects that fill them exist in the realm of magical science. Their origins are opaque and Byzantine; our most essential tools are incomprehensible in their making and function. This modernity has disconnected our psyche from the physical, sensual world. By abstracting structural joinery, furniture, and the body, we are asked to see the hidden complexities and humanity in the ubiquitous. Through this contextualization of architecture, domestic objects, and craft sensibilities, Patrick’s work explores the precarious relationships with the natural world and our self-agency.
Robert Arnosky’s acrylic paintings depict local scenes and fleeting moments in time. Through portraits of Philadelphia-area people, places, and the activity that surrounds them, Arnosky creates depictions of environments that are simultaneously photo-realistic and energetic. His body of work presents a survey of neighborhoods & neighbors, as interpreted over the years.
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.
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.
On View September 21 – October 26, 2018 in the Community Arts Gallery Opening Reception: Friday, September 21, 6:00-8:00pm
CARRIE BIEGLER
Since the summer of 2017 I have met with and photographed around 120 women in the Philadelphia region for the Strength Source Project. Each woman who participates in the project answers the same question, which is “what have you done in the past, or what are you doing now, that has made you feel strong inside?” The answer to this question is paired with a portrait which captures each woman’s strength. The project is meant to inspire, empower, to foster reflection, and to build connections between us – highlighting our shared resiliency. It is my aim to build women up, shining a light on their power and fortitude.
Part of our Fall 2018 Solo Series. This exhibition has been sponsored in part by Small But Mighty Arts, a program that gives Philadelphia artists a creative spark to pursue their art.
