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NEW FICTION

July + August, 2012

Reception: To be announced
Hours: Free – by appointment

New Wilmington Art Association
Wilmington, DE

www.thenwaa.org

New Fiction presents young contemporary artists that remind us of the value of a good game of hop-skotch – or a deviously elaborate construction of “cats-cradle”. The boundaries between child and adult, between promise and reality, are explored. These “day-dreams” realized, remind us of the potentials of pure, simplistic imagination in forming our most potent and lasting personal narratives.

(Image credit: Catherine Maloney, Teleplay Part I)

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Ambassador (Winter 2011)

Germantown Avenue:  8517 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, December 2nd, 2011 – 6-9pm

The Chestnut Hill Arts Initiative (CAi) brings provocative and contemporary art to historical Germantown Avenue, the commercial and social corridor of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.

This Winter Adaptation and the Chestnut Hill Arts Initiative (CAi) invites NYC-based photographer Keith Coleman to Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia to create Ambassador, a large-scale photographic portrait project executed in conjunction with long-term area merchants and members of the service economy. In the tradition of August Sander’s Portraits of German Citizens (1910-1940), Ambassador aims to investigate the personalities, characters and people who form the working fabric of a small “village” community. The large-scale portraits created for public display present a resonant contemporary vision of the people who define a place, as well as an “archive” of the faces of a labor community at a given moment in its history. In conjunction, narrative interviews with the merchant portrait sitters illuminate their personal histories, labors and connections to the area.

Keith Coleman is a NYC-based freelance photographer, assistant. and lighting director. Selected clients have included Martha Stewart Living Magazine, HBO, W Magazine, Sony Pictures, Gourmet Magazine, Details Magazine, Esquire Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstroms, EDUN, Bannana Republic, Purple Magazine, 10 Magazine, Cinemax and NASCAR. Mr. Coleman has traveled the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa to create personal and client-based photographic projects.

www.keithcoleman.net

(Image credits: [Above] Keith Coleman, “Angelo, 57 years”, 48″x36″, 2011

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PROJECT PARTNERS

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New Trails aims to intelligently and provocatively activate empty storefront venues and outdoor spaces in the Philadelphia community of Chestnut Hill through a series of arts exhibition events. New Trails will incorporate dynamic young & established artists from the region who are actively utilizing recycled materials, environmentally aware concepts and/or sustainable practices as part of their creative process and output, as well as provide opportunities for artists to investigate and create site-specific, site-conscious projects in the shared regional outdoor space of the historic Wissahickon Valley. We aim to provide additional topical programming including panel discussions, artist walks and presentations, public creative displays and free youth education sessions focused on art and the environment.

The goal of this project is to extend the boundaries and the conversation regarding sustaining community development and outdoor urban resources through utilizing creative work as an exciting catalyst for appreciation, reflection and dialogue. New Trails aspires to create immediate excitement and activity, while fostering a connection between the direction and potentials of the relationship community and commercial development shares with the natural world surrounding it. With New Trails we aim to stimulate growth and investment in the cultural, commercial and natural corridors of these communities.

In conjunction with New Trails a comprehensive full-color exhibition catalog/field-guide will be produced. The catalog will feature original responses to the project and works from Katrina Kuntz (Independent Curator/Critic), Margaret Winslow (Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Delaware Art Museum) and Bryan Rice (Programmer, Adaptation).

Participating Artists
Brookes Britcher (Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA)
Emily Bunker (Philadelphia, PA)
Alexander Conner (Philadelphia, PA)
Fritz Horstman (Baltimore, MD)
Ted Houghtaling (Pittsburgh, PA)
Ellie Irons (New York, NY)
Colin Keefe (Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, PA)
Michael Koehler (New York, NY/Germantown, Philadelphia, PA)
Caroline Lathan-Steifel (West Chester, PA)
Jason Lee (Morgantown, WV)
Max Liboiron (New York, NY)
Ron Longsdorf (Spartanburg, SC)
Daniel Mahlman (Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, PA)
Joanna Platt (Philadelphia, PA)
Stephen Ruszkowski (Wilmington, DE)
Mike Ryan (Philadelphia, PA)
Hiro Sakaguchi (Philadelphia, PA)
Phillip Scarpone (Wilmington, DE)
Michael Sebright (Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA)
William Schlough (Pittsburgh, PA)
Harrison Tyler (Baltimore, MD)
Lindsay Yeager (Newark, DE)
Jim Zeske (West Chester, PA)

New Trails is curated by Brookes Britcher and Bryan Rice.

New Trails is a sponsored project of the City of Philadelphia Department of Commerce ReStore Corridors Through Art initiative.

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PARTNERSHIPS

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PRESS

February 15th 2011: Chestnut Hill Artists Blaze New Trails / Chestnut Hill Local

This comprehensive 70 page, full-color, hardcover catalog of the Adaptation + New Wilmington Art Association exhibition The Rules For Staying Young features original essays by Brian Young (Head Curator, Academy Art Museum) and Katrina Kuntz (Critic, Art Historian and Educator, Dowling College). Original catalog design by Michael Glowacki (former Designer at Organic – Chicago and The Royal Order of Design – Chicago).

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Lessons (October, 2010 – January, 2011)

Reception: Wednesday, December 8th 2010, 5-8pm / Magarity Ford Building (8200 Germantown Avenue)

The reception for Lessons will be held in conjunction with Philadelphia Batik artist-educator Laura Cohn’s annual Bali To Bala (Nov. 26th – Dec. 8th) exhibition/event at the Magarity Ford Building in Chestnut Hill. Bali To Bala features a broad array of special events, including Indonesian dance performance, a travel and slide lecture about the country, Indonesian music, dance classes, storytelling, and an Indonesian Movie Night. Visit her website for more information regarding these independent events. www.FromBalitoBala.com

Exhibition Hours: Free to the public daily
Germantown Avenue (Between Hartwell Lane & East Springfield Avenue)
Philadelphia, PA

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The Chestnut Hill Arts Initiative (CAi) brings provocative and contemporary art to historical Germantown Avenue, the commercial and social corridor of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.

This Fall & Winter the Chestnut Hill Arts Initiative (CAi), in partnership with subject:ART, presents Lessons, a public exhibition of the creative works generated by area art educators. Lessons marks the inaugural assembly of subject:ART, an arts educators initiative founded by Susan Braccia (of the Academy In Manayunk) which aims to stimulate a continued community dialogue regarding arts education and creative practices through the active participation and collaboration of local arts educators and institutions. Presenting works from arts educators from the Academy In Manayunk, Chestnut Hill Academy, the Springside School, Mount Saint Joseph Academy, the Chester Springs Studio and the Main Line Art Center, Lessons offers a meaningful glimpse into the creative works and process of the educators who work to form the artistic vision of students in and around the city of Philadelphia.

Participating Artist-Educators
Susan Braccia / Daniel Brewer / Peter Capano / Brian Grow / Colleen Joy / Carl Keilblock / Cathie Meighan / Dick Meyer / Emily Pritchard / Alice Meyer Wallace / Mary-Anne Yoshida

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CAi PROJECT PARTNERS

Bowman Properties (Philadelphia, PA)

adaptation (Philadelphia, PA)

Chestnut Hill Community Association (Philadelphia, PA)

Chestnut Hill Business Association (Philadelphia, PA)

VANISHING POINT

October 1st – October 31st, 2010

Closing Reception: Saturday October 30th, 2010 6-10pm (w/ LIVE Performances)
Hours: Free – by appointment

Vanishing Point aims to present work that confronts the notion of a “new abstract”. Inclusive to all medium, the exhibition presents abstraction as a means of reconciliation to the dislocation of self in modern life.

Engaging concepts of science, personal histories, politics and beyond, these artists build upon the histories of abstract art to fashion a sense of stability in an environment ever changing, ever updating – an environment built upon a constant feed for more information, with its reference point focused evermore on the self in synthetic environments.

Through this visual “storm” these artists have honed their use of abstraction not only as a means to understand their world, but as a mechanism to locate themselves as an individual in a sea of turbulent messages and meaning. Our understanding of our self becomes more abstract each day – these artists represent a direction where abstraction is no longer universal, but an intrinsically personal understanding.

Below – Excerpt from the curatorial statement by Alexander Conner

In Holland Cotter’s February New York Times article entitled, “The Boom is Over, Long Live The Art!”, he poses a variety of rhetorical questions:

“Will the art industry continue to cling to art’s traditional analog status, to insist that the material, buyable object is the only truly legitimate form of art, which is what the painting revival of the last few years has really been about? Will contemporary art continue to be, as it is now, a fancyish Fortunoff’s, a party supply shop for the Love Boat crew? Or will artists — and teachers, and critics — jump ship, swim for land that is still hard to locate on existing maps and make it their home and workplace?”

These questions touch on an aspect of revolution through parsing escapism that we at Adaptation have noticed for some time in work by early-career artists today.  This is not an ascetic endeavor, but one which has relegated itself beyond the realms of objective inclusion and into subjective collusion.  Artists who have graduated from academies into the world of day jobs experience the comfort of camaraderie with so many others like themselves.  However, this large amount of makers, competing with one another tooth-and-nail for exhibition, residency, and grant opportunities, leads to a more competitive and complex field of advancement and play within individual’s art-making practice.

Abstraction, as a conceptual entity within art-making, is a handy vehicle for the artist to attempt to make sense of, as well as obfuscate, the quickly approaching future (or for the nihilistic, perhaps end) of their art-making.  These artists treat the abstract with a sensibility of engagement and distance that is dependent on the manifestation of their own belonging within different contexts.  And it is this constant hindsight, this nostalgia without irony, that is particularly indicative of their individual interpretations of their collective revolution.

Artists

Jenna Hannum / Katie Hinton / Simona Josan / Michael Kalmbach /  Adam Lister / Caroline Santa / Phillip Scarpone / Cullen Stephenson / Matthew West

Curated by Brookes Britcher and Alexander Conner

Venue

UnSmoke Systems
1137 Braddock Avenue
Braddock, PA

www.unsmokeartspace.com

UnSmoke Systems, a project of Braddock Redux, is housed in a repurposed Catholic school building. The auditorium has been refashioned into a gallery/events venue, with the classrooms converted into artist studio spaces.

Inspired by the industrial character and the historical importance of Braddock, the project seeks to further open the community to those with unconventional and forward-thinking notions about the reuse of urban space. In a town where dilapidation and neglect have scarred the landscape, UnSmoke Systems contends that Braddock is fertile ground for creativity.

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RELATED PROGRAMMING

(To Be Announced) / Katie Hinton

“I work intuitively. Responding to images I create with paint and other materials is a spontaneous act, and it simulates the process of my own perceptions. I combine gestural abstraction with mechanical reproduction to emphasize the sensual process of painting and the objective images the camera produces. I use photography as a reference point to evoke a sense of the familiar to which a viewer can relate. These photos are often deconstructed to become formal elements of color and line. Repetition of lines throughout the artwork produces a systematic order that quiets the surrounding unruliness of paint. Although there are recognizable images in my artwork, I use abstraction to transform objective images into a sensorial experience. The reflective surfaces employed mirror proximate areas and are altered depending on where the viewer stands and lighting conditions at that moment.”

Katie Hinton’s installations are aesthetic playgrounds. They begin by her extrapolating from one central tenant of visual thinking (such as a color or a static form) a subjective impulse. These works amalgamate the artist’s intimacy and distance from her point of departure and project her internal, yet holistic, structuring of the latter. Her lack-of-interest in synthesizing an approach that allows the viewer a clear-cut insight into the originally conceived basis for the work, allows for her, a degree of anonymous spatial engagement.

Katie Hinton received her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI) and her BFA from Millikin University (Decatur, IL). Ms. Hinton has created and exhibited her installations as part of solo and group exhibitions around the world.

www.katiehinton.com

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Sugar and Rage / Adam Lister

Adam Lister’s installation’s use of magnetic attractive force employs not only the notion of a functioning system, but also the potential failure inherent in any system. The space around them, which the viewer attends as emptiness, provides the enveloping submissive force which he as a maker must constantly be aware of. Starting with an idea and a general knowledge of the space in which he will create his work, Lister’s installations transform from initial conception to adaptive and seemingly inherent structures.

Virginia-based artist Adam Lister received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts (Nyc, NY). He has created projects and exhibited his work extensively within the United States. Selected exhibitions include the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (Queens, NY), Rider Project (Nyc, NY),  RAGA Gallery (Nyc, NY), Heokaumhang Gallery (Nyc, NY), White Columns Annex (Nyc, NY) and the CSV Cultural Center (Nyc, NY). Mr. Lister is currently the Gallery Director at the Adam Lister Gallery (Fairfax, VA).

www.adamlistergallery.com

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Nostalgia / Simona Josan

Simona Josan’s installation, Nostalgia, incorporates photography, fibers, and installation to provide the viewer with an enveloping “reminiscing eye”. Her work engages the viewer by providing a environment which is at times both inside-out and foreign. Using images from her native Romania and her current home of Philadelphia, she creates conceptual veils which external light from windows transform into translucent rubrics of the internal and external, juxtaposing their true setting.

Simona Josan is a Philadelphia-based artist.

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(To Be Announced) / Drew + the Medicinal Pen

Performance Date/Time: Saturday, October 30th, 2010 (9pm)

Various members of Drew + the Medicinal Pen will present an original “theatrical” performance in conjunction with Vanishing Point at UnSmoke Systems (Braddock, PA).

An energetic four-piece “band” and multi-disciplinary project from Brooklyn, NY, Drew + the Medicinal Pen is comprised of music (live/recorded), drawings, film/video, photographs, writing, painting, performance and curated screenings. The project has been featured in the New York Times, Beyond Race Magazine, on Japanese radio and the Independent Film Channel. Drew + the Medicinal Pen have recently created and participated in collaborative multimedia performances and installations at Rooftop Films (Brooklyn, NY), Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) and the Museum of Modern Art (Nyc, NY). Beyond the creation of special projects they extensively tour the United States in support of their original music.

www.myspace.com/drewandthemedicinalpen

(Image Credit: Marcos Regalo)

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Wood Fired Readings (Jim Tomlinson & Frannie Lindsay) / Gist Street Reading Series

Date/Time: Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 (8pm)

The Gist Street readings are held monthly and feature local and national poets and writers. The series focuses on emerging writers publishing their first or second books. Learn more about the authors reading on October 2nd here.

Gist Street Reading Series was supported by Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PA Partners), the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PA Partners is administered in Allegheny County by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council.

(Image Credit: Pittsburgh Magazine)

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Artist Talk / Michael Kalmbach

Date/Time: Saturday, October 30th, 2010 (Time TBA)

Vanishing Point artist Michael Kalmbach’s grandfather spent 30 years working at the USS Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock. Mr. Kalmbach will discuss his offering to the exhibition, as well as the impact of his personal ties to Braddock on his current creative practice.

Michael Kalmbach, a Delaware based artist and arts advocate, received a MFA from the University of Delaware (Newark, DE) and a BA from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (Bloomsburg, PA). His work has been exhibited at the Meat Market Gallery (Washington, D.C.), the Zhou Art Center (Chicago, IL), Haven Arts (Bronx, NY), the Fe Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA), the FAB Galleries – at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA) as well as the Delaware College of Art and Design (Wilmington, DE). Mr. Kalmbach is the Founder and Director of the New Wilmington Art Association in Wilmington, Delaware. Mr. Kalmbach has previously been the recipient of a Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship in Painting (2009 & 2010) and was granted the Christi Award for Outstanding Achievement in Arts Advocacy (2009) from the Christina Cultural Arts Center (Wilmington, DE) and the 2010 Governor’s Award for the Arts (The State of Delaware).

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“When Looking At the Art of Your Contemporaries” / Alexander Conner

Date/Time: Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 (Time TBA/In Conjunction with Gist Street Reading Series)

Vanishing Point co-curator Alexander Conner will extort from his personal viewpoint one way of looking at contemporary art.

Philadelphia-based artist Alexander Conner received a B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ). Mr. Conner is an inter-disciplinary artist exploring people and their environments through drawing, photography, printmaking, technology, sound works, video and installation. Selected exhibitions of his work include, the Aferro Gallery (Newark, NJ), Apex Art (New York, NY), Reference (Richmond, VA), Wien (Vienna, Austria, EU). Mr. Conner’s projects are featured in Rhizome’s ArtBase Collection (Global) and the Newark Public Library’s Artist’s Books Department (Newark, NJ). His work was recently the subject of a New York Times story investigating contemporary artistic studio practices during extreme economic climates. (“The Recession Proof Artist” – May 2009). Mr. Conner is an avid cook, bread baker, an educator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA) and a contributor to the international arts journal LAND MAGAZINE.

Wanderlust
September 3rd – September 23rd, 2010

New Wilmington Art Association

Opening Reception: September 10th / 6-10pm (with live performances)
Closing Reception: September 23rd / 6-9pm
Hours: Free – by appointment

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“Then she told him a story. ‘Once upon a time, in the early part of the century, there lived a poet. He was so old he had to be taken on walks by his amanuensis. ‘Master’, his amanuensis said one day, ‘look what’s up in the sky! It’s the first airplane to ever fly over the city!’ ‘I have my own picture of it,’ said the poet to his amanuensis, without raising his eyes from the ground. Well, I have my own picture of Palermo. It has the same hotels and cars of all cities. And my studio always has new and different pictures.”

Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) [1984]

This exhibition explores concepts of home, place and destination through the diverse works of 11 American photographers from Philadelphia, Wilmington, New York, Boston and Johnstown.

Live musical performances by Technological Epidemic, The One and Only Matt Miller and members of MyIdeaOfFun (Johnstown, Pa) will follow the opening reception Friday, September 10th.

Participating Artists

Jaime Alvarez / Ron Brignac / Lauren Caulk / Jacob Koestler / Kerry Kolenut / Catherine Maloney / Andrew Maydoney / Chelsea Memmolo / Christopher Motta / Jeffrey Stockbridge / Eddie Whelan

Curated by Brookes Britcher

Venue

New Wilmington Art Association

Chris White Gallery
Shipley Lofts
701 Shipley Street, Wilmington, De

Get to the NWAA from Philadelphia via SEPTA (R2 Line)

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Way Finding (Wilmington) / Andrew Maydoney

The Delaware Historical Society & Museum
Willingtown Square
504 Market Street, Wilmington, De

www.hsd.org

As part of the upcoming NWAA exhibition Wanderlust Boston-based artist Andrew Maydoney will be installing a full-scale authentic Mongolian built yurt in downtown Wilmington, Delaware. The project, entitled Way Finding (Wilmington), involves the artist inhabiting a region temporarily, experiencing and photographing the community. The images created are then translated into a massive original cyclorama housed within the yurt for public display and reflection. The process is then repeated in other towns and cities as the artist and space become a transient forum for the discovery of a new place, a new “home” and a new meaning created by its location.

“What does it mean to experience a moment in between? Contemporary photographic practice brings much of the exotic, glamorous, mundane and profane across our field of vision every day––television, newspapers, magazines, the internet and of course, our own personal collection of photographs of family, loved ones, grand public spaces and intimate places. With photography as my primary interest, I work in three major forms: print, collage and installation. My work examines the seams and the gaps that exist in between. The departure point is somewhere between the traditions of street photography and anthropology but the meandering and ultimate destination lie elsewhere–most often found between something extraordinary and something ordinary. There is something important between you and me. And I think it can be found in what I believe to be true but I can not prove: in our contemporary condition, there exists an evolving street theology.” / Andrew Maydoney

Andrew Maydoney is a Boston-based artist, collector and arts advocate. He received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and his BFA from the University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth. Previously, he acted as the Vice President of Sametz Blackstone Associates (Boston, MA).

Mr. Maydoney has been a guest lecturer and critic at the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA), the Association of Independent Research Institutions (AIRI), Carleton University (Ottawa, CA), the Corporate Design Foundation, Craft Organizational Development Association (CODA), Interchange Conference on Higher Education, Johnson School of Management (Cornell University), Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University), New England Institute of Art (NEIA), University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth, and the Worcester Center for Craft. He currently serves on the Root Cause Institue Advisory Board and the Fuller Craft Museum Board of Directors.

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The Daily Camera (Wilmington) / Jacob Koestler

Chris White Gallery – Shipley Lofts / 701 Shipley Street, Wilmington, DE

“The Daily Camera (2007-10) is a sort-of journal with 24 frames each and every day for three years. The grid insinuates a structure and a sense of passing time. Sometimes monotonous, one day is an exertion of some undeveloped idea, while another is misspent and brimming with debaucheries. Any sense of clarity lies somewhere in between and usually after the fact.”

In conjunction with exhibiting selections from The Daily Camera (2007-10) in Wanderlust, Jacob Koeslter has invited area residents to create their own “daily camera”; photographing their lives within the City of Wilmington – everyday, 24 times a day, for two weeks. 3,360 new images will be generated by the local community; documenting and discovering the beautiful, the mundane and the real in their lives. Mr. Koeslter will make selections from this work resulting in an future exhibition.

Jacob Koestler is a Johnstown, Pa-based artist, photographer and musician. His projects have been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Photography – Columbia College (Chicago, Il), the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (Pittsburgh, Pa), the Center for Emerging Visual Artists (Philadelphia, Pa), the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (Philadelphia, Pa) and the New Wilmington Art Association (Wilmington, De). Mr. Koestler currently acts as a Director of MyIdeaOfFun, a creative and performing arts collective located in Johnstown, Pa.

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Chestnut-Hill Arts Initiative (CAi)
Summer Phase (June – August, 2010)

Closing Reception: 6-9pm / Friday, August 20th 2010 / Magarity Ford (8200 Germantown Avenue)
Hours: Free to the public everyday

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The Chestnut Hill Arts Initiative (CAi) brings provocative and contemporary art to historical Germantown Avenue, the commercial and social corridor of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.

An extension of the widely popular Project Sketchbook, which showcased the diverse creations of talented students studying the arts at local schools and institutions, CAi builds upon the progress of this dynamic community project by encouraging professional artists to creatively engage and contribute to the visual landscape of Chestnut Hill through the reactivation of storefront spaces.

Participating Artists (June – August 2010)

Jaime Alvarez / Brookes Britcher / Alexander Conner / Tom Judd / Michael Kalmbach / Caroline Lathan-Stiefel / Daniel Mahlman / Christopher Motta / Phillip Scarpone / Aaron Wiener

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SITE-SPECIFIC PROGRAMMING

The World Is Flat / Tom Judd

8200 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia-based artist Tom Judd transforms the “old” Magarity Ford building in Chestnut Hill into a temporary studio – resulting in the creation of The World Is Flat, a large-scale site-specific installation.

Through the reappropriation and transformation of locally found cardboard boxes (discarded “vessels” designed for the transport of goods), The World Is Flat evokes a contemplation on the materials, barriers, and windows that signify a greater sense of communication, expansion and colonialism. Housed within a “retired” American automobile dealership, The World Is Flat reminds us that the boundaries of communities and economies are continually being redefined and reborn as new histories are written.

Tom Judd studied Painting at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT) and the Philadelphia College of Art (Philadelphia, PA). Over the last thirty-five years Mr. Judd has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world. His work is held in various private and public collections including The Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL), The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA). Mr. Judd has previously been the recipient of a Macdowell Colony Fellowship (2001) and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2000).

www.tomjuddart.com

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Blue In Green / Caroline Lathan-Stiefel

7930 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

“Since 2000, I have been making large scale installations made mainly of textile materials. I see these installations as drawings in space with a prevailing sense of line and color. Integral to the work is the idea of sprawl, as in makeshift, proliferating growth. The use of commonplace craft materials (such as pipe cleaners and yarn) and discarded household materials (such as dry cleaning bags and fruit nets) also help to give the work a provisional quality. Through a labor-intensive process, patches of fabric and plastic are sewn or pinned to structures made of pipe cleaners and wire.”

Caroline Lathan-Stiefel received her MFA from the Maine College of Art (Portland, ME) and her BA from Brown University (Providence, RI). Ms. Lathan-Stiefel has created and exhibited her installations as part of solo and group exhibitions around the world. Her work is held in various private and public collections including the Hunterdon Museum (Clinton, NJ), New Jersey State Council on the Arts (Trenton, NJ), New Jersey State Museum (Trenton, NJ), Newark Library (Newark, NJ), and the Noyes Museum (Oceanville, NJ). Ms. Lathan-Stiefel has previously been the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2008), a Creative Capital Foundation Grant in Visual Arts (2005), a Sculpture Fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts (2003) and received the Hilla Rebay Teaching Artist Award from the Guggenheim Museum Children’s Program (2001).

www.carolinelathanstiefel.net

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The Apple and The Tree / Brookes Britcher

8127 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia-based artist Brookes Britcher presents a mixed-media installation constructed from accumulated industrial and consumer-available materials – collected predominately from Chestnut Hill area stores and restaurants. The Apple and The Tree presents an ongoing moment and a space for reconciliation – a conversation.

This site-specific re-installation of The Apple and The Tree activates two conjoined spaces in dialogue, investigating the creation of a “new conversation” through a reconfiguration of objects informed and enriched by the space itself.

Brookes Britcher received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI) and his BS from Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA). Over the last eleven years his work has been exhibited around the country in numerous curated and group shows, and exists in various private collections, most notably J.W. Mahoney of Art In America and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. and Tim Rollins of Tim Rollins & K.O.S. in New York City, NY.

www.brookesbritcher.wordpress.com

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High Definition / Michael Kalmbach

7914 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

“I utilize repetition, variation, and improvisation as working devices that generate product and ideas. The same dumb hand that Duchamp admired in Seurat has become the generative force behind my work. My application of the acrylic dot has evolved from a Yayoi Kusama-like net to its current stacked form. These dot strands take on the appearance of a woven tail, wave, aura, or explosion as they decorate poured forms. In other instances, the dot strands are responsible for the poured form as they direct the fluid acrylic that passes through them. All of these effects take place on a transparent film called Dura-Lar clear. Once painted, this film is wrapped over a fabric background creating a highly reflective surface that is similar to the resin coated works of Fred Tomaselli. Like Tomaselli and Kusama, I want the works to function as a transportive vehicle. The act of painting, and the experience of confronting the end product, transports me to a state where I can reflect on the series of contingencies that have brought me to this point in history.

I have only been able to access the sublime through chemicals. Of these experiences, the most productive were in the company of like minded people, where a love of irony navigated our humors through a shared experience that was often dangerous. My practice owes its curiosity to this time in my life. This irony now bridges my private practice with a larger community that can gather around the works and draw meaning from my choice of materials. Due to its immediacy, acrylic paint becomes the ultimate medium for experimentation —a certain effect survives in the studio when it begins to do something. By applying paint on the inside of the wrapped plastic, a super flat saturated surface is created. On this surface I find parallels to the flat screen and vehicular clear coat finishes, but of course, all this breaks down when my atmospheric conditions, super novas, and Presidential auras give way to a ripple in the Dura-Lar clear, and the abyss reveals itself as elementary craft felt. “

Michael Kalmbach, a Delaware based artist and arts advocate, received a MFA from the University of Delaware (Newark, DE) and a BA from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (Bloomsburg, PA). His work has been exhibited at the Meat Market Gallery (Washington, D.C.), the Zhou Art Center (Chicago, IL), Haven Arts (Bronx, NY), the Fe Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA), the FAB Galleries – at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA) as well as the Delaware College of Art and Design (Wilmington, DE). Mr. Kalmbach is the Founder and Director of the New Wilmington Art Association in Wilmington, Delaware. Mr. Kalmbach has previously been the recipient of a Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship in Painting (2009 & 2010) and was granted the Christi Award for Outstanding Achievement in Arts Advocacy (2009) from the Christina Cultural Arts Center (Wilmington, DE).

www.michaelkalmbach.com

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Untitled (Photographs) / Christopher Motta

Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

“I find it necessary to look at adolescent years through the medium of photography, an engagement of, seemingly, fact, memory and illusion. Fascinated with places where I once played with thoughts, without future or past, rather in the moment to see them somehow as pieces of myself. I am drawn to old photographs, albums of pictures that reveal details of youthfulness. The choice of subject matter is not about nostalgia, rather invites movement between the extremes of intimacy and distance, a measure of my interior life and how it shares in the larger context of living.

With disquieting directness, the perspective from which the photographs are taken is neither arbitrary nor indiscriminate. I place attention on the details that surround the subject, including clutter, measured with a frontal affectation. It is this transience between the tension of holding, distance, and emotional need that reveals the fractured and displaced nature of the images.

The remains and dissolve of personal and cultural memories and other interventions in the landscape have a profound visual impact. I aspire to merge personal relationships with a wider historical context. The resulting photographs form a visual time-line representing relationships of my interior life connected with the sociological intentions fundamental to the work.”

Christopher Motta, a Boston-area artist and educator, received his MFA in Photography from the Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI) and his BA in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA). He has been a Visiting Critic at the University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth (Dartmouth, MA), Roger Williams University (Bristol, RI) and the Lawrence Technical University (Troy, MI). His work is held in numerous private collections, including renowned American architect William Massie . Mr. Motta is currently a professor at Bristol College (Fall River, MA).

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The Danger in Nature / Alexander Conner

7924 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

“I don’t feel the need to work in a single medium. The ones I primarily use are chosen because I find their possibilities (and limitations) intriguing, and they are financially accessible.  I find myself really excited by the fact that all mediums are imbued with different societal associations through their use by people in contemporary culture and throughout the history of Western art.

A lot of my work deals with human beings and their interaction with immediate environments.  I found, while obtaining a B.A. in Sociology, that ethnographies, field recordings, and academic writings were not enough to encapsulate the way that I wanted to convey my investigation of human interaction and behavior.  Visual imagery allows for a much less precise but, in my belief, more thorough and evocative explanation of the latter.

I really like using quotidian references throughout my work because I believe it’s the simple and sometimes tacit everyday experience that is more telling about the human experience than cataclysmic events. If not more telling, then, at least due to their frequency, they offer more opportunities for exploration. “

Philadelphia-based artist Alexander Conner received a B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (Camden, NJ). Mr. Conner is an inter-disciplinary artist exploring people and their environments through drawing, photography, printmaking, technology, sound works, video and installation. Selected exhibitions of his work include, the Aferro Gallery (Newark, NJ), Apex Art (New York, NY), Reference (Richmond, VA), Wien (Vienna, Austria, EU). Mr. Conner’s projects are featured in Rhizome’s ArtBase Collection (Global) and the Newark Public Library’s Artist’s Books Department (Newark, NJ). His work was recently the subject of a New York Times story investigating contemporary artistic studio practices during extreme economic climates. (“The Recession Proof Artist” – May 2009). Mr. Conner is an avid cook, bread baker and an educator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA).

www.alexanderconner.com

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Fun and Games (Selected Works) / Daniel Mahlman

Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

Fun and Games presents selections from the mixed-media work of Mount Airy artist Daniel Mahlman.

“It has been said that all we can know in the world is all we can say.  I know nothing, and what I think I know, I am not saying.  “

Daniel Mahlman received his BA in Applied Fine Arts at Saint Joseph’s University (Philadelphia, PA). He continued his art practice in historic San Miguel, Mexico where he studied drawing and sculpture at the Instituto Allende.  He has shown his work regionally while also extensively pursuing commercial interests in illustration and portraiture. In the coming Fall, Mr. Mahlman will be attending the Nelson Shanks atelier Studio Incamminati (Philadelphia, PA).

www.danmahlman.com

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GW / Jaime Alvarez

7924 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

Jaime Alvarez received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI) and his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI). Mr. Alvarez has recently exhibited his projects at the Freeman Auction House (Philadelphia, PA), the Leroy Nieman Gallery (NYC, NY), 450 Broadway Gallery (NYC, NY) Project Green Space (Brooklyn, NY), YoDarkroom (Philadelphia, PA) and the Latin-American Cultural Space (Washington, D.C.). He has been a Visiting Critic and Educator at the Moore College of Art (Philadelphia, PA), Cleveland Institute of Art (Cleveland, OH), the International Center of Photography (NYC, NY), and ArtWorks For Youths (NYC, NY). He recently recieved a Photography Institute Fellowship (2004).

www.jaimephoto.com

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The Last Breath / Phillip Scarpone

7918 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

“My working process follows a formula of simplifying and breaking down two systems into a working relationship. The interaction of geometry and nature is one equation I’ve used in finding some kind of physical balance. I intend for this work to be refreshing and represent control. The nature of humans is to obtain a mental equilibrium. My work is a tangible search for this same stability”

Phillip Scarpone received his BFA from the University of Delaware. His sculptural installations have been showcased in numerous exhibitions on the East Coast and Taiwan.

www.phillipscarpone.com

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Selected Works / Aaron Wiener + Visionary Fusion Glass Works

7918 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia-based glass artist and educator Aaron Wiener presents a dynamic installation of original pieces in conjunction with Visionary Fusion Glass Works (Philadelphia, PA).

“Visionary Fusion Glass Works was founded in 1992 by partners Mitchel Finkelstein and Ken Mott.  Originally named Visionary Fusion Studios, today the shop has two distinct lines of activity.  The Art Glass division is detailed on this web site and includes the production of Pattern Cut Glass and Fused Glass pieces for both commercial and private use.  The Industrial Coatings division specializes in applying metallic coatings to quartz glass tubing for a variety of industrial applications.

Mitch and Ken have almost 50 years of experience working with glass between them.  From glass panels used in commercial businesses to customer designed mobiles that hang in private homes, Visionary Fusion Glass Works has experience working to provide innovative solutions that meet their client’s needs.

In addition to his extensive art glass experience, Mitchel Finkelstein has worked in the commercial glass industry for over 25 years.  He is experienced working closely with architects for custom installations on glass plate and glass block applications. Ken Mott has over 20 years experience in art glass, primarily concentrated in blown and fused glass work.

Hand drawn patterns are computerized and then used by our water jet to cut precise patterns in specially chosen glass in a variety of colors.  The resulting piece can be used flat and hung on a wall or used as a decorative partition.  The most popular use for our finished pattern cut glass is as a decorative centerpiece where the pattern cut glass is slumped in our custom kilns to create the desired shape.
We take our pattern cut glass and slump it in our custom kilns to achieve the desired shape. Some centerpieces can be created from a single piece of pattern cut glass, while others are made from multiple pieces that have first been fused together prior to the slumping process.”

visionaryfusionglassworks.com

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CAi PROJECT PARTNERS

Bowman Properties (Philadelphia, PA)

Chestnut Hill Community Association (Philadelphia, PA)

Chestnut Hill Business Association (Philadelphia, PA)

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PRESS

August 31st 2010: CAi’s “Summer Phase” in Chestnut Hill windows on TheArtBlog

August 11th 2010: CH Arts Initiative to mark end of summer exhibition in the Chestnut Hill Local (online + print)

July 29th 2010: CAi Brings Professional Artists Work to Empty Storefronts on HillOnTheAvenue.com

July 29th 2010: Chestnut Hill Arts Initiative Brings New Art to the Avenue on HillOnTheAvenue.com

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THE RULES FOR STAYING YOUNG
May 7th – May 30th, 2010

Opening Reception: May 7th  6-10pm (with live performances)
Closing Reception: May 27th  6-10pm
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 12 to 2pm (or by appointment)

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The gravestone of the notoriously confident and talented Satchel Paige warns, “…don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.” A simple offering of guidance – for artist and base-runner alike.

The Rules for Staying Young explores the impact of baseball as an inspiration and conceptual model for historical and contemporary American artists, while investigating the ties between the game and the visual arts. From Thomas Eakins to Stephen Shore, baseball has captured the imagination and eye of American artists since its conception. The parallels between the timeless nature of our pastime and the evolving artistic studio are abundant, and remain profoundly relevant to contemporary practice. This exhibition highlights the rich territory between game and artist, where the perpetual moments of art and baseball meet.

Curated by Brookes Britcher / Developed in partnership with the NWAA

Participating Artists

Geoffrey Aldridge (courtesy of Conner/*gogo art projects) / Brookes Britcher / Thomas Buildmore /  Peter Capano / Mike Ellyson / Brian Patrick Franklin / Alex Gartelmann / Brandon Herman (courtesy of Envoy Enterprise) / Tom Judd / Michael Kalmbach / Jacob Koestler / Hiro Kurata  / David Levinthal (courtesy of David Levinthal) / Ahlen Moin / Christopher Motta / Roger Patrick / Bryan Patrick Rice / Daniel Potterton / Mark Stockton / Brian Stuparyk / Morgan Thomas / Lee Walton

Venue

New Wilmington Art Association

4 West 5th Street
Wilmington, DE 19801

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Get to the NWAA from Philadelphia via SEPTA (R2 Line)

(4 W. 5th Street is roughly a 10 min walk from Wilmington Station)

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RELATED PROGRAMMING

GREAT MARTIAN PASTIME / AHLEN MOIN

May 7th, 2010 / 7pm

NWAA / 4 W. 5th Street, Wilmington, DE

Part invention, part spectacle and part investigation, GREAT MARTIAN PASTIME is a dynamic performance piece that offers a unique vision of the future of baseball: during the colonization of space.

“I grew up at Sixth Street and Erie Avenue in Philadelphia- the heart of El Barrio. Three blocks from my house stood Roberto Clemente Middle School. In the early eighties, Clemente’s shadow loomed large over my neighborhood. In the late nineteen-eighties, Puerto Ricans became more “Americanized”. Borinquen children wanted to “Be Like Mike” as much as anyone else. Basketball ousted baseball as the sport of choice. This “conversion” caused me to reflect upon how people see themselves culturally through sport- since Puerto Ricans long knew of basketball but did not embrace it, until the days of “His Airness” (the most marketed sports figure in history).

I wanted to create a performance piece that corresponded with my existing body of work- focused on Mars’ ultimate colonization. I asked myself “If Mars is colonized, will the American settlers carry the sport with them? What changes will they make to accommodate a new homeworld?” I forsee baseball streamlining. As time becomes harder to come by, baseball succumbs to the clock. To avoid damage to ship hulls, a softer ball is used and batting is lost altogether. As settlers pack into crampt living quarters, it deals with spatial constrictions.

The performance itself will consist of seven pitchers and myself, playing an offshoot of baseball I created called “pitch.” We will be dressed in baseball uniforms and bounce a pressure-less tennis ball off of a prop I constructed called “the plate.” The entire performance will be unscripted sport.”

-Ahlen Moin (Artist)

GREAT MARTIAN PASTIME reminds us that baseball (as a sport and institution) has been at times both a liberator and oppressor to its practitioners. GREAT MARTIAN PASTIME acknowledges the games’ unifying impact on the racial and cultural fabric of our country – even as we potentially leave its lands behind.

Ahlen Moin, a Delaware based artist, studied at the University of the Arts (Philadelphia, Pa) and the Tyler School of Art – Temple University (Philadelphia, Pa). Mr. Moin was recently the recipient of a Delaware Division of the Arts Grant (2009).

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SF GIANTS vs. NY METS, MAY 7TH 2010 / LEE WALTON

May 7th, 2010 / 7-10pm

NWAA / 4 W. 5th Street, Wilmington, DE

Artist Lee Walton will be orchestrating a large-scale “live” wall-installation in our exhibition space at 4 W. 5th Street in Wilmington, De. The collaborative construction will be conducted to document a live baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the New York Mets coinciding with the opening reception of The Rules For Staying Young. Detailed instructions and materials for public participants will be provided at the opening.

“Often regarded as an Experientialist, Walton’s work takes many forms- from drawings on paper, game/system based structures, video, web-based performances, public projects, theatrical orchestrations and more.

After a two-year affiliation with the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, Walton has received many accolades from Museum funded projects (Reykjavik Art Museum of Iceland, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, SECCA, ICA Boston), public commissions (Art in General, Socrates Sculpture Park, Rhizome at the New Museum of NY, national and international exhibition venues (Island #6, Shanghia, China, Clubs Project Inc., Australia, Ljubljana Museum of Art) and collections (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Martin Z. Margulies Wharehouse).

Walton has also lectured extensively on his practice and related subjects. Recent lectures, panel discussions and visits include MIT, Art in General, The New School, Art Institute of Boston, Columbia, Portland State Univerisity and the University of Ulster, Belfast Ireland.

Walton holds a MFA in visual arts from the California College of the Arts. His drawings are represented by Kraushaar Gallery in NY and his conceptual work is represented by “cwp” (Christopher West Presents). Walton is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.” (text from www.leewalton.com)

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PINCH HIT / MICHAEL KALMBACH

May 7th, 2010 / 6-8pm

NWAA / 4 W. 5th Street, Wilmington, DE

PINCH HIT is a participation-based performance event (conducted by Michael Kalmbach) involving a batting cage, a ball and bat, music and you. American youths have dreamt of the moment that they reach the plate to bat – fans awaiting in anticipation – a song denoting your “arrival” (insert practice swings here) – to possibly shift the tide of the game – to be the hero (or the goat).

Hitting a baseball has been acknowledged as one of the most difficult athletic feats to consistently accomplish – a stellar professional success rate is widely viewed as hitting in three out of ten chances to do so. The Major League Baseball record for highest career batting average is .367 (held by Ty Cobb). Out of 11,429 attempts Cobb hit safely only 4,191 times – a miraculous figure. How miraculous is this figure?   “Streaky Hitting In Baseball”, Jim Albert  (Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports – Volume 4, Issue 1 – Article 3 – 2008 – University of California – Berkley Press). Yet lasting fame still lies in one swing (Bobby Thomson. Joe Carter. Carlton Fisk. Bill Mazeroski.) – or miss. Steve Balboni (over 11 major League seasons with various teams) compiled completely diametric statistics – 181 HR & 856 SO (1 HR/ 17.2 AB – 1 SO / 3.6 AB) – often the “hero” and the “goat” (depending on which way the wind blew).

PINCH HIT offers an opportunity for anyone to be the hero – the “star” – even for just a moment – to make “solid” contact. All that you have to do is pick up the bat and stand in.

All equipment used in this piece will be donated to the local Wilmington youth baseball community.

Michael Kalmbach, a Delaware based artist and arts advocate, received a MFA from the University of Delaware (Newark, De) and a BA from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (Bloomsburg, Pa). His work has been exhibited at the Meat Market Gallery (Washington, D.C.), the Zhou Art Center (Chicago, Il), Haven Arts (Bronx, Ny), the Fe Gallery (Pittsburgh, Pa), the FAB Galleries – at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Va) as well as the Delaware College of Art and Design (Wilmington, De). Mr. Kalmbach is the Founder and Director of the New Wilmington Art Association in Wilmington, De, as well as a devout New York Yankees fan.

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REQUIEM / PETER CAPANO

May 7th – May 30th, 2010

NWAA / 4 W. 5th Street, Wilmington, DE

With a 6½-game lead on the Cincinnati Reds with 12 games remaining in the 1964 season, Philadelphia collapsed in a 10-game losing streak (the first seven played at home). The “Phold,” as it is known, is one of the most notable collapses in sports history.

The unfathomable collapse left the city stunned and heartbroken. At the center of it was the rising Philadelphia Phillies star right-fielder Johnny Callison. He compiled a fantastic season in support of a Phillies push towards the 1964 pennant (.274 AVG / 101 R / 31 HR / 104 RBI / .988 FLD% – playing in all 162 games). A 1964 NL All-Star in the outfield, he became the All-Star MVP after hitting a walk-off 3-R HR to win the Midseason Classic for the National League [hear the call]. During the infamous “Phold” Callison posted a batting average of .250, including a late season game against the Milwaukee Braves (September 27, 1964) in which he hit 3 HRs (the Phillies still lost the game 14-8).

REQUIEM by Peter Capano is an installation piece generated in conjunction with “The Rules For Staying Young”. Drawing from various memorabilia collections (including a close personal friend of Johnny Callison himself), Capano creates an imaginative nostalgic “space”, in an attempt to investigate the documented complexities of one of Philadelphia’s most beloved and enigmatic players. REQUIEM offers a reflective glimpse of Callison’s legacy in the lore of the region, the history of the game and the imaginations of his fans and detractors.

Peter Capano is a Philadelphia based artist. He has collected and dealt baseball memorabilia since 1979. He currently works extensively with Hakes Americana & Collectibles (PA) and E & R Collectibles (NY). Mr. Capano is the author of “Baseball Collectibles” (Schiffer Publishing Ltd.).

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BASEBALL / THOMAS BUILDMORE + MORGAN THOMAS

May 2010 / Unveiling Reception To Be Announced

Wilmington, DE

Mural artists Thomas Buildmore + Morgan Thomas have developed an original large-scale permanent mural to be executed in downtown Wilmington, De in conjunction with The Rules For Staying Young. Buildmore + Thomas’s project aims to offer the local community a resonant visual “beacon” for inspiring continued efforts to revitalize the education and play of baseball in urban environments.

Thomas Buildmore, a Philadelphia based artist, is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA). His work has been exhibited and created at Fourth Wall Project (Boston, MA), Pandemic Gallery, (Brooklyn, NY), D.D.R. Project (Los Angeles, CA), 112 Green Street (NYC, NY), T&P Fine Art (Philadelphia, PA) and Paint It Now 2010 (Boston, MA). He is the Co-Founder of Overkill Studios, and previously Curator at The Wall@Central (Cambridge, MA).

Morgan Thomas, a Philadelphia based artist, is a graduate of Williams College (Williamstown, MA) with a degree in Art, Anthropology and Sociology. She is the Co-Founder of Overkill Studios.

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THE RULES FOR STAYING YOUNG / CATALOG

Adaptation and the New Wilmington Art Association are pleased to announce a forthcoming catalog of The Rules For Staying Young. The catalog features original essay contributions from Brian Young (Head Curator at the Academy Art Museum) and Katrina Kuntz (Independent Curator & Critic – NYC / Lecturer – Stony Brook University, Dowling College / Contributor – ArtUS).

Contact us to learn about preordering (adaptationart@gmail.com).

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PRESS

February 12th 2010: The Rules For Staying Young and the NWAA in Delaware Today

May 7th 2010: Wilmington happenings: New! and Baseball on theArtBlog

May 10th 2010: With lofts, artist envisions blend of energy, enthusiasm in The News Journal

May 22nd 2010: The Rules For Staying Young in Wilmington on theArtBlog

May 24th 2010: NWAA helping Wilmington’s emerging artists in The Community News

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Endless traveler acrylic oil and ink on canvas [2009] (Hiro Sakaguchi)

Alexander Conner (Adaptation Senior Curator) recently interviewed artist Hiro Sakaguchi for the international online arts journal COME INTO LAND.

Read the interview here: Hiro Sakaguchi + Alexander Conner

Bear fishing acrylic on canvas [2008] (Hiro Sakaguchi)