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Make Your Holidays Karpinski Days

Here are three ways you can transform your holidays into Karpinski Days:

1. Silicon Gallery: Small Works for the Holidays - December 5th - 30th with an Opening Reception on Friday, December 5th from 6:00 to 8:30 PM. Silicon Gallery is exhibiting and selling over 50 prints from various  Philadelphia artists. Each work is under $95, including this one.

2. The Center For Emerging Visual Artists: Perspectives at the Icebox Project Space. Current CFEVA Fellows (myself included) will be showing work at this fantastic space. The exhibit runs from December 3rd - 20th with an Opening Reception on Thursday, December 11th from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

3. ShopInliquid is featuring some of my prints on their super site. Search for the ideal holiday gift - they will have it.

DCCA INVASION 11/05/08 & 11/07/08

DCCA - Art Salad

Please join me on Wednesday, 11/05/08, from 12 to 1 PM as I discuss one of the few subjects I know - me.  Hiro Sakaguchi and I will share the hour to discuss current works being shown at the DCCA as well as artistic process, influences, and careers. All while eating large bowls of salad. A sight to behold. More information about the Art Salad program can be found here.

DCCA  - Fantastical Imaginings Opening Reception

If you could not get enough salad or art on Wednesday, please join me on Friday, 11/07/08, from 5:30 to 8 PM for the Opening Reception of Fantastical Imaginings, curated by J. Susan Isaacs Ph.D. More information about the show and participating artists can be located here.

The Delaware Center For The Contemporary Arts is located on 200 South Madison Street, Wilmington, DE. For more information about the DCCA and their programs, please visit their website.

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PHILADELPHIA OPEN STUDIO TOURS

Discovery! Join us on 10/04/08 & 10/05/08 and witness the creative process! Excitement! Eat snacks! Adventure! Drink beverages! Suspense! Ask questions that could be met by awkward silence! Romance! Fall in love with a print, painting, book, or drawing - get lucky and take one of them home with you! All this and more can be experienced at 608 S. 51st Street from 12 to 6 (both days).

More information about POST can be found here. Or here. Here. Yes, here. Or even here.

 

SNEAK PEEK: A PREVIEW OF CFEVA'S ARTISTS AND PROGRAMS

Ignore the burn. Run over to 1234 Market Street, get on the elevator, push the button for the 18th floor... and be met by security. To avoid the preceding scenario, contact Elizabeth Hubbard of the Philadelphia Foundation ([email protected]) to arrange an appointment to see works by James B. Abbott, Rita Bernstein, Arden Bendler Browning, Donald Camp, Andrea Cote, Kay Healy, John Karpinski (that's me), Sean O'Neil, Michelle Ortiz, Amie Potsic and Wendy Wolf.

The exhibit will be available to the public until 03/13/09. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM by appointment only.

More information about the program can be found here (under "Past Events", scroll down).

UNDERGROUND

Genevieve Coutroubis will be showing photographs in an exhibition curated by Lee Stoetzel (curator of the West Collection) at the Center For Emerging Visual Artists (237 South 18th Street, 3rd Floor). The show runs from October 2 through October 23rd with a closing reception on the 23rd from 5:30 to 7:30 PM.

Hit the link for more information about the exhibit.

Far Away From The Beginning: A Departure From Childhood Idealism, August 6th, 5:30 - 8:00 PM

"This exhibition examines the departure from the idealism of childhood. Once we assent from the comfort of our adolescence, we are exposed to the reality of the world. Our vision of childhood innocence becomes skewed; the serious issues and responsibilities that consume our lives blur the memories."                                                                                                   - Curator, Tara Caton

I will be participating in the show with fellow CFEVA artists Anne Canfield, Scott Pellnat, Cecilia Rembert, Joelle Jenson, Darla Jackson, Jed Morfit, Natalia Slinko, Caleb Nussear, Peter Prusinowski, Serena Perrone, and Matthew Neff

The exhibit opens on August 4th and ends on September 5th with an Opening Reception and Artist Talk on August 6th from 5:30 to 8:00 PM. To experience Far Away From The Beginning go to:

 Leonard Pearlstein Gallery

Drexel University, Nesbitt Hall
33rd & Market Streets

Go Home

No - please don't! Instead, come see Genevieve Coutroubis' installation at Surcle Gallery's "Go Home" exhibit. Genevieve (my wife) will be displaying work from her "Greece" series through a new installation that documents Greek life through some of the same methods utilized by generations of Greek families, creating an ongoing history on the gallery's walls.

Surcle Gallery is located on 110 Church Street (Old City). The exhibit will open on May 11 through June 6 with a First Friday closing reception on June 6, 5 to 8 PM

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

Philadelphia Selections: Career Development Program Fellows from the Center for Emerging Visual Artists
"Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts will participate in their first exhibition exchange, during the 2008 Biennial, with the Center for Emerging Visual Artists based in Philadelphia. This exchange is the beginning of an ongoing collaboration."

I will be exhibiting work with the current CFEVA fellows at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

The exhibit will run from May 3 through August 24, 2008. For more information, visit PCA.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Emerging to Established: Twenty-five Years of The Center for Emerging Visual Artists- Works on paper by CFEVA Artists and Advisors
Please come and visit Harry and Zeke as I participate in this amazing exhibit from April 5 to July 6, 2008.
As of now, an official opening reception or closing party is not scheduled for the exhibit. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments. 
You can find the exhibit here: The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Director's Gallery, Ground Floor, 26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA. The PMA is open Tuesday through Sunday, from 10:00 AM until 5:00 PM with extended hours (8:45 PM) on Friday.
For more information on the exhibit and the participating artists, follow this link.

 

Relics, Myths, and Yarn at the SCEE, 03/08/08

I am participating in an exhibit with my fellow CFEVA Fellows, Darla Jackson, Matthew Neff, Serena Perrone, and Tara O'Brien at The Schuylkill Center for Environmental  Education. The exhibit  was curated by Mary Salvante and it runs from February 11 to April 18.

An Opening Reception with an Artist Talk - Nature and  the Creative Process - is scheduled for Saturday, March 8, from 5:30 - 7:30 PM. So please, come out and enjoy some great work, a wonderful environment, and many, many laughs as you sit back and watch me attempt to explain why and how I do what I do.

Natural Selection at Maryland Art Place, 02/29/08

Forbes has declared Philadelphia to be the  nation's fifth most miserable city. Time to move? Get away? Where to go? Baltimore!  Charm City is only 100 miles away and it didn't crack the top 9 on Forbes' Most Miserable list. And they have crabs.

While in Baltimore, stop by Maryland Art Place and check out the new CFEVA show, Natural Selection. The exhibit opens on 02/19/08 and runs through 03/29/08. The opening reception with artist talk takes place on Friday, February 29 at 6:00 PM.

Directions to Maryland Art Place can be found here.

SILICON GALLERY: SMALL WORKS SHOW - 12/07/07, 139 N. 3rd STREET

Do you always feel like your holiday shopping is incomplete? Do you always feel like your walls need an upgrade from what currently adorns them? Are you simply a compulsive individual who relishes the monthly or weekly credit card binge? Are you your own Santa? Do you stage cookies for your own consumption?                                 

If you answered yes to any of the above questions then you would probably benefit from months, perhaps years, of expensive and intrusive psychotherapy.

Or you could join me at Silicon Gallery, where a wide array of artists will be showing and selling prints priced perfectly for the holiday season ($50 - $200)... Want to impress the sophisticated new beau? Purchase him a print. Mom needs something to update the foyer? You can find it at Silicon. The gift you desired was long forgotten? Don't fret! Silicon has it!

Please keep in mind that the Small Works Show is a First Friday event, perfect for a brisk, holiday stroll with mom, sophisticated new beau, or yourself through Old City and its galleries.