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PHILADELPHIA OPEN STUDIO TOURS 2007

It's that time of year again. Time to open homes and studios to art aficionados, family, friends, and complete strangers. Enjoy wine, cheese, art, and the actual environments where creation itself transpires.  Where ideas illuminate rooms and materialize... sometimes. I invite you to partake in the following POST events:

POST Preview Freeman's Auction House

Thursday 10/11/07, 5:30 - 7:30 PM

1808 Chestnut Street, Upstairs Gallery

Come view the works of over 100 POST artists! 100 artists! In one room! That's a lot of sensitive ego. Consider the possibilities!

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Saturday, 10/27/07 & Sunday 10/28/07, 12:00 - 6:00 PM

608 South 51st Street

Come join us (Genevieve Coutroubis, Andrew Pirie, Elysa Voshell, and me, John Karpinski) as we show our work, eat cheese, and discuss process - simultaneously - with absolutely everyone who walks through the front door. Or with each other if no one happens to walk through the front door.

Posted on Wednesday, October 10 at 11:36 PM

23 DEGREES: CFEVA AT THE ICEBOX PROJECT SPACE - 07/11/07 TO 07/28/07

Summer temperatures burning you up? Chill to 23 Degrees at 1400 N. American Street (Crane Arts Building) where I and twenty-two other CFEVA fellows will be showing our work in a super-cool group exhibition. Gallery hours are noon to 6 PM, Wednesday through Sunday. Stay cool.

The Icebox Project Space at 1400 N. American Street, Philadelphia (Crane Arts Building).

MORGAN LEWIS & BOCKIUS - FRIDAY 06/15/07, 5:30 TO 7:30 PM

Do you enjoy art? Do you enjoy law? Both? Simultaneously? If so, please join me at 1701 Market Street, Philadelphia, where you can enjoy art, law, and great food all within the lobby of Morgan Lewis & Bockius. The show will feature work from current fellows enrolled in the Center For Emerging Visual Artists' Career Development Program from Thursday, 06/14/07 until Thursday, 07/12/07.

Posted on Monday, June 11 at 10:20 PM

Thank You

Thanks to everyone for the support I received for my show at the University City Arts League, HARRY & ZEKE: NAUTICAL TALES AND HIGH FLYING ADVENTURES. I really enjoyed sharing my work with everyone and I was amazed by the turnout, the kind words, and the shared love for Swedish Fish. You can visit the proceeding links to relive those 15 minutes.

http://www.ucartsleague.org/exhibits/karpinski.shtml

http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/2007/05/existential-west-philly-scott-white-and.html

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2007/05/31/last-chance

I am especially grateful for the support I received from my wife, Genevieve, from my parents Frank and Mary Elizabeth Karpinski, from everyone at the Arts League, from my friend Elysa Voshell, from my friend Joe Friedman, and from everyone at The Center For Emerging Visual Artists. Thanks again and I hope to see you soon.

HARRY & ZEKE: NAUTICAL TALES AND HIGH FLYING ADVENTURES - 05/11/07

From 05/11/07 - 06/02/07, I will be showing work at the University City Arts League (4226 Spruce Street, Philadelphia). The opening reception is on Friday, 05/11/07, from 5:30 to 7:30.

HARRY & ZEKE: NAUTICAL TALES AND HIGH FLYING ADVENTURES features work from my collaboration with book artist Elysa Voshell (Harry & Zeke Go Fishing) as well as pieces from a developing Harry & Zeke comics series.

Go to http://www.ucartsleague.org/exhibits/karpinski.shtml for more information about the show and the UCAL.

Posted on Thursday, April 19 at 8:46 PM

EN MASSE: The Center For Emerging Visual Artists 03/29/07 - 04/26/07... Closing Reception - 04/20/07

Join me and seventeen other CFEVA Fellows for an exhibit on the  third floor of 237 South 18th Street. The Closing Reception will be from 5 to 8 PM on Friday, 04/20/07, and the event is a part of Center City Gallery Night (for more information on Gallery Night, go to www.PhillyFunGuide.com).

Posted on Wednesday, April 4 at 6:50 PM

MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: The Center For Emerging Visual Artists - Intro ‘07 02/13/07 - 02/26/07

Go back to school. Art school. The Moore College of Art and Design to be exact, where  you can see works from CFEVA’s new Artist Fellows. The exhibit will feature works from Julia Blaukopf (photography), Anne Canfield (painting), Darla Jackson (sculpture), Joelle Jensen (photography), Jedediah Morfit (sculpture), Caleb Nussear (painting), Tara O’Brien (book arts), Serena Perrone (printmaking, drawing, and painting), Matthew Neff (painting), and Cory Wagner (mixed media and sculpture). And me (comics). Something for everyone. The opening reception is scheduled for 02/15/07 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. It’s all happening at 20th Street and The Parkway.

WOODMERE ART MUSEUM: The 67th Annual Juried Exhibition 01/27/07 - 03/04/07

Not only does Hiro Sakaguchi compose beautiful paintings that allow you to momentarily forget your whereabouts but he also invites his friends to share in his creative process. 36 friends and counting. Generosity and creativity, traits that are seldom connected but both can be located at 9201 Germantown Avenue, where Hiro’s work will be featured in the Emerging Artists Series. The exhibit will feature Hiro’s paintings, his signature cellphone series, as well as the Picture Journal Project. The Picture Journal Project includes 36 contributing artists (myself included) who documented a day utilizing a “picture journal” page (an example can be  found here. The opening reception is Saturday, January 27 from 5 to 7 PM.

JUMP START: Launching an Artists’ Book Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia 12/15/06 - 02/03/07

Bookworms: (1) Go to the Free Library of Philadelphia (1901 Vine Street); (2) Check out Harry & Zeke Go Fishing and Biblio (Genevieve Coutroubis and Elysa Voshell) as well as works displayed by 20 other artists. The exhibit is located  outside the Art and Print and Picture Departments (second floor). All work displayed in the exhibit will be included in the library’s new, permanent, artists’ book collection.

In The Studio III, curated by Lia Gangitano 09/28/06 - 10/25/06

Work from Harry & Zeke Go Fishing will be on display, as well as work from other Philadelphia Open Studio Tours artists. The Center For Emerging Visual Artists - located at 237 South 18th Street, Suite 3A, Philadelphia, PA 19103 - is hosting/sponsoring the exhibit. All work will be on display from 09/28/06 until 10/25/06 with a closing event on 10/20/06. This is a POST event.