2019 Exhibitions Archive

3rd Annual Small Works Sales Exhibition

November 1st- December 30th

Our holiday art show and sale from some of the areas most talented artists.  A wide variety of affordable pieces under $450.00. Find a small gem for yourself or someone on the gift list!

Invited artists

• Nancy Bea Miller

• Russell Brodie

• Bettina Clowney

• Carol Cole

• Alex dos Diaz

• Jason Koons

• Jon Krause

• Megan Lawlor

• Cyndi Philkill

• Alex Ramos

• Matthew Reinert

• Monique Sarkessian

• Rita Siemienski Smith

• Christine Stoughton

• Sharon Strasburg

• William Volz

• Brady Willmot

• Barbara Zanelli

Labor of Love- works by Jeff Schaller

September 1st – 30th

For the month of September Black Moth will feature select works by local mixed media artist, Jeff Schaller. Drawing from decades of pop culture and advertising styles and techniques Schaller creates some playful, exciting and provocative collages. "I paint in the unique medium of encaustic, creating textural art pieces which incorporate representational form with the printed word. In essence, the visual and written symbols merge to create a unique aesthetic language that is both provocative and whimsical. My multiple-image pieces, with images ranging from polka dots to popular culture, evoke emotions and memories in the viewer. The combination of images tells a story and provokes a personal exchange between the art and the audience."

Ferns and Feathers

July 1st – August 31st

As the warmth and showers bring life forth and teaming all around us, this summer’s show will celebrate the variety of life forms that make the world around us so beautiful, creepy, comfortable and wondrous. Ferns and Feathers aims to spotlight this appreciation for the flora and fauna featured in unique works from a group of talented artists. The exhibition will showcase a range of styles and perspectives that venerate plants and creatures.

Invited artists:

• Jason Koons

• Jon Krause

• Jordan Kreesley

• Casey Lynch

• Merrill Weber

• Emily White

• Barbara Zanelli

This year a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the globally reaching non-profit organization, World Wildlife Fund, to support their efforts in conserving the vital ecosystems.

Inhabited

May 1st – June 30th

The exhibition will showcase a range of styles and perspective on the theme of the landscape, from the natural to the man-made and fantastical. Inhabited encompasses the natural landscape that is home to and beaming with creatures, including our own, who value and depend on the cycles and roles each component plays. The works of art that celebrate the spaces we find joy in our activities, respite, memories, aspirations, and resources from help the viewers appreciate the precious surroundings we all too often breeze past. The subject of the landscape has remainder a favorite to visionaries and collectors alike for centuries partly because of the symbiosis between humans and nature, for the romantic aesthetics and vital necessity. Sometimes the commonplace and quiet spaces need to be elevated with a spotlight shining on it, and that is where the creativity and talent of the artist comes in to serve.

Invited Artists:

• Mary Begnardi

• Russell Brodie

• Jean Burdick

• Suzanne Francis

• Paul Gallo

• Sandra Hoffman

• Stefanie Lieberman

• John Pompeo

• Alex Ramos

• Kerry Sacco

• Sharon Strasburg

• Ella Yang

This year proceeds will be donated to the non-profit land conservation organization, Natural Lands Trust, to support efforts in protecting the beauty and necessity of the lands in our region.

re-faced- works by Wendee Yudis

April 1st- 30th

Wendee Yudis is a serigraph mixed media artist whose paintings and prints have been exhibited in solo and group shows in galleries in NYC, Chicago, and Philadelphia since the mid-1990’s. The females in her work become icons that reoccur in new contexts and combinations to create a visual vocabulary. Many times they question the females’ role in society as well explore the various roles within ourselves. By juxtaposing various images, nuances are implied and tension is created to imply and explore new meanings. I primarily use printmaking along with painting rather than printing in edition because it allows her more freedom to create spontaneously and to explore the subtleties of printmaking. Yudis typically print images or icons in combination with other images to create not only a dialogue between the images but also to create an illusion of being camouflaged by translucency, patterns, and layers to explore relationships seen and unseen.

David Jablow- Further Adventures

March 1st- 31st

Philadelphia artist, David Jablow collects and meticulously completes the compositions on obscure and somewhat risqué novelty note pads from the mid-20th century. Jablow's vision and creativity holds no bars on the possibilities of characters and scenarios. Fully developed stories evolve from a very simple suggestion of a female form. Its clever, captivating, hilarious, albeit impressive how much an artist like Jablow can develop for these damsels and heroines in such a small amount of space.

"Giving new life to objects left for dead is fun, quirky, and often times environmentally considerate. What I’m doing with these old sheets of paper is ‘purposing’ them. I’m doing exactly what the printers had in mind when they originally produced and distributed them. I like the idea that I’m doing this decades after they were made, after they’ve been sitting in drawers until someone decided to post them for sale on eBay or Etsy.

When artist’s face a complete blank canvas or paper, they face that paradoxical problem of endless possibilities. Too many options can often be constraining.
I sidestep this with the help of my muse. I simply access that part of the brain that we use when we play the game of charades. “What could she be doing.” my mind asks. Ideas then flow. I mentally sift through them and make loose sketches to narrow down the options. Which would make a drawing that I’d want to make? What haven’t I done before? Maybe something funny, maybe macabre, or maybe I feel like challenging myself with some complex perspective angle. I get to draw it all; foliage, animals, technology, different eras of human history. That’s half the fun. It’s always the same challenge and always new and different.”

Mark Price- ROI, Real-time Or Instead

February 6th- 28th

New and recent silkscreen printed collage works from artist Mark Price. A collection of Price’s collage works from 2014 - 2018. Engaged with the silkscreen printing collage processes over the past ten years Price utilizes a self produced archive of printed imagery including optical patterns, found graphics, and gradient color fields that collage into rich and frenetic two dimensional compositions. The works explore where our psychological and information architecture become one. The resulting compositions operate as high-resolution experiences that attempt to map out a mediation of internalized and externalized information flows. The compositions address the possibility of a static image of today that encompasses our multi-modal experience with an ever expanding built environment.

Recently relocating back to the Philadelphia area from Portland, Maine this will be Price’s first exhibition in the area since showing his collage works in 2016 at Gallery 543 located at The Navy Yard in Philadelphia. Mark Price is a graphic artist who uses the silkscreen printing process to produce 2-D and 3-D visual works.  Working with gallery director Christina Ray he has mounted three New York solo exhibitions including ‘The New Real Fantasy Now’ 2009, ’Designer Endgame Strategies’ 2010, and ‘Hyper 20XX’ 2012. Additionally his work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. In 2009 his work was selected by curator Aaron Betsky for inclusion in the internationally recognized Confines exhibition at the Institut Valencia d’Art Modern.

 City Between Two Rivers- Woodblock Prints by Jennifer Manzella

January 2nd – Jan 30th

This latest series of prints presents inverted skylines that depict remnants of industry and architecture along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers in Philadelphia and along the riverways in New York City. This particular series of multiple wood block prints represent the human desire to reconstruct the environment, especially in cities. These altered urban landscapes are evidence of the actions to transform, destroy, and exploit what was there before. Colorful overlapping silhouettes form inverted skylines depict remnants of industry and architecture on the waterways of Philadelphia, inspired by the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers in Philadelphia as well as the New York City river ways.