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Galleries Continued from H17 — ethnographic, folk, and selftaught art, as well as contemporary work — but it also has grown to become one of the world’s most highly regarded sources of self-taught art. “Four Decades” will include works by Christina Ramberg, William Edmondson, James Castle, Forrest Bess, Joseph Cornell, Jim Nutt, Bill Traylor, and others whose works have been exhibited by the gallery over the last 40 years, as well as Oceanic sculptures, pre-Columbian vessels, Chinese scholar stones, Northwest Coast masks, Pennsylvania painted furniture, weather vanes, spool tables, and examples of American frakturs. S e p t . 2 3 t o N o v. 2 7 . (215-545-7562 or www.fleisherollman.com)
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ALSO NOT TO BE MISSED: Paul Cava/30 Years, a retrospective of the Philadelphia artist’s enigmatic photo-based collages, at UArts’ Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Oct. 14 to Nov. 30 (215-717-6480 or www.uarts.edu); recent abstract paintings by Rebecca Jacoby and complex marker drawings of Philadelphia cityscapes by Miriam Singer at LG Tripp Gallery, Oct. 22 to Nov. 27 (215-923-3110 or
www.lgtrippgallery.com); paintings by Jacob Lunderby based on photographs of Philadelphia streetscapes, at Pentimenti Gallery, through Oct. 23 (215-625-9990 or www.pentimenti.com); “True Fiction,” photographs blurring the line between the documentary and the invented, by Yasser Aggour, Kelli Connell, Gregory Crewdson, Taryn Simon, others, at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, through Nov. 27 (215-232-5678 or www.philaphotoarts.org); “Problemy,” recent drawings, paintings, and sculpture by the Dufala Brothers, Steven and Billy Blaise, at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery,
through Oct. 8 (www.haverford.edu/ exhibits); an installation and framed drawings by Astrid Bowlby at Gallery Joe, Sept. 25 to Nov. 13 (215-592-7752 or www.galleryjoe.com); and Aesthetics of Intimacy: Paintings by Susan Jane Walp, Don Southard, and Mark Karnes, small-scale still-life paintings by all three, at Swarthmore College’s List Gallery through Oct. 10 (610-328-7811 or www.swarthmore.edu/ Humanities/art/Gallery)
Miriam Singer “Green Occupied”
Eileen Neff. The Philadelphia-
based artist’s photographic installation, “Retrospection,” at Locks Gallery, is an expanded reenactment of a 2008 installation at Bruce Silverstein/20 in New York, her meditation on the relationship between image and subject. One large, digitally constructed photographic print acts as a starting point for groupings of other works. Through Sept. 30. (215-629-1000 or www.locksgallery.com)
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The Sitting Room: Four Studies. The historical concept of
the sitting room is reexamined by four contemporary artists at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, whose 1906 building, originally the private residence of Samuel P. Wetherill, just happens to have all the right rooms for such a show. Jennifer Angus will present an alternative view of the 19th-century mania for collection and display; Carole Loeffler will expose the gendered implications of the domestic interior; Ligia Bouton is creating an imagined history based on the social circles of Philadelphia’s high society, and Saya Woolfalk has in store a mobile utopian space for the future. Melissa Caldwell is the exhibition’s curator, with, she says “lots of input” from David R. McFadden, chief curator at New York’s Museum of Arts & Design. Sept. 24 to Jan. 3. (215-545-4302 or www.philartalliance.org)
One of Us: Isaac Tin Wei Lin.
This talented young Philadelphia artist, whose work draws on literally everything around him, follows his solo show at Fleisher/Ollman last year with a site-specific installation for the Print Center, filling an entire gallery with two- and three-dimensional printed and painted elements inspired by street art, current events, cartoons, and Islamic calligraphy. Sept. 7 to Nov. 20. (215-735-5511 or www.printcenter.org)
thanks.frank. After 38 years
of teaching painting at the Tyler School of Art — and apparently becoming one of the most popular professors the school has ever seen — stillyouthful Frank Bramblett has decided to concentrate on his own painting. His former students aren’t letting him off the hook quite that easily, though. Thirty-eight of them have made artworks with Bramblett in mind, all of which form the affectionate exhibition “thanks.frank.” at the Elkins Estate in Elkins Park. Through Sept. 21. (570-906-0766 or www.thanksfrank.info)
The Salvation Army of Greater Philadelphia is building a 130,000 square foot super community center in North Philadelphia with a generous donation from the estate of Mrs. Joan Kroc. Mrs. Kroc purposefully donated only a portion of the necessary funds for this project to encourage the entire community to get involved. That’s where you come in. The Salvation Army Kroc Center will offer an array of life-changing opportunities for both children and adults including access to a competitive threepool aquatics program run by a nationally renowned swim coach, the very best in early childhood education, horticulture and job training, state-of-the-art computer and fitness centers, science education and performing arts classes. Help us make our vision become a reality and be part of the largest community services investment in the city’s history. We’re almost there.
Don’t miss your opportunity to give an opportunity. Donate to The Salvation Army Kroc Center today. All gifts made by September 30, 2010 will help us meet the $1 million Kresge Foundation challenge. For more information call 215.787.2842 or visit www.SalvationArmyKrocCenter.org
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