1400 N American Street | Studio 314 / Gallery 108 | Philadelphia PA 19122 inliquid.org
Gouache Paintings, 2024
6 x 6 in
Gouache on paper mounted on panel
Oil Paintings, 2022 - 2023
4 x 4 in
Oil and gouache on paper mounted on panel
Oil Paintings, 2022 - 2023
4 x 4 in
Oil and gouache on paper mounted on panel
Oil Paintings, 2022 - 2023
4 x 4 in
Oil and gouache on paper mounted on panel
MARY HENDERSON
Mary Henderson is a visual artist living and working in Philadelphia. She received an AB in fine arts from Amherst College, and an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Joseph Robert Foundation, the Center for Emerging Artists, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; she has also completed residencies at Surf Point, Pouch Cove, Soaring Gardens, the Jentel Foundation and the Hambidge Center (where she was the Nena Griffith Distinguished Fellow). Her work has been shown throughout the United States at venues including the Delaware Contemporary Museum, the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Michener Museum, the Woodmere Museum, FROSCH&CO, Marcia Wood Gallery, Lyons Wier Gallery and Wilding Cran Gallery. Her paintings have been featured in Artmaze, Harper’s Magazine, L’Espresso (Italy), New American Paintings, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Art in America. Selected collections include the Rockefeller Foundation, the Muskegon Museum of Art and the West Collection. She is an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Bucks County Community College and the former co-director of the Philadelphia site of the nonprofit network of artist-run spaces, Tiger Strikes Asteroid.
Mary Henderson makes group portraits that explore the subject of collective identity. Shown in an unguarded moment of vulnerability and reflection, the subjects of the paintings exist in a state of suspension between individual and collective identity. Henderson is interested in how people communicate shared identity without clear markers, and in competing theories of the crowd (as a unified organism versus an aggregate of individuals). How do individual gestures, amplified through proximity and repetition, present as a collective, physical force, and what causes us to interpret these shared moments?
1400 N American Street | Studio 314 / Gallery 108 | Philadelphia PA 19122 inliquid.org
MARY HENDERSON
Sleepover Series
The paintings in this series are inspired by the sleepovers, ballet-carpool rides, friendship bracelets and choreographed dance routines that fill the lives of my adolescent daughter and her friends. I view my subjects through an openly maternal lens, and want these paintings to reclaim a perspective that has often been dismissed as exploitative or sentimental. At the same time, these works are deeply autobiographical, informed by my own sensory memories of braces, split ends and peeling nail polish. Having come of age at a time when girls’ interests were routinely marginalized or denigrated, I’ve been fascinated by the present moment of reframing around the cultural salience of girlhood: it’s a shift that feels momentous, but also fraught, in a social and political context where girls’ recent gains in status feel increasingly precarious.
Most of the works in this series are very small in scale and painted on paper. The scale is, in part, an outgrowth of my interest in the miniature painting tradition and its precious tokens of love and memorial. I’m also drawn to the idea of making paintings that can’t be seen with a quick glance from across a room or experienced by a large number of people at once, requiring instead a singular viewer’s active participation – a decision to stop and look. My source imagery comes from an archive of personal iPhone snapshots, taken in collaboration with my subjects. I am interested in the capacity of representational painting to capture and preserve, prioritizing singular images and drawing attention to what may have originally been casual or peripheral visual information. Because my compositions tend to center on the ephemeral, the intimate and the fragmentary, I typically work from low-resolution corners of larger reference photos. The resulting painting process is highly interpolative, and involves supplementing my source material with extensive visual research as well as direct observation. The highly saturated and largely invented palette shifts the images away from a feeling of immediate perception and towards a more interior space informed by mood and memory.
1400 N American Street | Studio 314 / Gallery 108 | Philadelphia PA 19122 inliquid.org
Archival Prints
Fold, 2025
Image size 38.4 x 64 in
Paper size 42.5 x 68.5 in (unframed)
Edition of 10
$1,600
Display copy is an Artist Proof
Editioned copies printed on demand
1400 N American Street | Studio 314 / Gallery 108 | Philadelphia PA 19122 inliquid.org
Fold, 2025
Image size 9 x 15 in
Paper size 11 x 17 in (unframed)
Open Edition
$400
Additional Sizes
Archival Prints
Falling, 2017
Image size 68 x 31.75 in
Paper size 72 x 35.75 in (unframed)
Edition of 10
$1,600
Display copy is an Artist Proof
Editioned copies printed on demand
Falling, 2017
Image size 15 x 7 in
Paper size 17 x 9 in (unframed)
Open Edition
$400
Additional Sizes
Archival Prints
Close, 2021
Image size 36 x 36 in
Paper size 40 x 40 in (unframed)
Edition of 10
$1,600
Display copy is an Artist Proof
Editioned copies printed on demand
Additional Sizes
Fold, 2021
Image size 12 x 12 in
Paper size 14 x 14 in (unframed)
Open Edition
$280
Archival Prints
Reach, 2021
Image size 12 x 12 in
Paper size 14 x 14 in (unframed)
Open Edition
$280
In Portfolio
Additional Sizes
Reach, 2021
Image size 36 x 36 in
Paper size 40 x 40 in (unframed)
Edition of 10
$1,600
Editioned copies printed on demand
Archival Prints
Suspend, 2021
Image size 12 x 12 in
Paper size 14 x 14 in (unframed)
Open Edition
$280
In Portfolio
Additional Sizes
Suspend, 2021
Image size 36 x 36 in
Paper size 40 x 40 in (unframed)
Edition of 10
$1,600
Editioned copies printed on demand
Archival Prints
Drift, 2021
Image size 12 x 12 in
Paper size 14 x 14 in (unframed)
Open Edition
$280
In Portfolio
Additional Sizes
Drift, 2021
Image size 36 x 36 in
Paper size 40 x 40 in (unframed)
Edition of 10
$1,600
Editioned copies printed on demand
Archival Prints
Lines, 2016
Paper size 11 x 17 in (unframed) Open Edition
$400 In Portfolio
Archival Prints
, 2016
Paper size 11 x 17 in (unframed) Open Edition
$400 In Portfolio
Glow
SARAH ZWERLING
Sarah Zwerling is a Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary artist who explores her personal relationship with the natural and built environment through processes of photo collage, sculpture, and installation. Zwerling received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from San Francisco State University. She is the recipient of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship and the Leeway Foundation grant. In addition to exhibition projects, she has completed site-specific commissions, including a large installation at the Philadelphia International Airport that captures the distinct result of the joint ownership of twin homes in Philadelphia. In 2018, Comcast Center Campus installed Zwerling’s Connection, a site-specific digital photo collage, a sequential, panoramic photo series of Philadelphia neighborhoods. In 2024, the Comcast Center commissioned another installation, Shift, a multi-layer print on glass.
Site-specific installation at the Comcast Technology Center
1400 N American Street | Studio 314 / Gallery 108 | Philadelphia PA 19122 inliquid.org
SARAH ZWERLING
Sarah Zwerling’s large digital prints are made by stitching together multiple photographs into one seamless image. Combining large numbers of source photos on the computer allows her to create images with the highest resolution throughout, with each layer shown in equal focus. Isolating forms from their environment and placing them against a dark background, she removes them from “real” space, drawing attention to the connectivity and flow between natural shapes.
For Zwerling, the image itself is not essential; it’s the experience: the work captures an emotion, rather than a specific location or moment in time. The continuity of focus in the prints, along with their large scale, creates an immersive experience, similar to an installation, in which the viewer is invited to enter into the image and become enveloped in a chromatic landscape. Every detail is given equal importance, allowing the viewer to experience tiny moments differently every time.
Launched in 1999, InLiquid was initially a website designed to bridge the gap between Philadelphia artists and curators looking for artwork.
InLiquid.org was the first website of its kind and transformative for Philadelphia’s arts and culture sector. It provided a trustworthy online platform for artists unable to maintain an internet presence. Working out of its founder’s home, InLiquid’s small team propelled the city’s art scene into the digital age, becoming the go-to source for information about the visual arts in Philadelphia.
The motivations behind InLiquid’s launch are the foundation of today’s organization. In 2002, InLiquid was granted 501(c)(3) non-profit status and began organizing exhibitions, installations, art fairs, and workshops in various locations around the city. In 2005, InLiquid opened its offices in South Kensington’s Crane Arts Building and has since led revitalization efforts along the blossoming arts corridor on North American Street.
The organization opened its flagship InLiquid Gallery in 2018, dedicated to empowering a diverse community of artists and audiences. It often hosts exhibitions that question societal norms, explore social issues, and promote dialogue among visitors. As a non-profit providing opportunities and a platform for enhanced exposure for local artists, the Gallery is the first permanent space that offers rotating curation of our artist members’ work. The Gallery aims to provide the local and visiting public with a social destination where artwork can be seen, enjoyed, experienced, and collected.
Today, InLiquid serves a member base of over 300 working artists. InLiquid curates, installs, and manages rotating exhibitions at eight locations annually across the Philadelphia area. Through these free exhibitions, artist talks, and hands-on workshops, InLiquid makes the contemporary visual arts culture of the Philadelphia region more accessible, working to support artists and nurture the public’s appreciation of the visual arts.
Over the past quarter-century, InLiquid has developed a proven track record of public engagement. By providing artists with opportunities to show their work and engage with the public, we, in turn, provide general audiences with accessible arts experiences that expand the functionality and appreciation of visual arts in our community.
1400 N American Street | Studio 314 / Gallery 108 | Philadelphia PA 19122 inliquid.org InLiquid is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
Clifton Center , Philadelphia PA formerly the Pavilion at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
