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Daybreak: 8 Philadelphia-based Artists
'Daybreak', is about promising young Philadelphia-based individuals who have distinctive paths as fine artists.
WP Gallery is proud to announce our first annual E-merging group show. ‘Daybreak’, is about promising young Philadelphia-based individuals who have distinctive paths as fine artists. These artists have developed their style, have a vision for their subjects and have total control of their technique.
The first few years after school is crucial for the development of and artist’s style. Finding the time, resources and motivation while facing the loss of an immediate support group and consistent guidance becomes increasingly difficult. These temperamental years require a great degree of dedication, confidence, and inventiveness. This period of an artist’s career is also a liberating one. Knowledge gained becomes part of an artist’s repertoire and an artist’s style becomes more fluent, distinct and recognizable to their peers. Philadelphia is a fertile ground for this vigorous point in life and we are excited to share these 8 talented artist’s with the city.
‘‘Daybreak’‘OPENING JULY 25th - SEPT 7th
All things are meant to be challenged. Claire Kincade’s interpretation of the traditional “still life” painting is a fresh, inventive look on how culture, history and design collide to create something new.
In a fast-paced world Nathan Durnin‘s works evoke a glimpse in a reality based abstraction. His style of painting commands attention and reminds the viewer that all media we view is filtered through the author’s lens.
Harrison Doyle portrays his urban experience through photography, printmaking and installations. He infuses his personal life’s documentary into etched glass and painted steel.
At first glance, Sarah Gregory‘s lyrical paintings seduce your eye with composition and color. Her foregrounds and backgrounds overlap and interrupt in the same way our conscious and subconscious interact, allowing the viewer to feel her autobiographical landscapes.
Using a architectural-like style Megan McGlynn presents us with her vision of a fragmented reality. Light still wraps her forms, casts shadows and illuminates her surfaces but the viewer is denied any frame of reference, like an untapped memory.
Heather McMordie investigates, experiments, and responds. Her works are as much about her journey with each image as it is about the dialogue between materials and her audience.
Justin Kingsley Bean seeks a distinct approach to creating abstract paintings using an elemental language consisting of line, form, composition, and color.
In PJ Smalley‘s new Facebook Redemption paintings, pictures from the internet are transformed into sensual portraits. Painter Alex Kanevsky said of Smalley’s artwork, “There’s a sense of reserve that balances that underlying craziness, which is essentially the definition of Philadelphia to me.”
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