First friday of every month: are you already busy? Get rid of other stuff and come to the art crawl along Penn Ave (Bloomfield/Garfield). Even if the galleries are anyway opened during the week, come and see, visit and drink, enjoy and eat, NOW. These fridays can be summarized with the phrase "all you can art", seriously, and this is true for the external spaces and the interiors of each shop involved with this events.
Bring a good friend with you (I had a very good one) and start the tour. Suggestion: go there around 7/7.30 pm but resist to eat that early, coz every gallery offers to drink and eat. Just start your art session. But remember the tip, for at least some of the galleries, please! And your id... There will be plenty of time, before 10 pm, to have a proper dinner.
Bring a good friend with you (I had a very good one) and start the tour. Suggestion: go there around 7/7.30 pm but resist to eat that early, coz every gallery offers to drink and eat. Just start your art session. But remember the tip, for at least some of the galleries, please! And your id... There will be plenty of time, before 10 pm, to have a proper dinner.
The art crawl is the best occasion to see, to be seen and to be sold, it doesn't matter if you are just interested in art or are already rooted in the artistic panorama. Pretty everything is on sale, well explained and definitely interesting.
Our tour started with the Center for Postnatural history, free, strange and small but super dense of GMO. Don't worry, you won't get out with fluorescent skin, but only with a little more consciousness of what is naturally (im)possible. Or just weird.
These two guys were the "jewels" of a male cat.
They left him on february 2012, to improve Science and the castration process.
No comments on this.
Then modern Formations, assemble, Irma Freeman Center, Imagebox, Artisan... But I don't have to say all the names now, because every house has a gallery at the first floor and something to see. You cannot miss them, provided you are on penn Avenue. All-the-Penn-that-matters, according to my very personale selection, is between Marble way and Evaline Street, if you are in a hurry. But keep the little map of the event with you, to not miss all the art spaces beyond these two Penn's intersections.
Start from Marble Street, going east, and end your experience coming back again toward Millvale Ave. Once there, enjoy a good pizza at Calabria's. If it is too hot inside the restaurant, just move few steps to the left and reach the nice bench protected by a kind of spontaneous art made of colors and tiles.
And keep crawlin crawiln crawling!
"Nostalgia Melancholia" until July 20 at Modern Formations Gallery.
Part of the works by crystalia armagost, here obsessed with music cassettes and feathers.
Distinguishing mark for the little quail egg, with headphones.
Distinguishing mark for the little quail egg, with headphones.
This guy creates very complex images only using Paint!
At Garfield Artworks. Congrats to Matt Susko, he did it.
Bizarre iconography, that I've never seen before, about tattoo art and art out of tattoos.
It happens at Artisan, thanks to Phil Seth. Interesting study on colors and the different level of "reality": the image of a tattoo is a double image, being the tatto an image itself. And some of the portrayed tattoos became alive, showing autonomous life from their "bodies".
Nothing special, at the Imagebox, a part from the old ceilings and a Guitar Bible.
But there is plenty of pictures about a transgenic society half-zombie and half-dead.
I know this is tautologic; the presentation was that as well. A part from the Guitar Bible (that's anyway an easy win. Don't wait for applauses.)
Irma Freeman Center for Imagination. They never fail. I took only two pics because I was too tired to focus on all the very good pieces in that. Believe, just go and visit. Great work on the materials and on old pieces of iron given new life (and a title).
..and much much more stuff, everywhere.
See you on August, 3rd then!
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