making the inanimate objects of the city a little more warm and fuzzy.
this is a little yarn bomb i’ve left for my favorite yarn shop in the city - the tangled web.
it’s located in the neighborhood of chestnut hill in the northwest corner of philadelphia.
enjoy.
New Visions 4: Banks, Bleicher, Haims, Odiorne
April 1 - 28, 2010
Artist’s Reception:
Thursday, April 1, 2010
5:30 – 7:30pm
Second Sunday, Open House + Artist’s Reception:
Sunday, April 11, 2010
11 am – 4 pm
i have been invited to join 3 painters to show heaven + hell in an exhibit in reading, pa, this coming april.
this will be a totally new iteration of the sculpture - installed like it’s never been installed before. hope you can plan a day and travel to reading for a surprising and exciting experience. i will be at the gallery for both receptions.
see you there. melissa
The GoggleWorks Center for the Arts is an Entire City Block Where Art Happens. The six buildings and 160,000 square feet of art space offer everything from 200 arts-based classes every 10 weeks, to 45 artists working in their professional studios. Each floor of the main 5-story building invites visitors to explore the arts through dance, music and five - always exciting and ever-changing galleries. Over 20 arts-based organizations also call the GoggleWorks home.
Visit the GoggleWorks and all it has to offer. Stay for an hour or stay for the day. It´s always free admission and hosts free parking in a connected parking lot.
Hours of Operation:
Monday - Saturday 9:00 a.m - 9:00 p.m.
Sunday 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
GPS Address:
140 N. 3rd Street, Reading, PA 19601
Colin Keefe and Andrea Wohl Keefe, co-directors of Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space, will be the jurors of our annual love-themed exhibit, this year exploring the concept of devotion. Mount Airy Contemporary is an artist-run exhibition space in the northwest corner of Philadelphia.
There are 5 days to drop off your work for the juried event between January 22 and 30th. please see the attachment for the complete prospectus. Or visit our website at www.highwiregallery.com.
Highwire Gallery is actively seeking artists across multiple disciplines including, but not limited to, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation, performance, and digital media. We are looking for vibrant new members in any stage of their career who are flexible, motivated and dedicated to their work and to being a part of this artist run co-operative gallery.
Highwire members are given the opportunity to exhibit their work once every 18 months in 2 person exhibitions, as well as participate in at least 2 group shows per year.
Please send your Artists Statement, Bio, and 3-5 images (JPGs or a link to your website or other web based images) to highwiregallery@gmail.com.
After your information has been reviewed, you may be invited to meet the members and show your work. We will invite you to bring a selection of original works to the gallery where you will have the opportunity to meet our members, discuss yourself and your work.
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
• 2 person exhibition every 18 months
• A minimum of 2 group exhibitions per year
• 0% commission on sales
• Access to exhibition opportunities and calls for entry
• Experience with gallery preparation and arts administration
MEMBERSHIP RESPONSIBILITES
• $150 initiation fee
• $65 monthly dues
• One day a month of gallery staffing
• Five hours of gallery-related work each calendar quarter
• Attendance at membership meetings
• Attendance at artist membership reviews
ELIGIBILITY
• Applicants must live within a 50 mile radius of Philadelphia and cannot be presently enrolled in any undergraduate programs.
CONTACT
Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19125
215.426.2685
highwiregallery@gmail.com
heaven. and hell.
Melissa Maddonni Haims
Highwire Gallery
Opening Reception: November 6, 2009 5 - 9 pm
Exhibit runs November 6 - 29, 2009
Melissa Maddonni Haims has been working feverishly for 2 years, knitting, crocheting, and stitching together a personal version of what heaven and hell might look like, constructed of yarn. This vision takes form at Highwire Gallery, in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia, in November, 2009.
As you enter into this alternate cosmos, convoluted, cloud-like sculptures, stuffed with recycled fibers, hang from the ceiling in the front room, bathed in light from the storefront windows. In this version of heaven, many of the sculptures are formed and named for those who have passed from this world to the next, including the artist’s mother, the catalyst for this project. Others have been commissioned to memorialize loved ones. These sculptures are organic and unconventional, not at all the predetermined forms associated and derived from faded stitchery pattern-books. Here we have rambling rows curling around into sensuous newness.
As you depart from heaven’s high-ceilinged, light filled, ambience, you move into the gallery’s center room, a purgatory of sorts, where a selection of paintings by The Grimm Sisters, Rochelle Dinkin and Rachel Isaac, are on display. Their collaborative efforts combine whimsy and trepidation to produce an eerie, playful, mythology, born from the shadows of their psyches.
Deeper within the space, in the compact backroom, is the culmination of 2 years worth of knitting and crocheting. The room is filled with plush, stalagmitic sculptures that invoke Dante’s journey through hell, with knitting needles. These sculptural interpretations of hellacious inhabitants range in size from 12 inches to 6 feet. Again, the forms are beyond imagination, infused with improvisation, as the artist explores form-building unique to the controlled entanglement of strings and strands. Who do you think inspired these damned souls?
Melissa Maddonni Haims is a mixed media artist based in Philadelphia. She explores alternative materials, mostly recycled, reclaimed or rescued, with knitted elements and found objects. Her career in the arts began in New York City in the 1990’s, and life led her back home to Philadelphia in 2004, where she lives with her family in Chestnut Hill. Ms. Haims currently maintains membership in the Highwire Artists Co-operative and the Northwest Artists Collective, and teaches children and young adults traditional handwork methods, such as knit and crochet, for the Handwork Studio of Narberth, Pa.
For more information and photographs, please visit her website at
www.melissamaddonnihaims.com.
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Highwire Gallery
2040 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19125
www.highwiregallery.com
Work on paper from the collection of Silvia Egnal. Exhibit includes art by Andy Warhol and Fernand Leger, as well as Philadelphia Artists such as Tremain Smith and Stuart Egnal.
June 12 - July 5 at the Arts League
RECEPTION: FRIDAY JUNE 12, 5:30-7:30pm
4226 Spruce St. / Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-382-7811 / www.ucartsleague.org
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-6pm;
Saturday, 11am ? 1pm
Highwire Gallery Exhibit June, 2009
For Immediate Release:
THE NORTHWEST ARTISTS COLLECTIVE
Gone Fishin’
Opening Reception: June 5, 2009 5 - 9 pm
Exhibit runs June 5 - 28, 2009
The Northwest Artists’ Collective (NAC) is group of over twenty painters, sculptors, print makers, photographers and fiber artists in Philadelphia’s Northwest corridor of Germantown, Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill. The Collective members are professional artists who meet on a monthly basis to discus local arts and projects to further their reach into the community through the arts. The members are professional artists who show independently and as a group throughout the region. Galleries in the greater Philadelphia area and beyond represent many of the members. The Collective is active in the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) as well as other community-based organizations.
This is the first group show for NAC at the Highwire Gallery. The members showing are: Eleanor Day, Elaine Bass, John Hollis, Gail Kotel, Judy Levy, Ellie Seif, Martha Knox, Suzanne Moller, Solomon Levy, Elena Aldrette, Debs Bleicher, Deborah Curtiss, Melissa Maddonni Haims, Jennifer Monahan, Michael Simonian, Don Ricardo Harrison Jr. and Dr. Valarie Ena Swain-Cade McCoullum.
