LOOK! on Lancaster Avenue

September 30th -
November 30th, 2011
Opening September 30th, 6pm - 10pm

Windows

3529

3529 Lancaster Avenue

Positive Minds, working with middle school students from Belmont Charter School, uses digital photography to make, print and hang black and white, large format portraits celebrating themselves as ambassadors of community peace, love, and respect.

201

201 North 36th Street @ Lancaster Avenue

Claire Marcus places “Window Dressing.” The work will be composed of Handknit baling twine and mason's cord with handfelted wool.

3601

3601 Lancaster Avenue

Erin Murray transforms a grated window in the manner of a wall with many layers of painted-over graffiti, with the words "Value Added" blending with the background at points.

3820

3820 Baring Street @ Lancaster Avenue

Jesse Kudler installs a multi-channel sound piece that will play audio through eight small transducer speakers attached to window panes.

3826

3826 Lancaster Avenue

Russell Mahoney and Emil Crystal install a temporary architectural “armature” on the façade of the building.

3849

3849 Lancaster Avenue (Hawthorne Hall)

Kay Healy wheatpastes life-size furniture screenprints onto the boarded windows to create the illusion of an occupied building. George Apotsos uses plastic bottle caps collected by area school students for recycling to create a giant tassel that will hang over the building.

3848

3848 Lancaster Avenue

Nicole Herbert uses thin white tape to trace the outlines of reflections in windows and doors

3850-3852

3850-3852 Lancaster Avenue

Paul Schultz converts more than 10,000 plastic bread bag clips into a creative backlit display for the windows. Also, Valerie Huhn and Karen Smith created two installations consisting of a sculpture and an accompanying video. One video will feature water enclosed in man-made structures and containers, complementing an abstract and organic sculpture. The second video will use abstracted imagery from television crime dramas, with the sculpture's surface hindering the search for clues to the video's original source.

3854

3854 Lancaster Avenue

Melissa J. Frost places an image from a show at the punk rock venue Killtime, which was located at this address from the early 1980s until 2003.

3860

3860 Lancaster Avenue

Trevor Reese works with the existing storefront façade by installing a sculptural work against the roll down gate. This is a text-based piece, with individual letters cut and constructed from the word “architecture.”

3870

3870 Lancaster Avenue (Monarch Storage)

Ava Blitz places black and white digital images of horses in the windows, recalling the building’s former use as a stable.

3911

3911 Lancaster Avenue

Derrick Wesley McNew uses the visual languages of sales literature and advertisements to engage viewers’ sense of commercialism, with painted words placed at multiple levels, skewing the baselines of each individual word.

3939

3939 Lancaster Avenue

In the first and second floor windows, Joe Boruchow designs paper cutouts to create a subtle black and white, backlit installation that treats the windows like Japanese screens. In the three windows of the third floor, Jack Sloss renders a Quaker aphorism in neon. The proverb, “Busyness is not our Business,” originated with William Penn.

Galleries

3806

3806 Lancaster Avenue

Viorel Farcas Gallery

Sculpture by Powelton artist Viorel Farcas are
on display.

3808

3808 Lancaster Avenue

Art on the Avenue Gallery

Blaise Tobia, a Powelton artist and professor in the Art & Art History Department at Drexel University, has curated a group exhibition “Queries” that will include artists Tom Gartside, Dan Loewenstein, Virginia Maksymowicz, and John Woodin.www.tandm.us/queries/

Last opportunities to view: Wed. 10/26, 5-9 PM and Sat. 10/29 12-6 PM.

3809

3809 Pearl Street

Upstairs Gallery

New Work by Emil Baumann

3820

3820 Lancaster Avenue

Projects I Gallery

Randy Dalton has curated “Discover a Dozen or more out of the blue”. The show includes artists John Taylor, Angela Klarner, Diane Keller, David Slovic, James Dupree, Tony Fink, Victor Thompson, Randy Dalton, Suzanne Wheeling, Michael Mooser, Nancy E.F. Halbert ,Claes Gabriel, Lane Davis, and William Slovis. On the second floor Carolyn Healy and John Phillips are presenting a new site-specific installation with sculpture, sound and video. Also on display is “Neighborhood Narratives” work by the students of Hana Iverson’s course at Drexel University featuring visual and audio portraits of Lancaster Corridor residents.

Closing Reception Saturday November 19, 4-6 pm. Wednesdays, 5-9pm and Saturdays 12-6 pm through November 19, plus Second Fridays 10/14 and 11/11 5-9pm.

4017

4017 Lancaster Avenue

People's Emergency Center (PEC) Chaka Fattah House

Powelton artist, author and educator Bonnie MacAllister has curated a group exhibition of women artists from the Powelton, Mantua, and Belmont neighborhoods, “The Women of Lancaster Avenue”. They include: Maria Anasazi, Wendy Graves-Papadopoulos, Mandy Katz, Liddy Lindsay, Virginia Maksymowicz, Rebecca Rose, Ellen Tiberino and Ana Uribe.

Last opportunities to view: Wed. 10/26, 5-9 PM and Sat. 10/29 12-6 PM.

Concept and Vision

To begin to restore West Philadelphia's Lancaster Avenue Corridor and support the creative talents of its residents, Drexel University, in partnership with the University City District, the People's Emergency Center and Powelton-Mantua community arts groups, is sponsoring a public art project: LOOK! on Lancaster Avenue. This project will run from September 30-November 30, 2011, and will take place in various locations along the Lancaster Avenue Corridor, starting at 34th Street and extending westward to 41st Street.

LOOK! will feature art placed in the windows and storefronts of vacant buildings along Lancaster Avenue; group art shows in existing galleries or public spaces; and public performances at various locations along Lancaster Avenue. As Drexel University embarks on an extensive program of urban revitalization in Powelton and Mantua, LOOK! provides a unique opportunity for West Philadelphia residents to come together in a celebration of creativity and innovation. The project's goals are to encourage public

participation and social interaction; serve as a catalyst for business and culture along the Lancaster Avenue Corridor; and help engender a sense of civic pride and community spirit among the residents of the Corridor neighborhoods.

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This project was brought to completion with the help of many volunteers from the Mantua, Powelton, and Belmont neighborhoods, the UCD, CEC, PEC, and Drexel University, and with financial support from both Drexel University and the City of Philadelphia.