A City of Artists: Celebrating the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, showcases the diversity of Philadelphia neighborhoods represented during POST. The show acts as a cross-section of the Philadelphia arts community and provides a taste of the work you may find out on the tours.

RECEPTION
Friday, October 21 at 5 PM - 7 PM

EXHIBITION
October 11 - December 2, 2016

Hours
Monday through friday 10 – 4

I will be participating in Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, a program of The Center for Emerging Visual Artists. It is the largest tour of artist studios and creative workspaces in the region and one of the premier open studio tour events in the country.

East of Broad Street
October 22 - 23
12 - 6 pm

Participating in Open Studios this year was harder than previous years. My energy was low and I had to call in help from my good friends and fellow artists. They did so much hard work for me and I am grateful.

One of the most helpful ways to show my work was my exhibition of 366 iPhone project in the public space @HBHQ. I was lucky to have a good amount of new work to show and decided to fill my worktable with finished drawings and works in progress.

I was also able to display my 366 iPhone catalog/book that was just published.

I've been making drawings daily in anticipation of Philadelphia Open Studio Tours. Working in different directions, experimenting.

I'll be showing drawings new and old. This pic is a Hipstamatic grab of two drawings. Been very busy extending my measurement works. These show three dips. The larger needs the last pen dip. 

I'll be looking forward to visitors from noon - 6 PM.

Getting ready for Open Studios is always a challenge. Stopping what I'm working on and pulling out work to display for visitors. Oh and generally cleaning and removing things I don't want anyone to touch of see. This year I had a whole bunch of construction material stacked up waiting for me to get arround to sealing the top part of my studio to the outside world.

Finally just to get the materials out of the way we've started the wall. It will be finished before POST.

Seriously? POST EAST is over?
I was just getting in the groove.

POST is always a wild thing. No matter how prepared you are you never know what will happen. This weekend temperatures reached summer highs. I had to have my mega air conditioner running to cool my visitors who climbed the three flights to my studio.

You are invited to visit my studio for POST this coming weekend. Bonus, I'll be participating with a group of artists.

I've been getting my studio ready for Philadelphia Open Studio Tours. We have tracks for lighting in our hallways and I'm hanging work there. Got these puppies and they should cover the space I have picked out just right. Now to install them so I can select the work.

I was thrilled to have Don Brewer visit my studio at 1241 Carpenter. We had a great time opening up my flat files and talking about my drawings stored inside as well as the kinds of materials I like to use when I make my work. I gave him the full studio tour.

excerpt from Don Brewer's post on my studio building 1241 Carpenter Street. The link to the full article is at the end of this post.

Open Studios in October is grueling; but it is invigorating and inspiring too.

Each day I would change the work on my walls.

Talking with visitors about my work of was a great deal of fun. I pulled out this drawing to show a visitor that asked about how my work was informed by the seasons.