FEATURING WORK BY:
Eric Remer/ Eric Kennedy/Jessica Lowe/Heidi Smith/Helen Bradley/Laurel Casciato/Steve Loya/Juan Rodrigo/Mike Zienowicz/Jennifer Torre/Jesse Rinyu + more tba. (There are a few spots left, let us know if you want to join!)
CURATED BY:
Helen Bradley, Eric Remer, Chris Bradley
More on the project:
This show will give (force) artists to share the ideas, stories, pictures, and drawings that they usually keep hidden from plain view. Sketches, stories, full compositions, maps, diagrams, and any kind of illustrated idea are all legitimate submissions – as long as they are in (or made out of) a sketchbook.
A collection of friends with moleskine journals conceived this idea, however, we will exhibit journals of all kinds (equal opportunity). The intent of this project is to find the art behind the art, the "early demo tape" versions if you will and to exhibit these sketches, journals and ideas — that may or may not be turned into larger more complete pieces of work — my theory being that sometimes, what isn't shown is the best we have to offer. Basically, we'll just be answering the question: "what's in your moleskine?"
curated by Dr. K. Malcolm Richards, Jon F. Allen, and Rodney Thoms
A multi-media event examining the general containment policy that confines, refines, and defines how humans conduct and are conducted through their lives in the early twenty-first century via institutions that bind. From carefully contrived cubicles in the work place and the processed packaged food we consume to the surveillance cameras that record our whereabouts and the psychiatric pills that standardize our minds and wills, this exhibition will explore and explode the categorical imperatives that rue and rule our daily existence.
Opening September 10 8-12
Opening Night Performances by: DV Nikt, Gruesome Twosome (Lora Bloom and Kenny Brown), and Justice League of Adversaries
Also featuring sound man and DJ David S. Aponte
Closing October 1 8-12
Closing reception will feature the films Atom Egoyan's "Speaking Parts" and
Samuel Fuller's "Shock Corridor" with lecture/discussion by the curators.
Steven Dufala / Billy Dufala / Paul D'Agostino / Carolina Maugeri / Brian Spies / Dr. Kevin Richards
/ David E. Williams / Ben Coover / Mary Coyle / Adam Simon / Jon F. Allen / Timothy Allen / DV Nikt
Jordan Graw / Joshua Borden / David S. Aponte / Tina Zavastanos / Thomas Micchelli
PAST SHOWS BIG ART SHOW: AUGUST 13, 2011
BIG ART SHOW HOT AS HELL PARTY
ART! MUSIC! FUN!
SATURDAY AUGUST 13TH // DOORS AT 8PM // FREE
Music by City Rain // Revolution I Love You // New Madrid
6/6/6 is a traveling exhibition that created itself through connectivity. With the proliferation of social networking and technology-based communication, making real connections becomes more important than ever. Each artist in this exhibition has selected one other artist who lives and works in a different community, forming a network of art communities and developing personal connections among artists and audiences. This effort makes introduces new practitioners to each locale and infuses each region with new energy from around the country. Like a chain letter, this process is expansive and like an exquisite corpse, the results are surprising and unexpected. Appropriately for a show about drawing connections, the show takes the drawn line as its subject and features artists from all over the country. The exhibition, in a sense, created itself by means of connectivity.
For more information on the exhibit and it's other venues click here.
PAST SHOWS TO-DAY IS ANOTHER DAY, MAKE ART. (ART IN THE GREAT RECESSION): MAY 14, 2011
TO-DAY IS ANOTHER DAY, MAKE ART. (ART IN THE GREAT RECESSION) Curated by Steven Earl Weber
Opening May 14th at Pterodactyl Creative Project Space this show addresses several aspects of what it means to be a working artist during this economically difficult time that has come to be referred to as " The Great Recession." The curator and artists have taken a broad approach to the phrase, "Art in The Great Recession," references and interpretations of the theme range from elements and causes of our country's current recession, to the methods and materials artists end up using in response to their economic situation. The works included in this exhibit are all from artists living and working in the Philadelphia area and include a broad range of materials and disciplines.
Participating Artists: Leroy Johnson
Doug Herren
Abbey Gates
Daniel Petraitis
Steven Earl Weber
Roger Petersen
Jerry Kaba
Stephen Kent
Ira Upin
Opening Reception: Saturday May 14th 8pm-12am Closing Reception: Saturday June 25th 8pm-12am
Opening night DJ sets by Pace and Mang + EBG III
Closing night music by Your Children is Beautiful / ManorLady / New Heaven and New Earth
PAST SHOWS ANIMAL SHOW: MARCH 26, 2011
Animals become a canvas onto which we humans project our myths, fantasies and ideas, making up our own meanings. Animal Show explores ways in which animals are transformed into such unwitting actors.
March 26-April 15 / Opening RESCHEDULED to Saturday April 2 8-Midnight / Closing Friday April 15 8-Midnight
With work by Katie Henry // Ann Klicka // Emma Meetz // Darla Jackson // Matthew Lucash Oranit Solomonov // Amy Scheidegger // Skuds Mckinley Kevin Galloway // Kristen Solecki // Caitlin Carouge Sarah Goodreau // Eleanor Grosch
PAST SHOWS NAKED BEN FRANKLIN: NOVEMBER 13, 2010
Work by Ryan Mulligan, Curated by Maiza Hixson
Ryan Mulligan's art metaphorically captures the mental state of an overgrown teen trying to enjoy the state fair while hallucinating from a spoiled cheesesteak. Depicting random imagery--from roadside attractions to roller coaster rides--the artist renders both real and imagined subjects as disparate props expelled from a phantasmic cartoon. Ryan Mulligan: Naked Ben Franklin will feature several new drawings and paintings by the artist as well as a site-specific mural highlighting Philadelphia's unique icons.
Opening Reception: November 13th 8 to midnight
Closing Reception: December 4th 8 to midnight
Opening night music by Enter the Rooms / House and Homes / Clean Equation
Closing night music by Mark and the Neiblers / Mon Chou Chou / Noose of Laurels / Northern Valentine
PAST SHOWS HIDDEN GEOGRAPHIES: OIL, WATER AND BIRDS: OCTOBER 7, 2010
Hidden Geographies: Oil, Water and Birds
Hidden Geographies is presented by Pterodactyl and the Philadelphia Art Hotel, in coordination with Design Philadelphia. This show features the work of Carrie Hott and Renee van der Stelt. Both artists integrate meticulous research into their processes, and the physical manifestations of the research become their work. In this body of work Hott focuses on the use of whale oil in lighting and the subsequent shift toward an oil based society. van der Stelt maps out the locations of oil and water in order to understand the complex systems of human interaction with natural resources. Read full artist statement
October 7-17th, Opening Reception October 16th 8pm-12am
Opening night music by The Great Unknown / A Cat Called Cricket / A Stick and Stone / Lion Versus
PAST SHOWS BOYS LIFE: SEPTEMBER 11, 2010
Scott Dickson.Sarah Jackson Moore.Zach Martin Rebecca Miller.Jim Zeske
September 11 - October 9
Opening Reception: Saturday September 11th 8p-12a Closing Reception: Saturday October 2nd 8p-12a
Opening night music by Crills Wilson / Born Pilot / Kill You in the Face
Closing night music by Music by Mariage Blanc / Sure Juror /The Lawsuits / The Heligoats
To achieve your art merit badge:
"With your parent's permission and your counselor's
approval, visit a museum, art exhibit, art gallery,
artists' co-op, or artist's workshop. Find out about
the art displayed or created there. Discuss what you
learn with your counselor."
- Boy Scouts of America
PAST SHOWS OUR IMPROBABLE EXISTENCE: AUGUST 13, 2010
Our Improbable Existence
by Amy Sacksteder
Our Improbable Existence, presented by Pterodactyl and the Philadelphia Art Hotel, is an exhibition of recent drawings, paintings and photographs by Michigan artist Amy Sacksteder. Her exhibition features work inspired by her recent residency in Iceland, and developed in part during her residency at the Philadelphia Art Hotel. It is through this work, which depicts and distills momentous events and experiences, that she engages the tension between vitality and mortality.
August 13th -24; Opening August 13th
Opening night music by
The Weeds
Small Sur
Sunny Ali & The Kid
STOP!
PAST SHOWS MYSTIC MONSTERS: JULY 17, 2010
Mystic Monsters
by Pat Aulisio and Adam Fergurson
Pat Aulisio and Adam Fergurson's genetically mutated son has risen and with him a new body of work which covers a large range of styles, mediums, and themes. Show includes comics, paintings, collaborations, appropriated advertising, and an in-gallery installation.
July 17th - August 13th
Closing August 13th 8p
Closing night music by
The Weeds
Small Sur
Sunny Ali & The Kid
STOP!
PAST SHOWS BIG ART SHOW: JUNE 26, 2010
come celebrate with cake + music + art
music by MOUNT JOY TJ KONG AND THE ATOMIC BOMB
OUT LIKE LAMBS
MONTAGNA AND THE MOUTH TO MOUTH (more tba)
***JUNE 26***
Show starts at 8pm $5 sugg. donation at door
(benefits pterodactyl's upcoming art magazine)
PAST SHOWS BIG ART SHOW: JUNE 12, 2010
PAST SHOWS INHABITANTS: MAY 8 - MAY 29, 2010
Inhabitants Release Show May 8th
Come celebrate the release of Pat Aulisio's new comic with an all comic art show with works by Box Brown, Hawk Krall, Ian Harker, and Lance Hansen. Events begin at 7:30pm. Free and open to the public.
Animals become a canvas onto which we humans project our myths, fantasies and ideas, making up our own meanings. In Animal Show, 9 artists explore ways in which animals are transformed into such unwitting actors.
