"GIFTED 2010" Original Art for Holiday Giving opens at PHD Gallery...

"GIFTED 2010"
Original Art for Holiday Giving
The 2nd Annual Holiday Gift Show at PHD Gallery

December 4 - January 8, 2011
http://phdstl.com/gifted2010.html

Please join us for
the Opening Reception
Saturday & Sunday,
December 4 & 5, 2010,
11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Featured artists include Mark Weber, Marsha Sanguinette & Susan Nanny, Jim Sabo, Ruth Ann Reese, Casey Rae, Nick Prinster, Michelle "Mike" Ochonicky, Janet Mueller, Kevin Lurton, Noel Leicht, David Lancaster, Raymond Houston, Carrie Gibbs, Mark Florida, and Jerry Breakstone.

ALIVE MAGAZINE RAVES: "Skip emptying your wallet at the big box stores and give a truly unique, handmade gift this holiday season. PHD Gallery's second annual holiday gift show features the work of over a dozen artists at 'recession friendly' prices. Find locally produced original oil paintings, textile art, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, photography and limited-edition prints. To add to the holiday cheer, 'GIFTED' opens in tandem with the 27th Annual Cherokee Antique Row Cookie Spree, where local merchants at each store feature unique surprises and a delicious variety of holiday cookies" ALIVE Magazine, December 2010

PHD Gallery
2300 Cherokee Street,
St. Louis, MO 63118
Noon to 4:00 pm,
Thursday - Sunday
(314) 664-6644
http://www.phdstl.com

Taking a peek at Snowflake, Driveby and Fort Gondo

Have you been to see the latest shows at Snowflake, Drive-By and Fort Gondo yet?  You gotta go!


Here are some peeks:


Work by Caleb Taylor (on walls), Clint Baclawski (lightboxes on floor) at Snowflake:

Work by Gabriel Slavitt in Drive-By Gallery:

Work by Lily Cox-Richard (sculptures on floor), Lori Larusso (shaped acrylic panel paintings) at Fort Gondo.

All exhibits up through June 6.  Fort Gondo is open Saturdays noon - 5:00 p.m.; Snowflake is open Saturdays 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.



Fort Gondo
3151 Cherokee St., St. Louis, MO  63118

Snowflake (Drive-By is on the west side of the building, on Compton)
Location: 3156 Cherokee Street (at Compton) • St. Louis, Missouri 63118

PHD Gallery explains The Birds & the Bees...

Please join us
at PHD Gallery
Saturday, March 13, 2010
7:00 - 10:00PM

for the opening reception of

THE BIRDS & THE BEES
http://www.phdstl.com/birds_and_bees.html

Jeff Kapfer
Karen Woodward

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Just in time for Spring!  The Birds & the Bees pairs painting by Jeff  Kapfer with elfin sculpture by Karen Woodward to create a waggish display at PHD Gallery.

On view are more than 24 of Kapfer’s clean edged, acrylic on canvas paintings ranging in size from one foot square to four feet by three feet.  Clustered around the brightly colored and tightly composed bird paintings are dozens of 1-2 inch high glass bees by artist Karen Woodward.  The interspersed bodies of work create a comical and playful dialogue and a humorous fantasy environment.

Jeff Kapfer earned a BFA from Webster University with an emphasis in graphic design.  He is currently the senior designer and art director for the new Vital Voice Magazine.   Karen Woodward earned her MFA in sculpture from Washington University.  She specializes in the creation of flameworked glass sculpture and is Chair of the Glass Department at the Craft Alliance Education Center in St. Louis.

In addition to her flameworked bees, Karen Woodward’s more complex narrative works, whose properties utilize humor to make social commentary, are featured in PHD’s Portfolio Gallery.


PHD Gallery
2300 Cherokee Street
St. Louis, MO 63118
(314) 664-6644
http://www.phdstl.com

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PHD Gallery Exhibit Reviewed in the Post

Read an article and artist interview on the PHD Gallery's latest exhibit, Vestiges, on the Post-Dispatch web site here.

Openings at PHD Gallery

Please join us at PHD Gallery
for the opening of
TWO NEW EXHIBITS
Saturday, October 3, 2009
7 - 10 PM

PHD Gallery hosts

VESTIGES: Found Wood Sculpture & Photography
&
MARK SHEPPARD: Bone Crusher Rat Rods

PHD Gallery
2300 Cherokee Street
St. Louis, MO 63118
(314) 664-6644

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VESTIGES depicts the evidence of time’s passage & the beauty that can exist in the legacy left behind. The exhibit juxtaposes found wooden sculpture with photography. Susan Nanny & Marsha Sanguinette retrieve river wood & polish it, until it lives again in evocative biomorphic forms. David R. Hanlon's photographs record the fallen Monuments of Syria & Jordan. Jim Sabo reverses the notion of finding relics & instead digitally creates them. Mark Florida photographs contemporary urban decay. Dr. Ivy Cooper of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville observes that the works are: "captivating evidence — fleeting, tenuous, melancholy — of lives and structures once thought to be permanent and unchanging."

MARK SHEPPARD: Bone Crusher Rat Rods- With a nod to the West Coast "Kustom Kulture" of the 1950s & 60s, Mark Sheppard unveils 12 new "hot rod" ink drawings in PHD’s Portfolio Gallery. Inspired by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth’s grotesque caricatures, Sheppard creates an original crew of "creatures who won’t die driving cars that won’t break!" The artist has also released a limited edition print based on his ink drawings. Sheppard is an MFA graduate in painting from Washington University in St. Louis & works as an artist & instructor.