Pearlstein Gallery

Staff pick! 🎨

This week’s staff pick comes from Sovann Gaines, a freshman Music Industry student.

“My favorite piece from this exhibition is the digital pigment prints by Joseph E.B. Elliott. I feel like I can very closely relate to these photographs because a lot of these abandoned places look like places I have explored with my friends. “Richmond Power Station, Turbine Hall” is my favorite out of the six photos because it reminds me of this one abandoned factory I explored in New Jersey, which I also filmed a music video at.”

See Elliott’s beautiful photos and much more at tomorrow’s opening reception for CONTEMPORARY RUIN future visions, 5-7pm.

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

This special Artist Spotlight features Kelsey Skaroff and Daniel Van Dyk, whose work Canyon exemplifies the theme of regrowth after ruin in our current exhibition, CONTEMPORARY RUIN future visions.

Canyon depicts a possible and optimistic future of the site where an abandoned North Philadelphia warehouse was reclaimed by a pre-development landscape. Neither wilderness, groomed parkland or enclosed building, it is a separate type of space crafted and imagined by the artists from a desire to repair and restore. The depicted vegetation is inspired by the previous plant communities at the lot, other local plants through all seasons that tolerate high pH, high temperatures, salt, and pollution, as well as ecological succession.

In short, nature always wins. 🍃🌸

Thanks for the feature WHYY! We are happy to have these beautiful murals in our space. 🌷

Crafted in Kensington, trauma-informed art techniques exported to Ukraine “Petrykivka Garden” at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery was designed in a traditional folk art style of Ukraine.

Next week! 📘

Join us in the gallery from 5-8pm next Thursday for a double celebration! We will be releasing the catalog for A Certain Slant of Light and introducing two new murals to the URBN Annex lobby, created in a collaboration between Ukrainian artists and Mural Arts. Light food and fare will be provided. Special thanks to and .tal for helping create such a beautiful publication.

A little overdue, but thank you to everyone who came out to the Philly collective reading of An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping! What a wonderful, uplifting, community event. We are so grateful to and Denise Wolf for organizing this event and selecting our space to host.

To read more about or purchase the book, head to https://thickpress.com

Sea and sky ~ 🌊

Bruce Po***ck’s paintings in A Certain Slant of Light are from his intricate “Indigo” series in shades of blue. These meditative and energetic works feature fractal and geometric patterns inspired by deep observation of nature.

See more from the “Indigo” series in A Certain Slant of Light, on view until March 15.

Artist: Bruce Po***ck
Title: Sea and Sky
Date: 2015
Medium: Acrylic on linen