Second Thursday Events for September 11, 2014

Second Thursdays are bonus art openings and events that occur every second Thursday of the month. Here are a few new happenings in Philly.


University of the Arts

The President's Office

Hamilton Hall

Thursday, September 11, 2014

CLOSING RECEPTION: Free 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Intrusive Thoughts 

Kristine Strawser

When faculty member/alum Kris Strawser MFA ’12 (Studio Art) is making what she considers higher-minded artwork, other primitive tendencies find her again and gnaw their way through layers of better intentions. Her higher self uses materials that are often ready made, a bit more elegant, loaded with metaphor she hears like a dog whistle. By contrast, the unruly work in “Intrusive Thoughts” is a compact with her political self—and comprises silent mutterings and cartoon retorts—aimed at various news outlets. It’s a world of play and free association and desires that won’t be met—a collage with news, an old obsession. For this brand of stunted and indirect commentary, there’s a constant supply of material.

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Crane Arts / The Hall

1400 North American Street / 1st Floor

Philadelphia, PA

215.646.4302

Thursday, September 11, 2014

OPENING RECEPTION: Free 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Exhibition: September 11 – November 7, 2014

Cut & Paste: New Mixed Media and Digital Collages

Jen McCleary

A solo exhibition by Jen McCleary. This show presents her digital and mixed-media work, which explores the connections between these two very different ways of creating layered collage images. Her images are inspired by scientific imagery, dreamlike imagined landscapes, dualities such as light/dark, complexity/simplicity, and the obvious beauty of nature and the sometimes hidden beauty of urban decay.

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Philadelphia Art Alliance

251 S. 18th Street

Philadelphia, PA

215.646.4302

Thursday, September 11, 2014

OPENING RECEPTION: Free 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Fifth Wall: Christina P. DayInspired by the phrase, "fifth wall," used by the interiors industry to describe the concealment of an overhead floor that creates a truly closed space, Day’s exhibition considers spatial inversions of surface and place. Ranging from object-based sculpture to site-specific architectural installation, common interior surfaces and materials are re-assigned to associate with unlikely forms and objects. 

An Edifice Spectrum: Lauren Dombrowiak 

Heavily influenced by Victorian decorative motifs found in the home, Dombrowiak creates entire environments that include tower-like sculptural forms crated out of dinnerware and other household objects such as mirrors and wood furnishings.

Erotic Alchemy: Heather Ujiie
Textile artist and designer Heather Ujiie incorporates many techniques--including hand painting, drawing, stitching, and printing with innovative large-format digital printing technology--to create an immersive Utopia that she describes as “ a celebration of the unconscious.” 

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