Green Line Art Projects

Emily Erb--Paintings on Silk

Through July 2008
Green Line | Powelton Village, 3649 Lancaster Avenue

Cemetary, 2007, dye on found silk with found frame, 16 x 20 inches.

Emily Erb holds a BFA from Tyler School of Art. Her recent work hybridizes photography, drawing, painting, and the "handicraft" of fabric dying to produce haunting, dreamlike images.

Labels: Emily Erb, Green Line Powelton, past

PlaneImage--Paige Williams and Jeffrey Cortland Jones

Through March 2008
Green Line | Powelton Village, 3649 Lancaster Avenue

(Left to right: Jeffrey Cortland Jones, two works by Paige Williams, Jones, Williams, Jones...click to enlarge)

PlaneImage features the work of Paige Williams and Jeffrey Cortland Jones, two Ohio-based abstract painters. Both working on panel, each addresses the hard slick surface with a unique touch and concern for color and imagery.

Paige Williams, "Without Even Thinking," 2006. Latex on panel, 23 inches square.

Paige Williams, currently teaches painting and drawing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. She exhibits locally, nationally and internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Ukraine, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York and has been selected as an Artist in Residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts in New York, The University of Alaska in Anchorage, The Neu Rathaus Gallery in Munich, Germany and The Vermont Studio Center.

Williams' work explores the space between us: the physical and psychological disparities that exist in relationships along with the joys and tensions that arise as a result of navigating these intervals. The works are about discovery, the struggle to relinquish control and reveling in the absurd and unexpected.

Jeffrey Cortland Jones, "Disco," 2007. Enamel, resin, and other mixed media on MDF, 17 x 7 inches.

Jeffrey Cortland Jones teaches at the University of Dayton, Ohio. Recent exhibitions include the Weston Center for the Arts in Cincinnati, The University of Cincinnati, Western Kentucky University, and Providence College in Rhode Island.

Jones' recent paintings are the records of densely layered actions. His preference for the materials of heavy industry such as resin and MDF panels neverthess give way to his sense of luxurious color and sense of light. His use of clear coats allows allows the viewer to literally sift through transparent layers of experience, imbuing the paintings with a sense of real time.

Labels: Green Line Powelton, Jeffrey Cortland Jones, Paige Williams, past

Jessica Hoffman and Molly Landergan

Jessica Hoffman and Molly Landergan
Recent Photographs
Through March 2008
Green Line Cafe, 4239 Baltimore Avenue

Labels: Green Line Cafe, Jessica Hoffman, Molly Landergan, past

Out of the Box--PW covers

Out of the Box--Philadelphia Weekly Covers, October 05--July 07
Through March 2008
Other Green Line, 4305 Locust Street

This is a collection documenting the dynamic cover art for the Philadelphia Weekly produced under the direction of award-winning designer Sara Green. The show includes our favorite "Soul of the City" cover that features an illustration based on the Green Line!

Labels: Other Green Line, past, Philadelphia Weekly

Zarouhie Abdalian

Green Line | Powelton

Zarouhie Abdalian
Who you callin' gutter punk : recent engravings
Through January 2008
Green Line | Powelton, 3649 Lancaster Avenue

Zarouhie Abdalian's series of intimately scaled, exquisitely rendered engravings portray homeless youths. As engravings, hand-carved into copper, these portraits record acts of painstaking physical and mental exertion, determination, and care. The portraits describe individuals who are often indiscriminately and blindly labeled as "gutter punks" solely because of their status as homeless youth.

Zarouhie Abdalian grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and graduated from Tulane University. She has exhibited in New Orleans, Philadelphia, France, Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and South Africa. In 2007, her illustrations were published The Color Inside, a children's book by Folwell Dunbar. Abdalian's work is held in many private collections and is in the permanent collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and the Montgomery (Alabama) Museum of Fine Arts.

Abdalian currently lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she is the Artist-in-Residence at the Philadelphia Cathedral.

For more information, visit www.zarouhie.com.

Labels: Green Line Powelton, past, Zarouhie Abdalian

John Overmyer

The Green Line Cafe

John Overmyer
Commentary 1995-2007
Through January 2008
Green Line Cafe, 4239 Baltimore Ave

Nationally recognized West Philly-based artist and illustrator John Overmyer shows hundreds of drawings completed over the past twelve years. Overmyer recently created the album art for Songs on the Green Line, released by the Cafe. Overmyer made many of the drawings in this show while having coffee at the Cafe. The work is installed on the Cafe's walls in a similar fashion to his studio...in an offhand collage fashion with tape showing.

One wall features preparatory drawings for "Songs on the Green Line." The other focuses on editorial illustrations, including work done on assignment for many widely known publications.

Labels: Green Line Cafe, John Overmyer, past

Brae Howard

Other Green Line

Brae Howard
China Portraits
Thru December 2007
The Other Green Line, 4305 Locust Street

In 2005, Philadelphia-based photographer Brae Howard lived in China for 10 months, teaching English, while documenting the people and absorbing their rich culture. She quickly felt at home in their culture and deeply admired their ways of thinking, their whimsical combinations of colors and patterns, their natural sense of community, and their easy humility. Most of the photographs are of strangers on the streets and some are of her students. The photographs are characterized by the warmth and natural fondness felt towards her subjects.

Labels: Brae Howard, Other Green Line, past

Sarah Nicole Phillips

Green Line | Powelton Village

Sarah Nicole Phillips
"Cloud Colour Tells"
Through October, 2007
Green Line | Powelton Village, 3649 Lancaster Avenue

Sarah Nicole Phillips is a Brooklyn-based artist who produces series of unique print editions. Green Line Art Projects is showing her 2006 series "Cloud Colour Tells Much About What is Going on Inside " and her 2007 series "April Pictures."

Phillips also has a permanent installation currently on view at LAVA, just up the street on Lancaster Avenue.

Both venues will be open for Philadelphia Open Studio Tours.

Learn more about Green Line's involvement with Philadelphia Open Studio Tours.

Labels: Green Line Powelton, past, Sarah Nicole Phillips

Laureen Griffin and Michael Schwartz

Green Line Cafe

Laureen Griffin--Portraiture Project
Michael Schwartz--Conversations
Through October 2007
Green Line Cafe, 4239 Baltimore Avenue

The Green Line celebrates its involvement with Philadelphia Open Studio Tours and the 40th Street Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program by exhibiting the work of current 40th St AIR resident artists Laureen Griffin and Michael Schwartz.

Griffin's "Portraiture Project" is a collaborative process with the subjects she photographs. She invites the public (mostly gender queer and women) to share personal stories of gender stereotyping and/or to dress in gendered costume and be photographed. The artist and subject work together to conceive of the ideal costume and setting. The resulting photographs are displayed salon-style in the cafe. The Gender Portraiture Project is supported by a grant from the Five County Arts Fund, a Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Schwartz's paintings on paper and panel are all portraits in one way or another. The selection of work for this show was curated by an artist friend and placed together taking into consideration theme, color, size, location and form. This particular group of work represents a conversation amongst the work, between two friends, and extending to the viewing public.

The 40th Street Artist-in-Residence Program awards West Philadelphia artists six months of free studio time in a previously unused space near the corner of 40th and Chestnut Streets. In exchange, the program asks each artist to share his or her talents with the West Philadelphia community. Learn more about the 40th Street Artist-in-Residence Program.

Learn more about Green Line's involvement with Philadelphia Open Studio Tours.

Labels: Green Line Cafe, Laureen Griffin, Michael Schwartz, past