Just "One More Day" at Napoleon; Write Up by Chip Schwartz @ Knight Arts

Knight Arts

Surely every one of us has our trials, and with a title like “One More Day,” this exhibit could also serve as a sort of mantra for hope. - Chip Scwarts 

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Shameless Self Promotion - The Mountain and The Sea

Join Us Tomorrow: 

Tamsen Wojtanowski & Christina Roth

 at Napoleon 

If you are in Philadelphia for First Friday, check out some of our new work in our collaborative show, One More Day...

One More Day displays a variety of mediums, from photographs to drawings to objects, to explore this life's cycle while considering the next.

The work speaks to the human ability to hope, dream, and to plan for our future in the face of great uncertainties.

 

"Desert Tent" by Tamsen Wojtanowski

"Dasher" by Christina Roth

THERE IS NO END IN THE BEGINNING.

Opening 1st Friday, February 1st, 6pm - 10pm

Napoleon is in the Rollins Building which houses other wonderful galleries such as 

Vox Populi, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Marginal Utility, Practice, and Grizzly Grizzly - so come on out!

319 N. 11th St. 2L

Philadelphia, PA 19107

www.napoleonnapoleon.com

See you there!

Febraury 2013 @ NAPOLEON

Christina Roth & Tamsen Wojtanowski: One More Day: An Essay by Jennifer Zarro

Christina Roth & Tamsen Wojtanowski: One More Day An Essay by Jennifer Zarro I began writing this essay on December 21, 2012.  As it was widely known, this was the last day of the Mayan Long Count calendar.  The world didn’t end but a new b’ak’tun has begun.  December 21st was also the day the NRA … Read more at Napoleon...

First Friday! @ Napoleon!

(Dana McElroy)

So you may or may not have put it together yet - but here I'll give it to you straight - I am involved in a new project! An artist-run exhibition space located right here in Philadelphia. We call ourselves Napoleon, and hope to bring the city of brotherly l0ve a whole cornucopia full of delicious little tid-bits for mind, body and soul, over the months to come!

This month we are proud to present Commonplacing - a group exhibition curated by the members of Napoleon. Artists exhibited include: Loo Bain, Joe Boruchow, Shelby Donnelly, Hannah Rose Dumes, Nelson Figueroa, Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Dana McElroy, Ryan Parker, Max Seckel, and Edward Marshall Shenk.

The Opening Reception will take place tomorrow night! First Friday, September 2nd from 6pm-10pm, at Napleon's place located on the 2nd flr. of 319 N. 11th Street.( Vox Building.)

Get the whole scoop and links to the artists individual websites by going to Napoleon's blog, here.

I'll tell you what - tomorrow night is going to be a blast. The art looks good, all we're missing is your beautiful face.

See you all tomorrow!

Are you in Philly? Tonight: Daniel Klass Beckwith @ NAPOLEON

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An Exhibition of Sculptures
from Richmond, Virginia from Daniel Klaas Beckwith
infinite fadeaway: Invisible objects where Heisenberg's uncertainty holds; and things may not be viewed and named simultaneously. The continuation of understandings or curiosities, taken as a halo to be worn out.
murder
Knowledge is entertainment alone, and honesty is all that exists.

Opening: TONIGHT: August 5th, 2011: 6pm-10pm

@ NAPOLEON

319 N. 11th St.

Philadelphia, PA

Gallery hours: Saturdays and Sundays 2:00pm - 6:00pm

and by appointment.

Show runs through August 31st.

See more of Daniel Klaas Beckwith's work, here.

Wednesday Work: Christopher Hartshorne

Nebula Christopher Hartshorne

This week's Wednesday work is Philly's own Christopher Hartshorne.

Walking those winding, unassuming stairs up to the second floor of the "Vox building", (a derelict property, just north of China Town, that has been re purposed housing apartments, at least one suite of textile factory-type work, and a myriad of artist-run spaces, including: Vox Populi, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Marginal Utility, Grizzly Grizzly - and the NEW NAPOLEON) I didn't think we were going to make it. Fresh from a down pour of summer thunder storms and a happy hour bar boasting half price everything until 8PM, the sweat was dripping off of our faces, pooling in blotchy splotchy patterns all over our clothes. We round the corner past the elevator doors and into the deplorable bathroom situation that is the second floor - quick past the growing crowd of gawkers in the hall,

And we were made a new once through the threshold of NAPOLEON's door.

The room was white, the air was cool, and we were met with large oversize huge gigantic prints made from woodblock, printed just so, on long rolls of paper delicately pinned to the walls and strung over utility pipes - I found my feet.

This is why we made the trip.

The beautiful movement and abstraction and depth of Christopher Hartshorne's woodblock prints let you in. They let you go - there - where? That's up to your imagination. They deftly set the stage, one with many different avenues and options, but they don't tell you what to say. A variation of line work mixed with subtle color shifts, the work a grotesque adventure, a memory, or a want - all depending on if you had 6 dark and stormys, or just 2 pale ales, at the happy hour bar, and your ability to synthesize alcohol.

I received the image in two parts, which I show together up top. Below, the two images as they were sent as separate. The image size, 96"x38". Now that's some big wood.

Go see the show for yourself!

Gallery hours at NAPOLEON: Saturdays 1-3. 319 N. 11th Street. 2nd Floor. Philadelphia, PA. Up through July.

And check out more of Christopher Hartshorne's work at his website, here.

Nebula Christopher Hartshorne

Nebula Christopher Hartshorne