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!

A Thursday...for shameless self-promotion: The Future of Love

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The Future of Love
(-or- The Story of Cap't Capianna)
by Tamsen Wojtanowski
5"x8". soft cover. 19 pages. 2011.

See it here.

Wednesday Work: Yamini Nayar

Do you see that little eye? From Nayar's website: "Yamina Nayar's work explores an intersection found between photography, sculpture, and the constructed moment. Her large-scale photographs are made from sculptures built in the studio on tabletops from found and raw materials, and documented with a large-format camera. Nayar's works draw from historical sources of art and architecture, and fabricate structures that explore the natures of experience and memory in a contemporary moment. Once recorded, the structures are disassembled and discarded. Only the photograph remains, as an object and entry point into a moment held together for the lens." This is my kind of work!

Yamini Nayar

Wednesday Work: Anslem Kiefer

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A mixed media artist, painter, sculptor, installation artist - a mixed media artist who works with things like 700 lbs. of lead, making it into a book. A painter working with tar and emulsion, earth and concrete, and an eerie application of text. Anselm Kiefer.

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Keeping with our October theme, macabre and gray. Have you heard the term "vernacular architecture"? Its a term referring to regional architecture of the home-grown sort. The row home picture windows full in complete decoration for every major, and all forgotten, holiday home to home, and street to street in South Philly - that is an example of vernacular architecture. The style specific to fishing huts built in the backwoods of Maine - things like that.

I can't help but think Kiefer's work looks German and that I would like to visit.

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