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02/19/2024

As part of Natessa Amin’s “Feed the Moon” on view through Saturday, March 2nd at COMMONWEAL, we have four Gouache and Wax Crayon on Black Paper drawings created as preparatory works for paintings featured in the exhibition.

Each artist develops their artworks in different ways and it’s always exciting to see how they refine and organize their images as a way to end up with the most powerful formulation.

It’s wonderful to have these pairings on view at the gallery to offer our audience more insight into Amin’s development of her imagery.

COMMONWEAL is open Wednesday - Saturday, from 11:00 to 18:00.

Images:
‘Focus’, 7 x 5 in. (11 x 9 x .75 in. framed), Gouache and Wax Crayon on Black Paper, 2023
‘Refocus’, 10 x 8 x 2 in., Acrylic on Wood Panel, 2024
‘Auras’, 7 x 5 in. (11 x 9 x .75 in. framed), Gouache and Wax Crayon on Black Paper, 2023
‘Blue Aura’, 10 x 8 x 2 in., Acrylic on Wood Panel, 2024
‘Give it Time’, 7 x 5 in. (11 x 9 x .75 in. framed), Gouache and Wax Crayon on Black Paper, 2023
‘Scar Tissue’, 10 x 8 x 2 in., Acrylic on Wood Panel, 2024
‘Sutures’, 7 x 5 in. (11 x 9 x .75 in. framed), Gouache and Wax Crayon on Black Paper, 2023
‘River Twice’, 10 x 8 x 2 in., Acrylic on Wood Panel, 2024

02/16/2024

We are very excited that current exhibiting artist, Natessa Amin, is participating in the 2024 Wind Challenge Exhibition Series opening tonight from 6p to 8p!

Natessa’s exhibition “Feed the Moon” is on view at Commonweal through March 2nd!

Established in 1978 as The Challenge and now known as the Wind Challenge, Fleisher’s annual juried competition is committed to featuring the work of exceptional artists living in the Philadelphia region. Since its inception, the series has supported the careers of hundreds of emerging artists and introduced their work to thousands of visitors. The Wind Challenge Exhibition Series is made possible thanks to generous support from the Wind Foundation.

Image of Natessa Amin courtesy of Aaron Richter.
Images of Natessa’s works from the “Back To Square One” series on view as part of the Wind Challenge!

02/14/2024

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SAT•FEB•17 / 12:00 - 13:30
In Conversation: Natessa Amin & Daralyse Lyons

Join us at COMMONWEAL as Daralyse Lyons and Natessa Amin explore ‘Feed the Moon’ through a discussion of Amin’s transcultural upbringing and biracial identity, and how both have impacted her approach to meaning-making through the imagery she develops within her paintings.

Daralyse Lyons is a Biracial journalist, actor, and activist who has made it her mission to stand for a more integrated world. She is co-host of the On Being Biracial podcast, which amplifies the voices of multiethnic people of a variety of ages and experiences, centering their shared experiences as well as their inherent diversity. She has written and spoken extensively about all dimensions of diversity, and feels tremendous gratitude for the opportunity to use her seemingly disparate background as a catalyst for cross-cultural understanding.

Images:
Natessa Amin [photo courtesy of Aaron Richter]
Daralyse Lyons
Energy Itself, 10 x 8 x 2 in., Acrylic Paint on Wood Panel, 2024

02/13/2024

Some wonderful studio shots of current exhibiting artist Natessa Amin by Aaron Richter. Stop by COMMONWEAL this week to view and collect some wonderful works of contemporary painting from Amin’s ‘Feed the Moon’.

02/07/2024

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Join us this Saturday from 12:00 - 13:30 at COMMONWEAL as Dr. Roksana Filipowska and Natessa Amin explore ‘Feed the Moon’ through a discussion of the texts and ideas that acted as source materials for Amin in her construction of this body of work that engages regenerative processes and cycles of healing. This event will take place the day after the new moon and Lunar New Year, a wonderful time to think about relationships and change. Engaging with the exhibition title ‘Feed the Moon’, Dr. Filipowska will explore with Natessa issues of nourishment and finding sustenance through Amin’s lived experience of being an artist.

Roksana Filipowska, Ph.D., is researcher, educator and third-generation tarot reader working at the intersections of art, science and spirituality. She completed her doctorate in art history at the University of Pennsylvania and served as the inaugural Wurtele Study Center Manager at the Yale University Art Gallery. Filipowska developed Being Present with Art, a method for integrating mindfulness-based stress reduction meditation with art museum pedagogy and offers courses and retreats in this method. As an Art, Culture and Equity Consultant with Keen Independent Research, Filipowska advises cities and counties on developing sustainable support for local art, culture and creatives. Filipowska also teaches at the Barnes Foundation, where she recently offered the course Mysticism, Spirituality and Modern Art.

Images:
Natessa Amin [photo courtesy of Aaron Richter]
Dr. Roksanna Filipowska
Bounty, 10 x 8 x 2 in., Acrylic Paint and Mirrors on Wood Panel, 2024

02/03/2024

Natessa Amin, ‘Sweet Ritual’, 24 x 20 x 2 in., Acrylic on Wood Panel, 2024

On view in “Feed the Moon” at Commonweal through March 2nd.

01/25/2024

With the generous support of MPN Realty and the East Passyunk Business Improvement District, Feed the Moon co-curator Rebecca O’ Leary (Executive Director of the East Passyunk BID) has organized an exhibition of reproductions of Amin’s paintings in the windows of 1805 East Passyunk Avenue as part of a ‘Contemporary Art on the Avenue’ program.

Join us on Tuesday, January 30th from 17:00 to 19:00 as Amin shares her thoughts on the thematic and material approaches that went into developing her newest body of work while viewing this satellite exhibition. Afterwards, Stogie Joe’s Tavern will host a private happy hour for guests with wine, beer and square pies provided!

Image: Natessa Amin, ‘Labyrinth’, 30 x 40 x 2 in., Acrylic on Wood Panel, 2024

01/13/2024

In Natessa Amin’s exhibition ‘Feed the Moon’, opening at COMMONWEAL this Friday the 19th from 17:00 - 21:00, her imagery draws upon sources such as mystical philosophy and ecological and bodily cycles of change over time. To delve into her practice further, we took a moment to ask Amin if there were any visual artists or writers that dealt with similar concerns of synthesizing abstract experience with real world circumstances which she drew inspiration from in creating her newest body of work.

“In recent months, I’ve developed a deep fascination with the Spanish surrealist artist, Remedios Varo. Varo sought to unravel the mysteries beyond our ordinary perception of the world, translating these profound experiences into her art. Her unwavering belief in the transformative power of nature resonates with me.

I’m captivated by the enchanting worlds Varo crafted in her works. Further research unveiled shared concerns and inspirations, including a mutual fascination with magic, alchemy, and transformation. Additionally, we both share an interest in creating unique textures and surfaces in our art. Varo’s imagery, for me, illuminates the mystical potential inherent in painting—something I contemplate often in my artistic process.

Exploring Varo’s influences led me to the Russian mystic and philosopher, George Gurdjieff. This discovery inspired the title of my upcoming exhibition ‘Feed the Moon’. The title reflects Gurdjieff’s concept that Earth will eventually evolve into a new sun, and humans bear the mission of emotionally nurturing the moon to sustain organic life on Earth. Interestingly, both Varo and Gurdjieff expressed concerns about climate change as early as the 1930s, underscoring their shared foresight of environmental matters.”

Images:
1) Photograph of Natessa Amin courtesy of Aaron Richter.
2) Remedios Varo, Bordando el manto terrestre (Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle), 1961. © 2020 Estate of Remedios Varo / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid. Courtesy of Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
3) Natessa Amin, Having Circled the Sky, Acrylic on Wood Panel, 24 x 20 x 2 in., 2023

01/04/2024

Save the Date!
Natessa Amin - Feed the Moon | FRI•DEC•19 / 17:00 - 21:00

COMMONWEAL is pleased to announce its first exhibition of 2024: Natessa Amin’s Feed the Moon, featuring over a dozen new paintings and works on paper. Join us for the opening celebration on Friday, January 19th from 17:00 - 21:00.

Feed the Moon addresses themes including memory, mysticism, ritual, and place through the lens of Amin’s transcultural identity — as a child of the Indian diaspora and her upbringing in Pennsylvania. Throughout her works she implements an ever-growing lexicon of evocative symbols alluding to notions of creation and destruction.

The exhibition takes its title from the writings of the mystic philosopher G.I. Gurdjieﬀ whose works embrace his syncretic approach to philosophy, bringing together Eastern and Western inﬂuences to develop new approaches to reconcile physical and spiritual wounds. The act of “feeding the moon” is a metaphor for self-revelation and consciousness raising, contending with and navigating personal trauma in order to find a place of equilibrium within ourselves and with others.

Having grown up with two parents in the medical ﬁeld, an awareness of the changes our bodies undergo were always present in Amin’s life. Physical scars became signifiers of transformation and the manifestation of bodily experience. In her works, Amin employs techniques similar to those used by medical professionals, such as masking, scraping, cauterizing and sculpting layers of paint. Like scar tissue, her paintings emphasize transition and growth that heal over remnants and residues of the past.

Feed the Moon is organized in partnership with (re)FOCUS 2024 at Moore College of Art & Design, by co-curators Alex Conner and Rebecca O’Leary. A selection of Amin’s works on view at COMMONWEAL will be reproduced in the windows of 1805 East Passyunk Avenue as part of a collaborative ‘Art on the Avenue’ exhibition hosted by the East Passyunk Business Improvement District and sponsored by MPN Realty.

Image above: Natessa Amin, ‘As Above So Below’, 40 x 30 x 2 in. (102 x 76 x 5 cm.), Acrylic Paint on Wooden Panel, 2023

11/10/2023

Please join us tonight for the opening reception of LUX tonight from 18:00 - 21:00!

LUX surveys cutting-edge visual language by Philadelphia designers whose incisive, playful and innovative approaches to materiality and function help define contemporary tastes locally and beyond. Featuring lighting, clothing, furniture, tapestries, illustrations and more, LUX delights with unique objects that reframe and enhance how we experience the spaces we inhabit.

ALL CAPS STUDIO
Armando Veve
Carl Durkow
D. P. Clark Studio
Duende Textiles
John Souter
Sean Gerstley
Shade Brigade by Patty Crash
Tuft the World

10/31/2023

Very excited to share these amazing installation photos of Marian Bailey‘s “Find What Grounds You” (Dye-Sublimated Print on Polyester and Cotton Banners with Acrylic Hardware, 96 x 112 x 4 in., 2023) at and photographed by .jess.laird . This work is permanently installed in the building’s entryway. Stop by to enjoy Marian’s beautiful imagery that explores blackness at rest.

09/27/2023

Please join us at the gallery this Saturday, September 30th, from 12:00 - 13:30, for a panel discussion with Diane Burko, Syd Carpenter, Anne Minich and Eileen Neff to learn more about how each artists’ lives and art have pushed boundaries in Philadelphia and beyond.

Seating is limited and available on a first-come basis.

Diane Burko's practice considers the marks that human conversations make on the landscape. A Professor Emerita of the Community College of Philadelphia, as well having taught at Princeton University, Burko has received multiple grants from the NEA, the Pennsylvania Arts Council, the Leeway Foundation and the Independence Foundation. She began her career as a landscape painter but in the last 20 years her work has transformed into environmental advocacy, analyzing the impact of industrial and colonial activity on the geographies of the world. Burko seeks to visually emulsify interconnected subjects - extraction, deforestation, extinction, environmental justice, indigenous genocide, ecological degradation, climate collapse, so viewers might feel their connection viscerally through the beauty of her work. Burko has been awarded residencies in Giverny, Bellagio, the Arctic Circle, and the Amazon Rainforest, and has shown nationally and internationally. In 2021, her exhibition Diane Burko: Seeing Climate Change at the American University Museum in Washington was cited in the New York Times as one of the best shows of 2021 on the subject of climate change.

Syd Carpenter is an artist and a retired professor of studio art at Swarthmore College, where she was appointed to the Endowed Peggy Chan Professorship of Black Studies in January 2021. She is known for her ceramic and sculpture work, which explores African-American farming and gardening. In 2021, Carpenter and artist Steve Donegan, designed and constructed "hugel mounds" at Woodmere Museum as environmental art pieces. She has received multiple fellowships including a Pew Fellowship, United States Artist Fellowship and an Anonymous Was a Woman Fellowship. Her work is currently in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Swedish National Museum, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 2022, Carpenter appeared in the award-winning documentary series Craft in America (episode "Home") alongside artists Biskakone Greg Johnson, Wharton Esherick, and Sim Van der Ryn.

Anne Minich was born in Philadelphia, spending her early years on a farm in Chester County outside the city, an experience which was influential in shaping many of her ideas regarding approaches to making her work. In 1981 she returned to Philadelphia where she has lived ever since. Over the past 50 years, Minich has created drawings on paper, carved wooden sculptures and three-dimensional paintings inlaid with found objects and text, all of which employ autobiography to explore themes of sexual desire, violence, spirituality, place, parenthood, family and many other subjects. Minich received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2013, a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 2017, and her works can be found in numerous private and institutional collections in North America and Europe.

Eileen Neff has been working with photo-based images and installations since 1981. Her work draws on both historic and contemporary concepts of picturing the natural and constructed world, as well as being an investigation of studio practice itself. Increasingly, it has developed in relation to the sites where she’s exhibited, engaging forms of display and presentation as another critical layer of consideration. Neff has been the recipient of the John S. Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts Grant, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, and the Leeway Foundation Artist Grant. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum International, Art in American, Modern Painters, The New York Times, dArt International, Artnet, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Photo Review, and Circa Art Magazine, among others.

09/19/2023

Please join us this Thursday at COMMONWEAL to hear artist Anne Minich share insights into her life and artistic practice with Containing Multitudes co-curator Tally de Orellana. There will be a question and and answer period following Minich and de Orellana's discussion. Seating is limited.

Anne Minich was born in Philadelphia and spent her early years on a farm in Chester County outside the city, an experience which was influential in shaping many of her ideas regarding approaches to making her work. She spent two years studying art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1950s, married, had three children, attended the University of Miami in for two years in the early 1970s, moved to New York City and then in 1981 returned to Philadelphia, where she has lived ever since.

Over the past 50 years, Minich has created drawings on paper, carved wooden sculptures and three-dimensional paintings inlaid with found objects and text, all of which employ autobiography to explore themes of sexual desire, violence, spirituality, place, parenthood, family and many other subjects.

Tally de Orellana has dual degrees in Arts Administration and Policy and Modern Art History, Theory and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Born in Spain and raised in Italy, France, and the United Kingdom, she holds an MA in Art History and Architecture from The University of Edinburgh (UK, 2012).

Since 2006 she has worked and collaborated in a number of curatorial projects in Italy, France, Britain and in the US. These include being part of the curatorial team for the MFA Show at SAIC, being a curatorial fellow at Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago) and serving as development coordinator at Elastic Arts (Chicago, 2016). She held the 2016-2017 Hilla Rebay International Fellowship at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, working in their exhibitions programming in New York, Bilbao, and Venice. She recently held the Daniel W. Dietrich II curatorial fellowship in Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

09/17/2023

We’re still recovering from the outpouring of excitement, love and admiration at Anne Minich’s opening reception this past Friday. Thanks to all who were able to make it. ‘Containing Multitudes: Anne Minich’s Head Series, 1974 - 2023’ runs through Saturday, October 28th.

09/08/2023

We’re so proud to be exhibiting selected works on paper from the past 50 years by Anne Minich at !

09/06/2023

It’s Armory week and Commonweal is excited to be participating in Art on Paper New York. Commonweal’s booth [D19] will feature a survey of works created over the past fifty years by Anne Minich (b. 1934), showcasing a range of important themes her work has sought to confront and explore throughout her lifetime.

Since the late-1960’s Minich’s work has used autobiography as a space from which to explore themes of sexual desire, violence, spirituality, place and community along with many other subjects that define who she is and how she encounters the world.

The survey presented at Art On Paper New York will feature 17 works that span the early-1970s through 2022, showcasing not only Minich’s inimitable spirit, but also her technical expertise, rebellious sense of humor and deep empathy for the human condition. Beautifully executed character studies will share space in the booth with pensive environments of contemplation, alongside surreal reconfigurations of emotional architectures.

At 89, Minich continues to create works through the lens of her own lived experience and invites her audience to reclaim and expand their own definition of selfhood by employing approaches of radical self-interrogation and patient reflection.

Images:
- 'Door Nobs', Etching (edition of 5, 2 APs), 16 x 16 in. 1973
- 'A Fragile Passion', Gold Ink, Graphite and Watercolor on Paper, 22 x 16 in. 1999
- 'Leaving New York City', Collage and Graphite on Paper, 21.25 x 31.5 in. 2013
- 'A E', Graphite on Paper, (each) 6 x 4 in. 2010
- 'North Country Man (Portrait of George Dworzan)', Colored Pencil and Graphite on Paper, 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. 1979
- 'The Three Wise Ass Men; Miss Fancy Pants, Miss Bad Ass, Miss Gotcha, Sisters of Miss Coffee', Colored Pencil and Graphite on Paper in Custom Mat, 12 x 21 in. 2022
- Portrait of Anne Minich courtesy of Aaron Richter

08/31/2023

COMMONWEAL’s fall season will open tomorrow with 'Containing Multitudes: Anne Minich’s Head Series, 1974 - 2023', which be on view from FRI•SEPT•01 through SAT•OCT•28, with an opening reception on FRI•SEPT•15 from 18:00 to 21:00.

For our friends observing Rosh Hashanah on the evening of the 15th, we invite you to please stop by the gallery on the evening of THUR•SEPT•14 from 18:00 to 20:00, for a reception to celebrate with Anne and explore her work.

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
- Walt Whitman, excerpt from Song of Myself, 51

08/28/2023

Anne Minich's "Ancient Secrets" will be on view this September in 'Containing Multitudes: Anne Minich's Head Series, 1974-2023'. This exhibition opens on Friday, September 1st, and runs through Saturday, October 28th. ⁠
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Anne Minich, Ancient Secrets, 2002. Found objects, shell and oil paint and wood. 21 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. Courtesy of the artist
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08/24/2023

We are excited to honor the wonderful work and spirit of Anne Minich this fall with the exhibition 'Containing Multitudes: Anne Minich's Head Series, 1974-2023', which will run from Friday, September 1st, through Saturday, October 28th. With loans from multiple museums and private collections, this exhibition assembles for the first time thirty-two original paintings and drawings by Anne Minich from this introspective and enigmatic body of work. Created over the past 49 years, and employing the outline of Minich’s head and upper torso traced after having her head shaved in 1974 - a radical act of depersonalization demonstrating her political and personal agency - they explore the complex experiences she has faced as an artist, a woman, a mother and a friend.

Please join us for the opening on Friday, September 15th, from 18:00 to 21:00!

All photos courtesy of Aaron Richter.

08/20/2023

Anne Minich's "Empty Tomb" will be on view this September in 'Containing Multitudes: Anne Minich's Head Series, 1974-2023'. This exhibition opens on Friday, September 1st and runs through Saturday, October 28th.

Artwork: Empty Tomb, 1995. Ceramic shards and graphite on wood. 25 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. Courtesy of the artist.

08/15/2023

Join us for the opening reception of 'Containing Multitudes: Anne Minich’s Head Series, 1974 - 2023' on Friday, September 15th, from 18:00 to 21:00.

08/01/2023

'Containing Multitudes: Anne Minich’s Head Series, 1974 - 2023' will open at Commonweal this September, assembling for the first time over twenty-five original paintings and drawings by Anne Minich from this introspective and enigmatic body of work. Created over the past 49 years, and employing the outline of Minich’s head and upper torso traced after having her head shaved in 1974 - a radical act of depersonalization demonstrating her political and personal agency - they explore the complex experiences she has faced as an artist, a woman, a mother and a friend.

Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, September 15th from 18:00 to 21:00.

07/29/2023

Thanks for a terrific year. We'll see you in September!

07/28/2023

Bryn Ziegler, b. 1997 / State College, Pennsylvania [she/her/hers]
Master of Fine Arts in Book Arts and Printmaking from the University of the Arts

Ziegler is a Philadelphia-based book artist and illustrator. At the heart of her artistic practice are narrative books that draw on the visual language of comics. Ziegler aims to craft compelling, interactive objects that foster connection and community. The subject matter of her work is wide-ranging but frequently rooted in her own experiences and maintains a level of intimacy, even when they are commenting on larger power structures. Recently, her works have been inspired by the interplay between the internal development of q***r identity and external influences. Ziegler’s work was recently included in the National Association of Hand Papermakers’ collegiate triennial show, traveling until 2024, and the 2022 Philadelphia Center for the Book group exhibition A New Normal.

Artworks:
Bryn Ziegler, 'Don't Look Into the Abyss', 8" x 4.5" x .75", Artist Book (edition of 50), 2023, $40.—
Bryn Ziegler, 'Don't Look Into the Abyss (Deluxe Edition)', 9.75" x 9.75" x 1.5", Artist Book (edition of 5)
, 2023, $300.—

07/26/2023

Lasha Stewart, b. 1999 / Atlanta, Georgia [she/her/hers]⁠
Masters of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts⁠
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Stewart is a Black American artist working in Philadelphia. She graduated from Drake University with a BA where she majored in Studio Art, with a concentration in Drawing. She participated in the Summer Undergraduate Residency at the New York Academy of Art, where her art was featured in a final group exhibition. Lasha received her Masters of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work centers around themes of identity, societal struggles, and emotions. Lasha enjoys the use of found objects and materials ranging from tires to slinkies to secondhand fabrics. The use of these materials is just as important as the narratives that she instills into her pieces.⁠
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Artwork: Lasha Stewart, 'If I Could Hold You', 60" x 48" x 1.25", Oil Paint on Upholstery Fabric, Plastic Hair Clips and Yarn, 2023, $1600.—

07/25/2023

Sean Starowitz, b. 1988 / Louisville, Kentucky [he/him/his]
Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture

Starowitz’s work is rooted in artistic research-based practice. His art wrestles with fissures in the contemporary moment regarding ethical practices, the environment, and perception and directly engages media images and historical materials translated through drawing, sculpture, and moving image. Conceptual frameworks intersect with ideologies of extraction, economics, labor & leisure, and politics. Starowitz believes that it is essential that artists participate as ethical makers, mindful of material and consequence. He has worked in a variety of community-based contexts, spanning more than a decade of socially engaged art practice. He uses archival research and public memory as material to reframe our current understanding of natural history and political imaginaries. Sean received his Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.

Artwork: Sean Starowitz, 'Seed the Future Works!', Dimensions Variable, Acrylic Paint, Cardboard and Wood, 2023, $300.— (each)

07/23/2023

Rudy Gerson, b. 1993 / Las Vegas, Nevada [any pronouns]
Masters of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design

Gerson is an artist who uses print, moving image, and performance to propose expanded possibilities of a hybridized Jewish approach to questions of race, secularity, sexuality and memory culture. Rooted in a working method identified as “critical nostalgia”, Gerson attends to the non-narrative, sensuous aspects of historical inquiry and its limits by employing the scrap as a recurring motif. In his recent work, the scrap emerges across forms in order to speculate with fragments and dislodge information from its intended use. Alongside a studio practice, Gerson has collaborated with artists and performers for stage and exhibition, having had work at Abrons Arts Center (2019, Jonathan González; 2022, Slauson Malone) LMCC's River-to-River festival (2022, Jonathan González), BRIC (2022, Jonathan González) and has performed for Tania Bruguera (2018) and Julie Tolentino (2023). Rudy studied Comparative Literature and Anthropology at Cornell University (B.A.). Rudy is a Philadelphia Fellow with the Flaherty Seminar (2023).

Artwork: Rudy Gerson, 'HEBREWS (bookmarked)', 40" x 26", Blind Embossing on BFK Rives 175 gms, 2023, $4000.—

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Shining the spotlight on Yikui (Coy) Gu, who is currently exhibiting works from his series “Classic Yellow” at Commonweal. Stop in before the 30th to see and collect his thoughtful reflections on identity formation in America through the lenses of race and nationalism. Images of the artist courtesy of @aaronrichterstudio

It’s the final weekend to view and collect the amazing work of Adam Lovitz and Seneca Weintraut. Stop by the gallery today and tomorrow to see the work of these two dynamic painters as they deal with cosmology, transformation and myth. (Music: Stereolab - Lo Boob Oscillator)

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Happy New Year! In 2022, we have a lot of great things up our sleeve, starting with our first exhibition of the year January 7th! Here's to a new year and a great start!

It's our last pop up of the season! Visit us Thursday through Sunday to shop designs featuring designers Ben Peterson, Isabella Akhtarshenas, and Keun Ho Peter Park. Don't forget, 10% of sales made at our pop ups go to the Attic Youth Center! Running from 6-9pm, make sure you shop the pop up while its around! We'll see you then!

Did you know that 10% of sales made during our holiday pop up shops go to the @atticyouthcenter? Visit us through Sunday for our Design Pop-Up Shop featuring the designs of Forge & Finish and Alexander Rosenberg. Stop by from 6-9pm!

Give the gift of art and design this season. Stop by Thursday, December 2 for our first Holiday Pop-up featuring the designs of Sean Gerstley. Gerstley creates unique utilitarian ceramic objects whose pinched and poked surfaces are adorned with his custom glazes guided by each object’s form and function. We hope to see you then!

Visit the gallery at 1607 Latimer today through Sunday 11.28, between 10:00 and 19:00, to explore objects from the gallery’s design capsule collection in person and enjoy a 10% discount and luxury tote bag with your purchase of any item. For our online shoppers, use the code HOLIDAY21 on our website to receive the same discount along with a tote bag. Shop your community. Shop contemporary.

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This Thursday from 18:00 - 20:00, October’s featured designers @crush.studio invite you to experience their Grounding Cushion in a sensory dream space at a subtly transformed version of Commonweal. Visit a world awash in soft hues and the gentle synth sounds of @daniel_alias_tague —an experiential manifestation of the cushion's embodying effect. Engage all your senses, enjoy an alluring butterfly pea cocktail, choose a cushion, and recline for a few moments of r-and-r. We hope to see you there. Proof of Vaccination required at the door.

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