Faces of Resilience
September 8 - October 27
Faces of Resilience is an exhibition of original artwork created by participants in Mural Arts Philadelphia’s Guild program and artists at SCI: Phoenix, southeast Pennsylvania’s maximum-security prison for men. The Guild is a paid apprenticeship that gives justice-impacted young people the opportunity to develop marketable job skills and reconnect with their community. Faces of Resilience explores the theme of portraiture, literal and metaphorical. Works in the exhibition visualize personal experiences of loss and hope and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibition gives voice to the perspectives of individuals who are otherwise largely silent in our society.
Frida Kahlo & The Art of Portraiture - Student Works
November 3 – December 29
The students of George Apotsos' “Frida Kahlo and the Art of Portraiture” class display their works in the gallery. The six-week course focused on self-portraiture as a means of self-discovery through studying face proportions, photo carbon transfer, charcoal pencil, surrealism, narrative painting, and symbolism.
Feminine Energy by Sister Helen Brancato
January 5 - February 23
This exhibit features the courage and strength of women from various ages and backgrounds who have lived their lives with passion and compassion. Hildegarde of Bingen, mystic and visionary, suffered exile for the doing of right. Others, like Dorothy Day, gave their lives to the poor and embraced the stranger by founding the Catholic Worker Movement. Brancato’s painting, “Song Over the Waters”, depicts Eve as well as all creative women who continue to release their energy through writing, painting, teaching, healing, and helping others. Frida Kahlo, who painted her pain, also depicted her hopes and dreams. Fidelity and endurance characterized these women, and these portraits honor the many ways that they expressed their talents and gifts.
Patterns by Barbara Berry
March 2 - April 27
Barbara Berry’s new exhibition explores the patterned relationship between people and animals. These patterns can be found in the markings on animals, insects, landscapes, prints, and textures. “Patterns” combines naturally occurring animal markings with human figures and manmade objects, highlighting the relationship of a shared pattern between two-dimensional markings and three-dimensional forms.
Abstracts of Barbara Lister-Sink
May 4 – August 31
Lister-Sink, an internationally acclaimed pianist and acknowledged global leader in injury-preventive keyboard technique, is equally passionate about art. That passion influenced her decision to study and work in Amsterdam and Italy for almost a decade as a watercolorist. In 2001, after a 20-year absence, Lister-Sink returned to visual art. Her mother Annie Lee Fitzgerald Sink had given her a set of Grumbacher pastels in 1980; Lister-Sink finally put them to use, creating abstract pastel drawings of the landscapes, seascapes, and irises of her native state of North Carolina. Her media of choice are pastel and ink because of their easy access to color and line, coincidentally her favorite aspects of musical performance.
In this exhibition, Lister-Sink combines her love of art and music in a piano performance correspondent with an exhibition of her works. This exhibit and recital are a celebration of color—in the glorious rich, velvety, pastel, shimmering, or iridescent colors of both the piano and the paintings.
