Thursday, November 5th

Abington Art Center/Hiway Theater: Screwball Screening: The Yes Men Fix the World

As part of the AAC show Endurance: Daring Feats of Risk, Survival and Perseverance, the Center have teamed up with the Hiway Theater for a screening of the new film from those performance artists/activist types Yes Men (note, I use “performance” very loosely here). You can check out the trailer here. If you’ve never been to the Hiway before, now is your chance, and head up early to check our Endurance!
Starts at 7pm. Abington

First Friday, November 6th

AHN|VHS: Eric Veit: Country Instrument

Holy Good Timing! Erin Riley recently paid a visit to Eric’s Studio, and wouldn’t you know it, it just so happens to be up the same week as his show opens! We’re on top of things! Veit’s show gives us some new scultptures and W.O.P.’s (works on paper), including his own homemade Country Instrument.
Starts at 6pm, ends at 10. Center City/11th St. Mecca

Bambi: Serenata and Skirmish

Bambs presents Serenata and Skirmish this month, featuring the work of Tory Franklin who recently showed at Flux. And just like a pitcher who’s trying to make a batter think rather than swing, she’s keeping a majority of her work extends high beyond the regular line of site. I don’t know why I made a baseball reference there, sometimes, ok most of the time, I just slap the keyboard and words just appear.
Starts at 6pm, ends at 10. NoLibs/The Piazza

Extra Extra: The Spatial Awareness Club Presents…

Extra Extra, a new exhibition space and bookstore in New Kensington, gets itself off to a running start this week, and they need your help. The gang has a mural planned, and it’ll be set up as a paint by numbers format for you to lend your brush to. The subject material: a 1996 Geo Tracker! Also, Young ICe and Hopalong will be playing, and there will be games abound to test your spatial awareness. Stop by, say hi, and ask for good books!
Starts at 6pm. Fishtown

Mount Airy Contemporary Artist Spaces: On the Fringe of Nature

On the Fringe of Nature brings together three artists, Amy Chan, Siobhan McBride, and John Slaby. From the p.r.:

“[their work]inhabits the region where human habitation intermingles with the natural environment – a porous, permeable border where neither civilization nor nature remains pristine, and cross-pollination can create surprises.”

Starts at 6, ends at 9pm. Mount Airy

Projects Gallery: Jim Brossy: Left Behind

A man who focuses on the often overlooed, Jim Brossy opens up his second solo show at Projects gallery this week. His mixed media assemblages hit many people-types, including “blue-collar workers, barflies, the homeless, children, and the detritus of society”. Rauschenberg kind of screams out here, not that that’s a bad thing, but it really screams…
Starts at 6, ends at 9pm. Northern Liberties

Pterodactyl: Creepy

Pterodactyl brings you Creepy, which seems to be the most appropriate name. 13 artists bring their work together, all of which is described as “offputting and mildly uncomfortable”. Maybe there will be a piece where Birdman just talks to you for 20 minutes and won’t let you leave the room. Also, Controlled Storms, Mercury Radio Theater, and Eat Your Birthday Cake will rock the dino DNA out of you. Pterodactyl suggest a $5 donation for the bands.
Starts at8 (Bands at 8:30, probably more like 9:30 though) Fishtown

Sande Webster Gallery: Sam Gilliam and Barkley L. Hendricks

Gilliams work mixes geometric forms and “expressionist gestures”. It looks like he actually builds up the canvas with objects as well as paint. Hendricks brings some small oval paintings of the Carribean in Love to Lou, new work in the midst of his Barkley L. Hendricks, Birth of the Cool on view at PAFA thought Jan. 13th.
Starts at 6, ends at 8pm. Center City

Space 1026: Dead of the Living Night

Yes! Dead of the Living Night brings together Jonathan Cammisa and Jonah Birns, both Philadelphia Natives. Their installation/video/sculpture show takes you from a crappy old video store where the best cheese-ball horror movies fill the shelves (may the South Street TLA rest in peace) to a flight on a magnificent beast to a monster corpse pile topped with a video. If you stared at VHS tapes in the horror aisle as a kid and drooled at the ridiculous possibilities they could hold, this show might be your favorite stop on Friday night. If not, you don’t really have to go, but then you will never learn how to close The Gate.
Starts at 7, ends at 10pm. Center City

Tiger Strikes Asteroid: P. Timothy Gierschick II: Patch and Plot

Gierschick presents us with flat motifs reminiscent of common symbols such as hearts and stop signs, but notice I only said ‘reminiscent’. And yes, I still think this gallery has one of the most rad names in Philadelphia. Take that PMA!
Starts at 6, ends at 10pm. Center City/11th St. Mecca

Vox Populi: Too Many Exhibitions

So, Too Many Exhibitions is not the name of the show. There are just so many Names, if I typed them all in the title, there would be nothing to do down here. So, this month at Vox: Robert Chaney, Paul Swenback & Clint Takeda with None More Black (yeah Black Sabbath mythology!), Jamie Dillon with Mystic Revelations Get Out the Place (nihilism, optimism, mounments, and re-birth!), Charles Hobbs with Pucking Up Flowers (new W.O.P.’s), Rebekah Potter & James Gillispie curated by Sam Farnsworth, Jesse Green with The Portrait of Jack Goldstein (video/animation), and Lynne Marsh’s Ballroom will be screening.
Starts at 6, ends at 11pm. Center City/11th St. Mecca

Saturday, November 7th

Slinguff Gallery: Nick Pederson

Pederson’s art takes on the Human World vs. the Natural World. From the p.r.:

“We’re all influenced in the world around us, and artists are no exception. Pederson’s multimedia artwork is deeply rooted in environmental and political issues depicting the world we live in now; organic vs. inorganic, and animal verses machine.”

Starts at 6pm. Fishtown

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