Art in the Open Philadelphia

Nancy Agati

Philadelphia, PA

Objects found, the discarded are resurrected as forms to be considered, to be reconstructed things noticed from the periphery are ...

Maria Anasazi

Philadelphia, PA

My plan for the four days of AiO is to work with books. I will be making a large scale ...

George Apotsos

Philadelphia, PA

My preliminary idea is to create and display a number of transparent wire figures that are made by utilizing a ...

Cynthia Back

Lansdowne, PA

I work as a printmaker and painter.  I also use fragments of prints and paintings combined with gouache paint to ...

Laura Anderson Barbata

New York, NY

During the four-day work period I will create an outdoor costume- and sculpture-making workshop - Please Touch the Art. I will ...

Sonia Elizabeth Barrett

Nurnberg, Germany

My work looks at and debates bastions, values and desires within the black communities across the Diaspora. As a member ...

Michael Bartmann

Philadelphia, PA

"That was the chief difference between Olmsted and the other architects. They wanted to create order out of chaos. He ...

Joan Becker

Philadelphia, PA

My personal interest lies in the selection and combination of color, development of shapes, construction of composition, and clarity and ...

Erika Bergere

I would like to have the audience participate in creating Cyanotype prints, and piece together a final collage. On the ...

Ava Blitz

Wynnewood, PA

For Art in the Open Philadelphia I plan to construct and fly/float sculptures reminiscent of ducks, geese, and fish ...

Ellen K. Bonett

Philadelphia, PA

I want to engage my audience.  My art is not just a reflection of myself; it is a culmination of ...

Harry Bower

Island Heights, NJ

I hope to work with the "Lawn chair Webbing" and continue to investigate new locations to mount the work, i ...

Michele Brody

New York, NY

For Art in the Open Philadelphia I will be re-creating the installation Presencing.  For this site- specific ephemeral project, my ...

Barbara Broughel

West Port, CT

My work is primarily conceptual in nature, but somewhat unique in its attention to materials and craft.  The works are ...

Zoe Cohen

Philadelphia, PA

My work is motivated by my interests in origin, identity, and place. I seek to create images that address contemporary ...

Brussels Collective

Brussels, Belgium

By joining gestography, sculpture and painting as team-projects in an open and so beautiful space as the Fairmont Park, we ...

Nic Coviello

Philadelphia, PA

Working outside, "in the open", feeling the space, and loosing oneself in the in the infinite gestures of light and ...

Brian Dennis

Philadelphia, PA

The temporary nature of my installations celebrates reflection. Combining varied materials such as metal leaf with coffee stirrers, along with ...

Abdelkrim Djennas

Philadelphia, PA

In the past few years, my studio practice as a painter has expanded to working with recycled materials, such as ...

Nicole Donnelly

Philadelphia, PA

For Art in the Open, I plan to gather natural materials from the area along the river to construct a ...

Laure Drogoul

Baltimore, MD

For AIO, I will create a small mobile smell laboratory to engage and invite the public to contribute their olfactory ...

Anda Dubinskis

Philadelphia, PA

I plan to work up a foliage pattern from plant-life found along the banks of the Schuylkill River and from ...

Beverly Fisher

Philadelphia, PA

I have been researching issues surrounding the Delaware River Estuary, and early nautical charts from the "New World" exploration and ...

Mindy Flexer

Philadelphia, PA

After returning from a delicious month of painting landscape in Florence a few years ago, I decided I shouldn't ...

Candace Fong

Owings Mills, MD

Media: drawing, installation

Valerie George

San Francisco, CA

I have built an art car called the "Car Kit" which is a 1983 300TD Mercedes Benz Wagon, running on ...

Barbara Gesshel

Philadelphia, PA

The work I am looking to undertake will be in watercolor, chalk, and murals on paper using tempera (ie large ...

Andrew J. Harrison

Hightstown, NJ

Utopia is, at its center, without a center. It exists as a glimmer of light from a door that cracks ...

Nancy Herman

Merion Station, PA

I welcome an opportunity to paint around the river and at Bartram Gardens and to share my enthusiasm for everyday ...

Ana B. Hernandez and Russell Mahoney

Philadelphia, PA

In collaboration with an architectural designer, we propose an installation studying the metamorphosis of the synthetic space being overtaken by ...

Carolyn Hesse

Philadelphia, PA

I would like to kayak along the river during the festival and gather specific materials (wood, plastic, glass, bobbers,etc ...

Roy Andres Hofer

Rheinfelden, Switzerland

My piece, Globalized Luncheon on the grass, references the French painter Édouard Manet and his famous work Le déjeuner ...

Susan Hogan

Lower Makefield, PA

I have been making garments all my life - from doll clothes and paper dolls to sewing my own clothes, then ...

Warren Holzman

Philadelphia, PA

For Art in the Open Philadelphia I will be using fabricated steel molds to create custom cast concrete forms. I ...

Emeka Ikebude

Columbus, OH

Making art, particularly sculpture, is a need within me, almost a compulsion.  It is for this reason that I am ...

Ellie Irons

Brooklyn, NY

I generally do site-specific installations built with natural materials I find on location. I've worked in parks before and ...

Leslie Kaufman

Philadelphia, PA

Structures contain within them the seeds of the past, the present, and the future.  Housing memory, their walls preserve what ...

Amber Ginsburg and Rebecca Keller

Oak Park, IL

We are collaborators with a great deal of experience in working both in public and with the public in creative ...

Michael Kolster

Brunswick, ME

Participating in AiO will allow me to widen the comparative component of my current project, which examines American post-industrial rivers ...

Diedra Krieger

Philadelphia, PA

My ongoing project is Plastic Fantastic, an immersive environment for play ...

Georges Le Chevallier

Garner, NC

As an installation artist I am seeking this outdoor exhibition opportunity due to my strong believe in the creative process ...

David Lee

Whitehall, PA

I plan to paint watercolors on location along the Schuylkill banks.  I'll paint whatever is in front of me ...

Dan Lobdell

Lancaster, PA

Rivers flow through landscapes dense with traces of past human presence. The images here represent a work-in-progress, a project that ...

Carole Loeffler

Philadelphia, PA

It is the knowledge, investigation, exploration, and continual experience of making that motivates me.  It is the desire to explore ...

Chloris Lowe

Philadelphia, PA

I am currently working on an ongoing series of pieces in which I give myself a short amount of time ...

Elizabeth Mackie

Frenchtown, NJ

Folk tales, stories, oral narratives and legends are the inspiration for many of my sculptures. The stories' portrayal of women ...

Virginia Maksymowicz

Philadelphia, PA

My goal as a visual artist is to create iconographies that can communicate ideas to a range of audiences. The ...

Joseph Mangrum

New York, NY

Medium: installation

Ed Marston

Pipersville, PA

Plein air painting is a good way to refamiliarize oneself with the practice of seeing. When I paint outdoors the ...

S. Zachary Martin

Philadelphia, PA

The drawings and paintings I create are a result of my experience of a place. The complex relationships that exist ...

Austin + Mergold

Philadelphia, PA

Domus Avicus Philadelphicus endeavors to draw aviary urban habitats into the public eye by creating urban bird shelters inspired by ...

Jeannie Moberly

Upper Darby, PA

My plan for this year's event is winding rows of surreal plants and insects using a magnified scale that ...

Sarah Jackson Moore

Bloomington, IN

I am stealing the patterns and textures from not only beaver markings but also embroidery stitches, bark, leaves, grass, dirt ...

Arpie Gennetian Najarian

Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Making art has always been my way of creating order and capturing the beauty of the lines and forms of ...

Peter Nein

Pottsville, PA

I am continually in awe of subtleties of nature that surround us. This is the origin of my inspiration: the ...

Anna G. Norton

Philadelphia, PA

All of my work as a visual artist attempts to understand and mark the experience of being in the physical ...

Daniel Petraitis

Philadelphia, PA

Medium: sculpture

Francesca Pfister

Philadelphia, PA

I think of my work as a form of visual archeology. I explore the physical world around me, looking for ...

Carol Philips

Philadelphia, PA

Making art, for me, feels like a jam session among materials, emotions, thoughts, imagination, perceptions, memories, inspirations - and more. The ...

Christopher Pierro

White Plains, NY

For many people graffiti is considered an act of vandalism or a crime and deserves no place in the traditional ...

Dolores Poacelli

Collingswood, NJ

I begin my general statement by saying that Relationships are never easy . . . especially those between color, shape, texture and space ...

Cynthia Richards

Canonsburg, PA

No matter where I am I always have a container with me for collecting loose pieces of paper and the ...

Abbey Ryan

Philadelphia, PA

begin by being patient with yourself, later you can be patient with others. (name of the game is patience)    

These ...

Paul Santoleri

Philadelphia, PA

I intend to use various sites in the area, to embellish with drawings in ink (silk-screened onto a thin tracing ...

Diane Savona

Passaic, NJ

Diane incorporates various items in her textile art, embedding small tools, buttons and coins between layers of cloth. For Art ...

Gary Garrido Schneider

Montclair, NJ

Using athletic field marking paint I propose to install one of my site specific Field Drawings in a grass field ...

Tremain Smith

Philadelphia, PA

During Art in the Open Philadelphia I will be painting on wood panels to create works that reflect the order ...

Simone Spicer

Wyndmoor, PA

I have a huge collection of plastic containers and lids, and would be interested in stringing them together like beads ...

Leah Stein Dance Company

Philadelphia, PA

Art in the Open Performances at Schuylkill Banks - Saturday, June 11, 6 pm and 7:30 pm

For over 15 ...

Karen Stone

Philadelphia, PA

I consider myself a collector of artifacts, information and the stuff of life imbued with symbolism.  My work is characteristically ...

Katie Tackman

Philadelphia, PA

I would like to explore using Polaroids and Fuji instant film for Art in the Open. I have been using ...

Denise Karabinus Telang

Portland, ME

Working behind a temporary structure that is a graceful spin on a traditional blind used by hunters to stalk prey ...

Blaise Tobia

Philadelphia, PA

I will be photographing at various locations along the Art in the Open Philadelphia route and at various times, both ...

Mat Tomezko

Philadelphia, PA

I propose to create a series of paintings about the river, its wildlife, and our complex connection to it.  The ...

Roman Tybinko

Secane, PA

Working from direct observation has always been an important discipline for me, though with my recent work I've abandoned ...

Justin Tyner

Philadelphia, PA

Recycling broken bottles in combination with traditional stained glass materials has been my goal.  The broken bottle bottoms can be ...

Lauren Vargas

Philadelphia, PA

My current work focuses on making portraits of my family and friends.  One of my recent series aims to make ...

Amira Najah Whitfield

Philadelphia, PA

Creating art is one of the best moments of my day.  Being able to fill an empty canvas with my ...

Wendy Wolf

Philadelphia, PA

I plan to bring my collection of manufactured leaves and patterns collected from damaged leaves on-site to create new installations ...

Summer Yates

Pipersville, PA

I plan to divide my time during the 3-day exhibition between breaking mirrors (in a controlled, safe fashion) and assembling ...