You Go Girl Pictures

So I finally have pictures from You Go Girl, it was a great show, big success, and lots of fun. The gallery will be hosting another show soon enough, until then here is You Go Girl.  (Thanks to Laurence Salzmann for some of the pictures)

normal love

Christine Jones and Garip outside Cecilia Corrigan's consolation prize piece

Maiko Sembokuya

Christine Jones

Brian Blomerth

Sarah Everton

French Erection

More updates to come soon, with more artists/shows/etc.

Update on Photo West

Hey, so You Go Girl show was great, big success, thanks everyone for coming. It's still up till July 20th. The Japanese American Society of Greater Philadelphia did a great event listing for the show as well. Here's the link:

http://jasgp.org/component/option,com_events/Itemid,176/task,view_detail/agid,390/year,2008/month,06/day,20/

I'll have more info on the show's artists, reviews of the show, as well as other artists and shows coming up at the gallery on Monday. If you'd like to come see the show just email or call 267 237 8083!

Go to You Go Girl

Hey so the You Go Girl show is coming up and here are the details.  

It's Friday June 20th from 5pm -10pm.

It's Free!

Normal Love and French Erection will be playing the show with the performances starting at 8pm.

There will be art and wine and crepes and good times.

Here's the card

You Go Girl Card

This is the card for the You Go Girl show at PhotoWest June 20th, more on the next post

Narwhalz at Space 1026

Summer is coming up and with it another show at Photo West Gallery, entitled "The Girl Can't Help It" (previously called
You Go Girl", previously called "Girl Talk"), all about young girl culture. One of the artists in this show is Brian Blomerth, also known as Narwhalz, the experimental game boy music project from Richmond, Va. His visual work spans from ink line drawings to psychedelic photoshop mash ups, to anything involving pomeranians.



But this Friday (May 9th) he's playing at Space 1026. To check out more about him on the web links are provided below.
http://www.myspace.com/unicornfriend
www.myspace.com/narwhalsofsound
www.dotcomandshit.org

And "The Girl Can't Help It" opens June 20th at Photo West Gallery

Live With It Artist

So the CFEVA show "Live With It" (May 9th at PhotoWest Gallery) is coming up so for this post I wanted to feature another artist from the show.  Her name is Brooke Hine and she makes sculptures and ceramics.


They're really beautiful, intricate pieces inspired by nature.

You can see more of her work at www.inliquid.com/artist/hine_brooke/hine.php

And go to www.cfeva.org to find out more about the show, tickets and more artists from the show.

Upcoming Show

Starting May 9 the Center for Emerging Visual Artists will be having a show of their current artists at the Photo West Gallery, showing in many mediums from photography to illustration and sculpture.  The CFEVA has a lot of programs helping developing artists, which include mentoring and showing their work in galleries.  So for this post I thought I'd write about on the artists in this show, Keiko Miyamori.  

She makes dark paintings and illustrations as well as incredible sculptures of trees and roots bound in resin, as if they are fragile and are to be kept on display.  



Visit her website (www.keikomiyamori.com) and see her work at the CFEVA opening May 9, tickets are needed to enter, see the CFEVA website for more info. 

Out of the Blue pics

The Out of the Blue show opened last Friday and it was great, lots of turn out and lots of fun.  The show continues through April 20 with the gallery open every Saturday 12-5pm.  Here are some photos of the show.

Entrance to the Blue Show

Show curator Randy Dalton

There are more shows coming up including a show from CFEVA (the Center for Emerging Visual Artists) , but more on that next time.

Welcome to the new blog/Out of the Blue Opening

Welcome to the blog for the Photo West Gallery in Philadelphia, this blog will have announcements about new shows and events at the gallery, as well as art events in the city. Located at 3625 Lancaster Ave (West Philadelphia), Photo West has been showing work and has a member of the Philadelphia arts community for 8 years, and is run and founded by photographer Laurence Salzmann.

Tonight is the opening of the Out of the Blue show with photos inspired by Randy Dalton's Do Blue initiative. The reception is from 5pm-9pm tonight, with the gallery open every Saturday from 12noon-5pm. Over 25 photographers are showing work inspired by blue, whether as a color that will bring more attention to the Philadelphia art scene as is Randy Dalton's objective, or how ever the artist sees the color.

Amie Postic's Tropicalia #1

Casa Azul by Laurence Salzmann

The show continues through April 20, if you have any questions or comments you can call the gallery at 215 222 2649 email me (jessi) at jessi.imhoff1@gmail.com, and check back for more updates for the gallery and other art events in Philadelphia