Summer Art Exhibition at the Cathedral
Philadelphia Cathedral’s Summer Art Exhibition features works by artists Elaine Crivelli, Marie H. Elcin and Stephen Robin.
Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition in the Nave beginning on Monday July 12th.
EXHIBITION DATES: JULY 12, 2010 – SEPTEMBER 6, 2010
VIEWING HOURS: Mon- Wed: 10 AM – 2 PM; Sunday: 9 AM- 1PM
Others times by appointment.
ARTISTS’ RECEPTION: Saturday, July 17 from 5 -7 PM
ARTISTS’ LECTURE: Sunday, July 18 beginning at 12 NOON
For more information please call 215.386.0234, ext 104
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
STEPHEN ROBIN has received numerous public commissions, including three from the General Services Administration’s Art-in-Architecture Program.
He began his career by executing architectural ornamentation for the Diplomatic Reception Rooms in the State Department Building in Washington, DC, period rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and chandelier patterns for Statuary Hall in the US Capitol Building in Washington, as well as many other projects of this type.
He has since been focusing entirely on commissions for his own designs. All of the public work involves referencing and interpreting historical ornamentation for contemporary settings.
He also values private studio time when work such as the small paper pieces in the Episcopal Cathedral are produced.
Stephen Robin is a graduate of the Tyler School of Art and the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Visit his website at StephenRobinSculptor.com
MARIE H. ELCIN is a Philadelphia based fiber artist and arts educator. She has a BFA from Moore College of Art and Design and is a Master of Art Education candidate at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She teaches both adults and children at the Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial. Her work has been exhibited throughout the region including Stratasphere and Highwire Galleries and the Physick House Museum. Marie currently calls the Philadelphia Cathedral her spiritual home.
Many materials fall under my hands and are worked for creative expression. As a fiber artist I transform processes like embroidery and crochet, normally put to utilitarian use, to appreciate their potential for drawing and even sculptural qualities. Time, meditative repetition, and evidence of the hand are valuable aspects of my work and process. I am greatly influenced by my environment, be it natural or man made, and I always search for moments of beauty in the mundane.
The series of work in this exhibit shares a material exploration that blends sculptural crochet, embroidery, and found, digitally printed, and screenprinted fabrics. Three of the pieces are reworkings of elements once created for an installation and grew out of a long-held fascination with water. The fourth is a rare self-portrait revealing my calm, contemplative nature. Visit Marie’s website: www.inliquid.com
ELAINE CRIVELLI began her career as a mixed-media installation sculptor and in 1995 made a transition to the use of photography and digital media to express her ideas. Her work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in the United States and abroad including the Phebe Conley Gallery, California State University, Fresno, California; TASIS American School in England, Surrey, England; Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Ohio; Visual Arts Gallery, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM; Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts; Lillian Immig Gallery, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA; Lamar Dodd Gallery, University of Georgia, Athens; Please Touch Museum; Tianjin Fine Arts College, Tianjin, China; Moore College of Art & Design; Artpark, Lewiston, NY; Marian Locks Gallery and the Delaware Art Museum. She has been a visiting artist at Les Tapies in Ardeche, France; the University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program in Cortona,Italy, and she has given workshops and lectures at venues including Emmanuel College, Boston, Massachusetts; the Harvard Club, NY; University of Pennsylvania; Southbank School, London; Oxford University and the Wimbledon School of Art in England. Her work is included in collections such as the Free Library of Philadelphia, Tasis, the American School in England and numerous private collections. In June 2010, her work as a curator was recognized at a 40th anniversary celebration at the Painted Bride Art Center, where she served as Gallery Director from 1984-1987 and in October, 2010, her artwork will be included in a retrospective exhibition of ArtPark’s first eleven years at the University Buffalo Art Gallery, State University of New York.
My concerns in this series are to continue creating layered imagery that is suggestive rather than explicit. Light continues to play an important part in my new work and the combination of “found” shadows provide mystery and a new direction. Continuing with the sequenced format, textured shadows weave in and out of frames and intersect with others that are more defined yet still remain ambiguous.
For more information, please call the Cathedral office at 215.386.0234, ext 104.