#34 in the Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash series is Judy Gelles. We discovered Judy Gelles and her work during a Philadelphia Open Studio tour she was part of a few years ago. I was most attracted by this piece and the use of intense color against a [...]
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#34 – Judy Gelles – Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash – 2.22.09
Published February 22nd, 2009 in Our Art Collection. 0 Comments#33 – Eileen Feigenbaum – Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash – 2.14.09
Published February 14th, 2009 in Ms. Celaneous and Our Art Collection. 0 Comments#33 in the Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash series is Betsy’s aunt, Eileen Feigenbaum. Although Eileen, now in her eighties, no longer paints (the pieces we own were painted circa 1945-55), she contines to inspire Betsy with her energy and love of beauty. Eileen is a long-time resident [...]
#32 – Diana Riukas – Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash – 2.1.09
Published February 1st, 2009 in Our Art Collection. 0 Comments#32 in the Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash series is Diana Riukas. We first became familiar with Diana’s work at an exhibition titled "Mixed Bag" at the Salon Des Amis in Malvern, PA in 2004. The work we own is an encaustic painting on two panels. (Click thumbnail [...]
Glass artist Karen Hibbs has a new website, her first. Remember Karen? I featured her work here a while back as part of the Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash series. She was #7. At the time, she didn’t have a website. That has changed. And the website even [...]
#31 – Gillian Pokalo – Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash – 1.24.09
Published January 23rd, 2009 in Our Art Collection. 0 Comments#30 in the Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash series is Gillian Pokalo. We first encountered Gillian’s work at a show at Ten Stone Bar & Restaurant. Fellow artist and friend Chiara curates the shows and has introduced a number of very interesting and wonderful new artists to Betsy [...]
#30 – Patricia Hillman – Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash – 1.11.08
Published January 12th, 2009 in Our Art Collection. 0 Comments#30 in the Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash series is Patricia Hillman. We bought this piece from the Bikeworks show a few years back. It is an annual event to raise money for the Bikeworks Project. Betsy and I have both donated work in the past. All work [...]
#29 – Francine Strauss – Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash – 12.28.08
Published December 28th, 2008 in Our Art Collection. 0 Comments#29 in the Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash series is Francine Strauss. Of her art, she writes, "I began creating art later in my life. The act of creating takes me to some other place within. A journey of sorts to places that, for me, are both strange [...]
#28 – Michael Guinn – Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash – 12.21.08
Published December 22nd, 2008 in Our Art Collection. 0 Comments#28 in the Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash series is Michael Guinn. According to Michael’s website, he…has been living in Philadelphia since 1951. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial. He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art, now the [...]
#27 – Terry Hazard – Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash – 12.7.08
Published December 7th, 2008 in Our Art Collection. 0 Comments#27 in the Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash series is watercolorist Terry Hazard. This beautiful painting is quite large and nearly impossible to photograph because of the glass and the inevitable reflections. This is the best shot of it I could get. It doesn’t do the painting justice, [...]
#26- Dan Gorman – Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash – 11.23.08
Published November 23rd, 2008 in Our Art Collection. 0 Comments#26 in the Meet the Artists Who Have Inspired Us to Part with Our Cash series is Dan Gorman. Although Dan works mostly in oils and watercolors in a painterly-realistic style, he also experiments with found-object assemblages. It is one such assemblage that caught our eye while visiting the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in [...]
