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2010
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Jan-Feb
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Community Student Art Show
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An Exhibition of our student artists, from age 4 to 44, including photographs, crayon sketches, constructions, and a ceramic sculpture.
A reception for these artists will be held at the close of the show, February 28 after morning worship (at 11:45 am). |
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Mar 1- Apr 10
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Tegan M. Brozyna
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In 2007, Tegan M. Brozyna completed a B.A. in Studio Art from Messiah College. She writes, "For the past few years I have been resident of Philadelphia, PA, and since 2008 I have been an artist in residence at Olivet Covenant Church, which is also located in Philadelphia. I currently work for Ten Thousand Villages, a non-profit fair trade organization, but I am also a freelance illustrator as well as a writer for Prism Magazine, a publication of Evangelicals for Social Action.
My desire to create and to communicate visually is rooted in my curiosity and exploration of the world around me. Although I work in a number of media, my creativity most often manifests itself in painting and drawing." |
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Apr 16- May 29
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Community Photographs & Stories
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We'd like to see how images tell a story --your story. Taken on an international trip, or in your back yard, photographs reveal something of our lives. We celebrate storytelling through photography, and invite you to submit your photos for consideration in this community show.
[photos of this show's opening are here] |
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Jun 5- Jul 17
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Gary Karl Nauman
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Images of comfort, apathy, joy, and journey
"I began working with linocut block prints in 1995. My work is influenced by German Expressionist prints, regionalism and outsider art, and is concerned with themes of comfort, apathy, joy, and journey. How comfortable is too comfortable? What joys of life can we celebrate? What are we learning on our Journey?" |
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Jul 24- Aug 28
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Melinda Steffy
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Collecting Stones: Minerals & Material Memory Philadelphia artist Melinda Steffy’s current painting/textile/objects integrate her interests in memory, mythology, alchemy, geology, molecular structure, formlessness, family history and music. With the belief that materials retain meaning from their previous uses, items like antique lace, the spice turmeric, tarnished copper and dead ladybugs make their way into rhythmic visual compositions that consider questions of memory, the loss of memory, and the construction of systems that sustain memory. Using the colors and forms found in actual mineral formations, as well as natural processes of tarnishing and oxidation, the abstract images also broadly address polarities of structure and formlessness, purpose and accident, particles and the void around them. The pieces are deliberately fragmentary, brief, to give the feeling of a nearly forgotten story or a fleeting line of music. "...the poetry of Steffy’s work lies in her ability to translate philosophical concepts into visually complex and abstract compositions. The materials she chooses to use in her art-making are an integral part of the finished piece." [see more of her work] |
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Sept 4- Oct 31
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Chryysa Saj
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Christina Saj rises from a modernist tradition steeped in a vocabulary gotten from the likes of the Europeans Klee and Kandinsky. Externally, her works' main features are an overwhelming wealth of bright colors, carefree delight in decorative effects and a preference for the ornamental, merging representational and abstract elements while at the same time provocatively choosing to express the lore of icon painting. Spirituality for the artist is, here, infused with a complex stock of materials utilizing the stenciling of industrial screens (Saints and Sinners, and Jonah in the Belly of the Beast), to the repetitious applications of human skeletal parts from medical x-rays (signifying relic-like patterns linked to bygone biblical character references).
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Nov 27- Jan 15
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CIVA's "Picturing the Parables"
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The parables of Christ serve both as a fount of inspiration for the artist and a rich source of contemplation for Christians around the world. CIVA invited the submission of artwork for this new traveling exhibition. In keeping with the nature of the parable format, this show will consist of artwork that speaks the several languages of our pluralistic, contemporary culture. Employing time honored as well as non-traditional media, this show seeks to bring fresh perspectives to the familiar stories of Christ. They will represent the voices of our diverse subcultures and ethnic groups and, together, will announce the message of the good news of the Gospel story to all. [more]
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