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Neal & Gray – Art Reception TONIGHT

Green Line Cafe — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:17:55 +0000

Major art event at the Green Line Locust this fine Friday the 13th! Come see the new work from Alicia Neal and Justin Gray from 7 – 9pm.
Seriously not to be missed.

Justin Gray and Alicia Neal at GLL

Green Line Cafe — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:04:35 +0000

We will be having a new exhibit of work from Alicia Neal & Justin Gray hanging next week.

Their reception is on Friday, April 13th (7 – 9pm), and it’s going to be an excellent show!

“Alicia and Justin both studied illustration at the University of the Arts here in Philadelphia, between around the years 1998-2005.

Drawing on influences from her friends, the natural world, and observations from everything spanning the breadth of seasonal change to mythological creatures and dreams, Alicia creates painterly, mixed media pieces on and using a variety of mediums, in a neo-classical illustration style.

Justin in a nerd brained kook with a love of space marines, video games, and beefy dudes punching each other in movies. He uses a base of hand drawings to create complex, single digital images detailing entire worldscapes, food, and nonsense.”

Wendy Wolf Closing Reception

Green Line Cafe — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:32:43 +0000

Wolf’s new exhibit at the Green Line Locust, Examined Repetition, will be coming to a close at the end of the month.

All are welcome to attend the closing reception this Saturday 3/31, 6-9pm.

Come meet the artist and check out the show that Philly’s own ArtBlog gave a recent tip of the hat to!

COUNTERWEIGHT by Thomasin Parnes at the GL Baltimore

Green Line Cafe — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:38:46 +0000

The Green Line Baltimore is happy to celebrate its second exhibition of West Philadelphia-based artist Thomasin Parnes’s art work.

After a very successful reception on First Friday, we’ve really been enjoying the dynamic images Thomasin has brought to the fore here.

COUNTERWEIGHT

“This collection is an exploration of desire under stress—fantasy cramped, truncated, and constrained by external factors—the Wild Dream Instinct bound and ingrown. It is one of the least

pre-meditated collections of work I have created so far and

therefor a very direct product of my internal state at the time—something I probably could have never put to image through a more conscious process. The visual symbols/codes that appear in this work emerged on their own, like a language devised by my hands to facilitate conversation between two parts of myself that had lost their ability to communicate directly: fragmented landscape and architectural elements; tension drawn through braids and ropes; leafy overgrowth that, in one frame, forms a protective nest, and in the next a tangled obstruction; points of constraint, weight, tipping, pooling. Every image came as a surprise, and it was not until I had ten or twelve of them in front of me that I understood what I was illustrating.”

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Thomasin Parnes is a queer artist, junk curator, and DIY decoration-maker who can most often be found meticulously arranging boxes and cans (their secondary aesthetic practice) on the shelves of Mariposa Food Co-op. They look forward to 2012 as the year in which wild dreams and escape fantasies take back the space (real and imaginary) that they deserve.

Experimental Jazz Showcase this Wednesday

Green Line Cafe — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:41:34 +0000

Swing by the Green Line Locust this Wednesday, March 14th, at 7pm for the West End Blues show!

You can see the Julius Masri/Alban Bailly Duo as well as “RL3,” featuring Ricardo Lagomasino, Matt Stein and Alan Ens.

Come one, come all!

RE:Occupation Art Reception

Green Line Cafe — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:21:17 +0000

There will be a reception for the Re:Occupation Group Show at the

Green Line Cafe – Powelton this Wednesday!
There will be music, refreshments, and some incredible art and artists to see.

Curated by Philadelphia artist Ketch Wehr, the work is considering the concept of current occupation – politically, economically, socially, how we resist, how we occupy our time, and how we survive.

Artists include:
Charlie Cottone
Corina Dross
Jessie Mann Jay
Molly McIntyre
Amy Opsasnick
Jenna Peters-Golden
Steven Speir
Benjamin Lee Sperry
Casey Sperry
Ketch Wehr
Hilary White

and others!

Come on by and bring everyone you know!

RE:Occupation comes to the Green Line Powelton

Green Line Cafe — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:22:01 +0000

A new group show of Philadelphia and New York-based artists has landed at the Green Line Powelton this week. Curated by Philadelphia artist Ketch Wehr, the work is considering the concept of current occupation – politically, economically, socially, how we resist, how we occupy our time, and how we survive.

Artists include:
Charlie Cottone
Corina Dross
Jessie Mann Jay
Molly McIntyre
Amy Opsasnick
Jenna Peters-Golden
Steven Speir
Benjamin Lee Sperry
Casey Sperry
Ketch Wehr
Hilary White

and others!

The show will be up for all of November and December, a reception date will be announced shortly.
Check our Facebook page tomorrow for photo updates of hanging, work, and more info on the artists!

Farmer and Organizer Meet and Greet this Thursday!

Green Line Cafe — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:26:33 +0000

Meet The Small Farmers Behind Your Coffee

Choosing the coffee you drink makes a real difference in the lives of many.

October is Fair Trade Month, a good time to remember what we purchase in the United States has a direct impact in communities around the globe. Salvadoran farmer Pedro Ascencio will share the story of his community over a cup of fair trade coffee from Las Colinas co-op. With support from Catholic Relief Services’ partner Equal Exchange, the coffee from Las Colinas has gained access to the U.S. fairly traded, organic coffee market.

Fair Trade, a system of trade based on the principle that people should earn a fair profit for the items they produce, offers producers not only a fair price for their products, but safe and healthy work conditions, and long term relationships with buyers.

HABIT by Molly McIntyre opens Sept. 2 at GL Baltimore

Green Line Cafe — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:52:47 +0000

Come see Molly McIntyre’s stunning new paper cutout work exhibiting at the Green Line Baltimore from September 1st – October 31st. The reception is from 5pm to 7pm on Friday the 2nd, so swing by to give a boost to First Fridays west of the Schuylkill!

McIntyre’s thoughts on the work:

“As I work on this series, I have been reconsidering the word habit, which means, among other things, “a settled tendency or usual manner of behavior,” and also, “the prevailing disposition or character of a person’s thoughts and feelings : mental makeup,” and even, “bodily appearance or makeup.” (Not to mention the archaic, “a costume characteristic of a calling, rank, or function .”)

Without fanfare, habits make up our being. They are not theoretical: they are or they aren’t, we do something or we don’t. They are not glamorous, they are simply present. They provide us with a framework for living.”

RADICLE at Green Line Locust

Green Line Cafe — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:30:14 +0000

RADICLE by Alexa De Los Reyes will be up at the Green Line Locust through September 30th. Come by today and check out her beautiful work!