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Last Updated: 11/28/2009

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Gender: Female
Status: Swinger
Age: 32
Sign: Libra

City: PHILADELPHIA
State: PENNSYLVANIA
Country: US
Signup Date: 6/4/2005

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Saturday, September 26, 2009 

Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping

 

Saturday, October 24th 11-6pm
& Sunday, October 25th 12-5pm
Free to Enter + Complimentary Mimosas

Jenya Kurtsman, the artist/designer behind EvaForeva & forEvaMore is bringing her lovely handmade clothing & accessories (along with her sewing machine) to Art Star @ discounted prices.  While you shop & sip mimosas, choose your own fabric for the flower on forEvaMore’s signature Flower Applique Tops.  $45 for the long sleeve & $40 for the  short.  Choose from her selection, or bring your own t-shirt and/or fabric for the flowers & the artist will make one just for you.  Shop her gorgeous selection of dresses, skirts, tops, accessories & more.  Not the right fit?  No worries, Jenya has offered free alterations this weekend only!Jenya is a Philadelphia based artist who focuses on the concept of unique and original designs that are done using free form technique. Her forEvaMore handmade clothing line features one-of-a-kind pieces made with natural materials and EvaForeva is full of hand knitted winter accessories.

Saturday, July 18, 2009 

 

Say Good Morning Tiger Lily
A solo exhibition by Amy Rice

July 31st - September 13th, 2009
Opening Reception w/ the Artist:
Friday, July 31st, 5-9pm
complimentary Beer & Snacks provided

Beginning with not-so-traditional print making methods (hand cut stencils and a Japanese Gocco printmaking toy) Minneapolis based mixed-media artist Amy Rice makes original, one-of-kind pieces by additionally employing acrylic, gouache, ink and collage. Her “canvases” range from weathered wood panels and found objects to antique envelopes, age-worn love letters, and found journal pages yellowed with time.
Rice draws inspiration for her work from childhood memories, both real and imagined (or just slightly exaggerated with time), the urban community in which she lives, vintage botanical prints, her dog Ella, bicycles, street art, random found objects, collective endeavors that challenge hierarchy, acts of compassion, downright silliness and things with wings.

Amy Rice has had solo exhibitions in galleries throughout the US and in the UK.
For Rice’s second solo exhibition at Art Star Gallery, Say Good Morning Tiger Lily, Rice embraces and expands upon her visual vocabulary of personal symbolism.
The artist states, It is not by accident nor is it because my artistic method lends itself to repetition that specific themes and images reemerge in my work. My symbols are personal and sometimes the degree of separation between my connection to an object/image/symbol and the average viewers’ interpretation is a wide expanse. Sometimes, even I am not fully aware of the significance of an element in my work while I am in the process of creating. My Mom (or others close to me) will say, “That is such a nice painting you did of that one day, that one thing…and I will say, “Oh, my, you are right, how could I have painted that and not known?” In “Say Good Morning Tiger Lily” I am making an effort to be more conscious of my use of metaphoric imagery and of my subconscious inspirations; to call out and name my personal symbolism, to give credit to my past and to give permission to myself to paint my future.

Say Good Morning Tiger Lily will include brand new work including Amy’s signature large stencil paintings. In addition, Amy will be featuring over 30 small collage paintings made from Gocco prints that were printed on antique journal pages.


 



 
Thursday, July 02, 2009 
PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE OF
"HANDMADE NATION"
Documentary Screening & Director's Q & A


 
Come meet Faythe Levine, director of the indie craft documentary, “Handmade Nation.”

There will be a Q&A following the screening, moderated by Kris Stewart, editor of NICHE, the magazine for independent art retailers.

Saturday, August 1st, 6-8pm
@ Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 103, 1101 Arch Street, Philadelphia, 19107

Purchase Tickets @ Art Star for $5
or buy tickets at the door (seating is limited so we recommend getting them now)

Sponsored by the Buyers Market of American Craft,
www.americancraft.com / 800-432-7238, ext. 218

visit:
http://www.indiecraftdocumentary.blogspot.com
for more info about the film


Wednesday, June 17, 2009 

Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping

 
www.artstarphilly.com
www.plaidponyvintage.com
http://www.poppedphiladelphia.org/
Thursday, June 11, 2009 

 

Friday, April 24, 2009 

Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping
Thursday, April 02, 2009 
New Deadline: Sunday, May 5th
Get them in: click here for application instructions, to apply online & pay w/ paypayl, or to print out an application to mail in w/ check or credit card info
Friday, March 27, 2009 
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 

Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping


 
Thursday, February 26, 2009 

February 28th - April 12th
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 28th from 5-9pm
Meet Jen, check out the new work, & enjoy light refreshments