CURRENTLY AT NO. 5 BUTCHIE ALLEY

Invisible Dynasty

University of the Arts alumni Scott McMahon & Ahmed Salvador have been collaborating for decades. Their big egos are tempered by this dual authorship. Since graduation, Scott and Ahmed have lived far apart, so this is mostly done through the mail.

One of them sends the other a piece of film or light sensitive paper packaged in a parcel designed to slowly allow light to leak through small holes: exposing the material in random ways. The film might already have lens exposures, so the random light leaks interrupt recognizable images. Interruption is key. 

At times the film canister gets drilled through either before it's mailed or by the recipient. Violence is also key.

Sometimes they meet up and explosives are used to attain an unwarranted exposure. Gun caps, bang snaps, cannon fuse. They are instantaneous or provide a slow burn: the film is buried in sand or Play-Doh, providing a resist, which pushes the material toward the alchemical. Aleatory blobs. Destruction is the ultimate key.

These perverse techniques urge these factory-made films and papers to the end of their silver tether, and also squeeze the true nature of 'writing with light' out of them. Any reciprocity the light sensitive materials have provided was forcibly obtained. However brutal, the end result is still a vestige of the first 150 years of traditional photography's innovation, grasping, not gasping, for relevance.

Yet there are also fireflies. Caught and placed inside a jar. Scott and Ahmed wait and the bugs blink; they expose themselves. They even expose their legs. All done with sheet film that is placed flat in boxes, complete with accidental and intentional plants gathered during the acquisition process. Doing so creates depth at times, a fake lens shot that was uncannily prescient, a gesture toward the high sensitivity in today's cameras. A diorama of something invisible, except in memories.

They can't play it straight.

Ahmed Salvador received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and his BFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a photography instructor at Fleisher Art Memorial. Ahmed has shown his work in various solo and collaborative shows in Philadelphia: at the Halide Project, Space 1026, with InLiquid, Wanderlife Gallery, and at the Sol Mednick Gallery. Additionally, at the ViPhotofest in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, Columbia College's Hardwick Gallery in Missouri, and at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His solo work has recently been featured in print with Iterant magazine and Vigilante Darkroom Zine. Last year, collaborative work was published online with an interview in Alternative Processes, in print with Analog Explorations and was presented at Equinoks, 'a festival of experimental improvisation' in Luton, England. He will also have his video work projected onto the D&F tower in Denver.

 Scott McMahon is Professor of Art at Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri. He received his MFA from Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston, MA and his BFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Selected exhibitions include Poetics of Light, Palace of the Governors New Mexico History Museum Santa Fe, NM & National Media Museum in Bradford UK; Amerykańskie Metafory, Galeria Pusta, Katowice, Poland & Old Gallery ZPAF, Warsaw, Poland; Forgotten Attributes, Three Columns Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Home and Other Stations/Sight (Un)Seen, Wanderlife Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, The Bioluminescent Firefly Experiment, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Second Nature, The Halide Project, Philadelphia, PA; Response Time, Sol Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. McMahon’s work has been published in Pinhole Photography, Rediscovering a Historic Technique by Eric Renner, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes by Christopher James, Anthotype by Malin Fabbri, Poetics of Light – Contemporary Pinhole Photography by Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer, Pinhole Journal, The Hand Magazine and Gum Printing – A Step-by-Step Manual, Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice by Christina Z. Anderson. He was a resident artist at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine; iPark Artists’ Enclave in East Haddam, CT; Border Art Residency in La Union, New Mexico and Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs, NY.

https://www.scottmcmahonphoto.com/

https://www.instagram.com/mcmahon.salvador/?hl=en

https://www.fireflyletters.com/

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PIERRE TROMBERT

I Don’t Know Where I Am Going but I Know How To Get There…

Feb 4 – April 17, 2024

To be a designer one needs to understand the consequences of a single line; I wrote on the white board. Then my eyes inadvertently moved to a point of light: the windows. The crane outside moves stuff we call it, up and down at the mercy of a helmeted operator who is speaking on a walky-talky. The operator is building that line, that’s their job whatever that line is, they do not question, their job is to build that line. Abandoned to the machines the line now exists!

At night, the crane is sleeping happy, the operator on the ground is sleeping happy, the designer is sleeping happy and contented. The line is not sleeping. She looks and stares; it all looks like merde, pardon my French she laments.

Suddenly, coming from the nowhere of that grey day, or maybe from the depth of her questioning mind, the sleeping designer senses - bathed in light - the tri-dimensional poetic movements of a Pas de deux emerging, reaching to her. Not totally aware she realizes that her fingers attached to a hand attached to an arm attached to a body attached to a soul are trying to write a sentence. Words appear falling through the tear in this cloudy day; the name, the verb, the articles and adjectives, the punctuation, the rhythm, the sounds…the expression and continuation of an idea that has to be cultivated and expressed.

Her eyes can now perceive the romantic music of a Jean Sebastian Bach or a Mozart; hesitating, hand in hand with the line she can appreciate the atonal compositions of a Pierre Boulez, rock and roll, yes!

Line and designer wide awake. Hah! Merde! We now understand the magical consequences of a single line. Excited, pencil in hand, holding on a roll of yellow tracing paper, they smile.

Excerpts from Consequence of a Line, written for my students December 2016

– Pierre Trombert

BIO

Pierre Trombert is a designer, design director, artist and mime. Born in 1940, Grenoble, France he arrived in the US just a little earlier than the Beattles’ first US Tour in 1964. He received his BFA in Interior Design from Parsons School of Design in New York City in 1967. Then his position at H2L2 architect firm brought him to Philadelphia where he is based. He studied architecture at Drexel University.

Trombert’s vive la resistance approach has crafted a rich 50 year career designing architecture and interiors extensively throughout Philadelphia. He was Artistic Design Director of The Granary Associates, Architect and Design firm in Philadelphia for 25 years. His international and national portfolio includes NYC, Washington DC, France and Saudi Arabia to note a few.

He had a mime theater which he designed, built and directed from 1974-84 in Philadelphia. The performances hailed from Philadelphia, NYC, Baltimore to Woodstock, CT, France and more. The invitation from Isamu Noguchi to perform at his Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibit was a highlight.

Retiring as design director allowed time to continue renovations on the former Comet Club, his 35-year passion, home and studios in Northern Liberties and launch his writing and art chapters. Always ready for a new adventure, this is Trombert’s first solo exhibit of his abstract drawings. As in his design career, light is his muse in collaboration with humor, line, color, poetry and music.

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In Search of a Line - Drawing workshop with Pierre Trombert

Saturday March 16th, 12-4 p.m.

Participants will draw a line in poetry and color inspired by selected music from classical to minimalist to modernism. 

3 music pieces : 3 drawings

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MARY GAMBLE BARRETT

Mary Gamble Barrett

T R A N S C E N D E N C E

Opening Reception: September 9, 2023, 6-9 p.m.

Closing Reception: Saturday, November 4th, 6-9 p.m.

CFEVA’S POST TOURS: October 14th & 15th, 12-6 p.m.

Workshop: Saturday, October 7th

Mary Gamble Barrett’s paintings and ceramic tiles reach beyond the physical, parting the heavy curtains leading to the metaphysical world. Inspiration for the works comes from sacred geometry (found in mentor Bill Daley’s sculpture and in Byzantine Iconography) and in the magic of color and clay. The creation of these works was both meditative and cathartic for Barrett after the passing of her husband and best friend, Dominick Barrett, in 2021. 

During preparation for this exhibition, she rediscovered her love of dualities: order/chaos, inside/outside, physical/metaphysical(spiritual) combining the chaotic swirls of color wash with the structure of symbolic geometry. Barrett returned to her graduate thesis studies and again to the work of sculptor Bill Daley. In a paper she wrote about his work in 2003, she recalled a sculpture that Daley had made for his grandson. Daley gave her a copy of the drawing during her visit with him in 2003.

“The cross in the square and the diamond that is created by connecting the vertical and horizontal axis repeat into what Daley calls “The infinity form”. This form is evident in many cultures and religions, including Byzantine Iconography, in which the diamond represents the dynamic form of heaven, and the square the static form of earth.”

- The Vessel as Place (The architectural work of William Daley) Mary Barrett Dec. 2003

Barrett is asking mystical and never-ending questions. Math is a meditative map to explore interior spaces of the heart and mind. Barrett’s visual explorations reflect the obvious symbolism of the circle, signifying eternity, with no beginning or end. On a deeper level, Barrett’s practice is a constant circling of returning, reordering and expanding on knowledge gained along the way as a perpetual student and teacher. 

No. 5 Butchie Alley is thrilled to open the Fall season with Mary Gamble Barrett’s paintings and ceramic tiles. The works are pregnant with the palpable hours of intense searching and illumination. Each object reflects every season of emotion and the work it takes to get to the other side of hopefulness.

Mary Gamble Barrett’s creative journey includes studying the Arts at Florida State University, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Moore College of Art and Design, and The University of the Arts, and 21+ years of teaching High School Art. Her mediums include clay, oil, acrylic and watercolor painting, egg tempera icons, and mixed media. Barrett also attended The Prosopon School of Iconology & Iconography, where she studied under Vladislav Andrejev for ten summers, resulting in an exhibition at the National Gallery.

“To me, Light coming through a window, or porcelain, or in an icon, signifies consciousness.”

SAVE THE DATE!

Mary Gamble Barrett will offer an egg tempra media intensive, exploring 14th Century Byzantine techniques at No. 5 Butchie Alley on Saturday, October 7th. More details to come.

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ALEXIS HUGO NUTINI

Alexis Nutini is a master printer and colorist living and working in the city of Philadelphia. His studio is a wonderland, a cosmic jewel tucked away in the 1241 Carpenter Street Studios. Whenever I visit the studio, I feel drunk, drunk on color. It is everything missing in my daily to-do’s. I sit amongst these harmonic crystal healing conduits, and let them recharge me. The studio and work hum with absolute love, deep knowledge of process and the joy of experimentation. Alexis’s improvisational compositions are an otherworldly rhythmic float. Each chroma and hue has a voice, they screech, call and return, surprise rimshot and then return to the familiar. In the midst of all of this, your eyes may stray to a child’s monster marker drawing peeking over the corner of a rug, spilling onto the wall that leads to a ladder to the crow’s nest that is his son’s tiny studio.

“La Joyita” - “Little Jewel,” perfectly describes the collection of prints Alexis Nutini is preparing specifically for No. 5 Butchie Alley. "La Joyita” perfectly describes the sweetness Nutini and his family have carved out in Philly… which is a gem.

Born in Mexico City, Alexis Nutini received an MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art in 2005, a BA in Fine Art from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2000 and completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Barcelona, Spain in 2001. Alexis teaches as an Adjunct Professor at the Tyler School of Art and runs Dos Tres Press, a printshop in south Philadelphia where he maintains a print publishing business and develops collaborative print-based projects. He focuses on rigorous experimentation with relief printmaking techniques through hand-carved, reduction woodblock printing and the digital technology of platemaking with Computer Numerical Control (CNC) routing.

Keith Crowley: Natura Morta

Hi Friends,

We are excited to return in February with Keith Crowley: Natura Morta, opening February 18th, 2023, through April 22, 2023.

Crowley presents an honest and intimate group of flora and fauna, rendered directly in watercolor. Acquired and arranged serendipitously, they are an intense experience to behold, conjuring emotions from our collective memory and preoccupation with our delicate existence.

Keith Crowley received his M.F.A. and B.F.A. in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. He studied Art Education at Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA. Crowley is currently Senior Preparator at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

Keith Crowley will be running two days of workshops at No. 5 Butchie Alley on Saturday, April 15th & Sunday, April 16th. Choose one or both! Each workshop runs 12-3 p.m. and includes all materials, lite fare and refreshments.

Check out the shop for more info.

All Works are beautifully framed in artist-made frames, and wired for hanging. See installation views in the video below.

AMY SARNER WILLIAMS: BEYOND THE HORIZON

Beyond the Horizon explores Amy’s personal journey after the passing of her husband David Williams in 2018. Faced with the reality of life without her dearest friend, she confronted, with deep uncertainty, how life would unfold beyond the boundaries of what she had known, of what had filled her with strength and optimism. She now needed to gain a new understanding of herself.

She turned to art and nature, two sources of joy and solace that had permeated her adult life. She saw Dave everywhere she looked, in the cities, the mountains, the waters, the sky. She traveled to the Mediterranean coast of France for a ceramic residency, where she combined landscape with portraiture through photo-transferred imagery. Upon return, as the pandemic curtailed her ability to work in her communal studio, she found solitude and comfort at her family’s rustic cabin in the mountains of western Maine.

It was there, in this place of sanctuary, that she began a new artistic exploration, creating collages with the fallen bark of the ubiquitous birch tree. Birch bark, with its myriad peelable layers, unveils a hidden array of colors, textures, and patterns. This new medium allowed her to create collages of mystical and enchanting beauty, capturing the spirit of the ever-changing landscape, and renewing in her a sense of wonder and connection to the world, that she feared might have been lost forever.

Recently, she expanded the scope of this work to include more abstract compositions. These new works play with depth and space, darkness and light, color and texture. They are environments to explore, passageways to enter, mazes to lose oneself in. They are a metaphor for the inexorable flow of life and death, beyond the familiar and into the unknown and unknowable.

Amy Sarner Williams

Contact: terrisaulin@terrisaulin.com or amysarwil@gmail.com

Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 12-4 p.m.

Private Tours Welcome by Appointment

215-906-0897

Birch Bark Collage Workshop with Amy Sarner Williams

Amy will be offering a birch bark collage workshop on Saturday, October 8, 2022, from 12-3 p.m. Participants will learn about Amy’s process and explore using bark as a medium to create collage compositions. Each participant will create their own collage to take home with them at the end of the session.

All Supplies Provided

$50

ages 12 and over

DIANE PIERI

Diane Pieri creates sublime, delicate works on paper that weave meaning, symbol and color in cascading landscape compositions. Each work is a microcosm of multiple intimate compositions that unfold under close inspection. Upon exhaling, they reveal a universe of saturated color and texture as the whole comes into view.

Pieri is unapologetically driven to create radical beauty. She finds power and freedom in embracing every glorious opportunity to be purely decorative. Her newest images incorporate 3D elements that billow unexpectedly from quiet surfaces.

NEW DATE ADDED!

WORKSHOP

Saturday, July 16th, 12-3 p.m.

Diane Pieri will be offering a family friendly, decorated bookmaking workshop, for ages six and up, on Saturday, July 16th, from 12-3 p.m. Children must be accompanied by parents and the workshop is limited to 10 participants.

In exchange for the experience, please make a donation to Phillabundance OR The People’s Fridge on 52nd.

PIERI

Sounds of India

All of the paintings in this series, Sounds of India, are done on handmade papers, using various combinations of acrylagouache, decorative papers, printing blocks, punch shapes, painting remnants, print remnants, linen thread, monofilament, ink and gold leaf.

Each painting is $2,500

PIERI

Jigsaw Series

All of the paintings in this series, Jigsaw, are done on handmade papers, using various combinations of acrylagouache, exterior latex, decorative papers, wood printing blocks, punch shapes, painting remnants, ink, linen thread, monofilament and gold leaf.

Each painting in this series is $1,500.

MURAQQA Books

In Persian, Muraqqa ia a Glamorous  Scrapbook. 

I started making these books to record all of the decorative papers I have used over 25 years. Each book uses all of the techniques in my paintings. The binding is a traditional Japanese binding.

Each Muraqqa is $800

MARY HENDERSON

No. 5 Butchie Alley presents a series of small paintings by Mary Henderson. Henderson created the works specifically for the space, a first-time consideration for the artist. The series of twenty, mostly 4 x 4-inch paintings are meant to be deeply considered by the viewer. Gloves on the table invite guests to hold and examine each work closely. The act of touch and direct participation is an unexpected reading of a painting. The painting becomes a highly personal and intimate object.

The subjects of these paintings are all strangers to me; some of them are strangers to each other. Each image is derived from a photo I have taken – at a protest, rally, amusement park, sporting event or similarly public space – and focuses on a spontaneous moment of intimate rapport or synchronicity. The paintings are about the connections we form with each other from afar, and what we are missing when those connections are disrupted.

Scaled to the size of a hand, they are meant to be held for viewing. - Mary Henderson

The exhibition runs March 5 through May 7, 2022.

Please join us for the opening reception, Saturday March 5th, 6-9pm.

Closing Reception is Saturday, May 7th from 6-9pm.

Mary Henderson is a visual artist living and working in Philadelphia. She teaches painting and drawing part-time at St. Joseph’s University and Tyler School of Art; she is also a co-director for the Philadelphia site of the nonprofit network of artist-run spaces, Tiger Strikes Asteroid. She received an AB with honors in fine arts from Amherst College in Amherst, MA, and an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. Recent shows include Design for Living: Sarah Zwerling and Mary Henderson (InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA) and Public Views (Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY), as well as group shows at Marcia Wood Gallery (Atlanta, GA), Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum (Mesa, AZ), Wilding Cran Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) and the Woodmere Museum (Philadelphia, PA). She is a 2021 CFEVA fellow (Philadelphia, PA), was a finalist for the 2019 Bennett Prize and has been awarded a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, a PCA SOS grant, and residencies at the Jentel Foundation and the Hambidge Center (where she was the Nena Griffith Distinguished Fellow). Her work has been featured or reviewed in Harper's Magazine, L’Espresso (Italy), New American Paintings, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Art in America, among other publications. In 2017, Her recent curatorial projects include Sagas at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia, PA), Anachronism and Liberation at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia, PA) and LOCUM, at University City Arts League (Philadelphia, PA). She is represented by Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, GA

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All works are 4 x 4 inches, gouache and acrylic on paper, mounted on panel. $500.00

18-20

All works are 5 x 7 inches, gouache and acrylic on paper, mounted on panel. $750.00

Inquires: email - terrisaulin@terrisaulin.com / Visit - Saturdays & Sundays 12-4pm

MARGUERITA HAGAN & TERRI SAULIN

PHILADELPHIA -

For immediate release

No. 5 Butchie Alley welcomes Marguerita Hagan and the gallery’s owner Terri Saulin for a special Winter Holiday exhibition and pit-firing workshop. Please join us for the Opening Reception, Saturday, November 20th from 6-9pm.

Friendship is a gift.

Hagan and Saulin began their friendship virtually, in love with each other’s work and in love with clay. When they finally met in person, Saulin got to assist Hagan at one of her pit-firings. They became dearest friends.

Hagan presents a selection of her rich collection of drawings & works in clay from earthy Rongorongos, La Mer gems to her tableware. Each piece of tableware has lovingly drawn images in both the Primary Producer and Petroglyph series. Hagan’s pit-fired Rongorongos give form, painted by fumes and flame to the ancient and mystical Easter Island language. The delicate La Mer series shines light on the ocean and celebrates its extraordinary aesthetics and sustaining life force with which our lives are intrinsically linked. Each series is given as a gift to sustain our environment and future.

Saulin presents a selection of cups and ornate vase forms. Saulin’s work examines the idea of the gifts we leave behind that conjure memory. Saulin’s elaborately covered vase forms are a meditation on the thousands of loops her mother made while crocheting piles of blankets. What thoughts may have passed under the weight of each accumulated stitch. Some vessels are adorned with sprigs made from her mother’s and other’s costume jewelry. Jewelry, destined for a thrift shop sale that documented a history of gift giving and memories of cherished occasions, are given new life on ceramic wares.

The exhibition’s title is a nod to the book by Lewis Hyde that discusses the premise that works of art exist simultaneously in two economies. Works of Art are “gifts,” even though they are bought and sold as commodities, they possess an inexplicable quality that ignites delight or invokes a soulful memory, some inexplicable thing is gained that has nothing to do with the price paid. They move the heart. Objects have the ability to create interconnected relationships as they move through hands and gain power through use and care and memories shared.

Marguerita Hagan is a ceramic sculptor based in Philadelphia. She is an advocate for the thriving of all life in mutually sustainable communities and environments. The concept of interdependence plays throughout her sculpture, teaching and community arts.

Throughout her career, Hagan has brought to light the beauty and engineering of our planet’s diverse ecosystems and our powerful role as stewards. Hagan’s practice is an ongoing discovery, magnifying our awareness, reciprocal responsibility and protection of each other and our planet. She received her MFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and her BFA in Ceramics at James Madison University. Her projects include collaborations with artists, scientists and community, environmental art-science residencies, lectures and exhibits nationally and internationally.

Terri Saulin received her MFA from the University of the Arts and her BFA from Moore College of Art and Design. She is a member and press coordinator for Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia and a Member/Supporter of The Clay Studio, Philadelphia. She currently teaches a variety of Studio Arts courses at The Agnes Irwin School, in Rosemont, PA. Terri is the owner of No. 5 Butchie Alley. No. 5 Butchie Alley is an outgrowth of Terri’s studio. The space is secretly tucked away on a small easement in South Philly that opens into a garden of inspiration.

In January of 2022, No. 5 Butchie Alley welcomed Marguerita Hagan and the gallery’s owner Terri Saulin for a special Winter Holiday exhibition and pit-firing workshop. These are the marvelous results from the pit-firing. Thanks to all who joined us for these magical workshop days. It was a gorgeous day and amazing one year celebration @no_5_butchie_alley ! Thanks @marguerita for this wonderful pit-firing workshop!

Workshops at No. 5 Butchie Alley are truly heartwarming! Cheers to all new friends.

NANCY AGATI

No. 5 Butchie Alley presents a selection of Nancy Agati’s works titled Francesca and Tessere. Inspiration for the work draws from traditional tombolo lace patterns of Southern Italy, and the geometric tile design from the Alhambra in Southern Spain. The works are alchemical in the way that Agati transforms material, turning raw earth into subtle color, weaving and overlapping, intricate patterns, imbuing the works with a hypnotic sense of time, turning modest materials into objects of reverence. Her meditative process is both focused and detailed, offering a way to consider order amidst chaos, and beauty at a time of apparent darkness.

Agati's work addresses forms and patterns in nature through physical investigations of materials. She is interested in elements from nature that communicate the passage of time and illustrate cyclical occurrences. Influences include natural forms that reveal a sense of order, elegance, and geometry often found in patterns of moving water and flow-like organic structures. Drawing is an essential aspect of Agati's work, defined in the broadest of terms and developed through multiple methods. Her multi-disciplinary work includes works on paper, sculpture, textiles, site-specific installation, and public art.   

Nancy Agati holds a BFA from Alfred University, School of Art & Design, NY, and an MFA from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. She has exhibited her work widely throughout Philadelphia and nationally including exhibitions at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY, The Calandra Italian American Institute, New York, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, and Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia. Agati was a recipient of a Windows of Opportunity Grant from the Leeway Foundation and has been awarded artist-in-residence placements at the Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, Lo Studio dei Nipoti, Calabria, Italy, and Main & Station in Nova Scotia. In 2014, as a Hemera Foundation Tending Space Fellow.

Participants will be introduced to the geometric tile formula that formed the patterns and initiated the process for Nancy Agati’s Tessere Series of rubbings on interwoven cut paper.

Each member of the group will learn and draw the traditional Moorish tile design.

Students will then have the opportunity to alter and individualize their template drawings through additive and subtractive methods. 

After having coated the tile with layers of slip, each student will choose their favorite pattern, to be transferred onto their individual raw clay tile. The tile will then be carved with the *Sgraffito technique to reveal the details of the pattern.

Completed and fired tiles will be ready for pick up or delivery one week following the class.

Gourmet lunch, morning snacks and beverages included!

*Sgraffito (in Italian "to scratch") is a decorating pottery technique produced by applying layers of color or colors (underglazes or colored slips) to leather hard pottery and then scratching off parts of the layer(s) to create contrasting images, patterns and texture and reveal the clay color underneath.

Nancy Agati : T A N G I B L E - paper clay ink - Gallery of Images

Sales inquiries please contact Terri Saulin : terrisaulin@terrisaulin.com, 215.906.0897

8% sales tax included in purchase

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Tessere ‘21

Tessere Blues

Tessere

KATHY HALTON

 Kathy Halton: Garnered

June 4 - July 31, 2021

Opening Reception: Friday, June 4th 2021, 5-9PM

Closing Reception: Saturday, July 31st, 2021, 3-6PM

To garner = to gather, or collect, or to acquire by effort (archaic)

Lines, shapes, colors, nature, stories, and memories, are garnered and used to create these works. They are generally layered and complex in form, using a combination of drawing, painting, printmaking, and collage, to render a finished piece. In terms of process, [I set up a snare to trap myself, then fight my way out, going deep, beyond first impressions, garnering my reactions to what’s happening, and then wrestling myself to the finish.]*

The painting “Infinite” is made with acrylic paint and a collection of woodblock images; both collaged and printed directly onto the surface. A blockprint tells a story at a point in time and then can be used again to harken back or bring forth a new story at a different time in history. The prominent image in this piece is of the garter stitch, which tells of the bandages knitted by my mother for patients in a lazaretto.

And with time, joy, and effort, the garnering continues!

*BIngram, 2021

No. 5 Butchie Alley is thrilled to present our first exhibition, open to the public. We will be welcoming visitors to the Opening Reception of “Kathy Halton: Garnered” in groups of ten, in twenty minute intervals. Masks are required if not vaccinated. Walk-ins are welcome, but may be asked to wait depending on safe numbers. Regular visiting hours are Saturdays and Sundays 12pm -4pm beginning June 13th, 2021 or happily by appointment.

BLOCK PRINTING WITH KATHY HALTON - JULY 17th, 9am-1pm

Participants will be introduced to the wonderful art of block printing. Design ideas and possibilities will be discussed and inspired by different artists’ works and by the demonstrated process itself. From initial design ideas, to creating the blocks, and printing in one or two colors, the printmaker’s magical process will be realized. Regardless of experience in the art-making process, all participants will leave with a print and, I’m sure, a desire to make more!

Supply list to be brought by participants

A couple of regular pencils

A couple of small to medium oil-painting brushes, if you have them

Images of things you find inspiring

Photographs of nature

Your sketchbook, or other works that you’d like to work from

Newspapers/Favorite magazine if you have some

KATHY HALTON: GARNERED - Gallery of Images

Sales inquiries please contact Terri Saulin : terrisaulin@terrisaulin.com, 215.906.0897

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No. 5 Butchie Alley is an outgrowth of Terri Saulin's home studio. Still in a seed phase, Saulin hopes to grow a welcoming space to invite generous conversations and exchange ideas.

The luscious graphics for No. 5 Butchie Alley were created by the amazing Allen Crawford.

(More about the No. 5 Butchie Alley story and Allen’s design to come on the blog!)

“Five Inches Apart”
...because we all want to be closer

The very first exhibition at No. 5 Butchie Alley features works on paper that Saulin has collected over the last five years, hung five inches apart.
Please go HERE if you would schedule a socially distant visit to view!

More to come as the world opens up again!
Stay tuned @no_5_butchie_alley

Click to scroll works in the show >

Follow these amazing artists on Instagram and explore more works:

@elyceabrams - https://elyceabrams.com/home.html
@jaimephoto79 - http://www.jaimephoto.com/
@heathballowe - https://cargocollective.com/heathballowe
@slapstikskateboardart - https://slapstikskateboardart.bigcartel.com/
@megalicious77 - http://www.meganbiddle.com/
@markbrosseau - https://www.markbrosseau.com/
@hollyacahill - http://www.65grand.com/
@vincentcomostudio - https://vincentcomostudio.bigcartel.com/product/implicit-duplicity
@allencrawfordillustration - https://allencrawford.bigcartel.com/
@keith.crowley - https://www.keithcrowley.com/
@andadubinskis - http://anda-dubinskis.com/
@yaeleban - http://www.yaeleban.com/
@rubensghenov - https://rubensghenov.com/
@k_halton - https://www.kathyhalton.com/
@erinjoyharmon - http://www.erinharmon.com/
@jaynesteresa - https://www.teresajaynes.com/
@lucaskelly77 - https://lucaskelly.com/home.html
@peterkinney - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9_1c6VJmiE
@clathanstiefel - https://www.carolinelathanstiefel.net/
@adamlovitz - https://www.adamlovitz.com/
@michaelmacfeat - https://www.theartblog.org/2008/08/phillys-michael-macfeat
@liznurenberg - https://www.liznurenberg.com/
@workingdogstudio - http://www.sharynomara.com/
@genasenior - https://georgenasenior.com/
@dgelless - https://www.instagram.com/dgelless/
#billwaltonartist @fleisherollman