Art Watch: Oil and Steel

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Lele Galer in front of transformed Mala Gallery

This Friday Mala Galleria in Kennett Square has their artist reception from 6-9pm for their November exhibition "Steeling the Show" which is a transformed gallery environment of welded steel structures and oil paintings inside and outside the gallery space on State Street by Lele Galer. "I tried to create the same feeling with the steel that I have in my paintings with strong vertical structures…

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Art Watch: Intersection of art and acorns

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Sketch by Adrian Barron

This Saturday the new Street Road Artist Space presents the final day to see "Arterial Moves" which is an international assemblage artistic response to the increased traffic issues on Routes 41 and 926. Join the Street Road artists and United Kingdom artist Adrian Barron this Saturday from 1-4pm and help plant a new forest of Penn Oak acorns! To help spur you along, there will…

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Art Watch: Leaves fall and art rises in Chester County

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By Anne Yoch

As October draws to a close, we have many opportunities to see the last week of some wonderful exhibitions across Chester County. The Church Street Gallery in West Chester is in its last weeks of showing the wonderfully talented pastel artist Jessica Turgoose, whose exhibit ends November 2nd. Her work is full of beautiful color, and masterful use of the pastel medium, in subjects ranging…

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Art Watch: Can you keep a secret?

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Yellow Cactus Flower by Kate Hodges

The Opening Gala Art Sale and Exhibition for Plein Air Brandywine Valley will be Friday October 24th from 7-10 pm at Winterthur. This wonderful event showcases the week's worth of plein air painting done by 80 juried plein air artists from around the country. The event kicks off at The Gables of Chadds Ford sponsoring the artist reception this Friday October 17.  Artists will choose…

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Art Watch: Look, listen, learn and enjoy

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Malvern Monument by Randall Graham

The twice a year West Chester Gallery Walk is this Friday in downtown West Chester from 4-8pm. If you have never walked the Gallery Walk, this Friday is a great day to try it! First Fridays art shows are always fun and interesting in West Chester and Kennett Square, but "Gallery Walk" is only twice a year so bring a friend and download a map…

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Art Watch: Margaret Matuszewski ‘s Chester County florals

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Poppies by Margaret Matuszewski

When you think of painted flowers and lush fields of poppies, you first think of the Impressionists, and then you might think of local delightful painter Margaret Matuszewski. I first saw her work at the Unionville Art Gala where she is a longtime favorite, with her feathery brushstrokes and abundance of color, Margaret's painting are lush with natural bounty. This  Thursday Margaret will be doing…

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Art Watch: Fantastical ceramic creations

Meghan Bergman's fantastical ceramic creations,  plus what's going on art-wise in Kennett Square Ceramic artist Meghan Bergman will be showing her barnacle-inspired vases and vessels this Thursday from 4-8pm at Galer Estate Winery's Pop up Art Show.  Meghan's ceramics are mesmerizing combinations of organic forms applied to an open vessel. I have three of her larger pieces, one of which greets visitors as soon as…

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Art Watch: Collage, water color and more

    The Delaware Valley Collage Cooperative is having a Popup show this Thursday at Galer Estate Winery in Kennett Square from 4-8pm.  One of the original DVAL artists, Linnie Greenberg, says it was "serendipity that brought a few women together in the winter of 2011" at a collage class on the Main Line. What started as a "pot luck gathering of art minded women"…

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Art Watch: Busy fall art scene

A busy Fall Art Scene & the Influence of Mentors with "Uncommon Denominators" and "Celestial Spheres"! The Fall line-up for Gallery shows is heating up with September's First Friday openings for new shows this Friday, September 5th all over Chester County. New Fall Class schedules are also available now for sign-up at The Chester County Chester County Art Association and The Oxford Art Alliance. There…

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