Mew Gallery Pay the Rent Event

Calling all Philadelphia lovers of the handmade!

Mew Gallery is holding its third annual fundraiser next week in order to help - you got it - pay the store's rent. It's an art auction and raffle with lots of exciting perks, including beer specials, DJs, and dancing. $5 suggested donation at the door.

Tuesday, March 3
6 - 10 pm
South Philly Tap Room
1509 Mifflin Street, Philly

You could walk away with some of my cards! I've made two sets of three cards each, a set called Winterberries and a set called Herbs & Spices.

You could also walk away with jewelry, zines, clothes, photography, ceramics, and much more. Some of the other artists who have donated work: Alina tees & zines, Anna Burke photography, Beck's Buttons jewelry, Boto Designs, Carolyn Giordano, Faceplant Wasted, Flying Fox, Gray Nation, Isaac Bushkin, J.L. Schnabel, Jessica Liddel, Joy Stember, Julia Blaukopf, KnitKnit, Lana Heckendorn, Lauren Lopez, Leslie Albend, Megan Dorien, Mike Geno, Miss Koco, Nicole Rae Styer, Rebelle Couture, Sarah Myers, Shannon McLaughlin, Sideways E, Tiny Airplanes, Tranquility jewelry, Un De Six clothing, WabiSabi, Warren Veith...

Please come and support your local artists and this gallery that brings them all together under one creative roof!

Ta-da!

My cards are now available at Mew Gallery, 906 Christian St, Philadelphia!

Here are a few tasty morsels to whet your appetite. Please go to Mew for the complete meal.

Another heart-slayer of a book

I found this one at the Bryn Mawr Bookstore, a used bookstore in Cambridge, MA where I used to work.

Paintings: Forces of Nature II, 1994-1998
Marlene Tseng Yu
Las Vegas Art Museum (exhibition book)

Marlene's paintings are extraordinary. She works mainly with acrylics, often on a very large scale, and creates works of improbable, strange beauty. They are mysterious blooms of color textured and sculpted to present something cosmic, oceanic, microscopic.... These are grandiose words, I know, but I promise you they're apt. I have never seen paintings so organic and so resonant.

This is her website: www.marlenetsengyu.com. You can see a few examples of her work in photographs there. The book does them better justice. I hope to be able to see some in person one day.