Latitude is only on view for a few more days! Today’s featured artist is Erin Paulson, you’ve probably seen her animations lighting up our front windows, but read more about her inspiration below: Erin’s largely interdisciplinary practice relies heavily on time-intensive processes. Which is fitting since many of her interests revolve around time and space … Continue reading
Latitude is only up for one more week! Today our featured artist is Charissa Schulze, find out more about her work below: Charissa’s work Tempus Florae is adapted from a different clock based theory from the same era. In 1751, Carl Linnaeus theorized a clock of flowers by way of observing their circadian rhythms. … Continue reading
Today’s featured artist is Erin Malkowski, read more about the inspiration for her works in our current exhibit, Latitude, below: Erin’s work seeks to lessen the distance between “out there” (galactic bodies such as the sun) and “down here” (the sundials). She wants to hold in her hands what exists in the vast cosmos … Continue reading
Over the next two weeks we will be presenting features on the artists from our current exhibit, Latitude. Our first featured artist is Tara O’Brien! Learn a little more about Tara and her inspiration for the show below: For Tara, who works with old books and an artist who creates new ones, the image … Continue reading
Our second show of the 2015 DownStreet Art season opened yesterday! We had a great turn out and a great time at the July DownStreet Art celebration. The artists,Erin Malkowski, Tara O’Brien, Erin Paulson, and Charissa Schulze, were inspired by a 1763 mathematics manuscript describing instructions for setting up a sundial, four artists respond to the … Continue reading
We are so excited to have Erin Malkowski, Tara O’Brien, Erin Paulson, and Charissa Schulze here this week getting ready for their group show, Latitude. All of the artists work together at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania as conservators and have made artworks based on one of the historical documents they work with, a 1763 … Continue reading
