First Friday, August 7th @ Arch Enemy Arts
August is STACKED at Arch Enemy Arts. Nine new shows—seven solos and two new group shows, INSEPARABLE and THE ORNITHOLOGIST'S CABINET—are adorning our walls with all the beautiful absurdity you've come to know and love. Check out the details below, and join us on your First Friday crawl, 5PM - 9PM at 109 Arch Street, Old City Philadelphia.
Beatriz Bradaschii - ODE TO FEELING is a collection of eight surreal oil paintings and two drawings that honor emotion as a source of intuition, self-knowledge, and transformation in glowing, earthy palettes.
Calamity Cole - GODS & PROPHETS is a collection of twelve mixed-media watercolor paintings that unfold like strange parables and holy hallucinations, reimagined through the visual language of Byzantine icons and illuminated manuscripts.
Ego - OTHER is a collection of six meticulously rendered paintings steeped in Ego’s signature hypnotic, post-apocalyptic atmosphere. Each intimate portrait centers an otherworldly outsider refusing to mask what they are.
Gerlanda di Francia - BEAST AND BEING is a collection of eight acrylic paintings exploring a surreal symbiosis between the human body and the natural world. Rendered in Gerlanda di Francia’s delicate crosshatched linework, these strange metamorphoses dissolve the boundaries between person, animal, and ecosystem.
Marek Osedowski - THE WHEEL OF THE YEAR is a collection of eight mixed-media paintings, each named for a seasonal sabbat celebrated in Celtic, Wiccan, and Neo-Pagan traditions. Elegant and enigmatic, the series blends occult symbolism, Alberta’s shifting seasons, and the theatrical romanticism of high fashion.
JB Burke - STEP RIGHT UP is a series of hypperreal colored pencil drawings set in the artist's candy-colored world, inspired by circus and carnival culture from the late 19th to early 20th centuries.
Wiley Wallace - NIGHT BLOOM is a collection of intimae paintings that combine surreal metaphysical narratives and childlike wonder rendered in the artist's incredible realism and psychedelic palette.
