VISITING ARTISTS (inquire)

Dale O. Roberts was born in Waterville, New York in 1959. Roberts is a painter, working primarily in the encaustic medium for over 30 years with a significant portion of work carried out in gouache, graphite and a variety of other techniques. His work explores the painterly possibilities of representation with regard to urban landscape, still life and rural landscape. Roberts graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing from Tyler School of Art in 1982. Roberts has paintings in many public and private collections including Cozens Connor law firm, Liberty One in Philadelphia, The PECO Corporation, Rutgers University Museum, Community College of Philadelphia Museum, The Wharton School of business, and Vanguard investment Group. Roberts currently lives and works in Norristown PA. I have taught many workshops throughout the united states including the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown MA, The Willingboro Art Alliance, The Wallingford Art Center, and Castle Hill Center for the arts. During the summer of 2016 I spent 5 weeks as an artist- in- residence studying in Tetouan, Morocco and giving an intensive 2 evening encaustic workshop to 15 Moroccan artists.

With over 40 one-man shows Fetterman’s work is quickly recognized and highly collected throughout the tri-state region. He is an award-winning American artist with his own bright, dynamic and fervent style. In great part, he continues the Pennsylvania impressionist and plein air traditions, but in full contemporized fashion. As a painter, sculptor, and poet, he’s traveled extensively throughout the Americas and abroad, living and learning cultural values and old-world aesthetics. As a Kay scholar with a degree in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, Alan transfers knowledge into art. His work has been featured and showcased in over 150 venues and art galleries including places as diverse as Carmel, California, Curitiba, Brazil, and Vero Beach, Florida. He’s a long-standing, participant and board member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club and a past member of New York City's Salmagundi Club. His work and life have been profiled in dozens of magazines, columns, and books, including features in "A Bucks County State of a Mind" and "The Embraceable You.” A monograph “ Illuminate “ by art Historian Cathie Viksjo can be found in bookstores and the James A. Michener Art Museum. He is a 2017 recipient of the Philadelphia Sketch Club’s Medal of Honor

With his fresh, energetic signature-style brushwork and his dynamic tones of color, Alan’s art delivers a powerful sense of both well-being and genuine goodness, seemingly unending.

"THE ARTIST'S GARDEN"
The 10 Gallery Artists have been paired with 10 local gardeners who have mastered the art of container gardening.
The challenge for the gardeners is to create a container garden inspired by a painting/sculpture created from their artist.
The gardeners joining us are Tim Arpin, Angela Benedict, Gina Feeser, Chris Abel, Gary Hufford, Luis Morales, Diana McCoy, Yvonne Sallades, Cynthia McComsey, and Lisa Fike.

3 Days Only
Opening Festivities: First Friday, May 3, 5-9 pm
ArtWalk Saturday, May 4, 10-5 pm
ArtWalk Sunday, May 5, 12-4 pm (closes)

It was probably dumb luck or good fortune back in 1978 when I bought Ralph Mayer’s fourth edition of The Artist’s Handbook. Through the glossary of pigments that was located in the back, I picked up some basic rules that directed my palette. Mr. Mayer itemized each color, its origins and the time it was developed and in use. This guide helped me select and limit the colors and shades in the pictures that I paint, ensuring accuracy to their period in history. This started my career. Recently I saw some of the stuff that I painted way back in the 80’s. It looked as crisp and as accurate as the day it was done – Arslonga vita brevis – so I’ll just carry on. It’s hard to believe that it has now been over thirty five years of showing paintings and meeting the nicest people from all over America.

It is more interesting to me to see what lies in the Silence. In this series it's the grace, the dedication, the sacrifice, the exhaustion, the contemplation, the reflection, the determination, the quiet of a morning walk and the stillness of a house, or the creature that lingers staring out at you as you pass by content in their own silence, the words that are not spoken among friends.
~ MARY HOLTON, IN THE SILENCE

Artist Statement
My artistry reflects a quiet rebellion against literal reality while remaining grounded in an appreciation for the beauty contained in our everyday environment.I strive to capture light in its various phases, to present subjects and detail with a looseness and freedom that do not violate the integrity of those elements.For most of my work I choose the forcefulness of a knife rather than a brush stroke to apply my palette, to create a tactile, textural painting that the viewer is free to touch, enter and be part of.I paint to share a vision with the viewer of the uncommon in the common, eliminating the unnecessary elements that distract, a wabi-sabi approach to art: "if an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi." Leonard Koren

Join us as we honor the art of drawing with our first Call for Artists of its kind. The Call was open to artists that are both emerging and established and was curated by the esteemed, Dr. Robert A. Nelson. In the exhibition, Nelson selected his "Award of Excellence" and then went on to give a nod to 2nd and 3rd place and two honorable mentions. View the exhibit through September 1 at the Gallery, or online by clicking on the image.
*Image by Ben T Leech, "First Reformed" received the "Award of Excellence".

Our Second Annual Holiday Exhibition, Small Salon II, bring's your favorite core group of CityFolk Artists and Selected Guest Artists.
All are original works of art from $50.00 - $300.00 Available to take with you immediately making them great for gifting, even to yourself!
December 1 through December 31.

In addition to our Gallery Artists, we represent many regional, national, and international artists. You can find their artwork hanging on a rotational basis. If there is something you do not see here we can happily help you acquire it. *Ask about artists who allow commissions.