The Gallery Committee is excited to announce the next art exhibition at the Clubhouse. Join us for a very special exhibit of work by these brilliant local artists. Please plan to visit the exhibition during Club hours and join us at the Artists’ Opening Reception to experience the extraordinary creativity of these artists. Light refreshments will be served. Cosmopolitan Club Members and their Guests, Artists and their Patrons are most welcome to attend. Club Members can register themselves and their guests HERE. Artists and their guests can register HERE via Eventbrite.
The Gallery is also OPEN Monday- Thursday, 10:30am-2pm. If you’d like to view the works outside of these hours or events, please call 215-735-1057 to make an appointment. The works on display at the Club are for sale, with a percentage of the purchase price donated by the artist to The Cosmopolitan Club. If you are interested in discussing purchase, please reach out to our Receptionist Caryn Whittington or Club Manager Agneta Bacican.
Carolyn Kline-Coyle is an abstract painter from Drexel Hill, PA. She is a teaching artist for The Community Art Center in Swarthmore, PA as well as the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, PA. Carolyn received her MFA in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been included in many solo and group exhibitions throughout southeastern Pennsylvania. She has won several awards in painting, namely from the Goggle Artworks Center in Reading, PA. Her work is held in private collections as well as the Keystone Art and Culture Center in Lancaster, PA. My art is an expression of my experiences, memories and inspirations. Words and phrases are used as compositional elements pulled apart and reconfigured until their meaning is erased. I use color, texture and experimentation with materials to explore these elements in my paintings. .
Beth deVitry earned her BFA at Maryland Institute College of Art and then apprenticed as a traditional goldsmith. After years working as a jewelry designer in the retail world, she turned her focus to enamel. Beth has exhibited in international curated exhibits, craft shows and galleries. She currently resides in Lancaster PA where she teaches and continues to explore enamel. Inspired by my travels and the landscape around me, I enjoy the challenge of expression in enamel as a medium. I pursue themes signifying small quiet moments in the natural world and the patterns found in nature. Exploring various enamel techniques in combination with traditional metal smithing, I often pursue a memory of a specific time, place, and emotion. I relish the fact that the wearer of my work will have their own personal interpretation and perhaps their own emotional attachment to each piece.
Kate Norris is a teaching artist from Baltimore, MD. Her current body of work gives homage to naturalists and illustrators from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Norris’ mixed media collages are made from tearing vintage wallpaper and reconstructing the pieces in a new way, giving new meaning with a modern sensibility. Her collages open up conversations about process, techniques, and symbolic associations. Norris graduated with a BA from Stanford University and earned her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has exhibited her work in San Francisco, New York City, Tampa, Tennessee, and Baltimore. Vintage wallpapers and sixteenth to twentieth century scientific illustrations take on a new life in my mixed media collages. I give historical scientific illustrations a new perspective through the unexpected piecing and pasting of ripped images from wallpaper. I create a new whole, with new meaning, offering the viewer the freedom to form their own interpretations and associations by way of my combining images.