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.
I create modern sculptural jewelry using traditional fabrication and forming techniques. Mixed precious metals, high karat fused metals, carefully selected minerals and gems are combined with an emphasis on luminosity, contrast, form and function. Designing happens at the bench and is largely fueled by instinct, intuition and play. My inspiration is drawn from a variety of sources: natural geometry, natural wonders, modern sculpture, abstract painting, and more recently from the embodied experience of freeform "ecstatic" dance. An award-winning jeweler, Thea has been designing and creating her signature jewelry for more than 25 years. Thea is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 1991) and in addition to creating her own signature collection she has also designed jewelry for well-known brands including Isaac Mizrahi and Swarovski. Born in Boston Massachusetts, Thea and her son now call Rhode Island home, where she works in her studio located in Hope Artiste Village.
Each painting of mine begins first with my eye, at all times ready to photograph the image that inexplicably draws me to it. Then with my hand and a pencil to make a detailed drawing of a portion of that image. And finally, with my heart which reinterprets the picture through color and mood, giving the scene my own personal perspective. The result is something I refer to as psychological landscapes. My oils of isolated figures and empty cityscapes reflect the illustrative style of the graphic artist I once was. I am drawn to the landscape as a surrealistic design template, with alternate realities, repetitions of shape, and ambiguous meaning. I love playing with contrast and perspective. Marjie Lewis Quint is a Philadelphia based painter who received a B.A. in Graphic Design from George Washington University and the Corcoran School of Art. She worked in commercial art for 12 years, primarily in Washington DC and Minneapolis, before moving to Philadelphia where she decided to concentrate on oil painting. Quint is a member of ArtSisters and DaVinci Art Alliance. She has exhibited throughout the MidAtlantic region, and her work is in collections of private homes as well as a variety of commercial spaces. Her work explores the dialogue between graphic design and fine art – rooted in realism, balance, and form, but imbued with an interpretive rendering of mood and emotion.
I make abstracted paintings on paper or canvas mounted onto wood panels. Using pigments, paints, woodcuts, and resist paste, my work coalesces into images of flowers, plants, water and other natural elements of imagined landscapes. The paintings show a natural rewilded world that imagines the kind of healthy, untamed beauty I strive for in my own garden. Julie Zahn is a printmaker and painter working in Philadelphia. She uses woodcut and Japanese stencil dyeing to produce works on paper and panels. After completing the 4-year full-time Certificate program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, she was given a travel scholarship to study in Kyoto for an additional year. Toward the end of her stay there, she discovered katazome or Japanese stencil dyeing, a paste-resist technique traditionally used for textiles. Attracted by its painterly quality, she adapted it to paper using acrylics and pigments, creating paintings with a printmaking element. Using katazome, woodcut and painting, and images of birds and plants, light and color, she creates distinct, recognizable work. Her studio is in East Mt. Airy and she exhibits regularly in Philadelphia and Washington, DC.