Speer Gallery Call for Entry at Shipley School

This Deadline Expired: Sunday, February 20, 2022

This is an open call for a solo exhibit in the Shipley Speer Gallery.

The Shipley Speer Gallery houses rotating exhibitions by professional artists throughout the school year. Each exhibit is carefully curated by our Gallery Coordinators, working closely with the Fine Arts Program, to seek out inspiring and unique artists from the Philadelphia region and beyond. In so doing, The gallery exposes our students to wider cultural currents and encourages them to appreciate and explore the world of fine art up close and personal.

All artists are encouraged to apply. Artists selected for solo exhibits must be able to deliver, install, and de-install their own work. Exhibits run for approximately six weeks. We are currently scheduling exhibits for 2022 through the end of 2023.

Learn more here: https://www.shipleyschool.org/arts/fine-arts/apply-to-be-an-artist

Colorful, minimalist still-life paintings created with a palette knife, which leaves a distinctive texture. Incisions and scrapings, along with pencil and oil pastel marks, trace the creation of the work over time. Light and shadow are key elements in these abstracted scenes of everyday life. Working over multiple sessions result in traces of previous versions and iterations which allow the viewer to engage in the work on multiple levels.

Melissa Husted-Sherman

Melissa Husted-Sherman

Colorful, minimalist still-life paintings created with a palette knife, which leaves a distinctive texture. Incisions and…

Colorful, minimalist still-life paintings created with a palette knife, which leaves a distinctive texture. Incisions and scrapings, along with pencil and oil pastel marks, trace the creation of the…

DeMelas / Checchia

DeMelas / Checchia

DeMelas/Checchia the collaborative work of InLiquid artist members Pete Checchia and Anthony DeMelas.…

Kathleen Vaccaro

Kathleen Vaccaro

Kathleen Vaccaro's work mixes imagery from imagination, memory, and photographs. Color expresses her personal experience…

Kathleen Vaccaro's work mixes imagery from imagination, memory, and photographs. Color expresses her personal experience in the images. …

In my work I carefully navigate personal and intergenerational memory through visuospatial reconstruction. There is an active absence of the figure in my work, as if these scenes are the aftermath of an event, possibly still in motion.

Kathleen Eastwood-Riaño

Kathleen Eastwood-Riaño

In my work I carefully navigate personal and intergenerational memory through visuospatial reconstruction. There is an active…

In my work I carefully navigate personal and intergenerational memory through visuospatial reconstruction. There is an active absence of the figure in my work, as if these scenes are the aftermath of an…

Leslie Atik