Douglas Witmer
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Friday, November 16, 2007
new show : green line art projects
I've decided to begin posting here about the exhibitions I do at my cafes. With three locations, it's quite a big job. At two of the locations I focus on local artists. And at the third this past year I've begun to bring in work from connections I have around the country. I'm ambivalent about cafes trying to be galleries. But more recently, with the large audience of hundreds of customers a day, I've realized I have an opportunity to give artists a broad kind of exposure they wouldn't get in a traditional gallery. Green Line Art Projects is still a grass-roots, informal, mostly non-commercial affair at this point. I pretty much show what I think will work in a given space. As a "program" it is way less focused aesthetically than an actual gallery would be. But in the past year it feels like this aspect of the cafe has really grown and strengthened. The shows are getting noticed and reviewed. It has taken a lot of time and energy away from my personal studio work the last months, but it feels like good work to be doing. We have two new shows coming up. Here's info about the first of the two:
Brae Howard
China Portraits
Thru December 2007
The Other Green Line, 4305 Locust Street
In 2005, Philadelphia-based photographer Brae Howard lived in China for 10 months, teaching English, while documenting the people and absorbing their rich culture. She quickly felt at home in their culture and deeply admired their ways of thinking, their whimsical combinations of colors and patterns, their natural sense of community, and their easy humility. Most of the photographs are of strangers on the streets and some are of her students. The photographs are characterized by the warmth and natural fondness felt towards her subjects.
Labels: Green Line Art Projects, Green Line Cafe
16.11.07 
1 Comments:
Hey, Douglas--I think this is a good decision. When I first saw the photos of your paintings in the cafe (Sept. 23 post), I was struck in a way I can't begin to explain inside a blog comment-box. Something about the work being more challenging and interesting for its nonsterile placement. I had to take it for what it was, not for what the gallery environment shaped it into. And that was just from a photograph.
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