Highwire Gallery is a non-profit co-op arts venue in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia, featuring monthly visual art exhibits as well as live music, video and performance art. Please ask up about membership & rentals.
Information
- Location:
- Philadelphia, PA, 19125
- Phone:
- 215.426.2685
- Thurs:
- 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Fri:
- 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Sat - Sun:
- 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Photos
2 of 9 albumsSee All
Heaven, Hell and Original SinCreated about 3 weeks ago
Nature & Nurture: Three Women and the Art of SustenanceCreated about 2 months ago
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Events
1 upcoming eventSee All
- Art for the Urban Collector
Highwire Gallery
Friday, December 4 at 5:00pm
Notes
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- Call for Entries; Art for the Urban Collector 1:22pm Nov 7
- HIGHWIRE GALLERY - CALL FOR ARTISTS 10:14am Sep 1
Highwire Gallery
Highwire hosts Gallery Talk for current exhibit "Heaven, Hell & Original Sin"
Please join us for a reception to meet the artists featured in our current exhibit:
Melissa Maddonni Haims and Rochelle Marcus Dinkin.
This is a great opportunity to discuss inspiration and process in an intimate setting.
Space is limited for thi...s free event, and reservations are recommended.
Gallery Talk and Closing Reception
Sunday, November 29th from 3:30 - 5pm.
A reading from Ms. Haims' show catalog will follow a soft sculpture demonstration.
RSVP to highwiregallery@gmail.com
Highwire Gallery
Art for the urban Collector is a group show born of an open call to all local artists.
In addition to the regular First Friday / Art Opening thing, we will be hosting our first musical event with the gallery's newest member, Steven Tobin of Fire Museum.
We welcome Steven to the Highwire and hope you can join us for the s...how, which starts at 8pm. a $5 cover will be collected at the door for the music portion of the evening.
Fire Museum Presents:
Tiny Concept (Bordeaux, France)
Cash Slave Clique (Alexandria, VA)
Dick Neff (Philadelphia)
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Tiny Concept:
Tiny Concept is a one – woman band from Bordeaux, France. Minimalist, experimental rock utilizing vocals, drums, electric guitar and a loop station. “Fantastic, minimal rock with pronounced drum and wispy female spoken vocals in a low-key 1980s vein, with similarities to Free Kitten’s sparer moments.” – KFJC
Cash Slave Clique:
Self-described go-go/dance/noise/freakout band featuring Sam Lohman. They have performed with Nimrod, Sikhara, Steve Mackay and the Radon Ensemble, Acid Mothers Temple & others. “Dynamic DC duo of insane electronics and fevered imaginations” – The Rhombus
Dick Neff:
Sometimes collaborator with Social Junk, Kensington’s Dick Neff will get the evening started. “Dick Neff combined knob twiddling distortion with one man and a drum-set bombast in a way that had me thinking of Lightning Bolt and related noise metal spastics in a good way.” – Womblife
Highwire Gallery Michael Harrington @ the Philadelphia Inquirer thinks you should see our current show [Heaven, Hell and Original Sin]. And we do, too.
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Highwire Gallery is pleased to invite all local artists to submit up to 3 works for this upcoming group show in December 2009. Art for the Urban Collector will focus on works under 24" in any direction. A 10% commission will apply to all works sold...
Highwire Gallery
The Opening Reception of Heaven, Hell and Original Sin at Highwire on November 6th, 2009.
Soft Sculptures by Melissa Maddonni Haims and Mixed Media work by The Grimm Sisiters; Rochelle Dinkin and Rachel Isaac.
9 new photos
Lydia Hamilton Brown Sounds like a great show!
Highwire Gallery looking forward to tonight!
Highwire Gallery
Melissa Maddonni Haims and The Grimm Sisters, Rochelle Marcus Dinkin and Rachel Isaac, will be on display during the month of November at the Highwire Gallery.
Please join us for the opening reception on First Friday, November 6. A special performance by Behold! The Protong! will occur between 6:30 and 7:30 in our outdo...or space.
Melissa Maddonni Haims has been working feverishly for 2 years, knitting, crocheting, and stitching together a personal version of what heaven and hell might look like, constructed of yarn. This vision takes form at Highwire Gallery, in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia, in November, 2009.
As you enter into this alternate cosmos, convoluted, cloud-like sculptures, stuffed with recycled fibers, hang from the ceiling in the front room, bathed in light from the storefront windows. In this version of heaven, many of the sculptures are formed and named for those who have passed from this world to the next, including the artist’s mother, the catalyst for this project. Others have been commissioned to memorialize loved ones. These sculptures are organic and unconventional, not at all the predetermined forms associated and derived from faded stitchery pattern-books. Here we have rambling rows curling around into sensuous newness.
As you depart from heaven’s high-ceilinged, light filled, ambience, you move into the gallery’s center room, a purgatory of sorts, where a selection of paintings by The Grimm Sisters, Rochelle Marcus Dinkin and Rachel Isaac, are on display. "Original Sin" is an artistic collaboration of the imagery of the collective conscious expressed through the eerie and playful mythology of fairy tales. Their efforts combine whimsy and trepidation to produce works born from the shadows of their psyches.
Deeper within the space, in the compact backroom, is the culmination of 2 years worth of knitting and crocheting. The room is filled with plush, stalagmitic sculptures that invoke Dante’s journey through hell, with knitting needles. These sculptural interpretations of hellacious inhabitants range in size from 12 inches to 6 feet. Again, the forms are beyond imagination, infused with improvisation, as the artist explores form-building unique to the controlled entanglement of strings and strands. Who do you think inspired these damned souls?
Highwire Gallery Opening Night! October 2nd, 2009
